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<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:date>1789</dc:date>
<dc:date>1790</dc:date>
<dc:date>1791</dc:date>
<dc:date>1792</dc:date>
<dc:date>1793</dc:date>
<dc:date>1794</dc:date>
<dc:date>1795</dc:date>
<dc:date>1796</dc:date>
<dc:date>1797</dc:date>
<dc:date>1798</dc:date>
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<dc:date>1843</dc:date>
<dc:date>1844</dc:date>
<dc:date>1845</dc:date>
<volume>6</volume>
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<preface>
<note>
<p class="centered">BY AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS</p>
</note>
<coverText class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">THE</coverText>
<coverText class="centered" style="font-size:normal;"><b>Public Statutes at Large</b></coverText>
<coverText class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">OF THE</coverText>
<coverText class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,</coverText>
<note>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">FROM THE</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">ORGANIZATION OF THE GOVERNMENT IN 1789 TO MARCH 3, 1845,</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;"><b>ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER,</b></p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">WITH</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">REFERENCES TO THE MATTER OF EACH ACT AND TO THE SUBSEQUENT ACTS</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">ON THE SAME SUBJECT,</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">AND</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">COPIOUS NOTES OF THE DECISIONS</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">OF THE</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;"><b>Courts of the United States</b></p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">CONSTRUING THOSE ACTS, AND UPON THE SUBJECTS OF THE LAWS,</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">WITH AN</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;"><b>INDEX TO THE CONTENTS OF EACH VOLUME,</b></p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">AND A</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">FULL GENERAL INDEX TO THE WHOLE WORK, IN THE CONCLUDING VOLUME.</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">TOGETHER WITH</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">the Constitution of the United States;</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">AND ALSO,</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">TABLES, IN THE LAST VOLUME, CONTAINING LISTS OF THE ACTS RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY,</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">IMPOSTS AND TONNAGE, THE PUBLIC LANDS, ETC.</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">EDITED BY</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">RICHARD PETERS, ESQ.,</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">COUNSELLOR AT LAW.</p>
</note>
<note class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;"><dc:rights>the rights and interest of the United States in the stereotype plates from which this work is printed, are hereby recognized, acknowledged, and declared by the publishers, according to the provisions of the joint resolution of Congress, passed March 3, 1845.</dc:rights></note>
<volume class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">VOL. IV.</volume>
<organizationNote>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">BOSTON:</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN.</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">1846.</p>
</organizationNote>
<explanationNote>Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by <inline class="smallCaps">Charles C. Little &amp; James Brown</inline>, In the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.</explanationNote>
<note>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">THE</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">PRIVATE STATUTES AT LARGE</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">OF</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;"><b>FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GOVERNMENT IN 1789 TO MARCH 3, 1845.</b></p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER;</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;"><b>WITH REFERENCES TO EACH ACT, AND TO SUBSEQUENT ACTS ON THE SAME SUBJECT;</b></p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">WITH</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">AN INDEX TO THE CONTENTS OF THE VOLUME.</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">AND</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">AN ALPHABETICAL LIST,</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;"><b>SUBJOINED TO THE INDEX OF THE PERSONS NAMED IN THE PRIVATE ACTS, AND OF MOST OF THE SUBJECTS TO WHICH THESE LAWS RELATE,</b></p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">EDITED BY</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">RICHARD PETERS, ESQ.,</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">COUNSELLOR AT LAW.</p>
</note>
<page />
<listOfPublicLaws>
<heading class="centered">LIST</heading>
<heading class="centered"><inline class="smallCaps">of the</inline></heading>
<heading class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF CONGRESS.</heading>
<subheading>Acts of the First Congress of the United States.</subheading>
<groupItem>
<label class="centered">STATUTE I.—1789.</label>
<headingItem>
<designator />
<label />
<label />
<target>Page</target>
</headingItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance of Pay.</i></designator> <label>An act to allow the Baron de Glaubeck the pay of a captain in the army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Sept. 29, 1789</label> <target>1</target></referenceItem>
</groupItem>
<groupItem>
<label class="centered">RESOLUTION.</label>
<headingItem>
<designator />
<label />
<label />
<target>Page</target>
</headingItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Clerks.</i></designator> <label>A resolution continuing John White and clerks in office till the fourth day of February 1789.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Sept. 29, 1789</label> <target>1</target></referenceItem>
</groupItem>
<groupItem>
<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1790.</label>
<headingItem>
<designator />
<label />
<label />
<target>Page</target>
</headingItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for finally adjusting and satisfying the claims of Frederick William de Steuben.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 4, 1790</label> <target>2</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Jenkins and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 14, 1790</label> <target>2</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to satisfy the claims of John McCord against the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1790</label> <target>2</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Penalties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel Twining.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1790</label> <target>3</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Stewart and John Davidson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 4, 1790</label> <target>3</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen, lately in the service of the United States, and of certain other persons.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1790</label> <target>3</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the persons therein mentioned or described.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1790</label> <target>4</target></referenceItem>
</groupItem>
<groupItem>
<label class="centered">RESOLUTION.</label>
<headingItem>
<designator />
<label />
<label />
<target>Page</target>
</headingItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Compensation.</i></designator> <label>Resolution fixing the compensation of the clerks in the office of the commissioner of army accounts.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 2, 1790</label> <target>5</target></referenceItem>
</groupItem>
<groupItem>
<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Second Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1791, 1792.</label>
<headingItem>
<designator />
<label />
<label />
<target />
</headingItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Cook and Thomas Campbell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 16, 1791</label> <target>6</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain widows, orphans, invalids, and other persons.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 27, 1792</label> <target>6</target></referenceItem>
<page renderingPosition="bottom">iii</page>
<page>iv</page>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands sold J. C. Symmes.</i></designator> <label>An act for ascertaining the bounds of a tract of land purchased by John Cleves Symmes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 12, 1792</label> <target>7</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages to Property.</i></designator> <label>An act to compensate the corporation of trustees of the public grammar school and academy of Wilmington, in the state of Delaware, for the occupation of, and damages done to, the said school, during the late war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 13, 1792</label> <target>8</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of Associates.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 21, 1792</label> <target>8</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnification.</i></designator> <label>An act to indemnify the Estate of the late Major General Nathaniel Green, for a certain bond entered into by him during the late war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1792</label> <target>9</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to compensate the services of the late Colonel George Gibson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1792</label> <target>10</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning the claim of John Brown Cutting against the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1792</label> <target>10</target></referenceItem>
</groupItem>
<groupItem>
<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1793.</label>
<headingItem>
<designator />
<label />
<label />
<target>Page</target>
</headingItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance of Interest.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the allowance of interest on the sum ordered to be paid by the resolve of Congress, of the twenty-eighth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, as an indemnity to the persons therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 14, 1793</label> <target>11</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the comptroller of the treasury to settle the account of Thomas Wishart, late a lieutenant in the army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1793</label> <target>11</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the adjustment of a claim of Joseph Henderson against the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1793</label> <target>11</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act making provision for the persona therein mentioned.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1793</label> <target>12</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act providing an annual allowance for the education of Hugh Mercer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1793</label> <target>12</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity for Contracts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elijah Bostwick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1793</label> <target>12</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Simeon Thayer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1793</label> <target>12</target></referenceItem>
</groupItem>
<groupItem>
<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Third Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1794.</label>
<headingItem>
<designator />
<label />
<label />
<target />
</headingItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Relief to St. Domingo sufferers.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the relief of such of the inhabitants of St. Domingo, resident within the United States, as may be found in want of support.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 12, 1794</label> <target>13</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Jenkins and Sons.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 19, 1794</label> <target>13</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act allowing to Major General La Fayette his pay and emoluments while in the service of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 27, 1791</label> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bonds to be taken.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Paranque.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1794</label> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Leffert Lefferts and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1794</label> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands for Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize Ephraim Kimberly to locate the land warrant issued to him for services in the late American army.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1794</label> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Commutation of Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act allowing Lieutenant-Colonel Tousard an equivalent for his pension for life.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 30, 1794</label> <target>15</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Coffee destroyed by Fire.</i></designator> <label>An act for the remission of the duties on eleven hogsheads of Coffee which have been destroyed by fire.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 9, 1794</label> <target>15</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Foreign Intercourse.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the payment of certain expenses incurred by Fulwar Skipwith, on public account.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1794</label> <target>15</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Reuben Smith and Nathan Strong.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1794</label> <target>15</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to compensate Arthur St. Clair.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1794</label> <target>16</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the settlement of the account of Lewis Dubois for his services in the late army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 4, 1794</label> <target>16<page>v</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties on Teas.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the term of credit for teas imported in the ship Argonaut; and to permit the export of goods saved out of the wreck of the snow Freelove.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 4, 1794</label> <target>16</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Robbe.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 4, 1794</label> <target>17</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the remission of the duties on certain distilled spirits destroyed by fire.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 7, 1794</label> <target>17</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance.</i></designator> <label>An act to make provision for the widow and orphan children of Robert Forsyth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 7, 1794</label> <target>17</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nicholas Rich.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 7, 1794</label> <target>17</target></referenceItem>
</groupItem>
<groupItem>
<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1794, 1795.</label>
<headingItem>
<designator />
<label />
<label />
<target>Page</target>
</headingItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the officers of the Treasury to audit and pass the account of the late Edward Blanchard, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 18, 1794</label> <target>18</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Covenhoven.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 1, 1795</label> <target>18</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the remission of the tonnage duties on certain French vessels.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1795</label> <target>18</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property taken by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the settlement of the claim of Samuel Prioleau.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1795</label> <target>18</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Epaphras Jones and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1795</label> <target>19</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the allowance of drawback on part of the cargo of the ship Enterprise.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1795</label> <target>19</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act enabling George Gibbs to obtain a drawback of duties on certain exported wines.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1795</label> <target>19</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Daughters of Count de Grasse.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment of four thousand dollars for the use of the daughters of the late Count de Grasse.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1795</label> <target>19</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide some present relief to the officers of government and other citizens who have suffered in their property by the insurgents in the western counties of Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1795</label> <target>20</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Angus M’Lean.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1795</label> <target>20</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Enrolment of Vessels.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Barton end others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1795</label> <target>20</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Seymour.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1795</label> <target>20</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Spencer Man and Frantz Jacob Foltz.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1795</label> <target>21</target></referenceItem>
</groupItem>
<groupItem>
<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Fourth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1796.</label>
<headingItem>
<designator />
<label />
<label />
<target />
</headingItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Strother.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 26, 1796</label> <target>22</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Israel Loring.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 10, 1796</label> <target>22</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joze Roiz Silva.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 23, 1796</label> <target>22</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to place certain persons, therein named, on the pension list.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1796</label> <target>23</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize Ebenezer Zane to locate certain lands in the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1796</label> <target>27</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sylvanus Bourne.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1796</label> <target>27</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity for a Bond.</i></designator> <label>An act to indemnify the estate of the late Major-General Nathaniel Greene, for a certain bond entered into by him during the late war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 1, 1796</label> <target>28</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1797.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a certain sum of money to the widow and children of John de Neufville, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1797</label> <target>29<page>vi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Ransom of Captives.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the adjustment and payment at the treasury, of the expenses of George Smith and John Robertson, for their ransom from captivity at Algiers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1797</label> <target>29</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the remission of the duties of tonnage on the vessels of James O’Brien and James Aylward.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1797</label> <target>30</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Brown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1797</label> <target>30</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Fifth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE II.—1798.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Daughters of Count de Grasse.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment of certain sums of money to the daughters of the lute Count de Grasse.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 15, 1798</label> <target>31</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of William Carmichael, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 15, 1798</label> <target>31</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of North and Vesey, of Charleston, South Carolina.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 15, 1798</label> <target>32</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Frank.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1798</label> <target>32</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Interest.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the payment of the interest on a certificate due to General Kosciusko.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 23, 1798</label> <target>32</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act directing the Secretary at War to place certain persons on the pension list.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 2, 1798</label> <target>32</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Alexander.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1798</label> <target>33</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Papers of Fishing Vessels destroyed by Fire.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Silvanus Crowell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1798</label> <target>33</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act making an appropriation for the payment of a balance found due to the legal representatives of William Carmichael, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1798</label> <target>34</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Obadiah Brown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1798</label> <target>34</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Militia.</i></designator> <label>An act directing the payment of a detachment of militia, for services performed in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, under Major James Ore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1798</label> <target>34</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Clerk hire.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Imlay.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1798</label> <target>34</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Nourse.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1798</label> <target>35</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize a grant of lands to Stephen Monet, and others, inhabitants of Gulliopolis, therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 25, 1798</label> <target>35</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the grant and conveyance of a certain lot of ground to Elie Williams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 16, 1798</label> <target>36</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE III.—1799.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Lewis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 15, 1799</label> <target>37</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Haskill.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 19, 1799</label> <target>37</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gazzain, Taylor, and Jones, and of Samuel Watt, of the city of Philadelphia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 19, 1799</label> <target>37</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Congress.</i></designator> <label>An act allowing James Mathers compensation for services done for the United States, and expenses incurred in rendering said services, as sergeant-at-arms to the Senate.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1799</label> <target>38</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Comfort Sands and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1799</label> <target>38<page>vii</page></target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Sixth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1800.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim for difference in Coinage.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Vaughan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 11, 1800</label> <target>30</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Exportation of Merchandise.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Yard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1800</label> <target>39</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Campbell Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 29, 1800</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Franking Privilege.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the privilege of franking letters and packages to Martha Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1800</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act to discharge Robert Sturgeon from his imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 5, 1800</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Injuries during the War.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the corporation of Rhode Island College.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 16, 1800</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the allowance of a credit to William Tazewoll</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1800</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land Warrants.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ithamar Canfield.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 10, 1800</label> <target>41</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to make further provision for the children of Colonel John Harding, and Major Alexander Trueman, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1800</label> <target>41</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1801.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Solomon Boston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 30, 1801</label> <target>42</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Survey of Land Grants.</i></designator> <label>An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1801</label> <target>42</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act to discharge Samuel Lewis, senior, from his imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1801</label> <target>43</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel Holmes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1801</label> <target>43</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Arnold Henry Dorhman, or his legal representatives.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1801</label> <target>43</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the remission of duties on certain teas destroyed by fire, while under the care of the officers of the customs, in Providence, Rhode Island.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1801</label> <target>44</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Seventh Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1802.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the discharge of Lawrence Erb from his confinement.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 3, 1802</label> <target>45</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lyon Lehman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 6, 1802</label> <target>45</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Ransom of Captives.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis Duchouquet.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 16, 1802</label> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the President of the United States to convey certain parcels of land therein mentioned.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 30, 1802</label> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Zane.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1802</label> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas K. Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 14, 1802</label> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages for Illegal Capture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Paolo Paoly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 14, 1802</label> <target>47</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lewis Tousard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 21, 1802</label> <target>47</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Theodosius Fowler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1802</label> <target>47<page>viii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to empower John James Dufour, and his associates, to purchase certain lands.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1802</label> <target>47</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Advances.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Fulwar Skipwith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 3, 1802</label> <target>48</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1803.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Hyde.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 14, 1803</label> <target>49</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Messonnier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 10, 1803</label> <target>49</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Further time for Payment of Bands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the town of Portsmouth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 19, 1803</label> <target>49</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Moses White.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1803</label> <target>50</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Relief from Imprisonment for Debt.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Harvey, and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1803</label> <target>50</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Eight Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1804.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Demurrage allowed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Coles.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 14, 1804</label> <target>51</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Paul Coulon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 26, 1804</label> <target>51</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Directors of the Columbian Library Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 31, 1804</label> <target>51</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Corp.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1804</label> <target>53</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bonds for Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the town of Norfolk.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1804</label> <target>53</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the captors of the Moorish armed ships Meshouda and Mirboha.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1804</label> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Ransom of Captives.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment of two thousand eight hundred dollars to Philip Sloan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 26, 1804</label> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowances at the Treasury.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of John Habersham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 26, 1804</label> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Maritime Capture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of David Valenzin, deceased; and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 26, 1804</label> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Moses Young.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 26, 1804</label> <target>55</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charlotte Huzen, widow and relict of the late Brigadier-General Moses Hazen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 23, 1805</label> <target>56</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages for Maritime Capture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Murray.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 31, 1805</label> <target>56</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Steele.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 31, 1805</label> <target>56</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the discharge of John York from his imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1805</label> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and orphan children of Robert Elliott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1805</label> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act making provision for the widow and orphan children of Thomas Flinn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1605</label> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Scoone and Alexander Cameron.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1805</label> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Taylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1805</label> <target>58</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded. Bounty on Fishing Voyage.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Patton and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1805</label> <target>58<page>ix</page></target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Ninth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1806.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands at Galliopolis.</i></designator> <label>An act to repeat in part the fourth section of an act entitled “An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Galliopolis, and for other purposes therein mentioned.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 21, 1806</label> <target>59</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the trustees of the Presbyterian congregation of Georgetown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1806</label> <target>59</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Landais.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1806</label> <target>61</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gilbert C. Russell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 15, 1806</label> <target>61</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Impeachment of Samuel Chase.</i></designator> <label>An act making provision for the compensation of witnesses who attended the trial of the impeachment of Samuel Chase.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 21, 1806</label> <target>61</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Relief.</i></designator> <label>An act for the temporary relief of Hamet Caramalli.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 21, 1806</label> <target>62</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land Titles.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in the town of Detroit and territory of Michigan, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 21, 1806</label> <target>62</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1807.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages for Maritime Capture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Little.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 17, 1807</label> <target>63</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Seth Harding, late a captain in the navy of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1807</label> <target>63</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Bonds for Duties extended.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 10, 1807</label> <target>63</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edmund Briggs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 10, 1807</label> <target>64</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Hearn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 10, 1807</label> <target>64</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Oliver Pollock.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1807</label> <target>65</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and William Eston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1807</label> <target>65</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Sayre.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1807</label> <target>65</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, and their companions.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1807</label> <target>65</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel S. Dexter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1807</label> <target>66</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Chester.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1807</label> <target>66</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the discharge of Gilbert Drake from his imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1807</label> <target>66</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1807</label> <target>67</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Tenth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1808.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for manufacturing Sugar.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend certain privileges as therein mentioned to Anthony Boucherie.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 7, 1808</label> <target>70</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the payment of certain expenses incurred in the impeachment of Samuel Chase.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 21, 1808</label> <target>70</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for manufacturing Flour extended.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Oliver Evans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 21, 1808</label> <target>70</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Whiting.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1808</label> <target>71<page>x</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Certificates.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward Weld, Samuel Beebec, and John Davidson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 11, 1808</label> <target>71</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pre-emption of Public Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act granting William Wells the right of preemption.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1808</label> <target>72</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Barclay, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1808</label> <target>72</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Matthew Smith and Darius Gates, jointly, and Darius Gates, separately.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 21, 1808</label> <target>72</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Philip Turner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 22, 1808</label> <target>73</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 25, 1808</label> <target>73</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Hunter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 25, 1808</label> <target>78</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Relief from Penalties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Chase, Jared Gardner, and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 25, 1808</label> <target>78</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Andrew Joseph Villard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 4, 1809</label> <target>79</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Augustin Serry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 12, 1809</label> <target>79</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edmund Beamont.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 1, 1809</label> <target>79</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Demurrage, &amp;c.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Cotton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 28, 1809</label> <target>80</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Sufferings during the War.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Barnitz.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1809</label> <target>80</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent Right to a Machine for manufacturing Cards.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend to Amos Whittemore and William Whittemore, junior, the patent right to a machine for manufacturing cotton and wool cards.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1809</label> <target>80</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1809</label> <target>80</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Eleventh Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1809.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the discharge of John Heard from his imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 20, 1809</label> <target>86</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the discharge of Joseph Wilkinson, junior, from his imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1809</label> <target>86</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1809, 1810.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Surveys of Public Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William and Elias Rector.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 28, 1809</label> <target>87</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for constructing Iron Bridges.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend certain privileges therein mentioned to Joshua Dyster.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1810</label> <target>87</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from Penalties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Harry Caldwell and Amasa Jackson, Jeremiah Reynolds, and Levin Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1810</label> <target>87</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John N. Stout.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 14, 1810</label> <target>88</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the discharge of William Hawkins from ills imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 20, 1810</label> <target>88</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Tristram Hussey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1810</label> <target>88</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the discharge of John Kerr from his imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1810</label> <target>89</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest an Certificates.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Baynham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1810</label> <target>89</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Moses Young.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 25, 1810</label> <target>89</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1810</label> <target>90<page>xi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act allowing compensation to Robert Robinson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1810</label> <target>94</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of P. C. L’Enfant.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1810</label> <target>94</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Arthur St. Clair.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1810</label> <target>94</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Penalties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William W. Weymouth and Joseph P. Weeks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1810</label> <target>95</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE III.—1811.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Armroyd and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1811</label> <target>96</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of the late Major-General Anthony Wayne.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 21, 1811</label> <target>96</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Change of Name.</i></designator> <label>An act to change the name of Lewis Grant to that of Lewis Grant Davidson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1811</label> <target>97</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Mills.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 7, 1811</label> <target>97</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act making compensation to John Eugene Leitensdorfer for services rendered the United States in the war with Tripoli.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1811</label> <target>97</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the discharge of Nathaniel F Fosdick from his imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1811</label> <target>97</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Sale of Land.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the sale of a tract of land lying in the state of Tennessee, and a tract in the Indiana territory.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1811</label> <target>98</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Audrain.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 26, 1811</label> <target>98</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release for violation of Acts against the Slave-Trade.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Macnamara.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1811</label> <target>99</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Donation Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act the relief of Richard Tervin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, and Joseph Wilson, of the Mississippi Territory.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1811</label> <target>99</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1811</label> <target>100</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Twelfth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1811, 1812.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abraham Whipple, late a Captain in the Navy of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 12, 1811</label> <target>103</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Josiah H. Webb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 12, 1811</label> <target>103</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Ransom from Captivity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Burnham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 10, 1812</label> <target>103</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remoral of Disabilities.</i></designator> <label>An act to empower the Secretary of the Treasury to decide on the case of the ship Eliza Ann, belonging to Ezekiel Hubbel, and the case of the ship Mary and Frances, belonging to Nathaniel Goddard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 31, 1812</label> <target>104</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain Selah Benton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 21, 1812</label> <target>104</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas O’Bannon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1812</label> <target>104</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Board of Commissioners west of Pearl River.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 10, 1812</label> <target>104</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Georgetown Lancaster School Society.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1812</label> <target>105</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Orr.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 8, 1812</label> <target>106</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Wilson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 8, 1812</label> <target>107</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Collector of Taxes.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Hubboll.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 23, 1812</label> <target>107</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Exchange of Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary for the Department of War to exchange Lands with the Ursuline Nuns, of the City of New Orleans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 23, 1812</label> <target>107</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Surveys of Public Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Aaron Greeley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 24, 1812</label> <target>107<page>xii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Grant of Lot in New Orleans.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to the governor of the State of Louisiana, for the time being, and his successors in office, a lot of ground, and the buildings thereon, in the city of New Orleans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1812</label> <target>108</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Minifie.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1812</label> <target>108</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Thompson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 11, 1812</label> <target>108</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas F. Reddick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1812</label> <target>108</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John N. Stout.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1812</label> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas and William Streshly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1812</label> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ninian Pinkney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1812</label> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Garrard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 10, 1812</label> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Clement B. Penrose.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 20, 1812</label> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the discharge of William Peck from his imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 24, 1812</label> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel William D. Beall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 24, 1812</label> <target>110</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Wilkinson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1812</label> <target>110</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Anna Young, heiress and representative of Colonel John Durkee, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1812</label> <target>110</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning Invalid Pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 5, 1812</label> <target>110</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Binnien.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 27, 1813</label> <target>116</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Bible Society of Philadelphia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 2, 1813</label> <target>116</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages for Maritime Capture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jared Shattuck.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 2, 1813</label> <target>116</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Reuben Attwater.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1813</label> <target>117</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Redfield, Junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1813</label> <target>117</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Loss of Certificates.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Dixon and John Murray.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1813</label> <target>117</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Royal Converce.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1813</label> <target>118</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the discharge of Daniel Updike from his imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1813</label> <target>118</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Washington Lee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1813</label> <target>118</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lewis Chacherie.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1813</label> <target>118</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Susannah Wiley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1813</label> <target>119</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel G. Ingraham, Alexander Phœnix, and William Nexsen, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1813</label> <target>119</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Samuel Lapsley, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1813</label> <target>119</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Thirteenth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1813.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Phœnix and William Nexsen, jun.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 19, 1813</label> <target>120</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Sloo.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 5, 1813</label> <target>120</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the remission of certain duties to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 22, 1813</label> <target>121</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edwin T. Satterwhite.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 22, 1813</label> <target>121<page>xiii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Scott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 22, 1813</label> <target>121</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses, &amp;c. taken by U. S.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elisha J. Winter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 26, 1813</label> <target>121</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Penalties, &amp;c.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Denny.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 28, 1813</label> <target>122</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Forfeitures.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the owners of the ships called the Good Friends, the Amazon, and the United States, and their cargoes; and also of Henry Bryce.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 29, 1813</label> <target>122</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 2, 1813</label> <target>122</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the officers and crew of the late United States brig Vixen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 2, 1813</label> <target>124</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property captured.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment for wagons and teams, captured or destroyed by the enemy at Detroit.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 2, 1813</label> <target>124</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Dorsey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 2, 1813</label> <target>125</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Willet Warne.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 2, 1813</label> <target>125</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Compensation as Clerk.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Lyon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 2, 1813</label> <target>125</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Henley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 2, 1813</label> <target>125</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John James Dufour and his associates.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 2, 1813</label> <target>126</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Dale.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 11, 1814</label> <target>127</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pre-emption.</i></designator> <label>An act granting Moses Hook the right of pre-emption.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 25, 1814</label> <target>127</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Boone.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 10, 1814</label> <target>127</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Penalties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Stothart and Josiah Starkey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 12, 1814</label> <target>123</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Piatt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 19, 1814</label> <target>128</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Farming.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 9, 1814</label> <target>128</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Crawford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 9, 1814</label> <target>128</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company in the Town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 9, 1814</label> <target>129</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Clason.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 24, 1814</label> <target>131</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act supplementary to an net entitled “An act for the relief of Thomas Wilson.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1814</label> <target>131</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Philip Le Duc.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1814</label> <target>131</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Sands, late collector of the customs for the port of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1814</label> <target>131</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Town to be laid out.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning Shawneetown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1814</label> <target>132</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Ellis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1814</label> <target>132</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Penalty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph W. Page.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1814</label> <target>132</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edwin T. Satterwhite, late a purser of the Hornet.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1814</label> <target>132</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Walkington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1814</label> <target>133</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel M’Cauly and Samuel Ralston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 6, 1814</label> <target>133</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Penalties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the owners of the cargo of the brig Patriota.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 6, 1814</label> <target>133</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William H. Savage.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 9, 1814</label> <target>133</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Seth Russell and Sons.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 9, 1814</label> <target>133</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release to Captors of Captured Property.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Cahoone and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1814</label> <target>134</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Chever.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 12, 1814</label> <target>134</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Brevard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 13, 1814</label> <target>134<page>xiv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Relief to Captors of captured Property.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Porter and his officers and crews.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 13, 1814</label> <target>134</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate a company for the purpose of supplying Georgetown with water.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 13, 1814</label> <target>135</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Penalties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Augustus M’Kinney and Layzel Bancroft.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>138</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John P. Williamson and Thomas Rice.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>138</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims of Inhabitants of Florida.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of State to liquidate certain claims therein mentioned.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>139</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>139</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Hamilton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>140</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Dennis Clark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>141</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the directors of the Washington Library Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>141</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Certificates of Stock last.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin W. Crowninshield.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>142</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Archibald M’Call.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>142</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jervis Cutler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>143</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Pitchlyn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>143</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the renewal of a land warrant to George Shannon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>143</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Penalties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Whitney and Joseph H. Dorr.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>143</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money destroyed by Fire.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John D. Hay.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>144</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Land.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to the president and directors of the New Orleans Navigation Company, and their successors, a lot of ground.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1814</label> <target>144</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE III.—1814, 1815.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Chalmers, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Nov. 21, 1814</label> <target>145</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Castille, of the city of New Orleans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 1, 1814</label> <target>145</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John C. Hurlburt, of Chatham, in the State of Connecticut.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 2, 1815</label> <target>145</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages to Property.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Robinson and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1815</label> <target>146</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lost Certificates of Stock.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Farrington Barkdow, administrator of Mary Rappleyea.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 2, 1815</label> <target>146</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lost Certificates of Slock.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Arnold.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 2, 1815</label> <target>146</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Brahany.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 2, 1815</label> <target>147</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent Right extended.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the time of Oliver Evans’s patent for his improvement on steam engines.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 7, 1815</label> <target>147</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning Weston Jenkins and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 7, 1815</label> <target>147</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Wells and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1815</label> <target>147</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Perkins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1815</label> <target>148</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Return of Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Saltus, Son and Company, merchants, of the city of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1815</label> <target>148</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Smith and Bratton Caldwell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1833</label> <target>148</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Nimmo.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 23, 1815</label> <target>149</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Lund.</i></designator> <label>An act for granting and securing to Anthony Shane the right of the United States to a tract of land in the State of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1815</label> <target>149</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Expenses of Wounded Seamen.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Uriah Coolidge and James Burnham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1815</label> <target>149</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Perine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1815</label> <target>150</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Penalties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward Hallowell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1815</label> <target>150<page>xv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Shinnick, and Schoultz and Vogeler, of Christian Chapman, and the legal representatives of John Calef, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1815</label> <target>150</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Sands.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1815</label> <target>150</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William H. Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1815</label> <target>151</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Solomon Frazer, and the representatives of Charles Eccleston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1815</label> <target>151</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Donation of Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of James Hynum.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1815</label> <target>151</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Power to confer Degrees.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning the college of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1815</label> <target>152</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the discharge of Edward Martin from imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1815</label> <target>152</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages to Property.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Eastern Branch Bridge Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1815</label> <target>152</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William P. Bennet, of the State of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1815</label> <target>152</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Anacosta Bridge Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1815</label> <target>153</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1815</label> <target>153</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Sprigg.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1815</label> <target>155</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of sundry persons in the service of the United States, in consequence of the destruction of their tools by fire at the navy-yard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1815</label> <target>155</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Savage and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1815</label> <target>155</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Fourteenth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1815, 1816.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Fanning.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 17, 1816</label> <target>156</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan B. Eastman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 17, 1816</label> <target>156</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Anderson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 22, 1816</label> <target>156</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John G. Camp.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 1, 1816</label> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan White.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1816</label> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Markin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1816</label> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Martin Cole, John Pollock, George Westner, and Abraham Welty.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1816</label> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Penalties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Morrissett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 15, 1816</label> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act to increase the pensions of Robert White, Jacob Wrighter, John Young, and John Crampersey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1816</label> <target>158</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Rogers, junior, of Waterford, in the State of Connecticut.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1816</label> <target>158</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Redman Coxe.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 28, 1816</label> <target>158</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel William Lawrence, of the army of the United States, and of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, composing the garrison of Fort Boyer, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 5, 1816</label> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gustavus Loomis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1816</label> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patents.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend certain privileges, us therein mentioned, to Bernard Edme Verjon, and Robert Lowe Stobie.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1816</label> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John M. Forbes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1816</label> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Erastus Loomis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 25, 1816</label> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John T. Wirt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1816</label> <target>160<page>xvi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act placing certain persons on the list of navy pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1816</label> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing and requiring the Secretary of State to issue letters patent to Andrew Kurtz.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1816</label> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the remission of certain duties on the importation of books for the use of Harvard College, and on the carriage and personal baggage of his excellency William Gore, Governor of the British Province of Upper Canada.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 9, 1816</label> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming to the Navigation Company of New Orleans the use and possession of a lot in the said city.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 16, 1816</label> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act to increase the pension of William Munday.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 16, 1816</label> <target>161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the sale of a lot of ground belonging to the United States, situated in the town of Knoxville, and State of Tennessee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 16, 1816</label> <target>161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Legislature of the State of Ohio to sell a certain part of a tract of land, reserved for the use of that State.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 16, 1816</label> <target>161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Mitchell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1816</label> <target>162</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Compensation as Consular Agent.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Xaverio Naudi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1816</label> <target>162</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Return of Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Baltimore and Massachusetts Bible Societies.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1816</label> <target>162</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward Wilson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1816</label> <target>162</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Flood.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 24, 1816</label> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from Penalties.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of Edward Hallowell.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 24, 1816</label> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Patrick O’Flyng, and Abigail O’Flyng, and Edmund O’Flyng.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 24, 1816</label> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Leveaux Trudeau.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John T. Gourtnay and Samuel Harrison, or their legal representatives.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ephraim Shaler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Militia Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of a company of the twentieth brigade of Virginia militia, commanded by Captain Jonathan Wamsly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the supervisors of the county of Clinton, in the State of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses lost in the Service of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Wilson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Ap Catesby Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Asher Palmer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Hamon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Wheaton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pre-emption of Public Land.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to Amos Spafford the right of pre-emption.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Services.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to James Levins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act directing the discharge of Moses Lewis from imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and children of Charles Dolph, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim on Final Certificate.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Alexander Roxburgh.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Service.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Young King, a chief of the Seneca tribe of Indians.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed by Fire.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Crosby, and John Crosby, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1616</label> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed try the Enemy.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the president and directors of the Washington Bridge Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1816</label> <target>167<page>xvii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest in Real Estate released.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of John P. Maxwell and Hugh H. Maxwell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>168</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act allowing pay to certain persons made prisoners with the revenue cutter “Surveyor.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>168</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Forfeitures.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain owners of goods, entered at Hampden, in the district of Maine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning Pharaoh Farrow and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas H. Boyle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Dick, William Bruce, and Asa Kitchel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph S. Newall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Rogers and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act directing the discharge of Ebenezer Keeler and John Francis from imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Rufus S. Reed and Daniel Dobbins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Titles of Lands sold by Vincennes University.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming the titles of certain purchasers of land who purchased from the board of trustees of the Vincennes University.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>171</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed by the hostile Creeks.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Manac.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>171</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George T. Ross, Daniel T. Patterson, and the officers and men lately under their command.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>171</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property taken by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Todd.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>171</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property used by Militia of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Paul D. Butler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>172</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Farrer, William Young, William Moseley, and William Leech.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>172</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Taylor and McNeal, Evans and McNeal, and Henry and John McCleester.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>172</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Properly lost or destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, surviving executors of John Ross, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>173</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Reimbursement of Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mcnassah Miner and Isaac Denison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1816</label> <target>173</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Hamilton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1816</label> <target>173</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties released.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Comptroller of the Treasury to cancel certain export bonds executed by Caspar C. Schutte.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1816</label> <target>173</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Moses Turner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1816</label> <target>174</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Coffin, Samuel and William Rodman, and Samuel Rodman, Junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1816</label> <target>174</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims, &amp;c.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Crawford, Frederick Bates, William Garrard, and Thomas B. Robertson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1816</label> <target>174</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act to indemnify Jabez Mowry and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1816</label> <target>175</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Holkar, formerly consul general of France to the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1816</label> <target>175</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Joseph Stewart and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1816</label> <target>175</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 30, 1816</label> <target>176</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Clerk.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Audrain.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 30, 1816</label> <target>180</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">RESOLUTION.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>Resolution to indemnify the sureties of Commodore John Rodgers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 15, 1816</label> <target>180</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>Resolution requesting the President to present medals to Captain Stewart and the officers of the frigate Constitution.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1816</label> <target>181<page>xviii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>Resolution requesting the President to present medals to Captain James Biddle and the officers of the sloop of war Hornet.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1816</label> <target>181</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Register of Public Officers.</i></designator> <label>Resolution requiring the Secretary of State to compile and print, once in every two years, a register of all officers and agents, civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1816</label> <target>181</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1816, 1817.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel Williams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 2, 1817</label> <target>183</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act directing the discharge of Nathaniel Taft from imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 14, 1817</label> <target>183</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Ship Liberty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Haslet.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1817</label> <target>183</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act directing the discharge of John Ricaud from imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 22, 1817</label> <target>184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act directing the discharge of Oliver Spellman from imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 22, 1817</label> <target>184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money lost by a Collector.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Malcolm.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 8, 1817</label> <target>184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Joseph Stewart and others.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 8, 1817</label> <target>184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act in addition to “An act for the relief of George T. Ross and Daniel T. Patterson, and the officers and men lately under their command.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1817</label> <target>185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacint Laval.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1817</label> <target>185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act directing the discharge of Lewis Olmsted from imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1817</label> <target>185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Commodore Richard Taylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1817</label> <target>185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John J. Yarnall, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1817</label> <target>186</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Park Holland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1817</label> <target>186</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Ignace Chalmet Delino, deceased, and of Anthony Cruzat and L. P. Deverges.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1817</label> <target>186</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Flavil Sabin, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1817</label> <target>186</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Burnside.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Madame Montriuel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Lee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Lawrence and others, merchants, residing in the city of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1847</label> <target>187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Williams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Chism.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Caslard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen, and marines, who were lost in the United States’ brig Epervier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>189</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Summers and John Allen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>191</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain Creek Indians.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>191</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Francis Cazeau, late merchant at Montreal.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>191</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Captured Property.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Nathaniel Seavy and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>191</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act directing the discharge of William Smith from imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>92</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peyton Short.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>192</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Bond.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Anthony Buck.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>192<page>xix</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Villere.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>192</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Wood taken for the Army.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John de Castinado.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>193</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Merchandise captured by the British.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Kindall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right"> March 3, 1817</label> <target>193</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and children of Arnold Henry Dohrman, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>193</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed, &amp;c.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph I. Green.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>193</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Journonville de Villiers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act compensating Peter Hagner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Reimbursement of Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Asa Wells.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Caleb Nicholls.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property captured from the Enemy.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Teakle Savage and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Supplies for the Army.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Wells, executrix of William Wells.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>195</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Whale-boats.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Buckmaster.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>195</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James H. Boisgervais.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>195</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and children of Abraham Owen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>196</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Survey of Military Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Holmes and Benjamin Hough.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>196</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Oliver.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1817</label> <target>196</target></referenceItem>
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<groupItem>
<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Fifteenth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1817, 1818.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Duty remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act to remit the duty on a painting presented to the Pennsylvania Hospital.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 14, 1818</label> <target>197</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Aikman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 14, 1818</label> <target>197</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Winslow and Henry Lewis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 22, 1818</label> <target>198</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land Entry.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joel Earwood.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 22, 1818</label> <target>198</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Columbian Insurance Company of Alexandria.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 16, 1818</label> <target>198</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize certain purchasers of public land to withdraw their entries, and transfer the moneys paid thereon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 9, 1818</label> <target>200</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Major-General Arthur St. Clair.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 9, 1818</label> <target>200</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment to Troops of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Israel Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 18, 1818</label> <target>200</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Improvement of Salt Works.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jahn Bate.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1818</label> <target>201</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Small.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1818</label> <target>201</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abraham Byington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1818</label> <target>201</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts for Surveying.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Edwards and John G. Stubbs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1818</label> <target>201</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>County of Alexandria.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the erection of a courthouse, jail, and public offices, within the county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1818</label> <target>202</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Cata Bunnell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 4, 1818</label> <target>202</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessels.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Martin Warner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 4, 1818</label> <target>202</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Narcissus Broutin and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 9, 1818</label> <target>202<page>xx</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate a fire insurance company in the city of Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 9, 1818</label> <target>203</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming the claim of Tobias Rheams to a tract of land granted to him by the Spanish government.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 9, 1818</label> <target>205</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Burnet, Gibson Clark, and the legal representatives of Hubert Rowel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1818</label> <target>205</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ashael Clark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1818</label> <target>206</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lemuel H. Osgood.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1818</label> <target>206</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Rodgers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1818</label> <target>206</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Dewees, relict and widow of William Dewees, deceased, and the heirs and legal representatives of the said William Dewees.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1818</label> <target>207</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of General Moses Porter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 13, 1818</label> <target>207</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 13, 1818</label> <target>207</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act in addition to an act entitled “An act for the relief of John Thompson.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 14, 1818</label> <target>208</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Michael Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 16, 1818</label> <target>208</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Mississippi Stock.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of George Pearson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 16, 1818</label> <target>208</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Major-General Jacob Brown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1818</label> <target>208</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Briggs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1818</label> <target>209</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Miller and Stephen Baker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1818</label> <target>209</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Sullivan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1818</label> <target>209</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessels.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Seth Sprague and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1818</label> <target>209</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from Claims of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and children of Jacob Graeff, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>210</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Judgments obtained against Officers of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Major Loring Austin and George R. Weils.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>210</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain Henry Gist and Captain Benjamin Johnson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel F. Hooker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Seybold.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Hall, late a major of marines.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Moneys advanced.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John B. Dabney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Moneys refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Dillon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Madame Poidevin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the houses of Thomas and John Clifford, Elisha Fisher and Company, Thomas Clifford and Son, and Thomas Clifford, of Philadelphia, and Charles Wirgman, of Baltimore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard M. Johnson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonas Harrison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Berry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>213</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Spanish Grant of Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Mackay, of the Missouri Territory.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>213</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peggy Bailey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>213</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money received from the Condemnation of the Ship Edward.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Amory, junior, and of the representatives of Thomas C. Amory, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>214</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Work.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>214</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Birdsall and William S. Foster.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>214<page>xxi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Columbian Institute for the promotion of arts and sciences.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>214</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Cornelia Mason.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1818</label> <target>215</target></referenceItem>
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<groupItem>
<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1818, 1819.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Barton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 28, 1818</label> <target>216</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to Mehitabel Cole the lands therein mentioned.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 28, 1818</label> <target>216</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Major-General John Stark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 28, 1818</label> <target>216</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William B. Lewis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 8, 1819</label> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Alexander Montgomery, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 8, 1819</label> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Doctor Mottrom Ball.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1819</label> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Frederick Brown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1819 </label> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sampson S. King.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 4, 1819</label> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel H. Harper.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 4, 1819</label> <target>218</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas B. Farish.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 4, 1819</label> <target>218</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel F. Hooker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 15, 1819</label> <target>218</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the civil department of the government of the United States, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 15, 1819</label> <target>218</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Renner and Nathaniel H. Heath.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 16, 1819</label> <target>221</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 16, 1819</label> <target>221</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Pool.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 20, 1819</label> <target>223</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Manufacture of Arms.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Adam Kinsley, Thomas French, and Charles S. Leonard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 20, 1819</label> <target>223</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Davis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 20, 1819</label> <target>223</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Clark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 20, 1819</label> <target>224</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act directing the payment of certain bills drawn by General Armstrong in favour of William Morgan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 20, 1819</label> <target>224</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Hall Jervey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1819</label> <target>224</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning the heirs and legatees of Thomas Turner, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1819</label> <target>224</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Kenzie and Forsyth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1819</label> <target>225</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act making provision for the claim of M. Poirey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1819</label> <target>225</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act making provision for the claim of M. de Vienne.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1819</label> <target>225</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate a company to build a bridge over the eastern branch of [the] Potomac, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets east, in the city of Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1819</label> <target>225</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming the claim of Alexander Macomb to a tract of land in the Territory of Michigan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1819</label> <target>228</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John B. Timberlake.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1819</label> <target>228</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Suit against the Commissioner of Public Buildings.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize William Prout to institute a bill in equity before the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, against the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, and to direct a defence therein.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1819</label> <target>228</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Phebe Stuart.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>229</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Rice Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>229</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act in behalf of the Connecticut Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>229</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act in addition to an act supplementary to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Thomas Wilson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>229<page>xxii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Aquila Giles.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert M’Calla and Matthew H. Jouett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Batman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Harold Smyth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Moss.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of B. and P. Jourdan, brothers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George M. Brook and Edmund P. Kennedy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>231</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Michael Hogan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>231</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Rees Hill.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>231</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hannah Ring and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>231</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Wheaton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>232</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An. act for the relief of Isaac Minis and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1319</label> <target>232</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Patrick Callan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>232</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensions.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>232</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Militia Fines.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John M’Causland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>234</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Kid, Seth Webber, and Thomas Page.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>234</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Vessel sunk in the Defence of Baltimore.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Orr.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>235</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathan G. Birdseye and Daniel Booth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>235</target></referenceItem>
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<groupItem>
<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Sixteenth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1819, 1820.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representative of Philip Barbour, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 14, 1820</label> <target>236</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act allowing Sarah Allen the bounty land and pay which would have been due to her son, Samuel Drew, had he lived, for his services as a private in the late war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1820</label> <target>236</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Matthew Barrow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1820</label> <target>237</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Hughes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1820</label> <target>237</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Anthony Burk.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1820</label> <target>237</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Denton, Little, end Company, and of Harman Hendrick, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1820</label> <target>237</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William M’Donald, administrator of James M’Donald, deceased, late captain in the army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 28, 1820</label> <target>237</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming Anthony Cavalier and Peter Petit in their claim to a tract of land.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 28, 1820</label> <target>238</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ether Shipley, administrator of Thomas Buckminster, late lieutenant in the thirty-third regiment of United States’ infantry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 28, 1820</label> <target>238</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money advanced for the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Cassin, widow and administratrix of Patrick Cassin, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 5, 1820</label> <target>238</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Nicholas Vreeland, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 5, 1820</label> <target>238</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John A. Dix.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 5, 1820</label> <target>239</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John O’Connor, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 5, 1820</label> <target>239</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Treasury Notes lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Swartwout.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 5, 1820</label> <target>239<page>xxiii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for Boats detained by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Harding, Giles Harding, John Shute, and John Nichols.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 5, 1820</label> <target>239</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jennings O’Bannon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 5, 1820</label> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Letters Patent.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of State to issue letters patent to Richard Willcox.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 5, 1820</label> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Anthony S. Delisle, Edward B. Dudley, and John M. Van Cleef.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 7, 1820</label> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Muskets impressed into the Service of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing payment to be made for certain muskets impressed into the service of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 7, 1820</label> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Walter Channing.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1820</label> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported into Castine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1820</label> <target>241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties on Goods destroyed by Fire.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain sufferers by fire at Savannah, in Georgia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1820</label> <target>241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Braden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 24, 1820</label> <target>241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Steele.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1820</label> <target>241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Cahokia Village.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming the proceedings of the inhabitants of the village of Cahokia, in the State of Illinois, in laying out a town on the commons of said village.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1820</label> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John B. Regnier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1820</label> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Fielding Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1820</label> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Christopher Miller.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1820</label> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain Stanton Sholes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1820</label> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for a Wagon, &amp;c.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph M. Skinner, administrator of George Skinner, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1820</label> <target>243</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Charters of Banks extended.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning the banks of the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1820</label> <target>243</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Merrill.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1820</label> <target>213</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bond to be cancelled.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Isaac Melchior, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1820</label> <target>243</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indian Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Konkopot and others, of the nation of Stockbridge Indians, residing in the State of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1820</label> <target>244</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Coffin and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1820</label> <target>244</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>City of Washington.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Law and Jonathan Elliot, citizens of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1820</label> <target>244</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elkanah Finney and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1820</label> <target>244</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for a Horse.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Bruce.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>245</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Horses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Converse and George Miller.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>245</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Widow of a Mail-carrier.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow of John Heaps, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>245</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Horses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas C. Withers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>245</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John H. Piatt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>245</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John McGrew, Richard Cravat, Hardy Perry, and Beley Cheney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>246</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Beck and Harvey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>246</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Willis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>246</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Baxter, late paymaster of the third regiment of New York volunteers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>247</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Stamps lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles S. Jones and Richard Buckner, jun., administrators of William Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>247</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Bickley and Catharine Clark, administratrix of John Clark, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>247<page>xxiv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Columbian Institute.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of the Columbian Institute, established for the promotion of Arts and Sciences in the city of Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>247</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John D. Carter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>248</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Abijah Hunt and William Gordon Forman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1820</label> <target>248</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Judgment discharged.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of General James Wilkinson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 11, 1820</label> <target>248</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties on a Boiler refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Martha Flood.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 11, 1820</label> <target>248</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Officers of the Revenue Cutter Louisiana.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Angus O. Fraser and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 11, 1820</label> <target>249</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel B. Beal.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 11, 1820</label> <target>249</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pre-emption of Land.</i></designator> <label>An act giving the right of pre-emption to James Shields.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 12, 1820</label> <target>249</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Papers to be returned.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Susannah Stewart.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 13, 1820</label> <target>249</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Leander Catheart.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1820</label> <target>250</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and Richard O’Brien, late American consul at Algiers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1820</label> <target>250</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Letters Patent.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of State to issue letters potent to Henry Burdin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1820</label> <target>250</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard S. Hockley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1820</label> <target>251</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Award in the case of the Ship Olive Branch.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ambrose Vasse.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1820</label> <target>251</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Conrad Laub, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1820</label> <target>251</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Loan Office Certificates.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Leiper.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1820</label> <target>252</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Tench Francis, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1820</label> <target>252</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses impressed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Newsom, Peter Crook, and James Rabb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1820</label> <target>252</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Hunter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1820</label> <target>253</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money robbed to be credited.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Smyth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1820</label> <target>253</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1820, 1821.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend the act entitled “An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Willis.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 29, 1820</label> <target>254</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elias Parks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 29, 1820</label> <target>254</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bond to be cancelled.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Perley Keyes and Jason Fairbanks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 11, 1821</label> <target>255</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Margaret Perry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 17, 1821</label> <target>255</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 9, 1821</label> <target>255</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Brady.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1821</label> <target>258</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Rosalie P. Deslonde.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1821</label> <target>258</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Tucker, late a captain in the navy of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1821</label> <target>258</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nicholas Jarrott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1821</label> <target>258</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Properly destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Rodriguez.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1821</label> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Properly destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis B. Languille.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1821</label> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Milne.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1821</label> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lewis H. Guerlain.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1821</label> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph McNiel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1821</label> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Bartholomew Duverge.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1821</label> <target>260</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Pierre Dennis De La Ronde.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1821</label> <target>260<page>xxv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Annuity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the family of the late Oliver Hazard Perry, Esquire.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1821</label> <target>260</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of General Robert Swartwout.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1821</label> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for passing to the credit of Nathaniel Allen certain moneys by him disbursed in the public service.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1821</label> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a machine for clearing Land.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to Thomas Oxley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1821</label> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Webster.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1821</label> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning Thomas Shields and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1821</label> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Surveying Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Buntin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1821</label> <target>262</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the settlement of the accounts of the late Le Roy Opic.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1821</label> <target>262</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for finishing Leather extended.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the term of Samuel Parker’s patents, for his improvement in currying and finishing leather of all kinds.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1821</label> <target>262</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Seventeenth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1821, 1822.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Clarkson and Alexander Elmslie.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 11, 1822</label> <target>263</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Finch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 4, 1822</label> <target>263</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peggy Mellen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 4, 1822</label> <target>263</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Reconveyance of Land.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the reconveyance of a tract of land to the city of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 30, 1822</label> <target>263</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan N. Bailey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 17, 1822</label> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gad Worthington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 17, 1822</label> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Solomon Porter, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 17, 1822</label> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Anderson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 17, 1822</label> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain distillers within the Sixth Collection District of Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1822</label> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>All act for the relief of William E. Meek.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1822</label> <target>265</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Vessels used for the Defence of Baltimore.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of sundry citizens of Baltimore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1822</label> <target>265</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses impressed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Cornelius Huson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1822</label> <target>265</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Bonds for Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of B. H. Rand.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1822</label> <target>265</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James M’Farland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 26, 1822</label> <target>266</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James May and the representatives of William Macomb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1822</label> <target>266</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Thomas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1822</label> <target>266</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Privileges of an American Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act restoring to the ship Diana the privileges of a sea-letter vessel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1822</label> <target>267</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act explanatory of an act entitled “An act authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and Richard O’Brien, late American consul at Algiers.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 6, 1822</label> <target>267</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming the title to a tract of land to Alzira Dibrel and Sophia Hancock.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 6, 1822</label> <target>267</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Matson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>267</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Green.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>268<page>xxvi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Henderson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Sureties of a Collector of Taxes.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Miller. John C. Elliot, Noah Hampton, James Erwin, and Jonathan Hampton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Campbell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of John B. Dash.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Cummings.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>262</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Final Settlement Certificate.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Guthry, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>269</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Girault.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>269</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Stephenson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>269</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pre-emption to certain Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a right of pre-emption to Noble Osborne and William Doake.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Edward M’Carty, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an Improvement in spinning Flax.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the issuing of letters patent to Joshua Garsed.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a tract of land to William Conner and wife, and to their children.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the sureties of Joseph Pettipool.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Cadwell and James Britten.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Barron.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Lee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Marie Therese.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Bainbridge.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Brisban and Jonah Lewis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses impressed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Dooly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from Imprisonment as Sureties of a Postmaster.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Post and Farly Fuller.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Hodgson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Construction of the Act relative to Vessels sunk in the Defence of Baltimore.</i></designator> <label>An act explanatory of an act for the relief of sundry citizens of Baltimore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Solomon Prevost.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Pierce.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty for Prisoners.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Gooding and James Williams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>274</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Gwynn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>274</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Thomas Shields.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>274</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Provisions furnished to Militia.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Walker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>274</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the president and directors of the Planters’ Bank of New Orleans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>275</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Matthew M’Nair.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>275</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William R. Maddox.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>275</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Roddy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1322</label> <target>275</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Susan Berzat, widow, and the legal representatives of Gabriel Berzat, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>276</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Towns of Perrysburgh and Croghansville.</i></designator> <label>An act vesting in the commissioners of the counties of Wood and Sandusky, the right to certain lots in the towns of Perrysburgh and Croghansville, in the State of Ohio, for county purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>276<page>xxvii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Ewings.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>276</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Trapmaun Jahucke and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>276</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lost Certificate of Public Debt.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Crute.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>276</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Pellet.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>277</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an Improvement in Lamps.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of State to issue letters patent to Frederick S. Warburg.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>277</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Return of Surplus of Money from a Sale of Land for Direct Taxes.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Anthony Kennedy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>277</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a Machine for combining Mechanical Powers.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the issuing of letters patent to Richard Holden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>277</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Militia Fines.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Greenbury H. Murphy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Holmes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sally Vance.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 7, 1822</label> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Cannon, Reuben Hickman, and Fielding Hickman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1822</label> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act explanatory of the act for the relief of James Leander Cathcart, passed May fifteenth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1822</label> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1822, 1823.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Georgetown, District of Columbia.</i></designator> <label>An act to repeal part of an act passed by the State of Maryland, in the year 1784, and now in force in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, entitled “An act for an addition to Georgetown, in Montgomery county.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 14, 1823</label> <target>280</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the settlement of the accounts of Daniel D. Tompkins, late Governor of the State of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 21, 1823</label> <target>280</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Buel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 21, 1823</label> <target>280</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel F. Hooker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 28, 1823</label> <target>281</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Rees, of New York, one of the sureties of Joseph H. Rees, deceased, late assistant deputy paymaster-general, in service of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>281</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward Evat.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>281</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Eleanor Lawrence.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>282</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Proceedings to be stayed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John B. Hogan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>282</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Purdy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>282</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Alexander Montgomery, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>282</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Lee, one of the sureties of John Ricaud, late a paymaster in service of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>283</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Morrison, of Kentucky.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>283</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Woodson Wren.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>283</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nimrod Farrow, Richard Harris, and their securities.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>283</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of a Final Settlement Certificate.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representative of James M’Clung, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>284</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Clerk hire.</i></designator> <label>An oct for the relief of John Coffee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>284</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Walker and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>284</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the discharge of John Burgin from imprisonment.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>285</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain Richard Hightower.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>285</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Polly L. Campbell, widow of Colonel John B. Campbell, deceased, late of the eleventh regiment of the United States’ infantry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>285<page>xxviii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sophia B. Ford, Nathan Ford, and Jacob Arnold, junior, administrators of the estate of Maillon Ford, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>285</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money paid for Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Seward.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>285</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Clerk hire.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Amos Nichols.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>286</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance, for Money robbed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James H. Clark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>286</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Russell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>286</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Relief from Imprisonment for Debt.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abraham Snyder.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>287</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties released.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathan Branson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>287</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims of Comfort Sands on the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ebenezer Stevens and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>287</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Hodgdon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>287</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Johnston Blakeley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>288</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim for the Passage Money of the Bearer of the Louisiana Treaty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Joseph Wilcox.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>288</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity for Suits.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert F. Stockton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>288</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Morrison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>288</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for Depreciation of Treasury Notes.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Byers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>289</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts for Payments to Kentucky Militia.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Carr, of Kentucky, late paymaster to Colonel William Dudley’s regiment of Kentucky militia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1823</label> <target>289</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Eighteenth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1823, 1824.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act appropriating a certain sum of money for the relief of Daniel D. Tompkins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 22, 1823</label> <target>290</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Post Office.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas W. Bacot.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 7, 1824</label> <target>290</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property captured.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles M. Collier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 7, 1824</label> <target>290</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Supplies.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jeremiah Manning, of New Jersey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 7, 1824</label> <target>291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property impressed for the Service of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Loudon Case.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 7, 1824</label> <target>291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Bartlett and John Stearns, owners of the schooner Angler, and Nathaniel Carver, owner of the schooner Harmony, and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1824</label> <target>291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain distillers within the county of Berks, in the State of Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1824</label> <target>291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Brintnel Robbins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1824</label> <target>291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Kendall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1824</label> <target>292</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties released.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Babbitt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1824</label> <target>292</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for a House rented by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Garrett Fountain.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 31, 1824</label> <target>292</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Compensation for taking the Census.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Wharton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 4, 1824</label> <target>292</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Certificate issued to the Mississippi Land Company.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Michael, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 20, 1824</label> <target>293</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an Invention.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the issuing of letters patent to Samuel Brown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 28, 1824</label> <target>293</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act to repeal an act, approved the third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, entitled “An act for the relief of John B. Hogan.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 22, 1824</label> <target>293<page>xxix</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Internal Taxes.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the executors of John B. Mebane to collect certain arrears of tax.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 22, 1824</label> <target>293</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Barbara Paulas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 22, 1824</label> <target>294</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Wood, of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1824</label> <target>294</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Burial Ground of Christ Church, City of Washington.</i></designator> <label>An act for enclosing the burial ground of Christ Church, Washington parish.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1824</label> <target>294</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Celestin Moreau, of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1824</label> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph C. Boyd.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1824</label> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Johnson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1824</label> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Napier, Rapelye and Bennett, and Petray and Viel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1824</label> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Noah Smith, of Maine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1824</label> <target>296</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Blacksmith Work during the Seminole War.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Alfred Moore and Sterling Orgain, assignees of Morris Linsey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1824</label> <target>296</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Firman Le Sicur.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1824</label> <target>296</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ichabod Lord Skinner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1824</label> <target>297</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Postponement of Payment of Duties on Sugars destroyed by Fire.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elijah Vausyckel, of Philadelphia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1824</label> <target>297</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money paid as Surety.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Gwynn, of Baltimore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1824</label> <target>297</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the settlement of the accounts of Benjamin Lincoln and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1824</label> <target>297</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain Thomas Staniford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1824</label> <target>297</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property taken by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thaddeus Mayhew.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1824</label> <target>298</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Interest on Advances.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Amasa Stetson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1824</label> <target>298</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hanson Kelly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1824</label> <target>298</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Colonel William Duane.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 13, 1824</label> <target>298</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William N. Earle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Debts.</i></designator> <label>An act releasing the owners of the ship General Jackson from the payment of certain duties.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for captured Property.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alvin Bronson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for captured Property.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Debentures for Coffee exported.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the issuing of certain debentures to Barnard Thooft.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Samuel Mims, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representative of Elijah Brush.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Solomon Sibley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages released.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Lightner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William T. Nimmo.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Forfeiture released.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Beard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Cooper.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Supplies for the Army.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Thomas and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elliott Rucker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Recruits.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Humphrey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George B. R. Gove.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Brace.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>302</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Wheaton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 17, 1824</label> <target>302<page>xxx</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Josiah Hook, Jun.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1834</label> <target>302</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money paid into the Treasury.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for repaying to Bazuleel Wells, a certain sum of money by him erroneously paid into the treasury.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1824</label> <target>302</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to compensate William Cocke for certain military services rendered the United States during the late war; and for the relief of John T. Johnson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1824</label> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Destruction of Property.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Giffin and Samuel Hoag.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1824</label> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Militia.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Marcen Duval.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1824</label> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Wilmot.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1824</label> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lemuel Arms.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1824</label> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Blagrove.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1824</label> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Refunding of Money, &amp;.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Marechal.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1824</label> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Williams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1824</label> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for a Contract with the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Frederick Perley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1824</label> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensions.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>305</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported into Castine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>305</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Bennett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>305</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property taken for Public Use.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Blean.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>305</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Charles Bradford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>306</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for the Manufacture of Arms.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James, Jehu, and Nathaniel Brooks, and the representatives of either of them.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>306</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Brotherton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>306</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Rent of Property used by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>306</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Archibald Clark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fisheries.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Collyer and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Desobry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Property occupied by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonas Duncan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the administrator of John B. Fanning, deceased, late a parser in the navy of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Firman and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>308</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Donation Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert S. Foreman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>308</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Certificates of Mississippi Slock, &amp;c.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Fry and Spalding.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>308</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for apprehending Pirates.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Morris Goldsmith and Anthony Roderick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>308</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Maturin Guiehot.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>309</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Hall, an invalid soldier of the revolutionary army.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>309</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary H. Hawkins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>309</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Interest on a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin King.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>309</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Louderman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of J. M. C. Montgomery.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Property sold under a Judgment for the United States, which was redeemed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hugh M’Culloch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1821</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Slough.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Smith, of Alexandria.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>310<page>xxxi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Supplies for the Army of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Topp.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Dean Weymouth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Direct Taxes.</i></designator> <label>An act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act authorizing the executors of John B. Mebane to collect certain arrears of tax.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1824</label> <target>311</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Treasury Notes.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John K. Carter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 21, 1824</label> <target>311</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Miguel Eslava.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 21, 1824</label> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Manufacture of Arms.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward Evans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 21, 1824</label> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John S. Maffitt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 21, 1824</label> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Landie Richardson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 21, 1824</label> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for two Rifles impressed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Strain.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 21, 1824</label> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Dean Weymouth and Zachariah Bunker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 21, 1824</label> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Register of Vessels.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the issuing of a register to the brig William, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 21, 1824</label> <target>313</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of John Donnelson, Stephen Heard, and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1824</label> <target>313</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of J. Ottramare.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 21, 1824</label> <target>313</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the assignees and legal representatives of John H. Piatt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1824</label> <target>314</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hezekiah Langley and Benjamin M. Belt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1824</label> <target>314</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander M’Nair.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1824</label> <target>314</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Gratuity.</i></designator> <label>An act appropriating a sum of money to Benjamin Huffman, of the State of Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>314</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Exchange of Land.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the President to exchange five arpens of land on the south side of the public lot at Baton Rouge, for an equal quantity of land on the north side of said lot.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>315</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lots granted to Tuscaloosa.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to the corporation of Tuscaloosa certain lots and privileges over the reservations and commons in said town.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>315</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Streets in Detroit.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the corporation of the Church of St. Anne, and to authorize the extension of Larned street, in the town of Detroit.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>315</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Cleveland, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>A Tract of Land granted to the Columbian Institute.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of [the] Columbian Institute.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Fisher.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Arthur H. Henly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property captured by the Indians.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Holliday.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John H. Howland, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>317</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Mitchell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>317</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representative of Thomas Robinson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>317</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land granted to the Parish of Point Coupee.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a tract of land to the inhabitants of the parish of Point Coupee, on certain conditions.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Scott, late collector of Pensacola.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Duty on Stills.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel White.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts of District Attorney and Marshal of Florida.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph M. White and William Davidson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an Invention for preparing Paper to prevent Frauds on Banks.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the issuing of letters patent to Nathaniel Sylvester.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act making an appropriation for the payment of the claims of Daniel D. Tompkins, late Governor of the State of New York, against the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>319</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Grant of Land to the Parish of Baton Rouge.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a tract of land to the parish of West Baton Rouge, on certain conditions.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1824</label> <target>319<page>xxxii</page></target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1824, 1825.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment to General La Fayette.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning General La Fayette.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 28, 1824</label> <target>320</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a new Dye.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the issuing of letters patent to Adolphus G. Trott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1825</label> <target>320</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Apprehension of Deserters.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Baylies.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>320</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Tonnage Duty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob A. Blackwell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>320</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Malachi Burns.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain Daniel T. Patterson, of the navy of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act discharging a judgment against the representatives of Elijah Wadsworth, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost in the late War.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joel Abbott, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost in the late War.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Yandez.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Priscilla Adams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elisha Snow, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Tonnage.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Hudson, of Baltimore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Dale, of Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money received as Surety of James Jones.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Howes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elias Glen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Reservations under a Treaty with the Creeks.</i></designator> <label>An act granting certain rights to David Tate, Josiah Fletcher, and John Weatherford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>323</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Demurrage of the Schooner Yeaton.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Forrest.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>323</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Dozet and Antoine Bourgoud.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>323</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Judgment released.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Gilmore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>323</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John M. Moody and Samuel Moody, and Elijah Bailey, and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>324</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act granting pensions to James Barker and Zebulon Pike.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>324</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Craven P. Luckett and William Reynolds.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>324</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Decrits.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Shillito.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lemuel Wootten.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John McLure.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Lenox, and William Maitland, G. B. Abeel, Galian Ludlow, and Hector Scott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Final Certificates destroyed by Fire.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Walter Story Chandler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>326</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Vessels sunk in the Defence of Baltimore.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John S. Stiles.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>326</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property taken by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Townsend.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gregory Ennis and William R. Maddox.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas L. Ogden and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property taken for the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Miller, administratrix of Amos Miller, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Cain and Isaac Baldwin, of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the companies of mounted rangers commanded by Captains Boyle and M’Girth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>328<page>xxxiii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and devisees of John Ferrell, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>328</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment, &amp;c.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas R. Broome.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>328</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ebenezer Averill.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>328</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Noel Soileau, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>329</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis Wright, son, and other heirs of Francis Wright, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>329</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Tonnage Duty paid on British Colonial Vessels, returned.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Thatcher.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>329</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain Richard Hightower.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>329</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Moses Plumer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>329</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an improved Sounding Machine.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Burt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>330</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessels.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Otis Pendleton, Harris Pendleton, John F. Delaplaine, Elijah P. Delaplaine, and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>330</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing Noah Webster to import into the United States his work on languages, at a rate of duty herein specified.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>330</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money for the Services of a Slave.</i></designator> <label>An act making an appropriation for the benefit of Joseph Smith, of Alexandria.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>331</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Arnold, David and George Jenks, Second.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>331</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Pemberton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825 </label> <target>331</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Taylor, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>331</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nimrod Farrow and Richard Harris.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>331</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Love.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>332</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Militia Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Holden W. Prout, administrator on the estate of Joshua W. Prout, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>333</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Porter and Tunstall Quarles.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>333</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gilbert C. Russel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>333</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Christian Jacob Burcle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>333</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Heck.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>333</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of a lost Certificate of Public Debt.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Crain.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>334</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Frederick Goetz and Charles W. Westfall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>334</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Luther Chapin, of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>334</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>For ch. XCVII., An act amendatory of the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the civil department of the government of the United States, in the District of Columbia,” omitted in this, its proper place, sec p. 337, post.</label> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Tonnage Duty refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William P. Yonge.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim for System of Infantry Discipline.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Colonel William Duane.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Reuben Ewing and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Rachael McClure.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Michael McKewen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Moses Shepherd.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>336</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Russell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>336</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning Charles D. Brodie.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>336</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Little, administrator of Minor Reeves.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>336<page>xxxiv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Paul Chase.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>336</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act amendatory of the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the civil department of the government of the United States, in the District of Columbia.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1825</label> <target>337</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Nineteenth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1825, 1826.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money illegally collected for the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Louis Chretien, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1826</label> <target>338</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Matson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1826</label> <target>338</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elijah Buckley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1826</label> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land granted to the Kentucky Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of the incorporated Kentucky Asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 5, 1826</label> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from Militia Duty.</i></designator> <label>An act to exempt the professors, tutors, stewards, and students of the different seminaries of learning in the District of Columbia, from militia duty.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1826</label> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Clark McPherrin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 13, 1826</label> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of a Surety for a Collector of Taxes.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Lewis, executrix of Thomas Lewis, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 13, 1826</label> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act remitting the duties upon certain articles imported for the use of the University of Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 13, 1826</label> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Moses Kenney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1826</label> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend and continue in force “An act for the relief of the representatives of John Donnelson, Stephen Herd, and others.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1826</label> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Anderson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1826</label> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Davis Floyd.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1826</label> <target>341</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Gibson, of Vincennes, Indiana, and James Kay, of Kentucky.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1826</label> <target>341</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Humbly and Edmund Doyle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1826</label> <target>341</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Hodsdon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1826</label> <target>342</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Michael Copp.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1826</label> <target>342</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act relinquishing the right of the United States in a certain tract of land to Samnel Brashiers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1826</label> <target>342</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Penelope Denny.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1826</label> <target>342</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act relinquishing the right of the United States in a certain tract of land to William Hollinger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1826</label> <target>342</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William M. Dever.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1826</label> <target>343</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Shorno, late a captain in the United States’ army.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1826</label> <target>343</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Wolcott, and Mary his wife, of the State of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1826</label> <target>343</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Cook.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1826</label> <target>344</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Arthur Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1826</label> <target>344</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Hitchcock.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1826</label> <target>344</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the settlement of the accounts of Colonel James R. Mullany, late quartermaster-general in the army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1826</label> <target>345</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim for transporting the Mail.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Donly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>345<page>xxxv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William P. Gould.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>345</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Forage impressed for the Service of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Tate.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>345</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim for manufacturing Arms.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Stienman, James Winner, and Ann M. Nippes, executrix of Abraham Nippes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>345</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benedict Joseph Flaget, bishop of Bardstown, in the State of Kentucky.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>346</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Detroit.</i></designator> <label>An act granting certain grounds in the city of Detroit to the mayor, recorder, alderman, and freemen of that city.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>346</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Matthews.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>346</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Walley and Foster.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>346</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Davis Floyd.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>347</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of Dower.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Rebecca Blodget.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>347</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property occupied by the United States, &amp;c.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gilbert C. Russel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>347</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Land sold by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act for the relief of Daniel Seward.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>347</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pre-emption Right.</i></designator> <label>An act giving the right of pre-emption of a certain lot of land to Charles Noble.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>348</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost in the late War.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John A. Webster.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>348</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Hampton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>348</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from Claim by the Post Office.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jarvis Jackson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>348</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Venable and Jane Morgan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to make compensation to Hugh McClung for a tract of land situate in the State of Tennessee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Thompson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of W. and J. Montgomery.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties on a Still.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Michael Hoff.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Proceeds of Goods forfeited.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Dickson and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>350</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Davis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>350</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John H. Mills.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>350</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Sureties of a Supervisor of the Internal Revenue.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the securities of Joseph Crockett, of Kentucky, late marshal and acting supervisor of the old internal revenue and direct tax.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>350</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Garrigues Flaujac, of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>351</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost in the late War.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Adams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>351</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ann D. Baylor, Leroy Edwards, and John Eustace.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>351</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of a company of rangers, under the command of Captain James Bigger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>352</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Otway Burns.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>352</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money lost or robbed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William L. D. Ewing.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>352</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of William V. Keary, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>352</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost in the late War.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jesse F. Royston, of Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1826</label> <target>353</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Advances for the Recruiting Service.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Walker K. Armistead.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1826</label> <target>353</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alfred Flournoy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1826</label> <target>353</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Biggs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1826</label> <target>353<page>xxxvi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Tharp.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1826</label> <target>354</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Monroe.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1826</label> <target>354</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Florida Indians.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Florida Indians.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1826</label> <target>354</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mack and Conant.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1826</label> <target>354</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Phinehas Underwood, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1826</label> <target>355</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Kellogg.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1826</label> <target>355</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1826, 1927.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward Lee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 29, 1826</label> <target>356</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Warner Wing.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 29, 1826</label> <target>356</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Sufferers by Fire.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the indigent sufferers by the fire at Alexandria.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 24, 1827</label> <target>356</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the settlement of the accounts of James W. Lent, junior, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 8, 1827</label> <target>357</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Von Kapffe and Brune, of Baltimore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 8, 1827</label> <target>357</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lieutenant Isaac McKeever.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 8, 1827</label> <target>357</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis King, assignee of William King.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 8, 1827</label> <target>357</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Woodworth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1827</label> <target>357</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alfred Flournoy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1827</label> <target>358</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Noah Noble, of Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1827</label> <target>358</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim for manufacturing Muskets.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of John Kerlin, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>358</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John W. Bingey, the legal representative of Alexander Young.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>359</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses lost in the Service of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An oct for the relief of Jacob Butler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>359</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Shafer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>359</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriation for prize money due to Thomas Douty.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>359</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses lost in the Service of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Meudenhall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>359</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses, &amp;c. lost in the Service of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Fielding.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>360</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land granted for a University in Arkansas.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning a seminary of learning in the Territory of Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>360</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James May.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>360</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Dunbar, receiver of public moneys for the land office west of Pearl river, in the State of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>360</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Louis de la Houssaye, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>360</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Morrison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>361</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard W. Steele.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>361</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse impressed for the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Ricker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>361</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Polly Bell, alias Polly Collins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>361</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Delawder.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>362</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Balthazar Kramar, and the legal representatives of Captain Richard Taylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>362</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Boardman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>362<page>xxxvii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward R. Gibson, and William H. Simmons, and their clerks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>362</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John E. Dorsey, administrator of John Dorsey, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>363</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas C. Withers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1827</label> <target>363</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands granted to the Refugees from Canada.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of the heirs of Gregory Strahan, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>363</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act concerning invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>364</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the assignees or legal representatives of Kendall and Butterfield.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>365</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Interest.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Bar. J. V. Valkenburgh.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>365</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Henry M. Breckenridge, keeper of the public archives in Florida.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>366</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representative of Giles Egerton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>366</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Pedro Miranda.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>366</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Gulledge.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>366</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Transporting the Mail.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Haley and Harris.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>367</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessel lost, Allowance to be paid.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Horace Waite and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>367</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Le Carpentier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>367</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of J. Balastier and Company, Peter Harmony, and W. W. Russel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>367</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Abraham Willink.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>368</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Collector of Internal Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of P. B. Price, administrator of George Mansell, late a collector of internal duties and direct tax in the State of Kentucky.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>368</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses impressed by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Jeans, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>368</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Collins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>368</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act making compensation to Peter Hagner, third auditor of the treasury department.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1827</label> <target>369</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Twentieth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1827, 1828.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an Invention.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Simeon Broadmeadow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 25, 1828</label> <target>370</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of General Thomas Flournoy, of Georgia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 12, 1828</label> <target>370</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an Invention.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to Elizabeth H. Bulkley, widow of Chauncey Bulkley, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 21, 1828</label> <target>371</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hampton L. Boone, of Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 21, 1828</label> <target>371</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Register to the Brig Liberator.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing a register to be issued for the brig Liberator, of Bath.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 10, 1828</label> <target>371</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Thompson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 10, 1828</label> <target>371</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessel, Allowance to be paid.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua T. Chase and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 10, 1828</label> <target>372</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry G. Rice.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 10, 1828</label> <target>372</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of the late General William Hull.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 10, 1828</label> <target>372<page>xxxviii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Fine.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Cloyd.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 10, 1828</label> <target>372</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Columbian College.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1828</label> <target>373</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an Improvement.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Augustus Archbald.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1828</label> <target>373</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Johnston, Jonathan W. Ford, Josiah Mason, and John English.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1828</label> <target>373</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dower to be paid by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Catharine Stearns.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1828</label> <target>374</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mrs. Brown, widow of the late Major General Brown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1828</label> <target>374</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Land Warrants.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Flowers, and the legal representatives of John Kingsbury.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 17, 1828</label> <target>374</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Mary Ann Bond and Mary Loveless.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 17, 1828</label> <target>374</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Shirkey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 17, 1828</label> <target>375</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an improved Machine.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Anthony Hermange.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 28, 1828</label> <target>375</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge over the Eastern Branch of the Potomac.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Benning.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 28, 1828</label> <target>375</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Taylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 28, 1828</label> <target>376</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Debt due to the General Post Office.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Asa Herring.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 28, 1828</label> <target>376</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bond for Exportation of sundry Negroest to be cancelled.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the cancelling of a bond therein mentioned.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1828</label> <target>376</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Gentry, of Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 9, 1828</label> <target>377</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elvington Roberts, of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 9, 1828</label> <target>377</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Willoughby Barton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 15, 1828</label> <target>377</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of John B. Dupuis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1828</label> <target>377</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Dower.</i></designator> <label>An act granting compensation to Rebecca Blodget for her right of dower in the property therein mentioned.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1828</label> <target>378</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Certificate of Loan.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Patience Gordon, widow, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1828</label> <target>378</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an Improvement.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Bell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1828</label> <target>378</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Brown and Aaron Stanton, of the State of Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1828</label> <target>378</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William M’Clure.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1828</label> <target>379</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Extinguishment of Indian Title to Land in Georgia.</i></designator> <label>An act making an appropriation to extinguish the Indian title to a reserve allowed to Peter Lynch, of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, within the limits of the State of Georgia, by the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the United States and said tribe of Indians.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1828</label> <target>379</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Marinus W. Gilbert.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1828</label> <target>379</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Merriwether Lewis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1828</label> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis English, of Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1828</label> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Dodd and Barnard, and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1828</label> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Account.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Garden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1828</label> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Andrew Wesbrook.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1828</label> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an Improvement.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward Allen Talbot.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1828</label> <target>381</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the trustees of the Female Orphan Asylum in Georgetown, and the Washington City Orphan Asylum in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>382</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to confirm claims to lands in the district between the Rio Hondo and Sabine rivers, founded on habitation and cultivation.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>382<page>xxxix</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land, for a Seminary of Learning in Alabama.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the selection of lands for the benefit of a seminary of learning in the State of Alabama, instead of other lands heretofore selected.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>383</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph, and the Sisters of the Visitation of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>383</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim for manufacturing Muskets for the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of William Shannon and Hugh Shannon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>384</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Shaw.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land granted to the Lafayette Academy, in Alabama.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of the trustees of the Lafayette Academy, in Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Frederick Onstine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Freeland, of Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary James, of Bedford county, Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>386</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of a Certificate.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Ward.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>386</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Land.</i></designator> <label>Warrant An act for the relief of Allan B. M’Albany.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>386</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Chitwood.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>386</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming to Francis Valle, Jean Baptiste Valle, Jean Baptiste Pratte, and St. James Beauvois, or to their heirs or legal representatives, of the county of Madison, in the State of Missouri, certain lands.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>386</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim for Manufacture of Muskets.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Miks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>387</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Reynolds.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>387</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Land ceded by a Christian Indian.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of John Winton, of the State of Tennessee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>387</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abraham C. Truax.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>388</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Caleb Stark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>388</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Bannister Stone.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>388</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessel, Allowance to be paid.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Philip Coombs and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>388</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and children of Captain William Beckham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>389</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim for Manufacture of Muskets.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Amos Sweet, Stephen Jenks, Arnold Jenks, David Jenks, and Betsey Jenks, widow of George Jenks, second, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>389</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Copy-right.</i></designator> <label>An act to continue a copyright to John Rowlett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>389</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Summerl and Israel Brown, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>390</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Penalty remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel Briggs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>390</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Willard and Thomas P. Baldwin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 24, 1828</label> <target>390</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Fraser.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1828</label> <target>391</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Philip Slaughter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1828</label> <target>391</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John T. Ross.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1828</label> <target>391</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Huston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1828</label> <target>391</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Seth Knowles.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1828</label> <target>391</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Brahan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1828</label> <target>392</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Half-pay in the British Service, lost by entering into the Service of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of General Moses Hazen, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1828</label> <target>392</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Loan Office Certificates.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Archibald Bard and John Findley, executors of the last will and testament of Doctor Robert Johnson, deceased, and for the relief of John Scolt, executor of Charles Yeates, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1828</label> <target>392</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francia H. Gregory and Jesse Wilkinson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1828</label> <target>393<page>xl</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Ellis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1823</label> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Gratuity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Cyrus Sibley, agent of George M. Brooke.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1828</label> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Taylor, of Kentucky.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1828</label> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity for the Ship Union, destroyed after the Peace with England.</i></designator> <label>An act further to indemnify the owner and underwriters of the British ship Union and her cargo.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1828</label> <target>394</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>Resolution authorizing on examination of the claims to land of John F. Carmichael.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1828</label> <target>394</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1828, 1829.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John B. Lemaitre, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 6, 1829</label> <target>395</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of a Lien of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act releasing the lien of the United States upon a part of the land of Benjamin Owens, in Anne Arundel county, State of Maryland, to the trustees of Mount Zion meeting-house, in said county and state.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1829</label> <target>395</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim of Payment for Property used by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Goodwin, executor of Benjamin Goodwin, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1829</label> <target>395</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Rentleman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1829</label> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Augustus Aspinwall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1829</label> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Overpayment for Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert L. Kennon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1829</label> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Otis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1829</label> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Wilson, of Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1829</label> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Smith T. and Wilson P. Hunt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1829</label> <target>397</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of John Gwyn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1829</label> <target>397</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Debt, due to the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Griffin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1829</label> <target>397</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land granted to the Valley Creek Academy, Alabama.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of the trustees of the Valley Creek Academy, in the State of Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1829</label> <target>398</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown Steam Packet Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1829</label> <target>398</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles A. Burnett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1829</label> <target>400</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Guest, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1829</label> <target>400</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost in the Service of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Chesnut.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1829</label> <target>400</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of James A. Harper, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1829</label> <target>401</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Hunt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1829</label> <target>401</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William R. Maddox.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1829</label> <target>401</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Foltz.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1829</label> <target>401</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Twenty-First Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1829, 1830.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Exchange of Lots by the University of Michigan.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the exchange of certain lots of land between the University of Michigan Territory, and Martin Baum and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 13, 1830</label> <target>402</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elijah Carr.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 13, 1830</label> <target>402<page>xli</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lewis Schrack.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 30, 1830</label> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property injured.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joel Byington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 30, 1830</label> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel B. Wood.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 30, 1830</label> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Theophilus Cooksey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 30, 1830</label> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Copy-right</i></designator> <label>An act to amend “An act to continue a copy-right of John Rowlett.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 11, 1830</label> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and children of Benjamin W. Hopkins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 11, 1830</label> <target>404</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nancy Dolan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 11, 1830</label> <target>404</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the churchwardens of Elizabeth City parish, in the State of Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 11, 1830</label> <target>404</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property injured.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Dixon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 11, 1830</label> <target>404</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Orson Sparks and John Watson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 11, 1830</label> <target>405</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James D. Cobb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 11, 1830</label> <target>405</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Jacocks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 11, 1830</label> <target>405</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Long.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 11, 1830</label> <target>405</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Ford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 11, 1830</label> <target>405</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Benjamin Clark, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 11, 1830</label> <target>406</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for a Vessel detained by the British.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ezra Thurbur, and the legal representatives of Gideon King.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1830</label> <target>406</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Elijah L. Clarke, of Louisiana, and of the heirs and legal representatives of Lewis Clarke, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1830</label> <target>406</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abigail Appleton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1830</label> <target>407</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Biddle, administrator of John Wilkins, junior, formerly quartermaster-general of the army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 18, 1830</label> <target>407</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Antoine Prudhomme, Louis Closeau, and Gilbert Closeau, of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 23, 1830</label> <target>407</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of John Pierre Landerneau, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 23, 1830</label> <target>408</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hyacinth Bernard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 23, 1830</label> <target>408</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Injuries to Property by the Osage Indians.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the payment of sundry citizens of the territory of Arkansas, for trespasses committed on their property by the Osage Indians, in the years one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 25, 1830</label> <target>408</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Mays.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 25, 1830</label> <target>408</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessel, Allowance to be paid.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Dickins and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 25, 1830</label> <target>409</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Cread Glover.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 25, 1830</label> <target>409</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis Compared.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 25, 1830</label> <target>409</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Buford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 25, 1830</label> <target>409</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Taylor, of Kentucky.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1830</label> <target>409</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Erastus Granger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1830</label> <target>410</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act to increase the pension of Charles Larrabee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1830</label> <target>410</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain Daniel McDuff.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1830</label> <target>410</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Francis Tennille, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1830</label> <target>410</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property taken by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Marigny D’Auterive.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1830</label> <target>411</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Money expended for the Defence of Baltimore.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the mayor and city council of Baltimore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1830</label> <target>411<page>xlii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Jean Baptiste Couture.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 7, 1830</label> <target>411</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of J. W. Hollister and Company, and George Anderson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 7, 1830</label> <target>411</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Ransom from Captivity at Algiers.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain John Burnham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 7, 1830</label> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property injured by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Rodriguez.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 7, 1830</label> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Penalty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Shiverick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 7, 1830</label> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hubert La Croix.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 7, 1830</label> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessel, Allowance to be paid.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Andrew Wilson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 7, 1830</label> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund a sum of money, now in the Treasury, to Charles Henry Hall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 15, 1830</label> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Mercantile Insurance Company, in Salem, Massachusetts.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 15, 1830</label> <target>413</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter and John S. Crary and Company, of New York, and of Allen Reynolds.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 15, 1830</label> <target>413</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gabriel Godfroy and John Baptiste Beaugrand.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 23, 1830</label> <target>413</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Arund Rutgers, of Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 23, 1830</label> <target>414</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for a Vessel captured on Lake Erie.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Luther Chapin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 23, 1830</label> <target>414</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to the Widows and Orphans of the Officers and Seamen lost in the Hornet.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen, and marines, of the sloop of war Hornet.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 24, 1830</label> <target>414</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the president, directors, and company, of the Bank of Chillicote.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 24, 1830</label> <target>414</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Daniel M’Duff.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 24, 1830</label> <target>415</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>A Forfeiture refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act to refund the moiety of the forfeiture upon the schooner Volant.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 24, 1830</label> <target>415</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Instruments for the Exploring Expedition.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Wilkes, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1830</label> <target>415</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Kentucky Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the benefit of the incorporated Kentucky Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb,” and to extend the time for selling the land granted by said act.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1830</label> <target>416</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Richard Eppes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 10, 1830</label> <target>416</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property taken for the Use of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Abbott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 10, 1830</label> <target>416</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of sundry revolutionary and other officers and soldiers, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1830</label> <target>416</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>A Marine Hospital at Charleston.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the city council of Charleston, South Carolina.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1830</label> <target>419</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Improvements at Salt Works in Illinois.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Taylor, and the representatives of James Morrison and Charles Wilkins</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1830</label> <target>419</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Alexandria Canal Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1830</label> <target>419</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Chapman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1830</label> <target>426</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to confirm the claim of Isidore Moore, of Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1830</label> <target>426</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nancy Moore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1830</label> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Payson Perrin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1830</label> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mountjoy Bayly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1830</label> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lucy M. Lipscomb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1830</label> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Edgar, of Illinois.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1830</label> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of the creditors of Bennet and Morte.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1830</label> <target>428<page>xliii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>428</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Wheatley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>428</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Williams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>428</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Barnett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>428</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Shaw.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>428</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Baptiste Le Gendre.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of François Isidore Tuillier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Gasney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Sureties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Cooper, William Saunders, and William R. Porter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Judah Alden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>430</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lost Certificates.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Joseph Falconer, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>430</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Wilkins Tannehill.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John H. Wendal, a captain in the revolutionary war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of James Davenport, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Jean Marie Trahaud, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Michael Lewis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Fridge.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>432</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain John Woods.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>432</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of John Tuillier, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>432</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Olney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>433</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Continental Loan Office Certificate.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Moffitt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>433</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Montgomery, John H. Watts, and the administrators of John Wilson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>433</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Tipton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>434</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of General Simon Kenton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>434</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Claxton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>434</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Wilderman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>435</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abraham Brownson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>435</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a Machine for washing Ores.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Vincent de Rivafinoli and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>435</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Wallace Robinson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>435</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ann Brashears, of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1830</label> <target>436</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the settlement of the accounts of certain diplomatic functionaries.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>436</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Blackwell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>436</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Scott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>436</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of the Moiety of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Collins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>436</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Fielding L. White.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>437</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer, children and heirs at law of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>437</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Loan Office Certificates to be paid.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ann D. Baylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>437</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs or representatives of widow Dupree.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>438<page>xliv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Conard, marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel Enos Cutler, of the United States’ army.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas W. Newton, assignee of Robert Crittenden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for blasting Rocks.</i></designator> <label>An act for authorizing a patent to be issued to Moses Shaw.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief-of Mesheck Browning.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>439</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Major M. M. Payne, of the United States’ army.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>439</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaiah Townsend, Peter Dox, and Gerrit Le Grange, sureties of Gerrit L. Dox.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>439</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jeremiah Walker, of the State of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>439</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of a Penalty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Roger Enos.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>439</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abel Allen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>440</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to reimburse Lieutenant Daniel Tyler for money advanced by him for the government of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>440</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest on a Certificate of Loan.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Scott, executor of Charles Yates, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>440</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ephraim F. Gilbert.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>440</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Fisk.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>441</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act granting pensions to Samuel H. Phillips, Cord Hazard, and John M’Creary, and to increase the pension of George W. Howard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>441</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Reversionary Interest of the United States in Indian Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act to relinquish the reversionary interest of the United States in certain Indian reservations in the State of Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1820</label> <target>441</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Hayner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>442</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Morrison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>442</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property captured.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elisha Ives.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>442</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Properly captured.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the owners of the ship Alleghany, and their legal representatives.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Rogers and Sons.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Homans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Sprigg, of Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Glass.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel Childers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Love.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>444</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Martha Yeomans, widow of John Yeomans, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>444</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Colonel John Ellis, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>444</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Brooks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>445</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Charles Brown, a soldier of the revolutionary war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>445</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Price.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>445</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Jeans, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>445</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Ermatinger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>445</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the settlement of the accounts of Samuel Sitgreaves.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>446</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ephraim Whitaker and John J. Jacobs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>446<page>xlv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to repeal the proviso in the act for the relief of Philip Slaughter, passed the twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1839</label> <target>446</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Williams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>446</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jasper Parish.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>447</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Wells.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>447</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Vessels destroyed for the Defence of Baltimore.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1830</label> <target>447</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lewis Rouse.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1830</label> <target>448</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the county of Allen to purchase a portion of the reservation including Fort Wayne.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1830</label> <target>448</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Reily.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1830</label> <target>448</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Baptiste Jerome.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1830</label> <target>448</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Simeon Theus, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1830</label> <target>449</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John F. Carmichael, of the State of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1830</label> <target>449</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gabriel Godfrey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1830</label> <target>450</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest on Final Certificate.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Ward.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1830</label> <target>450</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Beard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1830</label> <target>450</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Pinney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1830</label> <target>450</target></referenceItem>
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<groupItem>
<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1830, 1831.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Land for Schools.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of schools in Lawrence county, Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 13, 1831</label> <target>451</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Aaron Fitzgerald.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 13, 1831</label> <target>451</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Fitzgerald.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1831</label> <target>451</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Edward Moore, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 27, 1831</label> <target>452</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Bounty Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Matthias Roll and William Jackson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 3, 1831</label> <target>452</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a Machine for separating the Metal from Gold Ore.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to John Powell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 12, 1831</label> <target>452</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Smith, administrator of John Taylor, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 12, 1831</label> <target>452</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Burris, of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 19, 1831</label> <target>453</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to make compensation to the heirs of Taliaferro Livingston and Francis W. Armstrong for the maintenance of fifteen Africans illegally imported into the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1831</label> <target>453</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1831</label> <target>453</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Porter, of Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>455</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Glower.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1331</label> <target>455</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Simeon C. Whittier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>455</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An oct for the relief of Ebenezer Rollins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>455</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel McIntire, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>456</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph E. Sprague.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>456</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Daly, late of Canada.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>456</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel Cheever and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>456<page>xlvi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peters and Pond.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>457</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Certificate of Loan.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lucien Harper.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>457</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Sprague.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>457</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the final settlement and adjustment of the various claims preferred by James Monroe against the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>457</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mrs. Clarissa B. Harrison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>458</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Register of the Brig Hope.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Smith and William Pearse, the second, of Bristol, in Rhode Island.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>458</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a “Floating Dry Dock” extended.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the patent of John Adamson for a further period of fourteen years.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>458</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of a Penalty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Johnston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of J. N. Cardozo.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Cleer, of Maryland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Crocker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the executor of Stephen Tippett to locate a tract of land in the State of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hugh Barnes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Becker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>460</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming the claim of John B. Toulmin to a lot in the city of Mobile.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>460</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Nowell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>460</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate a fire insurance company in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>460</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Belger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>463</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act to rectify the mistake in the name of William Tumey, an invalid pensioner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>463</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Register of Schooner Julia D. Ramsey.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Jackson and Lucius M. Higgins, of Newbern, in North Carolina.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>463</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Delzell, of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>463</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Peter Celestino Walker and John Peter Walker, deceased, and of Joseph Walker, of the State of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1831</label> <target>463</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William T. Carroll, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>464</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Proceeds of the Brig Josepha Secunda.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Beverly Chew, the heirs of William Emerson, deceased, and the heirs of Edwin Lorraine, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>464</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims. Seneca Treaty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Percis Lovely, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>465</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Overpayment on a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William B. Matthews, trustee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>465</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Nicks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>465</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Brevet Major Riley, and Lieutenants Brook and Seawright.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>466</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Duval and Carnes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>466</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of General Moses Hazen, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>466</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin S. Smoot, of Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>466</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Nicholson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>466</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Gough, and other Canadian refugees.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>467</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a Magnetic Separating Machine extended.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the patent of Samuel Browning for a further period of fourteen years.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>467<page>xlvii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>Interpreter of the District Court of Louisiana. An act for the relief of John Culbertson, and to provide an interpreter for the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>467</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George B. Dameron and William Howze, of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>468</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Thomas, late quartermaster-general in the army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>468</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for Machines for washing Gold Ore.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Christopher Bechtler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>468</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Hogland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>468</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Martin Miller.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>468</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph S. Cannon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>469</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Bonds for Duties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Antoine Dequindre, and the legal representatives of Louis Dequindre, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>469</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Coburn, of the State of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>469</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Woodson Wren, of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1831</label> <target>469</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Twenty-Second Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1831, 1832.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William J. Quincy and Charles E. Quincy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1832</label> <target>471</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry H. Tuckerman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1832</label> <target>471</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robertson and Barnwell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 13, 1832</label> <target>471</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lewis Anderson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1832</label> <target>472</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Forsythe.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1832</label> <target>472</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Cassedy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1832</label> <target>472</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Dixon Spears.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1632</label> <target>472</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert A. Forsythe.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 23, 1832</label> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William D. King, James Daviess, and Garland Lincicum.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 23, 1832</label> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Hook.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 23, 1832</label> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Kilbourn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 23, 1832</label> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Debt due to the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claim of the United States on the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 10, 1832</label> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Proctor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1832</label> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lawrence L. Van Kleeck.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1832</label> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Lucius Sawyer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1832</label> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Jared Cone.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1832</label> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money received by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Andrew H. Richardson, executor of Valentine Richardson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1832</label> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ariel Ensign.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1832</label> <target>475</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Adam Peck.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1832</label> <target>475</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Antoine Dequindre, Richard Smith, and others, Michigan volunteers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1832</label> <target>475</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Tharp.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1832</label> <target>476</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Doctor Hanson Catlett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1832</label> <target>476<page>xlviii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of William Robertson, deceased, and Daniel S. Leonard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1832</label> <target>476</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Sapp.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1832</label> <target>477</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Peck.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1832</label> <target>477</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Cornelius Overton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1832</label> <target>477</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward Lee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1832</label> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property captured.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Eber Hubbard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1832</label> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Samuel Wagstaff.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1832</label> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Percia Tupper, executrix of Samuel Tupper, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1832</label> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Injuries to Property.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jane Muir.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1832</label> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward Livingston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 15, 1832</label> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Owens.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 15, 1832</label> <target>479</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Account.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Amariah Squirrel, administrator of Jacob Squirrel, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 15, 1832</label> <target>479</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Jones and William A. Fleming.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 15, 1832</label> <target>479</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Samuel Keep.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 15, 1832</label> <target>480</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Value of Slaves.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Anthony Foreman, John G. Ross, Cherokee delegation.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 15, 1832</label> <target>480</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Bernard Marigny, of the State of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 15, 1832</label> <target>480</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Williamson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 15, 1832</label> <target>481</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathan Towson, paymaster-general of the army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 15, 1832</label> <target>481</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard S. Hackley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 15, 1832</label> <target>481</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duty and Penalty refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of J. P. and E. B. Penny.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 15, 1832</label> <target>482</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John McDonough.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 22, 1832</label> <target>482</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sylvester Havens.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 22, 1832</label> <target>482</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Leonard Denison and Elisha Ely.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 22, 1832</label> <target>482</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain Thomas Paine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 22, 1832</label> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Improvements made on land acquired by Cherokee Treaty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Rodgers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1832</label> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Smart.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1832</label> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Mennry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1832</label> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Dennis, and the legal representative of Asa Hartfield.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1832</label> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benedict Joseph Flaget.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1832</label> <target>484</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the sureties of Amos Edwards.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 5, 1832</label> <target>484</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands for Schools.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jefferson College, in the State of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1832</label> <target>484</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming to Joshua Kennedy, his claim to a tract of land in the city of Mobile.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1832</label> <target>485</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a Plough extended.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the patent of Jethro Wood.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1832</label> <target>486</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to revive and continue in force “An act for the relief of the representatives of John Donelson, Stephen Heard, and others?”.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1832</label> <target>486</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Certificate of Loan.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard G. Morris.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1832</label> <target>486</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Bogy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1832</label> <target>487</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Miami Exporting Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1832</label> <target>487<page>xlix</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Allen W. Hardie.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1832</label> <target>487</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Prosper Marigny.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1832</label> <target>488</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Arnaud Lanaux.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1832</label> <target>488</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Soniat Dufossat.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1832</label> <target>488</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John H. Thomas, claiming under Antoine Patin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1832</label> <target>488</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Celestin Chiapella.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1832</label> <target>489</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of De Garmo Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1832</label> <target>489</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property captured.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George J. Knight.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1832</label> <target>489</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of William Vawters.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1832</label> <target>489</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Samuel Kennedy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1832</label> <target>490</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Roberts, late major of infantry in the war of the revolution.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1832</label> <target>490</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representative of Rignald, alias Reynold, Hillary.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1832</label> <target>490</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and residuary legatees of William Carter, late of the State of Virginia, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1832</label> <target>490</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Hughes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1832</label> <target>491</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ann D. Baylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1832</label> <target>491</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edmund Brooke.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1832</label> <target>491</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act supplementary to “An act to incorporate the trustees of the Female Orphan Asylum of Georgetown, and the Washington City Asylum, in the District of Columbia.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1832</label> <target>492</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James W. Hill, Elijah Hill, and Philip Barnes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1832</label> <target>492</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William R. Pickett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1832</label> <target>493</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas and James Massingill.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1832</label> <target>493</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain John Burnham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1832</label> <target>493</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Kaine, of Buffalo, in the State of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1832</label> <target>493</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James McCarty.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1832</label> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph W. Torrey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1832</label> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Doctor Eliakim Crosby.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 4, 1832</label> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Dr. Samuel J. Axson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1832</label> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Kemf otherwise called Jacob Kempf.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1832</label> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John McHugh.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1832</label> <target>495</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Knight.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1832</label> <target>495</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim on Securities.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise with the trustee of the late firm of Thomas H. Smith and Son, and their securities, the claims of the United States upon the said firm and their securities.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1832</label> <target>495</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse impressed into the Service of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of David Dardin, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1832</label> <target>495</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ichahod Ward.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1832</label> <target>496</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hopkins Rice.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1832</label> <target>496</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Contribution to the Alexandria Canal.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of the Alexandria Canal Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 25, 1832</label> <target>496</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of the Moiety of a Penalty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Heard, junior, surviving assignee of Amasa Davis, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 25, 1832</label> <target>496<page>l</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard W. Steele, a soldier in the late war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 25, 1832</label> <target>497</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hannah McKim.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 25, 1832</label> <target>497</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Dorothy Wells.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 25, 1832</label> <target>497</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to confirm certain claims to land in the Territory of Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 25, 1832</label> <target>498</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claim.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the inhabitants of Terre Aux Bœufs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 25, 1832</label> <target>498</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ephraim Whitaker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 3, 1832</label> <target>501</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Lacy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 3, 1832</label> <target>501</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William McCormick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 3, 1832</label> <target>502</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for Discoveries in Mechanical Philosophy.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Horatio Gates Spafford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 3, 1832</label> <target>502</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patents for Improvements in spinning Rope Yarn, &amp;c.</i></designator> <label>An act directing letters patent to be issued to Thomas Knowles, James Lang, and William Steel, respectively.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 3, 1832</label> <target>502</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Brooks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 4, 1832</label> <target>503</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Dale.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 4, 1832</label> <target>503</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Aaron Snow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 4, 1832</label> <target>503</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the further relief of John H. Wendell, a captain in the revolutionary war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 4, 1832</label> <target>504</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William P. Gibbs, executor of Benjamin Gibbs, of Kentucky, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 4, 1832</label> <target>504</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the period to which the charter of the Provident Association of Clerks was limited.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1832</label> <target>504</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward S. Meeder.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1832</label> <target>504</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to William Scott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1832</label> <target>505</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Bryant and George W. Howard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1832</label> <target>505</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Timothy Risley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1832</label> <target>505</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Chamberlain.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1832</label> <target>505</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Anderson, assignee of Jean B. Jerome and George McDougall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 10, 1832</label> <target>506</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George E. Tingle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>507</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Certificate of Debt of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Brickwood Taylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>507</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Kimber.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>507</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim to Land acquired by the Treaty with the Cherokees.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Elliott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>507</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Dickson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>508</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Walter Cockburn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>508</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel A. Ware.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>508</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Peter, Catharine, and Charles Surget.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>509</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob C. Jordan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>509</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming the claim of Maria Holliday to a tract of land in Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>509</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Judgment released.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James W. Zachary.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>510</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Judgment released.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Elias Earle, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>510</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Judgment released.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John H. Harrison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 13, 1832</label> <target>510</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the discharge of sundry judgments against the former marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, and for the relief of J. and W. Lippincott and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>510<page>li</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act to remit a part of the duties on a cargo imported in the brig Liberator.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>511</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property lost by Fire.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the officers and soldiers of Fort Delaware.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>512</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lots in the City of Washington.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Saint Vincent’s Female Orphan Asylum of the City of Washington, under the direction of the “Sisters of Charity,” and of the Washington City Orphan Asylum, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>512</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Bernard Leonard and Jacob Black.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>512</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lieutenant James L. Dawson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>513</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Kilbourn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>513</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Silvia Posner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>513</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money illegally demanded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abrah Warren and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>513</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Money captured.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Don Carlos Dehault Delassus.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>513</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fees as Marshal of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Heman Allen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>514</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Christopher Brooks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>514</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the personal representatives of Colonel John Laurens.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>514</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gates Hoit.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>515</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David E. Twiggs, Joseph M. Street, and Stephen W. Kearney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>515</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain invalid and other pensioners therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>515</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John J. Jacob.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>516</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Nelson, administrator of the estate of Andrew Nelson, deceased, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>517</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money erroneously paid.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Pierre Leglize.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>517</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Rebecca Blodget, widow of Samuel Blodget, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>517</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for Money stolen.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Guy W. Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>517</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Thomas Davenport.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>518</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Capture of a piratical Felucca.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Holdup Stevens and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>518</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Properly destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel May.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>518</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Brunson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>518</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William D. Gaines and William M. King.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>519</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John F. Girod, of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>519</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Wayne Wells, of the State of Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>519</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Edward Barry, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>520</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Buhler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>520</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Jeremiah Buckley, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>520</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest on Final Certificates.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gertrude Gates.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>521</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William A. Tennille.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>521</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to Middleton McKay a section of land in lieu of the reservation given him by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>521<page>lii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Sureties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the sureties of George Brown, deceased, late collector of internal duties and direct tax for the first district in the State of Maryland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>522</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert C. Jennings, and of the executors of James Roddy, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>522</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John and Benjamin Welles.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>522</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Land ceded to the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Randall Allis, Timothy Twichell, and John Lee Williams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>522</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Bullitt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>523</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Sureties.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of George Johnston.” passed second March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>523</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Bartholomew Shaumburgh.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>523</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hartwell Vick, of the State of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>523</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Final Certificate, with Interest paid.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Peck.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>524</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Scott, only surviving child and heir at law of Captain William Blackwell, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>524</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest on Commutation.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>524</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Augustine Taney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>525</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Waller.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>525</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Harvey Brown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>525</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Oswald Brodie, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>525</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Hoffman, a Canadian volunteer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>525</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and heirs of Pedro, alias Pierre Guedry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>526</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Nimrod Farrow and of Richard Harris.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>526</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Nathaniel Hillen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>526</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Grant of Pre-emption Rights.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Daws, Robert Bond, James Patridge, mid John G. Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 14, 1832</label> <target>527</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 16, 1832</label> <target>527</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Grieve Drummond.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 16, 1832</label> <target>527</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1832, 1833.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the children of Charles Comb and Margaret Laviolet, his wife.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 14, 1833</label> <target>528</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Eugene Borell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 14, 1833</label> <target>528</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Names changed.</i></designator> <label>An act to change the names of William B. Finch and Elizabeth B. Finch, to that of William Compton Bolton, and Elizabeth Bolton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 14, 1833</label> <target>528</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Eaton, on assistant surgeon in the army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 14, 1833</label> <target>529</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>School Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Matthews Flournoy and R. J. Ward, of the State of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1833</label> <target>529</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>New Madrid Certificate.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Archibald Gamble.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1833</label> <target>529</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>School Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William B. Keene and John L. Martin, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1833</label> <target>529</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter McCormick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1833</label> <target>530</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Jean Baptiste Saucier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 30, 1833</label> <target>530</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William A. Tennille, of Georgia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 30, 1833</label> <target>530<page>liii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Mayfield.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 30, 1833</label> <target>530</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sylvester Havens.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1833</label> <target>531</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Johnson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1833</label> <target>531</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Andrew Moore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1633</label> <target>531</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act amendatory to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Robert C. Jennings, and of the executors of James Roddy, deceased.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1833</label> <target>531</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue patents to persons therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1833</label> <target>531</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joel Thomas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1833</label> <target>532</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Nicholas Hart, deceased, and the heirs of John Grayson, deceased, and Jacob Bosworth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 9, 1833</label> <target>532</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the administrator of the late Colonel John Thornton, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 9, 1833</label> <target>533</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Brownlee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 9, 1833</label> <target>533</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Russell Hotchkiss and others, owners of the brig Stranger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 9, 1833</label> <target>533</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Properly destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gabriel Godfrey and Joan Baptiste Beaugraud.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 9, 1833</label> <target>534</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Josiah Barker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 9, 1833</label> <target>534</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John D. Sloat.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 19, 1833</label> <target>534</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Crosby Arey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 19, 1833</label> <target>534</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Enoch Without.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 19, 1833</label> <target>535</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Loss on Treasury Notes.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William P. Zantzinger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 19, 1833</label> <target>535</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Carr, widow of Richard Carr, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 20, 1833</label> <target>535</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abraham Adams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 20, 1833</label> <target>535</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow of Joseph Knight.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 20, 1833</label> <target>536</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Glover Broughton, of Marblehead, late owner of the fishing schooner Union; and, also, for the relief of the crew of said vessel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1833</label> <target>536</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Josiah P. Creesy and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1833</label> <target>536</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John S. Devlin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1833</label> <target>536</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Donelson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1833</label> <target>536</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief [of] Riddle, Becktle, and Headington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1833</label> <target>537</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of John Wilson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1833</label> <target>537</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Certificates of Revolutionary Debt.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Archibald Watt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1833</label> <target>537</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands for a Seal of Justice, &amp;c.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the county commissioners for the county of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, to cuter a fractional quarter section of land for a seat of justice, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>538</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Georgetown College.</i></designator> <label>An act granting certain city lots to the president and directors of the Georgetown College, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>538</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>538</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Revolutionary Debt.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Bruce, administrator of Philip Bush, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>540</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Thomas and Peter Foster.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>540</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Taylor, of Kentucky.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>540</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Bargy, junior, Stephen Norton, and Hiram Wolverton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>541</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Miller, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>541<page>liv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Penalty refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Eaton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>541</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and representatives of John Campbell, late of the city of New York, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>541</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Eleanor Courts, widow of Richard Henly Courts.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>542</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Scott, assignee of Alexander Scott, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>542</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Isaac Ledyard, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>542</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Colonel John Ely, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>543</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain invalid pensioners therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>543</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Adam Caplinger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>544</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Triplett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>544</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property captured.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Kane.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>544</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Osborn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>544</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of George Hodge, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>545</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Judgment repaid.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Major Abraham A. Massias.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>545</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Archibald W. Hamilton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>545</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Goodwin, executor of Benjamin Goodwin, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>545</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act supplemental to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Alexander Claxton,” passed on the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lieutenant George D. Ramsay, of the army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Range, a soldier of the revolution.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua P. Frothingham, and the heirs of Thomas Hopping, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an improved Piston, &amp;c. for Steam Gas.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the issuing of a patent or patents to Samuel Hall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>547</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Farish Carter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>547</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the mother of Fitz Henry Babbit, late a lieutenant in the navy of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>547</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Algernon S. Thruston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>548</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Absalom Boles.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>548</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Goode.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>548</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Tharp.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>548</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward B. Babbit.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>548</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Gaston, of South Carolina.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to Widows, &amp;c. of Officers, &amp;c. lost in the Sylph.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers and seamen who were lost in the United States’ schooner, the Sylph.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Raphael Paine and Elias Arnold.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Newton Berryman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Peter Wagnon, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jared E. Groce, of the State of Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>550</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thaddeus Phelps and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>550<page>lv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money overpaid for Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Stewart.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>550</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest on Commutation.</i></designator> <label>An act in aid of an act entitled “An act for the relief of James Barnett.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>551</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lieutenant Harvey Brown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>551</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hugh Beard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>551</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Forfeiture refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jane Dauphin, administratrix of John Dauphin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>551</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Gibbon, and Sarah Price, widow of William Price, and Philip Slaughter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>551</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Vessels destroyed in the Defence of Baltimore.</i></designator> <label>Resolution for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1833</label> <target>552</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Twenty-Third Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1833, 1834.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of widow Robert Avart.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 24, 1834</label> <target>553</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Chinn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 24, 1834</label> <target>553</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George H. Jennings.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1834</label> <target>553</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James H. Brewer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1834</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Russell Hunt, David Hunt, and Amos Hunt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1834 </label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward Willett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1834</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Bagnall, executor of James Vaughan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1834</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Hurtell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 5, 1834</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Iron Steamboats, &amp;c. to be imported free of duty.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize Gazaway B. Lamar to import an iron steamboat, in detached parts, with the necessary machinery, tools, and working utensils therefor, into the United States, free from duty, and to provide for the remission of the same.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 26, 1834</label> <target>555</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph M. Harper.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 26, 1834</label> <target>555</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Fine refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Sherfey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 26, 1834</label> <target>555</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Compromise of Claims of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claims of the United States against the late firm of Minturn and Champlin, and their securities.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 24, 1834</label> <target>555</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and heirs of Felix St. Vrain.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 24, 1834</label> <target>556</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Kimberlin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 24, 1831</label> <target>556</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Staley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 24, 1834</label> <target>556</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Illegal Seizure of Teas.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Hone and Sons, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 24, 1834</label> <target>556</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Noah Staley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 24, 1834</label> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Philip Hickey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 24, 1834</label> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peleg Spencer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 15, 1834</label> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim on the United States for illegal Seizure of Teas.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Haggerty and David Austin, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 15, 1834</label> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Bills.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 15, 1834</label> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Richardson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 15, 1834</label> <target>558<page>lvi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Thompson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 15, 1834</label> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Hazleton and William Palmer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 15, 1834</label> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Thompson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 18, 1834</label> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>A Register for the Brig American.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the issuing of a register to the brig American, of Savannah.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1834</label> <target>559</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act supplementary to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Garrigues Fiaujac, of Louisiana,” approved on the twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1834</label> <target>559</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John L. Lobdell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1834</label> <target>559</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property captured.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Whitford Gill.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1834</label> <target>559</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Adjustment of Claims on a Surety.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of James Morrison, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1834</label> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for a Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William S. Anderson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 1, 1834</label> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Sureties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Oakes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 10, 1834</label> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Webber.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 10, 1834</label> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Ap C. Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 10, 1834</label> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Commissions for Investments of Navy Pension Fund.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John H. Maguire.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 10, 1834</label> <target>561</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Coleman Fisher.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1834</label> <target>561</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Luther L. Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1834</label> <target>561</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John S. Fleming, administrator de bonis non of John Syme, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1834</label> <target>562</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Asa Hartfield, his assignee, or legal representative.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 18, 1834</label> <target>562</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest on Money due by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Martha Bailey and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 18, 1334</label> <target>562</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pre-emption of Public Land.</i></designator> <label>An act grunting the right of pre-emption to John Yantis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 18, 1834</label> <target>563</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George K. Jackson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 18, 1834</label> <target>563</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Rowe, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 18, 1834</label> <target>563</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Frances Barham, deceased, and her husband, Fielding Barham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 18, 1834</label> <target>563</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis Barnes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 19, 1834</label> <target>564</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Alexander Boyd, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 19, 1834</label> <target>564</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Money expended in the Public Service.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Percival, master commandant in the United States’ Navy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 19, 1834</label> <target>564</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for a Vessel lost in the Public Service.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Aaron Bellamy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 19, 1834</label> <target>564</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Bounty Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and children of George Ludlum, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 19, 1834</label> <target>565</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Services in the Militia.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lucy Loomis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 19, 1834</label> <target>565</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Doctor John Berrien, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 19, 1834</label> <target>565</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for Services as Spies.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Burkham and others, employed as spies on the frontier of Arkansas, in eighteen hundred and thirty.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 24, 1834</label> <target>565</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act granting pensions to certain persons therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 25, 1834</label> <target>566</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peregrine Gardner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 25, 1834</label> <target>566</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands in Arkansas for Schools, and for a Court-house.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the town of Fayetteville, in the Territory of Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 26, 1834</label> <target>567</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Asher Morgan and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 26, 1834</label> <target>567<page>lvii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages for Failure in a Contract by the Government.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jotham Lincoln, administrator of Samuel Burr Lincoln, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 26, 1834</label> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money paid for Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Guedry and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 26, 1834</label> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Correction of an Error in a Patent for Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Nance.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 26, 1834</label> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Pearson Freeman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 26, 1834</label> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages to Property used by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act granting further relief to Joel Byington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 26, 1834</label> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty allowed to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the owners of the schooner Three Sisters, of Saybrook.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 26, 1834</label> <target>569</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Philip Bessom.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 26, 1834</label> <target>569</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Injuries done to Property by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain inhabitants of East Florida.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 26, 1834</label> <target>569</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Vessels sunk for the Defence of Baltimore.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act passed on the twenty-ninth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, entitled “An act for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 26, 1834</label> <target>570</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land to a Refugee from Canada.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs at law of Richard Livingston, a Canadian refugee, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 27, 1834</label> <target>570</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of a Certificate.</i></designator> <label>An oct for the relief of the legal representatives of Christian Ish, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 27, 1834</label> <target>570</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money paid for Land refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Baptiste Jeansonne and Joseph Pierre Petre.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 27, 1834</label> <target>570</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Certificates.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the administrators of Michael Gratz.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 27, 1834</label> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Weedon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elijah Lincoln.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Elie Tholozan and William Russell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services rendered and Supplies furnished during the Revolutionary War.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Frederick Raymer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Elliott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Land sold by Mistake.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Terence Le Blanc.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services as Clerk.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Thompson, jr., late of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for a Wagon impressed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Winslett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>573</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Arnold Henry Dohrman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>573</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Walter Livingston, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>573</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Certificates.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Jacobs, of Samuel Bayard, surviving executor of John Bayard, deceased, and of the executors of Joseph Falconer, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1831</label> <target>574</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming the title of Samuel Vail in a certain tract of land in the parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>574</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Marguerite Boron, widow of Jean Pierre Ledoux.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>575</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Asel Wilkinson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>575</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Allen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>575</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Certificates.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Samuel Gibbs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>576</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Certificates.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Benjamin Bird and Grove Pomeroy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>576<page>lviii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Certificate for Payment an Account of Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jeremiah Worsham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1834</label> <target>577</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act granting pensions to certain persons therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>577</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act granting pensions to certain persons therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>578</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act granting pensions to several persons therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>578</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty on Fishing Vessels.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the payment of bounty on certain fishing vessels lost at sea.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>578</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>A Right of Way over Lands of the United States in the City of New York, granted.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to grant a right of way, in a certain case, in the city of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>579</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Whitney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>579</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of William Burris, of Mississippi,” approved February nineteen, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>579</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hannah Stone.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>580</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming to Gilbert Hodges, his heirs or legal representatives, and to Henry Masters, his heirs or legal representatives, certain lands in the State of Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>580</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for Loss on Treasury Notes.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Wolcott Chauncey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>580</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Property lost by Indian Depredations.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of sundry citizens of the United States, who have lost property by the depredations of certain Indian tribes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>581</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of James P. Hainesworth, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>581</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest on a Final Certificate.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Peek.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Horatio N. Crabb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty to a Fishing Schooner.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William B. Doliber and others, owners, and heirs of the crew of the schooner Mary and Hannah.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel D. Walker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services as Clerk.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John C. Naylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>583</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Française Suzone.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>583</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Transporting the Mail.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Bowen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>583</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Kingston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>583</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services among the Creek Indians.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander J. Robison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>583</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William K. Paulling.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Enos, of Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Donation of land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Antoine Cruzat.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Haslett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Judith Thomas and Daniel Palmer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Sewall and Robert Sewall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John G. Reynolds.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Reynolds.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of the heirs at law of the representatives of William G. Christopher, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>586</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Walton and John J. De Graff.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>586</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of James Brown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>586</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representative of Francis Nash.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>586</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ephraim Whitaker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>587<page>lix</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Moses Archer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>587</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William A. Duer, John Duer, and Beverly Robinson, trustees of the estate of Sarah Alexander, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>587</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Minor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>587</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Andrew Armstrong.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>587</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the administrator of Bolitha Laws, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Bruce.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>588</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John M. Gregory.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>588</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of John Taylor, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>588</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of William Teas, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>589</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an Invention.</i></designator> <label>An act to renew the patent of Thomas Blanchard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>589</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of George Hurlbut, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>589</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Torrey, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>590</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Margaret Riker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>590</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Lucy Bond, Hannah Douglass, Elizabeth Goodwin, and Margaret Leitch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>590</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Col. A. R. Woolley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>590</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William D. Acken.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Bounty Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Leonard Holly, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Bounty Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Amos W. Brown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel A. Edmondson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Ord.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Fife, a Creek Indian.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Mann.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension. Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John A. Webster, and for the legal representatives of John Coleman, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to General Philemon Thomas, of Louisiana, a tract of land in consideration of the military services rendered by him in taking possession of that portion of West Florida included in the district of Baton Rouge.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Properly occupied by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Shackford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Aaron Fitzgerald.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money paid by a Surety of a Collector of the Revenue.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representative of Philip Moore, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Armstrong Bailey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Marsh.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services. Judgments.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow of Clement B. Penrose, and William C. H. Waddell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>594</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of John Rose, senior, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>594</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and heirs of Captain William Royall, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>595</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to remunerate Stephen C. Phillips for the support and transportation of shipwrecked American seamen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>595</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Noble.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>595<page>lx</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repairment of the Amount of a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan M. Blaisdell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>505</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Mills.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>595</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Hugh McGenms, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>596</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Sureties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the sureties of John H. Morton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1334</label> <target>596</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles J. Hand.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>596</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hishe Homa, otherwise called Captain Red Pepper, an Indian of the Choctaw tribe.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>596</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Thomas Wallace, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas H. Boyles, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Read.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Kirkpatrick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Chandler and William Johnson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the heirs and legal representatives of James Latham, deceased, to withdraw and relocate a land warrant.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Gurdon, assignee and representative of the heirs of Matthew Ramey, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of James Bell, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money received from the Brazilian Government.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of a part of the crew of the brig Sarah George.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>599</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Laurence Milligan, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>599</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benedict Alford and Robert Brush.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>599</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis and Judith Taylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Tonnage Duty refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act to refund the extra tonnage duty paid on the brig Liberator.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Removal of Slaves to the District of Columbia.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing Edmund Brooke to remove to the District of Columbia, two slaves owned by him prior to his removal from Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1831</label> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Roman Catholic Church at St. Louis, Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Emerson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to confirm the selection and survey of two sections of land to Francis Lafontain and son, and their assignees.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>601</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lieutenant Robert Willmott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>601</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Enos Granniss, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>601</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Tonnage Duty refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Atwater and Daggett and others, owners of the brig Hannah.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>601</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ezekiel Foster and Company, of Eastport, State of Maine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Buller Claiborne, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Everard Meade, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1831</label> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to Owners of a Fishing Schooner.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the owners of the schooner Admiral.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1831</label> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ann Mortimer Barron.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Refunding of Money received from the Owners of the Joseph and Mary.</i></designator> <label>An act to refund to certain owners of the schooner Joseph and Mary, the sum paid into the treasury by reason of the condemnation of said vessel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>603<page>lxi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Wilson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain James Craine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act authorising a sum of money to be distributed among the officers and crew of the late private armed brig General Armstrong.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1834</label> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1834, 1835.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Mullowny.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 8, 1835</label> <target>604</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>A Duplicate Land Warrant to be issued.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Evan Edwards.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 27, 1835</label> <target>604</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Proceeds of Sugar illegally condemned.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Tuffs and Clark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 27, 1835</label> <target>604</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment to Volunteers.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis Lasselle and others, Michigan volunteers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 27, 1835</label> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William P. Zantzinger, purser in the navy of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 27, 1835</label> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Humphrey B. Gwathmey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 27, 1835</label> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Haile.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 27, 1835</label> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for a Fishing Schooner lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Bragdon, David Chase, and the crew of the schooner Haleyon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 27, 1835</label> <target>606</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for a Fishing Schooner lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Gordon, and the crew of the schooner Two Sons.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 27, 1835</label> <target>606</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for a Fishing Schooner lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel S. Lord, and the owners and crew of the fishing schooner Mary and Sally, of York, in the State of Maine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 27, 1835</label> <target>606</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land Warrant. Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Colonel John Eugene Leitsendorfer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1835</label> <target>606</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Silas D. Fisher.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1835</label> <target>607</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Corporation of St. Augustine may widen a Street.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the city council of St. Augustine to widen a street in the town of St. Augustine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>607</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land granted.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to the borough of Michillimakinac, certain grounds for public purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>607</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Larnard Swallow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>607</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act grunting a pension to John Bryant.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Solomon Case.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Thomas Morton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Timothy Jordan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abraham E. Boutwell and David Pearson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for tiio relief of John Ashton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Justus Cobb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act placing Captain Cole, a Seneca Indian chief, on the pension roll.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Page.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Joseph Mead.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to John Gerodelle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to William Wilges.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Ball.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Triplett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>610</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Moore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>610<page>lxii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Noah Miller, an invalid major of the militia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>610</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief [of] Benjamin Holland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>610</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Isaac Eckright.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>610</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Gilbert.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>611</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Swartwood.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>611</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Gatlin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>611</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Benjamin Leslie.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1935</label> <target>611</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Samuel Shelmerdine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>611</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Simeon Meachum, of the State of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>611</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Isaac Janvier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>612</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Amasa A. Tifft.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>612</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Collins, a soldier of the revolutionary war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>612</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Job Barton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>612</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act granting pensions to William Baden and James Harrington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>612</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lemuel Tanner, assignee of Pierre Dufresne.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Dougherty, an Indian agent.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Young.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Bailey E. Clarke.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an Invention.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the patent of Robert Eastman for a further period of seven years.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard T. Archer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>614</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William O’Neal and Robert Morrison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>614</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for an Engine for producing Motive Power.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize letters patent to be issued to Francis B. Ogden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>614</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Tice, assignee of William Pennington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>615</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the sale of certain lands belonging to the University of Michigan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>615</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George C. Seaton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>615</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent to issue for an Improvement of a Machine to manufacture Cotton.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of State to issue letters patent to James Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Buford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Awkward.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Land from Debts due the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the children of Dominick Lynch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Tonnage Duty refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to Richard Butman the tonnage duty imposed on the schooner Brandywine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Schooner lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Haskell and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Aaron Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Shubael Conant.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representative of Thomas Clemmons.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Theodore Owens.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John J. Avery.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>618<page>lxiii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Riddle, Becktle, and Headington, and their representatives.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Matthew C. Perry, a master commandant in the navy of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of E. R. Shubrick, of the United States’ Navy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for a Fishing Schooner lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Smith, and the heirs of Patrick McRown and crew of the fishing schooner Rising States, of Bath Bay, in the State of Maine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Kincaid.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Butler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>619</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mervin P. Mix.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1835</label> <target>619</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1835, 1836.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the allowance of certain charges in the accounts of the American consul at London.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 19, 1836</label> <target>620</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses impressed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jane Taylor and her children, the heirs of the late James Plunkett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 9, 1836</label> <target>620</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Guiseppe Franzoni, and the heirs of Francis Jardella.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 9, 1836</label> <target>620</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Doctor William Baker, of the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>621</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pay as a Member of the Sixteenth Congress.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of William Findlay.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>621</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize a settlement of the accounts of Marines W. Gilbert, late an army sutler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>621</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Tilford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Reimbursement of Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Cooper.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Thomas F. Townsley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest on Money advanced for the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Marinus W. Gilbert.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Hardesty.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Money expended for the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Bartlett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages to Property.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Baker, of the State of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Whitney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Andrew Dodge.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act 1er the relief of Lieutenant Washington Seawell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>624</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim for Surveying Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Laurentius M. Eiler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>624</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Money advanced.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Willie Blount.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>624</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Russ and Stephen J. Roach.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>624</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David S. Campbell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>624</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Saunders and Perley Putnam.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>625</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Franklin Stickney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>625<page>lxiv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John McDonell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>625</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob B. Gilbert.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>625</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest allowed on Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the executor of Charles Wilkins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse impressed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Knowles, senior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>A Boat impressed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Pollock.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse impressed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joel Sartain.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Thomas Beacham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Schooner impressed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Cullumber.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abner Stilson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Owen Rice and others, representatives of Jacob Eyerly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Homans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate a fire insurance company in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 17, 1836</label> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Ground conveyed to the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Crittenton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 25, 1836</label> <target>628</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Authority to convey Land.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the conveyance of certain lands belonging to the University of Michigan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 22, 1836</label> <target>628</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry B. Tyler, executor of Colonel Richard Smith, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 9, 1836</label> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land granted to the Deaf and Dumb.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the time for selling the land granted to die incorporated Kentucky Asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1636</label> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benedict Alford and Robert Brush.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jesse Sykes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Bennet, Peter Guthrie, George W. Bennet, James Calvin, John Fifer, and the heirs of Henry Sumpter, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Schooner lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abiel Roads and others, owners, and the officers and crew of the schooner Mary, of Marblehead, in the State of Massachusetts.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>631</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>A Fine refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Reuben Colburn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>631</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act granting pensions, and arrearages of pensions, to certain persons therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>631</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief [of] Israel Ingalls.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>632</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Amy Wilson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>632</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Colonel Gideon Morgan, of the State of Tennessee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>632</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Mays, mother of Wilson Mays, deceased, in the naval service of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>632</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for a Fishing Schooner lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph W. Wormstead, of Marblehead, master and owner of the schooner Sally, and the crew of said vessel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Doxtator and Jacob Weaver.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pay in the Navy of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Melancthon Taylor Woolsey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1836</label> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representative of Robert Jouet, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1836</label> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land reserved to a Choctaw Indian.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Silas Fisher, a Choctaw Indian.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1836</label> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Moses Bliss.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 7, 1836</label> <target>634</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Pierce and Daniel Van Voorhis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 14, 1836</label> <target>634<page>lxv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jesse Smith and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 14, 1836</label> <target>634</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Darling.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 14, 1836</label> <target>635</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Gresham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 14, 1836</label> <target>635</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representative of Thomas Holiday, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 14, 1836</label> <target>635</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent Fees refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Woodward and William Mitchell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 14, 1836</label> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel W. Ruff.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 14, 1836</label> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Albert Pawling, a colonel in the revolutionary war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Robinson, daughter of Lieutenant Richard Wilde, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Orris Gay.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow of Samuel Gibbs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Richard Anderson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act to increase the pension of Jacob Slough.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act to increase the pension of Thomas Harrison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Carey Clark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting on invalid pension to Daniel Stoddard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Elkins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Bohannan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gaius Hitchcock.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John A. Rodgers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Leslie Combs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1836</label> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patents for Indian Reservations of Land.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be issued to Albert J. Smith and others, patents for certain reservations of land in Michigan Territory.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>639</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Stoddard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>639</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Penalty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin F. Stone.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>639</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Penalty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis R. Theobald.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent Fees returned.</i></designator> <label>An Set for the relief of Jacob F. Walter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Wiltbank.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Caulfield.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Doctor Absalom Baird, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>641</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands granted for Schools in Indiana.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the citizens of the reserved township in Monroe county, in the State of Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>641</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin and Nancy Merrill.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>641</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Schooner lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Gott and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>641</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Schooner lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ebenezer Phillips and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>642</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles M. Frasier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>642</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Archibald Small.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>642</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Nathaniel P. Tatum.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>642</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Bender.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>642<page>lxvi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to revive and extend the provisions of an act passed on the twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act for the relief of the representatives of John Donelson, Stephen Heard, and others.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Browning.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 23, 1836</label> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Robertson, of South Carolina.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Hunt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Pickard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Martin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Dimick, of the State of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act providing that John Smith be placed on the list of invalid pensioners.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Cook, a soldier in the last war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Kincaid.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Elliot.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Bennet.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Samuel Cole.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to James Stevens.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Mullings.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Talmage.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act grunting a pension to John Collins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>646</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis F. Saint Cyr.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>646</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Luke Voorhise.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Bowman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>646</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Penalty remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Dixon and Company, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>646</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert McJimsey, surviving partner of the firm of Jackson and MeJimsey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>647</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Frasier and Company, of Charleston, South Carolina.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>647</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John F. Lewis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>647</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abraham Forbes, a spy in the late war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>647</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Theophilus E. Beckman, late first lieutenant in the forty-first regiment of the United States’ infantry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Hewes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836 </label> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Keefer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis Bashford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Bernard Pompilly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elisha Lucas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act granting pensions to certain persons therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thaddeus Tuttle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Steel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Davis Hunt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Relief Harris.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Taylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Dal.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>650</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to William Lawrence, late a colonel in the army.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>650</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Peter L. Allen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>650<page>lxvii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Logan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>650</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Conkin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>650</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thaddeus Potter, of the State of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>650</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Foxworthy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ephraim F. Gilbert.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Godfrey Vought.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Lent.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Patrick McEwen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Charles Blake.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Walter Dyer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jeremiah Goldsmith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Tuttle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mathias Traverse.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Danforth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Wallace.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Dow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Scott, Richard Severson, and Lot Leonard, soldiers of the revolutionary war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Boone.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Herrick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ann Evans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Ebenezer Dewey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act granting pensions to Benjamin Parkhurst and Daniel Havens.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Jonas Comins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Ruland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Job Daniels.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Trabue.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Coit.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>655</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to John Daw.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>655</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Andrew Gray.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>655</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Fields.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>655</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel M. Asbury.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>655</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to John Miles.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>655</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Josiah Curtis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Pattie, of Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Scott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Travise Fritters.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Balaam Bowers, of Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Singleton Ketcham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Swain.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peggy Abel, Sally Rolls, and Elijah Green.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An not granting a pension to Micajah Ricketts.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Maggart.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Lampkin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to William Warden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>658<page>lxviii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George White.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Cobb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Daniel Granger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Flint.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ellen Ahern Schmuck.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alpheus Hutchins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1836</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Schooner lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph W. Green and the owners and crew of the fishing schooner Two Brothers, of Marblehead, in the State of Massachusetts.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for the Purchase of a Patent.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Tucker and John Judge.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Andrew Hoover, of Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Indian Depredations.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Alexander and Ira Nosh.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of William Forbes, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Cowper.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John S. Devlin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue to David J. Talbot a patent for a quarter section of land in Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property furnished to the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Scioto Evans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Doctors J. E. B. Findly and A. H. Deas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>661</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Pitcher.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>661</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming to the legal representatives of Thomas F. Reddick, a tract of six hundred and forty acres of land.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>661</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Michael Fenwick, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 1, 1836</label> <target>661</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Howell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>662</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Dawson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>662</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nancy Haggard, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>662</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Sureties.</i></designator> <label>An set for the relief of the sureties of Nicholas Kern.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>662</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel Platt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>663</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Lexington and Ohio Railroad Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>663</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of James Moore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>663</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William P. Rathbone.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>663</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Newman and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>664</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of David Caldwell, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>664</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Debts due to the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gabriel W. Denton and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>665</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the further payment of a pension to Mary J. Babbit.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>665</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William B. Stokes, Richard C. Stockton, Lucius W. Stockton, and Daniel Moore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>665</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow of Peter Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>666</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Larned Swallow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>666</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ephraim Page.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>666</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Parker Chose.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>666<page>lxix</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Randolph Clay and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>667</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John S. Stiles.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>667</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the issuing a land patent to Thomas B. Clarke.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>667</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act additional to the act for the relief of James L. Cathcart.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>668</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Antonio Segura and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>668</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of A. and J. Dennistoun and Company, of New Orleans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>668</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs, or their legal representatives, of William Conway, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>668</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Sales of Public Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry H. Hall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>669</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for Prisoners captured.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the owners, officers, and crews of the private armed vessels Neptune and Fox.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>669</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An set for the relief of Joshua Hatch and others, interested in a fishing vessel which was lost at sea.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>669</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Properly destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representative of Nathaniel Canada.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>669</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nancy Leamaster, widow of James Leamaster.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>670</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Losses on Treasury Notes.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Noah Brown and the legal representatives of Adam Brown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>670</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent Fees returned.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ebenezer Spaulding.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>670</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the executors of James O’Harra, late of Pittsburg, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>670</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives and sureties of James Brobson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>671</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property captured.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Bogy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>671</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Hazlet and Jemima Monro, surviving children of the kite Colonel John Hazlet, of the State of Delaware, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>671</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Refunding of Payment for Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Cummins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>671</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of an alleged Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Means and others, late owners of the schooner Elizabeth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>671</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Richardson and Samuel Stout, and for the relief of Lieutenant John Radd.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>672</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Seaborn Jones and Joel Crawford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>672</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest on Money allowed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Don Carlos Dehault Delassus.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>672</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the trustees of common schools in township eight, range eleven cast, in the State of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to confirm the title of the heirs of M. de la Carera to a tract of land.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money overpaid for Land refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John La Tourette.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David McCord.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles I. Catlett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse. &amp;c. lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Martin Prindle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>674</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of the late Theodore W. Maurice.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>674</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money overpaid for Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Wainwright.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>674</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Settlement Certificates.</i></designator> <label>An addition to the act for the relief of the legal representatives of George Hurlbut, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>674</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James F. Sothoron.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>675<page>lxx</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John M. Gamble.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>675</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Nathaniel Shaver, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>675</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act to refund the duties paid upon the importation of certain bells.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>675</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Thornton Taylor, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>676</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Josette Beaubien and her children.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>676</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Sutherland and Rebecca his wife, formerly Rebecca Parkerson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>676</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain David Hopkins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>676</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Duncan L. Clinch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>676</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hiram A. Hunter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>677</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elijah Simmons.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>677</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Smith, Lynn MacGhee, and Semoice, friendly Creek Indians.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>677</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Susan Marlow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>678</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Hertick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>678</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patents for Inventions extended.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend two patents of James Barron.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>678</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Walter Loomis and Abel Gay.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>679</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming the title of Joseph Sorin, alias Larochelle, and those claiming under him, to a tract of land in Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>679</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the settlement of the claim of Mary O’Sullivan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>679</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Abbott, and the other heirs of James Abbott, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>679</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Thomas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>679</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Alman and George Woolsey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>680</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Tobias Crum.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>680</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Title to a Lot in Mobile confirmed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Pollard’s heirs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>680</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Bradford, of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>681</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Coleman A. Collier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>681</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jean Baptiste Janis, senior, of Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>681</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Investment in State and other Stocks by the Association of Clerks.</i></designator> <label>An act amendatory of the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the civil department of the government of the United States in the District of Columbia.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>681</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Jacob Shoemaker, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>681</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payments for the Support, &amp;c. of Africans.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John H. Holland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>682</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Baldridge.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 2, 1836</label> <target>682</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming claims to land in the State of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 4, 1836</label> <target>682</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Frederick C. De Krafft.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 4, 1836</label> <target>683</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to General Eleaver W. Ripley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 4, 1836</label> <target>683</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Streets in Georgetown.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the corporation of Georgetown to close certain streets in said town.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 4, 1836</label> <target>683<page>lxxi</page></target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1836, 1837.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance for Travelling Expenses of Robert P. Letcher and Thomas P. Moore.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert P. Letcher and Thomas P. Moore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 31, 1837</label> <target>684</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Norman Holt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 31, 1837</label> <target>684</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Andrew Knox.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 3, 1837</label> <target>685</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John E. Wool.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 9, 1837</label> <target>685</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Howard Institution of the city of Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1837</label> <target>685</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Organization of Fire Companies in the District of Columbia.</i></designator> <label>An act to organize the several fire companies in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1837</label> <target>687</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Catharine Myott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1837</label> <target>689</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming the claim of the heirs of Michael Dragon to certain tracts of land therein mentioned.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1837</label> <target>689</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act approved the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for the relief of Samuel Smith, Linn McGhee, and Semoice, Creek Indians; and, also, an act passed the second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for the relief of Susan Marlow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1837</label> <target>689</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abigail Appleton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>689</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Jeffers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>690</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to William C. Beard, late a captain in the United States’ army.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>690</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Findley Kellock.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>690</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Gibson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>690</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Properly destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Kilbourn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>690</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties on Wine destroyed by Fire.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ebenezer Breed.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>691</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend the charter of the Potomac Fire Insurance Company of Georgetown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>691</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts. Release of Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Lee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>692</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Christy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>692</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Improvements surrendered by the Cherokee Indians.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Brown and John Brown, half breeds, of the Cherokee nation of Indians.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>692</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of F. A. Parker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1937</label> <target>692</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Green Pryor and the heirs of Peter Pryor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Isaac Williams, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles W. Pickering.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jerah Fenner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of H. and D. Cotheal, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Harmony, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>694</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Keytes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>694</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the president and directors of the Firemen’s Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>694</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to place the name of Doctor John P. Briggs on the navy pension list.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>699</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Schooner.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Frazar and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>699</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Philip F. Voorhees.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>699</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting an increase of pension to Empson Hamilton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>699<page>lxxii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George F. Strother.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>699</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John P. Becker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>699</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">RESOLUTIONS.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>Resolution granting a pension to Susan Decatur, widow of the late Stephen Decatur.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>700</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>Resolution to authorize a settlement of the accounts of Orange H. Dibble.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>700</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Error corrected in the Award of the Commissioners under the Treaty with France.</i></designator> <label>Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to correct a clerical error in the award of the commissioners under the treaty with Franco of eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1837</label> <target>700</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Twenty-Fifth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1837.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Debates of the Convention.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of D. P. Madison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Oct. 14, 1837</label> <target>701</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1837, 1838.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a Self-acting Male for Spinning Cotton.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Commissioner of the Patent Office to issue a patent to James Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 2, 1838</label> <target>702</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the administratprs of Edward W. Duval.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 15, 1838</label> <target>702</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend the act entitled “An act for the relief of James Steel,” approved twenty-eighth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 15, 1838</label> <target>703</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of the Moiety of a Fine.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jesse E. Dow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1838</label> <target>703</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John B. Perkins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1838</label> <target>703</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John McCarty, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 22, 1838</label> <target>703</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Charter of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company amended.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend and extend the charter of the Franklin Insurance Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1838</label> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Albion T. Crow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1838</label> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Dickey, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1838</label> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent Fees refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Hull.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1838</label> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Mooers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1838</label> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent Fees refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Eli Horton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1838</label> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John M. Oliver.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1838</label> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Frances Gardiner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1838</label> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas J. Lawler and Smith M. Miles.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1838</label> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Presley N. O’Bannon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1838</label> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property occupied by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Allen R. Moore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1833</label> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward Burgess.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1838</label> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abraham Lansing.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1838</label> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Murphy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1838</label> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Krepps.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1838</label> <target>707</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin H. Mackall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1838</label> <target>707<page>lxxiii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse, &amp;c. destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Baker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1838</label> <target>707</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses taken by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Davis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1838</label> <target>707</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Peebles and John Graham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1838</label> <target>707</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Philip Riviere and his legal representatives.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1838</label> <target>708</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hannah Budlong.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1838</label> <target>708</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Compensation for saving Negroes.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Sanderson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1838</label> <target>708</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Davis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1833</label> <target>708</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James J. Pattison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1838</label> <target>709</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas W. Bacot, late of Charleston, South Carolina, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1838</label> <target>709</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Joseph Nibert, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1838</label> <target>709</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity under the Treaty with France.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to correct a mistake in relation to the payment of money into the treasury, awarded to Fortesque Whittle, surviving partner of the firm of Conway and Fortesque Whittle, under the late treaty of indemnity with France.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 4, 1838</label> <target>709</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Michael Cassel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 4, 1838</label> <target>710</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Eadus.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 6, 1838</label> <target>710</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Cherokee Indian Reservations.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Wellborn, junior, and William Wellborn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 6, 1838</label> <target>710</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Milligan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 6, 1838</label> <target>711</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest on a liquidated Demand allowed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William R. Taylor, administrator of Jonathan Taylor, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 6, 1838</label> <target>711</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Medical Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Doctor David H. Maxwell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 6, 1838</label> <target>711</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Properly destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of the Levy Court of Calvert county, in the State of Maryland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>711</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Wilson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>712</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of H. W. Russel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>712</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James L. Kenner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>712</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Freeman Brady.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>712</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Callan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>712</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ann W. Johnston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>712</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of D. W. Haley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse taken for Public Use.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hugh McDonald.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Melancthon T. Woolsey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Tyner and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander G. Morgan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Eliot.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>714</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Warrants for Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Nathan, Peter, and William Adams, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>714</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Forfeiture refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Deshields.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>714</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Cushing.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>714</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Winthrop Sears and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>715</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James McMahon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>715</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elias Johns.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>715</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Philip Marshal, and the legal representatives of John Marshall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>715<page>lxxiv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Occupation of Property by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Curtis Grubb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>716</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Christopher Clark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>716</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Time for Sale of Land granted for the Deaf and Dumb extended.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the time for selling the land granted to the Kentucky Asylmn for teaching the deaf and dumb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1838</label> <target>716</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act directing the Postmaster-General to settle the claim of Hard and Longstreet.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 21, 1838</label> <target>716</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Thomas Carter, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1838</label> <target>716</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Witherell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1838</label> <target>717</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to David Gilmore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1838</label> <target>717</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patents for Inventions.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Commissioner of the Patent Office to issue patents to Angier March Perkins and to John Howard Kyun.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1838</label> <target>717</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Tharp.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 7, 1838</label> <target>717</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John P. Austin and Edward N. Tailer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 7, 1838</label> <target>718</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Keyworth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 12, 1838</label> <target>718</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Spitfathom.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 12, 1838</label> <target>718</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of William Coggswell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 12, 1838</label> <target>718</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant William Russwurm, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 12, 1838</label> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Moses Van Campen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 12, 1838</label> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain Samuel Warren.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 12, 1838</label> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Morfit, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 12, 1838</label> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Moses Merrill, and the fishermen of the schooner Fortune.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 12, 1838</label> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Major Peter Helphenstein, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 12, 1838</label> <target>720</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Duval, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 13, 1838</label> <target>720</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Patrick McGibbony.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 13, 1838</label> <target>720</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ann S. Heilenian.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 22, 1838</label> <target>720</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jehu Hollinsworth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>721</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William James Aarons.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>721</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Walker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>721</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joel Chandler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>722</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James A. Williams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>722</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abraham Woodall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>722</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Niel McNiel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1833</label> <target>722</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Amos Thompson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1833</label> <target>723</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Solomon Ketcham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>723</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Anna West, of the State of Massachusetts.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1833</label> <target>723</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Frederick Hill.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 20, 1833</label> <target>723</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Christopher Dennison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>723</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Josiah Clark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>724</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Thomas West, of Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>724</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Bradley True Jipson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>724</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Rardon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1833</label> <target>724<page>lxxv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Seth Whitney, of Delaware county, New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>724</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Catharine Rollins, otherwise called Catharine Mosely.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>724</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Primus Hull, alias Trask.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James McFarland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Robert Casey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Eli Eastman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Leonard Loomis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of Raphael Paine and Elias Arnold,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of J. A. Fleming.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>726</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of Pre-emption to Public Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Barrett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>726</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to ascertain the quantity of land covered by grants made to Anthony Shane and to Louis Godfrey, in section sixteen, township four south, range two east, in Lima district, Ohio, and its value.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>726</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Charles Coffin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>726</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Simeon Smith, of the State of New Hampshire.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1838</label> <target>726</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Brown, confirming his purchases of certain land in Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 5, 1838</label> <target>727</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Cravat, Hardy Perry, and Beley Cheney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 5, 1838</label> <target>727</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Gale.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>727</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Miller Francis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>727</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin B. Dowd.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>727</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Oliver Dorsett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>728</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Moses Eldred.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>728</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of M. Gelston, executor of David Gelston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>728</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel T. Patterson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>728</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gratia Ray.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William A. Whitehead.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Campbell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Colonel Anthony Walton White.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the children and heirs of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Irwin, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Dr. William Johonnot, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Charles Snead, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs at law of Joshua Fanning, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Fisher, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary A. Patrick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act in favor of Lewis Hatch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>731</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Bounty Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Crawford Johnson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>731<page>lxxvi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of William Hooker Smith, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>731</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John B. Ashe, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>731</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the children and heirs at law of John Chilton, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>731</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the administrator of Wharton Quarles, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>732</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James H. Bradford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>732</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Prescott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>732</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John McClellan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>732</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Johan Jost Dietz, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>732</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Boyd.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>732</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Pemberton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>733</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Salmonds.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>733</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Collins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>733</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Letitia Crane.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>733</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nicholas Verplast.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>733</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Register for Barque Calypso.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Potter and James Cassidey, of Wilmington, North Carolina.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>733</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act to refund to the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, certain duties paid upon railroad iron.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>734</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Barton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>734</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Commissioner of Pensions to cause the unpaid pension of Captain Robert Laird, of the State of Georgia, to be paid to his executor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1833</label> <target>734</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Account.</i></designator> <label>An act for the settlement of the accounts of Richard Harrison, late consular agent of the United States in Spain.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>734</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Vattier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>735</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the payment of the seven years’ half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of John McClelland, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>735</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Deborah Gannett, a soldier of the revolution, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>735</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize William Delesdernier to draw the arrearages of pension due the late Lewis F. Delesdernier at the time of his death.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>736</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of the widow of Noah Chittendon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>736</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Tandy Walker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>736</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Coffin Sanborn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>736</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Phebe Champe, of Franklin county, Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>736</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Sarah Barney, widow of Samuel Barney, late of Connecticut.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>736</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to John M. Jewell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>737</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Daniel H. Crockett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>737</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act grunting a pension to Thomas Frazer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>737</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to James M. Edwards.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>737</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to James Sayre.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>737</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Benjamin Durfee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>737</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Timothy Feely, deceased, late a lieutenant in the army of the revolution.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>738</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Williams, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>738<page>lxxvii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of William B. Bunting.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>738</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Sawney York, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>738</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the payment of the seven years’ half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of Thomas H. Boyles, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>738</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Challer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>739</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Importation, free of Duties, of Iron Steamboats.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize Charles Day, James R. Butts, William W. Frye, George Whitman, Laurent Millandon, and Gassaway B. Lamar, to import, free of duties, iron steamboats suited to the navigation of rivers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>739</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties on Railroad Iron.</i></designator> <label>An act to refund certain duties upon railroad iron, paid by the New York and Harlaem Railroad Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>739</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties on Railroad Iron.</i></designator> <label>An act to remit or refund duties to the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Company, upon certain importations of iron made by them for the use of their railroad.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>740</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties on Railroad Iron.</i></designator> <label>An act to refund to the New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Railroad Company, certain duties paid by them upon iron imported for the construction of their railroad.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>740</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to revise, with amendments, “An act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>741</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of A. Quertier and Albert, of New Orleans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Frisby.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John A. Peterson, executor of the last will and testament of John H. Peterson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Aaron Tucker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 7, 1838</label> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>Resolution for the relief of Vespasian Ellia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1838</label> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1838, 1839.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Bradbury T. Jipson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 25, 1839</label> <target>745</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Remission of Duties on Railroad Iron.</i></designator> <label>An act to remit or refund to the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company, the duties upon certain railroad iron.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>745</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Sureties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jechonias Pigot and Benjamin Lecraft, sureties of James Manney, late collector of the customs for the district of Beaufort, in the State of North Carolina.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>746</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William East.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>746</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of John Brahan, late receiver of public moneys at Huntsville, Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>746</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Tonnage Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the owners of the British brig Despatch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>747</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jean B. Valle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>747</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act to remunerate the captors of the privateer Lydia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>747</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Sumpter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>747</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for Turning Irregular Forms.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend and carry into effect the intention of an act entitled “An act to renew the patent of Thomas Blanchard,” approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>748</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Newton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>748</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent Fees refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Erastus Fairbanks and Thaddeus Fairbanks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>749</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent Fees refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elisha Town.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>749<page>lxxviii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Angel, and the other heirs at law of Benjamin King, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>749</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to confirm the sale of certain reservations.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 6, 1839</label> <target>749</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Wilson, confirming purchases of certain land in Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 12, 1839</label> <target>749</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William B. Ferguson and sureties.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1839</label> <target>750</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naturalization.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Dr. John Campbell White, of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1839</label> <target>750</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the securities of Elias T. Langham, late surveyor of public lands for the States of Missouri and Illinois.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 16, 1839</label> <target>751</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Glascock, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 26, 1839</label> <target>751</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Columbian College authorized to sell Lots, &amp;c.</i></designator> <label>An act supplemental to the “Act granting certain city lots to the corporation of the Columbian College for the purposes therein mentioned,” approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 28, 1839</label> <target>751</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Messrs. Smith and Town.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>751</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William W. Stevenson and Joseph Henderson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>752</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Murray.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>752</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Wiley and Jefferson Greer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>752</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Whitsitt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Middleton Tuttle, of Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Military Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Levi Chadwick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>A Register for the Sloop Sarah to be issued.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the issuing of a register to Anthony C. Meneghetty for the sloop Sarah.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Dennis Tramell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>754</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the settlement of the accounts of the heirs of Captain Jesse Copeland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>754</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jesse E. Dow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>754</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>754</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Tilford Taylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>754</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Charles S. Walsh.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel H. Hooe.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John E. Alexander.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Randolph Clay.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Colt and William Donoldson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing a grant of bounty land to the heirs of Bennett Shurley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Dickerson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Interest.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Louisville Savings Institution.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Malone.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of [the] legal representatives of Nathan Sage.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Sureties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas McClelland and James Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>757</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Archibald R. S. Hunter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>757</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hiner Stigermire.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>757</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph M. Hernandez.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>757<page>lxxix</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Frederick Frey and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>758</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Davlin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>758</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Lien of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain heirs and legal representatives of James Wilson, late of [the] town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>758</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas T. Triplett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>759</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of the Moiety of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John H. Pease.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>759</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Michael Fenwick, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>759</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the settlement of the accounts of Edmund Roberts, late diplomatic agent of the United States to Cochin Chinn, Muscat, and Siam.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>759</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of William Tudor, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1838</label> <target>760</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William S. Colquhoun.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>760</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain officers of the Florida militia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>760</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Bargy, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>760</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Windham, widow of the late Joshua Lamb, a soldier of the revolution.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>761</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Michael McCray.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>761</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Adam Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>761</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of the late Robert Farmer, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>761</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Moore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>762</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Menzies Gillespie, late a soldier of the United States’ army.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>762</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nicholas Phelan, heir at law of John Phelan, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>762</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Major Tarlton Woodson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>762</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Crocker Sampson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>763</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Warrants.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Parish Carter, and the heirs of Charles Williamson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>763</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Medical Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of E. H. Williams, administrator of the estate of Doctor Hazel W. Crouch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>763</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel Plumb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>763</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Susannah Rowe, widow of John Rowe, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>763</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Suspension of a Judgment in favor of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the settlement of the claims of Walter Jones against the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>764</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James L. Stokes, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>764</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow of Thomas Kibbey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>764</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money paid for Land refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Pierce and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>765</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Harvey Reynolds.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>765</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Eliphalet Spafford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>765</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Rosaline Prudhomme.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>765</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Miller.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>765</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Doctor J. M. Foltz.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>766<page>lxxx</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Frederick Richmond.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>766</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of William Graham, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>766</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Philip Catner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>766</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis Mallaby.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>767</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Samuel Jaccard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>767</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a Machine.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Blanc.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>767</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Paul Poissot.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>767</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Return B. Brown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>768</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of the Moiety of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Herman Harris, of the city of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>768</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to confirm the claim of Charles Morgan, in right of Simon Porche, to a tract of land.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>768</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Zebulon Sheets.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>768</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John and Samuel Rowe, heirs and legal representatives of Ludwick Rowe, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1819</label> <target>769</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Cooper.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>769</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>769</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Milley Yates.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>769</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Conly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>769</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Ward and George Ficklin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Hendley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abel A. Pasko and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Brown and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Enoch Matson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John L. Allen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Grozer.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>771</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Selby.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>771</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Winslow Lewis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>771</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>771</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>772</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Spencer C. Gist</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>772</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and other heirs at law of Alexander Hamilton, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>772</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Warner.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>772</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Francis Jarvis, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>773</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a Machine for maintaining Power.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen P. W. Douglass.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>773</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Lilley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>773</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the trustees of the township of Oxford, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, to enter a section of land in lieu of section sixteen, in said township, for the use of schools.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>773</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Solomon Prewett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>774</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to William Ford, of the State of Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>774</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Frances Jones, widow of John Jones, of the State of Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>774<page>lxxxi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Rollins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>774</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Weight Hurlbert.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>774</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to the widow of John March, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>775</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Mary Uptegraff, of Butler county, Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>775</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to John Clark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>775</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Grady, of Macon county, North Carolina.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>775</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Chauncey Calhoon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>775</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas M. Borland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>776</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of A. J. Picket and George W. Gayle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>776</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Land Certificate.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac D. Saunders.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>776</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Mussey and Thomas James, of the county of Crawford, in the State of Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>776</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of James Maxwell, of Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>777</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abraham Stipp.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>777</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain John Vannettin and his company, for their services during the late war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>777</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph R. Folsom and the owners and crew of the schooner Galaxy, of Bucksport, in the State of Maine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>777</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Safford and other heirs at law of Joseph Safford, late of the New Humpshire line in the revolutionary war, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>778</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Rowe.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>778</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jarius Loomis, and heirs of James Basset.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>778</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Vacant Land in Tennessee.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain settlers living on what is called the Salt Lick reservation, in the western district of Tennessee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>779</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ashbel Mason.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>779</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lewis B. Willis, formerly acting deputy surveyor for the district of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>779</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William C. Hazard, of Rhode Island.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>779</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Borey, of Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>780</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Washington Bigham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>780</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Polly Lemon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>780</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Dixon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>781</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Aaron Stout.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>781</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the children and heirs of Sebastian Sroufe, late of Ohio, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>781</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John McCarrall, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>781</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Zebulon Baxter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>782</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Sinnard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>782</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Clerk.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>782</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Margaret Kingsbury.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>782</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Dawson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>783</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Ballentine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>783</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of J. Eloi Rachal.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>783</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James H. Grunt, Moses W. Simpson, and Preston Going.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>784<page>lxxxii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Stoker, William G. Belknap, and Benjamin Walker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>784</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Griffith Coombe and John P. Ingle, trustees of the house in the city of Washington commonly called “the brick capitol.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>794</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Irad Kelly and Datus Kelly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>784</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Ann Levacher De Van Brun.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>785</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Proceedings on a Judgment suspended.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Polly Lining, executrix of the lust will and testament of Charles Lining, deceased, who in his life-time, and at the time of his death, was executor of the last will and testament of Edward Blake, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>785</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and assignees of Peter Alba, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>785</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Innes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>786</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry L. Reviere.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>736</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Claim by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Lynch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>786</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Solomon Sturges, assignee of Resin Frazier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>786</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ezekiel Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel McComb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Cornelius Taylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Jackson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sibel Barnes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Todd.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Moor, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>788</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An set to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be issued to Michael Ambrister, assignee of Us-se-yoholo, a Creek Indian, a patent for a certain reservation of land in the State of Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>788</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money paid for Land refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stephen Marsters.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>788</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Dudley Walker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Cushing.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Patrick Green.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Compensation for Cables sold by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Balch, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for paying three companies of militia in the State of Indiana, called into the service of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Marcus, of Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>790</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Dougherty, of Wisconsin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>790</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Traverse.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>790</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Andrew Rembert.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>790</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Etienne (Stephen) La Lande, of Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>790</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims. Land for Schools.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert M. Roberts, or his legal assignees.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>791</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Rockwell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>791</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Jones and Charles Souder, and Robinson Carr and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>791</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jamison and Williamson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Limitation of the Act respecting the Officers of the Sloop of War Wasp extended.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow or legal representatives of John Tilden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1830</label> <target>792<page>lxxxiii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the assignees of Jacob Clements, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Susan Gratiot, administratrix, and Charles H. Gratiot, administrator, of Henry Gratiot, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John L. McCarty.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Dunscomb Bradford, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>793</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of the late Doctor James H. Checars.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>793</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Limitation of the Act respecting the late Officers and Seamen of the Wasp extended.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jesse Seymour, or his representatives, and in alteration of an act entitled “An act respecting the late officers and crew of the sloop of war Wasp,” approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>793</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Woodburne Potter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>793</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">RESOLUTIONS.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>Resolution for the relief of Abraham Wright, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>794</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>Resolution for the relief of the heirs at law of Captain Frederick M. Bell, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>794</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>Resolution for the relief of the heirs of Charles Brown, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1839</label> <target>794</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Opening an Alley in the City of Washington.</i></designator> <label>A resolution authorizing the opening of an alley, and the execution of certain deeds, in the city of Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>794</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>Resolution for the relief of Edward Beatty, of Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1839</label> <target>795</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Twenty-Sixth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1839, 1840.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Refunding of Money paid for Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alvarez Fisk and the legal representatives of Thomas P. Eskridge.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 10, 1840</label> <target>796</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John H. Jacocks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 10, 1840</label> <target>796</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sutten Stephens.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 27, 1840</label> <target>797</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of John Grimball, senior, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1840</label> <target>797</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Refunding of Money paid for Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Brewer, of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1840</label> <target>797</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize James Alexander to relinquish certain land, and to locate other land in lieu thereof.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1840</label> <target>797</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathan Levy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1840</label> <target>797</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Milnor and John Thompson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1840</label> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Willis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1840</label> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Meigs D. Benjamin and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1840</label> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gamaliel E. Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1840</label> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse taken by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas W. Taylor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1840</label> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Booker and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1840</label> <target>799</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>License and Enrolment of an Iron Steamer.</i></designator> <label>An act relative to the iron steamboat “The New Jersey,” formerly called the Robert F. Stockton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1840</label> <target>799</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John T. Addoms, executor of John Addoms.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1840</label> <target>799<page>lxxxiv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Improvement of a Fishery on Lands of the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Wickham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 8, 1840</label> <target>799</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to confirm the title to a certain tract of land in the county of Mobile, in the State of Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 27, 1840</label> <target>800</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John H. Sheppard, administrator of Abiel Wood.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 27, 1840</label> <target>800</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pre-emption of Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Cochran.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 27, 1840</label> <target>801</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Part of a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of A. G. S. Wight.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 27, 1840</label> <target>801</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James L. Cochran.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 1, 1840</label> <target>801</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of General Duncan L. Clinch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 19, 1840</label> <target>801</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Banks in the District of Columbia.</i></designator> <label>An act to continue the corporate existence of certain banks in the District of Colombia, for certain purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 3, 1840</label> <target>802</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Fine.</i></designator> <label>An act to refund a fine imposed on the late Matthew Lyon, under the sedition law, to his legal heirs and representatives.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 4, 1840</label> <target>802</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John W. Monette.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 4, 1840</label> <target>802</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ichabod Beardsley, of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>802</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Davidson, widow of John Davidson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>802</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Israel Parsons.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>803</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Philip Hartman, of Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>803</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Medad Cook.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>803</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lyman Bristol.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>803</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Fruncher.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>803</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Seneca Rider.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>803</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Bowman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>804</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Becker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>804</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter W. Short, of Woodstock, Ulster county, New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>804</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel W. Going.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>804</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Erastus Pierson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>804</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gideon Sheldon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>804</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jared Winslow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>805</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter A. Myers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>805</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Chauncey Rice.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>805</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sylvester Tiffany.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>805</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Andrews, of the State of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>805</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Warner, of Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>805</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Bond.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the sureties and heirs and representatives of Melancton W. Bustwick, deceased, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>806</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Mistake in the Purchase of Land to be corrected.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Oliver Welch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>806</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of a Surety.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Latham, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>806</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act confirming the claim of Augustine Lacoste to a certain tract of land therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>807</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gilbert A. Smith and Nathan Stark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>807</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ebenezer Lobdell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>807</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a Machine.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John W. Faunce and Oliver Perrin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>807<page>lxxxv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John L. Bowman and Enoch J. Noyes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>808</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Pierre Molaison, the widow of Pierre Richoux, Alexander Comeau, Alice L. Foley, widow of John Foley, and François Martin, of the State of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>808</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Limitation in the Act relating to certain Settlers on Lands in Tennessee extended.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain settlers on the salt-lick reservation in the western district of Tennessee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>808</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Authority to sell Land, &amp;c.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the widow and heirs at law of the late Lewis Grant Davidson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>809</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Bennett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>809</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands for Schools in Illinois.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a section of land for the use of schools in St. Clair county, State of Illinois.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>810</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Captain John Downes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>810</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Further Time for the Sale of Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act allowing further time to the trustees of Centro College to dispose of the land heretofore granted to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, in the State of Kentucky.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>810</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land for the University of Iowa.</i></designator> <label>An act granting two townships of land for the use of a university in the Territory of Iowa.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>810</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of William Williams, senior, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>810</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to the heirs of Leonard Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>811</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Cornelius Tiers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>811</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Perkins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>811</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Marbury, of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>811</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indian Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the children of Stephen Johnston, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>812</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawbacks.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Boggs and Thompson, Robert and Thomas Hutchinson, and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>812</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties on Goods destroyed by Fire, Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Chastelain and Ponvert, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 21, 1810</label> <target>813</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hyacinth Lassel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 21, 1840</label> <target>816</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">RESOLUTIONS.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Extension of the Contract for building the Post Office.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution for the relief of Masterton and Smith, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1840</label> <target>816</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims of Workmen at the Treasury Buildings.</i></designator> <label>A resolution authorizing an examination and payment of the claims of the stone-cutters and other workmen upon the public buildings.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 20, 1840</label> <target>817</target></referenceItem>
</groupItem>
<groupItem>
<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1840, 1841.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Lunatics in the District of Columbia.</i></designator> <label>An act making temporary provision for lunatics in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 2, 1841</label> <target>818</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indian Reservations.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gurdon S. Hubbard, Robert A. Kinzie, and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1841</label> <target>818</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Cultivation of Tropical Plants.</i></designator> <label>An act supplementary to an act entitled “An act to encourage the introduction and promote the cultivation of tropical plants,” approved seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1841</label> <target>819</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands for Schools.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Tucker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1841</label> <target>819</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lieutenant John E. Bispham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1841</label> <target>820</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jean Baptiste Comeau.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1841</label> <target>820<page>lxxxvi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Authority to bring a Slave into the District of Columbia.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Carter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1841</label> <target>820</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act grunting a pension to Hannah Leighton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1841</label> <target>820</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1841</label> <target>821</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles M. Keller and Henry Stone.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1841</label> <target>821</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William P. Rathbone.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1841</label> <target>821</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent Fees refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joab Seely.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1841</label> <target>821</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Lemuel White.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1841</label> <target>822</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Avery, Saltmarsh and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1841</label> <target>822</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Miguel Eslava.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1841</label> <target>822</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Bogy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1841</label> <target>823</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to refund the duties collected on the French ship Alexandre.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1841</label> <target>823</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest of the United States released on Property in Alexandria.</i></designator> <label>An act respecting the heirs of Agneas Dundas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1841</label> <target>823</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Washington City Benevolent Society.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1841</label> <target>823</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Register and Enrolment granted for Schooner Amistad.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the enrolment or register of the schooner Amistad.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1841</label> <target>824</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE I.—1841.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Donation to Mrs. Harrison.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, widow of the late President of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 30, 1841</label> <target>825</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to revive and continue in force for ten years an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 9, 1841</label> <target>825</target></referenceItem>
</groupItem>
<groupItem>
<label class="centered">STATUTE II.—1841, 1842.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Crapin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1842</label> <target>826</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Huldah Tucker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1842</label> <target>826</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Margaret Jamison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1842</label> <target>826</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to David Waller.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1842</label> <target>826</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Margaret Barnes, widow of Elijah Barnes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1842</label> <target>827</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Bassett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1842</label> <target>827</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to William Rand.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 19, 1842</label> <target>827</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Smith, of Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 14, 1842</label> <target>827</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James H. Relfe.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 14, 1842</label> <target>827</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John S. Billings.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 14, 1842</label> <target>828</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Extension of Time for selling Lands granted to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Kentucky.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the lime for selling the lands granted to the incorporated Kentucky Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 14, 1842</label> <target>828</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Clark Woodrooff.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 10, 1842</label> <target>828</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Aaron Vail, deceased, late consul at L’Orient.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 10, 1812</label> <target>823<page>lxxxvii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Benjamin Franklin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 1, 1842</label> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Kiser and Barnett Foley, of Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 4, 1842</label> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Plumb Island Bridge and Turnpike Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 4, 1842</label> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Caleb Eddy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 4, 1842</label> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Bounty Land Warrants.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M. Telfair, daughters and heirs of Israel Pearce.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 4, 1842</label> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate Washington’s Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society of the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 13, 1842</label> <target>830</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Register of the Brig Gulnare.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the issuing of a register for the brig Gulnare.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 13, 1842</label> <target>831</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Nix.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 22, 1842</label> <target>832</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Francis G. McCauly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 22, 1842</label> <target>832</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles H. Atherton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 22, 1842</label> <target>832</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land for a Seat of Justice.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the county commissioners of Lake county, Illinois, to enter a quarter section of land for a seat of justice in said county.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 22, 1842</label> <target>832</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money paid for Land refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jesse Carpenter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 27, 1842</label> <target>833</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Pennell and others, owners of the Eliza, of Brunswick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 27, 1842</label> <target>833</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent for a Circular Bullet-mould.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Daniel Pettibone, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 6, 1842</label> <target>833</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Obed P. Lacey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1842</label> <target>834</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Sarah Decker, widow of Samuel Decker, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1842</label> <target>834</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Esther Parrott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1842</label> <target>834</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend the act entitled “An act for the relief of Chauncey Calhoun,” passed March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1842</label> <target>835</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Colonel William Piatt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1842</label> <target>635</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act in favor of Ellen Turney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1842</label> <target>835</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hulduh Farlow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1842</label> <target>835</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Sky, an Onondaga Indian.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1812</label> <target>835</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lieutenant John L. Kline.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1842</label> <target>835</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Clarissa Turney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1842</label> <target>836</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Josiah Blakely, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1842</label> <target>836</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Burnett Burdsall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 9, 1842</label> <target>836</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pre-emption.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a right of pre-emption to certain lots in the town of Perrysburg, in the State of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>836</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Morrow and Jonathan Tipton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Bond given by Sureties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry J. Defrees and Stephen Jenny.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Schooner.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Atwood, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph J. Martin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1342</label> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>838</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jabez L. and Asa White, of the State of Connecticut.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>838</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Besly, widow of William Besly, deceased, and, previous thereto, widow of Doctor Henry Adams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>838<page>lxxxviii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Betsy Vreeland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842 </label> <target>838</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Mayfield.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>838</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Mayfield.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>839</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Wells.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>839</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the German Benevolent Society of the city of Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>839</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Chase.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>840</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Randall and Charles York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1812</label> <target>840</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Williams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>840</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Collins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>840</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel B. Hugo.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>841</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John E. Alexander.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>841</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Homans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>841</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Fine.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Fessenden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1812</label> <target>841</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the President of the United States to issue to the heirs of John Campbell a patent for the remainder of private land claim number twenty, at Prairie du Chieu, in the Territory of Wiskonsan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>841</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land granted in Missouri.</i></designator> <label>An act to grant to Van Buren county, Missouri, the tract of land on which the seat of justice of said county has been located.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1812</label> <target>842</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Markham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>842</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Harper.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>842</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Moore, of the State of Maryland.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>842</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to relinquish to William Waller the interest of the United States in a certain tract of land therein named.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>843</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ingoldsby W. Crawford and Samuel Phillips.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842 </label> <target>843</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Josiah Holmes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>843</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>843</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Archibald McCullum.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>844</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John P. Campbell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>844</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George M. Bedinger, of the State of Kentucky.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>844</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land granted.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the county commissioners of Linn county, in the Territory of Iowa, to enter, by legal subdivisions, a quarter section of land, upon which the county seat has been located.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>844</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate a society in the District of Columbia by the name of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>845</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land granted.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to the county of Johnson, in the Territory of Iowa, the right of pre-emption to a tract of land for a seat of justice for said county, and repealing the second section of an act approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled “An act making a donation of land to the Territory of Iowa, for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 1, 1842</label> <target>846</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land granted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of the county of Holt, in the State of Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 1, 1842</label> <target>847</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land Sale confirmed.</i></designator> <label>An act to confirm the sale of a certain school section in the State of Illinois, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 1, 1842</label> <target>847</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing a patent to be issued to Bartholomew Pellerin, his heirs or assigns.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 1, 1842</label> <target>847</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John P. Converse and Henry J. Rees.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 1, 1842</label> <target>848</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin F. Hard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 1, 1842</label> <target>848</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sylvester Phelps, and the heirs or legal representatives of Charles Landon, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 1, 1842</label> <target>848<page>lxxxix</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edwin H. Childers, administrator of John P. Hickman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 1, 1842</label> <target>848</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge at Harper’s Ferry.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Shenandoah Bridge Company, at Harper’s Ferry, to erect a bridge on the land of the United States at the town of Harper’s Ferry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 1, 1842</label> <target>848</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John A. Rockwell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 1, 1842</label> <target>849</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money paid for Land refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act explanatory of an act entitled “An act for the relief of Clark Woodrooff,” passed May tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-two.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 4, 1842</label> <target>849</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages committed by the Indians.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David M. Hughes, Charles Shipman, and John Henderson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 9, 1842</label> <target>849</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel B. Bush.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>850</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alexander Hammett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>850</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George H. Walker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>850</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Rees B. Ward.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>850</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Wynn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>851</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Land for Schools.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the inhabitants of the reserved township in Gibson county, in the State of Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>851</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Zuchariah Jellison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>851</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize Chapman Levy to purchase as a pre-emptor a certain quarter section of land now occupied by him, at the minimum price per acre.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>852</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of Money stolen from an Indian Agent.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John C. Reynolds, late disbursing agent of the Indian department.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>852</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Marston G. Clark.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>852</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Francis Newman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>852</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Osteen, of Illinois.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>853</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of J. K. Tefft, administrator of Francis Didier Petit de Villers, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>853</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Beckford C. Mathews.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>853</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Higgins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>853</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas M. Isett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>854</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gregoire Sarpy, or his legal representatives.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>854</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to audit and settle the accounts between the United States and David Gelston, formerly collector of the port of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>854</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thankful Reynolds.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>854</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Valerian Allain.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>855</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act in favor of Mary Snow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>855</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages by Indians.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Scott.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>855</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Prettyman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>855</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jubal B. Hancock.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>856</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Eli Wheat and Stephen White.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>856</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Johnston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>856</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Salvage.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John B. Pierce.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>856</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Gee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>857</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin C. Roberts.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>857</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Seaburn.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>857</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the settlement of the accounts of Silas Deane.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>857</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George W. Paschal.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>858</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Penalty refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Miller.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>858</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Bond.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Huskins and Ralph Haskins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>858</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse killed for Food.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hezekiah L. Thistle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>859</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sebastian Butcher, and the heirs and legal representatives of Bartholomew Butcher, Michael Butcher, and Peter Bloom.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>859</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Richard T. Banks, of the State of Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>859</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Kleiss.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>860</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money paid for Land.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isabella Hill, widow, and John Hill, Elizabeth Hill, and Samuel Hill, children and minor heirs at law of Samuel Hill, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 11, 1842</label> <target>860</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Sheffler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 16, 1842</label> <target>860</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Mary Johnson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 16, 1842</label> <target>860</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Jorden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 16, 1842</label> <target>861</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Bond.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Thomas Atkinson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 16, 1842</label> <target>861</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the president, directors, and company of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 16, 1842</label> <target>861</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph F. Caldwell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 16, 1842</label> <target>861</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>School Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act to compensate the township of Dublin, in Mercer county, Ohio, for the loss of school lands.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 16, 1842</label> <target>862</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Underwood.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 23, 1842</label> <target>863</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jehosaphat Briggs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 23, 1842</label> <target>863</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Springfield Manufacturing Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 23, 1842</label> <target>863</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Error in a former Act corrected.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 23, 1842</label> <target>863</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Gibbs.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 23, 1842</label> <target>863</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Christiana Low.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 23, 1842</label> <target>864</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles F. Sibbald.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 23, 1842</label> <target>864</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hezekiah Cunningham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 23, 1842</label> <target>864</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles D. Hammond and Augustus H. Kenon.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>864</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Pratt, or his legal representative.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>865</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Frederick Perrigo.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>865</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act to increase the revolutionary invalid pension of John Looney.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>865</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John King.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>865</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Phillis Tattoo.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>865</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Rand.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>866</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Tongue, John Scrivener, and the legal representatives of William Hodson, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>866</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Freelove.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>866</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Flood.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>866</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Colfax.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>866</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Randolph Carter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>866</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Jackson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>867</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Dorothy Bowman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>867</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Parker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>867</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nathan Smith and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>867</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel R. Slaymaker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 26, 1842</label> <target>867</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Willis, of Monroe county, Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>868</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the inhabitants of township eight north, range thirty-two west, in the State of Arkansas, to enter a section of land in lieu of the sixteenth section in said township, upon condition that the same is surrendered to the United States for military purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>868</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the issuing of a patent to the heirs or legal representatives of Francis Rivard, deceased, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>868</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elisha Burnet.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>869</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Brownell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>869</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to confirm the title of the heirs of James Sympson, deceased, to a certain tract of land in the State of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>869</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson, of the army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>869</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Andrew Forrest.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>870</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Fry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>870</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Compton, assignee and representative of Garrigues Flaujac.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>870</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Therese Malette, widow of Gaspard Phiole.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>870</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jean Baptist Comeau.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>871</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Enoch Hidden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>871</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Eckford, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>871</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Interest on a Judgment remitted.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William H. Robertson, Samuel H. Garrow, and J. W. Simonton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>872</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal heirs and representatives of Hugo Krebs, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>872</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Dennis Dygert.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>872</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Amaziah Goodwin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>872</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Effie Van Ness.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>873</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Hull.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>873</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Polk.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>873</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of F. B. De Bellevue.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>873</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act giving Catharine Lehman the benefit of the act of the seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>873</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hannah Carrier.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>874</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to permit the Solicitor of the Treasury to adjust and compromise a claim of the United States against Henry Daniel and Thomas Triplett, jr., deceased, now or late of the State of Kentucky.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>874</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob Greaves.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>874</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Amey Babbitt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>874</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas B. Parsons.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>874</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim for Loss on Treasury Notes.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of William D. Cheever, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 30, 1842</label> <target>875</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims of Militia.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain companies of Missouri volunteers commanded by Captains Stevenson and Allen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 31, 1842</label> <target>875</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs or assignees or legal representatives of James May.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 31, 1842</label> <target>875</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hugh Stewart.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 31, 1842</label> <target>876</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">RESOLUTIONS.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>A resolution to authorize the settlement of the accounts of George Whitman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 14, 1842</label> <target>876</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution for the benefit of George Schnabel and Robert Barber, jr.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">July 27, 1842</label> <target>876</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>A resolution for the relief of Ferdinand Pettrich.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 29, 1842</label> <target>877</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>A resolution to authorize the Postmaster-General to settle the accounts of Patton Pilcher and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Aug. 31, 1842</label> <target>877</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE III.—1842, 1843.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Register to the Ship Westchester.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the issuing of a new register for the American ship Westchester of New York, by the name of the Atlantic of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Dec. 23, 1842</label> <target>878</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Cornelius Wilson and James Canter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1843</label> <target>878</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James M. Morgan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1843</label> <target>879</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elisha Moreland, William M. Kennedy, Robert J. Kennedy, and Mason E. Lewis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1843</label> <target>879</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act 1er the relief of John R. Delany.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1843</label> <target>879</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fine refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Snow Y. Scars.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1843</label> <target>879</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fine refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joshua Drew.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1843</label> <target>880</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Samuel Shannon, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1843</label> <target>880</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ferdinand Leibert.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1843</label> <target>880</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac and Thomas S. Winslow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1843</label> <target>880</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Burr and Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1843</label> <target>880</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse lost.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Lionberger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 20, 1843</label> <target>881</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act to revive the act for the relief of Mary Tucker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1843</label> <target>881</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the administrator of John Jackson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1843</label> <target>881</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Hambleton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Jan. 28, 1843</label> <target>881</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Munroe.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 28, 1843</label> <target>882</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Steamboat Company of Nantucket.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 4, 1843</label> <target>882</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of J. R. Vienne.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 4, 1843</label> <target>882</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Dicy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 4, 1813</label> <target>882</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John P. Skinner and the legal representatives of Isaac Green.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 4, 1843</label> <target>882</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Barent Stryker.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 4, 1843</label> <target>883</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Casper W. Wever.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 15, 1843</label> <target>883</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Sureties.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the representatives of Alexander Macomb, Robert Jennings, and the heirs and legal representatives of James Roddy, deceased, sureties of Samuel Champlin, late a paymaster in the army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 15, 1843</label> <target>883</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Register of the Brig Nueva Granada.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize Die enrolment or register of the brig Nueva Granada.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1843</label> <target>883</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William W. Street.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1843</label> <target>884</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William De Buys, postmaster at New Orleans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 18, 1843</label> <target>884</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Asahel Brainard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1843</label> <target>884</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money recovered from a Mail Robber.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel D. Rose and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1843</label> <target>884</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nancy Hambright, widow of Captain John Hambright, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1843</label> <target>884</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas King.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1843</label> <target>885</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain companies of Michigan militia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1843</label> <target>885</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of George Mayfield,” approved July twenty-seven, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 24, 1843</label> <target>885</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jacob White.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1843</label> <target>885</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin J. Totten.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Hover, Abelard Guthrie, and Edmund Ogden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Crawford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Allen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services in rescuing an American Vessel from Pirates.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to James Lowe one thousand dollars and a section of land.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horse killed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Core.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>887</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Madam De Lusser, and their legal representatives.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>887</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Ottawa Indians.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John E. Hunt and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>887</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas D. Gilson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>887</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William G. Sanders.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>888</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Fabre.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>888</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert G. Ford.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>888</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Williams, widow of Jacob Williams, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>888</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Randall, John C. Haskell, and Elisha H. Holmes.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>888</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Wharry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1843</label> <target>889</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John R. Williams.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>889</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Patten.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>889</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Solomon Emerson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>889</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George A. Winslow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>889</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Philander Smith and James Young.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>890</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Gresham, widow of George Gresham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>890</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Skirving.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>890</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Truslow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>890</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Penalty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of S. and M. Riche.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>890</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Lord.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>891</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Knott Martin, 3d, and Arnold Martin, owners of the fishing schooner Only Son, and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>891</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jonathan Britton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>891</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Horace Wetherall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>891</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Waldron.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>891</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Andrew Fisher.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gamaliel E. Smith.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Gray.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles B. Hall, of Cincinnati.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Rush.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Lieutenant William S. Eveleth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Drysdale.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>893</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Judgment suspended.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Sneed.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>893</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph R. Chandler.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>893</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elizabeth Powers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>894</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act to allow a pension to Nancy Williams, widow of David Williams, who was one of the captors of Major Andre.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>894</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Hicks.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>894</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edwin Bartlett, late consul of the United States at Lima, in Peru.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>894</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Renewal of a Patent.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Gale.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>895</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to David Welch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>895</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Gordon, owner of the schooner Two Sons, and the legal representatives of the crew of said vessel.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>895</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of a Penalty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Coke, jr., Robert Anderson, and George W. Southall.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>895</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Randolph Clay, late secretary of legation of the United States at the court of Vienna.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Israel Thomas.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Wolfenden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Johnson Patrick.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1813</label> <target>896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands for Schools.</i></designator> <label>An act to transfer to the trustees of Centre College, in Kentucky, the lands heretofore granted to the Kentucky Asylum for Leaching the deaf and dumb.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Copy-right extended.</i></designator> <label>An act supplemental to the act of the twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to continue a copyright to John Rowlett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>897</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent Fees refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert B. Lewis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>897</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Javins.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>897</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John F. Wiley.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>897</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Sweetman.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>898</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Nimblett.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>898</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Bond.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gorham A. Worth, one of the sureties of Samuel Edmonds, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>898</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Weller.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>898</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Peters, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>898</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Skirving.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent renewed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel K. Jennings.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nancy Wilson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Hodgkin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties on Railroad Iron.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Weaver and Jacob Heyberger, sureties of the Norristown and Valley Railroad Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representative of Robert T. Spence.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hannah Jenkins, widow [of] James Jenkins, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>900</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ruth Mathiot.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>900</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peters, Moore and Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>900</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Nancy Polerecsky.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>901</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Brent, deceased, late consul of the United States at Paris.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1813</label> <target>901</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Ramsay.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>901</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Shawnee Indians.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George C. Johnston.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>901</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to revive an act entitled “An act for the relief of John Davlin”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>901</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Penhallow.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>902</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to David Watkinson and Company a part of the duties imposed on a certain quantity of tin and iron imported by them into the port of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>902</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Layton’s children.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>902</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary McGee and Susan Pierce, heirs at law of George Neilson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>902</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Robert A. Kelly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>903</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hugh Riddle, of the State of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>903</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Garret Vleit.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>903</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Waddle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>904</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lyman N. Cook.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>904</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Purchase of a Patent Right.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Boyd Reilly.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>904</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Allen Rogers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>904</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary W. Thompson, widow of the late Lieutenant Colonel Thompson, of the army of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>904</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Jeremiah Kimball.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>905</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James B. Sullivan, of the county of Rapides, in the State of Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>995</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs, or the assignees of the heirs, of Isaac Todd and James McGill.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>905</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel M. Asberry.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>906</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John McGinnis, a soldier in the late war.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>906</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Ellery.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>906</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James S. Calhoun.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>906</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Asahel Lee, Harvey Lee, and Lemuel Lee.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>906</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">RESOLUTIONS.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution explanatory of “An act for the relief of Thomas King.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>907</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to authorize the Postmaster-General to settle with J. and P. Voorhics.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1843</label> <target>907</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Acts of the Twenty-Eighth Congress of the United States.</b><br/>STATUTE I.—1843, 1844.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Mullings.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 26, 1844</label> <target>908</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Davenport, of Rock Island, in the State of Illinois.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1844</label> <target>908</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Samuel Shannon, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1844</label> <target>908</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Violet Calhoun, widow of John Calhoun.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1844</label> <target>909</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Miller.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1844</label> <target>909</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Bartholomew Maguire.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1844</label> <target>909</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act to explain an act of Congress, passed on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, entitled “An act for the relief of Elizabeth Gresham, widow of George Gresham.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1844</label> <target>909</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Justice.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1844</label> <target>909</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Sarah Blackemore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1844</label> <target>910</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Levi Colmus.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1844</label> <target>910</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Bonnell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1844</label> <target>910</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Reid.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1844</label> <target>910</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James C. Hallock.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1844</label> <target>910</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Glover.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1844</label> <target>911</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Adam L. Mills.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1844</label> <target>911</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lois Cronk, alias Cronkhite.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1844</label> <target>911</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abigail Gibson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1844</label> <target>911</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin B. Ferguson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 4, 1844</label> <target>912</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate Georgetown College, in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 10, 1844</label> <target>912</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Penalty.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward Kennard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 10, 1844</label> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel G. Skinner, of Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 10, 1844</label> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Bryan, Harrison Young, and Benjamin Young.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 12, 1844</label> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Wallis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing a patent to be issued to Joseph Campau for a certain tract of land in the State of Michigan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Work on the Cumberland Road.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Valentine Geesey, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>914</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry Newingham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>914</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Register of a Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to grant a register to the British boat therein mentioned.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>914</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Authority to remove a Cause from the County of Alexandria to the County of Washington.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Walter S. Alexander and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>915</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Edmonson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>915</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Francis Cazeau, late merchant at Montreal.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>915</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of the Interest of the United States in Indian Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George W. Allen and Reuben Allen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>915</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George M. Jones.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>915</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fine refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Fessenden.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gervis Foote.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel B. Folger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel B. Tuck.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Woodson Wren, of Mississippi.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>917</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Eaton Nance.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>917</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the owner and crew of the schooner Mary Francis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>918</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William H. Hoog and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1814</label> <target>918</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Robert Monroe.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>918</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of C. P. Sengstack.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>918<page>xcvii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Alice Usher.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>918</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ferguson and Reid.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>919</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Proceeds of Forfeited Goods.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Fraser and George A. Trenholm.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>919</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac S. Ketchum.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>919</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac S. Ketchum, late special Indian agent.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment for a Slave.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William De Peyster and Henry N. Cruger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ephraim D. Dickson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Henson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Allowance to a Fishing Vessel.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the owners and crew of the schooner “Privado.“</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Judgment to be compromised.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Richard Sneed.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>921</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Abelard Guthrie.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>921</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of True Putney and Hugh Riddle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>921</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Forfeiture refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George W. Clarke, Harris Cooke, and John Brainerd, second, of the State of Rhode Island.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>921</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Claim by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of George Harrison and his sureties.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles W. Morgan.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Lathrop Foster.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Harvey Heth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel W. Church.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Manlius V. Thompson, sole executor of Milus W. Dickey, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>923</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Josiah Dillon, late assistant-quartermaster of the army.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>923</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary Ann Linton.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>923</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Surety in Official Bonds.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of David Allspach.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>923</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Land Warrant.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Ebenezer Moore.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claim on the Ottawa Indians.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Henry S. Commager.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fine refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act to refund the fine imposed on the late Anthony Haswell, under the sedition law, to his legal heirs end representatives.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Margaret Dougherty.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Pepper and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Marcay Olds.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Land Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William P. Duval.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of James Anderson, of the Territory of Iowa.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Simeon Dennin.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>926</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Solomon Sturges, assignee of Humphrey Richcreek.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>926</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Pierre S. Derbanne.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>926</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of Thomas Hunter and Alexander Caldwell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>926</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of John Perham.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>927</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Ann Hunter, widow of Robert Hunter.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>927</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John Baker, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>927</target></referenceItem>
<page>xcviii</page>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Asa Davis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>927</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William R. Davis.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>927</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the heirs of Hyacinth Lassolle.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>928</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of François Christien and widow Baptists Berard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>928</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to “Milly,” an Indian woman of the Creek nation.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>928</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Bethia Healy, widow of George Healy, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>929</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to Emanuel Shrofe.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>929</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of F. A. Kerr.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>929</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the benefit of the heirs of Christopher Miller.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>929</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>A Moiety of a Fine refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Hiram Murch.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>929</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin Murphy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>930</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William McPherson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>930</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Satisfaction of a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Atchison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>930</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Cumpau.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>930</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mary M. Telfair.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>931</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>A Fine refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Charles Holt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>931</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Major Thomas Harrison.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>931</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fines remitted to be repaid.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Sands.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>931</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of a Forfeiture.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Amos Proctor.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 17, 1844</label> <target>932</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to authorize the Postmaster-General to re-examine certain claims, and to allow one month’s extra pay to certain mail contractors.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1844</label> <target>932</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>A resolution explanatory of “An act for the relief of Mary Williams, widow of the late Jacob Williams, deceased.”</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">May 31, 1844</label> <target>932</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the accounting officers of the treasury to audit and settle the accounts of William P. Zantzinger.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">June 15, 1844</label> <target>933</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Asahel Brainard.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 4, 1845</label> <target>934</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of James Ritchie.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1845</label> <target>934</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Mark Simpson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1845</label> <target>934</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to James Duffy.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1845</label> <target>935</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to George Whitten.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1845</label> <target>935</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of J. McFarlane.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1845</label> <target>935</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Gideon Batchelder and others.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1845</label> <target>935</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Peter Von Schmidt.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 20, 1845</label> <target>935</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Authority to retain Dividends on Stock owned by the United States.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the president and directors of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 26, 1845</label> <target>936</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lands granted.</i></designator> <label>An act vesting in the county commissioners of the county of Wyandot the right to certain town lots and out lots in the town of Upper Sandusky in the State of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 26, 1845</label> <target>936</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Extension of Patents for Inventions.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend a patent heretofore granted to William Woodworth.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 26, 1845</label> <target>936</target></referenceItem>
<page>xcix</page>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Ramsey.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1845</label> <target>937</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Walker, Kinkle, and Caruthers.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1845</label> <target>937</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fine refunded.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John Adams and John Adams, junior.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1845</label> <target>937</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Georgetown.</i></designator> <label>An act to alter the corporate limits of Georgetown.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 27, 1845</label> <target>937</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Samuel Neely.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1845</label> <target>938</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Benjamin S. Roberts.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1845</label> <target>938</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Joseph Simmons.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>938</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Dunning R. McNair.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>938</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Award under the Treaty with France.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Elisha Morrell, administrator of Joseph Icard, deceased.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>939</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Harvey and Slagg.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>939</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a pension to John E. Wright.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>939</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Stanley White.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>939</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Edward A. Lambert.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>940</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Isaac Allen.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>940</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Judgment.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Alexander Mitchell.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>940</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Philip Schwartztrawber, of Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>940</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Thomas Bronough.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>941</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Rich.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>941</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pension.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of March Farrington.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>941</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of Daniel Homans.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>941</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of John H. McIntosh.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>941</target></referenceItem>
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<label />
<target>Page</target>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>A resolution authorizing an allowance to Purser D. M. F. Thornton, in the settlement of his accounts.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">Feb. 13, 1845</label> <target>942</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Accounts.</i></designator> <label>A resolution for the relief of Mrs. Mary W. Thompson.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1845</label> <target>942</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indian Annuities.</i></designator> <label>A joint resolution for the benefit of Frances Slocum and her children and grandchildren of the Miami tribe of Indians.</label> <label leaderChar="." leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1845</label> <target>942</target></referenceItem>
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<p class="centered smallCaps">the</p>
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIRST CONGRESS.</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday, March</i> 4, 1789, <i>and continued to September</i> 29, 1789.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">George Washington</inline>, President. <inline class="smallCaps">John Adams</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. <inline class="smallCaps">Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: to allow the Baron de Glaubeck the pay of a Captain in the Army of the United States.</dc:title>
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<officialTitle class="italic inline">to allow the Baron de Glaubeck the pay of a Captain in the Army of the United States.</officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the pay of a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The pay of a captain allowed to Baron de Glaubeck.</p></sidenote> captain in the army of the United States be allowed to the Baron de Glaubeck, from the ninth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, to the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, to be paid in the same manner as other foreign officers in the service of the United States have been paid.</content>
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<docNumber class="centered italic">Resolution No. 4</docNumber>
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<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1789-09-29">Sept. 29, 1789</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John White, late a commissioner to settle the accounts between the United States and the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, and his clerks, John Wright and Joshua Dawson, be considered as in office until the fourth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1789-09-29">September 29, 1789</date>.
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<dc:date>1790</dc:date>
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIRST CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of New York, on Monday, the fourth day of January,</i> 1790, <i>and ended on the twelfth day of August,</i> 1790.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">George Washington</inline>, President. <inline class="smallCaps">John Adams</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. <inline class="smallCaps">Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. XVI: for finally adjusting and satisfying the claims of Frederick William de Steuben.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for finally adjusting and satisfying the claims of Frederick William de Steuben.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1790-06-04">June 4, 1790</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, in order to make full and adequate compensation to Frederick William de Steuben, for the sacrifices and eminent services made and rendered to the United States during the late war, there be paid to the said <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity of 2,500 dots, for life, in full of claims.</p></sidenote>Frederick William de Steuben, an annuity of two thousand five hundred dollars, during life, to commence on the first day of January last; to be paid in quarterly payments, at the treasury of the United States; which said annuity shall be considered in full discharge of all claims and demands whatever, of the said Frederick William de Steuben against the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1790-06-04">June 4, 1790</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of Thomas Jenkins and Company.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1790-06-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Jenkins and Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1790-06-14">June 14, 1790</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on certain goods lost by fire, remitted.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the duties, amounting to one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, be remitted on a parcel of hemp, duck, ticklenburg, and molasses, the property of Thomas Jenkins and Company, merchants, of the city of Hudson, in the State of New York, which were lost by fire in the brig Minerva, on her passage from New York to the city of Hudson, her port of delivery; and the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to allow a credit on the bond or bonds executed by the said Thomas Jenkins and Company, for payment of the duties on the said goods.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1790-06-14">June 14, 1790</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: to satisfy the claims of John McCord against the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 2</citableAs>
<dc:date>1790-07-01</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to satisfy the claims of John McCord against the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1790-07-01">July 1, 1790</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to John McCord, in full of all claims.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John McCord, out of the duties arising on impost and tonnage, the sum of eight hundred nine dollars seventy-one cents, being the amount of his account against the United States, as settled and admitted by the Auditor and Comptroller of the Treasury, on a bill of exchange dated the fifth of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, drawn in Canada for supplies, by General William Thompson, General William Irvine and other officers, in favor of William Pagan, on Messieurs Meredith and Clymer of Philadelphia; And the farther sum of five hundred
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/2" renderingPosition="bottom">2</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch . 24, 37, 44. 1790.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/3">3</page>
dollars, in full of all his claims and demands against the United States, as well for lands and rations granted by several resolutions of Congress to Canadian sufferers, as on any other account whatsoever.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1790-07-01">July 1, 1790</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of Nathaniel Twining.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 3</citableAs>
<dc:date>1790-07-01</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nathaniel Twining.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1790-07-01">July 1, 1790</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the penalty, amounting to five hundred and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty remitted to N. Twining.</p></sidenote> sixty-seven dollars and forty-one cents, incurred by Nathaniel Twining, for a failure in neglecting to transport the mail between Charleston and Savannah, from the month of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, until the first of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, pursuant to a contract made with the late postmaster-general, shall be, and the same is hereby remitted.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1790-07-01">July 1, 1790</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief of John Stewart and John Davidson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 3</citableAs>
<dc:date>1790-08-04</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Stewart and John Davidson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1790-08-04">August 4, 1790</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That so much of the duties accruing on eighteen<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remission of duty on a certain quantity of salt.</p></sidenote> hundred bushels of salt, imported in the ship Mercury, into the port of Annapolis, in the state of Maryland, some time in the month of April last, on account of Messieurs John Stewart and John Davidson, as relates to thirteen hundred and twenty-five bushels thereof, which were casually destroyed by a flood on the night of the same day on which the said salt was landed and stored, shall be, and the same are hereby remitted.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1790-08-04">August 4, 1790</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen lately in the service of the United States, and of certain other persons.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 3</citableAs>
<dc:date>1790-08-11</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen lately in the service of the United States, and of certain other persons.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1790-08-11">Aug. 11, 1790</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Stephen Califfe, Jeremiah Ryan, Joseph<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons entitled to pensions, and at what rate.</p></sidenote> M’Gibbon, Samuel Garretson, Ephraim M’Coy, Christian Kuhn, David Steele, Joseph Shuttlief, and Daniel Culver, disabled soldiers lately in the service of the United States, be allowed pensions at the rate of five dollars per month from the time their pay in the army respectively ceased. That Christian Wolfe, a disabled soldier, be allowed a pension at the rate of four dollars per month from the date of his discharge. That Edward Scott, a disabled soldier, be allowed a pension at the rate of three dollars per month from the date of his discharge. That David Weaver and George Schell, disabled soldiers, be each allowed a pension, at the rate of two dollars per month, from the date of their respective discharges. That Seth Boardman, a disabled soldier, be allowed a pension, at the rate of three dollars and one-third of a dollar per month, from the seventeenth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six. That Severinus Koch, a disabled captain of Colonel Jacob Klock’s regiment of New York militia, be allowed a pension, at the rate of five dollars per month, from the twentieth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven. That John Younglove, a disabled major, of Colonel Lewis Van Woort’s regiment of New York militia, be allowed a pension, at the rate of six dollars per month, from the thirtieth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one. That William White, a disabled private of Colonel Williams’ regiment of New York militia, be allowed a pension, at the rate of three dollars and one-third of a dollar per month, from the first day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six. That Jacob Newkerk, a disabled soldier of Colonel John Harper’s regiment of New York state troops, be allowed a pension, at the rate of three dollars per month, from the twenty-second day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty.
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/4">4</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 45. 1790.</centerRunningHead>
That David Poole, a disabled seaman, lately in the service of the United States, be allowed a pension of five dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sum granted and pension allowed to Caleb Brewster.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Caleb Brewster, lately a lieutenant, who was wounded and disabled in the service of the United States, be allowed three hundred forty-eight dollars and fifty-seven cents, the amount of his necessary expenses for sustenance and medical assistance, while dangerously ill of his wounds, including the interest to the first of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety. And that the said Brewster be allowed a pension equal to his half pay as lieutenant, from the third of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, he first having returned his commutation of half pay.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension allowed to N. Gove.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Nathaniel Gove, a disabled lieutenant, lately in the service of the United States, be allowed a pension, at the rate of six dollars and two-thirds of a dollar per month, from the twentieth of May, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, to the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, and that he be allowed at the rate of thirteen dollars and one-third of a dollar per month, from the said first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioner of army accounts to settle pay of certain ofiicers.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the commissioner of army accounts be authorized and directed to settle the pay and depreciation of pay of John Stevens, a hostage in the late war at the capitulation of the cedars, as a captain in the line of the army, and that he issue certificates accordingly. That he also issue a certificate to Charles Markley, lately a captain in Armand’s corps, for the commutation of his half pay. That he also settle the accounts of James Derry, and Benjamin Hardison, who were made prisoners in Canada, in May, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and forcibly detained in captivity among the Indians, and that he issue certificates for the balance of their pay respectively, to the third of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The pensions to be paid according to laws made, or that hereafter may be made.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Aug. 11, 1790, ch. 45, sec. 3.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 23, 1792, ch. 11.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the several pensions mentioned in this act, due or to become due from the fifth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, shall be paid, according to such laws as have been made, or shall be made relative to invalid pensioners; and that the arrears of the said pensions, due before the said fifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, shall be paid in such manner as Congress may hereafter provide for paying the arrears of pensions.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to S. Harding.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there shall be allowed to Seth Harding, for three months and ten days’ services on board the Alliance frigate, during the late war, at the rate of sixty dollars per month, being the pay of a captain, to be paid out of the moneys arising from imposts and tonnage.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1790-08-11">August 11, 1790</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLV: for the relief of the persons therein mentioned, or described.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 4</citableAs>
<dc:date>1790-08-11</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the persons therein mentioned, or described.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1790-08-11">Aug. 11, 1790</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register of the treasury to grant a certificate to S. Stirling.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the register of the treasury shall, and is hereby required to grant unto Sarah, the widow of the late Major-General Earl of Stirling, who died in the service of the United States, a certificate to entitle her to a sum equal to an annuity for seven years’ half pay of a major-general, to commence as from the fourteenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, in conformity to the act of the late Congress, passed on the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; the amount for which the said certificate is to be granted, to be ascertained by the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res . 3. 1790.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/5">5</page>
Secretary of the Treasury, and on similar principles as other debts of the United States are liquidated and certified.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said register shall grant<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To Frances E. Laurens.</p></sidenote> unto Frances Eleanor Laurens, the orphan daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel John Laurens, who was killed whilst in the service of the United States, a certificate to entitle her to a sum equal to an annuity for seven years’ half pay of a lieutenant-colonel, to commence as from the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty- two, according to the act of the late Congress of the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; the amount for which the said certificate is to be granted, to be ascertained by the Secretary of the Treasury in manner aforesaid.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">And whereas no provision hath heretofore been made for discharging<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrears of pensions.</p></sidenote> the arrears of pensions due to officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers, who were wounded and disabled whilst in the service of the United States; Therefore,</p>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That each of the officers, non-commissioned<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To invalid pensioners.</p></sidenote> officers, and soldiers, who were so wounded and disabled, and who are now placed on the books in the office of the secretary for the department of war, as a pensioner, or to be so placed in conformity to any law of this Congress, shall receive from the register of the treasury, who is hereby required to grant the same, a certificate, to be liquidated and settled in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct, for a sum equal to the pension annually due to him, to commence from the time he became entitled thereto, or from the time to which the same had been paid, as the case may be, which shall be ascertained and certified by the said secretary for the department of war, and which annuity shall be liquidated to the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, from which day the United States have assumed the payment of the pensions certified by the several states. And in case of the death of any person so entitled, the certificate shall pass to his heirs or legal representative or representatives.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the widow or orphan of each<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To widows and orphans of officers and soldiers.</p></sidenote> officer, non-commissioned officer, or soldier, who was killed or died whilst in the service of the United States, and who is now placed on the books in the office of the said secretary, as entitled to a pension, by virtue of any act of the said late Congress, or any law of this Congress, and for whom provision has not been made by any state, and to whom any arrears of such pension are due, and which have arisen prior to the said fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, shall receive a certificate therefor in like manner, and on the same principles, as certificates are by this act directed to be given to officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers, who were wounded or disabled as aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1790-08-11">August 11, 1790</date>.
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<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>3</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 5</citableAs>
<dc:date>1790-08-02</dc:date>
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<preface>
<docNumber class="centered italic">Resolution No. 3</docNumber>
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<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, </i></resolvingClause>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1790-08-02">Aug. 2, 1790</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the clerks in the office<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of clerks.</p></sidenote> of the commissioner of army accounts are entitled to receive for their services a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be paid in the same manner, and at the same rate, as the salary allowed to the clerks in the Department of Treasury; and that the auditor and comptroller be authorized to adjust the accounts of the clerks in the said office, upon the same principles as those of the treasury department, agreeably to the appropriation by law.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1790-08-02">August 2, 1790</date>.
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<congress>2</congress>
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<congress>2</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1791</dc:date>
<dc:date>1792</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SECOND CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of October,</i> 1791, <i>and ended on the eighth day of May,</i> 1792.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">George Washington</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John Adams</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Richard Henry Lee</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 21st day of April; <inline class="smallCaps">Jonathan Trumbull</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. II: for the relief of David Cook and Thomas Campbell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>II</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 6</citableAs>
<dc:date>1791-12-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Cook and Thomas Campbell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1791-12-16">Dec. 16, 1791</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">David Cook allowed a pension.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That David Cook, a captain of artillery in the late war, and who, being shot through the body at the battle of Monmouth, is rendered incapable to obtain his livelihood by labor, shall be placed on the pension list of the United States, and shall be entitled to one-third of his monthly pay, as a captain of artillery: Provided, That he return into the treasury-office, a sum equivalent to two-thirds of his commutation of half pay, being the proportion of his pension to the amount of his commutation.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Thos. Campbell allowed a pension.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Thomas Campbell be placed on the pension list, and that the half pay of a captain of infantry be allowed to the said Thomas Campbell, who has been so injured by repeated wounds in the service of his country, that he is unable to support himself by labor: Provided, That he return into the treasury office, a sum equivalent to the whole of his commutation of half pay.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1791-12-16">December 16, 1791</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of certain Widows, Orphans, Invalids, and other persons.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 6</citableAs>
<dc:date>1792-03-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>2</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of certain Widows, Orphans, Invalids, and other persons.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1792-03-27">March 27, 1792</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Comptroller of the Treasury adjust the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Comptroller to adjust the claims of certain widows and orphans for seven years’ half-pay, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>claims of the widows and orphans respectively, as the case may be, of the late Colonel Owen Roberts, Captain William White, Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Elliott, Major Samuel Wise, Major Benjamin Huger, Lieutenant John Bush, and Major Charles Motte, deceased, all of whom were killed or died in the service of the United States, for the seven years half pay stipulated by the resolve of Congress of the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; and that the Register of the Treasury do issue his certificates accordingly.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Timothy Mix and Abel Turney placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the department of war be, and he hereby is required to place on the invalid list, Timothy Mix, disabled in the late war, by the loss of his right hand, while in the service of the United States, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three. That the said Secretary place on the invalid
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/6" renderingPosition="bottom">6</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 19. 1792.</centerRunningHead>
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list, Abel Turney, mariner, disabled while in the service of the United States, at the rate of one dollar per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the arrears of the said pensions<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 23, 1792, ch. 11.</p></sidenote> be paid as the laws direct in similar cases.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the comptroller of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Comptroller to adjust the account—</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of Joseph Pannil.</p></sidenote> be, and he hereby is required to adjust the accounts of Joseph Pannil, a lieutenant-colonel in the service of the United States, as a deranged officer, upon the principles of the act of the late Congress, of the third of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and to allow him the usual commutation of the half pay for life of a lieutenant colonel, and that the register of the treasury be, and he hereby is required to grant a certificate for the amount of the balance due to him.. That the comptroller adjust the account of the late brigadier-general De Haas,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of the late Brig. Gen. De Haas.</p></sidenote> admitting to the credit of the said account, such sums as by evidence shall appear to have been advanced for the public service, and which have been charged by the United States to the officers who have received the same for the public service, and that the said register do grant a certificate for the balance due on such settlement. That the said comptroller adjust the account of Thomas M’lntire, a captain in the service<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of Thomas M’Intire.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register to issue certificates.</p></sidenote> of the United States, during the late war, and allow him the usual commutation of the half pay for life of a captain, and that the said register grant a certificate for the amount thereof accordingly.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the comptroller of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Comptroller to adjust the account of—</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Francis Suzor Debevere.</p></sidenote> be, and he hereby is required to adjust the account of Francis Suzor Debevere, a surgeon’s mate in the service of the United States during the late war, and who remained in captivity to the end thereof, and that the register of the treasury be, and he hereby is required to grant a certificate for the amount which shall be found due for the services of the said Francis Suzor Debevere. That the said comptroller adjust the account of Robert King, as a lieutenant, deranged, upon the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Robert King.</p></sidenote> principles of the act of the late Congress, passed the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, and that the said register grant a certificate accordingly. That the comptroller<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lemuel Sherman.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register to grant certificates.</p></sidenote> adjust the account of Lemuel Sherman, as a sailing-master of a galley on Lake Champlain, and as such taken prisoner; and that the said register grant a certificate accordingly.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there be granted to Nicholas<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant to N. F. Westfall.</p></sidenote> Ferdinand Westfall, who left the British service and joined the army of the United States, during the late war, one hundred acres of unappropriated land in the western territory of the United States, free of all charges, and also the sum of three hundred and thirty-six dollars, out of any money appropriated to the contingent charges of government.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1792-03-27">March 27, 1792</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for ascertaining the bounds of a tract of land purchased by John Cleves Symmes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 7</citableAs>
<dc:date>1792-04-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>2</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for ascertaining the bounds of a tract of land purchased by John Cleves Symmes.</i><ref class="footnoteRef" idref="fn000007">(<i>a</i>)</ref><footnote id="fn000007"><num>(<i>a</i>)</num> For the act authorizing the grant or conveyance of certain lands to John Cleves Symmes, see vol. 1, Public Acts, page 266.</footnote></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1792-04-12">April 12, 1792</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the president of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized, at the request of John Cleves Symmes, or his<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President authorized to alter the contract with John C. Symmes, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> agent or agents, to alter the contract, made between the late board of treasury and the said John Cleves Symmes, for the sale of a tract of land of one million of acres, in such manner that the said tract may extend from the mouth of the Great Miami to the mouth of the Little Miami, and be bounded by the river Ohio on the south, by the Great Miami on the west, by the Little Miami on the east, and by a parallel
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/8">8</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 21, 25. 1792.</centerRunningHead>
of latitude on the north, extending from the Great Miami to the Little Miami, so as to comprehend the proposed quantity of one million of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not to interfere with Indian boundary, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>acres: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the northern limits of the said tract shall not interfere with the boundary line established by the treaty of Fort Harmar, between the United States and the Indian nations;</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reservation of certain lands.</p></sidenote> that the President reserve to the United States such lands, at and near Fort Washington, as he may think necessary for the accommodation of a garrison at that fort.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1792-04-12">April 12, 1792</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXI: to compensate the corporation of trustees of the public grammar school and academy of Wilmington, in the state of Delaware, for the occupation of, and damages done to, the said school, during the late war.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 8</citableAs>
<dc:date>1792-04-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>2</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to compensate the corporation of trustees of the public grammar school and academy of Wilmington, in the state of Delaware, for the occupation of, and damages done to, the said school, during the late war.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1792-04-13">April 13, 1792</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to public grammar school and academy at Wilmington.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, as an indemnification to the corporation of trustees of the public grammar school and academy of Wilmington, in the state of Delaware, for the use and occupation of the said school, and the damages done to the same by the troops of the United States, during the late war, there be granted to the said corporation of trustees a reasonable compensation, payable out of any unappropriated money in the treasury of the United States, which compensation shall be ascertained by the accounting officers of the treasury.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1792-04-13">April 13, 1792</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXV: authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of Associates.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 8</citableAs>
<dc:date>1792-04-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>2</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of Associates.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1792-04-21">April 21, 1792</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain tract of land contracted for in 1787.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 5, 1792, ch. 30.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1793, ch. 34.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a certain contract expressed in an indenture executed on the twenty-seventh day of October, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, between the then board of treasury for the United States of America, of the one part, and Manasseh Cutler, and Winthrop Sergeant, as agents for the directors of the Ohio Company of Associates, of the other part, so far as the same respects the following described tract of land; that is to say: “ Beginning at a station where the western boundary line of the seventh range of townships, laid out by the authority of the United States in Congress assembled, intersects the River Ohio; thence extending along that river southwesterly to a place where the western boundary line of the fifteenth range of townships, when laid out agreeably to the land ordinance passed the twentieth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, would touch the said river; thence running northerly on the said western bounds of the said fifteenth range of townships, till a line drawn due east to the western boundary line of the said seventh range of townships, will comprehend, with the other lines of this tract, seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of land, besides the several lots and parcels of land in the said contract reserved or appropriated to particular purposes; thence running east to the western boundary line of the said seventh range of townships, and thence along the said line to the place of beginning,” be and the same is hereby confirmed: And that the President <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confirmed, and President U. S. to grant letters patent in the name of Rufus Putnam, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to issue letters patent in the name and under the seal of the United States, thereby granting and conveying to Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green, and to their heirs and assigns, in fee simple, the said described tract of land, with the reservations in the said indenture expressed, in trust for the persons composing the said Ohio Company of Associates, according to their several rights and interests, and for their heirs and assigns, as tenants in common.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To grant one other tract to</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the President be, and he hereby is, further authorized and empowered, by letters patent as afore-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 26. 1792.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/9">9</page>
said, to grant and convey to the said Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rufus Putnam, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green, and to their heirs and assigns, in trust, for the uses above expressed, one other tract of two hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and eighty-five acres of land: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, Robert Oliver, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">On what conditions.</p></sidenote> Griffin Green, or either of them, shall deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury, within six months, warrants which issued for army bounty-rights sufficient for that purpose, according to the provision of a resolve of Congress of the twenty-third day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the President be, and he<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To grant one other tract to Rufus Putnam, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> hereby is, further authorized and empowered, by letters patent as aforesaid, to grant and convey to the said Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green, and to their heirs and assigns, in fee simple, in trust for the uses above expressed, a farther quantity of one hundred thousand acres of land: <proviso><i>Provided always, nevertheless,</i> That<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">On an express condition.</p></sidenote> the said grant of one hundred thousand acres shall be made on the express condition of becoming void, for such part thereof as the said company shall not have, within five years from the passing of this act, conveyed in fee simple, as a bounty and free of expense, in tracts of one hundred acres, to each male person, not less than eighteen years of age, being an actual settler at the time of such conveyance.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said quantities of two<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Where to be located.</p></sidenote> hundred and fourteen thousand, two hundred and eighty-five acres, and of one hundred thousand acres, shall be located within the limits of the tract of one million, five hundred thousand acres of land, described in the indenture aforesaid, and adjoining to the tract of land described in the first section of this act, and in such form as the President in the letters patent shall prescribe for that purpose.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1792-04-21">April 21, 1792</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: to indemnify the Estate of the late Major General Nathaniel Green, for a certain bond entered into by him during the late war.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 9</citableAs>
<dc:date>1792-04-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>2</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to indemnify the Estate of the late Major General Nathaniel Green, for a certain bond entered into by him during the late war.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1792-04-27">April 27, 1792</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the United States shall and will indemnify the estate of the late General Green, for the sum of eight thousand six<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estate of the late Gen. Green indemnified for amount of a certain bond, on certain conditions.</p></sidenote> hundred and eighty-eight pounds six shillings sterling money, being the amount due on the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, on a certain bond executed on Messieurs Newcomen and Collet, by the said General Green, as surety for John Banks and Company, and the interest thereon; excepting therefrom a certain conditional bond given in June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, for about one thousand six hundred pounds sterling (be the same more or less), being part of the aforesaid sum of eight thousand six hundred and eighty-eight pounds six shillings, which was to be paid only in case the said General Green should recover from the said Banks, or Banks and Company, a sum sufficient for his indemnity; <proviso><i>Provided</i> it shall appear upon due investigation, by the officers of the Treasury, that the said General Green, in his life-time, or his executors, since his decease, have not been already indemnified, or compensated for the said sum of eight thousand six hundred and eighty-eight pounds six shillings, except as aforesaid: And also provided, That the said executors shall account for a sum being about two thousand pounds sterling (be the same more or less), recovered of John Ferrie, one of the partners of the said Banks and Company, by the said executors, to be in part of the indemnification aforesaid; and also shall make over to the Comptroller of the Treasury and his successors, for the United States, all mortgages, bonds, covenants, or other counter-securities whatsoever, now due, which were obtained by the said General Green, in his life-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/10">10</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 43, 44. 1792.</centerRunningHead>
time, from the said Banks and Company, on account of his being surety for them as aforesaid, to be sued for in the name of the said executors <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty of the officers of the Treasury herein.</p></sidenote>for the use of the United States. And the officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to liquidate and settle the sum due to the estate of the said General Green, to indemnify the same, as aforesaid, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, and to pay the same, out of the Treasury of the United States, to the said executors, to be accounted for by them, as part of the said estate.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1792-04-27">April 27, 1792</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: to compensate the services of the late Colonel George Gibson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 10</citableAs>
<dc:date>1792-05-08</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to compensate the services of the late Colonel George Gibson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1792-05-08">May 8, 1792</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed and paid to the executors <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money to be paid to the heirs of the late Col. G. Gibson.</p></sidenote>or administrators of the late Colonel George Gibson, or to their attorney or attorneys legally appointed and authorized to receive the same for the use and benefit of his heirs, the sum of one thousand dollars for extraordinary services by him rendered to the United States during the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1792-05-08">May 8, 1792</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: concerning the Claim of John Brown Cutting against the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1792-05-08</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning the Claim of John Brown Cutting against the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1792-05-08">May 8, 1792</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in consideration of certain expenditures on <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money to be paid to John B. Cutting.</p></sidenote>behalf of the United States, made by John Brown Cutting, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, there be advanced and paid to the said John Brown Cutting, the sum of two thousand dollars, out of any public money not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sec. of State to report on his entire claim against the U.S.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of State be authorized to inquire into the entire claim of the said John Brown Cutting against the United States, and upon receipt of the proofs and exhibits in support thereof, to ascertain what sum shall thereupon appear to be due to or from him, in account with the United States, including the advance hereby directed, and to report the same to the next session of Congress.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1792-05-08">May 8, 1792</date>.
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<congress>2</congress>
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<dc:date>1792</dc:date>
<dc:date>1793</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SECOND CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Monday, the fifth day of November,</i> 1792, <i>and ended the second day of March,</i> 1793.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">George Washington</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John Adams</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">John Langdon</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the second of March, 1793; <inline class="smallCaps">Jonathan Trumbull</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. III: to provide for the allowance of interest on the sum ordered to be paid by the resolve of Congress, of the twenty-eighth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, as an indemnity to the persons therein named.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>III</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1793-01-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to provide for the allowance of interest on the sum ordered to be paid by the resolve of Congress, of the twenty-eighth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, as an indemnity to the persons therein named.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1793-01-14">Jan. 14, 1793</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That lawful interest,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest allowed on 200 dols. from the 16th May, 1776, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> from the sixteenth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, shall be allowed on the sum of two hundred dollars, ordered to be paid to Return Jonathan Meigs, and the legal representative of Christopher Greene, deceased, by a resolve of the United States in Congress assembled, of the twenty-eighth day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1793-01-14">January 14, 1793</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XII: to authorize the comptroller of the treasury to settle the account of Thomas Wish art, late a lieutenant in the army of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 11</citableAs>
<dc:date>1793-02-22</dc:date>
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<congress>2</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the comptroller of the treasury to settle the account of Thomas Wish art, late a lieutenant in the army of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1793-02-22">Feb. 22, 1793</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the comptroller of the treasury be, and is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to Thomas Wishart.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized to adjust and settle the account of Thomas Wishart, late a lieutenant in the army of the United States, and to allow him, in addition to the pay to which he may be entitled as an officer deranged, under the acts of Congress of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, the pay of a lieutenant, from the fifteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, to the fifteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1793-02-22">February 22, 1793</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIII: to authorize the adjustment of a claim of Joseph Henderson against the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 11</citableAs>
<dc:date>1793-02-22</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>2</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the adjustment of a claim of Joseph Henderson against the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1793-02-22">Feb. 22, 1793</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed to Joseph Henderson, a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to Joseph Henderson.</p></sidenote> yearly salary of one hundred dollars, for his services as paymaster to the navy-board for the eastern department, from the tenth day of August one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, to the tenth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, being four years; and that the officers of the treasury be authorized to pass the same to his credit, and to settle his account accordingly.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1793-02-22">February 22, 1793</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIV: making provision for the persons therein mentioned.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 12</citableAs>
<dc:date>1793-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>2</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/12">12</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 14, 28, 29, 32. 1793.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">making provision for the persons therein mentioned.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1793-02-27">Feb. 27, 1793</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<preamble>
<recital class="indent1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas Colonel John Harding, and Major Alexander Trueman, while employed in carrying messages of peace to the hostile Indians, were killed by the said Indians:</recital>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
</preamble>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to the widows and orphans of John Harding and Alex. Trueman.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That four hundred and fifty dollars per annum, for seven years, be allowed to the widow and orphan children of the said Colonel John Harding, and the sum of three hundred dollars per annum, for the same term of seven years, to the orphan children of the said Major Alexander Trueman, to commence on the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and to be paid half-yearly, at the treasury, to the said widow, and to the guardians of the said orphan children, or to their legal attorneys.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1793-02-27">February 27, 1793</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: providing an annual allowance for the education of Hugh Mercer.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 12</citableAs>
<dc:date>1793-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>2</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">providing an annual allowance for the education of Hugh Mercer.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1793-03-02">March 2, 1793</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for education of Hugh Mercer.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the annual allowance to be made for the education of Hugh Mercer, son of the late General Mercer, pursuant to the resolution of the former Congress of the date of the eighth of April one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, shall be four hundred dollars from the time for which he has been last paid until his education shall be finished, or he shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years. And <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Comptroller to settle his account.</p></sidenote>that the comptroller of the treasury be authorized to revise and settle the account of the said Hugh Mercer for his pension to the present time; the balance of which, as also the annual allowances aforesaid, as they shall become due, shall be paid to his guardian at the treasury.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1793-03-02">March 2, 1793</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of Elijah Bostwick.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 12</citableAs>
<dc:date>1793-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>2</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elijah Bostwick.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1793-03-02">March 2, 1793</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant to indemnify Elijah Bostwick.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That as an indemnification, and to reimburse Elijah Bostwick, for certain costs and expenditures he was put to in defending a prosecution against him on contracts which he made as an agent of the deputy commissary-general of purchases in the northern department, in the purchase of cattle for the use of the continental army, at a time, during the late war, when they were in great want of provisions, there be granted to him one hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-two cents, payable out of any unappropriated money in the treasury of the United States.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1793-03-02">March 2, 1793</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of Simeon Thayer.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 12</citableAs>
<dc:date>1793-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>2</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Simeon Thayer.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1793-03-02">March 2, 1793</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">S. Thayer to be placed on pension-list, on returning his commutation of half-pay.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Simeon Thayer, late a major in the army of the United States, who was disabled at the battle of Monmouth, be placed on the pension-list of the United States, and that he be allowed the half pay of a major, from the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one: <proviso><i>Provided</i> he return into the treasury-office a sum equivalent to the whole of his commutation of half pay.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1793-03-02">March 2, 1793</date>.
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<congress>3</congress>
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<congress>3</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1793</dc:date>
<dc:date>1794</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRD CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second day of December,</i> 1793, <i>and ended on the ninth day of June,</i> 1794.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">George Washington</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John Adams</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Ralph Izard</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore from June 4th, 1794; <inline class="smallCaps">Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg</inline>, Speaker of  the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. II: providing for the relief of such of the inhabitants of Saint Domingo, resident within the United States, as may be found in want of support.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>II</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 13</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-02-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">providing for the relief of such of the inhabitants of Saint Domingo, resident within the United States, as may be found in want of support.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-02-12">Feb. 12, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a sum not exceeding<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for support of inhabitants of St. Domingo.</p></sidenote> fifteen thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys which may be in the Treasury, arising from foreign loans, for the support of such of the inhabitants of Saint Domingo, resident within the United States, as shall be found in want of such support.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That in order to secure the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be applied under direction of the President.</p></sidenote> due application of the moneys aforesaid, the same shall be placed under the direction of the President of the United States: and it shall be lawful for him to draw the said moneys, or any part thereof, from the treasury of the United States, and to cause the distribution thereof to be made, for the relief of the persons aforesaid, in such manner, and by the hands of such persons, as shall, in the opinion of the President, appear most conducive to the humane purposes of this act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a regular statement and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account of expenditure thereof lodged in Treasury.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">How and to whom charged.</p></sidenote> account be kept of the moneys so expended, and being lodged in the proper office of the treasury department, the amount thereof shall be provisionally charged to the debit of the French Republic, subject to such future arrangements as shall be made thereon, between the government of the United States and the said Republic. <proviso><i>Provided however</i>, that unless the French Republic, or its minister or other authorized agent, shall within six months from the passing of this act, expressly authorize a charge to the debit of the said Republic of the said supplies which shall have been, or may be made under this act, all further supplies under the same, shall, from and after the expiration of the said term of six months, be discontinued.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-02-12">February 12, 1794</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. III: for the relief of Thomas Jenkins and Sons.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>III</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 13</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-02-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Jenkins and Sons.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-02-19">Feb. 19, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for the collector for the district of New York, to remit to Thomas Jenkins and Sons,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties remitted.</p></sidenote> owners of the ship American Hero, the duties and imposts of tonnage,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/13" renderingPosition="bottom">13</page>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/14">14</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 13, 15, 19, 20. 1794.</centerRunningHead>
which may be incurred in consequence of the incompetent or invalid register of the said ship: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> They shall obtain, within one hundred and twenty days, a new register for the said ship, in the manner prescribed by law.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-02-19">February 19, 1794</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: allowing to Major General La Fayette his pay and emoluments while in the service of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 14</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-03-27</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>3</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">allowing to Major General La Fayette his pay and emoluments while in the service of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-03-27">March 27, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to General La Fayette.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed to Major General La Fayette the sum of twenty-four thousand four hundred and twenty-four dollars, being the amount of the pay and emoluments of a major general during the time he was in the service of the United States, and that the same be paid out of any moneys which may be in the treasury and not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-03-27">March 27, 1794</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XV: for the relief of Stephen Paranque.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 14</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-04-02</dc:date>
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<congress>3</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Stephen Paranque.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-04-02">April 2, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector for the district of New York <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector of New York to receive certain bonds from Stephen Paranque.</p></sidenote>be, and is hereby authorized and required to take and receive from Stephen Paranque, bonds and security for all such duties, as may or shall be due and owing from the said Stephen Paranque and others concerned on account of entering and unloading the ship Port Louis of Marseilles, now lying in the port of New York; giving the said Stephen Paranque and others, a credit of six, nine, and twelve months, to be computed from the time of unloading, instead of the time of the importation of the cargo, as directed by the eighth section of an act, intituled “An act for raising a further sum of money for the protection<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 2, 1792, ch. 27.</p></sidenote> of the frontiers, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” passed the second day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-04-02">April 2, 1794</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Leffert Lefferts and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 14</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-04-18</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>3</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Leffert Lefferts and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-04-18">April 18, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for the collector <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector of New York to remit certain duties.</p></sidenote>for the district of New York, to remit to Leffert Lefferts, Thomas Carpenter, Jeremiah Condy, and William Condy, owners of the brigantine called Susan and Polly, the duties and imposts of tonnage, which may be incurred in consequence of the incompetent or invalid register of the said brigantine: Provided they shall obtain, within one hundred and twenty days, a new register for the said brigantine, in the manner prescribed by law.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-04-18">April 18, 1794</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: to authorize Ephraim Kimberly to locate the land warrant issued to him for services in the late American army.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 14</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-04-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>3</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize Ephraim Kimberly to locate the land warrant issued to him for services in the late American army.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-04-18">April 18, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That permission be, and the same is hereby granted<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ephraim Kimberly permitted to locate certain land-warrant.</p></sidenote> to Ephraim Kimberly, now resident on the west bank of the Ohio, near Indian Short-creek, within the territory north-west of the Ohio, to locate the land warrant issued to the said Kimberly, for three hundred acres of land, for his services in the late American army, so as to include the land where he now resides, or as convenient as may be thereto<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Under what restrictions.</p></sidenote>: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> he doth not interfere with any existing claim, location or survey: And upon the said Kimberly’s procuring the said land to be surveyed, in such way and manner as shall be pointed out and directed by the President of the United States, and returning his said warrant into the Treasury of the United States, the President of the United States shall be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered to issue
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 22, 26, 29, 30. 1794.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/15">15</page>
letters-patent in the name, and under the seal of the United States, thereby granting and conveying to the said Ephraim Kimberly, the three hundred acres of land that shall be so located and surveyed.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-04-18">April 18, 1794</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXII: allowing Lieutenant-Colonel Tousard an equivalent for his pension for life.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 15</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-04-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>3</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">allowing Lieutenant-Colonel Tousard an equivalent for his pension for life.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-04-30">April 30, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed to Lieutenant-Colonel Tousard three thousand six hundred dollars, in full discharge of his pension<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to Lt.-Col. Tousard.</p></sidenote> of three hundred and sixty dollars for life.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-04-30">April 30, 1794</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: for the remission of the duties on eleven hogsheads of Coffee which have been destroyed by fire.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 15</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-05-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>3</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the remission of the duties on eleven hogsheads of Coffee which have been destroyed by fire.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-05-09">May 9, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<preamble>
<recital class="indent1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas, eleven hogsheads of coffee were imported in the brig Jason from Cape Francois, by two French citizens, to the port of Norfolk and Portsmouth, in November last, and the duties thereon secured to be paid by Messieurs Elliott and Purviance of the same port: And whereas, the said eleven hogsheads of coffee were afterwards on account of the same importers shipped to the port of Baltimore, and there, in the night of the seventh day of January last, destroyed by fire:</recital>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it therefore enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
</preamble>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the duties paid or payable to the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remission of certain duties to Messrs. Elliott &amp; Purviance.</p></sidenote> United States, on the same eleven hogsheads of coffee, be and the same are hereby remitted; and it shall be the duty of the collector of the port of Norfolk and Portsmouth, to refund the same duties if they have been received.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-05-09">May 9, 1794</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: providing for the payment of certain expenses incurred by Fulwar Skipwith, on public account.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 15</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>3</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">providing for the payment of certain expenses incurred by Fulwar Skipwith, on public account.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-05-19">May 19, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be authorized and requested to direct the payment, out of the fund provided<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of certain expenses incurred by F. Skipwith.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be ascertained by treasury departm’t.</p></sidenote> for the intercourse with foreign nations, of all just and reasonable expenses incurred by Fulwar Skipwith, in relieving the wants, and facilitating the return of the seamen belonging to the vessels of the said states, lately taken or condemned in the British West-India islands, under orders from the king of Great Britain; the said expenses having first been ascertained by the accounting officers of the treasury department, who are hereby authorized to liquidate the same.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-05-19">May 19, 1794</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of Reuben Smith and Nathan Strong.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 15</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>3</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Reuben Smith and Nathan Strong.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-05-19">May 19, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for the collector for the district of New York, to remit to Reuben Smith and Nathan<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector of New York to remit certain duties.</p></sidenote> Strong, owners of the ship James of New York, or to any other person interested therein, the duties and imposts of tonnage, which may be incurred, in consequence of the incompetent or invalid register of the said ship: Provided, they shall obtain, within one hundred and twenty<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">On what condition.</p></sidenote> days, a new register for the said ship, in the manner prescribed by law.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-05-19">May 19, 1794</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: to compensate Arthur St. Clair.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 16</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>3</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/16">16</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 38, 39, 43. 1794.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to compensate Arthur St. Clair.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-05-31">May 31, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury, in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to A. St. Clair in settlement of his accounts.</p></sidenote>the settlement of the accounts of Arthur St. Clair, allow him for his expenses while going from New York to Fort Pitt, and till his return to New York, between November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, at the rate of five dollars per diem. That he be further allowed, at the rate of five dollars per day, from the tenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, to the third day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, being the time he was employed in the business of Indian treaties, and till the delivery of the said treaties to the President of the United States. That he be allowed interest on the balance which shall be found due to him. That he be credited the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars advanced by him to Major Hamtramck, on public account, and that Major Hamtramck be chargeable therewith.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-05-31">May 31, 1794</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: to authorize the settlement of the account of Lewis Dubois for his services in the late army of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1794-06-04</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the settlement of the account of Lewis Dubois for his services in the late army of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-06-04">June 4, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Comptroller of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lewis Dubois allowed emoluments of deranged colonel in the late army.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register to grant certificate.</p></sidenote>hereby is required to adjust the accounts of Lewis Dubois, as a colonel deranged in the line of the late army of the United States, upon the principles of the act of the late Congress, of the third of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and to allow him the usual commutation of half pay, for life, of a colonel: And that the Register of the Treasury be, and he hereby is required to grant a certificate for the amount of the balance due to him.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-06-04">June 4, 1794</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: to extend, the term of credit for teas imported in the ship Argonaut; and to permit the export of goods saved out of the wreck of the snow Freelove.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to extend, the term of credit for teas imported in the ship Argonaut; and to permit the export of goods saved out of the wreck of the snow Freelove.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-06-04">June 4, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The collector of Pennsylvania to take bond, &amp;c. for teas imported in the ship Argonaut, or receive deposit, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the district of Pennsylvania be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to take bond, with sufficient surety, for the payment of the duties accruing on teas, imported into the said district in the ship Argonaut, Victor Chabert, commander, from China, payable on the fifteenth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, or to receive, on deposit, such of the said teas as may be tendered, for that purpose, as security for the said duties.</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The collector to permit the exportation of the teas under like regulations as other teas, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said collector be authorized to permit the said teas, or any part thereof, to be exported, under the like regulations as other teas are permitted to be exported, at any time before the fifteenth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The collector to permit the exportation of sugars, &amp;c. saved out of the snow Freelove, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the collector aforesaid be authorized and directed to permit the exportation of any sugars, coffee, cocoa, or molasses, saved out of the snow Freelove, cast away on Cape Hatteras, as may be required by the owners thereof, under the like regulations and provisions as goods of a like kind are permitted to be exported, and to allow the drawbacks thereon, as if the same had been directly imported into the district of Pennsylvania.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-06-04">June 4, 1794</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of John Robbe.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 17</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-06-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 44, 53, 56, 60. 1794.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/17">17</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Robbe.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-06-04">June 4, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the department of war be, and he hereby is required to place on the invalid list, John Robbe,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sec. of War to place John Robbe on pension list.</p></sidenote> wounded in the late war while in the service of the United States, at the rate of two dollars and a half per month, to commence on the twenty-first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the arrears of the said pension<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid agreeably to law.</p></sidenote> be paid as the laws direct in similar cases.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-06-04">June 4, 1794</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the remission of the duties on certain distilled spirits destroyed by fire.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 17</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-06-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>3</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the remission of the duties on certain distilled spirits destroyed by fire.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-06-07">June 7, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<preamble>
<recital class="indent1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas, Jabez Rogers, junior, who had erected large works at Middlebury, in the State of Vermont, for distilling spirits from the produce of the country, has had the same twice destroyed by fire, with a quantity of spirits therein, on which, by law, duties had become payable to the United States: And whereas, considering the equity of the case, said duties ought to be remitted; therefore,</recital>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
</preamble>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the duties payable to the United States on<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remission of certain duties to Jabez Rogers.</p></sidenote> all such distilled spirits, as shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the supervisor of the district of Vermont, to have been destroyed by fire in the distilleries lately burnt at Middlebury in the State of Vermont, be and are hereby remitted.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-06-07">June 7, 1794</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVI: to make provision for the window and orphan children of Robert Forsyth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 17</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-06-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>3</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to make provision for the window and orphan children of Robert Forsyth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-06-07">June 7, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of two thousand dollars be allowed<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to the widow and orphans of Robert Forsyth.</p></sidenote> to the widow of Robert Forsyth, late marshal of the district of Georgia, for the use of herself and the children of the said Robert Forsyth, to be paid in equal proportions, out of any moneys in the treasury of the United States not heretofore appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-06-07">June 7, 1794</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of Nicholas Rieb.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 17</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-06-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>3</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nicholas Rieb.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-06-07">June 7, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accountant of the war department be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accountant in War department to settle account of Peter Rieb.</p></sidenote> directed to adjust and settle the account of Peter Rieb, minor, son to Nicholas Rieb, late an artificer in Colonel Benjamin Flowers’ regiment in the service of the United States, from the first of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty, being the time of his enlistment, until the twenty-second day of August, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, when he left the regiment and went on board a ship of war, with the approbation of the agent of the war office; on the same principles on which the accounts of those who served in the same corps were adjusted and settled.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1794-06-07">June 7, 1794</date>.
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<congress>3</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1794</dc:date>
<dc:date>1795</dc:date>
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<privateLaws>
<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRD CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the third day of November,</i> 1794, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1795.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">George Washington</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John Adams</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Henry Tazewell</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore from the 25th of February, 1795; <inline class="smallCaps">Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. V: to authorize the officers of the Treasury to audit and pass the account of the late Edward Blanchard, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 18</citableAs>
<dc:date>1794-12-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>3</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the officers of the Treasury to audit and pass the account of the late Edward Blanchard, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1794-12-18">Dec. 18, 1794</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury officers to audit and pass account of the late Edward Blanchard.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby authorized to audit and pass the account of the late Edward Blanchard, deceased, according to the course of Treasury settlement.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1974-12-18">December 18, 1794</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Peter Covenhoven.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 18</citableAs>
<dc:date>1795-01-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>3</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Covenhoven.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1795-01-01">Jan. 1, 1795</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed and paid to Peter Covenhoven,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to Peter Covenhoven.</p></sidenote> late a serjeant in the militia, the sum of four hundred and eight dollars and twenty-six cents, in full compensation of certain costs and expenditures attending the cure of a wound he received in an action near Fort Schuyler, during the late war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1795-01-01">January 1, 1795</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIV: for the remission of the tonnage duties on certain French vessels.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 18</citableAs>
<dc:date>1795-01-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>3</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the remission of the tonnage duties on certain French vessels.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1795-01-28">Jan. 28, 1795</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the duties on the tonnage of sundry shallops <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain tonnage remitted.</p></sidenote>and small schooners, lately employed to convey to Boston a number of French citizens, late inhabitants of Saint Petre and Miquelon, from Halifax and Shelburne in Nova Scotia, where they had been sent prisoners by the British, during the present war, be, and the same are hereby, remitted.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1795-01-28">January 28, 1795</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XV: to authorize the settlement of the claim of Samuel Prioleau.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 19</citableAs>
<dc:date>1795-01-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>3</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the settlement of the claim of Samuel Prioleau.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1795-01-28">Jan. 28, 1795</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of Samuel Prioleau to be settled at the treasury.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby authorized to adjust and settle the claim of Samuel Prioleau for property taken from him at Charlestown for the use of the United States: Provided, That the said Prioleau
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/18" renderingPosition="bottom">18</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 16, 22, 29, 32. 1795.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/19">19</page>
shall adduce proof to the satisfaction of the accounting officers aforesaid, of the contract on the part of the United States, to pay for the same, and likewise of the value of the property applied to public use.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1795-01-28">January 28, 1795</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVI: for the relief of Epaphras Jones and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 19</citableAs>
<dc:date>1795-01-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Epaphras Jones and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1795-01-28">Jan. 28, 1795</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for the collector for the district of New York, to remit to Epaphras Jones and others,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain tonnage duties remitted to Epaphras Jones and others.</p></sidenote> the sum of two hundred and four dollars and forty-seven cents, being the amount of additional impost and tonnage duties incurred by reason of the incompetent register of the brigantine Peru: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> a register shall be obtained for the said brigantine, within one hundred and twenty days, in the manner prescribed by law.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1795-01-28">January 28, 1795</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXII: to authorize the allowance of drawback on part of the cargo of the ship Enterprize.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 19</citableAs>
<dc:date>1795-02-13</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the allowance of drawback on part of the cargo of the ship Enterprize.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1795-02-13">Feb. 13, 1795</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the district of Pennsylvania be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to grant permits for the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The collector of Pennsylvania to grant permits for exportation of part of cargo of ship Enterprise, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> exportation of that part of the cargo of the ship Enterprize, Herbert Jones, commander, which has been imported in the said ship, and in the schooner Delight, John Cannon, commander, from Newbern, in North Carolina, under the same regulations and restrictions, as if the same had been imported into the district of Pennsylvania, from any foreign port or place.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the collector of the district<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The collector of Newbern to grant a debenture, &amp;c.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Jan. 29, 1795, ch. 18.</p></sidenote> of Newbern be authorized to grant a debenture, or debentures, for the drawback of the said duties, in like manner, and under the same regulations, as are provided by the act entitled “An act making further provision in cases of drawbacks,” for goods, wares, and merchandise, exported from the United States after the last day of March next.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1795-02-13">February 13, 1795</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: enabling George Gibbs to obtain a drawback of duties on certain exported wines.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 19</citableAs>
<dc:date>1795-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">enabling George Gibbs to obtain a drawback of duties on certain exported wines.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1795-02-25">Feb. 25, 1795</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector for the port of Newport, in Rhode Island, be, and he hereby is authorized to allow George Gibbs,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">G. Gibbs allowed the legal drawback.</p></sidenote> the legal drawback of duties on certain wines by him exported to Calcutta, in the ship Warren, some time in the month of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> the said George Gibbs<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall produce all the other testimony (excepting the oath of the mate of the said ship) which is required by the fifty-seventh section of the act<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 35.</p></sidenote> “to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties imposed by law on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of ships or vessels.”</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1795-02-25">February 25, 1795</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: authorizing the payment of four thousand dollars for the use of the daughters of the late Count de Grasse.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 19</citableAs>
<dc:date>1795-02-27</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the payment of four thousand dollars for the use of the daughters of the late Count de Grasse.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1795-02-27">Feb. 27, 1795</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<preamble>
<recital class="indent1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas the four daughters of the late Count de Grasse, now within the United States, have, by their memorial to Congress, represented that they are destitute of the means of support;</recital>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
</preamble>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in consideration of the extraordinary services of the late Count de Grasse, rendered the United States, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, on the special request of
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/20">20</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 33, 34, 38, 39. 1795.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$1000 to be paid to each of the four daughters of the late Count de Grasse.</p></sidenote>the commander-in-chief of their forces, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to cause to be paid, before the expiration of two years from the passing of this act, out of any moneys which may be in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, at such instalments, and through such agents, as he shall deem expedient, the sum of one thousand dollars each, for the use of the four daughters of the said late Count de Grasse; namely, Amelie de Grasse, Adelaide de Grasse, Melanie de Grasse, and Silvie de Grasse.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1795-02-27">February 27, 1795</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: to provide some present relief to the officers of government and other citizens who have suffered in their property by the insurgents in the western counties of Pennsylvania.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 20</citableAs>
<dc:date>1795-02-27</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>3</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to provide some present relief to the officers of government and other citizens who have suffered in their property by the insurgents in the western counties of Pennsylvania.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1795-02-27">Feb. 27, 1795</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for the present relief of certain persons.</p></sidenote>he is hereby authorized to draw out of the treasury of the United States, the sum of eight thousand five hundred dollars, to be applied by him to aid such of the officers of government and other citizens, who have (in consequence of their exertions in support of the laws) sustained losses in their property, by the actual destruction thereof, by the insurgents in the western counties of Pennsylvania, as, in his opinion, stand in need of immediate assistance, to be by them accounted for, in such manner as may hereafter be directed by law.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1795-02-27">February 27, 1795</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: act for the relief of Angus M’Lean.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 20</citableAs>
<dc:date>1795-02-27</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>3</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">act for the relief of Angus M’Lean.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1795-02-27">Feb. 27, 1795</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the officers of the treasury be, and they <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury to issue a certificate to Angus M’Lean.</p></sidenote>hereby are authorized and required to issue and deliver to the said Angus M’Lean, or his attorney duly authorized, a certificate or certificates for the amount of two hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty-three cents, bearing interest at six per cent, from the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, being for his services in the corps of sappers and miners during the late war.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1795-02-27">February 27, 1795</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of Robert Barton and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 20</citableAs>
<dc:date>1795-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>3</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Barton and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1795-03-02">March 2, 1795</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the district of Portland and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector, &amp;c. to receive oaths validating the certificates of enrolment of certain vessels.</p></sidenote>Falmouth be, and he is hereby authorized and required to receive from Robert Barton, and the other owners of the schooners Mary, Jane, Phoenix, Industry and Fanny, at any time within ninety days from the passing of this act, the oaths by law required for validating the certificates of enrolment by him granted for the said schooners; and that on the said oaths being received by the said collector, within the period aforesaid, the said certificates of enrolment shall have the same force and operation, and the said vessels shall be entitled to the same benefits, as if the said oaths had been received by the said collector within ninety days from the time of granting the said certificates of enrolment.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1795-03-02">March 2, 1795</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of William Seymour.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 20</citableAs>
<dc:date>1795-03-02</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>3</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Seymour.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1795-03-02">March 2, 1795</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">William Seymour to have a pension of $20 per month.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in lieu of his present rate of pension, William Seymour be placed on the pension list, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1795-03-02">March 2, 1795</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of Spencer Man and Frantz Jacob Foltz.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 21</citableAs>
<dc:date>1795-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 42. 1795.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/21">21</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Spencer Man and Frantz Jacob Foltz.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1795-03-02">March 2, 1795</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the comptroller of the treasury of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized and directed to receive and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">On their producing evidence of exportation, to be entitled to certain drawback.</p></sidenote> examine such evidence as shall be submitted to him, by Messieurs Man and Foltz, of Charleston, or their agent, of the landing in any foreign port or place, of forty-five barrels, one tierce, and forty bags of coffee, weighing nett, thirteen thousand three hundred and eleven pounds, shipped by them from Charleston, South Carolina, to Amsterdam, on board the brig Trader, W. E. Dickson, master, in the month of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one; and of fifteen pipes of brandy, containing one thousand five hundred and twenty-one gallons, shipped also by them, from Charleston aforesaid, to Montego Bay, on board the schooner Industry, John Pullen Nutty, master, in the month of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one: And if he should find such evidence satisfactory and sufficient, to order the payment of the drawbacks or allowance on the said quantities of coffee and brandy, in the same manner as if they had been respectively exported since the first day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety- two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1795-03-02">March 2, 1795</date>.
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<congress>4</congress>
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<congress>4</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1795</dc:date>
<dc:date>1796</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FOURTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the seventh day of December,</i> 1795, <i>and ended on the first day of June,</i> 1796.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">George Washington</inline>, President. <inline class="smallCaps">John Adams</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. <inline class="smallCaps">Samuel Livermore</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore from the 12th of May. <inline class="smallCaps">Jonathan Dayton</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. III: for the relief of Benjamin Strother.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>III</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 22</citableAs>
<dc:date>1796-02-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>4</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin Strother.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1796-02-26">Feb. 26, 1796</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of Benjamin Strother to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting offices settle the accounts of Lieutenant Benjamin Strother, for supporting a number of recruits, on their march to the army, and allow him a reasonable sum for such expenditures, on his producing satisfactory proof that he has made such expenditures in the service of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1796-02-26">February 26, 1796</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of Israel Loring.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 22</citableAs>
<dc:date>1796-03-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>4</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Israel Loring.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1796-03-10">March 10, 1796</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the collector of the district of New York be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain drawback to be allowed to Israel Loring.</p></sidenote>and he is hereby authorized, at any time within sixty days after the passing of this act, to allow the drawback upon such a quantity of indigo, as was imported into New York from New Orleans, on the tenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, by Israel Loring, in the brigantine Diana, Alien Hill, master, and which was, on the nineteenth of August following, entered for exportation on board the brig Lydia, John H. Shackerly, master, for Amsterdam; notwithstanding bonds were not given, and an oath was not taken, at the time of exportation: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That every other requisite has been complied with relative thereto, which, by law, is required to entitle him to the same.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1796-03-10">March 10, 1796</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. IX: for the relief of Joze Roiz Silva.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joze Roiz Silva.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1796-03-23">March 23, 1796</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the collector of the district of New York be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. R. Silva refunded a surplus of duties, on producing certain proofs.</p></sidenote>and he is hereby authorized, at any time within sixty days after the passing of this act, to receive from Joze Roiz Silva, of the city of New York, merchant, invoices and other proofs respecting the value of a cargo of wines imported by him into the said district, in or about the month of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, in the brig Mary, William Hopper, master, from the island of Graciosa; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said collector, that the said
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cargo, or any part thereof, was subject to a less duty than that charged to, and paid by the said Joze Roiz Silva therefor, then, and in such case, the said collector is hereby required to allow or refund to the said Joze Roiz Silva such excess or sum as shall appear to have been overcharged and paid on the same, in like manner, as if such invoices and proofs had been produced in due time.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1796-03-23">March 23, 1796</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XV: authorizing and directing the Secretary of War, to place certain persons, therein named, on the pension-list.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1796-04-20</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing and directing the Secretary of War, to place certain persons, therein named, on the pension-list.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1796-04-20">April 20, 1796</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<p class="inline">That the Secretary for the Department of War be, and he is hereby directed, to place upon the list of invalid pensioners<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place certain persons on the list of invalid pensioners at certain rates.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 28, 1793, ch. 17.</p></sidenote> of the United States, the persons hereinafter named, who have been returned, as such, by the judges of the several districts, pursuant to the act of Congress, passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled, “An Act to regulate the claims to invalid pensions,” at the rates and proportions annexed to the names of the said persons, respectively; that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the District of Maine: Daniel Brawn, a private, two-thirds of a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maine.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote> pension; John Knowles, a private, one-third of a pension; Ebenezer Phinney, a private, one-fourth of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the District of New Hampshire: Jonas Adams, a private, one-third<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Hampshire.</p></sidenote> of a pension; Andrew Aiken, a serjeant-major, three-fourths of a pension; Caleb Aldrish, a serjeant, a full pension; Caleb Austin, a private, one-third of a pension; John Barter, a serjeant, half a pension; Archelaus Batcheldor, a serjeant, half a pension; Ebenezer Bean, a private, one-third of a pension; Job Briton, a private, one-third of a pension; Ebenezer Carleton, a private, three-fourths of a pension; Levi Chubbock, a fifer, one-fourth of a pension; Edward Clark, a serjeant, one-fourth of a pension; Morrell Coburn, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Richard Colony, a private, half a pension; Ebenezer Copp, a serjeant, a full pension; James Crombie, a lieutenant, a full pension; William Curtiss, a private, half a pension; Henry Danforth, a private, half a pension; James Dean, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Lemuel Dean, a private, half a pension; Thomas Eastman, a private, three-fourths of a pension; Ebenezer Fletcher, a fifer, one-fourth of a pension; James Ford, a captain, half a pension; Stephen Fuller, a private, one-third of a pension; Moses Sweat George, a private, half a pension; Joshua Gilman, a private, two-thirds of a pension; Windsor Gleason, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Joseph Greely, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Joseph Green, a private, half a pension; Joshua Haynes, a private, half a pension; Joseph Hilton, a lieutenant, half a pension; Nathan Holt, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Jonathan Holten, a lieutenant, half a pension; Caleb Hunt, a private, half a pension; Humphrey Hunt, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Charles Huntoon, jun., a private, one-third of a pension; Zadock Hurd, a private, one-third of a pension; Ebenezer Jennings, a serjeant, one-fourth of a pension; Peter Johnson, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Thomas Kimball, a private, one-fifth of a pension; Abraham Kimball, a private, half a pension; Benjamin Knight, a serjeant, one-third of a pension; John Knight, a private, half a pension; Jonathan Lake, a corporal, half a pension; John Lapish, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Nathaniel Leavitt, a corporal, half a pension; John Lincoln, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Joshua Lovejoy, a serjeant, half a pension; William Lowell, a serjeant, three-fourths of a pension; Jonathan Margery, a private, two-thirds of a pension; James Moore, a private, a full pension; Samuel Morrell, a private, two-fifths of a pension; Joseph Moss, a private, two-thirds of a pension; Jotham Nute, a serjeant, half a pension; Phinehas
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<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote>Parkhurst, a fifer, a full pension; Amos Pierce, a lieutenant, one-third of a pension; Silas Pierce, a lieutenant, half a pension; Joel Porter, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Samuel Potter, a serjeant, half a pension; Thomas Pratt, a private, half a pension; Jeremiah Pritchard, a lieutenant, half a pension; Asa Putney, a serjeant, half a pension; Charles Rice, a private, half a pension; John Smith, a serjeant, half a pension; Samuel Stocker, a private, half a pension; William Taggart, an ensign, half a pension; Eliphalet Taylor, a private, one-third of a pension; Ebenezer Tinkham, a private, one-third of a pension; John Varnum, a private, half a pension; Edward Waldo, a lieutenant, two-thirds of a pension; Weymouth Wallace, a private, half a pension; Josiah Walton, a private, one-third of a pension; Jacob Wellman, junior, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Francis Whitcomb, a private, one-third of a pension; Robert B. Wilkins, a private, two-thirds of a pension; Jonathan Willard, an ensign, one-fourth of a pension; Seth Wyman, a private, one-fourth of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Massachusetts.</p></sidenote>Of the district of Massachusetts: Thomas Alexander, a captain, half a pension; Ephraim Bailey, a private, half a pension; Robert Bancroft, a private, one-sixth of a pension; James Batcheldor, a private, one-fourth of a pension; James Campbell, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Caleb Chadwick, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Barnabas Chapman, a private, one-third of a pension; Richard Chase, a private, half a pension; Joseph Coxe, a serjeant, two-thirds of a pension; Thomas Crowell, a private, a full pension; Levi Farnsworth, a private, half a pension; Benjamin Farnum, a captain, one-third of a pension; Moses Fitch, a private, one-fifth of a pension; Frederick Follett, a private, half a pension; Joseph Frost, a private, one-eighth of a pension; Uriah Goodwin, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Joseph Hale, a private, half a pension; Gamaliel Handy, a private, two-thirds of a pension; Peter Hemenway, a private, half a pension; Jesse Holt, a corporal, oneeighth of a pension; Job Lane, a private, half a pension; Ebenezer Learned, a colonel, one-fourth of a pension; Moses M’Farland, a captain, one-third of a pension; Hugh Maxwell, a captain, one-eighth of a pension; John Maynard, a lieutenant, one-tenth of a pension; Tilley Mead, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Elisha Munsell, a private, half a pension; John Nixon, a colonel, one-third of a pension; Timothy Northam, a private, one-third of a pension; Joseph Peabody, a private, one-third of a pension; Amos Pearson, a serjeant, one-fifth of a pension; Abner Pier, a private, half a pension; Job Priest, an ensign, one-third of a pension; Amasa Scott, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Robert Smith, a private, two-thirds of a pension; Silvanus Snow, a private, one-third of a pension; Cesar Sprague, a private, half a pension; Samuel Warner, a private, half a pension; William Warren, a lieutenant, one-third of a pension; Samuel Willington, a private, half a pension; Nahum Wright, a serjeant, one-eighth of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rhode Island.</p></sidenote>Of the District of Rhode Island: Clark Albro, a private, one-fourth of a pension; John Baggs, junior, a serjeant, one-third of a pension; Robert Cars, a private, half a pension; Jonathan Davenport, a private, one twenty-fourth of a pension; Nathan Jaquays, a private, one-third of a pension; William Lunt, a private, half a pension; George Popple, a serjeant, one-eighth of a pension; Job Snell, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Edward Vose, a serjeant, one-sixth of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Connecticut.</p></sidenote>Of the District of Connecticut: Theodore Andrus, a private, a full pension; Samuel Andrus, a corporal, half a pension; William Bailey, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Robert Bailey, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Job Bartram, a captain, half a pension; Francis Baxter, a private, three-fourths of a pension; Enos Blakesly, a private, a full pension; David Blackman, a private, two-thirds of a pension; Elijah Boardman, a serjeant, three-fourths of a pension; Jonathan Bowers, a
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corporal, half a pension; Aner Bradley, a serjeant, half a pension;<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote> Jedediah Brown, a serjeant, one-fourth of a pension; Isaac Buel, a private, one-third of a pension; Oliver Burnham, a serjeant, one-fourth of a pension; William Burritt, a private, one-fourth of a pension; John Chappell, a private, one-third of a pension; Elisha Clark, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Jonah Cook, a private, half a pension; Henry Cone, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Simon Crosby, a private, half a pension; Prince Dennison, a private, half a pension; Israel Dibble, a private, one-third of a pension; Gershom Dorman, a private, one-third of a pension; Joseph Dunbar, a corporal, three-fourths of a pension; Henry Filmore, a private, half a pension; Samuel French, a private, half a pension; Burr Gilbert, a corporal, two-thirds of a pension; David Hall, junior, a serjeant, half a pension; Nathan Hawley, a corporal, one-third of a pension; Daniel Hewitt, a serjeant, one-third of a pension; Isaac Higgins, a private, half a pension; Thurston Hilliard, a private, one-third of a pension; Thomas Hobby, a major, half a pension; John Horseford, a private, one-eighth of a pension; Benjamin Howd, a private, three-fourths of a pension; Elijah Hoyt, a private, half a pension; David Hubbel, a private, half a pension; Enoch Jacobs, a private, three-fourths of a pension; Robert Jeroin, a lifer, one-fourth of a pension; Aaron Kelsey, a lieutenant, one-fourth of a pension; Lee Lay, a captain, one-sixth of a pension; John Ledyard, a private, three-fourths of a pension; William Leeds, a lieutenant, half a pension; Naboth Lewis, a private, two-thirds of a pension; Nathaniel Lewis, a private, one-fourth of a pension; George Lord, a private, half a pension; Samuel Loomis, a corporal, one-fourth of a pension; Jeremiah Markham, a serjeant, half a pension; Allyn Marsh, a corporal, half a pension; Josiah Merryman, a corporal, two-thirds of a pension; Stephen Minor, a quarter-gunner, half a pension; Justus Munn, a private, half a pension; Elnathan Norton, a private, three-fourths of a pension; Joseph Otis, a private, half a pension; Thomas Parmelee, a serjeant, one-eighth of a pension; Chandler Pardie, a private, seven-eighths of a pension; Frederick Platt, a private, one-third of a pension; Daniel Preston, a private, one-third of a pension; David Ranney, a private, three-fourths of a pension; Solomon Reynolds, a private, two-thirds of a pension; Isaac Richards, a private, one-third of a pension; Samuel Rossetter, a private, half a pension; Elijah Royce, a private, three- fourths of a pension; Elihu Sabin, a private, half a pension; Samuel Sawyer, a private, half a pension; Nathaniel Scribner, a captain, one-fourth of a pension; Thomas Shepherd, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Amos Skeel, a private, one-third of a pension; Heber Smith, a serjeant, half a pension; Aaron Smith, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Edmund Smith, a private, half a pension; Josiah Spalding, a lieutenant, half a pension; Samuel Stillman, a private, half a pension; Benjamin Sturges, a private, one-sixth of a pension; Enoch Turner, junior, a private, two-thirds of a pension; Richard Watrous, a private, three-fourths of a pension; Stephen Wells, a lieutenant, half a pension; Jonathan Whaley, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Ezra Willcox, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Azel Woodworth, a private, three-fourths of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the District of Vermont: Elijah Barnes, a private, one-fourth of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vermont.</p></sidenote> a pension; Elijah Bennett, a private, half a pension; Gideon Brownson, a major, a full pension; Thomas Brush, a private, one-fourth of a pension; David Brydia, a private, half a pension; Nathan Burr, a private, half a pension; James Campbell, a private, half a pension; Oliver Darling, a private, five-eighths of a pension; Samuel Eyres, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Asa Gould, a private, half a pension; Benjamin Gould, a private, half a pension; Amasa Grover, a private, one-third of a pension; William Hazeltine, a private, half a pension;
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<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote>Jonathan Haynes, a private, two-thirds of a pension; Zimri Hill, a private, half a pension; William Hunt, a private, half a pension; Elijah Knight, a private, one-fourth of a pension: Ebenezer M’Ilvain, a private, half a pension; William Martin, a private, two-thirds of a pension; Pliny Pomeroy, a private, four-fifths of a pension; Moses Saunderson, a private, two-thirds of a pension; John Stark, a captain, one-fourth of a pension; Thomas Torrance, a private, half a pension; Benjamin Tower, a private, two-thirds of a pension; William Waterman, a private, one-third of a pension; John Wilson, a serjeant, one-third of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York.</p></sidenote>Of the District of New York: Thomas Baldwin, a serjeant, half a pension; Abraham Blauvelt, a private, a full pension; Thomas Brooks, a private, three-fourths of a pension; Duncan Campbell, a lieutenant, half a pension; William Champenois, a private, three-fourths of a pension; Russell Chappell, a private, half a pension; Jeremiah Everett, a private, half a pension; Samuel Miller, a private, a full pension; Jared Palmer, a serjeant, half a pension; Stephen Powell, a private, one-sixteenth of a pension; John Rogers, a private, half a pension; William Smith Scudder, a private, half a pension; James Stater, a private, half a pension; John Utters, a private, three-fourths of a pension; John Vaughan, a serjeant, one-fourth of a pension; Asa Virgil, a private, one-fourth of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Jersey.</p></sidenote>Of the District of New Jersey: William Crane, a lieutenant, a full pension; William Oliver, a lieutenant, two-thirds of a pension; Joel Phelps, a private, half a pension; Samuel Taylor, a corporal, two-thirds of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pennsylvania.</p></sidenote>Of the District of Pennsylvania: John Cardiffe, a private, a full pension; Josiah Conckling, a private, half a pension; William Dewitt, a private, half a pension; Thomas Eagan, a matross, half a pension; Jacob Fox, a private, one-third of a pension; Alexander Garrett, a private, three-fourths of a pension; Samuel Gilman, (alias Gilmore,) a private, half a pension; Adam Godenberger, a private, one-fourth of a pension; John Haley, a corporal, three-fourths of a pension; David Hickey, a private, a full pension; Lawrence Hippie, a private, half a pension; Nathaniel Hubble, a major, two-thirds of a pension; Philip Lauer, a serjeant, one-fourth of a pension; Charles M’Cormick, a private, a full pension; William M’Hatton, a lieutenant, a full pension; Michael Orner, a private, one-fourth of a pension; Griffith Rees, a private, half a pension; Thomas Richart, a private, a full pension; Edward Wade, a private, half a pension; Thadeus Williams, a private, one-fourth of a pension; John Wright, a serjeant, half a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware.</p></sidenote>Of the District of Delaware: Donald M’Donald, a corporal, a full pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maryland.</p></sidenote>Of the District of Maryland: John Bean, a private, half a pension; William Ormond, a private, three-fourths of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Virginia.</p></sidenote>Of the District of Virginia: John Bell, a lieutenant, three-fourths of a pension; David Welch, a private, a full pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kentucky.</p></sidenote>Of the District of Kentucky: James Speed, a lieutenant, a full pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">N. Carolina.</p></sidenote>Of the District of North Carolina: John Benton, a private, a full pension; George Bledsoe, a private, a full pension; Thomas Chiles, a captain, two-thirds of a pension; James Christian, a private, half a pension; Robert Harris, a private, a full pension; John Knowles, a private, two-thirds of a pension; James Smith, a private, a full pension.</p>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">These pensions, how to be estimated.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions allowed by this act, shall be estimated in manner following; that is to say: A full pension to a commissioned officer shall be considered the one-half of his monthly pay, as by law established: And the proportions less than a full pension shall be the like proportions of half pay: And a full pen-
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sion to a non-commissioned officer or private soldier, shall be five dollars per month; and the proportions less than a full pension, shall be the like proportions of five dollars per month: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That every<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of commutation.</p></sidenote> commissioned officer, who shall, by virtue of this act, be placed on the pension-list, as entitled to a sum less than a full pension, shall receive such pension only upon compliance with the same rule respecting a return of the commutation which he may have received, as is provided for, in the case of Captain David Cook, by an act of Congress, passed December the sixteenth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1791, ch. 2.</p></sidenote></proviso></content>
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<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensioners aforesaid<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions, how to be paid.</p></sidenote> shall be paid in the same manner as invalid pensioners are paid, who have heretofore been placed on the list of pensioners of the United States, under such restrictions and regulations, in all respects, as are prescribed by the laws of the United States, in such cases provided.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1796-04-20">April 20, 1796</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: to authorize Ebenezer Zane to locate certain lands in the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1796-05-17</dc:date>
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<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize Ebenezer Zane to locate certain lands in the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1796-05-17">May 17, 1796</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That, upon the conditions hereinafter mentioned, there shall be granted to Ebenezer Zane three tracts of land, not exceeding<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of land to Ebenezer Zane.</p></sidenote> one mile square each, one on the Muskingum river, one on Hockhocking river, and one other on the north bank of Sciota river, and in such situations as shall best promote the utility of a road to be opened by him on the most eligible route between Wheeling and Limestone, to be approved by the President of the United States, or such person as he shall appoint for that purpose; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> Such tracts shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> not interfere with any existing claim, location, or survey; nor include any salt spring, nor the lands on either side of the river Hockhocking at the falls thereof.</proviso></content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="centered smallCaps"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That upon the said Zane’s procuring,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">EbenezerZane to procure the tracts to be surveyed at his own expense, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> at his own expense, the said tracts to be surveyed, in such way and manner as the President of the United States shall approve, and returning into the treasury of the United States plats thereof, together with warrants granted by the United States for military land bounties, to the amount of the number of acres contained in the said three tracts; and also, producing satisfactory proof, by the first day of January next, that the aforesaid road is opened, and ferries established upon the rivers aforesaid, for the accommodation of travellers, and giving security that such ferries shall be maintained during the pleasure of Congress; the President of the United States shall be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to issue letters patent, in the name and under the seal of the United States, thereby granting and conveying to the said Zane, and his heirs, the said tracts of land located and surveyed as aforesaid; which patents shall be countersigned by the secretary of state, and recorded in his office: <proviso><i>Provided always,</i> That the rates of ferriage, at<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> such ferries, shall, from time to time, be ascertained by any two of the judges of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, or such other authority as shall be appointed for that purpose.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1796-05-17">May 17, 1796</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of Sylvanus Bourne.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Sylvanus Bourne.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1796-05-30">May 30, 1796</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Treasury be authorized and directed to settle the account of Sylvanus Bourne, Vice-Consul<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury to settle accounts of S. Bourne.</p></sidenote> of the United States at Amsterdam, for advances by him made, for the relief of the master and crew of the ship Washington, which
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/28">28</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 54. 1796.</centerRunningHead>
was wrecked on the coast of Holland in November last; and that the amount thereof be paid him out of the Treasury of the United States</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1796-05-30">May 30, 1796</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LIV: to indemnify the estate of the late Major-General Nathaniel Greene, for a certain bond entered into by him during the late war.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to indemnify the estate of the late Major-General Nathaniel Greene, for a certain bond entered into by him during the late war.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1796-06-01">June 1, 1796</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c, </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the United States shall and will indemnify <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The late Gen. Greene’s estate indemnified to amount of a certain bond to Harris and Blachford.</p></sidenote>the estate of the late General Greene, for the sum of eleven thousand two hundred and ninety-seven pounds nine shillings and eight pence, sterling money, being the amount due on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, on a certain bond, given by the said General Greene, to Harris and Blachford, bearing date the eighth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, as surety for John Banks and partners; and the interest thereon: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> it shall appear, upon due investigation by the officers of the Treasury, that the said General Greene, in his life-time, or his executors, since his decease, have not already been indemnified, or compensated for the same:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided,</i> the said executors shall make over to the Comptroller of the Treasury, and his successors, for the United States, all property, mortgages, bonds, covenants, or other counter securities whatever, if any such there are, which were obtained by General Greene in his life-time, from the said John Banks and partners, or either of them; and all causes of action on account of his being surety for them, as aforesaid, to be sued for, in the name of the said executors, for the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury to liquidate and settle the sum due.</p></sidenote>use of the United States. And the officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to liquidate and settle the sum due on the said bond, not exceeding the aforesaid sum of eleven thousand two hundred and ninetyseven pounds nine shillings and eight pence, with interest from tbe thirty-first of December last, according to the true intent and meaning of this act; and to pay such sum out of the Treasury of the United States, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to the said executors, to be accounted for, by them, as part of the said estate.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1796-06-01">June 1, 1796</date>.
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<dc:date>1797</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FOURTH CONGRESS</p>
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<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Monday, the fifth day of December,</i> 1796, <i>and ended the third day of March,</i> 1797.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">George Washington</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John Adams</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">William Bingham</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, from March 2, 1797; <inline class="smallCaps">Jonathan Dayton</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: granting a certain sum of money to the widow and children of John de Neufville, deceased.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting a certain sum of money to the widow and children of John de Neufville, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1797-03-02">March 2, 1797</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in consideration of particular<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$3000 granted to the widow and children of John de Neufville.</p></sidenote> services rendered the United States, during the war of their revolution, by the late John de Neufville, of the United Netherlands, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be paid, out of any moneys which may be in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand dollars to Anna de Neufville, widow of the said John de Neufville; a like sum for the use of Leonard de Neufville, his son; and a like sum for the use of Anna de Neufville, his infant daughter.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1797-03-02">March 2, 1797</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXI: to authorize the adjustment and payment at the treasury, of the expenses of George Smith and John Robertson, for their ransom from captivity at Algiers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the adjustment and payment at the treasury, of the expenses of George Smith and John Robertson, for their ransom from captivity at Algiers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1797-03-03">March 3, 1797</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Treasury shall be, and they hereby are authorized to examine the claims and vouchers<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of Smith and Robertson to be settled.</p></sidenote> of George Smith and John Robertson, respectively, for the sums severally paid and expended by them, for their ransoms from captivity among the Algerines, and after deducting from the amount of such payments and expenditures, any sum or sums heretofore paid to the said George Smith or John Robertson, on the account of the United States, towards his respective claim, to allow the balance thereof, not exceeding eight hundred and seventy-four dollars to George Smith, and not exceeding two thousand two hundred and seventy-one dollars to the said John Robertson; and which balances shall be paid at the Treasury, out of any money not already appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1797-03-03">March 3, 1797</date>.
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/29" renderingPosition="bottom">29</page>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the remission of the duties of tonnage on the vessels of James O’Brien and James Aylward.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 30</citableAs>
<dc:date>1797-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/30">30</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 22, 28. 1797.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the remission of the duties of tonnage on the vessels of James O’Brien and James Aylward.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1797-03-03">March 3, 1797</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the duties of tonnage due on the schooner Endeavour, and on the schooner Fish-Hawk, the property of James O’Brien and James Aylward, distressed mariners from Newfoundland, who took refuge in the port of Plymouth, in November last, shall be, and hereby are remitted.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1797-03-03">March 3, 1797</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of John Brown.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 30</citableAs>
<dc:date>1797-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Brown.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1797-03-03">March 3, 1797</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Comptroller of the Treasury shall and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback allowed to John Brown.</p></sidenote>may examine and determine upon such evidence, as John Brown, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, surviving partner of the late house of Brown and Francis, shall and may produce and offer, to establish and prove the export and delivery without the limits of the United States, of certain foreign Geneva and empty bottles, said to have been exported from the port of Providence for the East Indies, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, by the said Brown and Francis; and, upon satisfactory proof of such export and delivery as, by law, is required for goods entitled to a drawback of duties, the Comptroller of the Treasury shall and may direct the payment to the said John Brown, of the drawback of the duties which have been paid on the said Geneva and bottles; any failure of the particular certificates of delivery required by law notwithstanding.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1797-03-03">March 3, 1797</date>.
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<congress>5</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1797</dc:date>
<dc:date>1798</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the thirteenth day of November,</i> 1797, <i>and ended the sixteenth day of July,</i> 1798.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">John Adams</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Thomas Jefferson</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Theodore Sedgwick</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the twenty-seventh day of June; <inline class="smallCaps">Jonathan Dayton</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. III: authorizing the payment of certain sums of money to the daughters of the late Count de Grasse.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>III</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 31</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-01-15</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the payment of certain sums of money to the daughters of the late Count de Grasse.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1798-01-15">Jan. 15, 1798</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in consideration<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for each of the four daughters of Count de Grasse.</p></sidenote> of the important services rendered to the United States by the late Count de Grasse, there be paid annually, in quarter-yearly payments, during five years from the time of passing this act, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred dollars to each of the four daughters of the said Count de Grasse, namely, Amelia de Grasse, Adelaide de Grasse, Melanie de Grasse, and Silvie de Grasse, if they shall, respectively, so long live.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-01-15">January 15, 1798</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: for the relief of the representatives of William Carmichael, deceased.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 31</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-01-15</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representatives of William Carmichael, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1798-01-15">Jan. 15, 1798</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That in the settlement of the accounts between the United States and William Carmichael, deceased, their late chargé<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for extraordinary expenses.</p></sidenote> des affaires in Spain, the accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they hereby are authorized and directed to place to the credit of the said William Carmichael, the sum of eight thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-six cents, for and in full of his extraordinary expenses, as charge des affaires aforesaid, from the twentieth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, to the twentieth day of April, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That in the settlement of the said<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periods and rate of annual compensation.</p></sidenote> accounts, the accounting officers aforesaid shall be, and they hereby are further authorized and directed to credit and allow to the said William Carmichael, at the rate of four thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-four cents, annually, from the said twentieth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, to the said twentieth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, in full of all claims for his salary during that period.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-01-15">January 15, 1798</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of North and Vesey, of Charleston, South Carolina.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 32</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-01-15</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>5</congress>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/32">32</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 5, 7, 9, 12. 1798.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of North and Vesey, of Charleston, South Carolina.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1798-01-15">Jan. 15, 1798</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Charleston, in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties refunded to North and Vesey.</p></sidenote>district of South Carolina, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to North and Vesey, of the city of Charleston, merchants, the amount of the duties paid by them on so much of a certain quantity of sugars, imported into the said port in the prize ship called the Amity, on the seventh day of April, one thousand seven hundred ninety-six, as shall be proved, to his satisfaction, to have been burnt and destroyed in the said city of Charleston: the said sugars not being liable to the payment of duties, the sale thereof having been prohibited.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-01-15">January 15, 1798</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of John Frank.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 32</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-01-20</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Frank.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1798-01-20">Jan. 20, 1798</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Accountant for the department of war, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of John Frank to be settled.</p></sidenote>be, and he is hereby directed to settle the accounts of John Frank, late a private in the second sub-legion of the army of the United States, and to allow him the same pay and emoluments as a soldier, from the nineteenth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, during the time of his captivity, as he would have been entitled to, had he not been discharged from the public service before he was made prisoner by the Indians.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-01-20">January 20, 1798</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. IX: providing for the payment of the interest on a certificate due to General Kosciusko.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 32</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-01-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">providing for the payment of the interest on a certificate due to General Kosciusko.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1798-01-23">Jan. 23, 1798</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest to be paid to General Kosciusko.</p></sidenote>and directed to pay to General Kosciusko, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, an interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, on the sum of twelve thousand two hundred and eighty dollars and fifty-four cents, the amount of a certificate due to him from the United States, from the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-01-23">January 23, 1798</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XII: directing the Secretary at War to place certain persons on the pension list.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 32</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-02-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">directing the Secretary at War to place certain persons on the pension list.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1798-02-02">Feb. 2, 1798</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain persons to be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary for the Department of War, be, and he is hereby directed to place on the pension list of the United States, the several persons hereinafter named, who have been returned as pension claimants by the judges of the several districts, pursuant to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 28, 1793, ch. 17.</p></sidenote>the act of Congress, passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled, “An act to regulate the claims to invalid pensions,” at the rates and proportions annexed to the names of the said persons respectively, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">N. Hampshire.</p></sidenote>Of the district of New Hampshire, Joseph Goodrich, a private, half a pension; Joseph Patterson, a private, half a pension; Caesar Barnes, a private, one-third of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Connecticut.</p></sidenote>Of the district of Connecticut, John Downs, a serjeant, a full pension; Obadiah Perkins, a lieutenant, one-fourth of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vermont.</p></sidenote>Of the district of Vermont, Joseph Tyler, a private, half a pension; Peter Rider, a corporal, half a pension; Isaac Webster, a serjeant, half a pension; Ephraim Wilmarth, a serjeant, two-thirds of a pension.</p>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 13, 19. 1798.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/33">33</page>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the district of New York, Stephen Kellogg, a private, a full pension<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York.</p></sidenote>; Garret Oblenis, a private, half a pension; William Scott, a major, a full pension; Finley Stewart, a batteau-man, three-fourths of a pension; Godfrey Sweet, a private, a full pension; Thomas Ward, a corporal, a full pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the district of New Jersey, Minne L. Vorheis, a private, half a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Jersey.</p></sidenote> pension; Samuel Hull, a serjeant, two-thirds of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the district of Pennsylvania, Robert Wilson, an ensign, one-fourth<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pennsylvania.</p></sidenote> of a pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the district of Delaware, Nelce Jones, a corporal, half a pension.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the district of Maryland, Philip Casson, a lieutenant, a full<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maryland.</p></sidenote> pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the district of Virginia, Joshua Davidson, a dragoon, three-fourths<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Virginia.</p></sidenote> of a pension; Jonathan Dyer, a private, a full pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the district of North Carolina, Daniel M’Kissick, a captain, half<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">N. Carolina.</p></sidenote> a pension; Ithamar Singletary, a private, one-fourth of a pension; William Simson, a private, half a pension; Joseph Wasson, a private, a full pension.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the district of Georgia, Herman Bird, a private, one-half of a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Georgia.</p></sidenote> pension; Thomas Greer, a private, one-half of a pension; John Guthrie, a private, one-half of a pension; Alexander Irvine, a lieutenant, one-half of a pension; Henry Kerr, a captain, one-half of a pension; John Lindsay, a major, a full pension; Hugh Lawson, a captain, one-half of a pension; James Lewis, a lieutenant, one-half of a pension; John Ramsay, a private, one-half of a pension; John Trent, a captain, one-half of a pension; Presley Thornton, a corporal, one-half of a pension.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions allowed by this<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">How these pensions shall be estimated, received, and paid.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 20, 1796, ch. 15,</p></sidenote> act, shall be estimated at the same rates, receivable on the same conditions, and payable in the same manner, in all respects, as directed in like cases by the act of the twentieth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, entitled “An Act authorizing and directing the secretary at war to place certain persons therein named, on the pension list.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-02-02">February 2, 1798</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of William Alexander.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 33</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>5</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Alexander.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1798-02-27">Feb. 27, 1798</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to settle the accounts of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of Wm. Alexander to be settled.</p></sidenote> William Alexander, for his services and expenses as a surveyor of army lands, appointed under the ordinance of Congress of July the ninth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight; and that he be allowed such sum for his said services and expenses, as shall be deemed reasonable.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-02-27">February 27, 1798</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Silvanus Crowell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 33</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>5</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Silvanus Crowell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1798-03-19">March 19, 1798</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That if it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to Silvanus Crowell.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 16, 1792, ch. 6.</p></sidenote> collector of the port of Barnstable, in the State of Massachusetts, that agreements were made according to the direction of the act, entitled “An Act concerning certain fisheries of the United States, and for the regulation and government of the fishermen employed therein,” between the masters and fishermen employed on board the schooners Jerusha, Phcebe, and Ruth, belonging to Yarmouth, in the State aforesaid, countersigned by the owners, or their agent, for a fishing voyage, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six; and that the said agreements were casually destroyed by fire; then, and in such case, the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/34">34</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 32, 40, 41, 44. 1798.</centerRunningHead>
said collector is authorized and directed to make and pay to the said Silvanus Crowed, or other agent of the owners of the said schooners, such allowance as they would have been entitled to, under the act aforesaid, provided the said agreements had been produced to said collector.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-03-19">March 19, 1798</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: making an appropriation for the payment of a balance found due to the legal representatives of William Carmichael, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 34</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-04-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>5</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">making an appropriation for the payment of a balance found due to the legal representatives of William Carmichael, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1798-04-27">April 27, 1798</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement with heirs of W. Carmichael.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of nine thousand six hundred and sixty dollars, and fourteen cents, be, and the same hereby is appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated, for discharging the balance found due to the legal representatives of William Carmichael, deceased, late Charge des Affaires from the United States in Spain, upon the settlement of the accounts between the said William Carmichael and the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-04-27">April 27, 1798</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XL: for the relief of Obadiah Brown.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XL</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 34</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-05-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>5</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Obadiah Brown.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1798-05-04">May 4, 1798</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary for the Department of War, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>be, and he is hereby directed to place upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, at the rate and proportion of one-fourth of a pension, the name of Obadiah Brown, late a private soldier, who has been returned as an invalid by the judge of the district of New York, pursuant<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 28, 1793, ch. 17.</p></sidenote> to an act of Congress, passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An act to regulate claims to invalid pensions.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rate of pension, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said pension shall be estimated at the same rate, receivable on the same condition, and payable in the same manner, in all respects, as directed in like cases, by <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 2, 1798, ch. 12.</p></sidenote>an act, passed at the present session, entitled, “An act directing the Secretary at War to place certain persons on the pension list.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-05-04">May 4, 1798</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLI: directing the payment of a detachment of militia, for services performed in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, under Major James Ore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 34</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>5</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">directing the payment of a detachment of militia, for services performed in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, under Major James Ore.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1798-05-08">May 8, 1798</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of certain militia to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers be, and they are hereby authorized to settle the accounts of the militia who served on an expedition commanded by Major James Ore, against the lower Cherokee Indians, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four; and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-05-08">May 8, 1798</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of William Imlay.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 34</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-05-14</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>5</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Imlay.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1798-05-14">May 14, 1798</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wm. Imlay to be allowed for extraordinary clerk-hire in his office.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to liquidate and settle the claim of William Imlay, Esquire, Commissioner of Loans for the State of Connecticut, for extraordinary clerk hire in his office, from the first day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, to the thirty-first of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, in making transfers of the stock standing to the credit of the State of Connecticut, to the creditors of said state, pursuant to the act of Congress of the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 45, 59. 1798.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/35">35</page>
second day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five;<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1795, ch. 10.</p></sidenote> and that they allow him therefor, a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty-five dollars and seventy-six cents.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-05-14">May 14, 1798</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLV: for the relief of Joseph Nourse.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 35</citableAs>
<dc:date>1798-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>5</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Nourse.</officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That there be paid to Joseph Nourse, Register<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity to Joseph Nourse.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury of the United States, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to indemnify him for the extra expense incurred by him in removing his family from Philadelphia, in the years one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, to avoid the epidemic fever; and the extra expense incurred by him in attending to the business of his office during the same periods.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. LIX: to authorize a grant of lands to Stephen Monot, and others, inhabitants of Galliopolis, therein named.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize a grant of lands to Stephen Monot, and others, inhabitants of Galliopolis, therein named.</officialTitle>
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<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the Surveyor-General<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey to be made of 1200 acres of land.</p></sidenote> of the Northwestern Territory, to survey one thousand two hundred acres of land, beginning on the bank of the Ohio river, at the lower corner of a tract surveyed pursuant to an act of Congress, entitled “An<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1795, ch. 49.</p></sidenote> act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Galliopolis, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” and running thence down said river along the courses thereof, six hundred and forty poles when reduced to a straight line, thence extending back from the river and parallel to the lower line of the said grant so far as to include the quantity aforesaid. And the said Surveyor-General shall, bylines plainly marked upon trees, divide the said tract into eight equal parts or lots, having each as nearly as may be, an equal front on the river, and designated by progressive numbers, marked on the corners thereof. And the Surveyor-General, when the said lots are laid off and numbered as aforesaid, shall distribute or assign the same by lot, to Stephen Monot, Lewis<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be divided into eight parts, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Anthony Carpentier, Lewis Vimont, Francis Valton, Lewis Philip A. Fichon, Anthony Maquet, Margaret G. C. Champaigne, wife of Peter A. Laforge, and Maria I. Dalliez, wife of Peter Luc, and to their heirs, being inhabitants of Galliopolis, who were prevented from obtaining their proportion of the land granted by the act aforesaid. The said Surveyor-General shall also make out a fair plat of the said tract, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plats to be made of the tract and lots.</p></sidenote> shall designate thereon the said lots marked each with the name of the person to whom the same shall have been assigned by lot as aforesaid, which plat with a certificate of the bounds and courses of the said tract and lots he shall record in his office, and return a copy thereof to the Secretary of State, to be filed in his office.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the President of the United<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to be issued therefor.</p></sidenote> States be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to issue letters patent in the usual form, thereby granting to the persons above named, and to their heirs, the said tract of land to be held by them and their heirs in severalty, in lots designated, numbered and marked as aforesaid.</content>
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<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That nothing in this act shall be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saving of private contracts made with the grantees.</p></sidenote> taken or considered in any manner to affect the claims of the persons herein named against any person or persons, for or by reason of any contracts heretofore made by them, but that the same contracts shall be and remain in the same state as if this act had not passed.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-06-25">June 25, 1798</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVII: authorizing the grant and conveyance of a certain lot of ground to Elie Williams.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/36">36</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 87. 1798.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the grant and conveyance of a certain lot of ground to Elie Williams.</officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sec. Treasury authorized to sell a certain lot of ground.</p></sidenote>hereby is authorized to contract with Elie Williams, for the sale of a certain lot of ground, twenty perches in length, and sixteen perches in breadth, situate in the town of Cincinnati, in the territory northwest of the Ohio, it being the same lot on which certain buildings were erected by the said Elie Williams and Robert Elliot, deceased, when contractors for supplying the western army with provisions.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to be granted.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That on payment into the Treasury of the United States of such sum or sums of money as shall have been agreed upon between the said Elie Williams and the Secretary of the Treasury, as the price of the above mentioned lot, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to grant a patent for the same, to the said Elie Williams, his heirs or assigns.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1798-07-16">July 16, 1798</date>.
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS</p>
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<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the third session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the third day of December,</i> 1798, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1799.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">John Adams</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Thomas Jefferson</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">James Ross</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 2d day of March, 1799; <inline class="smallCaps">Jonathan Dayton</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: for the relief of Thomas Lewis.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Lewis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1799-02-15">Feb. 15, 1799</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to Thomas Lewis.</p></sidenote> officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby directed to settle the accounts of Thomas Lewis, a captain in the army of the United States, and to allow him a sum not exceeding eleven hundred and fifty-seven dollars, in full for his extra services and expenses during the time he acted as additional aid-de-camp to the late Major-General Wayne.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1799-02-15">February 15, 1799</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of Jonathan Haskill.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>V</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonathan Haskill.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1799-02-19">Feb. 19, 1799</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby directed to credit and allow to Jonathan Haskill,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to Jonathan Haskill.</p></sidenote> the sum of two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents, placed in his hands for the use of a detachment of troops under his command, and by him lost, in the month of September, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1799-02-19">February 19, 1799</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Gazzam, Taylor, and Jones, and of Samuel Watt, of the city of Philadelphia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Gazzam, Taylor, and Jones, and of Samuel Watt, of the city of Philadelphia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1799-02-19">Feb. 19, 1799</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Philadelphia be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of drawback to Gazzam and others.</p></sidenote> authorized to pay to Gazzam, Taylor, and Jones, and to Samuel Watt, of the city of Philadelphia, merchants, the amount of the drawback of duties on so much of the cargo of the schooner Eagle, belonging to them, as was shipped, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, on board the said vessel, for St. Thomas’s, and reladen in the river Delaware on board the brig Fame, for St. Croix: Provided, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said collector, that every requisite of the law has been complied with by the said Gazzam, Taylor, and Jones, and of Samuel Watt, to entitle them to the said drawback of duties, in case the said goods had not been re-shipped, as aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1799-02-19">February 19, 1799</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIV: allowing James Mathers compensation for services done for the United States, and expenses incurred in rendering said services, as sergeant-at-arms to the Senate.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/38">38</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 14, 35. 1799.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">allowing James Mathers compensation for services done for the United States, and expenses incurred in rendering said services, as sergeant-at-arms to the Senate.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1799-02-25">Feb. 25, 1799</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of five hundred and one dollars be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to James Mathers.</p></sidenote>and the same is hereby, allowed to James Mathers, for his services and expenses, during the recess of Congress, as sergeant-at-arms to the Senate of the United States, which services were done, and expenses incurred, by order of the Senate; to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1799-02-25">February 25, 1799</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: for the relief of Comfort Sands and others.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1799-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Comfort Sands and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1799-03-02">March 2, 1799</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination and settlement of the claim of Comfort Sands.</p></sidenote>and they are hereby, authorized and empowered, upon application of the parties, to examine and decide upon the validity of a certain award or report, made on the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, by Isaac Roosevelt, William Malcom, Elbridge Gerry, and Henry Remsen, (four of the referees nominated for the purpose,) between the United States and Comfort Sands and others, his copartners, (contractors for furnishing supplies to the troops during the late war,) and that in making their decision upon the said award or report, the said officers of the treasury shall be governed by principles similar to those which would prevail in a controversy concerning it at law: and if, in the opinion of the accounting officers aforesaid, the said award or report ought to be binding and obligatory against the United States, then, and in such case, but not otherwise, the said Comfort Sands and others, his said copartners, shall be entitled to have their said claim against the United States, as on the said award, allowed and settled at the treasury, in the usual manner, and shall be paid the amount of the claim so to be allowed, out of any moneys which may be in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That if, on examination by the officers of the treasury, it shall be found that the said Comfort Sands, or either of his copartners, are indebted to the United States, they shall charge the amount in which they may be so indebted, against the sums which may be allowed on account of said award.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1799-03-02">March 2, 1799</date>.
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<dc:date>1800</dc:date>
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Monday, the second day of December,</i> 1799, <i>and ended the fourteenth day of May,</i> 1800.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">John Adams</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Thomas Jefferson</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Samuel Livermore</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore on the twenty-fourth day of December, 1799; <inline class="smallCaps">Uriah Tracy</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore on the fourteenth day of May, 1800; <inline class="smallCaps">Theodore Sedgwick</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of John Vaughan.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 39</citableAs>
<dc:date>1800-02-11</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Vaughan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1800-02-11">Feb. 11, 1800</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to John Vaughan.</p></sidenote> officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the account of John Vaughan, and to allow him the amount of the difference in his favor, which would result from calculating the silver bullion by him deposited, previous to the month of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, in the mint of the United States, for coinage, at the rate of one thousand four hundred and eighty-five parts fine to one hundred and seventy-nine parts alloy, instead of the rate of nine parts fine to one part alloy, and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of James Yard.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1800-02-27</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Yard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1800-02-27">Feb. 27, 1800</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the term of six months, from and after the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further time allowed for export of merchandise.</p></sidenote> passing of this act, shall be, and is hereby, allowed, as a further time for the exportation, with the benefit of drawback, of one hundred and six pipes, eight hogsheads, and five quarter casks, of Madeira wine, which were duly shipped, and with the benefit of drawback, in the months of March and April, of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, by James Yard, on board the ship Ganges, then bound to India, but afterwards relanded in consequence of the purchase of that ship by the United States; and any drawback which shall accrue on any parcel of the said wine, which, being first duly identified, shall be exported within the term aforesaid, shall be payable in fifteen days after such exportation, and a debenture or debentures may issue for such drawback, upon the like security, conditions, and proofs, as are required in other cases, and to be paid in a similar manner.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1800-02-27">February 27, 1800</date>.
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/39" renderingPosition="bottom">39</page>
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<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of Campbell Smith.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1800-03-29</dc:date>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/40">40</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 17, 18, 20, 24, 44. 1800.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Campbell Smith.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1800-03-29">March 29, 1800</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement of account of C. Smith as Judge Advocate.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury liquidate and settle the account of Campbell Smith, for his services as judge advocate to the legion of the United States, while he acted in that capacity, under an appointment made by General Wayne, on the sixteenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four; and that he be allowed such pay and emoluments for said services, in addition to his pay in the line, as are allowed by law to officers acting in that capacity.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1800-03-29">March 29, 1800</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: to extend the privilege of franking letters and packages to Martha Washington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 40</citableAs>
<dc:date>1800-04-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to extend the privilege of franking letters and packages to Martha Washington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1800-04-03">April 3, 1800</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Privilege of franking letters, &amp;c. extended to Martha Washington.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all letters and packages to and from Martha Washington, relict of the late General George Washington, shall be received and conveyed by post free of postage, for and during her life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1800-04-03">April 3, 1800</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: to discharge Robert Sturgeon from his imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 40</citableAs>
<dc:date>1800-04-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to discharge Robert Sturgeon from his imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1800-04-05">April 5, 1800</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Robert Sturgeon to be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the keeper of the prison in Lewistown, county of Mifflin, and State of Pennsylvania, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to release Robert Sturgeon from imprisonment, on a process in favor of the United States, by virtue of which he is now <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>imprisoned: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> he obtains and produces to him, the said keeper, a certificate from the Secretary of the Treasury, that he the said Robert has assigned and conveyed all his estate, real and personal, in his possession, or to which he is entitled, to some person or persons, for the use of the United States, under the direction and to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, which certificate shall be sufficient authority for the keeper of said prison to release said Robert, so far as he is holden, by virtue of said process, in favour of the United States.</proviso> <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That the judgment obtained, or to be obtained on said process, shall remain in full force against any estate the said Robert may hereafter acquire.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1800-04-05">April 5, 1800</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of the corporation of Rhode Island college.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 40</citableAs>
<dc:date>1800-04-16</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the corporation of Rhode Island college.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1800-04-16">April 16, 1800</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for injuries to Rhode Island college.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the claims of the corporation of Rhode Island college, for compensation for the use and occupation of the edifice of the said college, and for injuries done to the same, from the tenth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, to the twentieth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, by the troops of the United States; and that the sum which may be found due to the said corporation, for damages done to and occupation of the said edifice, as aforesaid, be paid them out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1800-04-16">April 16, 1800</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: to authorize the allowance of a credit to William Tazewell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 40</citableAs>
<dc:date>1800-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>6</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the allowance of a credit to William Tazewell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1800-05-07">May 7, 1800</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to William Tazewell.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in settling the accounts of William Tazewell, secretary of Elbridge Gerry, late envoy extraordinary from the United States of America to the French Republic, the Secretary of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 52, 71. 1800.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/41">41</page>
State be, and he is hereby authorized to allow the reasonable expenses incurred by the said William Tazewell, in consequence of his being captured on his return to the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1800-05-07">May 7, 1800</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LII: for the relief of Ithamar Canfield.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 41</citableAs>
<dc:date>1800-05-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>6</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ithamar Canfield.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1800-05-10">May 10, 1800</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper officer be, and he is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Three land warrants to be issued to Ithamar Canfield, assignee, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and directed to issue three land warrants, of one hundred acres each, to Ithamar Canfield, assignee to Eliphalet Tomlinson, Jabez Tomlinson, and Abraham Shelly, who served the United States as soldiers during the revolutionary war, and became entitled to the said lands by virtue of a resolution of Congress: Provided, the transfers and powers of attorney are made out pursuant to the rules in such cases established at the war office.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1800-05-10">May 10, 1800</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: to make further provision for the children of Colonel John Harding, and Major Alexander Trueman, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 41</citableAs>
<dc:date>1800-05-14</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>6</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to make further provision for the children of Colonel John Harding, and Major Alexander Trueman, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1800-05-14">May 14, 1800</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be annually paid to the guardians<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 22, 1793, ch. 14.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further provision for the children of Colonel Harding and Major Trueman.</p></sidenote> respectively of the sons and daughters of the late Colonel John Harding, deceased, and to the guardian of the daughter of the late Major Alexander Trueman, deceased, for each son and daughter aforesaid, the sum of one hundred dollars, until they shall have respectively attained the age of twenty-one years, to be applied by the said several guardians to the suitable education of the said sons, and to the use of the said daughters.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1800-05-14">May 14, 1800</date>.
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<congress>6</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1800</dc:date>
<dc:date>1801</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventeenth day of November,</i> 1800, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1801.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">John Adams</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Thomas Jefferson</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">James Hillhouse</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the second day of March, 1800; <inline class="smallCaps">Theodore Sedgwick</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. II: for the relief of Solomon Boston.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>II</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 42</citableAs>
<dc:date>1801-01-30</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Solomon Boston.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1801-01-30">Jan. 30, 1801</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Solomon Boston to be discharged from jail.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Solomon Boston, now confined in the public gaol of Kent county in the State of Delaware, be released and discharged, and he hereby is released and discharged from all claim and demand of the United States, to a certain judgment, for a penalty of one thousand dollars, recovered at their suit in the District Court of the District of Delaware; saving and reserving, nevertheless, the right and interest which belongs to any third person, if any such exist.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1801-01-30">January 30, 1801</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. V: regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 42</citableAs>
<dc:date>1801-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>6</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1801-02-18">Feb. 18, 1801</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey of lands for the refugees from Canada, &amp;c. to be made.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the surveyor-general be, and he is hereby directed to cause those fractional townships of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-second ranges of townships, which join the southern boundary line of the military lands, to be subdivided into half sections, containing three hundred and twenty acres each; and to return a survey and description of the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, on or before the first Monday of December next: and that the said lands be, and they are hereby set apart and reserved for the purpose of satisfying the claims of persons <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 7, 1798, ch. 26.</p></sidenote>entitled to lands under the act, entitled, “An act for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">How locations shall be made.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, within thirty days after the survey of lands shall have been returned to him as aforesaid, proceed to determine, by lot, to be drawn in the presence of the secretaries of state and of war, the priority of location of the persons entitled to lands as aforesaid. The persons, thus entitled, shall severally make their locations on the second Tuesday of January next, and the patents for the lands thus located shall be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to be granted.</p></sidenote>granted in the manner directed for military lands, without requiring any fee whatever.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the following persons, claim-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/42" renderingPosition="bottom">42</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 8, 10, 14. 1801.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/43">43</page>
ing lands under the abovementioned act, shall respectively be entitled<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quantities of land assigned to the refugees, nominally.</p></sidenote> to the following quantities of land: that is to say, Martha Walker, widow of Thomas Walker, John Edgar, P. Francis Cazeau, John Allen, and Seth Harding, respectively, two thousand two hundred and forty acres each; Jonathan Eddy, Colonel James Livingston, and Parker Clark, respectively, one thousand two hundred and eighty acres each; and the heirs of John Dodge, one thousand two hundred and eighty acres; Thomas Faulkner, Edward Faulkner, David Gay, Martin Brooks, lieutenantcolonel Bradford, Noah Miller, Joshua Lamb, Atwood Fales, John Starr, William How, Ebenezer Gardner, Lewis F. Delesdernier, John McGown, and Jonas C. Minot, respectively, nine hundred and sixty acres each; and the heirs of Simeon Chester, nine hundred and sixty acres; Jacob Vander Heyden, John Livingston, James Crawford, Isaac Danks, major B. Von Heer, Benjamin Thompson, Joseph Bindon, Joseph Levittre, Lieutenant WilIiam Maxwell, John D. Mercier, James Price, Seth Noble, Martha Bogart, relict of Abraham Bogart, and formerly relict of Daniel Tucker, and John Halsted, respectively, six hundred and forty acres each; David Jenks, Ambrose Cole, James Cole, Adam Johnson, the widow and heirs of Colonel Jeremiah Duggan, Daniel Earl, junior, John Paskell, Edward Chinn, Joseph Cone, and John Torreyre, respectively, three hundred and twenty acres each; Samuel Fales, one hundred and sixty acres; which several tracts of land shall, except the last, be located in half sections by the respective claimants.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1801-02-18">February 18, 1801</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VIII: to discharge Samuel Lewis, senior, from his imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 43</citableAs>
<dc:date>1801-02-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>6</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to discharge Samuel Lewis, senior, from his imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1801-02-25">Feb. 25, 1801</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Samuel Lewis, senior, be discharged from<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Samuel Lewis, senior, to be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> his imprisonment upon a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided however,</i> That he shall first assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may now own or be entitled to, to some person or persons, for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided also,</i> That the said judgment shall remain in full force against any estate which the said Samuel Lewis, senior, may hereafter acquire; and that process may, at any time, be thereon issued against the same.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1801-02-25">February 25, 1801</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. X: for the relief of Nathaniel Holmes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 43</citableAs>
<dc:date>1801-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>6</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nathaniel Holmes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1801-02-25">Feb. 25, 1801</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Treasury be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account of Major Nathaniel Holmes to be settled.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby authorized and directed to settle the account of Major Nathaniel Holmes, and allow him such sums of money, as shall appear to have been paid by him for transporting and victualling a detachment of troops, from his battalion, in the winter of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, from Cape May to Trenton.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1801-02-25">February 25, 1801</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIV: for the relief of Arnold Henry Dorhman, or his legal representatives.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 43</citableAs>
<dc:date>1801-02-27</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>6</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Arnold Henry Dorhman, or his legal representatives.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1801-02-27">Feb. 27, 1801</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for land to be issued.</p></sidenote> he is hereby authorized to issue a patent for the thirteenth township, in the seventh range, to Arnold Henry Dorhman, or his legal representa-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/44">44</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 26. 1800.</centerRunningHead>
tives, agreeably to a resolution of Congress of the first day of October, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1801-02-27">February 27, 1801</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: authorizing the remission of duties on certain teas destroyed by fire, while under the care of the officers of the customs, in Providence, Rhode Island.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 44</citableAs>
<dc:date>1801-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>6</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the remission of duties on certain teas destroyed by fire, while under the care of the officers of the customs, in Providence, Rhode Island.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1801-03-03">March 3, 1801</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties remitted on certain merchandise destroyed by fire.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the district of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to remit the duties on such part of a certain quantity of teas, imported into the port of Providence, in the ship called the Resource, on the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred, by Thomas Lloyd Halsey, John Corlis, William F. Megee, and Henry Smith, of the town of Providence, merchants, and on such part of a certain quantity of teas, imported into the said port, in the ship called the Ann and Hope, on the twenty-second day of August, in the same year, by John Innes Clark, of the said town, merchant, as remained deposited to secure the payment of duties, under the care of the officers of the customs, on the twenty-first day of January last, in the aforesaid town of Providence, and shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the said collector, to have been burned and destroyed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1801-03-03">March 3, 1801</date>.
</action>
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<congress>7</congress>
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<congress>7</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1801</dc:date>
<dc:date>1802</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SEVENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of December,</i> 1801, <i>and ended the third day of May,</i> 1802.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">Thomas Jefferson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Aaron Burr</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Abraham Baldwin</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the 14th January, and from the 21st April, 1802; <inline class="smallCaps">Nathaniel Macon</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. III: authorizing the discharge of Lawrence Erb from his confinement.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>III</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 45</citableAs>
<dc:date>1802-02-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>7</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the discharge of Lawrence Erb from his confinement.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1802-02-03">Feb. 3, 1802</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the marshal of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from confinement.</p></sidenote> the district of Pennsylvania be authorized and directed to discharge Lawrence Erb, late a collector of the revenue of the United States, in the county of Northampton, in the district of Pennsylvania, from confinement, upon a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That he take so much of an oath imposed upon persons imprisoned for debt by the second section of the act, entitled, “An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt,” as relates to his not<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1800, ch. 4.</p></sidenote> having transferred his property with an intent to defraud the United States; and that he shall assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may now own, or be entitled to, to some person or persons for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, also,</i> That the said judgment shall remain in full force against any estate, real or personal, which the said Lawrence Erb may hereafter acquire, and that process may, at any time, be thereupon issued against the same.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1802-02-03">February 3, 1802</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Lyon Lehman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 45</citableAs>
<dc:date>1802-03-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>7</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lyon Lehman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1802-03-06">March 6, 1802</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be refunded and paid to Lyon Lehman,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated by law, the sum of one thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars; it being the amount of duties paid by the said Lyon Lehman, to the collector of the port of New York, on three thousand five hundred rifles and carabines, which were imported from Hamburgh, by the said Lyon Lehman, into the said port of New York, on board the American brig Acteon, Captain Josiah Wilson, in the month of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1802-03-06">March 6, 1802</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/45" renderingPosition="bottom">45</page>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. X: for the relief of Francis Duchouquet.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 46</citableAs>
<dc:date>1802-03-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>7</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/46">46</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 10, 14, 18, 24. 1802,</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Francis Duchouquet.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1802-03-16">March 16, 1802</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Francis Duchouquet, out <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to him.</p></sidenote>of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and ninety-one dollars, and eighty-four cents, in full compensation for moneys by him advanced to redeem certain American citizens captured by the Indians.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1802-03-16">March 16, 1802</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIV: to authorize the President of the United States to convey certain parcels of land therein mentioned.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 46</citableAs>
<dc:date>1802-03-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>7</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the President of the United States to convey certain parcels of land therein mentioned.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1802-03-30">March 30, 1802</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands conveyed to Cornelius Vermule, &amp;c. in New Jersey.</p></sidenote>he hereby is authorized, to grant and convey, in fee simple, by patent or otherwise, unto Cornelius Vermule and Andrew Codmas, respectively, certain parcels of lands situate in the county of Essex, in the State of New Jersey, which in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, had been purchased for a military cantonment, and which were sold to them in the year following, by order of the secretary at war, and the price received.</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That such grant and conveyance, shall vest in the said Cornelius Vermule and Andrew Codmas, respectively, an absolute estate, in fee simple, in the lands respectively purchased by them as aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1802-03-30">March 30, 1802</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: for the relief of Isaac Zane.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 46</citableAs>
<dc:date>1802-04-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>7</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaac Zane.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1802-04-03">April 3, 1802</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands conveyed to Isaac Zane.</p></sidenote>he is hereby authorized and empowered to issue letters patent, in the name, and under the seal of the United States, thereby granting and conveying to Isaac Zane, his heirs and assigns, in fee simple, three sections of land, of one square mile each, within the North-Western Territory, of any lands not heretofore granted or reserved, and to which the Indian title has been extinguished; in trust, nevertheless, in respect to two of the said sections, which shall be last mentioned and described in the said letters patent, to, and for the use and benefit of the children of the said Isaac Zane, who shall be living at the time of his death, and of the heirs of any child or children, deceased, and their heirs, respectively, to hold as tenants in common.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">How to be located.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said Isaac Zane, or his attorney in fact, shall, and, they are hereby authorized and empowered to locate the said three sections in one or more tracts, not to exceed three locations of six hundred and forty acres each: Provided, the said land is not granted, appropriated or reserved by any act or resolution of the United States, or of Virginia, at the time of location.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the surveyor-general of the United States, or one of his deputies, shall, without delay, reasonable notice thereof being first given, survey and lay off the same as the law directs: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> the same has not, at such time, been surveyed.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1802-04-03">April 3, 1802</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of Thomas K. Jones.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 46</citableAs>
<dc:date>1802-04-14</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>7</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas K. Jones.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1802-04-14">April 14, 1802</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector for the port of Boston and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Debentures to be issued to T. K. Jones.</p></sidenote>Charlestown be, and he hereby is authorized to issue to Thomas K. Jones, the debentures for the drawback of the duties on ten pipes of wine imported by said Jones, in the ship Juno, Captain Thomas Ding-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 27, 29, 34, 42. 1802.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/47">47</page>
ley, and exported on the fifteenth day of June last, in the ship Enterprize, Captain Hearsy, for Havanna, on full and satisfactory proof being made to the said collector, of the actual quantity of wine in the said pipes, at the time of their being shipped, as aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">On what condition.</p></sidenote> every other requisite shall have been pursued, agreeably to law, for the obtaining the said drawback.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1802-04-14">April 14, 1802</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Paolo Paoly.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 47</citableAs>
<dc:date>1802-04-14</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>7</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Paolo Paoly.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1802-04-14">April 14, 1802</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed and paid to Paolo Paoly, a subject of his Danish majesty, or to his lawful attorney, out of any<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specific appropriation.</p></sidenote> moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven thousand and forty dollars and fifty-five cents, being the amount of damages and costs of suit, awarded by the circuit court of Pennsylvania, in favour of the said Paoly, as owner of the schooner Amphitheatre, against William Maley, commander of the public armed vessel the Experiment, belonging to the United States, for the capture and detention of the said schooner: on condition that the said Paoly, or his lawful attorney, shall cause to be entered on the records of the said circuit court, an acknowledgment of his receipt of the sum aforesaid, in full satisfaction of the judgment rendered against the said Maley in the premises.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1802-04-14">April 14, 1802</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of Lewis Tousard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1802-04-21</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lewis Tousard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1802-04-21">April 21, 1802</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to pay to Lewis Tousard, late lieutenant-colonel, commandant<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to Lewis Tousard.</p></sidenote> of the second regiment of artillerists and engineers, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and seventy-five dollars and fifty-five cents, being in full payment and adjustment, and to be considered as a final settlement of all accounts between the United States and the said Lewis Tousard, except only the pay and emoluments due to him by the paymaster of the regiment lately under his command: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing herein contained shall be construed to sanction the conduct of any person who has made advances of money not authorized by law.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1802-04-21">April 21, 1802</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of Theodosius Fowler.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1802-04-29</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>7</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Theodosius Fowler.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1802-04-29">April 29, 1802</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the comptroller of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and required to cause to be discontinued the suit<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit against Theodosius Fowler to be discontinued.</p></sidenote> now pending in the circuit court of the district of New York, in the name of the United States, against Theodosius Fowler, for moneys charged to him on the books of the treasury as advanced or paid on account or in consequence of a contract entered into by him with the Secretary of the Treasury on the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and that the said Theodosius Fowler be, and hereby is, discharged from the said demand.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1802-04-29">April 29, 1802</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLII: to empower John James Dufour, and his associates, to purchase certain lands.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 47</citableAs>
<dc:date>1802-05-01</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to empower John James Dufour, and his associates, to purchase certain lands.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1802-05-01">May 1, 1802</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That to encourage the introduction, and to promote<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms upon which John J. Dufour and his associates may purchase certain lands.</p></sidenote> the culture of the vine within the territory of the United States, north-west of the river Ohio, it shall be lawful for John James Dufour, and his associates, to purchase any quantity not exceeding four sections of the lands of the United States, lying between the Great Miami river
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/48">48</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 50. 1802.</centerRunningHead>
and the Indian boundary line, at the rate of two dollars per acre, payable without interest, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty of the register, &amp;c. upon the application of Dufour and his associates.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall be the duty of the register of the land office, established at Cincinnati, to receive and to enter on his entry-book, the applications of the said Dufour, and his associates, for any unappropriated sections with the adjoining fractions, if any, not to exceed in the whole four sections, and lying within the district aforesaid; stating in each entry the date of the application and the number of the section or fraction, township and range applied for; and it shall also be the duty of the said register to deliver to the said Dufour and his associates, a copy of each entry thus made; also a copy of the description or field notes, and of the plat of each tract, with a certificate stating that the same has been purchased under the authority of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 60.</p></sidenote>this act, at the rate of two dollars per acre, payable without interest, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment, where to be made.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That payment for said land may be made at the treasury of the United States, or to the receiver of the land office at Cincinnati, either in specie, or in the evidences of the public debt of the United States, at the rates prescribed by an act entitled<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 14.</p></sidenote> “An act to authorize the receipt of evidences of the public debt in payment for the lands of the United States,” and a discount at the rate of six per cent, a year shall be allowed on any payments, which shall be made before the same shall become due.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to be issued, on certain evidence being produced.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That on producing to the secretary of the treasury copies of the entries aforesaid, and of the plats of the tracts applied for, also the certificate of the register of the land office established at Cincinnati, that the same have been purchased in conformity to the provisions of this act, the President of the United States shall be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered to issue letters patent in the usual form, unto the said Dufour, his associates, and their heirs, for the said lands; with condition expressed in the said letters patent, that on failure to pay the purchase money when the same shall become due the lands therein described, with the improvements thereon, shall be deemed forfeited, and shall revest in the United States.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1802-05-01">May 1, 1802</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of Fulwar Skipwith.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 48</citableAs>
<dc:date>1802-05-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>7</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Fulwar Skipwith.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1802-05-03">May 3, 1802</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid unto Fulwar Skipwith, out of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specific appropriation.</p></sidenote>any money in the public treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, advanced by him for the use of the United States, with an interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the first day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, at which time the advance was made.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1802-05-03">May 3, 1802</date>.
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<congress>7</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1802</dc:date>
<dc:date>1803</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SEVENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December,</i> 1802, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1803.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">Thomas Jefferson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Aaron Burr</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Stephen R. Bradley</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore on the 14th day of January, and from the 2d day of March, 1803; <inline class="smallCaps">Nathaniel Macon</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. II: for the relief of Charles Hyde.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>II</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 49</citableAs>
<dc:date>1803-01-14</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>7</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Hyde.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1803-01-14">Jan. 14, 1803</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account of Charles Hyde to be settled.</p></sidenote> officers liquidate and settle the account of Charles Hyde, for his services as judge advocate to the army, from the second day of December, Anno Domini, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, to the fifteenth day of July, Anno Domini, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, both inclusive; and that he be allowed such pay and emoluments for said services, in addition to his pay in the line, as were, at that time, allowed by law to officers acting in that capacity.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1803-01-14">January 14, 1803</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. III: for the relief of Henry Messonnier.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>III</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 49</citableAs>
<dc:date>1803-02-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>7</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Messonnier.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1803-02-10">Feb. 10, 1803</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Henry Messonnier, from any money in the Treasury not heretofore appropriated by law, the sum<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties refunded.</p></sidenote> of six hundred and fifty-five dollars and ninety cents, being the amount of duties paid by him on fourteen hogsheads of coffee imported in the ship Pacareau, Captain Latour, and entered at the port of Baltimore, on the eighteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, which sum had also been paid on the same fourteen hogsheads of coffee, by Champaign and Deyme.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1803-03-10">February 10, 1803</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the town of Portsmouth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 49</citableAs>
<dc:date>1803-02-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>7</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the town of Portsmouth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1803-02-19">Feb. 19, 1803</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all persons who, being indebted to the United States, for duties on merchandise, have given bond therefor, with one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sufferers by fire at Portsmouth to have further time for discharging their customhouse bonds.</p></sidenote> or more sureties, payable to the collector for the District of Portsmouth, and who have suffered a loss of property by the late conflagration at that place, shall be, and they hereby are allowed to take up, or have cancelled, all bonds heretofore given for duties as aforesaid, upon giving to the said collector new bonds, with one or more sureties, to the satisfac-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/49" renderingPosition="bottom">49</page>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/50">50</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 22, 38. 1803.</centerRunningHead>
tion of said collector, for the sums of their former bonds respectively, payable in twelve months from and after the day of payment specified in the bonds to be taken up or cancelled as aforesaid; and the said collector is hereby authorized and directed to give up, or cancel, all such bonds upon the receipt of others as described in this act; which last mentioned bonds shall be proceeded with, in all respects, like other bonds which are taken by collectors for duties due to the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall extend to bonds which had fallen due before the twenty-sixth day of December last.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1803-02-19">February 19, 1803</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of Moses White.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 50</citableAs>
<dc:date>1803-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>7</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Moses White.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1803-03-02">March 2, 1803</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers adjust and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account of Moses White to be settled.</p></sidenote>settle the claim of Moses White, for his additional pay and emoluments as aid-de-camp to Brigadier-General Moses Hazen, from the first day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, to the third day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, upon the same principles which have heretofore prevailed in the settlement of the accounts of aids-de-camp to brigadier-generals in the line of the revolutionary army; and that they liquidate the same in like manner as though a final settlement certificate, in the customary form, had been issued therefor, when due.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1803-03-02">March 2, 1803</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of Joshua Harvey, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 50</citableAs>
<dc:date>1803-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>7</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joshua Harvey, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1803-03-03">March 3, 1803</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain persons exempted from liability for debts due the U. S.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Joshua Harvey, Augustine Baughan, Isaiah Mankin, Richard Caton, and Frederick Kast, shall not, nor shall either of them be liable to imprisonment for any debt or debts contracted by them to the United States, prior to the committing of the several acts of bankruptcy, upon which they were respectively declared bankrupts: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed in any manner to impair the right of the United States, to satisfaction of any debt due from either of the above named persons, out of any property which they may hereafter respectively acquire, or out of the effects of the said bankrupts, which are now in, or may hereafter come to the hands of the respective assignees, nor to affect any security which may have been given by the said bankrupts: And provided, also, That in case it shall at any time appear, that either of the said bankrupts has been guilty of any concealment of property, or of any manner of fraud, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 4, 1800, ch. 19.</p></sidenote>in violation of the provisions of the act entitled “An act to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,” such person against whom such fraud or concealment shall be so proved, shall forfeit and lose the whole benefit of this act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1803-03-03">March 3, 1803</date>.
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<congress>8</congress>
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<component role="session">
<meta>
<congress>8</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1803</dc:date>
<dc:date>1804</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventeenth day of October,</i> 1803, <i>and ended on the twenty-seventh day of March.</i> 1804.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">Thomas Jefferson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Aaron Burr</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate: <inline class="smallCaps">John Brown</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore from the 31st day of October to the 19th day of December, and from the 26th day of January to the 25th day of February, 1804; <inline class="smallCaps">Jesse Franklin</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 14th day of March; <inline class="smallCaps">Nathaniel Macon</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of John Coles.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1804-01-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Coles.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1804-01-14">Jan. 14, 1804</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United. States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Demurrage allowed on ship Grand Turk.</p></sidenote> officers liquidate and adjust the claim of John Coles, owner of the ship Grand Turk, heretofore employed in the service of the United States, for the detention of the said ship at Gibraltar, by direction of the American consul at that port, from the tenth day of May to the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and one, inclusive; and that he be allowed demurrage at the rate stipulated in the charter party, together with the interest thereon.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1804-01-14">January 14, 1804</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of Paul Coulon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1804-01-26</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Paul Coulon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1804-01-26">Jan. 26, 1804</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Paul Coulon, as agent for the captors of the ship Betty Cathcart and brig Aaron, prizes to the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on sales of prizes refunded.</p></sidenote> French privateer La Bellone, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-four cents, being the amount retained by the Treasury Department from the sales of the ship Betty Cathcart, for duties on the cargo of the brig Aaron.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1804-01-26">January 26, 1804</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. X: to incorporate the Directors of the Columbian Library Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1804-01-31</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the Directors of the Columbian Library Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1804-01-31">Jan. 31, 1804</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Stephen B. Balch, Joseph Nourse, Charles D. Green, John Craven, Francis Lowndes, junior, and George French,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library company constituted.</p></sidenote> and their successors, duly elected or appointed in manner hereinafter directed, be, and they are hereby made, declared and constituted a corporation and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/51" renderingPosition="bottom">51</page>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/52">52</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 10. 1804.</centerRunningHead>
forever, by the name, style and title of “The Directors of the Columbian Library Company in Georgetown.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property vested in as a corporation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all and singular, the goods and chattels heretofore given, granted or devised, to the said Library Company, or to any person or persons, for the use thereof, or that may have been purchased for, or on account of the same, be, and the said goods and chattels are hereby vested in, and confirmed to the said corporation:<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights and privileges.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>And further,</i> That the said corporation may take, and receive any sum, or sums of money, or any goods or chattels, or other effects of what kind or nature soever, which shall, or may hereafter, be given, granted, or bequeathed unto them, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such gift or bequest, such <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of funds.</p></sidenote>money, goods, chattels or other effects to be laid out and disposed of, in the purchase of books, maps, charts, drawings, specimens of minerals, fossils, and other natural and artificial productions, calculated to furnish a library and museum, for the use and benefit of the said company, agreeably to the intention of the donors.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May sue and be sued.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporation, by the name, style, and title aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter forever, able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in any court or courts, or other places, and before any judge or judges, justice or justices, or other persons whatsoever within the district of Columbia or elsewhere, in all, and all manner of suits, actions, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and demands, of whatsoever kind or nature they may be, in as full and effectual a manner, as any other person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, may or can do.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May have a seal and officers.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporation shall have full power and authority to make, have, and use, a common seal, with such device and inscription as they shall think proper, and the same to break, alter, and. renew at their pleasure, to appoint a treasurer, secretary, and librarian, to assign them their duties, fix their compensation, and remove him or them from office, and appoint another or others in their place, as often as they shall think fit; to make, ordain, establish, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May make bylaws.</p></sidenote>and execute such bye-laws and ordinances as may be deemed useful to the institution, and the same to alter, amend, or abrogate at pleasure; to fix the price of new shares and annual contributions on each share; to direct how transfers may be made and certified, and judge of the persons proper to be admitted members; to procure by purchase, rent, or otherwise, a suitable place for keeping the library and museum; to appoint the times for keeping the library open, and for taking out and returning books; to fill up vacancies that may happen in their number <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May collect fines.</p></sidenote>between two annual meetings; to levy and collect fines and forfeitures; and to determine upon, do, and transact all business and matters appertaining to the said corporation and library company, agreeably to the rules, ordinances, and bye-laws thereof, during their continuance in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">What number a quorum.</p></sidenote>office: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That not less than three of the said directors form a quorum to do business; that no bye-law, rule or ordinance, shall be made repugnant to the laws of this district; and that no contribution be laid on any share, in any one year, greater than one-fifth of the value of a share, without the consent of a majority of the members.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual meeting to be held.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there shall be an annual meeting of the members of the said library company at the library, or such suitable place as the directors may from time to time appoint, of which the directors shall cause public notice to be given in one or more of the newspapers that circulate in the vicinity; at which time and place, the members, or such of them as may be present, either personally or by proxy, and shall not be in arrears for any annual contribution, fines, or forfeitures, shall elect and choose by ballot, six directors out
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 16, 28. 1804.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/53">53</page>
of their own number, to serve for the year ensuing their election, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May choose directors.</p></sidenote> until others shall be elected and consent to serve in their place.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the directors shall cause the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts how kept.</p></sidenote> treasurer, secretary, and librarian, to keep, in suitable books for that purpose, just and proper entries of all the proceedings and accounts of the company and corporation, and have them laid before the company at every annual meeting, previous to taking the votes for directors; and shall always deliver the said books, together with all the property of the company, in good order to their successors in office, whenever required.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1804-01-31">January 31, 1804</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVI: for the relief of Samuel Corp.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1804-02-25</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Corp.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1804-02-25">Feb. 25, 1804</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the port of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Samuel Corp allowed drawback on certain goods exported from New York to New Orleans.</p></sidenote> New York be, and hereby is directed to allow to Samuel Corp, of New York, merchant, the drawback of duties by him paid on merchandise, which arrived at New York, in the ship Chesapeake, Andrew Tombs, master, and without being there landed, were thence exported in the same ship, for New Orleans, in the month of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, according to the tenor of two certificates issued by the collector for said port, and made payable respectively, on the twenty-third day of June, and on the twenty-third day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That due proof of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> landing of said merchandise at New Orleans, shall have been exhibited at the office of said collector, as is by law required in other cases of exportation:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That it shah appear to the satisfaction of the collector that the master, or other person having the charge or command of the said ship, had, at the time of making report of the arrival of the same at the port of New York, reported the merchandise brought in her, and which was afterwards exported, as above mentioned, to New Orleans, to be destined for the said port of New Orleans, in conformity with the provisions, which were by law in force, previous to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1804-02-25">February 25, 1804</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the town of Norfolk.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 53</citableAs>
<dc:date>1804-03-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the town of Norfolk.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1804-03-19">March 19, 1804</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all persons who, being indebted to the United States for duties on merchandise, having given bond therefor with one or<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds given for duties by sufferers by the fire, may be cancelled on new ones being given, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> more sureties payable to the collector for the district of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and who have suffered a loss of property by the late conflagration at the town of Norfolk, shall be, and they hereby are allowed to take up, or have cancelled, all bonds heretofore given for duties as aforesaid, upon giving to the collector new bonds, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the said collector, for the sums of their former bonds respectively, payable in twelve months from and after the day of payment specified in the bonds to be taken up or cancelled as aforesaid; and the said collector is hereby authorized and directed to give up or cancel all such bonds, upon the receipt of others, as described in this act; which last mentioned bonds shall be proceeded with in all respects like other bonds which are taken by collectors for duties due to the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall extend to bonds which had fallen due before the nineteenth day of February last.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1804-03-19">March 19, 1804</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of the captors of the Moorish armed ships Meshouda and Mirboha.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 54</citableAs>
<dc:date>1804-03-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/54">54</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 30, 37, 41, 42. 1804.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the captors of the Moorish armed ships Meshouda and Mirboha.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1804-03-19">March 19, 1804</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations for prize money due the captors of the Meshouda, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of eight thousand five hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents, being one moiety of the value of the armed ship Meshouda, captured by the frigate John Adams, commanded by Captain John Rodgers, and restored to the Emperor of Morocco, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for defraying the expense of prize money due to the captors; and that the further sum of seven hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents be, and the same hereby is appropriated for defraying the expenses incurred for the said ship, whilst in possession of the captors.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">For the captors of the Mirboha.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the further sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated, for defraying the expense of prize money due to the officers and crew of the frigate Philadelphia, commanded by Captain William Bainbridge, being one moiety of the value of the armed ship Mirboha, captured by the aforesaid frigate Philadelphia, and likewise restored to the Emperor of Morocco.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foregoing sums to be divided amongst the captors, how.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the aforesaid several sums shall be divided amongst the captors respectively, in the proportion already established by law, for the distribution of prize money, and shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1804-03-19">March 19, 1804</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: authorizing the payment of two thousand eight hundred dollars to Philip Sloan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 54</citableAs>
<dc:date>1804-03-26</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the payment of two thousand eight hundred dollars to Philip Sloan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1804-03-26">March 26, 1804</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to Philip Sloan.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Philip Sloan, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury of the United States, the sum of two thousand and eight hundred dollars, to indemnify him for his ransom from captivity among the Algerines, and as a full compensation for his services as interpreter to the Algerine mission.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1804-03-26">March 26, 1804</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLI: for the relief of the heirs of John Habersham.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 54</citableAs>
<dc:date>1804-03-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of John Habersham.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1804-03-26">March 26, 1804</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The officers of the Treasury to allow certain charges in his favor.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, in settling the accounts of John Habersham, late collector of the port of Savannah, be authorized to allow a charge of one thousand one hundred and eleven dollars and sixteen cents, being the balance of the additional duty of ten per cent, on goods, wares, and merchandise imported in foreign ships; but which, in the commencement of the execution of the law of one thousand seven hundred and ninety, for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, was not duly poliected by him, owing to the distance, which deprived him of early instructions from the Treasury Department; and also the further sum of one thousand dollars, being the amount of a draft of Edward Price, factor of the United States for establishing trade with the Creek Indians, for supplies advanced to the said factor, which has not heretofore been credited on his account.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1804-03-26">March 26, 1804</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of the legal representatives of David Valenzin, deceased; and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of David Valenzin, deceased; and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1804-03-26">March 26, 1804</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Navy to restore to the legal representatives of David Valenzin,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 45. 1804.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/55">55</page>
deceased, the value of the property captured from him in the Mediterranean<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A sum of money appropriated for the representatives of Valenzin.</p></sidenote> by the American squadron, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three, a sum not exceeding two thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars, and seventy cents, be, and the same hereby is appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the value of the said property shall be first duly ascertained<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> by the proper accounting officers:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> person or persons applying therefor, shall exhibit due proof of his or their being the true legal representative or representatives of the said David Valenzin.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the Navy<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims of certain individuals to be paid.</p></sidenote> be, and he hereby is authorized and directed to cause to be liquidated and paid the claims of those individuals who contributed to the maintenance and support of the said David Valenzin, during his imprisonment, and who have defrayed the expenses of his interment; and that for this purpose, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1804-03-26">March 26, 1804</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLV: for the relief of Moses Young.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1804-03-26</dc:date>
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<congress>8</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Moses Young.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1804-03-26">March 26, 1804</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Treasury be authorized and directed to liquidate the accounts of Moses Young, for<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for services as agent of claims at Madrid.</p></sidenote> services rendered the United States, as agent of claims at Madrid, from the date of his appointment by Mr. Humphreys, then minister of the United States at the court of Spain, until the time he ceased to act as the private secretary of that minister, at and after the rate of two thousand dollars per annum; <proviso><i>Provided, </i>That he produce to the accounting officers of the Treasury, a certificate from Mr. Humphreys, that he received no pay or emolument from individuals for said services.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1804-03-26">March 26, 1804</date>.
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<congress>8</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1804</dc:date>
<dc:date>1805</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and. held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fifth day of November,</i> 1804, <i>and ended the third day of March,</i> 1805.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">Thomas Jefferson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Aaron Burr</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Joseph Anderson</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 19th to the 31st day of January, 1805, inclusive, and on the 1st and 3d day of March; <inline class="smallCaps">Nathaniel Macon</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of Charlotte Hazen, widow and relict of the late Brigadier-General Moses Hazen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1805-01-23</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charlotte Hazen, widow and relict of the late Brigadier-General Moses Hazen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1805-01-23">Jan. 23, 1805</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual pension allowed to Charlotte Hazen, widow of Brig. Gen. Hazen.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed to Charlotte Hazen, widow and relict of the late Brigadier-General Moses Hazen, for her support, the annual sum of two hundred dollars, during her life, to commence from the fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and three; and that the sum hereby granted be paid to her the said Charlotte, in the same manner, and under the same rules, regulations and restrictions, as pensions are paid to invalids who have heretofore been placed on the pension-list of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1805-01-23">January 23, 1805</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XII: for the relief of Alexander Murray.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 56</citableAs>
<dc:date>1805-01-31</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>8</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Murray.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1805-01-31">Jan. 31, 1805</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Case of the Charming Betsey, 2 Cranch 64, 1 Cond. Rep. 358.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers liquidate and adjust with Alexander Murray, the account of damages, interest and charges, in the case of the schooner Charming Betsey, recaptured by him while commander of the frigate Constellation, in the service of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred, and afterwards libelled in the District Court of the United States, for the District of Pennsylvania, in which case judgment was ultimately rendered by the circuit court, in pursuance of a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States; and that so much as may be necessary for satisfying the same be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1805-01-31">January 31, 1805</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of John Steele.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 56</citableAs>
<dc:date>1805-01-31</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>8</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Steele.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1805-01-31">Jan. 31, 1805</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services as Secretary of the Mississippi territory.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers liquidate and settle the account of John Steele, for his services as Secretary of the Mississippi Territory, from the seventh day of May, eighteen hundred
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/56" renderingPosition="bottom">56</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 22, 25, 37, 39. 1805.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/57">57</page>
and two, to the second day of March, eighteen hundred and three, inclusively; and that there be paid to him for his salary and official expenditures, such compensation as is by law allowed to persons acting in that capacity.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1805-01-31">January 31, 1805</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXII: authorizing the discharge of John York from his imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 57</citableAs>
<dc:date>1805-03-02</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>8</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the discharge of John York from his imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1805-03-02">March 2, 1805</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the marshal of the District of New York, be authorized and directed to discharge John York, late a collector of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">John York to be discharged from his imprisonment.</p></sidenote> direct tax, for the eighty-third collection district, in the State of New York, from his imprisonment, upon a warrant of distress issued against him, by the supervisor of said district: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That he take, before any judge of the United States, or any judge or justice of the peace of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions prescribed.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Jan. 6, 1800, ch. 4.</p></sidenote> the State of New York, so much of an oath imposed upon persons imprisoned for debt, by the second section of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt,” as relates to his not having transferred his property, with intent to defraud the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided,</i> That he shall assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may own or be entitled to, to some person, for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, also,</i> That any estate, real or personal, which the said John York may hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken and sold, in the same manner, as if he had never been imprisoned and discharged, as aforesaid.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1805-03-02">March 2, 1805</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXV: for the relief of the widow and orphan children of Robert Elliott.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 57</citableAs>
<dc:date>1805-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>8</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the widow and orphan children of Robert Elliott.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1805-03-02">March 2, 1805</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of two thousand dollars be allowed to the widow of Robert Elliott, who was killed by a party of hostile<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of $ 2000.</p></sidenote> Indians, while he was conducting necessary supplies to the army, commanded by Major-General Wayne, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and that the same be paid to her, for the use of herself and the children of the said Robert Elliott, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1805-03-02">March 2, 1805</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: making provision for the widow and orphan children of Thomas Flinn.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 57</citableAs>
<dc:date>1805-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>8</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">making provision for the widow and orphan children of Thomas Flinn.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1805-03-03">March 3, 1805</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of five hundred and eighteen dollars, with interest from the fifteenth of January, one thousand seven<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to the widow and orphans of T. Flinn, killed in the Indian war of 1792.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety-three, be allowed to the widow of Thomas Flinn, an interpreter and guide, who was killed with Colonel John Harding, while employed in bearing messages of peace to the hostile Indians, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-two; and that the aforesaid sum and interest be paid to the said widow, for the use of herself and the orphan children of the said Thomas Flinn, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1805-03-03">March 3, 1805</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of George Scoone and Alexander Cameron.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 57</citableAs>
<dc:date>1805-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>8</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Scoone and Alexander Cameron.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1805-03-03">March 3, 1805</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That George Scoone, late a corporal in the fifth<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geo. Scoone placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> Maryland regiment, in the army of the revolution, be placed on the pension list of the United States, and receive from the fifth of March,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/58">58</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 45, 46. 1805.</centerRunningHead>
seventeen hundred and ninety, a pension of the half pay of a corporal for and during his life.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alex Cameron placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Alexander Cameron, late a soldier in the second regiment of the North Carolina line, of the army of the revolution, be placed on the pension list of the United States, and receive, from the first day of January last, a pension of the half pay of a private for and during his life.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1805-03-03">March 3, 1805</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLV: for the relief of Richard Taylor.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 58</citableAs>
<dc:date>1805-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>8</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard Taylor.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1805-03-03">March 3, 1805</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Richard Taylor, of Kentucky, who was <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension as a spy.</p></sidenote>employed in the service of the United States, as an escort, spy and guide, at the daily pay of one dollar and twenty-five cents, during hostilities with certain Indians, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and was disabled by being wounded while in such service, shall be placed on the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, in the present year, in lieu of his present rate of pension.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1805-03-03">March 3, 1805</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of Robert Patton, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 58</citableAs>
<dc:date>1805-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Patton, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1805-03-03">March 3, 1805</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector for the District of Tappahannock<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign tonnage duty paid by Patton and others to be returned, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> be, and he hereby is directed to repay to Robert Patton and company, and Samuel Pearson, the owners of the schooner Iris, a vessel of the United States, the amount received from them for foreign tonnage on said schooner; and he hereby is also directed to repay to Samuel Gordon and others, the owners of the cargo of said schooner, the amount of the ten per cent, additional duties, received from them upon the said cargo, at the entry thereof at Tappahannock, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bounty or allowance on a fishing voyage to be paid to Edmund Briggs and others.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the collector for the District of Newport be, and he hereby is directed to pay to Edmund Briggs, jun., and others, the master and crew of the schooner Phebe, the amount of bounty or allowance arising on a fishing voyage which was made in the said vessel, in the year one thousand eight hundred and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 10, 1807, ch. 10.</p></sidenote>four, upon satisfactory proof being exhibited to him that the said schooner was employed during the four months of the fishing season.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1805-03-03">March 3, 1805</date>.
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<congress>9</congress>
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<dc:date>1805</dc:date>
<dc:date>1806</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE NINTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December,</i> 1805, <i>and ended the twenty-first day of April,</i> 1806.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">Thomas Jefferson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">George Clinton</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Samuel Smith</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the 11th day of December, and from the 28th day of March; <inline class="smallCaps">Nathaniel Macon</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: to repeal in part the fourth section of an act entitled “An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Galliopolis, and for other purposes therein mentioned.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to repeal in part the fourth section of an act entitled “An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Galliopolis, and for other purposes therein mentioned.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1806-02-21">Feb. 21, 1806</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That so much of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal of 4th sec. of act of June 25, 1798, ch. 59.</p></sidenote> fourth section of an act entitled “An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Galliopolis, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” as imposes the condition of an actual settlement on the said inhabitants, or any of them, their heirs or assigns, be, and the same is hereby repealed. And in every case where a patent has issued, in conformity with the said fourth section, to any of the inhabitants aforesaid, their heirs or assigns, the conditions aforesaid, inserted in any such patent, shall be considered null and void; and the fee simple be vested, to all intents and purposes, in the person to whom such patent has been issued, his or her heirs or assigns.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1806-02-21">February 21, 1806</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XVI: to incorporate the trustees of the Presbyterian congregation of Georgetown.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the trustees of the Presbyterian congregation of Georgetown.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1806-03-28">March 28, 1806</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Stephen B. Balsh, William Whann, James<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stephen B. Balsh, &amp;c. made a corporation or body politic.</p></sidenote> Melvin, John Maffit, John Peter, Joshua Dawson, James Calder, George Thompson, Richard Elliott, David Wiley, and Andrew Ross, and their successors, duly elected, or appointed, in manner hereinafter directed, be, and they are hereby made, declared, and constituted a corporation, and body politic in law, and in fact, to have continuance for ever, by<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Their style and title.</p></sidenote> the name, style, and title of “The Trustees of the Presbyterian Congregation, in Georgetown.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all and singular, the lands,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation made capable of holding and alienating property, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> tenements, rents, annuities, rights, privileges, goods, and chattels, heretofore given, granted, devised, or bequeathed to the said congregation, or to any person or persons, for the use thereof, or that have been purchased for, or on account of the same, be, and are hereby vested in and confirmed to the said corporation: And further, That the said corpora-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/59" renderingPosition="bottom">59</page>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/60">60</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 16. 1806.</centerRunningHead>
tion may purchase, take, receive, and enjoy, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, rights or privileges, or any goods, chattels or other effects, of what kind or nature soever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed or devised, unto them by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such gift, grant, sale, or bequest; and the said property, real and personal, to rent, sell, convey and confirm, or otherwise dispose of, as fully and effectually as any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, may or can do: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the clear annual income of all such property may not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars; that no part of the ground now appropriated, and enclosed for a grave yard, be disposed of for any other purpose: and that the aforesaid property, real and personal, be considered as held in the trust, under the management, and at the disposal of said corporation, for the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to their mode of religious worship; of enclosing and keeping in decent repair, their grave yards and other lots, with the buildings thereon; and of affording such relief to the poor, as their funds may from time to time allow, and for no other purpose.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Made capable of suing or being sued, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporation, by the name, style, and title aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter, for ever, able and capable in law, to sue and to be sued, plead and be pleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in any court or courts, or other places, and before any judge or judges, justice or justices, or other person whatsoever, within the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, in all, and all manner of suits, actions, complaints, pleas, causes, matters, and demands, of whatsoever kind or nature they may be, in as full and effectual a manner, as any other person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, may or can do.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to use a common seal.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporation shall have full power and authority to make, have, and use a common seal, with such device and inscription as they shall think proper, and the same to break, alter, and renew, at their pleasure; to appoint a treasurer, secretary, and such other officers as they may deem necessary and proper; to assign them their duties, and fix their compensation, and to remove any or all of them from office; appoint another, or others, in their place, as often as they shall think fit; to make, ordain, establish, and execute such bye-laws and ordinances, of a secular nature, as may be deemed useful for their own government, and the same to alter, amend, or abrogate, at pleasure; to fill up vacancies that may happen in their number between two annual elections; and to determine upon, do, and transact all business and matters appertaining to the said corporation, and to the secular affairs of said congregation, agreeable to the rules, ordinances and bye-laws thereof, during their continuance in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>office: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That not less than five trustees be a quorum to do business; that no by-law, rule or ordinance shall be made, repugnant to the laws of this district.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual meetings of the congregation for the choice of trustees, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there shall be an annual meeting of the members belonging to said congregation, held on the first Tuesday of April, in every year hereafter, at the church or usual place of public worship, at which time and place the said members, or such of them as may be present, shall elect, and choose, by ballot, from their own number, nine trustees, to serve for the year ensuing their election, and until others shall be elected or appointed to serve in their place.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suitable books to be kept by the trustees.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the trustees shall keep, or cause to be kept, in suitable books for the purpose, just and proper entries of all the proceedings and accounts of said congregation and corporation, and have them laid before the members, at every annual meeting, previous to taking the votes, and shall always deliver the said books,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 18, 27, 34. 1806.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/61">61</page>
together with all the property of said congregation and corporation, in good order to their successors in office, whenever required.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1806-03-28">March 28, 1806</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: for the relief of Peter Landais.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1806-03-28</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Landais.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1806-03-28">March 28, 1806</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is directed to pay to Peter Landais, late a captain of one of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specific appropriation.</p></sidenote> armed vessels of the United States, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand dollars, on account of his claim to prize money, accruing from certain captures made and carried into Bergen, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine; to be deducted from his proportion of the money which may be obtained from the Danish government, in satisfaction of the claim aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1806-03-28">March 28, 1806</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Gilbert C. Russell.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1806-04-15</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Gilbert C. Russell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1806-04-15">April 15, 1806</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Gilbert C. Russell, late a captain of a company of mounted infantry, of the State of Tennessee,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sum to be paid to him.</p></sidenote> out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law, the sum of six hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-five cents, for so much by him expended to the use of the United States, for provision and forage, supplied by him for his men and horses, and for ferriages paid, on a tour of duty from the State of Tennessee to the Natchez; performed under the order of the President of the United States, by virtue of “An act to enable the President of the United States to take<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Oct. 31, 1803, ch. 1.</p></sidenote> possession of the territories ceded by France to the United States, by the treaty concluded at Paris, on the thirtieth of April last, and for the temporary government thereof.”</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1806-04-15">April 15, 1806</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: making provision for the compensation of witnesses who attended the trial of the impeachment of Samuel Chase.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 59</citableAs>
<dc:date>1806-04-21</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">making provision for the compensation of witnesses who attended the trial of the impeachment of Samuel Chase.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1806-04-21">April 21, 1806</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, to every witness summoned to attend the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$3 per day to every witness who attended the trial of Samuel Chase, &amp;c.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote> trial of the impeachment of Samuel Chase, there shall be allowed and paid, for every day’s attendance upon the said trial, the sum of three dollars; and also, for mileage, at the rate of twelve and an half cents for every mile distance coming to the city of Washington, and returning to the usual place of residence of the witnesses, respectively.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall be the duty of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the senate to ascertain and certify the amount due to each witness, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> secretary of the senate to ascertain and certify the amount due to each witness for attendance and mileage; which certificate shall be a sufficient voucher to entitle the witness to receive from the treasury of the United States the amount certified to be due, unless otherwise ordered by the senate.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sum of six thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$6,000 appropriated to defray the expenses incurred under this act, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> be appropriated to defray the expenses to be incurred under the provisions of this act, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1806-04-21">April 21, 1806</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the temporary relief of Hamet Caramalli.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 62</citableAs>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/62">62</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 37, 43. 1806.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the temporary relief of Hamet Caramalli.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1806-04-21">April 21, 1806</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in the town of Detroit and territory of Michigan, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 62</citableAs>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in the town of Detroit and territory of Michigan, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1806-04-21">April 21, 1806</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the governor and the judges of the territory<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A town to be laid out by the Governor and Judges of Michigan, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of Michigan shall be, and they, or any three of them, are hereby, authorized to lay out a town, including the whole of the old town of Detroit, and ten thousand acres adjacent, excepting such parts as the President of the United States shall direct to be reserved for the use of the military department, and shall hear, examine, and finally adjust <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lots to be given to actual settlers of Detroit when it was burnt, if citizens of U. S.</p></sidenote>all claims to lots therein, and give deeds for the same. And to every person, or the legal representative or representatives of every person, who, not owning or professing allegiance to any foreign power, and being above the age of seventeen years, did, on the eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and five, when the old town of Detroit was burnt, own or inhabit a house in the same, there shall be granted by the governor and the judges aforesaid, or any three of them, and where they shall judge most proper, a lot not exceeding the quantity of five thousand square feet.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land undisposed of according to preceding section to be sold by the Governor and Judges.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the land remaining of the said ten thousand acres, after satisfying claims provided for by the preceding section, shall be disposed of by the governor and judges aforesaid, at their discretion, to the best advantage, who are hereby authorized to make deeds to purchasers thereof; and the proceeds of the lands so disposed of shall be applied, by the governor and judges aforesaid, towards building a court-house and jail in the town of Detroit, and the said governor and judges are required to make a report to Congress, in writing, of their proceedings under this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1806-04-21">April 21, 1806</date>.
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<congress>9</congress>
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<dc:date>1807</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE NINTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December,</i> 1806, <i>and ended the third day of March,</i> 1807.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">Thomas Jefferson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">George Clinton</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Samuel Smith</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the 3d day of March, 1807; <inline class="smallCaps">Nathaniel Macon</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: for the relief of George Little.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 63</citableAs>
<dc:date>1807-01-17</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Little.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1807-01-17">Jan. 17, 1807</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages in the case of the Flying Fish allowed to him.</p></sidenote> officers liquidate and adjust with George Little the account of damages, interest and charges, in the case of the brig Flying Fish, captured by him while commander of the frigate Boston, in the service of the United States, during the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and afterwards libelled in the district court of the United States, for the district of Massachusetts; in which case judgment was<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">2 Cranch, 170. 1 Cond. Rep. 378.</p></sidenote> ultimately rendered by the circuit court, in pursuance of a decision of the supreme court of the United States; and that so much as may be necessary for satisfying the same, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1807-01-17">January 17, 1807</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of Seth Harding, late a captain in the navy of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 63</citableAs>
<dc:date>1807-02-06</dc:date>
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<congress>9</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Seth Harding, late a captain in the navy of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1807-02-06">Feb. 6, 1807</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of the navy be, and hereby is directed to place upon the navy list of invalid pensioners of the United<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension allowed.</p></sidenote> States, Seth Harding, late a captain in the navy of the United States, who has been so disabled in the line of his duty, while in service, that he is unable to support himself by labor: and who shall be entitled to receive one half his monthly pay of a captain in the navy, to commence from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and four, agreeably to the provisions contained in the act, entitled “An act for<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 23, 1800, ch. 33.</p></sidenote> the better government of the navy of the United States.”</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1807-02-06">February 6, 1807</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1807-02-10</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1807-02-10">Feb. 10, 1807</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all persons, who, being indebted to the United States for duties on merchandise, have given bond therefor, with
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/63" renderingPosition="bottom">63</page>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 11. Ch. 10, 11. 1807.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sufferers by the late fire in Portsmouth allowed a further time for the payment of bonds for duties.</p></sidenote>one, or more sureties, payable to the collector for the district of Portsmouth, in the State of New Hampshire, or to the collector of the district of Boston and Charlestown, and who have suffered a loss of property by the late conflagration at Portsmouth, shall be and hereby are allowed to take up, or have cancelled, all bonds heretofore given for duties as aforesaid, upon giving to the said collector or collectors new bonds, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the said collector or collectors, for the sums of their former bonds respectively, payable in twelve months from and after the day of payment specified in the bonds to be taken up and cancelled, as aforesaid; and the said collectors are hereby authorized to give up or cancel all such bonds, upon the receipt of others, as described in this act; which last mentioned bonds shall be proceeded with, in all respects, like other bonds which are taken by collectors for duties due to the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall extend to bonds which had fallen due prior to the twenty-fourth day of December last.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1807-02-10">February 10, 1807</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. X: for the relief of Edmund Briggs.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 64</citableAs>
<dc:date>1807-02-10</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>9</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edmund Briggs.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1807-02-10">Feb. 10, 1807</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector for the district of Newport be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector to pay him or his agent the amount of bounty found due to him.</p></sidenote>and he hereby is directed to pay to Edmund Briggs, owner of the schooner Phebe, or his agent, the amount of bounty, or allowance arising on a fishing voyage, which was made in the said vessel, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, upon satisfactory proof being exhibited to the said collector, that the said schooner was employed during the four months of the fishing season.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal of a section of the law relating to Robert Patton, &amp;c.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1805, ch. 46.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That so much of the act, intituled “An act for the relief of Robert Patton, and others,” passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, as is contained in the second section thereof, be, and the same hereby is repealed.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1807-02-10">February 10, 1807</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of William Hearn.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 64</citableAs>
<dc:date>1807-02-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>9</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Hearn.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1807-02-10">Feb. 10, 1807</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sec. Treas. to cause inquiries to be made into his pecuniary circumstances, and to give him a certificate.</p></sidenote>hereby authorized to inquire, by himself, or by some trusty agent whom he may appoint for the purpose, into the pecuniary circumstances of William Hearn, now imprisoned, by virtue of a writ of execution, in favor of the United States, in the prison of Washington county, district of Columbia; and if said Hearn shall assign and convey to the secretary aforesaid, all the estate, of every kind and description, which he may own, or be entitled to, in possession, remainder, or reversion, to the proper use and benefit of the United States; or if he, the said Hearn, shall prove to the satisfaction of the secretary, or agent aforesaid, that he has no estate, and has not transferred all or any part of his property, with intent to avoid the payment of the sum for which he is imprisoned, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Upon which the marshal, &amp;c. is authorized to discharge him.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>or to defraud the United States; then the secretary of the treasury shall give to said Hearn, a certificate, stating what he has done in the premises: and upon said Hearn producing such certificate to the marshal of the district of Columbia, he shall discharge said Hearn from his imprisonment: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> in case the certificate shall specify that the said Hearn has satisfied the secretary, or agent aforesaid, that he had no estate, and of course has made no assignment, then the said Hearn shall either pay, or execute to the marshal, his obligation, payable to the United States, for all fees and expenses, which have arisen in consequence of his, said Hearn’s imprisonment, before he be discharged as <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>aforesaid:</proviso> <proviso><i>And, provided,</i> That nothing in this act shall be construed, to discharge any other person from any liableness to the payment of,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 24, 26, 27, 32. 1807.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/65">65</page>
(or from any liableness to be imprisoned by virtue of the execution aforesaid,) nor to release any estate, which the said Hearn may hereafter acquire, from a liableness to satisfy said execution.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1807-02-10">February 10, 1807</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of Oliver Pollock.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 65</citableAs>
<dc:date>1807-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>9</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Oliver Pollock.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A ccount of commercial agent.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby authorized to liquidate and settle the account of Oliver Pollock, formerly commercial agent for the United States at New Orleans, and that they allow him for his expenses of detention at the Havanna; for the sum paid Thomas Patterson, as his hostage; for gunpowder furnished; for commission on the sum paid for gunpowder, and for commission on the sum of seventy-four thousand and eighty-seven dollars, at the rate of two and one half per cent, with interest until paid, and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated: Provided, The said Pollock shall, upon the receipt of the sums directed to be paid by this act, execute, in consideration thereof, a discharge to the United States of all demands whatsoever, and lodge the same with the register of the treasury.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and William Eaton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 65</citableAs>
<dc:date>1807-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>9</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and William Eaton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers be, and they<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of late consul at Tunis.</p></sidenote> hereby are authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the accounts subsisting between the United States and William Eaton, late consul at Tunis, upon just and equitable principles, under the direction of the secretary of state.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Stephen Sayre.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 65</citableAs>
<dc:date>1807-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>9</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Stephen Sayre.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula> That the accounting officers of the treasury be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of s ecretary of legation.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby authorized to settle the account of Stephen Sayre, as secretary of legation to the American commissioner at the court of Berlin, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, and that they allow him not exceeding four months pay, at the rate of one thousand pounds sterling per annum, and the compensation usually made for returning home, with interest on the whole sum until paid: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Sayre shall, upon the receipt of the sum directed to be paid by this act, execute in consideration thereof a discharge to the United States, of all demands whatsoever, and lodge the same with the register of the treasury.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, and their companions.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 65</citableAs>
<dc:date>1807-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>9</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, and their companions.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of war be, and he is hereby<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrants for land to be issued to Capt. Lewis and his companions.</p></sidenote> directed to issue land warrants to Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke, for one thousand six hundred acres each; to John Ordway, Nathaniel Prior, the heirs or legal representatives of Charles Floyd deceased, Patrick Gass, William Bratton, John Collins, John Colter, Pier Cruzatte, Joseph Field, Reuben Field, Robert Frasier, Silas Goodrich, George Gibson, Thomas P. Howard, Hugh Hall, Francis Labuiche,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/66">66</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 33, 38, 42. 1807.</centerRunningHead>
Hugh M’Neal, John Shields, George Shannon, John Potts, John Baptiste Le Page, John B. Thompson, William Werner, Richard Windsor, Peter Wiser, Alexander Willard, Joseph Whitehouse, George Drulyard, Tousaint Charbono, Richard Worfington, and John Newman, for three hundred and twenty acres each: which several warrants may, at the option of the holder or possessor, be located with any register or registers of the land offices, subsequent to the public sales in such office, on any of the public lands of the United States, lying on the west side of the Mississippi, then and there offered for sale, or may be received at the rate of two dollars per acre, in payment of any such public lands.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Double pay allowed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That double pay shall be allowed, by the secretary of war, to each of the before named persons, agreeably to the time he or they may have served, in the late enterprise to the Pacific ocean, conducted by Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, and that the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sum appropriated.</p></sidenote>sum of eleven thousand dollars be and the same hereby is appropriated to discharge the same, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of Daniel S. Dexter.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel S. Dexter.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from his imprisonment.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">On what conditions.</p></sidenote>
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<content class="inline">That Daniel S. Dexter, of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, be discharged from his imprisonment upon a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That he shall first assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may now own or be entitled to, to some person or persons, for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided also,</i> That the said judgment shall remain in full force against any estate which the said Daniel S. Dexter may hereafter acquire; and that process may at any time be thereon <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervisor not to be discharged from his liability.</p></sidenote>issued against the same:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided,</i> That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to discharge the late supervisor of the district of Rhode Island from any legal liability for not taking bonds of the said Dexter, for the faithful discharge of his duty.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: authorizing the discharge of Gilbert Drake from his imprisonment.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the discharge of Gilbert Drake from his imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharge from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
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<content class="inline">That the marshal of the district of New York be authorized and directed to discharge Gilbert Drake, late a collector of the direct tax, in said district, from his imprisonment, upon a warrant of distress issued against him by the supervisor of said district: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That he take, before any judge of the United States, or any judge of the supreme court of the State of New York, or court of common pleas of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 48. 1807.</centerRunningHead>
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the county in which he is imprisoned, so much of an oath imposed upon persons imprisoned for debt, by the second section of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt,” as relates to his<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Jan. 6, 1800, ch. 4.</p></sidenote> not having transferred his property with intent to defraud the United States: And provided, That he shall assign, and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may own or be entitled to, to some person for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided also,</i> That any estate, real or personal, which the said Gilbert Drake may hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken and sold in the same manner as if he had never been imprisoned and discharged, as aforesaid.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: concerning invalid pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning invalid pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<p class="inline">That the secretary at war be, and he is hereby directed to place the following named persons, whose claims have been<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place sundry persons on pension list.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote> transmitted to Congress, pursuant to a Jaw passed the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, according to the rates, and to commence at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richard Fairbrother, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons named.</p></sidenote> on the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and six; John De Voe, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and six; Peter Demarest, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and six; Stephen Ogden, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and six; John Berry, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six; John King, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six: Robert Ames, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six; Charles Gowin, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six; Francis L. Slaughter, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six; William Re Beck, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six; Spafford Ames, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six; Josiah Jones, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six; Samuel Dowdney, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six; Eliphalet Easton, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six; Joseph Ligon, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven; John Hubbard, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven; Daniel Guard, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven; Elisha Forbes, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven; Alexander Simonton, at the rate of three dollars per
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 48. 1807.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions.</p></sidenote>month, to commence on the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven Noah Robinson, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six; Charles Mynn Thruston, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and six; Jonas Farnsworth, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six; Benoni Hathaway, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six; Thomas Marshal Baker, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six; James Dysart, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six; Henry Ten Eyck, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven; John Little, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven; Thomas Harris, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six; Daniel Ball, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of those whose pensions are to be increased.</p></sidenote>
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<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula> That the pensions of the following persons, already placed on the pension list of the United States, whose claims for an increase of pension have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to the act aforesaid, be increased to the sums herein respectively annexed to their names, the said increase to commence at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seth Wyman, four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and six; George Bradford, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and six; Abel Furney, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and six; Charles Scott, five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six; Ephraim Bailey, five dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six; Asa Ware, five dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six; Daniel Hickey, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six; Daniel Nutting, two dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six; Abel Woods, five dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six; Joseph Morril, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six; William Neley, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six; Elisha Frizzle, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six; William Burritt, five dollars per month, to commence on the third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six; Benjamin Smith, five dollars per month, to commence on the third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six; George Pittman, five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven; Gustavus Aldrich, three dollars and thirty-three cents and one third of a cent per month, to commence on the twenty-first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six; Jabez Pembleton, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of De-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 48. 1807.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/69">69</page>
cember, one thousand eight hundred and six; Wiat Hinkley, five dollars<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions.</p></sidenote> per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six; Edward Evans, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven; Moses Wing, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six; John Cavenough, three dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven; Richard Hardin, five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six; Jonathan Holton, ten dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six; Jonathan Willard, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six; Thomas Pearson, thirteen dollars thirty-three cents and one third of one cent per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and six; John Maynard, six dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and six; Thomas Avery, sixteen dollars sixty-six cents and two-thirds of one cent per month, to commence on the third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six; Ebenezer Coe, twenty dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and six; Ebenezer Bancroft, six dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and six; William Worthington, fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six; David Hawley, ten dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.</p>
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<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pension of Benjamin<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension of Benjamin Bartlett increased.</p></sidenote> Bartlett, of Massachusetts, who was employed in the service of the United States as an escort, spy and guide, at the pay of one dollar per day during hostilities with certain Indian tribes, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and was disabled by being wounded whilst in said service, be increased to five dollars per month.</content>
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<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensioners becoming<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners by virtue of this act to be paid as invalid pensioners have been paid heretofore.</p></sidenote> such in virtue of this act shall be paid in the same manner as invalid pensioners are paid, who have heretofore been placed on the pension list of the United States, under such restrictions and regulations in all respects as are prescribed by the laws of the United States, in such cases provided.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1807-03-03">March 3, 1807</date>.
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of October,</i> 1807, <i>and, ended on the twenty fifth day of April,</i> 1808.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">Thomas Jefferson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">George Clinton</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Samuel Smith</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the eighteenth day of April; <inline class="smallCaps">J. B. Varnum</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. VI: to extend certain privileges as therein mentioned to Anthony Boucherie.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to extend certain privileges as therein mentioned to Anthony Boucherie.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1808-01-07">Jan. 7, 1808</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from certain obligations.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 17, 1800, ch. 25.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That two years’ residence, as required by an act entitled, “An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees,” shall not be required of Anthony Boucherie, to enable him to obtain a patent for any discovery he has made in the art of manufacturing<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shall obtain a patent, when.</p></sidenote> sugar, but that he shall obtain a patent therefor, on his conforming to the other requisitions of said act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1808-01-07">January 7, 1808</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XII: to provide for the payment of certain expenses incurred in the impeachment of Samuel Chase.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to provide for the payment of certain expenses incurred in the impeachment of Samuel Chase.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1808-01-21">Jan. 21, 1808</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses incurred in the impeachment of Judge Chase to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote>and they are hereby directed to audit and settle the accounts of all persons who may have claims against the United States, for expenses incurred in the inquiry into the conduct, and in the impeachment of Samuel Chase; which expenses may have been authorized by the committee <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of inquiry, or the managers of the said impeachment: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said accounts shall have been first certified by the chairman of the said committee, or managers; and the same shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1808-01-21">January 21, 1808</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of Oliver Evans.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Oliver Evans.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1808-01-21">Jan. 21, 1808</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for the Secretary <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A patent may be granted to Oliver Evans by the Secretary of State.</p></sidenote>of State, on application in writing by Oliver Evans, to cause letters patent to be made out in the manner and form prescribed by the act entitled, “An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose,” thereby granting to said Oliver
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/70" renderingPosition="bottom">70</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 23, 32. 1808.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/71">71</page>
Evans, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, for a term not<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.</p></sidenote> exceeding fourteen years, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to be used, his invention, discovery and improvements in the art of manufacturing flour and meal, and in the several machines which he has discovered, invented, improved and applied to that purpose: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no person who<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> may have heretofore paid the said Oliver Evans for license to use his said improvements shall be obliged to renew said license, or be subject to damages for not renewing the same:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That no<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> person who shall have used the said improvements, or have erected the same for use, before the issuing of the said patent, shall be liable to damages therefor.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1808-01-21">January 21, 1808</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: for the relief of Samuel Whiting.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 71</citableAs>
<dc:date>1808-02-25</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Whiting.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1808-02-25">Feb. 25, 1808</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Samuel Whiting four hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for services rendered.</p></sidenote> and forty dollars, in satisfaction of the said Samuel Whiting’s claim for services rendered, and expenses incurred, pursuant to the directions of the post-master general, in the apprehending and prosecuting one Henry Deming, late a deputy post-master at Hinsdale, in Massachusetts, who was indicted in the circuit court of the United States, at Boston, for embezzling certain letters which came to his possession, containing bank-notes belonging to the said Samuel Whiting.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1808-02-25">February 25, 1808</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of Edward Weld, Samuel Beebee, and John Davidson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edward Weld, Samuel Beebee, and John Davidson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1808-03-11">March 11, 1808</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is authorized and directed to pay out of any moneys in the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for certain certificates.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to Edward Weld, the sum of one hundred dollars; to Samuel Beebee, the sum of fifty dollars; and to John Davidson, the sum of fifty dollars, together with interest on each of the said sums at the rate of eight per centum per annum, agreeably to the terms of the loan of five millions of dollars, proposed under a treasury regulation, pursuant to an act of Congress, passed on the sixteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An act<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 16, 1798, ch. 79.</p></sidenote> to enable the President of the United States to borrow money for the public service,” being the amount of three certificates issued at the bank of the United States, as part of the said loan; one of which, being number two hundred and twenty-seven, issued in the name of the said Edward Weld, for one hundred dollars, and has been since lost by him, not having been funded; one other, being number eight hundred and ninety, issued in the name of John Fox, for one hundred dollars, the one moiety of which has been funded, and the other moiety remaining still unfunded, has been regularly assigned the said Samuel Beebee; and the remaining one of said certificates, being the unfunded moiety of number seventeen hundred and twenty-seven, for one hundred dollars, issued in the name of George Willis, and regularly assigned to the said’ John Davidson; upon which certificates all the instalments have been paid conformably to the terms of the said loan: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said Edward Weld shall, previous to the said sum being paid to him, give bond with sufficient security, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to indemnify the United States against any future claim made on them, on account of the said lost certificate.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1808-03-11">March 11, 1808</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: granting William Wells the right of pre-emption.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/72">72</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 36, 45, 49. 1808.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting William Wells the right of pre-emption.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1808-05-18">May 18, 1808</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Beit enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That William Wells shall have the right of preemption<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pre-emption right to be granted.</p></sidenote> to three hundred and twenty acres of land, to include his improvements situate at Fort Wayne, in the Indiana Territory, at the confluence of the rivers Saint Joseph’s and St. Mary’s, which form the Miami of the lake; the boundaries of which shall be designated under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; which tract of land shall be granted to him at the same price, and on the same terms for which other public lands are sold at private sale, and the respective instalments of the purchase-money shall become due at the same time with those of the first public lands which may be sold in the tract of six miles square, ceded by the treaty of Greenville to the United States, at the confluence of said rivers.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1808-03-18">March 18, 1808</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLV: for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Barclay, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 72</citableAs>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Barclay, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1808-04-18">April 18, 1808</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote>be, and they are hereby authorized to liquidate and settle the account of Thomas Barclay, deceased, and that they allow for his services, while he acted as vice consul in France, a salary at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum: and that while he acted as consul, commercial agent, commissioner of public accounts in Europe, and was engaged in negotiating the treaty concluded with the emperor of Morocco, in one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, they allow a salary at the rate of three thousand three hundred and thirty-three and one-third dollars per annum, exclusive of his expenses; and that in the adjustment of his account with the public, which originated in consequence of his second mission, they credit him with the amount of goods purchased to take with him to Morocco, according to the letters of David Humphreys, Esq. (formerly minister from the United States to the court of Spain), to the Secretary of State, and the invoices and memorandums transmitted by that minister to the government; and that they pay the balance, with interest, to the legal representatives of the said Thomas Barclay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1808-04-18">April 18, 1808</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of Matthew Smith and Darius Gates, jointly, and Darius Gates, separately.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 72</citableAs>
<dc:date>1808-04-21</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Matthew Smith and Darius Gates, jointly, and Darius Gates, separately.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1808-04-21">April 21, 1808</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joint account of Matthew Smith and Darius Gates to be settled.</p></sidenote>be, and they are hereby authorized to liquidate and settle the account of Matthew Smith and Darius Gates, and that they allow them the principal sum of money paid to the United States for two tracts of land lying in the town of East Haddam, in the State of Connecticut, purchased by the said Matthew Smith and Darius Gates, jointly, of the United States, through the marshal of the district of Connecticut, who was fully authorized to sell the same, and from which lands the said purchasers were regularly evicted by due course of law, together with the amount of costs by them expended in defending the titles of the United States to said lands, with interest on the whole sum that may appear to be due.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Separate ac- count of Darius Gates to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the aforesaid accounting officers be, and they are hereby authorized to liquidate and settle the account of Darius Gates, and allow him the principal sum of money paid to the United States for two tracts of land lying in the aforesaid town
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 54, 58. 1808.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/73">73</page>
and state, purchased by the said Darius Gates of the United States, through the marshal aforesaid, who was fully authorized to sell the same, and from which lands the said purchaser was evicted by due course of law, together with the amount of costs by him expended in defending the title of the United States to said lands, with interest on the whole sum that may appear to be due.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sums which may be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> found due to the aforesaid purchasers of the lands aforesaid, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1808-04-21">April 21, 1808</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of Philip Turner.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 73</citableAs>
<dc:date>1808-04-22</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Philip Turner.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1808-04-22">April 22, 1808</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are authorized and directed, to liquidate and settle the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of half-pay as captain.</p></sidenote> account of Philip Turner, late hospital physician and surgeon, and that they allow him the commutation equal to the half pay of a captain, agreeably to a resolution of Congress, passed on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> the said Philip Turner, on the receipt of the money directed to be paid him by this act, shall execute in consideration thereof, a discharge to the United States, of all demands whatsoever, and deposit the same in the office of the register of the treasury.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1808-04-22">April 22, 1808</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: concerning invalid pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 73</citableAs>
<dc:date>1808-04-25</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning invalid pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1808-04-25">April 25, 1808</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<p class="inline">That the secretary of war be, and he is hereby<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place certain persons on the list of invalid pensioners at certain rates.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote> directed to place the following named persons, whose claims have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to a law passed the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, according to the rates, and to commence at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Lamar Davis, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Albert Chapman, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ambrose Homan, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richard Scott, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Francis Blood, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonas Green, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Green, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seth Weed, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Lathrop, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peter Smith, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and six.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Johnson, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/74">74</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 58. 1808.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote>to commence on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Houston, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jedediah Hyde, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the third day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Nesbit, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shepherd Packard, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richard Kisby, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonathan Wilkins, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Waterman Baldwin, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Clark, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Venus, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eleventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Holcombe, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richard Steads, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alexander Jones, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Saddler, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and three.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Jinkins, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Scott, at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Bruff, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathan Taylor, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aaron Stevens, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Simon Morgan, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonathan Patch, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and six.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Rowe, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 58. 1808.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Kendrick, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one-third<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> cents per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nicholas Hoff, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Shaw, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nicholas Lott, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Humphrey Becket, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Silas Parrot, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jared Hinkley, junior, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Francis Davidson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Andrew Waggoner, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Richardson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Wallace, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Bird, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John St. John, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abner Snow, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aaron Crane, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Hawkley, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elijah Morse, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Van Anglen, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Boden, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Burnham, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and three.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Hillman, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Silas Pierce, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 58. 1808.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote>Randel M‘Allistor, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Durnal, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jabez Church, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Machen, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Richey, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
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<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions of the following persons already placed on the pension list of the United States, whose claims for an increase of pension have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to the act aforesaid, be increased to the sums herein respectively annexed to their names, the said increase to commence at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Campbell, four dollars per month, to commence on the twentyfifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Beardsley, jun., five dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Bristol, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Josiah Smith, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Ware, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Buck, five dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lemuel King, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Wallace, five dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Saunders, five dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Hastings, five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joshua Lovejoy, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Higgins, three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reuben Dow, fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Harrup, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Ranney, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Whitehorn, five dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richard Sherman, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Noah Sinclair, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Church, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 58. 1808.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gershom Clarke, five dollars per month, to commence on the first<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John M’Kinstrey, twelve dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Perkins, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Henry Ten Eyck, fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Simpson, thirteen dollars thirty-three and one-third cents, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and six.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Rybecker, four dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lemuel Dean, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Johnson, five dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Levi Chubbuck, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the twentieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Walter, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Rossetter, five dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jeremiah Prichard, thirteen dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abner Gage, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Devoe, five dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Bradley, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thaddeus Seely, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Herron, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peter Nevins, four dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Hampton, six dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rosswell Wood worth, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Hulbell, five dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John M’Koy, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Caleb Hunt, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Henry Gates, five dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Hall, five dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonah Cook, five dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Nelson, to five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the secretary of war be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to place on the pension list
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 59, 64. 1808.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons disabled in revolutionary war to be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>of the United States, all persons who now remain on the pension list of any of the states, and who were placed on the same in consequence of disability occasioned by known wounds received during the revolutionary war, whether such person or persons served in the land or sea service of the forces of the United States, or of any particular state, in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>regular corps, or the militia, or as volunteers: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That in no case the pensions allowed to such person or persons, shall exceed the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote>sums specified by the sixth section of an act, entitled “An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,” passed the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> and six:</proviso> <proviso><i>Arid provided,</i> That in every case where application shall be made, to have such person or persons placed on the pension list of the United States, under this law, satisfactory documents from the proper officers of the state, shall be adduced to establish the fact of such person or persons having been placed on the state pension list in consequence of disability occasioned by known wounds received during the revolutionary war.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons disabled in the service of the U.S. since the revolution, to be placed on pension list.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">At what rates.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, who has been wounded or disabled since the revolutionary war, while in the line of his duty, in the actual service of the United States, whether he belong to the military establishment or the militia, or any volunteer corps, called into service under the authority of the United States, may be placed on the pension list of the United States, at such rate of compensation, and under such regulations<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote> as are prescribed by the act, entitled “An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war,” passed April the tenth, one thousand eight hundred and six.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">How to be paid.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensioners becoming such in virtue of this act, shall be paid in the same manner as invalid pensioners are paid, who have heretofore been placed on the pension list of the United States under such restrictions and regulations, in all respects, as are prescribed by the laws of the United States, in such cases provided.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1808-04-25">April 25, 1808</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of George Hunter.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Hunter.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1808-04-25">April 25, 1808</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Beit enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers be authorized <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote>to examine and settle the accounts of George Hunter, of Philadelphia, and in the said settlement to allow him a credit for such quantity of saltpetre, the property of the United States, delivered to him for the purpose of being purified, as shall be made appear to have been destroyed by fire in his warehouse.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1808-04-25">April 25, 1808</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of Joseph Chase, Jared Gardner, and others.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Chase, Jared Gardner, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1808-04-25">April 25, 1808</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the owners of the ship Manilla, belonging <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ship Manilla exonerated from all penalty for having gone to St. Domingo.</p></sidenote>to Joseph Chase and Jared Gardner and others, of the island of Nantucket, in the State of Massachusetts, be, and they are hereby permitted to cause to return to the United States the said ship Manilla, and her cargo, without being liable to any forfeiture or penalty, incurred in consequence of the said ship’s having gone to the island of St. Domingo, under a clearance obtained on the seventh day of March, one thousand <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 24, 1807, ch. 17.</p></sidenote>eight hundred and seven, before the act of the twenty-fourth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven, continuing the suspension of trade with certain parts of the said island of St. Domingo, was known in the said island of Nantucket.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1808-04-25">April 25, 1808</date>.
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<dc:date>1808</dc:date>
<dc:date>1809</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of November,</i> 1808, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1809.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">Thomas Jefferson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">George Clinton</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Stephen R. Bradley</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 4th to the 7th day of January; <inline class="smallCaps">John Milledge</inline>, President, pro tempore, of the Senate, from the 30th day of January; <inline class="smallCaps">J. B. Varnum</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. II: for the relief of Andrew Joseph Villard.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>II</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Andrew Joseph Villard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1809-01-04">Jan. 4, 1809</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Andrew<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to him.</p></sidenote> Joseph Villard, the sum of one thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for his extra services and expense, in the mode of mounting heavy cannon for batteries, on a new construction, for the use and benefit of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1809-01-04">January 4, 1809</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Augustin Serry.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 79</citableAs>
<dc:date>1809-01-12</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Augustin Serry.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1809-01-12">Jan. 12, 1809</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby authorized to settle the account of Augustin<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed pay and emoluments of a boat swain.</p></sidenote> Serry, formerly a boatswain on board the United States brig Sophia; and that they allow him the pay and emoluments of a boatswain, from the fifteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, until the sixteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight; and that they pay the balance which may be found due to the said Augustin Serry, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1809-01-12">January 12, 1809</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XII: for the relief of Edmund Beamont.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 79</citableAs>
<dc:date>1809-02-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edmund Beamont.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1809-02-01">Feb. 1, 1809</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Edmund Beamont, now imprisoned in the state of Connecticut, shall be, and hereby is released and discharged<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> from all claim and demand of the United States, to a certain judgment for a penalty of four hundred dollars recovered, with costs, at their suit before the district court for the district of Connecticut, holden at New Haven, in the month of August, eighteen hundred and six; saving and reserving, nevertheless, the right and interest, if any there be, which belongs to any third person.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1809-02-01">February 1, 1809</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of Daniel Cotton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 80</citableAs>
<dc:date>1809-02-28</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/80">80</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 21, 32, 35, 37. 1809.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Cotton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1809-02-28">Feb. 28, 1809</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for detention of ship Anna Maria.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to settle the account of Daniel Cotton, and allow him for the detention and use of his ship, called the Anna Maria, from the twenty-third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, when she was arrested by the Bey of Tunis, until the twenty-third day of May following, when she discharged her Tunisian cargo at Marseilles, allowing him while in port the usual rate of demurrage, and while on the voyage the usual rate of freight, agreeably to the burthen of the said ship; and after deducting from the whole sum allowed for such detention, demurrage and freight, five thousand dollars paid to the master of said ship by William Eaton, then consul for the United States at Tunis, they pay the balance, with interest, to said Daniel Cotton, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1809-02-28">February 28, 1809</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of Jacob Barnitz.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 79</citableAs>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacob Barnitz.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1809-03-03">March 3, 1809</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That there be allowed to Jacob Barnitz, formerly <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance on account of sufferings, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>an ensign in Captain Christian Stoke’s company, in Colonel Swope’s battalion of the Pennsylvania flying camp, the sum of one thousand dollars, on account of sufferings, and expenses in procuring medical and surgical aid, incurred by wounds received in the revolutionary war with Great Britain, and that the same be paid to him out of any money remaining in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1809-03-03">March 3, 1809</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: to extend to Amos Whittemore and William Whittemore, junior, the patent right to a machine for manufacturing cotton and wool cards.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 80</citableAs>
<dc:date>1809-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to extend to Amos Whittemore and William Whittemore, junior, the patent right to a machine for manufacturing cotton and wool cards.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1809-03-03">March 3, 1809</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the privileges and benefits granted to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent right extended.</p></sidenote>Amos Whittemore, of the state of Massachusetts, in consideration of a machine invented by him for the manufacture of cotton and wool cards within the United States, by a patent issued from the Department of State, and bearing date the fifth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, be, and the same are hereby extended to Amos Whittemore, and William Whittemore, junior, as joint proprietors of the said machine, for and during the term of fourteen years, to commence on the fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.</p></sidenote>eight hundred and eleven; anything in the act entitled “An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose,” to the contrary notwithstanding.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1809-03-03">March 3, 1809</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: concerning invalid pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 80</citableAs>
<dc:date>1809-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning invalid pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1809-03-03">March 3, 1809</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place the following named persons on the pension list.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote>directed to place the following named persons, whose claims have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to a law passed the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, according to the rates, and to commence at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Oxford Tash, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hezekiah Sawtell, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 37. 1809.</centerRunningHead>
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to commence on the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners,</p></sidenote> eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Amos Spafford, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Josiah Temple, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Abbott, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thaddeus Waugh, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joel Hinman, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Pendleton, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eliphalet Sherwood, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Treadwell, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Obadiah Perkens, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Daboll, at the rate of sixty-two and one-half cents per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gideon Edwards, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elijah Sheldon, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Church, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richard Mellen, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elisha Prior, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Cramer, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Phillips, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Walsh, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Lindsley, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Fergus, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Elliot, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Correar, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 37. 1809.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote>John Smith, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph White, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edward Tuck, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Evan Ragland, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Crute, at the rate of thirteen dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Evans, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Carmichael, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Vickery, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joshua Hawkins, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph M’Junkin, at the rate of twelve dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Otterson, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Carr, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonathan Tinsley, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Gallespie, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Christian Smith, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bartholomew Berry, at the rate of five dollars per month, to cojnmence on the seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Robert Shaw, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Burton, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Hewitt, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jacob Redenour, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Keough, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaiah Corben, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Richardson, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per
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month, to commence on the twentieth day of January, one thousand<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Johnson, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Henry Overly, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abraham Gamble, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William M’Clannahan, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William M’Laland, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the fourth of February, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions of the following<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of pensions.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote> persons, already placed on the pension list of the United States, whose claims for an increase of pension have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to the act aforesaid, be increased to the sums herein respectively annexed to their names; the said increase to commence at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Curtis, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-first<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Potter, three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Haines, five dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Bussell, five dollars per month, to commence on the third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Wood, three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Prutt, three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Tinkham, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Brown, five dollars per month, to commence on the third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Merrill, three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Leach, five dollars per month, to commence on the second day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Constant Webb, three dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonathan Bowers, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abner Andrews, five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Josiah Merryman, five dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Burdwin, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Oliver Bostwick, ten dollars per month, to commence on the third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edward Bassett, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 37. 1809.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote>on the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jeremiah Markham, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Andrus, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elisha Clark, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aaron Tuttle, three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Sturges, four dollars per month, to commence the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Burr Gilbert, five dollars per month, to commence the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jehiel Judd, four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ashbel Hosmer, five dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Andrew M’Guire, five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Lowrey, three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Blever, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel B. White, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Judah Levy, five dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Enoch Turner, five dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edward Stanton, five dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elisha Lee, twenty dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Starr, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Morgan, three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Andrew Gallup, three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Woodmancy, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Solomon Perkins, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Walter Burdick, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Park Avery, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Amos Avery, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
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<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Avery, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> on the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Denslow, five dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Amos Skeele, three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Burrows, five dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elisha Frizzle, five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John M’Kinstrey, twenty dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Gibbs, thirteen dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence the eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Barbarick, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Morgan, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Moxley, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Bill, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Christopher Latham, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensioners becoming<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">How to be paid.</p></sidenote> such in virtue of this act, shall be paid in the same manner as invalid pensioners are paid, who have heretofore been placed on the pension list of the United States, under such restrictions and regulations in all respects, as are prescribed by the laws of the United States in such cases provided.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1809-03-03">March 3, 1809</date>.
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE ELEVENTH CONGRESS</p>
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<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the twenty-second day of</i> May, 1809, <i>and ended the twenty-eighth day of June,</i> 1809.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Madison</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">George Clinton</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Gregg</inline>, Presisident of the Senate, pro tempore, on the 28th day of June; <inline class="smallCaps">J. B. Varnum</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the discharge of John Heard from his imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1809-06-20">June 20, 1809</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Heard, late collector of the port of Amboy, in the State of New Jersey, be discharged from his imprisonment, upon a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That he shall first assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may now own, or be entitled to, to some person or persons, for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That the said judgment shall remain in full force against any estate which the said John Heard may hereafter acquire, and that process may at any time be thereupon issued against the same.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1809-06-20">June 20, 1809</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIII: authorizing the discharge of Joseph Wilkinson, junior, from his imprisonment.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the discharge of Joseph Wilkinson, junior, from his imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1809-06-28">June 28, 1809</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That Joseph Wilkinson, junior, late collector of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from his imprisonment.</p></sidenote>the port of Detroit, in the Michigan territory, be discharged from his imprisonment, upon a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That he shall first assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may now own, or be entitled to, to some person or persons, for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That the said judgment shall remain in full force against any estate which the said Joseph Wilkinson, junior, may hereafter acquire, and that process may, at any time, be thereupon issued against the same.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1809-06-28">June 28, 1809</date>.
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE ELEVENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of November,</i> 1809, <i>and ended the first day of May,</i> 1810.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Madison</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">George Clinton</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Gregg</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 9th to the 19th day of December; <inline class="smallCaps">John Gaillard</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the 2d day of March, and from the 20th day of April to the 1st day of May, 1810; <inline class="smallCaps">J. B. Varnum</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: for the relief of William and Elias Rector.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William and Elias Rector.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1809-12-28">Dec. 28, 1809</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement for surveys.</p></sidenote> officers of the treasury be authorized to settle the claim of William and Elias Rector, at a sum not exceeding three dollars per mile, for the lines which bound each survey, whether separate or adjoining other claims, for each survey which they have made, or may hereafter make, under the authority of the United States, of the private claims in the Kaskaskia district, or Illinois territory, claimed by virtue of French or British grants, legally and fully made and executed, or by virtue of grants issued under the authority of former acts of Congress, by either of the governors of North West, (now Ohio) or Indiana territories, and which had already been surveyed by a person authorized to execute such survey.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1809-12-28">December 28, 1809</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VI: to extend certain privileges therein mentioned to Joseph Joshua Dyster.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1810-02-05</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to extend certain privileges therein mentioned to Joseph Joshua Dyster.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-02-05">Feb. 5, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That two years’ residence, as required by an act, entitled “An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 17, 1800, ch. 25,</p></sidenote> discoveries and inventions, to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the right of patentees,” shall not be required of Joseph Joshua Dyster, to enable him to obtain a patent for any discovery he has made in constructing iron bridges, and applicable to other architectural purposes; but he shall obtain a patent therefor on his conforming to the other requisitions of said act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-02-05">February 5, 1810</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Harry Caldwell and Amasa Jackson, Jeremiah Reynolds, and Levin Jones.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 87</citableAs>
<dc:date>1810-02-05</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Harry Caldwell and Amasa Jackson, Jeremiah Reynolds, and Levin Jones.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-02-05">Feb. 5, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the brig Joseph Ricketson, owned by Harry Caldwell and Amasa Jackson, which on or about the twenty-fifth day
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/87" renderingPosition="bottom">87</page>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/88">88</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 9, 10, 22. 1810.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief in the cases of Caldwell, Jackson, Reynolds and Jones.</p></sidenote>of July last, at Kingston, in the island of Jamaica, took on board three refugees from the island of Cuba, with their domestic slaves, six in number, and landed them at New Orleans; and that the schooner Victory, owned by Jeremiah Reynolds, who, about the latter end of September last, at Curaeoa, took on board a number of French emigrants from the said island of Cuba, with their domestic slaves, six in number, and landed them also at New Orleans, which said vessels were seized, together with their effects, and libelled, for a violation of an act, entitled<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1807, ch. 22.</p></sidenote> “An act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight,” be, and they are hereby severally released from the seizures aforesaid. And that the schooner Wolfe, of Baltimore, owned and commanded by Levin Jones, which vessel was seized some time in October last, at Norfolk, in Virginia, on account of having brought from Charleston, in South Carolina, to that place, certain French slaves, nineteen in number, without previously complying with the requisites enjoined by the ninth and tenth sections of the act aforesaid, be, and she is hereby also released from the seizure.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remission of all penaliies and forfeitures in these cases.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all penalties or forfeitures, which may have been incurred either by the captains or owners of said vessels, in consequence of the violation of any of the provisions of the act referred to in the first section, be, and the same are hereby remitted.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-02-05">February 5, 1810</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. IX: for the relief of John N. Stout.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1810-02-14</dc:date>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John N. Stout.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-02-14">Feb. 14, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote>be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to settle the account of John N. Stout, keeper of the jail of Fleming county, in the State of Kentucky, and allow him the legal fees for maintaining George Barnaby, while in his custody, as a prisoner committed to the jail of said county, by virtue of an execution issued from the court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, and that they pay the sum which may be found due to the said John N. Stout, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-02-14">February 14, 1810</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. X: authorizing the discharge of William Hawkins from his imprisonment.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>X</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1810-02-20</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the discharge of William Hawkins from his imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-02-20">Feb. 20, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the marshal for the district of Maine be, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>he is hereby authorized and directed to discharge William Hawkins from his imprisonment, upon an execution issued against him in behalf of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said William Hawkins shall pay and satisfy all the costs that have arisen on the part of the United States in the said prosecution, and shall assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may own, or be entitled to, to some person for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That any estate, real or personal, which the said William Hawkins may hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken and sold, in the same manner as if he had never been imprisoned and discharged as aforesaid.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-02-20">February 20, 1810</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of Tristram Hussey.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1810-04-11</dc:date>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Tristram Hussey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-04-11">April 11, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be refunded and paid to Tristram Hussey, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 24, 25, 28. 1810.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/89">89</page>
the sum of three hundred and ninety-five dollars and forty cents, it being the amount of duties paid by the said Tristram Hussey, to the collector of New York, on thirty-five casks of spermaceti oil, sent to New York in American vessels from the Cape de Verd islands by the said Tristram Hussey, in the years one thousand eight hundred and one, and one thousand eight hundred and two: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the same has not been exported with benefit of drawback.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-04-11">April 11, 1810</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: authorizing the discharge of John Kerr from his imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 89</citableAs>
<dc:date>1810-04-20</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the discharge of John Kerr from his imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-04-20">April 20, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the marshal for the district of North Carolina, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to discharge John<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> Kerr from his imprisonment, upon an execution issued against him in behalf of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That he shall assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may own or be entitled to, to some person for the benefit of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That any estate, real or personal, which the said John Kerr may hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken and sold, in the same manner as if he had never been imprisoned and discharged as aforesaid:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless,</i> That if any person entitled to any part of the said judgment under the laws of the United States, shall object to the discharge of the said John Kerr, he shall be detained in prison at the cost and expense of the person so objecting, who shall pay weekly in advance, the amount of the jail fees and subsistence of the said John Kerr, and in case of failure to make any such payments in advance, the said John Kerr[shall]be immediately discharged, upon the conditions herein before expressed.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-04-20">April 20, 1810</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXV: for the relief of William Baynham.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 89</citableAs>
<dc:date>1810-04-20</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Baynham.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-04-20">April 20, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be paid to William Baynham, out of the moneys appropriated for the payment<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest to be paid to him.</p></sidenote> of the interest of the public debt, the interest accrued from the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and nine, to the thirty-first day of December, of the same year, on two certificates of exchanged six per cent, stock, the principal whereof amounted to ten thousand six hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety-seven cents; which certificates having been erroneously numbered by the late commissioner of loans of Virginia, though advertised for reimbursement by their real permanent numbers on the first day of October last, were not, by reason of the error aforesaid, reimbursed until the first day of January.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-04-20">April 20, 1810</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of Moses Young.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 89</citableAs>
<dc:date>1810-04-25</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Moses Young.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-04-25">April 25, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized to settle the account of Moses Young,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid as secretary of legation.</p></sidenote> as secretary of legation to Henry Laurens, Esq., on his mission to Holland, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty; and that they allow him five hundred pounds sterling per annum, from the eighteenth of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, the time of his appointment, to the ninth of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, including the usual allowance of three months for returning to the United States; and after deducting the sum of money received from Dr. Franklin by the petitioner, and by his agent, Joseph
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/90">90</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 32. 1810.</centerRunningHead>
Nourse, from the treasury, that the balance, with interest thereon, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-04-25">April 25, 1810</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: concerning invalid pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning invalid pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-04-27">April 27, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place the following named persons on the pension list.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote>directed to place the following named persons, whose claims have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to a law passed the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, according to the rates, and to commence at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gideon Griggs, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elijah Brainard, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of November, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Cotton, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Smart, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the second day of February, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Union, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the sixth day of December, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edward Grant, at the rate of three dollars and seventy cents per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peleg Smith, at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the tenth day of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Ladd, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Reed, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of October, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Slack, at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of October, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Sterns, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twentieth day of March, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Enos Petett, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonathan Perkins, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the third day of May, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toney Turney, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Wayland, at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Hurd, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Squire Boon, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of September, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Henry Shaw, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of October, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 32. 1810.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Quintin Moore, at the rate of one dollar and sixty-six and two thirds<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> cents per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of August, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Robert Baird, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Tennell, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fifth day of December, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edward Lloyd, at the rate of thirteen dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-first day of June, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John M’Chesney, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twentieth day of February, eighteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Strother, at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the fifth day of October, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Cress, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the seventh day of August, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Howard, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the third day of July, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Newman Laudman, at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Powell, at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twentieth day of November, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Benedict, at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of November, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Philip Philips, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of November, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peter Conyne, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of November, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Buxton, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of December, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Crookshanks, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twentieth day of December, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Gilbert, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the second day of September, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Simeon Gibbs, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Berry, at the rate of one dollar and sixty-six and two thirds cents per month, to commence on the ninth day of September, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Warson, at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of September, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Shaler, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of February, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Munn, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Reed, at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 32. 1810.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote>Charles Kilgore, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ambrose Lewis, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Newman, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Noyes, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aaron Brinck, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Hamilton, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hackalia Doolittle, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peter Harford, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Wood, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Goodrum, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Smith, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jared Duncan, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of December, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Martin, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gerardus Dingman, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Donald M’Donald, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twentieth day of January, eighteen hundred and ten.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pensions.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions of the following persons already placed on the pension list of the United States, whose claims for an increase of pension have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to the act aforesaid, be increased to the sums herein respectively annexed to their names; the said increase to commence at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Little, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second of November, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Walker Baylor, twenty dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth of December, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Bennet, three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth of June, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Carhart, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-first of February, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Weaver, five dollars per month, to commence on the fourth of September, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Josias Smith, ten dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh of May, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abiel Knapp, three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh of October, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 32. 1810.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peter D. Demarest, five dollars per month, to commence on the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> seventh of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kerly Ward, three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the tenth of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Utter, five dollars per month, to commence on the third of January, eighteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lee Lay, six dollars and sixty-six and two third cents per month, to commence on the fourth of December, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Henry Cone, five dollars per month, to commence on the fourth of December, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elihu Sabin, three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the third of October, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Simon Crosby, three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twentieth of September, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Tarbell, three dollars per month, to commence on the third of June, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jeremiah Markham, five dollars per month, to commence on the third of June, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Wakelee, five dollars per month, to commence on the first of September, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Orcutt, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth of March, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jedediah Brown, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fourteenth of October, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Stephen Hempstead, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the third of February, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Finch, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-first of July, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richard Lamb, three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the first of May, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Solomon Stark, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the thirteenth of February, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathan Hawley, three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth of May, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel French, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth of May, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nero Hawley, three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth of May, eighteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Zeba Woodworth, five dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of September, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Annanias Tubbs, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fifteenth of March, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonas Adams, five dollars per month, to commence on the sixth of February, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Moses Smith, five dollars per month, to commence on the ninth of February, eighteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abraham Sawyer, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the sixteenth of November, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elias Barron, five dollars per month, to commence on the sixth of June, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richard Crouch, five dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth of April, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Johnson, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jeremiah Robbins, three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 42, 46, 48. 1810.</centerRunningHead>
month, to commence on the thirtieth of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abner Kent, five dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Cobey, five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth of May, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Vaughan, thirteen dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twelfth of January, eighteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Statts Hammond, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of December, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bartlett Hawkins, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth of March, eighteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Foster, five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth of December, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Johnston, five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and nine.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Andrew Pinkerton to be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby directed to place Andrew Pinkerton on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, and to pay him at the rate of three dollars and thirty-fthree] cents and one third of a cent per month, commencing on the twenty-fifth of August, eighteen hundred and nine.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions, how to be paid.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the several sums specifically appropriated by this act, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-04-27">April 27, 1810</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLII: allowing compensation to Robert Robinson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 94</citableAs>
<dc:date>1810-05-01</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">allowing compensation to Robert Robinson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-05-01">May 1, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be paid out of the treasury of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for services as clerk.</p></sidenote>United States, out of any moneys therein not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred dollars to Robert Robinson, in full compensation for his extra services as clerk to the board of commissioners at Kaskaskias, and as interpreter and transcriber of the different languages, and as agent to the board, and for conveying the report of the commissioners to the seat of the government of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-05-01">May 1, 1810</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of P. C. L’Enfant.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 94</citableAs>
<dc:date>1810-05-01</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of P. C. L’Enfant.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-05-01">May 1, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">For laying out plan of Washington city.</p></sidenote>and directed to pay to P. C. L’Enfant, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and sixty-six dollars and two thirds, with legal interest from the first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, as a compensation for his services in laying out the plan of the city of Washington.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-05-01">May 1, 1810</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Arthur St. Clair.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 94</citableAs>
<dc:date>1810-05-01</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Arthur St. Clair.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-05-01">May 1, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to him.</p></sidenote>he hereby is authorized to cause to be paid out of any moneys which may be in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars to Arthur St. Clair, who served in the army of the United States throughout the revolutionary war: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> the said Arthur St.
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 49. 1810.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/95">95</page>
Clair shall, previous to the receipt of the said sum of money, sign a release of all claim for further remuneration from the government for services rendered, or money advanced by him, during the revolutionary war.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-05-01">May 1, 1810</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of William W. Weymouth and Joseph P. Weeks.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 95</citableAs>
<dc:date>1810-05-01</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William W. Weymouth and Joseph P. Weeks.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1810-05-01">May 1, 1810</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it. enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the penalty incurred some time in the month of March last, by William W. Weymouth, master of the schooner Weymouth,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty remitted in case of William W. Weymouth.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1807, ch. 22.</p></sidenote> for not complying with the injunctions of the ninth section of the act, entitled “An act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight,” previous to his leaving the port of New York with a fugitive slave on board, named Oliver, belonging to the estate of James Redford, deceased, late of Richmond in the State of Virginia, be and the same is hereby remitted; any law or laws to the contrary notwithstanding.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the penalty incurred some<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty remitted in case of Joseph P. Weeks.</p></sidenote> time in the month of July last, by Joseph P. Weeks, master of the schooner Ceres, and also the forfeiture of said schooner, incurred for not complying with the injunctions of the said ninth section of said act, previous to his leaving the port of New York, with a fugitive slave on board, named Lige, belonging to Isaac Entwisle, of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, be and the same are also hereby remitted.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1810-05-01">May 1, 1810</date>.
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<congress>11</congress>
<session>3</session>
<dc:date>1810</dc:date>
<dc:date>1811</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE ELEVENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the third session, which was began and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December,</i> 1810, <i>and ended the third day of March,</i> 1811.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Madison</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">George Clinton</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">John Pope</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 26th day of February; <inline class="smallCaps">J. B. Varnum</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE III.</session>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of George Armroyd and Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 96</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-01-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Armroyd and Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-01-19">Jan. 19, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback allowed them.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the port of Wilmington, in the State of Delaware, be, and he is hereby directed to allow George Armroyd and Company the drawback of duties on certain merchandise exported from the port of Philadelphia by them, in the month of October, one thousand eight hundred and nine, which merchandise, so exported, was imported into the district of Wilmington aforesaid, on the tenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and seven, in the schooner Christianstadt, and thence shipped coastwise to the port of Philadelphia, in the sloops Caroline and Anne: <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless,</i> That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to compel the collector of Wilmington to grant the allowance of the drawback of duties aforementioned, until he shall receive from the collector of the port of Philadelphia satisfactory proof that the merchandise was shipped according to the forms of the laws, in such cases made and provided; and also satisfactory proof from the said George Armroyd and Company, that the merchandise has been landed in some foreign port or place.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-01-19">January 19, 1811</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of the heirs of the late Major-General Anthony Wayne.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 96</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-01-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>11</congress>
<session>3</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of the late Major-General Anthony Wayne.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-01-21">Jan. 21, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be re-examined and settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers be, and they are hereby authorized to re-examine and settle the accounts of the late Major-General Anthony Wayne, and place to the credit thereof the three several sums stated by his executor in his memorial to Congress, dated the seventh of January, eighteen hundred and eleven, to have been disbursed by the deceased for expenses necessarily incurred in the official discharge of his duty; and three other sums stated in the said memorial, for services rendered by the said deceased to the United States.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-01-21">January 21, 1811</date>.
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/96" renderingPosition="bottom">96</page>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VIII: to change the name of Lewis Grant to that of Lewis Grant Davidson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 97</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 8, 10, 12, 13. 1811.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/97">97</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to change the name of Lewis Grant to that of Lewis Grant Davidson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-02-06">Feb. 6, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Lewis Grant of the District of Columbia, devisee of Samuel Davidson, late deceased, of the said district, be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name to be changed.</p></sidenote> he is hereby authorized, from and after the passage of this act, to take and use the surname of Davidson, and that his name hereafter be Lewis Grant Davidson, and all acts done and entered into by that name shall have the same effect and operation in law, as if his name had originally been Lewis Grant Davidson.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-02-06">February 6, 1811</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. X: for the relief of William Mills.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 97</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-02-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>11</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Mills.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-02-07">Feb. 7, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Mills, now imprisoned in the county of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut, shall be and is hereby released<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> and discharged from all claim and demand of the United States, to or upon a certain judgment, before the district court for the district of Connecticut, holden at New Haven, in the month of August, one thousand eight hundred and ten, recovered for the sum of two thousand dollars, with costs, at their suit, on his recognizance for appearance as witness, in the case of a prosecution on behalf of the United States before the circuit court in the same district.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-02-07">February 7, 1811</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XII: malting compensation to John Eugene Leitensdorfer for services rendered the United States in the war with Tripoli.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 97</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-02-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>11</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">malting compensation to John Eugene Leitensdorfer for services rendered the United States in the war with Tripoli.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-02-13">Feb. 13, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby directed to issue a land warrant to John Eugene Leitensdorfer for three<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land-warrant to be granted to Leitensdorfer.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty acres; which said warrant may, at the option of the holder or possessor, be located with any register or registers of the land offices on any of the public lands of the United States, lying on the west side of the Mississippi, then and there offered for sale, or may be received at the rate of two dollars per acre in payment of any such public lands.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And he it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the proper accounting officers<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">His account to be settled.</p></sidenote> of the treasury be, and they are hereby directed to settle the account of John Eugene Leitensdorfer, and to allow him the pay of a captain, from the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, to the fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and five, being the time he served as adjutant and inspector of the forces of the United States, in Egypt and on the coast of Africa.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-02-13">February 13, 1811</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: authorizing the discharge of Nathaniel F. Fosdickfrom his imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 97</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-02-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>11</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the discharge of Nathaniel F. Fosdickfrom his imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-02-13">Feb. 13, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the marshal for the district of Maine be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to discharge Nathaniel F. Fosdick<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> from his imprisonment, upon an execution issued against him in behalf of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Nathaniel F. Fosdick shall pay and satisfy all the costs that have arisen on the part of the United States in the said prosecution, and shall assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may own, or be entitled to, to some person, for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> 3 hat any estate, real or personal, which the said Fosdick may hereafter
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/98">98</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 24, 27. 1811.</centerRunningHead>
acquire, shall be liable to be taken and sold in the same manner as if he had never been imprisoned and discharged as aforesaid:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That any surety or sureties of said Fosdick shall first agree in writing, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, as aforesaid, that any liability which may at present exist against such surety shall in nowise be impaired or affected by this act, or by the liberation of said Fosdick from his imprisonment.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-02-13">February 13, 1811</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: providing for the sale of a tract of land lying in the state of Tennessee, and a tract in the Indiana territory.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 98</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-02-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>11</congress>
<session>3</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">providing for the sale of a tract of land lying in the state of Tennessee, and a tract in the Indiana territory.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-02-25">Feb. 25, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the commissioners appointed by an act of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Site of town of Pulaski to be entered with register of land office, and sold.</p></sidenote>the legislature of the state of Tennessee, passed on the fourteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and nine, to fix on a site for the town of Pulaski, in the county of Giles, and state aforesaid, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby authorized, on producing a receipt from the receiver of public moneys, for at least one-twentieth part of the purchase money, to enter with the register of the land office, established for the lands ceded to the United States by the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote>Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians, in the Mississippi territory, a tract of land lying in a regular square, and containing six hundred and forty acres, which has or may be fixed on as a site for the town of Pulaski, as aforesaid, at the same price and on the same terms and conditions of payment as are provided with respect to the other public lands sold at private sale at the said office; and on completing the payment of the purchase money, a patent shall be granted therefor to the said commissioners and their successors in office, in trust, for the use of the said county of Giles, for the purpose aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions upon which the land for the permanent seat of Indiana government may be obtained.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the commissioners appointed by an act of the legislature of the Indiana territory, to fix on a proper site for the permanent seat of government for the said territory, be, and they are hereby authorized, and their successors in office, so soon as the surveys under the authority of the United States shall have been made of the lands which they shall select, and on producing a receipt from the receiver of public moneys, for at least one-twentieth part of the purchase money, to enter with the register of the land office for the district in which the land lies, any four quarter sections of land adjoining to each other, which have not been reserved by any former act of Congress, and which the said commissioners may select and fix on as a site for the permanent seat of government for the said territory; and payment shall be made therefor at the same price, and on the same terms and conditions, as are provided in respect to the other public lands sold at private sale in the same district; and on completing the payment of the purchase money, a patent shall be granted therefor, to the said commissioners and their successors in office, in trust for the use of said territory, for the purpose aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-02-25">February 25, 1811</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Peter Audrain.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 98</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-02-26</dc:date>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Audrain.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-02-26">Feb. 26, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed to Peter Audrain the sum <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for services as clerk.</p></sidenote>of seven hundred dollars, being a balance due as a compensation for two years’ services as clerk to the board of land commissioners at Detroit, from the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and seven, to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and nine; and that the same be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-02-26">February 26, 1811</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: for the relief of John Macnamara.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 99</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-03-02</dc:date>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 35, 39. 1811.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/99">99</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Macnamara.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-03-02">March 2, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the schooner Sally, owned by John Macnamara, which vessel, at Nassau, New Providence, took on board some<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schooner Sally released.</p></sidenote> French emigrants from the Island of Cuba, with their domestic slaves, and landed them at Charleston, which said vessel was seized, together with her cargo, and libelled for a violation of an act entitled “An act<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1807, ch. 22.</p></sidenote> to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight,” be, and the same is hereby released, together with her cargo, from the seizure aforesaid.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all penalties or forfeitures<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalties remitted.</p></sidenote> which may have been incurred by the captain or owner of said vessel in consequence of any provisions of the act referred to in the first section, which have inured, or might otherwise inure to the United States, be, and the same are hereby remitted: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> that the said vessel and [cargo] shall not be released, or the said penalties and forfeitures remitted, but on condition that the said slaves be previously, actually and bona fide removed (if not already removed) from and without the limits of the United States and territories thereof.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-03-02">March 2, 1811</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of Richard Tervin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, and Joseph Wilson, of the Mississippi Territory.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 99</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-03-03</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard Tervin, William Coleman, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, and Joseph Wilson, of the Mississippi Territory.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-03-03">March 3, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Richard Tervin be, and he is hereby, authorized to produce to the register of the land office, and the receiver<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Donation certificate for a tract of land granted to Richard Tervin, on his producing certain evidence.</p></sidenote> of public moneys, for the district east of Pearl river, in the Mississippi territory, evidence of his having inhabited and cultivated a tract of land in said territory, prior to the thirtieth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight; and in case such evidence shall be produced, the said register and receiver are required to grant to the said Richard Tervin a donation certificate for such tract of land, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And he it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That William Coleman be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To William Coleman.</p></sidenote> he is hereby authorized to produce to the said register and receiver, evidence of his right to a donation of a tract of land on the Tombigbee river in said territory; and in case he shall produce satisfactory evidence to the said register and receiver, that he was entitled to a donation of such tract, according to the provisions of the second section of the act entitled “An act regulating the grants of land and providing<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27.</p></sidenote> for the disposal of the lands of the United States, south of the state of Tennessee,” and the acts supplementary thereto, it shall then be lawful for the said William Coleman to locate a quantity of land equal to that to which he was entitled under the above-mentioned provisions, on any lands of the United States, which shall have been offered at public sale, in the said district, and that shall then remain unsold; and it shall be the duty of the said register and receiver to issue a donation certificate to the said William Coleman, for the land so located by him.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Edwin Lewis be entitled to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of preemption vested in Edwin Lewis.</p></sidenote> the right of pre-emption in five acres of land, situate within the boundaries of a tract of land, whereon he resides, which five acres were heretofore used for an encampment, for the troops of the United States, so soon as the same shall cease to be used for that purpose; the said five acres to be paid for at the same price, on the same terms and conditions, as are provided for lands granted by right of pre-emption in the Mississippi territory.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Samuel Mims be, and he is
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/100">100</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 42. 1811.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title of Samuel Mims confirmed, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>hereby confirmed in his title to a tract of land, containing five hundred and eighty-four acres, granted by the British government of West Florida, to William Clark, so as not to deprive the heirs of said Clark, or any other person or persons, of their legal remedy, if any they have, for the recovery of said land from said Mims, his heirs or assigns.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joseph Wilson authorized to enter certificate of pre-emption right, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Joseph Wilson be, and he is hereby authorized to enter with the register of the land office his certificate of pre-emption right, granted to him by the board of commissioners, for the district east of Pearl river, in the Mississippi territory, for the quantity of four hundred and eighty acres of land, lying on the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27.</p></sidenote>Tombigbee river in said territory; and that payment be made therefor, at the same price, and on the same terms and conditions, as are provided by law, for other lands granted in right of pre-emption in said territory.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-03-03">March 3, 1811</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLII: concerning invalid pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 100</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning invalid pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-03-03">March 3, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the secretary of war be, and he is hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place certain persons on the list of pensioners.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote>directed to place the following named persons, whose names have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to the act of the tenth of April, eighteen hundred and six, on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, according to the rates, and to commence at the times hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote>James Trowbridge, at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Mears, junr., at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the tenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Brown, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elisha Capron, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Woodruff, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Levi Tuttle, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per month, to commence on the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Austin, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Vincent, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Griggs, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Patrick Hart, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Burke, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the tenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Long, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vincent Tapp, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 42. 1811.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/101">101</page>
to commence on the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Batson, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Brown, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Campin, at the rate of thirteen dollars thirty-three and onethird cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Wells, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the twenty-second day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel M’Elduff, at the rate of thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the twenty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edward Miller, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Fielding, at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions of the following<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of those whose pensions are to be increased.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote> persons, already placed on the pension list of the United States, whose claims for an increase of pension have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to the act aforesaid, be increased to the sums herein respectively annexed to their names; the said increase to commence at the times hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Lincoln, three dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dan Culver, five dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Whittemore, ten dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peter Hemmenway, five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Mastic, five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elisha Rice, five dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Bailey, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jared Knapp, five dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Solomon Reynolds, five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Loomis, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eleazar Hudson, three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Job Bartram, fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Shell, five dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Richards, two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Patton, thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents per month, to
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/102">102</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 42. 1811.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote>commence on the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Robert Coddington, five dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Cotheall, five dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seybert Odam, five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Calhoun and Blackburn to be placed on the pension list.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That John Calhoun be placed on the said pension list, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ten; and that Benjamin Blackburn be placed on the pension list, at the rate of five dollars per month, from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for arrears due Abram Gainble.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there be paid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Abram Gamble, of the state of Maryland, who was placed on the pension list from the eighteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine, the sum of fifty-three dollars and seventy-five cents, for arrears of pension from the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight, when he first completed his testimony under an irregular commission, to the said eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nine, being ten months and twenty-three days.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-03-03">March 3, 1811</date>.
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<congress>12</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1811</dc:date>
<dc:date>1812</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWELFTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of November,</i> 1811, <i>and ended on the sixth day of July,</i> 1812.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Madison</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">George Clinton</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Wm. H. Crawford</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 26th day of March; <inline class="smallCaps">Henry Clay</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of Abraham Whipple, late a Captain in the Navy of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 103</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-12-12</dc:date>
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<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Abraham Whipple, late a Captain in the Navy of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-12-12">Dec. 12, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension to Abr. Whipple.</p></sidenote> Navy be, and hereby is directed to place upon the navy list of invalid pensioners of the United States, Abraham Whipple, late a captain in t the navy of the United States, who has been so disabled in the line of his duty, while in service, that he is unable to support himself by labor; and who shall be entitled to receive one half the monthly pay of a captain in the navy, to commence from the first day of January, one thousand<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 23, 1800, ch. 33.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and ten, agreeably to the provisions contained in “An act for the better government of the navy of the United States.”</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-12-12">December 12, 1811</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Josiah H. Webb.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 103</citableAs>
<dc:date>1811-12-12</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Josiah H. Webb.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1811-12-12">Dec. 12, 1811</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Josiah H. Webb, who was wounded in the Creek nation of Indians while employed in carrying the mail of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension to J. H. Webb, carrier of the mail, wounded by the Indians.</p></sidenote> United States from Athens in Georgia to New Orleans, be, and he is hereby allowed the sum of fifty dollars, payable annually out of the Treasury of the United States, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine, and continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1811-12-12">December 12, 1811</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of John Burnham.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 103</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-01-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Burnham.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-01-10">Jan. 10, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Burnham, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement of money advanced for his ransom.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 30, 1796, ch. 41, sec. 4.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-two cents, and the interest on the same since the thirtieth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, which, in addition to the sum allowed him by the act of that date, is to be considered as a reimbursement of the money by him advanced for his ransom from captivity in Algiers.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-01-10">January 10, 1812</date>.
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/103" renderingPosition="bottom">103</page>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: to empower the Secretary of the Treasury to decide on the case of the ship Eliza Jinn, belonging to Ezekiel Hubbel, and the case of the ship Mary and Frances, belonging to Nathaniel Goddard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 104</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-01-31</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 19, 28, 32, 36. 1812.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/104">104</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to empower the Secretary of the Treasury to decide on the case of the ship Eliza Jinn, belonging to Ezekiel Hubbel, and the case of the ship Mary and Frances, belonging to Nathaniel Goddard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-01-31">Jan. 31, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers to the Secretary in the cases.</p></sidenote>hereby authorized and empowered to make the same decision on the case of the ship Eliza Ann of New York, purchased by Ezekiel Hubbel of William Lyman, the acting agent of Joshua Jones and Edward R. Jones of New York, trading under the firm of Joshua Jones and Son; and the case of the ship Mary and Frances of Boston, owned by Nathaniel Goddard, as he would have made had application been made to him previous to the removing of the disability incurred by the said Ezekiel <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Hubbel and the said Nathaniel Goddard: <proviso><i>Provided however,</i> That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to restrict the Secretary of the Treasury from requiring satisfactory proof of the fairness of every act having relation to these transactions.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a sum not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to render effectual the decision of the Secretary of the Treasury, should it be in favor of the said Ezekiel Hubbel and Nathaniel Goddard, or either of them.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-01-31">January 31, 1812</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of Captain Selah Benton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 104</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-02-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Captain Selah Benton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-02-21">Feb. 21, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Selah Benton, who served as a captain in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on the pension list.</p></sidenote>the American army in the revolutionary war, be placed on the pension list, and that there be paid to him in the same manner that other pensions are paid, the sum of twenty dollars per month, to commence from the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That this act shall commence and be in force from and after the passage thereof.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-02-21">February 21, 1812</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of Thomas O’Bannon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 104</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas O’Bannon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-02-24">Feb. 24, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas O’Bannon be permitted to withdraw<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entry may be withdrawn and located elsewhere.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> his entry in the land office of Madison county, Mississippi territory, from the south east quarter of section two, township two, range one, west; and the money paid by him on the said entry, shall be placed to his credit on any purchase he shall or may have made of public land in the same district: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> It shall satisfactorily appear to the register of the said office, that the range two, west, has been, by error of the surveyor, marked range one.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-02-24">February 24, 1812</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: for the relief of the Board of Commissioners west of Pearl River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 104</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-03-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the Board of Commissioners west of Pearl River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-03-10">March 10, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of commissioners west of Pearl river. Accounts to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby directed to audit and settle the accounts of the board of commissioners west of Pearl river, in the Mississippi territory, and to allow each of them the sum of six dollars per day for every day’s actual attendance on the board, subsequent to the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, except for the eighty-four days, already provided for.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-03-10">March 10, 1812</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: to incorporate the Trustees of the Georgetown Lancaster School Society.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 105</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 44. 1812.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/105">105</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the Trustees of the Georgetown Lancaster School Society.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-03-19">March 19, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Laird, Henry Foxall, Stephen B. Balch, Robert Beverly, Robert Munro, John M’Daniel, junior, David Wiley,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees appointed.</p></sidenote> Walter D. Addison, Daniel Bussard, Francis S. Key, Walter Smith, John Abbott, and their successors, duly elected or appointed, in manner hereinafter directed, be, and they are hereby made, declared and constituted, a corporation and body politic, in law and in fact, to have continuance for ever, by the name, style and title, of “The Trustees of the Georgetown Lancaster School Society.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all and singular, the lands,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property vested in them.</p></sidenote> tenements, rents, annuities, rights, privileges, goods and chattels, heretofore given, granted, devised or bequeathed, to the said school, or to any person or persons, for the use thereof, or that have been purchased for or on account of the same, be, and are hereby, vested in and confirmed to the said corporation: <proviso><i>And further,</i> That the said corporation<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of the corporation.</p></sidenote> may purchase, take, receive and enjoy, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, rights or privileges, or any goods, chattels or other effects, of what kind or nature soever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed or demised, unto them by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such gift, grant, sale or bequest; and the said property, real and personal, to rent, sell, convey and confirm, or otherwise dispose of, as fully and effectually as any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, may or can do:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the clear annual income of all such property may not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars; and that the aforesaid property, real and personal, be considered as held in the trust, under the management and at the disposal, of said corporation, for the purpose of defraying the expenses incidental to said school.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporation, by the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation may sue and be sued.</p></sidenote> name, style and title aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter, for ever able and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in any court or courts, or other places, and before any judge or judges, justice or justices, or other persons whatsoever, within the district of Columbia or elsewhere, in all and all manner of suits and actions, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and demands, of whatsoever kind or nature they may be, in as full and effectual a manner as any other person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, may or can do.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporation shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May have a common seal.</p></sidenote> have full power and authority to make, have and use a common seal, with such device and inscription as they shall think proper, and the same to break, alter and renew, at their pleasure; to appoint a president, treasurer, secretary, and such other officers, as they may deem necessary and proper, either out of their own number, or otherwise; to assign them their duties and to fix their compensation, and to remove any or ah of them from office, appoint another or others in their place, as often as they shall think fit; to make, ordain, establish and execute such bye-laws and ordinances as may be deemed useful for their own government and for the government of the school; and the same to alter, amend or abrogate at pleasure; to fill up vacancies that may happen in their number, between two annual elections; and to determine upon, do and transact all business and matters appertaining to the said corporation, agreeably to the rules, bye-laws and ordinances thereof, during their continuance in office: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That not less than<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> five trustees be a quorum to do business, and that no bye-law, rule or ordinance shall be made repugnant to the laws of the district of Columbia.</proviso></content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/106">106</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 51. 1812.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election of trustees.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there shall be a meeting of the members of the said society held on the second Monday in February next, and on the same day in every year thereafter at the school-house erected by the said society, at which time and place the said members, or such of them as may be present, shall elect and choose by ballot, from their own number, twelve trustees to serve for the year ensuing their election, and until others shall be elected or appointed to serve in their place.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees to keep regular accounts of their proceedings.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the trustees shall keep, or cause to be kept, in suitable books for the purpose, just and proper entries of all proceedings and accounts of said school and corporation, and have them laid before the society at every annual meeting, previous to taking the votes; and shall always deliver the said books, together with all the property of said school and corporation, in good order, to their successors in office, whenever required.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apprentices may be bound to the corporation, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That children may be bound (in the manner now by law provided) to the said society; the deed or articles of apprenticeship, to be executed on the part of the said society by any two of the trustees thereof; and it shall be agreed by the said deed, on the part of the said society, that every such child or children shall be provided with all necessary food, clothing and lodging, and taught reading, writing and arithmetic, and be placed in the service of, and under the control and management of, some discreet and fit person, competent to instruct and educate the said apprentice, in some trade or employment, which may enable such child or children to earn a living by honest industry.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-03-19">March 19, 1812</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief of Thomas Orr.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 106</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-04-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Orr.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-04-08">April 8, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confirmation of land purchase.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas Orr be, and he is hereby confirmed in the purchase of the south-east quarter of section number eleven, township seven, and range two in the Steubenville district, “at the rate of eight dollars per acre, and that the sum of three hundred and twenty dollars paid by the said Thomas Orr on account of the purchase money of the said quarter section on the fourteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and six, shall by the register and receiver of public moneys of the land office for the district aforesaid be placed to his credit, and be considered the first instalment of the purchase money due on said quarter section; and that the further sum of one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eighty-five cents paid by Martin Andrews on the fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, on account of the purchase money of said quarter section, shall, by the register and receiver aforesaid, be placed to the credit of the said Thomas Orr, and be considered as part of the second instalment, which shall become due and payable on account of the purchase money of the said quarter section, on the fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen; and if the said Thomas Orr shall pay the balance of the said second instalment on the said fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and the balance of the purchase money due on said quarter section, in two equal annual instalments, in the same manner as is provided by law for the purchasers of public lands, the said Thomas Orr, his heirs or assigns, shall be entitled to a patent for the said quarter section.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-04-08">April 8, 1812</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LII: for the relief of Thomas Wilson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 107</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-04-08</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 52, 60, 61, 65. 1812.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/107">107</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Wilson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-04-08">April 8, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> of War be, and they are hereby authorized and required to audit and settle the account of Thomas Wilson, for extra compensation for rations furnished the detachments of the troops of the United States, at new posts in Louisiana, and that they allow him for any unforeseen and unavoidable expenses which he shall adduce evidence to prove he incurred in furnishing the said rations.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-04-08">April 8, 1812</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of William Hubbell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 107</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-04-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>11</congress>
<session>3</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Hubbell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-04-23">April 23, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to him.</p></sidenote> Department be, and they are hereby authorized and required to allow to William Hubbell, one of the collectors of the excise tax, the sum of one thousand and eighty-two dollars, fifty-one and an half cents, as a credit (on account of uncollected revenue and stationery) against the judgments which have been obtained by the United States against the said William Hubbell.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-04-23">April 23, 1812</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXI: to authorize the Secretary for the Department of War to exchange Lands, with the Ursuline Nuns, of the City of New Orleans.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 107</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-04-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the Secretary for the Department of War to exchange Lands, with the Ursuline Nuns, of the City of New Orleans.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-04-23">April 23, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary for the Department of War be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War empowered to exchange a lot of ground in New Orleans with the Ursuline Nuns.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby authorized and empowered, to exchange the lot of ground, situate in the city of New Orleans, on which the Military Hospital of the United States stands, with the Ursuline Nuns of said city, whose convent adjoins or is near the same, for such other lot or lots of ground, in said city of New Orleans, or its vicinity, owned by the said Nuns, as, in the opinion of said Secretary, shall be conveniently situated for a Military Hospital and of equal value with the said lot on which the said Hospital now stands, including the value of said Hospital.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That in case of such exchange,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To make a deed to them for the lot.</p></sidenote> the Secretary for the Department of War is hereby authorized and empowered to make, execute and deliver, in behalf of the United States, to the said Ursuline Nuns, or to such person or persons as they may designate, a deed or other instrument in writing, therein and thereby conveying to them all the right and title of the United States, in and to the said lot of ground aforesaid, reserving however to the United States the use of said Hospital, for such time as he shall judge necessary; and the Secretary for the Department of War is hereby also authorized to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">And to receive one from them in behalf of the United States.</p></sidenote> take and receive from the said Ursuline Nuns, or from such person or persons, as may be authorized in their behalf for that purpose, a deed or deeds or other instrument in writing, conveying to the United States a good and sufficient title to the lot or lots of ground, which he may agree to take in exchange; and which deed or deeds, or other instrument in writing, shall contain the necessary covenants to secure to the United States in case of any failure of title thereto.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-04-23">April 23, 1812</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXV: for the relief of Aaron Greeley.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 107</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-04-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Aaron Greeley.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-04-24">April 24, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Treasury be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby authorized and required to settle the claim of Aaron Greeley, and allow him at the rate of three dollars per mile for each boundary line common to any two private surveys he may have made in the district of Detroit; and that they also allow him at the same rate
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/108">108</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 73, 74, 81, 82. 1812.</centerRunningHead>
for each line run by him in the said district, not the boundary of any survey, but run in order to connect the surveys into a general plat: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the aforesaid allowance shall be in full for his services as assistant surveyor in the district aforesaid.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-04-24">April 24, 1812</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIII: granting to the governor of the state of Louisiana, for the time being, and, his successors in office, a lot of ground, and the buildings thereon, in the city of New Orleans.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 108</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-04-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting to the governor of the state of Louisiana, for the time being, and, his successors in office, a lot of ground, and the buildings thereon, in the city of New Orleans.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-04-29">April 29, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The right of the United States to a lot of ground, as described, and the government house, &amp;c. thereon, vested in the governor of Louisiana, &amp;c. for the use and benefit of the state.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the right and claim of the United States to the use, possession, and occupancy of a space, of three hundred and thirty-six by two hundred and twenty feet, of a lot of ground in the city of New Orleans, bounded by Chartres and Levee streets, and by Thoulouse street, and the lot of the widow Castillon, together with the house on the above described lot, known by the name of the government house, and the other buildings thereon, be, and the same are hereby, vested in, and conveyed to, the governor of the state of Louisiana for the time being, and his successors in the same office, for the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso: this act not to affect the claims of individuals, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>sole use and benefit of the said state of Louisiana, forever: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That this act shall not affect the claim or claims of any individual or individuals, if any such there be.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-04-29">April 29, 1821</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIV: for the relief of Charles Minifie.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 108</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-05-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Minifie.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-05-01">May 1, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for masts, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the comptroller of the treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to settle the account of Charles Minifie for a cargo of masts, yards, bowsprits, spars, and other shipbuilding materials, delivered by him at the navy yard in Washington, for the public service, in the month of April, one thousand eight hundred and three; and if in his judgment the said Charles Minifie has not heretofore received a just and adequate compensation therefor, he allow the said Charles Minifie such additional sum as he may deem just and equitable.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-05-01">May 1, 1812</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the relief of John Thompson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 108</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-05-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>11</congress>
<session>3</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Thompson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-05-11">May 11, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled as captain.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the department of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of John Thompson, who served in the revolution as a captain in Colonel Hazen’s regiment; and to allow to the said John Thompson, the amount of any moneys which may appear to have been advanced by him for the public service, and which have not been reimbursed to him; and also to allow him any arrearages that may be due for personal services; which moneys shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-05-11">May 11, 1812</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of Thomas F. Reddick.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 108</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-05-14</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas F. Reddick.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-05-14">May 14, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for his services as clerk</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to settle and adjust the account of Thomas F. Reddick, for his services as clerk of the Board of Land Commissioners for the territory of Louisiana, and allow him at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, as a full compensation therefor, deducting from said allowance whatever sum or sums he may have received on account of the said services.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-05-14">May 14, 1812</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: for the relief of John N. Stout.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 109</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 89, 91, 94, 96, 103, 104. 1812.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/109">109</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John N. Stout.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-05-20">May 20, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, directed to adjust and settle the account of John N. Stout, of Kentucky, and allow him the sum of eighty-seven dollars fifteen cents, for his fees and compensation as a jailor, for committing, subsisting, and releasing, Archibald Hamilton, a prisoner of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-05-20">May 20, 1812</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCI: for the relief of Thomas and William Streshly.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 109</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas and William Streshly.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-05-22">May 22, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of collectors to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the accounts of Thomas Streshly and William Streshly, respectively, late collectors of the internal revenue in the district of Ohio, by allowing to said Thomas such further credits for all accounts of uncollected revenue as he shall satisfactorily prove to have been delivered over by him to other collectors, and such sum as he shall appear to be entitled to for his attendance as a witness in behalf of the United States; carrying the balance, if any, which may appear due to said Thomas, to the credit of said William, in his account with the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-05-22">May 22, 1812</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: for the relief of Ninian Pinkney.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 109</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>11</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ninian Pinkney.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-05-28">May 28, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of war be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to him.</p></sidenote> directed to allow to Ninian Pinkney, a captain in the army of the United States, in the settlement of his account, the sum of seven hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty cents, for services rendered as brigade inspector, from the twentieth of August, one thousand eight hundred and eight, to the thirty-first of May, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-05-28">May 28, 1812</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVI: for the relief of William Garrard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 109</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-06-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Garrard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-06-10">June 10, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper officers of the treasury department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers of the Treasury to pay him $1500.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to pay to William Garrard the additional sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, in consideration of his services as a land commissioner in the territory of Orleans; which shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-06-10">June 10, 1812</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CIII: for the relief of Clement B. Penrose.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 109</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-06-20</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Clement B. Penrose.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-06-20">June 20, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper officers of the treasury be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid 500 dollars.</p></sidenote> they are hereby, authorized and required to allow and pay unto Clement B. Penrose, one of the commissioners for ascertaining the rights of persons claiming lands in the territory of Louisiana, the sum of five hundred dollars, as a full compensation for having brought to the seat of government the report of the said commissioners.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-06-20">June 20, 1812</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CIV: authorizing the discharge of William Peck from his imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 109</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-06-24</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the discharge of William Peck from his imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-06-24">June 24, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Peck, late marshal and acting supervisor of the internal revenue and direct tax, for Rhode Island dis-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/110">110</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 105, 114, 116, 122. 1812.</centerRunningHead>
trict, and who is confined in prison at Providence, on a judgment obtained<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharged.</p></sidenote> against him in favor of the United States, be discharged from his <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>imprisonment: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That he shall first assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may now own, or be entitled to, to some person or persons, for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of satisfying any judgment that has or may hereafter be obtained against him for any moneys due by him to the United States:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That any estate, real or personal, which the said William Peck may hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-06-24">June 24, 1812</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel William D. Beall.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 110</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-06-24</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel William D. Beall.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-06-24">June 24, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain pay and emoluments allowed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Department of War, in the settlement of the account of Lieutenant-Colonel William D. Beall, allow him the pay and emoluments of adjutant and inspector of the army, at and near New Orleans, from the seventeenth of June, until the twenty-fourth of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-06-24">June 24, 1812</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: for the relief of James Wilkinson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 110</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-07-01</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Wilkinson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-07-01">July 1, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">From 16th March. 1802, allowed the same emoluments, &amp;c. as other brigadier-generals.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and two, Brigadier-General Wilkinson be and he hereby is allowed, for the transportation of his baggage, and for fuel, the same emolument and compensation as has been and now is allowed to the other brigadier-generals in the service of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-07-01">July 1, 1812</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of Anna Young, heiress and representative of Colonel John Durkee, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 110</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-07-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Anna Young, heiress and representative of Colonel John Durkee, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-07-01">July 1, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed seven years’ half pay, and interest thereon.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Department of War be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to settle the account of Colonel John Durkee, deceased, and to allow Anna Young, his sole heiress and representative, his seven years’ half pay, and interest thereon, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-07-01">July 1, 1812</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: concerning Invalid Pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 110</citableAs>
<dc:date>1812-07-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning Invalid Pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1812-07-05">July 5, 1812</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain persons to be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the following named persons on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, who shall be entitled to and receive pensions according to the rates, and commencing at the times, herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote>Samuel Allen, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nehemiah Leavitt, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth of December, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Powers, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the seventh of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 122. 1812.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/111">111</page>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Cushing, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">P e n s i o ners,</p></sidenote> on the twenty-fifth of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Leavar, alias Lavar, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Oliver Russell, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred n and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joel Fox, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Durand, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aaron Peck, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hezekiah Bailey, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathan Ford, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonas Hobart, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Philips, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elisha Fanning, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth December, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Leonard, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sylvester Tilton, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the third of February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mahlon Ford, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Randolph Clarkson, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Stephen Carter, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Peirson, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Andrew Bartle, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twelfth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Philip Krugh, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Andrew Johnson, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Harbeson, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edward Leary, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/112">112</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 122. 1812.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners</p></sidenote>Daniel M’Carty, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Rogers, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rheuben Plunket, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the seventh June, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Bridget, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Michael Reap, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Henry Weems, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Malcolm Keys, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Armstrong, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Martin, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Robert Elder, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and a third cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jasper Tomiton, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the tenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Robert Patterson, at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth of July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Virgil Poe, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-third September, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Jacobs, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the fifth July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Hickman, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Shaw, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Todd, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dennis Laughlan, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth August, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Adams, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Newell, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Wyatt, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Perry Floyd, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fifteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Kirk, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-first of September, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 122. 1812.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/113">113</page>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Crawford, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners</p></sidenote> on the twelfth of September, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Haile, at the rate of one dollar sixty-six and two-third cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Gilmore, at the rate of one dollar and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the ninth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ethelred Cobb, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Taylor, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the twelth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Reynolds, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Henry M’Farlane, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh February, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Elliott, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth December, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Williams, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the second March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Scotland, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the tenth December, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Luke Guyant, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-first September, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Evans, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the thirtieth March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Rady, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the sixteenth April, one thousand eight hundred and six.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Jordan, at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fourteenth December, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jacob Seay, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Amos Lewis, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Fry, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Codington, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Johnson, at the rate of three dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Patrick Coleman, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Garner, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Bair, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
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<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions of the following<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of pensions.</p></sidenote> named persons, already placed on the pension list of the United States, whose claims for an increase of pension have been transmitted
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/114">114</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 122. 1812.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote>to Congress, pursuant to the act for that purpose, be increased to the sums herein respectively annexed to their names; the said increase to commence at the times herein mentioned, and to be instead of the pensions they at present receive, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joshua Haynes, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Leavitt, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Carlton, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Robert B. Wilkins, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Crummet, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jotham Nute, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Warren, at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the fourth of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonathan Stevens, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the seventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Luke Aldrich, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth of October, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gustavus Aldrich, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Levi Chadburn, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Stephen Barnum, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the third of July, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gershom Donnan, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Bouton, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth March one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Israel Dibble, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second of June, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Heber Smith, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the seventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathan Hawley, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second of August, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Hurd, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the seventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Amos Skeel, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-first of June one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Moses Raymond, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Buell, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the fifteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ransford Avery Ferris, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Azel Woodworth, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonathan Woolley, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 122. 1812.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Tyler, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nehemiah Pierce, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Eyers, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Oliver Darling, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ebenezer M’Ilvein, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Russell, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Asa Gould, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Hazletine, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Brown, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Amasa Grover, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Huntoon, at the rate of thirteen dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, to commence on the twenty-second of September, one thousand eight hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Philo Stoddart, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the seventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Staunton, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the twelfth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elijah Knight, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nicholas Barth, alias Barrette, at the rate of eleven dollars and twenty-five cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aaron Stiles, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Morris De Camp, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ambrose Lewis, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the ninth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1812-07-05">July 5, 1812</date>.
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWELFTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and. held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of November,</i> 1812, <i>and ended the third day of March,</i> 1813.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Madison</inline>, President of the United States; <inline class="smallCaps">Wm. H. Crawford</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">H. Clay</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. XVI: for the relief of John Binnion.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Binnion.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-01-27">Jan. 27, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed to withdraw his entries in the land office of Madison county, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Binnion be permitted to withdraw his entries made on the eighteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and ten, in the land office of Madison county, Mississippi territory, for the north-west, north-east and south-east quarters of section No. thirty-four, township No. three of range No. two, east, and that the moneys paid by him on the said entries shall be placed to his credit on any purchase he shall or may have made of public land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>in the same district: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> it shall appear to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of public moneys of the said land office that the entries for the said quarter sections were made in mistake for other quarter sections intended to have been purchased by said Binnion.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-01-27">January 27, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of the Bible Society of Philadelphia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1813-02-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the Bible Society of Philadelphia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-02-02">Feb. 2, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the duties arising and due to the United <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on certain stereotype plates remitted.</p></sidenote>States upon certain stereotype plates, imported during the last year into the port of Philadelphia, on board the ship Brilliant, by the Bible Society of Philadelphia, for the purpose of printing editions of the Holy Bible, be, and the same are hereby remitted, on behalf of the United States, to the said society; and any bond or security given for the securing of the payment of the said duties shall be cancelled.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-02-02">February 2, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Jared Shattuck.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 116</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-02-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jared Shattuck.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-02-02">Feb. 2, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Jared Shattuck, out of any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$33,864.55 to be paid to him.</p></sidenote>moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-five cents, being the amount decreed on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, by the supreme court of the United States, to the said Jared Shattuck, for his damages in an amicable suit against Lieutenant Maley, master of the United States’ schooner Experiment, whose appearance was entered and defence conducted by the attorney of the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/116" renderingPosition="bottom">116</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess . II. Ch. 25, 26, 28. 1813.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/117">117</page>
United States, for the district of Pennsylvania, in pursuance of instructions given to him from the executive of the United States, in the capture by said Maley of the ship Mercator, in the year eighteen hundred; and also the interest at six per cent, on the sum of twenty-five thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and forty-four cents, from the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-02-02">February 2, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXV: for the relief of Reuben Attwater.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1813-02-24</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Reuben Attwater.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-02-24">Feb. 24, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of five hundred dollars be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Reuben<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance as secretary of the Michigan territory.</p></sidenote> Attwater, as an additional allowance for his services whilst acting as secretary of the Michigan territory, and commissioner of land claims, and as a full compensation for all his ex-officio services.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-02-24">February 24, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: for the relief of John Redfield, Junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 117</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-02-24</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Redfield, Junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-02-24">Feb. 24, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Redfield, junior, of the city of New York, an insolvent debtor, now, and for a long time passed, confined in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> jail for debts due to the United States, which he is wholly unable to pay, be henceforth discharged from arrest and imprisonment, for and on account of the said debts, and all costs and charges touching the same: <proviso><i>Provided, always,</i> That all property, real, personal, or mixed, which<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the said John Redfield, junior, now has, or hereafter may have or acquire, shall be liable to be taken in execution for and on account of the said debts and the costs; and nothing in this act shall be construed to impair the right of the United States to any estate which the said Redfield has assigned or conveyed to any person or persons whatever, nor to prevent the recovering of said estate for the satisfaction of said debts and costs:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, also,</i> That nothing in this act shall operate<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to discharge any person or persons whatever, except said Redfield, who may now be liable to the United States, in any manner or form, either in whole or in part, for said debts and costs.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-02-24">February 24, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of John Dixon and John Murray.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 117</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Dixon and John Murray.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-02-25">Feb. 25, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted,  &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is authorized to pay to John Dixon, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specific appropriation to make good the loss of a final settlement certificate.</p></sidenote> Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and eighty-four cents, with six per centum per annum interest thereon, from the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, being the amount of a final settlement certificate, number five hundred and ninety-six, issued by Andrew Dunscomb, late commissioner of accounts for the state of Virginia, on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, to Lucy Dixon, who transferred the same to John Dixon.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the accounting officers of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To make good the loss of three loan office certificates to John Murray.</p></sidenote> Treasury be, and they hereby are authorized and directed to settle the account of John Murray, representative of Doctor Henry Murray, and that he be allowed the amount of three loan office certificates, number thirteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-five, for two hundred dollars; number thirteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-six, for two hundred dollars; number six thousand four hundred, for six hundred dollars, with interest from the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, issued in the name of Henry Murray, signed Francis Hopkinson, treasurer of loans, and countersigned,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/118">118</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29, 41, 46, 49. 1813.</centerRunningHead>
Thomas Harwood; and that the amount due be paid to the said John Murray, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-02-25">February 25, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of Royal Converce.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 118</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Royal Converce.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-02-25">Feb. 25, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be released from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Royal Converce, now imprisoned in the town of Burlington, in the county of Chittenden, and district of Vermont, shall be, and is hereby released and discharged from all claim and demand of the United States, to or upon a certain judgment or sentence, before the circuit court of the second circuit of the United States, began and holden at Rutland, within and for the said district of Vermont, on the third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, recovered or rendered, for the sum of five hundred and twenty-eight dollars, with costs, at their suit, for importing into the United States, to wit: into the said Vermont district, certain goods, wares, and merchandise, contrary to law.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-02-25">February 25, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLI: authorizing the discharge of Daniel Updike from his imprisonment.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the discharge of Daniel Updike from his imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-03-03">March 3, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be released from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
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<content class="inline">That Daniel Updike, of North Kingstown, in the county of Washington, and state of Rhode Island, now confined in prison in said county, on a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States, be discharged from his imprisonment: Provided, however, That he shall first assign and convey all the estate, real or personal, which he may now own or be entitled to, to some person or persons, for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of satisfying said judgment: And, provided, also, That any estate, real or personal, which the said Daniel Updike may hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken in satisfaction of said judgment, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-03-03">March 3, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of Washington Lee.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1813-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Washington Lee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-03-03">March 3, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed the pay of a judge advocate.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the Department of War be, and he is hereby, directed to allow to Washington Lee, now a captain in the army of the United States, in the settlement of his account as judge advocate for the southern department of the army, from the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ten, until the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, the same compensation which is provided for judge advocates, when taken from the line, by an act passed the eleventh day of January,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">.4812, ch. 14.</p></sidenote> one thousand eight hundred and twelve, entitled “An act to raise an additional military force.”</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-03-03">March 3, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of Lewis Chacherie.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1813-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lewis Chacherie.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-03-03">March 3, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for his services as translator.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby authorized and required to pay to Lewis Chacherie the additional sum of fourteen hundred dollars, in consideration of his services as translator of the French and Spanish languages, to the board of commissioners for the western land district of the territory of Orleans, now state of Louisiana, which shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-03-03">March 3, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of Susannah Wiley.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 119</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 59, 62, 63. 1813.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/119">119</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Susannah Wiley.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-03-03">March 3, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$500 to be paid to her.</p></sidenote> Department be, and they are hereby, authorized to pay unto Susannah Wiley, of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore allowed by law, as a full compensation for the services of her late husband, David Wiley, who was employed by the postmaster general to make a survey of the main post road leading from St. Mary’s, in the state of Georgia, to the city of Washington.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-03-03">March 3, 1813</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of Nathaniel G. Ingraham, Alexander Phoenix, and William Nexsen, junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 119</citableAs>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nathaniel G. Ingraham, Alexander Phoenix, and William Nexsen, junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-03-03">March 3, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Nathaniel G. Ingraham, Alexander Phoenix,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> William Nexsen, junior, of the city and state of New York, confined in the debtor’s prison of the city and county of New York, on certain judgments in favour of the United States against them, be discharged from their imprisonment, on payment by them respectively of the costs of suit: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That they and each of them shall first assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which they or either of them own, or whereto they may be entitled, to some person or persons, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be by him designated for that purpose, to be holden for the satisfying of any judgment or judgments obtained against them, or either of them, by the United States, or any debt or debts, due from them, or either of them, to the United States; and nothing in this act shall be construed to impair the right of the United States to any estate which said Ingraham, Phoenix, and Nexsen, or either of them, may have assigned or conveyed to any person or persons whatever, or to prevent the recovering of such estate for satisfying said judgment and debts:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That ah such estate, real or personal, that said Ingraham, Phoenix, and Nexsen, or either of them now have, or hereafter may acquire, shall be liable for the satisfaction of said judgments and debts, in the same manner as if they had not been imprisoned and discharged; and nothing in this act shall operate to discharge from said judgments, or debts, any person or persons, except said Ingraham, Phoenix, and Nexsen, who may be liable therefor, in whole or in part, in any manner or form whatever.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-03-03">March 3, 1813</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of the representatives of Samuel Lapsley, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 119</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>12</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representatives of Samuel Lapsley, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-03-03">March 3, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby authorized and directed to settle the account of John Lysle and Margaret his wife, late Margaret Lapsley, widow and administratrix of Samuel Lapsley, deceased, and that she be allowed the amount of two final settlement certificates, No. 78,446, for one thousand dollars, and No. 78,447, for one thousand three hundred and sixty dollars, and interest from the twenty-second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, issued in the name of Samuel Lapsley, by the commissioner of army accounts for the United States, on the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, and that the amount due be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the said John Lysle and Margaret his wife, administratrix, as aforesaid, to be disposed of and distributed according to law.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-03-03">March 3, 1813</date>.
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<congress>13</congress>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1813</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of May,</i> 1813, <i>and ended the second day of August,</i> 1813.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Madison</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Elbridge Gerry</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Henry Clay</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. III: for the relief of Alexander Phoenix and William Nexsen, jun.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>III</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 120</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-06-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Phoenix and William Nexsen, jun.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-06-19">June 19, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Alexander Phoenix and William Nexsen, junior, of the city of New York, insolvent debtors, now and for a long time past confined in jail for debts due to the United States, which they are wholly unable to pay, be henceforth discharged and remain free from imprisonment and arrest, for and on account of the said debts, and all judgments, suits, costs, and charges, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote>touching the same: <proviso><i>Provided always,</i> That all property, real, personal, or mixed, which the said Alexander Phcenix and William Nexsen, jun., now have or hereafter may have or acquire, shall be and remain liable for the payment and satisfaction of the debts, costs, and charges aforesaid, in the same manner as if this act had never been made:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair the right of the United States to any estate which the said Alexander Phcenix and William Nexsen, junior, have assigned or conveyed to any person or persons whatever; nor to prevent the recovery of the said estate, for the satisfaction of the debts, costs, and charges aforesaid; nor shall operate to discharge therefrom any person or persons, except the said Alexander Phcenix and William Nexsen, junior, who may now be liable for the same to the United States, either in whole or in part, in any manner or form whatever.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-06-19">June 19, 1813</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of Thomas Sloo.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 120</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-07-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Sloo.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-07-05">July 5, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$500 allowed to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and required to allow and pay unto Thomas Sloo, one of the commissioners appointed to examine and inquire into the validity of claims to land in the district of Kaskaskia, the sum of five hundred dollars, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for his services in taking testimony under the direction of the board, and for conveying the report of the commissioners to the seat of government.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-07-05">July 5, 1813</date>.
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/120" renderingPosition="bottom">120</page>
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<dc:title>Chap. XV: for the remission of certain duties to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 121</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-07-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 15, 19, 20, 28. 1813.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/121">121</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the remission of certain duties to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-07-22">July 22, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all duties due and payable to the United<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties remitted on paintings and engravings.</p></sidenote> States on a large box of paintings and engravings, owned by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, imported from Halifax to Boston in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, on board the cartel ship Agnes, be, and the same are hereby remitted.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-07-22">July 22, 1813</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Edwin T. Satterwhite.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 121</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-07-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edwin T. Satterwhite.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-07-22">July 22, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accountant of the Navy Department be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purser’s account to be settled.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby authorized and required to assume the day of the departure of the United States’ brig Vixen from a port in the United States on her last cruize, as the day on which the account of said Edwin T. Satterwhite, the purser of said brig, shall be settled and balanced. And that the accountant of the Navy Department be authorized to pay to the said Edwin T. Satterwhite such sum as may be due for pay and commissions, previous to the said day of the sailing of the brig Vixen from a port in the United States, if in his judgment any such sum may be due.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-07-22">July 22, 1813</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of Alexander Scott.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 121</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-07-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Scott.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-07-22">July 22, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary for the Department of State<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> be directed to cause to be settled the accounts of Alexander Scott, for his trouble and expenses in liberating from confinement, in supplying with provisions and other necessaries, and in sending from Porto Cavello to the port of New York, the crew of the private armed schooner Rosamond, who were confined on board a Spanish armed vessel at that place; and also for his trouble and expenses in supplying with provisions and other necessaries, and in sending sundry distressed American seamen from Porto Rico to the port of New York; and that he allow the said Alexander Scott full reimbursement for all expenses incurred for the purposes aforesaid, and also such compensation for his trouble therein as may be deemed just and equitable.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a sum not exceeding nine<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-07-22">July 22, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of Elisha J. Winter.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elisha J. Winter.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-07-26">July 26, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers be authorized<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for horses, &amp;c. taken by (U. S.</p></sidenote> to adjust and liquidate the claim of Elisha J. Winter, of the State of New York, for a pair of horses with a sleigh and harness, taken from him for the use of the army of the United States, in the month of March last, and on due examination to allow him therefor such amount as may appear equitable.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sum of one hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation therefor. </p></sidenote> and forty-three dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for satisfying the claim of the said Elisha J. Winter.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-07-26">July 26, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of Thomas Denny.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1813-07-28</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/122">122</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 32, 34, 38. 1813.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Denny.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-07-28">July 28, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May avail himself of the benefits of act of 27 th Feb. 1813, ch. 33.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas Denny, who imported and introduced into the United States from the dependencies of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a quantity of card wire, part whereof has been so introduced since the twenty-seventh day of February last past, shall be entitled to, and may avail himself of, all the benefits, privileges, and provisions of the act, entitled “An act directing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit certain fines, penalties, and forfeitures, therein mentioned,” passed on the said twenty-seventh day of February, in like manner and under the same conditions as though the same card wire had been introduced into the United States prior to the passing of the act aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-07-28">July 28, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of the owners of the ships called the Good Friends, the Amazon, and the United States, and their cargoes; and also of Henry Bryce.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 122</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-07-29</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the owners of the ships called the Good Friends, the Amazon, and the United States, and their cargoes; and also of Henry Bryce.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-07-29">July 29, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Owners of certain ships entitled to the benefits of the acts of remission.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the owners of the ships called the Good Friends, the Amazon, and the United States, and of the cargoes on board said vessels, which vessels arrived in the month of April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, in the District of Delaware from Amelia Island, with cargoes that were shipped on board said vessels in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall be entitled to, and may avail themselves of all the benefits, privileges, and provisions <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Jan. 2, 1813, ch. 7.</p></sidenote>of the act, entitled “An act directing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit fines, forfeitures, and penalties, in certain cases,” passed on the second day of January last past, in like manner and on the same conditions as though said vessels had departed from the kingdom aforesaid between the twenty-third day of June and the fifteenth day of September mentioned in said act, and had arrived within the United States after the first day of July last.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry Bryce entitled to the same benefit.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Henry Bryce of Charleston, South Carolina, who imported certain goods, wares, and merchandise, in the ship Fernandina, into the district of South Carolina from Amelia Island, in the month of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall be entitled to, and may avail himself of all the benefits, privileges, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Jan. 2, 1813, ch. 7.</p></sidenote>and provisions of the act, entitled “An act directing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit fines, forfeitures, and penalties, in certain cases,” passed on the second day of January last past, in like manner and on the same conditions as though the said vessel had departed from the kingdom of Great Britain between the twenty-third day of June and the fifteenth day of September, mentioned in said act, and had arrived within the United States after the first day of July last.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-07-29">July 29, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: concerning Invalid Pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning Invalid Pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-08-02">Aug. 2, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place certain persons on the list of invalid pensioners at certain rates.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is directed to place the following named persons on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, who shall be entitled to and receive pensions according to the rates, and commencing at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Randall, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Hill, at the rate of three dollars and twenty-five cents per
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 38. 1813.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/123">123</page>
month, to commence on the twenty-fifth of February, one thousand<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Leonard Clarke, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Shannon, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hezekiah Thorndike, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Brockway, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eleventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Paul Bebee, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the seventh of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Zachariah Sherwood, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the thirteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Braxton Carter, at the rate of three dollars per month, to commence on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Patrick Logan, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Davidson, at the rate of two dollars fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-third of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Jourdan, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Russell, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Henry, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abraham Merryfield, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joshua Patrick, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonathan Morris, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel White, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions of the following<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Augmentation of former pensions.</p></sidenote> named persons already placed on the pension list of the United States, whose claims for an increase of pension have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to the act for that purpose, be increased to the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote> sums herein respectively annexed to their names, the said increase to commence at the times herein mentioned, and to be instead of the pensions they at present receive, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Bean, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the ninth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Morrell, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the eleventh of September, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/124">124</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 42, 43. 1813.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote>Moses Trussel, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel le Count, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Josiah Jones, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Stephen Everts, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Amazian Chappell, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the seventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Stillman, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Israel Dibble, at the rate of four dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twelfth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Sawyer, at the rate of four dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twelfth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jacob Williams, at the rate of two dollars and an half per month, to commence on the eleventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Tower, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Talman, alias Tallman, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Younger Grady, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</p>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-08-02">August 2, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of the officers and crew of the late United States’ brig Vixen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 124</citableAs>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the officers and crew of the late United States’ brig Vixen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-08-02">Aug. 2, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of officers and crew of brig Vixen to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accountant of the Navy Department be, and he is hereby authorized and required to assume the day of the departure of the brig Vixen from a port in the United States on her last cruise as the day on which the accounts of the officers and crew of the said brig shall be finally settled and balanced: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the said officers and crew of any claims to further payment than is allowed by this act, which may on satisfactory proof appear to be just.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby authorized to allow and pay unto the officers and crew of the said brig, such sum of money as in his judgment may be due to them for their pay.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-08-02">August 2, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: authorizing the payment for wagons and teams, captured or destroyed by the enemy at Detroit.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 124</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-08-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the payment for wagons and teams, captured or destroyed by the enemy at Detroit.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-08-02">Aug. 2, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for wagons, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That every person who has sustained damages by the loss of his wagon and team, or either of them, without any fault or
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 44, 46, 47, 52. 1813.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/125">125</page>
negligence on his part, while the same were actually employed in the transportation of baggage or supplies for the army under the command of Brigadier-General William Hull, during the summer of one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and which were captured or destroyed by the enemy on the surrender of said army at Detroit, shall be allowed the value of such wagon and team, or either of them, lost as aforesaid; the facts of the loss of the same, as well as the value thereof, to be ascertained in such manner, and on such evidence, as the President of the United States may direct; to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-08-02">August 2, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of Joshua Dorsey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 125</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-08-02</dc:date>
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<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joshua Dorsey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-08-02">Aug. 2, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Joshua Dorsey, who is now confined in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> gaol of Baltimore county, in the State of Maryland, on a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States, be discharged from his imprisonment: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That any estate, real or personal, which the said Joshua Dorsey may have or hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken to satisfy any judgment obtained against him by the United States, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to discharge, or affect the liability of any coobligor, that may have been bound with the said Joshua Dorsey, for the payment of any money to the United States.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-08-02">August 2, 1813</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of Willet Warne.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 125</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-08-02</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Willet Warne.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-08-02">Aug. 2, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Willet Warne, who is confined in prison in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> the city of Philadelphia, on a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States, be discharged from his imprisonment: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That any estate, real or personal, which the said Willet Warne may hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-08-02">August 2, 1813</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LII: for the relief of David Henley.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 125</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-08-02</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Henley.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-08-02">Aug. 2, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of late general agent to be settled.</p></sidenote> Department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the accounts subsisting between the United States
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/126">126</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 60. 1813.</centerRunningHead>
and David Henley, late general agent of the United States in Tennessee, and in the Indian country southwest of the Ohio, upon equitable principles, and make him such allowances and grant him such discharge, as may be deemed reasonable, according to the circumstances of his case, under the direction of the Secretary of the Department of War.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-08-02">August 2, 1813</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of John James Dufour and his associates.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 126</citableAs>
<dc:date>1813-08-02</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John James Dufour and his associates.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1813-08-02">Aug. 2, 1813</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years allowed to pay money due for a tract of land.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the further time of five years be, and the same hereby is allowed to John James Dufour and his associates, to pay the money due the United States for a tract of land appropriated by virtue of an act of Congress, entitled “An act to empower John James Dufour and his associates to purchase certain lands,” approved the first <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1802, ch. 42.</p></sidenote>day of May, one thousand eight hundred and two, on the same terms, conditions, and limitations specified in the above recited act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1813-08-02">August 2, 1813</date>.
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1813</dc:date>
<dc:date>1814</dc:date>
</meta>
<privateLaws>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/127">127</page> 
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December,</i> 1813, <i>and ended the eighteenth day of April,</i> 1814.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Madison</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">E. Gerry</inline>, Vice President, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">J. B. Varnum</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tem., from the 17th of December to the 28th of January; <inline class="smallCaps">John Gaillard</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tem., on the 18th of April; <inline class="smallCaps">Henry Clay</inline>, Speaker until the 17th of January; <inline class="smallCaps">Langdon Cheves</inline>, Speaker from the 25th of January, 1814.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. III: for the relief of Richard Dale.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>III</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 127</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-01-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard Dale.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-01-11">Jan. 11, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for sea stores.</p></sidenote> officers of the navy department be, and they are hereby authorized and required to settle and adjust the account of Richard Dale, and pass to his credit the amount of such sea stores as may have been furnished him by the United States while he was commander of the United States’ ship the Ganges: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Richard Dale will relinquish all claims to the rations to which he may be entitled.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-01-11">January 11, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VI: granting Moses Hook the right of pre-emption.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 127</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-01-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting Moses Hook the right of pre-emption.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-01-25">Jan. 25, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Moses Hook, of the Mississippi territory, shall have the right of pre-emption to three hundred acres of land, including<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of preemption granted to him.</p></sidenote> his improvements, and designated on the plat or map of the township as number fourteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Moses Hook enter the said tract of land with register of the land office for the land district west of Pearl river, and make the first payment for the same within six months from the passage of this act, and complete his payments as prescribed by law.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-01-25">January 25, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. X: for the relief of Daniel Boone.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 127</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-02-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Boone.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-02-10">Feb. 10, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Daniel Boone be, and he is hereby confirmed in his title to one thousand arpens of land, claimed by him by virtue of a concession made to him under the Spanish government,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to a tract of land confirmed.</p></sidenote> bearing date the twenty-eighth day of January, 1798, and it shall be the duty of the recorder of land titles for the territory of Missouri, to issue to the said Daniel Boone, or to his heirs, a certificate in the same manner, and of the same description, as the said Daniel Boone would have been entitled to receive, if his claim to the said land had
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/128">128</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 12, 13, 22, 23. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
been confirmed by the commissioners appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the rights of persons claiming land in the territory of Louisiana, or by the recorder of land titles for the said territory of Missouri.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-02-10">February 10, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XII: for the relief of William Stothart and, Josiah Starkey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 128</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-02-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Stothart and, Josiah Starkey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-02-12">Feb. 12, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Stothart and Josiah Starkey, who imported into the United States from the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the month of January or February, eighteen hundred and thirteen, on board the Tyber, twenty-eight bales of merchandise, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May avail themselves of the benefits of act of 2d Jan. 1813, ch. 7.</p></sidenote>shall be entitled to, and may avail themselves of, the provisions of the act entitled “An act directing the secretary of the treasury to remit fines, forfeitures, and penalties, in certain cases,” passed on the second day of January, eighteen hundred and thirteen, in the same manner, and to the same extent, as if the said merchandise had been shipped within the time limited by the said act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-02-12">February 12, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of William Piatt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 128</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-02-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Piatt.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-02-19">Feb. 19, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the war <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote>department be, and they are hereby authorized to adjust and settle the claim of William Piatt, and allow him the pay and emoluments of a deputy quartermaster-general in the army of the United States, from the seventeenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, until the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, the amount whereof shall be paid to the said William Piatt, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-02-19">February 19, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of Henry Fanning.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 128</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-03-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Fanning.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-03-09">March 9, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>hereby authorized to cause to be discharged from his imprisonment, Henry Fanning, of the city of New York: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That any estate, real or personal, which the said Henry Fanning may have or hereafter acquire, shall be liable to the satisfaction of the said judgment, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to affect the liability of any co-obligor that may have been bound with the said Henry Fanning for the payment of any money to the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-03-09">March 9, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: for the relief of James Crawford.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 128</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-03-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Crawford.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-03-09">March 9, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James Crawford be, and he is hereby confirmed<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land purchase confirmed.</p></sidenote> in the purchase of the west half of section number twenty-nine, in township number seven, of range number two, in the district of lands offered for sale at Steubenville: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said James Crawford shall complete the payment of the purchase money for the land contained in the south-west quarter of the aforesaid section, at the price per acre, and on the terms and conditions specified in the certificate of the register of the land office, for the west half of the said section, bearing date April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and eleven; and shall also complete the payment for the north-west quarter of said section, at the price of eight dollars an acre. The instalments of the purchase money for the said north-west quarter shall be considered as due
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 24. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/129">129</page>
and becoming due on the respective days specified for making payment in the aforesaid certificate of the register; and the sum of three hundred and twenty dollars, paid on account of the purchase money of the said north-west quarter, and which became forfeited by non-payment of part of the purchase money, shall, by the register and receiver of public moneys for the said district, be placed to the credit of the said James Crawford, and be considered as part of the purchase money for the said north-west quarter section; and the said James Crawford, his heirs, or assigns, shall be entitled to a patent for the land contained in the west half of the aforesaid section, on his completing the payment of the purchase money, according to the provisions of this act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-03-09">March 9, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company in the Town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 129</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-03-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company in the Town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-03-09">March 9, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That those who shall become subscribers to the company, their successors and assigns, shall be, and are hereby created,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Company incorporated.</p></sidenote> a body politic, by the name and style of the “Fire Insurance Company of Alexandria;” and shall by that name have succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all courts of law in the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a subscription be opened<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books of subscription to be opened.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners.</p></sidenote> in the town of Alexandria, under the direction of James B. Nicholls, Cuthbert Powell, Jonah Thompson, Thomas Vowell, and James H. Hooe, George Taylor, John M’Kinney, Philip Triplett, Craven T. Peyton, and Nathaniel Wattles, or a majority of them, for raising a capital stock of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in shares of twenty-five dollars each; and that each person, upon subscribing, pay to the persons above-mentioned five dollars upon each share so subscribed for; and that the remainder of the said twenty-five dollars shall be secured by negotiable notes, signed and indorsed to the satisfaction of the aforesaid James B. Nicholls, Cuthbert Powell, Jonah Thompson, Thomas Vowell, and James H. Hooe, George Taylor, John M’Kinney, Philip Triplett, Craven T. Peyton, and Nathaniel Wattles, or a majority of them; and payment thereof may be thereafter demanded at such times, and in such proportions, as the president and directors hereafter mentioned shall judge advisable, giving six weeks’ notice in at least three of the gazettes printed in the district of Columbia.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That every subscriber shall be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations in relation to votes,</p></sidenote> entitled to vote by himself, his agent, or proxy, appointed under his hand and seal, attested by two witnesses, at all elections made by virtue of this act, and shall have as many votes as he holds shares, as far as ten shares; one vote for every five shares which he may hold over ten shares, as far as fifty other shares; and one vote for every thirty shares which he may hold over sixty shares. And every stockholder<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">and to the transfer of shares.</p></sidenote> (not in debt to the company) may at pleasure, in person, or by power of attorney, assign and transfer his stock in the company, on the books of the same, or any part thereof not being less than a whole share; but no stockholder indebted to the company shall be permitted to make a transfer, or receive a dividend, until such debt is paid, or secured to the satisfaction of the president and directors.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That as soon as five thousand shares shall be subscribed, the persons hereby authorized to receive subscriptions shall call a meeting of the subscribers, giving two weeks’ notice in three of the papers printed within the district; and the subscribers<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">When the company is to be organized.</p></sidenote> who shall assemble in person, or by proxy, shall choose by ballot, from among the stockholders, by a majority of votes, twelve directors, who shall continue in office until the first Monday in No-
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 24. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
vember, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, on which Monday in November in every succeeding year thereafter, an election shall be held for twelve directors as aforesaid, who shall continue in office for one year from the time of their election, and until others be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceedings at the elections.</p></sidenote>chosen in their stead. And the said directors, at their first meeting, shall choose amongst themselves, or the stockholders at large, a president, and allow him a reasonable compensation for his services; and in case of death, removal, resignation, or other disqualification of the president, or any of the directors, the remaining directors may elect others to supply their place during the remainder of the term for which they were chosen; and in every case where one of the directors shall be chosen president, the vacancy shall be supplied as in the case of death, removal, or resignation. That the persons hereby authorized to receive subscriptions, or any three of them, be a committee to superintend the first election of directors, and a committee of five stockholders, not being directors, be appointed by the directors to superintend every succeeding election.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President and directors may enact by-laws.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it f urther enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the president and directors shall have authority to ordain and make such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, as shall appear necessary for regulating and conducting the concerns of the company, not being contrary to this act, or the laws and constitution of the United States. And the funds of the company, as they shall arise, may be vested in the stock of any of the banks in the United States, such personal property or ground-rents as the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>president and directors shall judge most advantageous: <proviso><i>Provided always,</i> and be it enacted, That the funds and property of this company, of whatever description, are declared to be liable to attachment and execution for debt, in like manner as personal property.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To what extent the members of the company liable for losses, &amp;c., &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the members of the company shall not be liable for any loss, damage, or responsibility, other than the property they have in the capital and funds of the company, to the amount of the shares respectively held by them, and any profits <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>arising therefrom not divided: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said corporation shall, from time to time, apply all sums of money received by them for premiums to the payment of losses in the first instance, and to make up the amount of their original capital whenever it shall have suffered any diminution by losses, and that dividends shall be made of the net profits arising on the capital stock, at such periods as the president and directors may judge proper, not oftener than once in six months; and the same shall be paid to the stockholders, or their legal representatives; but if a dividend shall be at any time declared of a greater amount than the net proceeds of the said company at the time of making the same, each and every director that consented thereto shall, and is hereby declared to be liable for, in his individual capacity, and bound to contribute to make good the deficiency in the capital stock occasioned by such improper dividend.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President and directors have power to dispose of unsubscribed shares, &amp;c., &amp;c.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other powers given to them.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the president and directors shall have the disposal, direction and management of those shares which may not be disposed of at the formation of the company, and power also to provide, by purchase or otherwise, a suitable place for an office; to make all rules and regulations for conducting the business of insurance and the concerns of the company, not provided for by this act; to appoint a secretary and such other officers as they may find necessary, and to make such compensation for their services as they may deem proper. That they shall have full power and authority to make insurances against fire, on any and every description of property: all policies of insurance and other contracts made by said company, signed by the president, and countersigned by the secretary, shall be obligatory on said company, and have the same effect as if the said policies and contracts had been attested by a corporate seal.</content>
</section>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 30, 33, 34, 35. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/131">131</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all losses arising on any<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">By what rules losses arising on insurances are to be settled.</p></sidenote> insurance, shall be adjusted by the president and directors agreeably to the terms of the policy, and paid out of the joint funds and property of the company. That the president and directors shall make a full and fair statement of the affairs of the company every six months, and a dividend of the profits.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 9. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That in case any action shall be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">What shall be deemed sufficient service of notice to make the company liable.</p></sidenote> prosecuted on any insurance made by virtue of this act, it shall be deemed sufficient service of such process to leave a copy thereof with the president or secretary for the time being; and all recoveries had, in any such action or actions, shall be conclusive on the company, so far as to render the stock and property of the company liable, and no further.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 10. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That this act shall be and continue in force for and during the term of twenty years from and after the passing thereof, and until the end of the next session of Congress.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-03-09">March 9, 1814</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of Isaac Clason.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 131</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-03-24</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaac Clason.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-03-24">March 24, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Isaac Clason, of the city<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties refunded.</p></sidenote> of New York, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury of the United States, the sum of eighteen thousand nine hundred sixty-three dollars sixty-eight cents, in full of the sum of money which has been paid into the treasury by the said Isaac Clason, for duties on a cargo of sugar imported by him into New York, in August, one thousand eight hundred and five, from Havanna; which sugar he exported to Amsterdam in the ship Ambition, in the month of September then next following: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That prior to the payment of the above mentioned sum of money to the said Isaac Clason, satisfactory proof be exhibited to the comptroller of the treasury, that the said cargo of sugar was landed in some foreign port or place.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-03-24">March 24, 1814</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: supplementary to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Thomas Wilson.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 131</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-03-28</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">supplementary to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Thomas Wilson.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-03-28">March 28, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That nothing in the act to which this [is] a supplement<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be revised.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 8, 1812, ch. 52.</p></sidenote> shall be so construed as to prevent the accounting officers of the treasury department from inspecting and revising the account of Thomas Wilson as settled by the accountant of the department of war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-03-28">March 28, 1814</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of Mary Philip Le Due.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 131</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-03-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mary Philip Le Due.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-03-28">March 28, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of six hundred dollars be paid out<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for his services as translator.</p></sidenote> of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to Mary Philip Le Due, as an additional allowance for his services as translator to the board of land commissioners at St. Louis, and as a full compensation therefor.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-03-28">March 28, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: for the relief of Joshua Sands, late collector of the customs for the port of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 131</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-03-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joshua Sands, late collector of the customs for the port of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-03-28">March 28, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and credit allowed.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby required, in liquidating and settling the accounts of Joshua Sands, late collector of the customs for the port of New York, to allow him credit for the sum of twenty-nine thousand
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/132">132</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 36, 40, 41, 42. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
four hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents, being the amount of debentures paid by the said Sands on merchandise shipped to New Orleans between the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-03-28">March 28, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: concerning Shawneetown.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 132</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-03-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning Shawneetown.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-03-28">March 28, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Site for a town to be laid out.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a tract of land not exceeding two sections, in the Illinois territory, adjoining Shawneetown, shall, under the directions of the surveyor-general, be laid off into town lots, streets, and avenues, and out-lots, in the same manner, under the same restrictions, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 35.</p></sidenote>as are prescribed by the sixth section of the act entitled “An act providing for the sale of certain lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes,” approved the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten. And it shall be the duty of the surveyor-general, or the person by him authorized to carry this act into effect, to select the two sections so as to extend the said town to the high lands in the rear of the town as it is now laid out.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lots to be offered for sale.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 30, 1810, ch. 35.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the lots in said town shall be offered for sale at the same time, and on the same terms and conditions as are provided by the sixth section of the before recited act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-03-28">March 28, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XL: for the relief of Samuel Ellis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XL</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 132</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-03-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Ellis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-03-31">March 31, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnification to be allowed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to allow Samuel Ellis, of the district of Maine, who acted in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight as deputy marshal under Thomas G. Thornton, marshal of the said district, such indemnification as he, the said secretary, shall deem adequate, for damages which the said Samuel Ellis may have sustained in levying execution, in behalf of the United States, on a quantity of flour in the possession, and supposed to be the property, of a certain John Barton, against whom judgment was obtained by the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specific appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for carrying this act into effect.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-03-31">March 31, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLI: for the relief of Joseph W. Page.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 132</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-03-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph W. Page.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-03-31">March 31, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty remitted.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to remit the penalty incurred by Joseph W. Page, of Charleston, South Carolina, as security in an embargo bond for Bernard Laffon, master of the brig Bellona.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-03-31">March 31, 1814</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of Edwin T. Satterwhite, late a purser of the Hornet.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 132</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-03-31</dc:date>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edwin T. Satterwhite, late a purser of the Hornet.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-03-31">March 31, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purser’s account to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of the navy be, and he is hereby authorized and required to adjust and settle the accounts of Edwin T. Satterwhite, late a purser of the United States’ sloop of war Hornet, upon principles of equity and justice, and to make him such allowances as under the circumstances of his case shall appear reasonable.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-03-31">March 31, 1814</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: for the relief of George Walkington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 133</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-03-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 43, 44, 45, 46, 48. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/133">133</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Walkington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-03-31">March 31, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That George Walkington, who is now confined in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> the district of New York, at the suit of the United States, on judgment obtained on a bond conditioned for the observance of the embargo acts, be, and the same is hereby discharged from his confinement.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-03-31">March 31, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of Daniel M’Cauly and Samuel Ralston.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 133</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel M’Cauly and Samuel Ralston.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-06">April 6, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Daniel M’Cauly of South Carolina, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">As to certain merchandise imported by them, may avail themselves of the provisions of the act of Jan. 2, 1813, ch. 7.</p></sidenote> Samuel Ralston of North Carolina, who imported into the United States, from the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on board the ship Anna, Captain Emory, and the ship Thomas Gibbons, Captain Rockwell, and the ship Philipsburg, Captain Word, certain goods, wares, and merchandises of the manufacture of the said united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and which were shipped on board such ships in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall be entitled to, and may avail themselves of all the benefit, privilege, and provisions of the act entitled “An act directing the secretary of the treasury to remit fines, forfeitures, and penalties in certain cases,” passed the second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, in like manner, and under the same conditions as if the said goods, wares, and merchandise had been shipped from the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before the fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-06">April 6, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLV: for the relief of the owners of the cargo of the brig Fatriota.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 133</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the owners of the cargo of the brig Fatriota.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-06">April 6, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalties remitted in case of brig Patriota.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized to remit the fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred by Jonathan Davis and others, who imported into the port of Providence a cargo of merchandise from the Havanna, in the brig Patriota, on the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That nothing in this act shall be considered as remitting<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 6, 1812, ch. 129.</p></sidenote> any penalty incurred by the brig Patriota under the act of July sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, except so far as respects the cargo.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-06">April 6, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of William H. Savage.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 133</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William H. Savage.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-09">April 9, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for office rent.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby authorized and required to settle and adjust the claim of William H. Savage, late agent of American seamen and commerce at Jamaica, and to allow him such compensation for office rent as may appear reasonable, for the period he may have acted as the agent of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-09">April 9, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Seth Russell and Sons.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 133</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Seth Russell and Sons.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-09">April 9, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be refunded and paid to Seth Russell<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties refunded.</p></sidenote> and sons, of the town of New Bedford, State of Massachusetts, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty-seven cents, it being the amount of duties paid by Richard Blow, for Seth Russell and sons, to the collector of Norfolk, Virginia, on sixteen casks of head matter, and twenty-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/134">134</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 50, 51, 53, 54. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
one casks of oil, trans-shipped, from the ship Walker on board the ship Harriot, for Norfolk, from the Cape De Verd island, by Stephen West, master of the said ship Walker; and which articles of merchandise were entered on the seventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the same has not been exported with benefit of drawback.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-09">April 9, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of John Cahoone and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 134</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Cahoone and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-11">April 11, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of the United States relinquished in their favour.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all claim and interest which the United States have to the net proceeds of the British privateer called the Dart, captured by the revenue cutter called the Vigilant, and condemned in the district court of Rhode Island, be released and relinquished to, and in favor of, John Cahoone, master of said cutter, his officers, crew, and associates, concerned in said capture.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution of proceeds.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the President of the United States is hereby authorized and required to cause to be paid and distributed to the said John Cahoone, his officers, crew, and associates, concerned in said capture, the net amount and proceeds thereof, in such proportion, and upon such principles as to him shall seem proper and equitable.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-11">April 11, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief of Mary Chever.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 134</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mary Chever.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-12">April 12, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gratuity to her.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from and after the passage of this act there shall be paid out of the navy pension fund, to Mary Chever, for and during her life, the sum of twenty-five dollars, quarter yearly, as a gratuity from Congress on account of the distinguished bravery and services of her two sons, John Chever and Joseph P. Chever, who were seamen on board the frigate Constitution, and who were slain at the capture of the British frigate Java.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-12">April 12, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of Joseph Brevard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 134</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Brevard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-13">April 13, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be. and they are hereby authorized and directed to settle the account of Joseph Brevard, and that he be allowed the amount of a final settlement certificate, number ninety-one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, dated the first of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, for one hundred and eighty-three dollars and twenty-three ninetieths, and bearing interest from the first of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, and issued to the said Joseph Brevard, by John Pierce, commissioner for settling accounts of the army; and that the amount due be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the said Joseph Brevard.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-13">April 13, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of David Porter and his officers and crews.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 134</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Porter and his officers and crews.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-13">April 13, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of the United States relinquished in their favour.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That so much of the net proceeds of the forfeitures and penalties as have accrued to the United States from the condemnation and sale of the following vessels and their cargoes, to wit: Le Due de Montebello, Le Petite Chance, and L’Intrepide, condemned and sold by order of the district court of the United States for the Orleans district, for violations of the laws of the United States, be and the same are hereby given up and relinquished in favor of Captain David
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/135">135</page>
Porter, and of the officers and crews by whom the said vessels were captured, as a compensation to the said David Porter, and the said officers and crews, for their zeal and activity in capturing the same: and that the said Captain David Porter be hereby authorized to receive from the secretary of the treasury the amount of the said net proceeds of the aforesaid sales, to be paid by the said secretary of the treasury out of any money not otherwise appropriated; and upon receiving the same the said David Porter is authorized and instructed to distribute it amongst the said officers and crews, in the proportions, and agreeably to the regulations of the laws of the United States, for the distribution of prize money.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-13">April 13, 1814</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LV: to incorporate a company for the purpose of supplying Georgetown with water.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 135</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate a company for the purpose of supplying Georgetown with water.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-13">April 13, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a company shall be incorporated for the purpose of introducing a copious supply of pure water into Georgetown, District of Columbia, and that the capital stock of said company shall consist of five thousand shares of ten dollars each, and that subscriptions for the same be opened in Georgetown on the third Monday in May next, under the direction of Henry Foxall, Daniel Bussard, Clement<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners for receiving subscriptions.</p></sidenote> Smith, John Gossler, John Eliason, William Marbury, Thomas Corcoran, Washington Bowie, Thomas Robertson, Ninian Magruder, Joel Brown, and William Crawford, commissioners, or a majority of them.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said commissioners,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations with respect to subscriptions.</p></sidenote> after giving ten days’ previous notice in two newspapers published in the District of Columbia, shall, on the day before mentioned, proceed to receive such subscriptions, but no person or persons, bodies corporate, or otherwise, shall be permitted to subscribe on the first day for more than ten shares; and if the whole amount be not subscribed on the first day, the books shall remain open on the second day, when individuals or bodies corporate, or otherwise, shall subscribe for double the number allowed on the first day; and if on the end of the second day the whole amount of shares are not subscribed for, the books are to be closed, and the said commissioners may at any time receive subscriptions for such number of shares as remain unsubscribed for: <proviso><i>Provided always,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That if the subscriptions shall, on the first day, exceed the number of shares herein before allowed, then, and in such case, the said commissioners are hereby authorized and directed so to apportion the shares subscribed among the several subscribers, by such proportional reduction as may reduce the whole to the number allotted.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall be the duty of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners to manage the concerns of the company till directors are appointed.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments, how made, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> said commissioners to conduct every operation of the said institution, until they shall be superseded by the appointment of directors.</content>
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<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sum of one dollar shall be paid to the said commissioners on each share at the time of subscribing, and the remaining nine dollars by instalments not exceeding two dollars at each instalment, as may be required by the president and directors to be appointed in the mode hereinafter prescribed, on giving twenty days’ notice in two newspapers printed in the District of Columbia; and in case of failure in the payment of all or any part of said instalments for the space of ten days after the same shall have become payable, every share on which such failure shall have taken place shall be forfeited to the company.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the subscribers for the said<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subscribers made a body politic.</p></sidenote> stock, and their successors, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of The George-
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
town Water Company, and by that name shall have perpetual succession,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May sue and be sued, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in all courts of judicature or elsewhere, and to make use of one common seal, and the same to alter or renew at their pleasure, and generally to do and perform all things relative to the object of the institution which now is or shall be lawful for any individual or body politic or corporate to do.</content>
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<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Directors to be chosen.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That as soon as three thousand shares shall be subscribed, the commissioners hereby authorized to receive subscriptions, may call a meeting of the stockholders after giving not less than four weeks’ notice in two newspapers published in the District of Columbia; and the stockholders who shall so assemble in consequence of such notice, or appear by proxy, shall choose by ballot from among the stockholders, by a plurality of votes, twelve directors, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Their powers, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>who shall continue in office until the first Monday in April, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, which day every succeeding year thereafter an election shall be held for twelve directors as aforesaid, who shall continue in office for one year from the time of their election, and until others be chosen in their stead; and the said directors, at their first meeting, shall choose from amongst the stockholders a president, and allow him a reasonable compensation for his services, who shall also continue in office for one year from the time of his election, and until another be chosen in his stead; and in case of death, removal, resignation, or disqualification in any way of the president or any of the directors, the board may elect others to supply their place.</content>
</section>
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<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Votes of stockholders, how regulated.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That in choosing the directors, all persons or bodies politic, holding stock in the said company, shall vote agreeably to the number of shares they may hold, in the following proportion, that is to say: for one share and not exceeding five shares, one vote each; for every two shares above five and not exceeding twenty-five, one vote; for every five shares above twenty-five and not exceeding fifty, one vote; but no person shall be entitled to vote more than twenty votes.</content>
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<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President and directors to make by-laws, rules and regulations.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said president and directors shall have full power and authority to make all by-laws, rules and regulations, for the well-ordering and conducting of the business of the company, and such by-laws, rules and regulations, to alter, change, and annul, at their pleasure; but every such by-law, rule or regulation, may be altered or repealed by the stockholders at a general meeting, to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>be called for that purpose by any ten or more stockholders: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That there be present at such meeting, stockholders holding more than one half of the said stock, or their proxies, and that four weeks’ previous notice be given in two newspapers printed in the District of Columbia of such meeting, and of the alteration or repeal intended to be proposed thereat.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 9. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of the president and directors.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And he it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said president and directors shall have power to appoint and remove at their pleasure, all clerks, superintendents, agents, or other officers, necessary for carrying on the business of the said company, to dispose of its funds or property in the manner hereinafter directed, and out of the funds of the said company to pay the compensation of all such agents, superintendents, clerks, or officers, to make such contracts, purchases, or agreements of all such matters and things, in behalf of the said company, and of all such privileges, permissions, rights, and advantages of every kind and nature whatever, as they shall judge necessary for completing in an effectual and proper manner the introduction, distribution, and supply of water to Georgetown, District of Columbia, with any individual companies, firms, or corporations, and to use and dispose of any surplus water to the best interest and advantage of the said company, and all other con-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
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tracts to rescind, alter, abridge, and enlarge, with consent of the parties thereto respectively; and to lease, sell, convey, transfer, and bind by their contracts, deeds and writings, under the hand of the president and the seal of the company, all the property, estate, common stock, and joint funds of the said company, subject to the ratification of the stockholders, or a majority of them, at some general meeting, if the value of the matter in question shall exceed fifteen hundred dollars, but not the persons or separate property of themselves, or any of the stockholders.</content>
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<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 10. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporation may<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation may purchase and hold real property.</p></sidenote> purchase and hold in fee simple or otherwise, all such lands and real estates suitable for the erection of the necessary works, and that may be necessary in whole or in part, for the proper accomplishment of their undertaking, as they shall adjudge proper, and for that purpose may direct from the usual course, at such place or places as they shall think fit, any stream or streams of water which they may think suitable for the purpose, or any part or parts thereof, on the said corporation’s first obtaining the consent of all persons having any right or interest in the stream or streams so to be diverted in whole or in part, or in the lands through which such stream or streams may be intended to pass, after being so diverted; and the said corporation shall have full power and authority to make and lay conduits or tunnels for the conveyance of the said water, under and along any public highway, or any street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys, of Georgetown, District of Columbia, for the purpose of conveying and distributing the said water, and the said conduits or tunnels from time to time to renew and repair, and for such purposes, to dig, break up, and open, at their own expense, all or any part of such highway, streets, lanes, and alleys, and of the middle or side pavements thereof, leaving at all times a sufficient passage-way for carriages, horse and foot passengers, and restoring forthwith to their former condition all such highways, streets, lanes, and alleys, and the pavements thereof, as may be at any time so dug, opened, or taken up.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 11. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the corporation shall have<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">They may establish reservoirs and public fountains, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> full power and authority to establish reservoirs and public fountains in such parts of the streets and squares of the said town as they may think proper, and to grant to all persons whomsoever, and to all bodies politic and corporate, the privilege of using the said water so to be introduced, in such manner, and on such terms and conditions, and in such quantities respectively, as they shall think fit; and the said water so to be introduced, together with all reservoirs, canals, tunnels, engines, buildings, and machines whatever, to be by them made and used for the purpose of introducing, raising, and distributing the said water, to hold to them, their successors, and grantees forever, as their sole and exclusive property.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 12. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the corporation aforesaid<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-plugs to be inserted by the corporation of Georgetown free of expense,</p></sidenote> shall insert, or grant permission to the corporation of Georgetown, District of Columbia, to insert and repair at the expense of the town, such a number of fire-plugs as to them shall appear necessary, into the pipes used to convey the water through the streets thereof, to be used only in case of fire, but free from any charge for a supply of water.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 13. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall and may be lawful<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delinquent subscribers to forfeit their shares.</p></sidenote> for the said president and directors to call and demand from the said subscribers respectively, all such sums of money by them subscribed in instalments, not exceeding two dollars each, under pain of forfeiture of their shares, and of all previous payments thereon, to the said president, directors, and company: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no such demand shall be made<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> without twenty days’ previous notice being given in two newspapers of the District of Columbia:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That not more than one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> such payment shall be called for or required in any term of three months.</proviso></content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/138">138</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 63, 64. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 14. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suits grounded on any trespass or injury to the works, where to be brought.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That any suit, action, or complaint, by the said corporation, against any person or persons whomsoever, on account of, or grounded on, a trespass or injury done to the said works, or any tunnels, conduits, canals, water-courses, mound, plug, cock, reservoir, dyke, engine, machine or thing, appertaining to the same, shall, in every instance, be held and deemed as transitory in its nature, and may be brought, sustained, and tried, in any court in this district having jurisdiction in such like cases.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 15. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalties for polluting the water, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That if any person shall wilfully pollute the said water, between the pumping-house of said company and Georgetown, District of Columbia, by throwing any dead animals or other impure substances into the same, or by swimming, bathing, or washing themselves, or by washing clothes, or skins of any dead animals, or other impure things therein, or by erecting any necessary or other nuisance so near the said water as to pollute the same, the person or persons so offending shall forfeit and pay to the said company a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for every such offence, to be recovered by warrant, before any magistrate of the district or county of Washington, and shall be obliged to remove the said nuisance, or forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for every day the same shall continue, to the use of the corporation of Georgetown, District of Columbia, to be recovered by action of debt at the suit of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 16. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation prevented from dealing in bills, notes, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall not be lawful for the said corporation to enter into any negotiation on bills or notes, nor to deal in exchange, discount, or other commercial or banking operation, or other business in their corporate capacity, other than to vest their capital in stocks of chartered companies, or in public securities, or to borrow money as may be found necessary for the carrying on the works <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dividends.</p></sidenote>proposed: and dividends of the profits of the stock shall be annually made, reserving only, at the discretion of the directors, such proportion as they, or a majority of stockholders, shall deem sufficient and necessary to promote or attain the object of this incorporation; and if the said corporation shah not carry into effect the intentions of this act within two years from the passage thereof, in that case all the powers hereby vested in them shall cease and determine.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-13">April 13, 1814</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of Augustus M’Kinney and Layzel Bancroft.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Augustus M’Kinney and Layzel Bancroft.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalties remitted.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and required to remit the fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred by Augustus M’Kinney and Layzel Bancroft, who imported, in an open and public manner, into the district of Whitehall, on the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, from Montreal, nine barrels of nitre.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of John P. Williamson and Thomas Rice.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 138</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John P. Williamson and Thomas Rice.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the comptroller of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to adjust and settle, on equitable principles, the accounts of Benjamin Wall, late marshal of the state of Georgia, and to allow any credit which the said Wall might have claimed against the United States as an offset to a judgment obtained at the suit of the United States against John P. Williamson and Thomas Rice, as securities of the said Wall.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: to authorize the secretary of state to liquidate certain claims therein mentioned.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 139</citableAs>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 68, 71. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/139">139</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the secretary of state to liquidate certain claims therein mentioned.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of state be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The secretary of state directed to liquidate, according to principles of justice and equity, all claims of the inhabitants of West Florida, &amp;c. for advances by them made for the use of the U. States, prior &amp;c.</p></sidenote> directed to liquidate, according to principles of justice and equity, all the claims of the inhabitants of the late province of West Florida, now included within the limits of the state of Louisiana, or of the Mississippi territory, for advances by them made for the use and benefit of the United States, prior to, and since, the taking of possession of the said portion of the said late province of West Florida by the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: concerning invalid pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 139</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning invalid pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the secretary of war be, and he is hereby<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place certain persons on the list of invalid pensioners, at certain rates.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote> directed to place the following named persons, (whose claims have been transmitted to Congress pursuant to a law passed tenth April, one thousand eight hundred and six,) on the pension-list of invalid pensioners, according to the rates, and to commence at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel C. Arickson, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote> the tenth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alexander Barr, at the rate of one dollar twenty-five cents per month, to commence twenty-ninth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ezra Bellows, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence from twentieth June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Dodd, at the rate of two dollars fifty cents per month, to commence on the eighteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joel Terrell, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the eighteenth December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Dugan, at the rate of two dollars fifty cents per month, to commence on tenth February, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph King, at the rate of two dollars fifty cents per month, to commence the nineteenth October, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Andrew Green, at the rate of one dollar sixty-seven cents per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hugh Barns, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence fifteenth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Enoch Ducker, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the second February, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Hawkins, at the rate of three dollars and thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the fourth February, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Darby Marrs, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the twenty-fifth December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Daniels, at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month, to commence the twenty-second February, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Robert M’Cullock, at the rate of two dollars fifty cents per month, to commence the fourteenth February, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Gilbert, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 72. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote>Henry Brenneman, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the fourth February, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Blanchard, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the thirtieth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Kersenar, at the rate of three dollars thirty-three cents per month, to commence the first March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Robert Neil, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred [and] fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Berry, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the thirty-first March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonathan Willard, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on March the seventh, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Levi Bishop, of New York, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the twelfth of October, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Fain, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pensions.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions of the following named persons, already placed on the pension-list of the United States, whose claims for an increase of pension have been transmitted <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote>to Congress, pursuant to the act aforesaid, be increased to the sums herein respectively annexed to their names; the said increase to commence at the times herein mentioned, that iS to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Jenkins, five dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abner Rose, five dollars per month, to commence on the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richard Fairbrother, five dollars per month, to commence thirtieth September, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Cutler, ten dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Monday, five dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hezekiah Bailey, ten dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elisha Reynolds, three dollars thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the sixth April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</p>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depositions substantiating facts, &amp;c. how taken.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That depositions substantiating the facts necessary to entitle any person to be placed on the pension list, or to an increase of pension, may hereafter be taken before any judge of any of the courts of the state or territory in which such person may reside, and the certificate of the clerk of the court, whereof the said judge is a member, shall be a sufficient authentication of his being such a judge.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXII: for the relief of George Hamilton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 140</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Hamilton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That George Hamilton, who is confined in prison in the county of Washington, state of Pennsylvania, on a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States, be discharged from his imprisonment: Provided, however, That any estate which the said George Hamilton now has, or may hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXIV: for the relief of Dennis Clark.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 141</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 74, 76. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/141">141</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Dennis Clark.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the receiver of public moneys for the district<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase money for land to be refunded.</p></sidenote> of lands offered for sale at Cincinnati, be required to pay Dennis Clark the full amount of moneys, with interest, paid by the said Dennis Clark to the receiver aforesaid, in discharge of the purchase money for fractional section number ten, in the first township, and first range east.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said Dennis Clark shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter another tract.</p></sidenote> be permitted to enter with the register of the land office, at two dollars per acre, one hundred and sixty acres of land, in any section or part of a section within the Cincinnati district, which has been reserved and offered for sale, but not sold, to be paid for as other lands of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: to incorporate the Directors of the Washington Library Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 141</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the Directors of the Washington Library Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James Laurie, Joseph Stretch, William<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Company incorporated.</p></sidenote> Parker, Jonathan S. Findlay, George Way, Moses Young, and Thomas H. Gillis, and their successors duly elected or appointed in manner hereinafter directed, be, and they are hereby made, declared, and constituted a corporation and body politic, in law and in fact, to have continuance forever by the name, style, and title of “The Directors of the Washington Library Company,” and by such corporate name, style, and title, shall be hereafter forever able and capable in law and equity<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers conferred upon it of suing and being sued.</p></sidenote> to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in any court or courts, or other places, and before any judge or judges, justice or justices, or other persons whatsoever, within the district of Columbia or elsewhere, in all and all manner of suits, actions, complaints, pleas, causes, matters, and demands of whatever kind or nature they may be, in as full and effectual a manner as any other person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, may or can do.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all and singular the goods,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capable of holding property.</p></sidenote> chattels, and other effects of what kind or nature soever heretofore given, granted, or devised to the said library company, or to any person or persons for the use thereof, or that may have been purchased for or on account of the same, be, and the said goods, chattels, and other effects, are hereby vested in and confirmed to the said corporation. And the said corporation may take and receive any sum or sums of money, or any goods, chattels, or other effects of what kind or nature soever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, or bequeathed unto them by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such gift, grant, or bequest: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the goods, chattels,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> and other effects vested in and confirmed to the said corporation, and the moneys, goods, chattels, and other effects which by this act the said corporation is authorized hereafter to receive, shall not in the whole exceed in value fifty thousand dollars.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporation shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May make needful regulations.</p></sidenote> have full power and authority to make, have, and use a common seal, with such device and inscription as they shall think proper, and the same to break, alter, and renew at pleasure: to appoint a treasurer and librarian, and such other officers as they may from time to time deem necessary: to assign them their duties, fix their compensation, and remove him or them from office, and appoint another or others in his or their place as often they shall think fit: to make, ordain, establish, and execute such by-laws and ordinances as may be deemed useful to the institution, and the same to alter, amend, or abrogate at pleasure: to
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/142">142</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 77, 81. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
fix the price of new shares and annual contributions on each share: to direct how transfers shall be made and certified: to procure by purchase, rent, or otherwise, a suitable place for keeping the library: to appoint the times for keeping the library open, and for taking out and returning books: to fill up vacancies that may happen in their own body between two annual elections: to levy and collect fines and forfeitures: and to determine upon, do and transact all business and matters appertaining to the said corporation and library company, agreeably to the rules, ordinances, and by-laws thereof, during their continuance in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>office: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That not less than a majority of the said directors be a quorum to do business; that no rule, ordinance, or by-law, be made repugnant to the laws of this district or of the United States; and that no contribution be laid on any one share in any one year exceeding three dollars, without the consent of a majority of the shareholders.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations concerning elections, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That an election for seven directors of The Washington Library Company shall be held on the first Monday in April next, and on the first Monday in April, annually, thereafter, at the library room, under the direction of such persons as the present directors and their successors may appoint; which appointment shall be at least five days previous to the day of election. They shall also publish the names of the persons so appointed to hold the election, in some newspaper printed in the city of Washington, at least three days previous to such election’s being held; the polls for which shall be kept open from three o’clock until six o’clock P. M.; and no person shall be eligible as a director, or have a right to vote for a director, who is not at the time of voting, or being voted for, a shareholder in the said company, or who shall be in arrears to the said company, for any annual contribution, fines, or forfeitures: and all persons qualified to vote, may vote either personally or by proxy, by ballot.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">This act may be altered, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That this act may at any time be altered, amended, or repealed by the Congress of the United States.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVII: for the relief of Benjamin W. Crowninshield.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 142</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin W. Crowninshield.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of stock to be renewed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be renewed certain certificates of stock issued by the cashier of the Merchants’ Bank of the town of Salem, to Benjamin W. Crowninshield, as guardian of the children of Jacob Crowninshield, which said certificates have been lost: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the renewal of the said certificates shall be subject to all the rules and regulations established at the treasury department for the renewal of certificates of funded stock.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the relief of Archibald M Call.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 142</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Archibald M Call.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties refunded on certain merchandise.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Archibald M’Call, of the city of Philadelphia, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight thousand three hundred and four dollars and ninety-five cents, in full for the drawbacks due on the exportation of three hundred and ninety chests of Congo, and one hundred and fifty chests of Souchong teas, to Bremen, in the ship Abigail, in the month of August, one thousand eight hundred and five: Provided, That the said M’Call prove to the satisfaction of the comptroller of the treasury, that the said teas have been landed at some foreign port or place.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: for the relief of Jervis Cutler.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 143</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 83, 86, 88, 89. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/143">143</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jervis Cutler.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers be, and they<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed pay of a captain.</p></sidenote> are hereby authorized to settle and adjust the account of Jervis Cutler, late a captain in the army of the United States, and to allow him the pay and emolument of a captain, from the third of March until the fifteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and nine.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVI: for the relief of John Pitchlyn.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 143</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Pitchlyn.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for services as an interpreter.</p></sidenote> of war be, and they are hereby authorized and required, to settle and adjust the account of John Pitchlyn, late an interpreter for the Choctaw Indians, and to allow him a reasonable compensation for his services from the first of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, until the third of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, the amount whereof shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVIII: for the renewal of a land warrant to George Shannon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 143</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the renewal of a land warrant to George Shannon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land-warrant to be granted to Geo. Shannon.</p></sidenote> directed to cause to be granted to George Shannon a warrant for three hundred and twenty acres of land, in lieu of warrant number twenty-one for the said quantity of land issued to the said Shannon, on the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, under an act of Congress passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 32.</p></sidenote> and seven, entitled “An act making compensation to Messieurs Lewis and Clark, and their companions,” which is lost; which said warrant, so to be granted, shall have all the properties of the one heretofore obtained by the said Shannon: <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless, and it is hereby declared,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the said warrant heretofore obtained by the said Shannon, and any proceedings that may be had thereon, shall be null and void to all intents and purposes.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: for the relief of John Whitney and Joseph H. Dorr.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 143</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Whitney and Joseph H. Dorr.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalties remitted on merchandise illegally landed.</p></sidenote> States be, and hereby is authorized and empowered, upon the petition of John Whitney and Joseph H. Dorr, the sureties of the owners of the schooner Industry, to remit the penalty which the said owners incurred by the illegal unlading of sixty-nine boxes and eight half boxes of segars, and nineteen hundred and eighty-six pounds of coffee from said schooner, at the port of Edgartown, in the district of Massachusetts, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and nine, in the same way and manner as he is now by law empowered to remit the same upon the petition of the said owners; and the said secretary is also authorized to pay to the said Whitney and Dorr, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, any sum that may be by him so remitted: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso</p></sidenote> This act shall not be construed to authorize the remission of any greater portion of said penalty than what has accrued to the use of the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That the said secretary shall be of opinion that the said penalty ought to be remitted.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XC: for the relief of John D. Hay.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 90, 94. 1814.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/144">144</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John D. Hay.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from payment of a sum of money destroyed by fire.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John D. Hay, post-master at Vincennes, be, and he is hereby released and discharged from the payment of three hundred and twenty-five dollars received by him as post-master for the general post-office department, which said three hundred and twenty-five dollars were, together with other property belonging to the said John D. Hay, destroyed by fire.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: granting to the president and directors of the New Orleans Navigation Company, and their successors, a lot of ground.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 144</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-04-18</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting to the president and directors of the New Orleans Navigation Company, and their successors, a lot of ground.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The right and claim of the United States to a lot of ground in the county of Orleans, &amp;c. as described, with the improvements, vested in and conveyed to the president and directors of the Orleans Navigation Company, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the right and claim of the United States to a lot of ground in the county of Orleans, and state of Louisiana, bounded above by the lands of Don Miguel, and fronting on the bayou St. John, containing one hundred and eighty feet front and five hundred and forty feet back, including the improvements thereon, now occupied by the said company, be, and the same hereby is, vested in and conveyed to the president and directors of the Orleans Navigation Company, for the time being, and their successors, for the use and benefit of the said company forever.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-04-18">April 18, 1814</date>.
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<dc:date>1814</dc:date>
<dc:date>1815</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the third session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the nineteenth day of September,</i> 1814, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1815.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Madison</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Elbridge Gerry</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">John Gaillard</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the first day of December; <inline class="smallCaps">Langdon Cheves</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE III.</session>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of John Chalmers, junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 145</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-11-21</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Chalmers, junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-11-21">Nov. 21, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for cordage.</p></sidenote> of the navy department be, and they are hereby directed to settle the account of John Chalmers, Jr., and to allow the same for actual disbursements by him made, in the manufacture of cordage for the United States’ frigate Java, upon such terms as may embrace the justice of his case.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> liquidated by the proper authority, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-11-21">November 21, 1814</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. IX: for the relief of John Castille of the city of New Orleans.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 145</citableAs>
<dc:date>1814-12-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Castille of the city of New Orleans.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1814-12-01">Dec. 1, 1814</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and required to discharge from his imprisonment<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from his imprisonment.</p></sidenote> John Castille, at present confined in the prison at Orleans, in consequence of a judgment obtained against him at the suit of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided however,</i> That nothing contained in this act shall exonerate any property (which the said John Castille now has or may hereafter acquire) from the judgment obtained against him by the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1814-12-01">December 1, 1814</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of John C. Hurlburt, of Chatham, in the State of Connecticut.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 145</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-01-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John C. Hurlburt, of Chatham, in the State of Connecticut.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-01-02">Jan. 2, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and required to discharge from his imprisonment<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> John C. Hurlburt, of Chatham, in the State of Connecticut, now confined in prison at Hartford, in said State, on an execution obtained against him at the suit of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That nothing contained in this act shall exonerate any property which the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/145" renderingPosition="bottom">145</page>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/146">146</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 26, 28, 29. 1815.</centerRunningHead>
said John C. Hurlburt now has, or hereafter may acquire, from the judgment and execution obtained against him by the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-01-02">January 2, 1815</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: for the relief of William Robinson, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 146</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-01-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Robinson, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-01-28">Jan. 28, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the war <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for damages to their property.</p></sidenote>department be, and they are hereby directed to audit and settle the claims of William Robinson, William White, Samuel Mosely, Edward Giddons, John Brown, Moses Brown, John Gordon, Joseph Baker, Robert Ballowe, and Moses Gordon, on account of damages done to their property by a detachment of troops of the United States, under an order from the war department, which claims are hereby authorized to be settled upon such terms, and in such manner, as may embrace the justice of their case.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when settled and ascertained, shall be paid to the said claimants severally, or their lawful agents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon such claimant releasing to the United States all claims which he or they may have against the government, or any of its officers, in consequence of the damage aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-01-28">January 28, 1815</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of Farrington Barkelow, administrator of Mary Rappleyea.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 146</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Farrington Barkelow, administrator of Mary Rappleyea.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-02">Feb. 2, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount due to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote>and they are hereby authorized and directed to ascertain, agreeably to the provisions of the laws heretofore in existence on that subject, the amount due Farrington Barkelow, administrator of the estate and effects of Mary Rappleyea, on two loan office certificates issued to Mary Rappleyea from the loan office of New Jersey, both dated the eighth of June, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, the one numbered one thousand five hundred and sixty-four, for six hundred dollars, the other, two hundred and ninety-four, for five hundred dollars, with such interest as still remains due thereon, and that the amount which shall be found to be due be paid to the said Farrington Barkelow, as administrator as aforesaid, to be distributed according to law.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-02">February 2, 1815</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of William Arnold.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 146</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Arnold.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-02">Feb. 2, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount due to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to ascertain, agreeably to the provisions of the laws heretofore in existence on that subject, the amount due William Arnold on a loan office certificate numbered twelve hundred and sixty-seven, which issued from the loan office of Massachusetts for six hundred dollars, on the twenty-fifth of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, payable to Christopher Clark, with interest thereon from the first of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, to which time the interest has been paid; and that the amount which shall be found to be due, be paid to the said William Arnold out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-02">February 2, 1815</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of James Brahany.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 147</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 30, 36, 37, 42. 1815.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/147">147</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Brahany.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-02">Feb. 2, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James Brahany, of the city of Baltimore,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharge from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> now and for a long time past, confined in jail, at the suit of the United States, for the penalty incurred for selling spirituous liquor without license, which he is wholly unable to pay, be henceforth discharged, and remain free from imprisonment and arrest, for and on account of the said penalty, and the judgment, suit, costs and charges, touching the same: <proviso><i>Provided always,</i> That all property which the said James Brahany may now have, or hereafter may have or acquire, shall be and remain liable for the payment of the said penalty, the judgment, charges and costs of suit thereon, in the same manner as if this act had never been passed.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-02">February 2, 1815</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: to extend the time of Oliver Evans’s patent for his improvement on steam engines.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 147</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to extend the time of Oliver Evans’s patent for his improvement on steam engines.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-07">Feb. 7, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the rights and privileges of Oliver<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent right extended for seven years.</p></sidenote> Evans, under a patent issued from the department of state, on the fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and four, for his improvements on steam engines, be, and hereby are, extended to the said Oliver Evans, his heirs, administrators or assigns, for and during the term of seven years, to commence from, and immediately after, the expiration of the term of fourteen years, granted by said patent as aforesaid; subject to all the provisions of the act, entitled “An act to promote<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.</p></sidenote> the progress of the useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose,” excepting so far as regards the extension of the term of his said patent herein authorized: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That it shall not be lawful for the said Oliver Evans, his heirs, administrators or assigns, to charge or receive from any person or persons a greater sum for the privilege of constructing or using his said improvements on steam engines, during the term for which his said patent is hereby extended, than he has hitherto charged and received for a like privilege under his said patent as now in force.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-07">February 7, 1815</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: concerning Weston Jenkins, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 147</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning Weston Jenkins, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-07">Feb. 7, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the judge of the district court for the State<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution of proceeds among them.</p></sidenote> of Massachusetts be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to distribute among Weston Jenkins, his officers and crew, of the sloop Two Friends, which captured the British private armed schooner Retaliation, in the month of October last, the proceeds arising from the said capture, which are held to the United States as droits of admiralty; and that the said distribution be made by the said judge, agreeably to the laws of the United States relative to captures made by the private armed ships of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-07">February 7, 1815</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of Benjamin Wells, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 147</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin Wells, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-13">Feb. 13, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the person authorized to transact the business<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of collectors to be revised.</p></sidenote> of the late supervisor of the revenue in the state of Pennsylvania, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to revise the accounts of Benjamin Wells, John Wells, William Erving, James Brice, John Webster, and Joseph Junkin, late collectors of internal duties in the State aforesaid, and to audit and settle the same, admitting on sufficient evi-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/148">148</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 46, 47, 49. 1815.</centerRunningHead>
dence all legal or equitable credits, not heretofore allowed or rejected by congress.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement may be appealed from.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That if any one, or all of the collectors aforesaid, shall be dissatisfied with the settlement and decision of the person authorized to transact the business of the supervisor aforesaid, he or they may, within three months after such decision, appeal from the same, upon such items in the account as they shall specially designate, stating in writing their objections to the decision on the same, to the accounting officers of the treasury department; and upon such appeal being taken and presented to the treasury department, within the time aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the accounting officers of that department to audit and settle the same, according to the rules prescribed by this act, and in such manner as the justice of the case may require.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">If entitled to further credits, Secretary may allow them.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That if, upon the settlement of the accounts as aforesaid, it shall appear, that the said collectors, or any one of them, are entitled to further credits than they have heretofore received, it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to allow the same, and to credit the judgment heretofore recovered against them by the United States, for the amount which may be so found to be due: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair the force or effect of the judgments aforesaid, but the same, together with the executions which may have issued thereon, shall continue to remain in force in the same manner they were previous to the passage of this act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-13">February 13, 1815</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of Joseph Perkins.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 148</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Perkins.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-17">Feb. 17, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be compensated for destruction of the ship Liverpool Trader.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the navy department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the claim of Joseph Perkins, on account of the destruction of the ship Liverpool Trader, by ascertaining or causing to be ascertained the value thereof, at the time of such destruction, in such manner, and upon such terms, as may embrace the merits of the claim.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of such valuation, when ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid to the said Joseph Perkins, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-17">February 17, 1815</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVII: for the relief of Salt us, Son and Company, merchants, of the city of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 148</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Salt us, Son and Company, merchants, of the city of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-22">Feb. 22, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be examined and settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to examine and settle the claim of Saltus, Son and Company, merchants, of the city of New York, and to allow the same deduction, from the duties payable on a quantity of glass imported into the United States, on account of damage sustained during the voyage, as the petitioners would have been entitled to claim, if the survey and measurement of the glass destroyed, during the voyage, had been made with the approbation and consent of the collector of the customs at Newport, where the same was landed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-22">February 22, 1815</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of Isaac Smith and Bratton Caldwell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 148</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaac Smith and Bratton Caldwell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-22">Feb. 22, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Comptroller of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to adjust and settle, on equitable terms, the accounts
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 50, 52, 53. 1815.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/149">149</page>
of Matthew Wilson, deceased, late collector of the direct taxes and internal revenue, for the seventh district, in the State of Pennsylvania, and to allow any credit, which the said Matthew Wilson might have claimed against the United States, as an offset to a judgment obtained at the suit of the United States, against Isaac Smith and Bratton Caldwell, as securities of the said Matthew Wilson.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="ssmallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-22">February 22, 1815</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of Henry Nimmo.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 149</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Nimmo.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-23">Feb. 23, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be refunded and paid to Henry Nimmo,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> of Warren, in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars; it being so much money paid by the said Nimmo for duties upon the importation of one hundred bags of cotton the growth and produce of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-23">February 23, 1815</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LII: for granting and securing to Jlnthony Shane, the right of the United States to a tract of land in the State of Ohio.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 149</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for granting and securing to Jlnthony Shane, the right of the United States to a tract of land in the State of Ohio.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-24">Feb. 24, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, in consideration of valuable and faithful<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of land to him.</p></sidenote> services, rendered to the United States, during the present war, by Anthony Shane, a half breed Indian, there be granted to him all the right of the United States to a tract of land, to contain three hundred and twenty acres, lying on the river St. Mary’s, at a place called Shane’s Crossing, within the limits of the state of Ohio, but in a part thereof to which the Indian title has not yet been extinguished; the said tract to be located in a convenient form, and so as to comprehend the said Anthony Shane’s improvements.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That as soon as the Indian title<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to issue, when.</p></sidenote> to the territory comprehending the said tract, shall be extinguished, the said three hundred and twenty acres shall be surveyed under the authority of the United States, and a patent therefor shall be granted to the said Anthony Shane, or, if not then living, to his children and legal representatives, to hold the same to them and their heirs.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-24">February 24, 1815</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of Uriah Coolidge and James Burnham.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 149</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Uriah Coolidge and James Burnham.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-24">Feb. 24, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid expenses incurred in behalf of wounded seamen.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to pay to Uriah Coolidge, and James Burnham, of the town of Portland, in the district of Maine, out of the fund “appropriated to the support and maintenance of wounded seamen on board private armed vessels,” such a sum as will compensate them for taking care of, and procuring medical aid for, Peter Charry, Thomas Robinson, John Hart; Thomas Bailey, Peter Ridley, and Joseph Sawyer, six seamen belonging to the crew of the private armed schooner Siro, who were wounded by an explosion of the arm-chest, during a cruise in the summer of the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, five of whom, when brought to land, to wit, Peter Charry, Thomas Robinson, John Hart, Thomas Bailey, and Peter Ridley, were placed under the care of the said Uriah Coolidge; and one, to wit, Joseph Sawyer, under the care of the said James Burnham, there being no marine hospital in said town; also, that the secretary be authorized to allow for the funeral charges of such of said seamen as died of their wounds aforesaid: <proviso><i>Pro-</i>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/150">150</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 55, 57, 58, 59. 1815.</centerRunningHead>
<i>vided however,</i> That the above-mentioned allowance shall not exceed the accustomed rates of hospital charges in similar cases.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-24">February 24, 1815</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of Daniel Perine.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 150</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Perine.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-24">Feb. 24, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain lands.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the register and receiver of public moneys for the district of Cincinnati, shall permit Daniel Perine of Indiana territory to enter and become the purchaser at private sale of the southeast quarter of section numbered twenty-five, of township numbered six, in range numbered one, west, in the Cincinnati district: if, on due inquiry, the said register and receiver shall be satisfied that the said quarter section does not contain any salt spring or springs valuable for the purpose of making salt. And the said Daniel Perine shall be entitled to a grant for the aforesaid quarter section on completing the payments therefor, on the terms and conditions provided for the sale of public land sold at private sale.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-24">February 24, 1815</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVII: for the relief of Edward Hallowell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 150</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edward Hallowell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-27">Feb. 27, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May avail himself of the provisions of act of Jan. 2, 1813, ch. 7.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Edward Hallowell, of the city of Philadelphia, who imported into the district of Wilmington, certain goods, wares and merchandise, from the port of Liverpool, which goods were put on board the ship Tiber, William Porter, master, on the fifth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall be entitled to, and may avail himself of, all the benefits, privileges, and provisions, of the act, entitled “An act directing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit fines, forfeitures and penalties, in certain cases,” passed on the second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, in like manner and on the same conditions, as though the said vessel had departed from the kingdom of Great Britain between the twenty-third day of June, and the fifteenth day of September, mentioned in such act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-27">February 27, 1815</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: for the relief of Jacob Shinnick, and Schoultz and Vogeler, of Christian Chapman, and the legal representatives of John Calef, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 150</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-27</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacob Shinnick, and Schoultz and Vogeler, of Christian Chapman, and the legal representatives of John Calef, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-27">Feb. 27, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for property destroyed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the war department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the several claims and accounts of Jacob Shinnick, and Schoultz and Vogeler, of Christian Chapman, and the legal representative of John Calef, deceased, on account of the destruction, by the United States, of their rope-walks, and other property therein deposited, in the vicinity of Baltimore, in such manner and upon such terms as may embrace the justice of their claim.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when audited by the competent authority, shall be paid to the proper owners thereof, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon such claimant releasing to the United [States]all claim on account of the property aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-27">February 27, 1815</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of Joshua Sands.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 150</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-02-27</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joshua Sands.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-02-27">Feb. 27, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Case of brigs Harriet and Jennet.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and hereby are, authorized and directed to liquidate and adjust with
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 66, 67, 68. 1815.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/151">151</page>
Joshua Sands, late collector of the port of New York, the account of damages, interest and charges, in the cases of the brig Harriet, otherwise called the John, and cargo, and the Jennet, and cargo, seized by him whilst he was collector of the port of New York, for a violation of the act to suspend commercial intercourse between the United States and France, for which seizures suits were brought, and damages and costs recovered, against the said collector; and to satisfy and discharge the same, a sum sufficient is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-02-27">February 27, 1815</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for the relief of William H. Washington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 151</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William H. Washington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-03-01">March 1, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the war<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be compensated for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain the value of the house belonging to William H. Washington, situated near the west end of the Potomac bridge, and which was lately destroyed by order of an officer of the United States; which valuation shall be made in such manner, and upon such terms, as may embrace the justice of his case.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the value thereof, when ascertained,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the said William H. Washington releasing to the United States all claim on account of the destruction of the aforesaid house.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-03-01">March 1, 1815</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVII: for the relief of Solomon Frazer, and the representatives of Charles Eccleston.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 151</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Solomon Frazer, and the representatives of Charles Eccleston.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-03-01">March 1, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Solomon Frazer, and the representatives of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from payment of a judgment.</p></sidenote> Charles Eccleston, of the state of Maryland, be, and they are hereby, released from the payment of the amount of a judgment obtained against Solomon Frazer, as security for James Frazer, collector of the port of Vienna, in the state of Maryland: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That nothing in this act contained, shall be considered as releasing from the claim of the United States any property of James Frazer, which may be in possession of his representatives.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-03-01">March 1, 1815</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of the heirs of James Hynum.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 151</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of James Hynum.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-03-01">March 1, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs of James Hynum, of the Mississippi<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Donation of land.</p></sidenote> territory, shall be entitled to a donation of two hundred and twenty-six acres of land, according to the provisions of an act of Congress, passed the third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three, entitled “An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27.</p></sidenote> the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the State of Tennessee,” to be located, surveyed, and granted, in the manner prescribed in the said recited act; and to be subject to the dower of the widow of the said James Hynum, as fully and completely as if the title to the said land had been vested in the said James Hynum.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, </i></enactingFormula>That<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments on said land to be refunded.</p></sidenote> all sums of money paid by Margaret Hynum, widow of the said James Hynum, since the death of the said James, as part of the price of the said land, in contemplation of a purchase thereof, shall be refunded to the said Margaret; and the receiver of public moneys in the land dis-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/152">152</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 70, 71, 75, 76. 1815.</centerRunningHead>
trict west of Pearl river, is hereby directed to pay the same to the said Margaret, out of any public money now in his hands, or which may hereafter come to his hands.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-03-01">March 1, 1815</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXX: concerning the college of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 152</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning the college of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-03-01">March 1, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May confer degrees.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for such persons as now are, or from time to time may be, the president and directors of the college of Georgetown, within the district of Columbia, to admit any of the students belonging to said college, or other persons meriting academical honors, to any degree in the faculties, arts, sciences, and liberal professions, to which persons are usually admitted in other colleges or universities of the United States; and to issue, in an appropriate form, the diplomas or certificates, which may be requisite to testify the admission to such degrees.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-03-01">March 1, 1815</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: authorizing the discharge of Edward Martinfrom imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 152</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the discharge of Edward Martinfrom imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the marshal of the district of Rhode Island be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed, to discharge from imprisonment Edward Martin of Newport, in the state of Rhode Island, now confined in jail at Newport, in said district, at the suit of the United States: Provided, That the said Edward Martin shall remain liable to the United States for the amount of the bond executed by Andrew Oburg, captain of the Swedish schooner Lichlighten, as principal, and by the said Martin and George W. Martin, sureties, and renew his obligation to the United States for said amount, payable in two years from the day of his discharge, in such form as the attorney of the United States for the district aforesaid shall think proper.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXV: for the relief of the Eastern Branch Bridge Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 152</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the Eastern Branch Bridge Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be compensated for damage to the bridge.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the navy department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to settle the claim of the Eastern Branch Bridge Company, on account of the injury done their bridge, by an order from the navy department, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value of such injury, in such manner, and upon such terms, as may be just and reasonable.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the president and directors of the said company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be applied to the repairing or rebuilding of the said bridge.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: for the relief of William P. Bennet, of the State of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 152</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>13</congress>
<session>3</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William P. Bennet, of the State of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and required to discharge from his imprisonment William P. Bennet, of Seneca county, in the State of New York: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the said Bennet shall, previous to obtaining such <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 6, 1798, ch. 49.</p></sidenote>discharge, comply with the provisions of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debts due to the United States”</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of the Anacosta Bridge Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 153</citableAs>
<dc:date>1815-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>13</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 78, 80. 1815.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/153">153</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the Anacosta Bridge Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the war<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be compensated for the destruction of their bridge.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and settle the claim of the Anacosta Bridge Company, on account of the injury sustained by them in the destruction of their bridge over the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value of the injury thereof, at the time of such destruction, in such manner, and upon such terms, as may embrace the merits of their claim.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of such valuation,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said company, or their agent, legally authorized, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon such company, or owners, releasing to the United States all claim on account of the injury aforesaid, and that the same be applied to the purpose of rebuilding or repairing the said bridge.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: concerning Invalid Pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning Invalid Pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain persons to be placed on pension list.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote> directed to place the following named persons, whose claims have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to a law passed the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and six, on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, according to the rates, and to commence at the times, herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Robert Holberd, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote> on the thirtieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eli Short, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence the thirtieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Spencer Darnell, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abraham Estes, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence the seventeenth day, of April, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Willis Tandy, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per month, to commence the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Sharon, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence the seventeenth day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alexander Naismith, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence the twentieth day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Gray, at the rate of six dollars and sixty-six cents per month, to commence the twenty-second day of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Williams, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence the twenty-seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John R. Rappleye, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the second day of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Sweeny, at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence the seventeenth of March, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joshua Merrill, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence the fourth of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Grieve Drummond, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the twenty-eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Ward, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch . 80. 1815.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote>commence the thirtieth day of November, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charles Rumsey, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the twelfth day of July, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Grant Taylor, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the twenty-fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Henry Bateman, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the seventh day of March, eighteen[hundred]and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Norton, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence the eleventh day of May, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jesse Young, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Averill, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence the third day of January, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Bell, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence the ninth day of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Minny Ryneason, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence the sixth day of January, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Bond, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the eighth day of December, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richard Osborn, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence the fifth day of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Julius Turner, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence the eighteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Cook, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence the eighteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Frazer, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence the sixteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Christopher Sites, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence the seventeenth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Barton, at the rate of thirty dollars per month, to commence the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Berry, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the thirty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James M’Neal, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Emanuel Kent, junior, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the thirteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jeremiah Searcy, of South Carolina, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence from the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of pensions.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p></sidenote>
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<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions of the following persons, already placed on the pension list of the United States, whose claims for an increase of pension have been transmitted to Congress, pursuant to the act aforesaid, be increased to the sums herein respectively annexed to their names; the said increase to commence at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charles Hunton, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence the fourteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Williams, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the twenty-ninth of October, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel White, at the rate of three dollars and seventy-five cents per month, to commence the twenty-eighth day of December, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">THIRTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 83, 84, 92. 1815.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Machin, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence the twenty-ninth day of October, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John M’Clennon, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the third day of November, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richard Gressum, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence the eighth day of November, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: for the relief of Thomas Sprigg.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Sprigg.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the navy<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for destruction of ropewalk, &amp;c. to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Thomas Sprigg, on account of the destruction of a quantity of hempen yarns, in the ropewalk, in the vicinity of Baltimore, which were destroyed by order of General Foreman, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value of the yarns, in such manner and upon such terms as may be just and reasonable.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of the said valuation,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> when ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid to the said Thomas Sprigg, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: for the relief of sundry persons in the service of the United States, in consequence of the destruction of their tools by fire at the navy-yard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of sundry persons in the service of the United States, in consequence of the destruction of their tools by fire at the navy-yard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the navy be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Workmen to be paid for the destruction of their tools, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> they are hereby directed to adjust and settle all claims for losses that have been sustained by artificers, mechanics, and other workmen, in the employ and service of the United States, for tools and other articles essential to, and connected with, their trade and occupation, which have been destroyed by fire, in consequence of burning the buildings of the navy yard, in the city of Washington, and to cause to be paid over to such persons respectively, the amount found due for such losses.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a sum not exceeding five<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the objects of this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCII: for the relief of James Savage and others.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Savage and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be compensated for destruction of their property.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to audit and settle the claims of James Savage, Henry Platt, Enoch Chase, John Wells, Daniel P. Clark, Potash and Cairn, Joseph J. Green, Levi Platt, Roswell Wait, Edward Wait, Henry Powers, Jonathan Griffin, Charles D. Backus, Joseph S. Thomas, George Freligh, Margaret Beaumont, Lois Baker, John L. Fouquet, Major A. Stone, Noah Broadwell, and Nathan Averill, jun., on account of the destruction of their houses and property, by the order of Major-General Alexander Macomb; by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value of the said property, at the time of its destruction, in such manner and upon such terms, as may appear reasonable and just.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of such valuation,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> when ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid to the owner or owners, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1815-03-03">March 3, 1815</date>.
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<congress>14</congress>
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<dc:date>1815</dc:date>
<dc:date>1816</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth, day of December,</i> 1815, <i>and ended on the thirtieth day of April,</i> 1816.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Madison</inline>, President of the United States; <inline class="smallCaps">John Gaillard</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">HenryClay</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: for the relief of Henry Fanning.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Fanning.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-01-17">Jan. 17, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be released from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to cause to be discharged from his imprisonment, Henry Fanning, of the city of New York, in all cases in which he, the said Henry Fanning, is imprisoned by virtue of mesne or final process, issued on any debt or judgment due to the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> however, that any estate, real or personal, which he the said Henry Fanning, may have, or which he may hereafter acquire, shall be liable to the satisfaction of the debts and judgments due to the United States, on which he the said Henry Fanning is imprisoned, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged.</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further,</i> that nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to affect the liability of any coobligor, that may have been bound with the said Henry Fanning, for the payment of any sum or sums of money, to the United States.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-01-17">January 17, 1816</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of Jonathan B. Eastman.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>V</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonathan B. Eastman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-01-17">Jan. 17, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the war <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>department be, and they are hereby authorized to audit and settle the accounts of Jonathan B. Eastman, district pay-master of the lakes, and to allow him, in the settlement thereof, such credits as may appear equitable and just.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-01-17">January 17, 1816</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of Joseph Anderson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1816-01-22</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Anderson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-01-22">Jan. 22, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the sum of three hundred and twenty-two <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to be placed to his credit, and patent to issue.</p></sidenote>dollars and sixty-eight cents, paid by Joseph Anderson, on the fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and five, on account of the purchase money of the north-west quarter of section of land number eleven, in township seven, and range four, in the Steubenville district, shall, by the register and receiver of public moneys of the land office
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 8, 11, 12, 13, 15. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/157">157</page>
for the district aforesaid, be placed to the credit of the said Joseph Anderson, and be considered as the fourth instalment of the purchase money due for said quarter section; and that the said Joseph Anderson, his heirs or assigns, shall be entitled to a patent for the same.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-01-22">January 22, 1816</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of John G. Camp.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John G. Camp.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-02-01">Feb. 1, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the war department be, and they are hereby authorized, to audit and settle the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> accounts of John G. Camp, assistant deputy quarter-master general, in such manner, and upon such terms, as may be equitable and just.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-02-01">February 1, 1816</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of Jonathan White.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 157</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonathan White.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-02-06">Feb. 6, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary for the department of war be, and he is hereby authorized and required to renew military land warrant<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant to be renewed.</p></sidenote> number eight hundred and seventy-five, which heretofore issued to James Gunn, and to issue the same in the name of Jonathan White, to whom it was assigned by said Gunn.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-02-06">February 6, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XII: for the relief of Charles Markin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 157</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-02-06</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Markin.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-02-06">Feb. 6, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Charles Markin shall be permitted to withdraw his entry made on the twenty-third day of February, one thousand<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entry for land may be withdrawn, and payments transferred.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and fifteen, at the land office at Chillicothe, from the north-west quarter of section number nineteen, township number two, of range number sixteen, and the money paid by him on the said entry shall be placed to his credit on any purchase he shall make or may have made of public lands in the same district.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-02-06">February 6, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of Martin Cole, John Pollock, George Westner, and Abraham Welty.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 157</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-02-06</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Martin Cole, John Pollock, George Westner, and Abraham Welty.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-02-06">Feb. 6, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Martin Cole, John Pollock, George Westner, and Abraham Welty be, and they are hereby authorized to withdraw<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entries for land may be withdrawn, and payments transferred.</p></sidenote> their respective erroneous entries made in the district of Madison, Canton, Vincennes, and Zanesville, respectively, and the moneys paid by them on the said entries shall be placed to their credit, on any purchase of public land they may have made, or shall make in the same districts.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-02-06">February 6, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XV: for the relief of William Morrissett.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 157</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-02-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Morrissett.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-02-15">Feb. 15, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby authorized to pay to William Morrissett,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalties remitted.</p></sidenote> the sum of one hundred and five dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount paid by him for penalties incurred, which were afterwards remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-02-15">February 15, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVII: to increase the pensions of Robert White, Jacob Wrighter, John Young, and John Crampersey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 158</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-02-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/158">158</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 17, 19, 20. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to increase the pensions of Robert White, Jacob Wrighter, John Young, and John Crampersey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-02-22">Feb. 22, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be and hereby is granted to Robert <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Augmentation of pensions.</p></sidenote>White, of Reading, in the State of Vermont, who, in the defence of fort Erie, lost both his arms by a cannon-shot, in lieu of the pension to which he is now entitled by law, a pension of forty dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; to Jacob Wrighter, of the city of Trenton, in the State of New Jersey, who lost his right arm and right leg at the capture of Little York, in Upper Canada, in lieu of the pension to which he is now entitled by law, a pension of thirty dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; to John Young, of the town of Boston, and State of Massachusetts, who lost both arms at French Creek, in descending the river St. Lawrence, by a cannon-ball, in lieu of the pension to which he is now entitled by law, a pension of forty dollars per month, to commence from the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; and to John Crampersey, of the town of Beverly, and State of Massachusetts, who lost both arms in the late war with Great Britain, in lieu of the pension to which he is now entitled by law, a pension of forty dollars per month, to commence from the fifteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; and the secretary of war is hereby directed to place the said Robert White, Jacob Wrighter, John Young, and John Crampersey on the pension list accordingly.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-02-22">February 22, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Jonathan Rogers, junior, of Waterford, in the State of Connecticut.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 158</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-02-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonathan Rogers, junior, of Waterford, in the State of Connecticut.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-02-22">Feb. 22, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be released from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>hereby authorized and required to discharge from his imprisonment Jonathan Rogers, junior, of Waterford, Connecticut, now confined in prison at New Haven, in said state, for a debt due from him to the United States, on judgment obtained in their favor against him, before the district court for said district of Connecticut: Provided, however, That nothing contained in this act shall exonerate any property which the said Jonathan Rogers, junior, now has or hereafter may acquire from the judgment and execution obtained against him, by the United States, as aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-02-22">February 22, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of John Redman Coxe.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 158</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-02-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Redman Coxe.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-02-28">Feb. 28, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the duties which have been secured to be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on philosophical apparatus refunded.</p></sidenote>paid by John Redman Coxe to the United States, on the importation into the same of a philosophical apparatus, and of a collection of mineral substances, to be used by him as professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, be, and the same are hereby remitted, on sufficient proof being made to the Comptroller of the Treasury that the articles above mentioned have been imported by the said Coxe, to be used for the purposes aforementioned.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-02-28">February 28, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: for the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel William Lawrence, of the army of the United States, and of the officers, non-commissioned officers and privates, composing the garrison of Fort Boyer, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 159</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-03-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 23, 27, 28, 29, 34. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/159">159</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel William Lawrence, of the army of the United States, and of the officers, non-commissioned officers and privates, composing the garrison of Fort Boyer, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-03-05">March 5, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the department of war be, and they are hereby authorized and required to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of prize money.</p></sidenote> audit and settle the claims of the officers and soldiers composing the garrison of Fort Boyer, on the fifteenth of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; and to allow to them the same sum, as prize money, as would be allowed if the sloop of war Hermes, belonging to the enemy, had been captured by an equal naval force; and also to allow to the said garrison the half value (all expenses being first deducted) of the schooner Active, and her cargo, captured in the year aforesaid by the said garrison: and that the sums aforesaid, when allowed, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-03-05">March 5, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Gustavus Loomis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 159</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Gustavus Loomis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-03-19">March 19, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the war department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to audit<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and settle the claim of Gustavus Loomis, assistant deputy quarter-master general, and to allow him, in the settlement thereof, such credits as may be equitable and just.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-03-19">March 19, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: to extend certain privileges, as therein mentioned, to Bernard Edme Verjon, and Robert Lowe Stobie.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 159</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to extend certain privileges, as therein mentioned, to Bernard Edme Verjon, and Robert Lowe Stobie.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-03-19">March 19, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That two years’ residence, as required by an act entitled “An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two years’ residence to obtain a patent not required of them.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 17, 1800, ch. 25.</p></sidenote> discoveries and inventions, to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the right of patentees,” shall not be required of Bernard Edme Verjon, to enable him to obtain a patent for any discovery he has made in the art of manufacturing or refining sugar; or of Robert Lowe Stobie, to enable him to obtain patents for any discoveries he has made in the construction of a ship’s rudder, and also of a pump for extracting noxious air from the holds of vessels, but that they shall obtain patents therefor, on their conforming to the other requisitions of said act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-03-19">March 19, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of John M. Forbes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 159</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John M. Forbes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-03-19">March 19, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of state be, and he is hereby authorized to settle and adjust the accounts of John M. Forbes, as consul<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consul’s account to be settled.</p></sidenote> of the United States at Hamburgh, for moneys advanced by him on account of the United States, and for other incidental expenses relative to the same; and to allow him such sum for losses in exchange, and for interest of money so advanced, and other incidental expenses, as he may deem equitable and just.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-03-19">March 19, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of Erastus Loomis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 159</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-03-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Erastus Loomis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-03-25">March 25, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the navy department be, and they are hereby authorized to adjust and settle the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/160">160</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 36, 37, 38, 42. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed the pay of a second lieutenant of marines.</p></sidenote>claim of Erastus Loomis, and allow him the pay and emoluments of a second lieutenant of marines, from the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to the twenty-eighth of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; also the expenses incurred by said Loomis, in consequence of a wound received by him whilst gallantly doing his duty on board the brig Eagle, in the action on Lake Champlain, on the eleventh of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; the amount whereof shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-03-25">March 25, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: for the relief of John T. Wirt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 160</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John T. Wirt.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-02">April 2, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the war department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the claim of John T. Wirt, assistant deputy quartermaster-general, and to allow him, in the settlement thereof, such credits as may be equitable and just.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-02">April 2, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: placing certain persons on the list of Navy Pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 160</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">placing certain persons on the list of Navy Pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-02">April 2, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the navy to place on the list of pensioners the persons wounded at Dartmoor prison, and the widows and children of those killed, or who died of wounds received there, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place on the list of navy pensioners those persons who were wounded at Dartmoor prison, in England, in the month of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; also the widows and children of such as were killed, or who died in consequence of wounds received there; and that, in the allowance of pensions to the persons aforesaid, the regulations established by law, in relation to the placing persons on the list of navy pensioners, be observed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">This act to take effect from the 6th April, 1815.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That this act shall be construed to take effect from the sixth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-02">April 2, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: authorizing and requiring the Secretary of State to issue letters patent to Andrew Kurtz.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 160</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing and requiring the Secretary of State to issue letters patent to Andrew Kurtz.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-02">April 2, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of State to issue letters patent to Andrew Kurtz.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue letters patent to Andrew Kurtz, for his invention of a new method of manufacturing the charcoal of wood, and purifying the pyroligneous acid, obtained by the distillation of wood, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.</p></sidenote>upon his complying with the requisites of the act entitled “An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 17, 1800, ch. 25.</p></sidenote>made for that purpose; ” and an act entitled “An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees,” except so far as the said acts, or any part or parts of them, require a residence of two years within the United States, in like manner, in all respects, as if the said Andrew Kurtz had resided two years within the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-02">April 2, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the remission of certain duties on the importation of books for the use of Harvard College, and on the carriage and personal baggage of his excellency William Gore, Governor of the British Province of Upper Canada.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 160</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the remission of certain duties on the importation of books for the use of Harvard College, and on the carriage and personal baggage of his excellency William Gore, Governor of the British Province of Upper Canada.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-09">April 9, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on books belonging to</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all duties due and payable to the United States on an invoice of books belonging to Harvard College in Cam-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 48, 50, 51, 54. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/161">161</page>
bridge, Massachusetts, imported into Boston in the year one thousand<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harvard College remitted.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and fifteen, be, and the same are hereby, remitted.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And he it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all duties due and payable<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on the carriage, &amp;c. of William Gore, remitted.</p></sidenote> to the United States on the carriage and personal baggage of his excellency William Gore, governor of the British province of Upper Canada, imported into New York, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be, and the same are hereby, remitted.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-09">April 9, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: confirming to the Navigation Company of New Orleans the use and possession of a lot in the said city.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 161</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">confirming to the Navigation Company of New Orleans the use and possession of a lot in the said city.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-16">April 16, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the right and claim of the United States to the title, possession, and occupancy, of a lot of ground of three hundred feet front on Rampart street, in the city of New Orleans, by six hundred feet in depth, on a line with St. Peter street, on which was erected the former hospital of charity, in the said city, be, and the same is hereby vested in the navigation company of New Orleans: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall affect the claim or claims of any individual or individuals, if any such there be.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-16">April 16, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. L: to increase the pension of William Munday.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 161</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to increase the pension of William Munday.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-16">April 16, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be, and hereby is granted to William<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pension allowed.</p></sidenote> Munday, of the city of Baltimore, who lost both his arms in an attack on the enemy, at St. Leonard’s creek, on the twenty-eighth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, in lieu of the pension to which he is now entitled by law, a pension of twenty dollars per month, to be paid out of the navy pension fund.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-16">April 16, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LI: authorizing the sale of a lot of ground belonging to the United States, situated in the town of Knoxville, and State of Tennessee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 161</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the sale of a lot of ground belonging to the United States, situated in the town of Knoxville, and State of Tennessee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-16">April 16, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be sold, at public sale, a lot of ground belonging to the United States, situated in the town of Knoxville and State of Tennessee, ten days’ notice being first given, in the Knoxville Gazette, of the time and place of sale.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That on the receipt of the money arising from said sale, the President of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to make or cause to be made a title or titles to the purchaser or purchasers of said lot.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-16">April 16, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIV: to authorize the legislature of the State of Ohio to sell a certain part of a tract of land, reserved for the use of that state.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 161</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the legislature of the State of Ohio to sell a certain part of a tract of land, reserved for the use of that state.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-16">April 16, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legislature of the State of Ohio shall be, and are hereby authorized and empowered to cause to be selected and sold, in such manner, and on such terms and conditions as they may by law direct, any one section not exceeding the quantity of six hundred and forty acres, of the tract of land of six miles square, reserved for the benefit of that state, at the Scioto salt springs: Provided, That the section so selected shall not include the said salt springs, and that the money arising from the sale of the aforesaid section shall be applied to the erection of a court-house, or other public buildings, thereon, for the use of the county of Jackson, in said state; and whenever the selection and sale of the said section of land shall
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/162">162</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 59, 60, 61, 62. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
have been made, and the same shall be duly certified to the commissioner of the general land office, a patent shall be granted by the President of the United States, for the said section, in trust to such person or persons as the legislature of the state shall have appointed and authorized, to sell and execute titles to the purchasers of the land aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-16">April 16, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of Richard, Mitchell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 162</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard, Mitchell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-20">April 20, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from the payment of a judgment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Richard Mitchell, of the State of Tennessee, be, and he is hereby, released from the payment of two thousand and thirty dollars, being the balance remaining unsatisfied of a judgment obtained on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred, against Reuben Saunders, Richard Mitchell, and others, in the district court of the United States, for East Tennessee: Provided, however, That nothing contained in this act shall be considered as releasing Reuben Saunders from any claim which the United States have against him, as collector of the internal revenues for the first division within the State of Tennessee.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-20">April 20, 1816</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of Xaverio Naudi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 162</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Xaverio Naudi.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-20">April 20, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation as consular agent at Tripoli.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary for the department of state be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Xaverio Naudi, for services and expenses lately incurred, while acting as consular agent for the United States, at Tripoli, and to allow the said Xaverio Naudi therefor, such compensation as may appear equitable and just, under all the circumstances of the case: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That such allowance shall not exceed the limitation at present allowed by law to consuls regularly appointed to reside at Tripoli; and the sum so to be allowed, when ascertained, shall be paid to the said Xaverio Naudi, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-20">April 20, 1816</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of the Baltimore and, Massachusetts Bible Societies.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 162</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the Baltimore and, Massachusetts Bible Societies.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-20">April 20, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on stereotype plates remitted.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the duties due and payable to the United States, on a set of stereotype plates, owned by the Baltimore Bible Society, imported from London to Philadelphia, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, on board the ship Electra; and from London to Baltimore, in the same year, on board the ship Joseph, be, and the same are hereby remitted.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback allowed on an invoice of Bibles.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Comptroller of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to direct a debenture to be issued to the Massachusetts Bible Society, for a drawback of duties upon an invoice of Bibles exported from the port of Boston, on board the brigantine Panther, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the said Society shall produce satisfactory evidence to the said comptroller, as the law directs, that the invoice aforesaid has been landed in some foreign port or place.</proviso></content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-20">April 20, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of Edward Wilson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 162</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-20</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edward Wilson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-20">April 20, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed to withdraw his</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Edward Wilson shall be permitted to withdraw an entry made by James Caldwell, on the fourth day of April, one
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 66, 70, 72. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/163">163</page>
thousand eight hundred and eleven, at the land office at Steubenville,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">entry in the land office at Steubenville, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> from the south-west quarter of section number thirteen, in township number nine, of range number seven, in the district of land offered for sale at Steubenville; and the money paid on the said entry shall be placed to the credit of said Wilson on any purchase he may make, or may have made, of public lands in said district.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-20">April 20, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for the relief of William Flood.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 163</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-24</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Flood.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-24">April 24, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the war<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of William Flood, on account of the destruction of his property by the British forces, on the eighth of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value thereof, in such manner and upon such terms as may be equitable and just.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of such valuation,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid.</p></sidenote> when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said William Flood out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-24">April 24, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXX: to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of Edward Hallowell.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 163</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-24</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of Edward Hallowell.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-24">April 24, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That an act, entitled “An act for the relief of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 57.</p></sidenote> Edward Hallowell,” passed on the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, shall be so construed as to allow the said Edward Hallowell, without regard to the date of purchase, to avail himself, in respect to all the goods, wares, and merchandise,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May avail himself of the provisions of the act of Jan. 2, 1813, ch. 7.</p></sidenote> mentioned in the said act, of all the benefits and provisions of the act, entitled “An act directing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit fines, forfeitures, and penalties, in certain cases,” passed the second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, in like manner, and as fully, as if the purchase of the said goods, wares, and merchandise, had been made before war was known to exist between the United States and Great Britain, at the port or place where the purchase was made.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-24">April 24, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXII: for the relief of Patrick O’Flyng, and Abigail O’Flyng and Edmund O’Flyng.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 163</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Patrick O’Flyng, and Abigail O’Flyng and Edmund O’Flyng.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-24">April 24, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper officer of the department of war<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant granted to Patrick and Abigail O’Flyng.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to allow and grant to Patrick and Abigail O’Flyng, a land warrant for four hundred and eighty acres of land, in the same manner and upon the same terms that warrants for military land bounty are granted to the soldiers of the army of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the officer aforesaid be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To Edmund O’Flyng.</p></sidenote> he is hereby authorized and directed to allow and grant to Edmund O’Flyng a military land warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land, in the same manner and upon the same terms that warrants are granted to the soldiers of the aforesaid army.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Patrick and Abigail O’Flyng<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half-pay allowed.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby authorized to receive half pay for five years for each of their sons, Lieutenant Patrick O’Flyng, and Ensign Temple E. O’Flyng, who died whilst in the service of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-24">April 24, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of Charles Levaux Trudeau.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 164</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch . 78, 80, 83, 84, 85. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/164">164</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Levaux Trudeau.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter six quarter sections of land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Charles Levaux Trudeau, or his legal representatives, be authorized to enter with the register of the land office, without payment, any six quarter sections of land in place of other lands confirmed by the board of commissioners west of Pearl river, in the Mississippi territory, provided the same do not exceed one thousand acres, which has been offered at public sale in the Mississippi territory; and on return being made to the commissioner of the general land office, a patent shall issue as in other cases.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John T. Courtnay and Samuel Harrison, or their legal representatives.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 164</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John T. Courtnay and Samuel Harrison, or their legal representatives.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$375 to be paid them.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to John T. Courtnay and Samuel Harrison, citizens of Virginia, or if either or both of them be dead, then to their legal representatives, the sum of three hundred and seventy-five dollars, to be equally divided between them; which sum is paid them in consequence of their exertions in saving from being destroyed by fire, the gun-boat schooner Asp, belonging to the United States, when she was set on fire and left burning by the enemy, after having been taken by them, in an action in the month of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, in the river Potomac.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: for the relief of Ephraim Shaler.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 164</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ephraim Shaler.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the war department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the accounts of Ephraim Shaler, late a lieutenant in the army of the United States, and to allow him, in the settlement thereof, such credits as may be equitable and just.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: for the relief of a company of the twentieth brigade of Virginia militia, commanded by Captain Jonathan Wamsly.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 164</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of a company of the twentieth brigade of Virginia militia, commanded by Captain Jonathan Wamsly.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain claims to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the war department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the claims of such of the commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the Virginia militia, lately under the command of Captain Jonathan Wamsly, while in the service of the United States, as served a tour of duty at Norfolk, and to allow them, in the settlement thereof, the amount of their pay while in the service of the United States, which was drawn in their behalf by the said Captain Wamsly, after their discharge from service, and not paid over to them.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of the said claims shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXV: for the relief of the supervisors of the county of Clinton, in the State of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 164</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the supervisors of the county of Clinton, in the State of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for property destroyed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the commissioner to be appointed by virtue of the act, entitled “An act to authorize the payment for property
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Ses s I. Ch . 86, 87, 88, 89. 1816</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/165">165</page>
lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes,” passed April ninth, one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed, to audit and settle the claim of the supervisors of the county of Clinton, in the State of New York, for the destruction of the court-house of the said county, by order of General Alexander Macomb, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value thereof, in the manner and form prescribed by the provisions of the aforesaid act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> so ascertained, shall be paid to the said supervisors for the benefit of the county of Clinton, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVI: for the relief of Joseph Wilson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 165</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Wilson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the commissioner to be appointed by virtue of the act, entitled “An act to authorize the payment for property<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be compensated for the loss of a horse.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.</p></sidenote> lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes,” passed April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Joseph Wilson, for a horse killed by a sentinel, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained the value thereof, in the manner and form prescribed by the provisions of the aforesaid act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the value thereof, when so<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> ascertained, shall be paid to the said Joseph Wilson, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVII: for the relief of Thomas Ap Catesby Jones.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 165</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Ap Catesby Jones.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the navy department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to audit and settle the accounts of Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, a lieutenant of the navy of the United States, and to allow him, in the settlemen. thereof, such credits as may be equitable and just.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVIII: for the relief of Asher Palmer.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 165</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Asher Palmer.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the navy<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity for a schooner captured by the enemy.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to audit and settle the claim of Asher Palmer, for a small schooner captured by the British forces in the late war, while the same was in the service of the United States, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value thereof, in such manner as shall be reasonable and just.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Asher Palmer, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: for the relief of William Hamon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 165</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Hamon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to William Hamon, of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> city of Philadelphia, out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and eighty-four dollars and forty-three cents, in full of the sum of money which has been paid into the treasury by the said William Hamon, for duties
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/166">166</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 90, 91, 92, 93. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
on thirty-six boxes of white sugar, imported by him on the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and five, from Havanna, which sugar he exported to Bordeaux, in the ship Missouri, about the last of September then next following: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That prior to the payment of the above sum of money to the said William Hamon, satisfactory proof be exhibited to the Comptroller of the Treasury, that the said thirty-six boxes of white sugar were landed in some foreign port or place.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XC: for the relief of Joseph Wheaton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 166</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Wheaton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$836.42 to be paid him.</p></sidenote>pay to Joseph Wheaton the sum of eight hundred and thirty-six dollars and forty-two cents, on account of interest due him from the United States, upon sixteen hundred dollars and eighty-four cents, from the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and seven, to the twenty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, pursuant to the award of George Youngs and Elias B. Caldwell, in a controversy between the United States and the said Joseph Wheaton.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said sum of money be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCI: granting to Amos Spofford the right of pre-emption.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 166</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting to Amos Spofford the right of pre-emption.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pre-emption right granted to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Amos Spafford, collector of the district and port of Miami, shall have the right of pre-emption to one hundred and sixty acres of land, to include his improvements, situate within the limits of the reserve of twelve miles square, at the rapids of Miami of Lake Erie, the boundaries of which shall be designated under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; which tract of land shall be granted to him at the same price, and on the same terms and conditions for which the other public lands are sold at private sale.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCII: authorizing the payment of a sum of money to James Levins.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 166</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the payment of a sum of money to James Levins.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Donation of $500.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred dollars, to James Levins, of South Carolina, or to his legal representative, which sum of five hundred dollars is paid to him as an evidence of the sense entertained by Congress of his valor and good conduct, in having recaptured, alone and unassisted, the schooner Santee, together with a midshipman and four seamen of the British navy, which prisoners were delivered to the marshal of the district of South Carolina, and also as compensation for the prisoners so taken.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIII: directing the discharge of Moses Lewis from imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 166</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">directing the discharge of Moses Lewis from imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Moses Lewis, who is now confined in the gaol of Haverhill, in the State of New Hampshire, on a judgment rendered by the circuit court of the United States holden at Rutland, for the district of Vermont, by which he was sentenced to pay a fine to
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 94, 96, 97, 99. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/167">167</page>
the United States, be discharged from his imprisonment: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That any estate, real or personal, which the said Moses Lewis may have, or hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken to satisfy the sentence against him, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: for the relief of the widow and children of Charles Dolph, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 167</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the widow and children of Charles Dolph, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Donation of $500.</p></sidenote> hereby directed to pay to the widow of Charles Dolph, deceased, late of Saybrook, in the state of Connecticut, the sum of five hundred dollars, for the use of herself and the children of the said Dolph, (who was killed during the late war with Great Britain, in an engagement between a party of volunteers, raised in said town of Saybrook, and the crew of a British privateer called the Rover,) in consideration of the capture of five British prisoners on that occasion, which prisoners were delivered over to the marshal of the United States for the district of Connecticut.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the money herein granted<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVI: for the relief of the heirs of Alexander Roxburgh.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 167</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of Alexander Roxburgh.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Department be, and they are hereby authorized and required to liquidate and settle, agreeably to the provisions of the laws heretofore in existence on that subject, the claim of the heirs of Alexander Roxburgh, arising on a final settlement certificate, issued to the said Alexander Roxburgh on the eighteenth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, by John Pierce, commissioner for settling the army accounts, for four hundred and eighty dollars and eightyseven ninetieths of a dollar, bearing interest from the first of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, and numbered eightyone thousand and sixteen, letter I., and that the sum which shall be found due thereon be paid to the heirs of the said Alexander Roxburgh, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVII: for the relief of Young King, a chief of the Seneca tribe of Indians.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 167</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Young King, a chief of the Seneca tribe of Indians.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary for the Department of War<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity of 200 dollars.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to cause to be paid to Young King, a chief of the Seneca tribe of Indians, quarter yearly, the sum of fifty dollars, amounting to the sum of two hundred dollars per annum, during the term of his natural life, as a compensation for the brave and meritorious services which he rendered the United States in the late war with Great Britain, and as a provision for the wound and disability which he received in the performance of those services.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said sum be paid out<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIX: for the relief of John Crosby and John Crosby, junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 167</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Crosby and John Crosby, junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Navy<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p></sidenote> Department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to audit
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/168">168</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 100, 105, 106. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
and settle the claim of John Crosby, and John Crosby, junior, on account of the destruction by fire, of their store, house, goods, and wharf, in the town of Hampden, in the state of Massachusetts, and to allow them, in the settlement thereof, the value of the said property destroyed as aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said John Crosby, and John Crosby, junior, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. C: for the relief of the president and directors of the Washington bridge company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>C</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 168</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>C.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the president and directors of the Washington bridge company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the commissioner to be appointed by virtue<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioner to settle the claim of Washington bridge company.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.</p></sidenote> of the act, entitled “An act to authorize the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes,” passed April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of the president and directors of the Washington bridge company, for the injury done to he south-western end of the said bridge by order of the government, or any of its authorized agents, in August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value thereof, in the manner and form prescribed by the provisions of the aforesaid act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said president and directors out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-26">April 26, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the benefit of John P. Maxwell, and Hugh H. Maxwell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 168</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of John P. Maxwell, and Hugh H. Maxwell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the right, title, and interest of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of the U. S. relinquished to John P. and Hugh H. Maxwell.</p></sidenote>United States, of, in, and to, any real-estate, whereof a certain James Maxwell died seized, on the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, be, and the same is hereby, released unto John P. Maxwell, of the Missouri territory, and Hugh H. Maxwell, of the territory of Illinois, nephews of the said James Maxwell, and the same is hereby vested in the said John P. Maxwell, and Hugh H. Maxwell and their heirs forever, as fully as if they had been citizens of the United States on the said fourteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; saving and reserving to all persons, other than the United States, any right, title, or interest, of, in, and to, the premises aforesaid, whereof the said James Maxwell died seized, as fully and amply as if this law had never been passed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVI: allowing pay to certain persons made prisoners with the revenue cutter “Surveyor.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 168</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">allowing pay to certain persons made prisoners with the revenue cutter “Surveyor.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to settle the accounts for pay of the boatswain, gunner, cook, and ten mariners, captured on board of the revenue cutter Surveyor, during the late war with Great Britain, up to the period of their release and return from captivity, and to pay the amount to them, or their legal representatives, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to settle with Samuel Traverse, late master of the cutter Surveyor, and pay him up to the seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: for the relief of certain owners of goods, entered at Hampden, in the district of Maine.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 169</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 108, 109, 111, 113. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/169">169</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of certain owners of goods, entered at Hampden, in the district of Maine.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That on the trial of any information, libel, or<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims of U. S. to forfeiture of certain merchandize, released.</p></sidenote> other suit for the forfeiture or condemnation of goods and merchandize, which between the twenty-fifth day of October, and the thirty-first day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, were entered at Hampden, in the district of Maine, and have been since seized as imported or entered contrary to law, all claims to forfeiture and condemnation be, and hereby are released, arising from want of lawful authority to enter and deliver said goods at Hampden, or from the illegality of importing the said goods into Orrington, or depositing them there, or from the illegality of trading between Orrington and Hampden, in a neutral vessel not licensed for the coasting trade: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the claimants of the goods and merchandize so entered as aforesaid, shall pay and satisfy all the reasonable expenses and charges attending the seizure and keeping thereof, and all the expenses, costs, and charges of prosecuting the informations, libels, and suits instituted against the same, to be taxed by the court in which final judgments shall be rendered against the respective claimants, whether the final judgments shall be in favor of the claimants respectively or against them.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIX: concerning Pharaoh Farrow and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 169</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning Pharaoh Farrow and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the judge of the Albemarle district court in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds of sale of boats, &amp;c. to be distributed among them.</p></sidenote> state of North Carolina be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to distribute to Pharaoh Farrow, and his associates, the proceeds arising from the sale of two armed boats belonging to the British privateer Mars; which boats, with their tackle and apparel, were captured by the said Pharaoh Farrow, and his associates, on the nineteenth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, in New-Inlet, in the said state; and which, with their tackle and apparel, have been condemned and sold by a decree of the court, the proceeds of which sale are held to the benefit of the United States; and that the said distribution be made agreeably to the laws of the United States, relating to captures made by private armed ships.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXI: for the relief of Thomas H. Boyle.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 169</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas H. Boyle.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas H. Boyle, or his legal representatives,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed to enter a tract of land without payment.</p></sidenote> be authorized to enter with the register of the land office, without payment, twelve hundred and eighty acres of land, including his settlement in the Mississippi territory, and on return being made to the commission [er] of the general land office, a patent shall issue as in other cases.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there be allowed to the said<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To receive three months’ pay as captain.</p></sidenote> Thomas H. Boyle, three months’ pay, as a captain in the army of the United States, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: for the relief of Samuel Dick, William Bruce and Asa, Kitchel.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 169</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
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<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Dick, William Bruce and Asa, Kitchel.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Beit enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the final certificate of Samuel Dick, issued<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Final certificates to be received as evidence of payment for land.</p></sidenote> on the thirteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and one, by the register of the land office in the Cincinnati district, for six hundred and forty acres of land; also the final certificate granted to Asa Kitchel, dated
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/170">170</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 114, 115, 116, 117. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
the twenty-eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and one, by the register aforesaid, for six hundred and twenty-eight acres of land; and also the final certificate granted to William Bruce, by the register aforesaid, for a section of land, dated about the same time, shall respectively be received by the commissioner of the general land office, as complete evidence of payment for the tracts of land therein specified, and patents shall be issued thereon as in other cases.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: for the relief of Joseph S. Newall.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 170</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph S. Newall.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entry may be withdrawn, and payments transferred.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Joseph S. Newall shall be permitted to withdraw an entry made at the land office at Canton, in the state of Ohio, from the north-west quarter of section number five, in township number twenty-one, of range number sixteen, in the district of land offered for sale at Canton, and the money paid on the said entry shall be placed to the credit of said Newall on any purchase he may make, or may have made of public lands in said district.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXV: authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Rogers and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 170</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Rogers and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Donation of $300.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred dollars, to John Rogers, William C. Burdick, Joshua Halt, and Jeremiah Chapman, of New London, in the state of Connecticut, which money is paid to them for their valor and good conduct, in capturing a midshipman and two seamen of the British navy, and as compensation for the said prisoners.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: directing the discharge of Ebenezer Keeler, and John Francis, from imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 170</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">directing the discharge of Ebenezer Keeler, and John Francis, from imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Ebenezer Keeler and John Francis, who are now confined in the jail of Delaware county, in the state of New York, on a judgment obtained against them in favor of the United States, be discharged from their imprisonment: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That any estate, real or personal, which the said Ebenezer Keeler or John Francis may have, or hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken to satisfy any judgment obtained against them by the United States, in the same manner as if they had not been imprisoned and discharged.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: for the relief of Rufus S. Reed and Daniel Dobbins.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 170</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Rufus S. Reed and Daniel Dobbins.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be examined and settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Navy Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Rufus S. Reed and Daniel Dobbins for the schooner “Salina,” by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value thereof, in such manner and upon such terms as may be equitable and just.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Rufus S. Reed and Daniel Dobbins, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: confirming the titles of certain purchasers of land who purchased from the board of trustees of the Vincennes university.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 118, 122, 124, 125. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/171">171</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">confirming the titles of certain purchasers of land who purchased from the board of trustees of the Vincennes university.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the several persons who purchased land in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to a tract of land confirmed.</p></sidenote> township numbered two, south of range numbered eleven west, in the district of Vincennes, from the board of trustees for the Vincennes university, which was incorporated by an act of the legislature of the Indiana territory, entitled “An act to incorporate a university in the Indiana territory,” passed the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their titles in fee simple, respectively.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: for the relief of Samuel Manac.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Manac.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the War<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be compensated for the destruction of his property.</p></sidenote> Department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to audit and settle the claim of Samuel Manac, a friendly Creek Indian of the half blood, for his property, which was destroyed by the hostile Creek Indians, in the late war, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value thereof, in such manner, and upon such terms, as may be equitable and just.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Samuel Manac, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXIV: for the relief of George T. Ross, Daniel T. Patterson, and the officers and men lately under their command.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV</docNumber>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George T. Ross, Daniel T. Patterson, and the officers and men lately under their command.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That so much of the nett proceeds of the forfeitures<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of U. S. to an amount not exceeding $50,000 relinquished in their favour.</p></sidenote> and penalties, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, as has accrued to the United States by the condemnation and sale of the vessels and their cargoes, which were taken near the island of Barrataria, on the western coast of Louisiana, on the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, by a land and naval force, under the command of Colonel George T. Ross and Captain Daniel T. Patterson, and which were condemned and sold by order of the district court of the United States for the Orleans district, for violation of laws of the United States, be, and the same are hereby given up and relinquished in favor of the said George T. Ross and Daniel T. Patterson, and of their officers and men, for their zeal, activity and courage, in capturing the same. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay to the said George T. Ross and Daniel T. Patterson, the amount of the said nett proceeds of the said sales, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be distributed among the land and naval forces employed in the capture of the said vessels, in such proportions, and under such regulations, as the Secretaries of War and Navy, with the approbation of the president, shall prescribe and determine.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXV: for the relief of Charles Todd.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 171</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Todd.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Navy<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p></sidenote> Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Charles Todd, for a wagon, horses and tobacco, which he lost in consequence of the wagon and horses being impressed into the service of the United States, by ascertaining the value of the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/172">172</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 126, 128, 133. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
property aforesaid, at the time of its loss, in such manner and upon such terms, as may be reasonable and just.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of such valuation, when ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid to the said Charles Todd, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXVI: for the relief of Paul D. Sutler.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 172</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Paul D. Sutler.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the claim of Paul D. Butler, for a quantity of corn, potatoes and hay, alleged to have been used and consumed by the militia under the command of Brigadier-General Perkins, at Lower Sandusky, in the state of Ohio, in one thousand eight hundred and twelve, by order of the said commanding general, may be heard and decided on, according to the provisions of an act passed at the present <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.</p></sidenote>session of Congress, entitled “An act to authorize the payment for property lost, captured or destroyed, by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes.” And the commissioner under the aforesaid act shall proceed, in every respect therein, as if said militia had been part of the regular army of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Paul D. Butler, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXVIII: for the relief of Thomas Farrer, William Young, William Moseley, and William Leech.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 172</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Farrer, William Young, William Moseley, and William Leech.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to settle the claims of Thomas Farrer, William Young, William Moseley, and William Leech, assistant marshals, appointed to take the census, and an account of the manufactures in South Carolina, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, and to allow them, in the settlement thereof, such compensation as may be adequate to the services which they performed in the capacity aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Thomas Farrer, William Young, William Moseley, and William Leech, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIII: for the relief of Taylor and McNeal, Evans and McNeal, and Henry and John McCleester.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 172</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Taylor and McNeal, Evans and McNeal, and Henry and John McCleester.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the War Department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Taylor and McNeal, Evans and McNeal, and Henry and John McCleester, for the use of their scows, applied under the authority of the United States, for the purpose of making a temporary bridge over the basin at Baltimore, in the month of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and to allow them, in the settlement thereof, such compensation as may be reasonable and just for the use aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Taylor and McNeal, Evans and McNeal, and Henry and John McCleester, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIV: for the relief of Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, surviving executors of John Ross, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 173</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-27</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 134, 136, 144, 146. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/173">173</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, surviving executors of John Ross, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That the commissioner to be appointed by virtue<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.</p></sidenote> of an act of Congress, passed at the present session, entitled, “An act to authorize the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes,” be, and he is hereby authorized to audit and settle the claim of Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, surviving executors of John Ross, deceased, by ascertaining or causing to be ascertained, in the manner prescribed in the aforesaid act, the amount of damages which they have sustained, in consequence of the occupation, by the troops of the United States, of Point Petre, in the State of Georgia, in the loss of the rent of the farm attached thereto, the destruction of the buildings, and of the wood, and other fuel thereon.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, executors aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVI: for the relief of Menassah Miner and Isaac Denison.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 173</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Menassah Miner and Isaac Denison.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement of certain expenses.</p></sidenote> pay to Menassah Miner the sum of three hundred and three dollars and seventy-four cents, and to Isaac Denison the sum of two hundred and fifty-five dollars and ninety-two cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for services rendered and expenses incurred by said Menassah in providing for his son John Miner, and for like services and expenditures rendered and incurred by Isaac Denison, in providing for his son Frederick Denison, while they were diseased by wounds received by them in the service of the United States, in defence of Stonington Point, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIV: for the relief of Elizabeth Hamilton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 173</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-29</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elizabeth Hamilton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby required to settle the account of Elizabeth<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ pay allowed.</p></sidenote> Hamilton, widow and representative of Alexander Hamilton, deceased, and to allow her five years’ full pay for the services of her deceased husband, as a lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary war, which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVI: authorizing the Comptroller of the Treasury to cancel certain export bonds executed by Caspar C. Schutte.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 173</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-29</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the Comptroller of the Treasury to cancel certain export bonds executed by Caspar C. Schutte.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Comptroller of the Treasury be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond for duties to be cancelled.</p></sidenote> he is hereby authorized and empowered to cause to be cancelled all the export bonds executed by Caspar C. Schutte, in his life time, for merchandise shipped in the following vessels, to wit: the Ariadne, Hammonia, and Enoch; and should judgment or judgments have been entered up on any one, or all of the said bonds, to direct the collector of the customs for the port of Charleston to enter satisfaction on the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/174">174</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 147, 148, 156. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
judgment or judgments obtained thereon, on the payment of costs by the representative or representatives of the said Caspar C. Schutte.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVII: for the relief of Moses Turner.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 174</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-29</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Moses Turner.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is authorized and directed to cause to be discharged from imprisonment, Moses Turner of Poultney, in the State of Vermont, who is now confined in jail on final process, issued on a judgment in favor of the United States, against him, said Moses, and Nathaniel Taft; and that the said Moses be, and hereby is released and discharged from the payment of the balance due on said judgment, upon the payment of all costs and marshal’s fees, due for his, said Moses’ commitment: <proviso><i>Provided always,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to affect or discharge the said Nathaniel Taft, or any co-obligator, from the payment of any sum or sums of money due thereon to the United States.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVIII: for the relief of David Cofin, Samuel and William Rodman, and Samuel Rodman, Junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 174</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-29</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Cofin, Samuel and William Rodman, and Samuel Rodman, Junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond for duties to be cancelled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the city of New York be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cancel a bond executed by Hicks, Jenkins, and company, of the city of New York, to secure the payment of duties on the importation into the port of New York, in the British brig Rolla, towards the close of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, of twenty-three casks of whale oil, the proceeds of American fishing, the property of David Coffin Samuel and William Rodman, and Samuel Rodman, junior, which said twenty-three casks of whale oil had been put on board the brig Rolla at sea, from the ship Phebe Anne, belonging to the said David Coffin, Samuel and William Rodman, and Samuel Rodman, junior.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLVI: for the relief of William Crawford, Frederick Bates, William Garrard, and Thomas B. Robertson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 174</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-29</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Crawford, Frederick Bates, William Garrard, and Thomas B. Robertson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of William Crawford to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and required to allow and pay to William Crawford, commissioner of land claims east of Pearl river, the sum of five hundred dollars, for carrying his report upon land claims to the general land office at the city of Washington.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of Frederick Bates.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and required to allow and pay to Frederick Bates, recorder of land titles for the territory of Missouri, the sum of five hundred dollars, for carrying his report upon land claims to the general land office at the city of Washington.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of William Garrard.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and required to allow and pay to William Garrard, commissioner of land claims for the western district of the State of Louisiana, and to Thomas Bolling Robertson,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of Thomas B. Robertson.</p></sidenote> commissioner of land claims for the eastern district of Louisiana, the sum of five hundred dollars each, for carrying the reports upon land claims to the general land office at the city of Washington.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the pur-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 157, 158, 161. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/175">175</page>
poses aforesaid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVII: to indemnify Jabez Mowry and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 175</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-29</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to indemnify Jabez Mowry and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That upon the payment by Jabez Mowry, John W. C. Baxter, Samuel Wheeler, Jonathan Bartlett, Josiah Dana, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity of the sureties of Jabez Mowry and others for bonds taken by the enemy.</p></sidenote> Aaron Hayden, citizens of the United States, of certain bonds now in suit in the district court of Maine, given by them to the United States, for duties on goods imported into the district of Passamaquoddy, amounting to the sum of sixty-five thousand five hundred and eight dollars and seventeen cents, which bonds, on the capture of Eastport, on the eleventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, fell into the hands of the enemy, and were afterwards, by the vice admiralty court of Nova Scotia, decreed forfeit, and the amount thereof ordered to be distributed among the captors, and attachments issued against the principals and sureties in said bonds, to compel the payment thereof, the United States will indemnify the principals and sureties in said bonds, and save them harmless against the loss thereof, and for the expenses already incurred by them in consequence of said loss; which expenses shall be ascertained by the accounting officers of the treasury, and paid out of any moneys therein, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVIII: for the relief of John Holkar, formerly consul general of France, to the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 175</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Holkar, formerly consul general of France, to the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they hereby are authorized and directed to settle the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> account of John Holkar, formerly consul general of France, to the United States, for thirty-seven loan office certificates, amounting to twenty-one thousand seven hundred dollars nominal, that is to say: three hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of New Hampshire; seven thousand nine hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of Massachusetts; eight hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of Rhode Island; twelve hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of New York; and eleven thousand five, hundred dollars thereof, issued from the loan office of Georgia; all of which had been signed by Francis Hopkinson, treasurer of loans, and countersigned by the loan officers of the states respectively, and which were destroyed by fire in the consulate office at Philadelphia, on the second day of January, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty; and that the specie value thereof, being five thousand eight hundred and three dollars thirty-five ninetieths, be paid, with interest thereon, at six per cent., from the third day of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, being the mean data of interest on the same as examined and stated in the office of the Auditor of the Treasury on the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, to the said John Holkar, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the said John Holkar giving a bond of indemnity to the satisfaction of the Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXI: authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Joseph Stewart and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 175</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Joseph Stewart and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reward conferred upon</p></sidenote> hereby authorized and required to pay to Joseph Stewart and his asso-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/176">176</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 167. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joseph Stewart and others.</p></sidenote>ciates, of Dorchester county, in the State of Maryland, or to their legal representatives, the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, which money is paid to them for their gallantry and good conduct, in capturing, during the late war, a tender belonging to the Dauntless, British ship of war, and taking eighteen prisoners, to wit: one lieutenant, one midshipman, thirteen seamen, and three marines, and as compensation for the prisoners so taken.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of U. S. to captured property released in favor of captors.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That any claim which the United States may have to the said captured vessel and property shall be, and the same is hereby released to the said captors.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reward to Matthew Guy and others.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred dollars, in equal proportions, to Matthew Guy and John Woodward, of Prince William county, in Virginia, and Samuel Jennison and Wilfred Drury, of St. Mary’s county, in Maryland, or to their legal representatives; which is paid to them as an evidence of the sense entertained of their valor and good conduct, in capturing a boat belonging to the enemy, in Clement’s bay, in Potomac river, in December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; making prisoners of the crew, consisting of a midshipman and four seamen, with their arms; and also as compensation for the prisoners so taken and delivered to the proper officers of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-29">April 29, 1816</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXVII: concerning invalid pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 176</citableAs>
<dc:date>1816-04-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning invalid pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-04-30">April 30, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place certain persons on the list of invalid pensioners at certain rates.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby directed to place the following named persons on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, who shall be entitled to and receive pensions according to the rates, and commencing at the times herein mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Huie, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh of December, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Erastus Desbrow, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of November, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John B. Williams, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth of September, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ptolemy Sheldon, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the ninth of June, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Humphrey Webster, at the rate of seventeen dollars per month, to commence on the first of June, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Asa Glazier, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth of January, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Westcott, at the rate of six dollars and sixty-seven cents per month, to commence on the sixth of January, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alston Fort, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Luther Gregory, at the rate of four dollars per month to commence on the twenty-second of February, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Henry Parks, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second of February, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lemuel Hewlit, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth of January, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peter Mills, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of January, eighteen hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bethuel Goodrich, junior, at the rate of four dollars per month, to
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 167. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/177">177</page>
commence on the eighteenth of November, eighteen hundred and fifteen.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners,</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Vineyard, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the second of November, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aaron Stewart, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fourth of October, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Michael M’Dermott, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth of March, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Bowyer, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the tenth of October, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Jacaway, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the ninth of January, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph S. Van Driesen, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jacob Kendelsperyer, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth of November, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Fugate, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first of May, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cornelius Williams, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of December, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John B. Fuller, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth of November, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Michael Chapu, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of February, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Henderson, at the rate of eight dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth of December, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Pidgeon, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eighth of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Fitzsimmons, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first of June, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jesse Beach, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the third of January, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Stagg, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth of February, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Bailey, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of December, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Calvin Barnes, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Noble Morse, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first of October, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David M’Cracken, jun., at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the ninth of February, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Patterson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth of December, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Baldwin, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the sixth of June, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Zenas Hastings, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth of November, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Nowell, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of April, eighteen hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charles Hagin, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighth of November, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Foster, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the tenth of October, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Levi Frisbie, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the ninth of November, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Gillett, at the rate of seventeen dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of April, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 167. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote>Samuel Truby, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the ninth of September, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Hawkins, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth of November, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Philip Ulmer, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second of January, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Hamilton, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Thompson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth of June, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Downs, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second of March, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Fenton, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixth of February, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Collins, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Allen, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the third of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Richardson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Devourix, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighth of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Guthrie, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Clark, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Haskell, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Nourse, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John McNulty, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Kerr, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Stephen M. Conger, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Socrates Swift, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathan Lockwood, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Gurnee, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Emory Lowman, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John McMillan, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reuben Goolsby, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Rhodes, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the third of November, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Ruminer, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beverly Williams, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the twenty fourth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Shaw, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 167. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edward Borum, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> on the twenty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Matthew Williams, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William L. Sypert, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Scott, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Hubbard, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hugh Hays, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Dennie, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Bruce, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Sleeker, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Robert C. Davis, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bracket Davison, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William I. Shumate, at the rate of fourteen dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alexander M. Gray, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Patterson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Paul Bonnel, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Hannah, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joshua Mercer, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Schoonover, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alston Cook, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth of October one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Chittim, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abraham Johnson, at the rate of five dollars and thirty-three cents and one third of a cent per month, to commence on the eleventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Gadd, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William O’Neal, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Edmondson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Josiah B. Pachard, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to com-
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 169. Res . 2. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
mence on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Q. Talbotts, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Jackson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jean Du Peron, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Lamb, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
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<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>that the pensions of the following<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of pensions.</p></sidenote> named persons, already placed on the pension list of the United States, be increased to the sums herein respectively annexed to their names; the said increase to commence at the times herein mentioned, and to be in lieu of the pensions they at present receive, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nero Hawley, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathan Hawley, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Porter, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-second of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Durell, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James White, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">David Scott, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hugh Barnes, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edmond Stevenson, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to allow any pensioners any other pension than is herein provided, or any higher rate of pension than has heretofore been allowed to him, or to others similarly situated, for any time previous to the passage of an act entitled <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 24, 1816, ch. 68.</p></sidenote>“An act to increase pensions of invalids in certain cases, for the relief of invalids of the militia, and for the appointment of pension agents, in those states where there are no commissioners of loans.”</proviso></p>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXIX: for the relief of Peter Audrain.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Audrain.</officialTitle>
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<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for his services as clerk and interpreter.</p></sidenote>
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<content class="inline">That there be paid to Peter Audrain, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand dollars, upon his executing to the United States a receipt in full discharge for his claim for services as clerk and interpreter to the board of commissioners at Detroit, from the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and nine, to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</content>
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<content class="inline">That under the peculiar circumstances of the case of an appeal taken by Commodore John Rodgers, from a decree
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 3, 4, 6. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
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of the United States circuit court for the district of Massachusetts,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To indemnify sureties in the appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court.</p></sidenote> affirming that of the district court for the said district, to the supreme court of the United States in the case wherein John Donnel of Baltimore was libellant, and the said John Rodgers and John Smith were respondents, the United States will indemnify and save harmless any persons who may become sureties for the said John Rodgers, in a bond to respond the final judgment of the supreme court on the said appeal; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> that this interposition on the part of the United States shall not be considered as involving them in any other engagement or responsibility, than to indemnify and save harmless the said sureties from eventual loss, on account of such suretyship.</proviso></content>
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<docTitle class="inline italic">Resolution, </docTitle>
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<content class="inline">That the president of the United States be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President to present medals to Captain Stewart, and the officers of the frigate Constitution.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby requested to present to Captain Charles Stewart, of the frigate Constitution, a gold medal, with suitable emblems and devices, and a silver medal, with suitable emblems and devices, to each commissioned officer of the said frigate, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the gallantry, good conduct, and services of Captain Stewart, his officers and crew, in the capture of the British vessels of war, the Cyane and the Levant, after a brave and skilful combat.</content>
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<officialTitle class="inline italic">requesting the president to present medals to Captain James Biddle, and the officers of the sloop of war Hornet.</officialTitle>
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<content class="inline">That the president of the United States be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President to present medals to Captain James Biddle, and the officers of the sloop of war Hornet.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby requested, to present to Captain James Biddle of the sloop of war Hornet, a gold medal, with suitable emblems and devices, and a silver medal, with suitable emblems and devices, to each commissioned officer of the said sloop of war, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the gallantry, good conduct, and services of Captain Biddle, his officers and crew, in capturing the British sloop of war Penguin, after a brave and skilful combat.</content>
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<docNumber>No. 6</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="inline italic">Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline italic">requiring the Secretary of State to compile and print, once in every two years, a register of all officers and agents, civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1816-02-27">Feb. 27, 1816</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it resolved, &amp;c., </i></resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That once in two years, a register, containing<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of state to compile and print a register of all officers and agents, in the service of the United States.</p></sidenote> correct lists of all the officers and agents, civil, military, and naval, in the service of the United States, made up to the last day of September of each year in which a new congress is to assemble, be compiled and printed under the direction of the secretary for the department of state. And to enable him to form such register, he, for his own department, and the heads of the other departments, respectively, shall, in due time, cause such lists as aforesaid, of all officers and agents, in their respective departments, including clerks, cadets and midshipmen, to be made and lodged in the office of the department of state. And the said lists, shall exhibit the amount of compensation, pay, and emoluments allowed to each officer, agent, clerk, cadet and midshipman, the state or county in which he was born, and where employed.</content>
</section>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">2. <i>Resolved, </i></resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of the navy subjoin to the list of the persons employed in his department, the names, force and con-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/182">182</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 6. 1816.</centerRunningHead>
dition of all the ships and vessels belonging to the United States, and when and where built.</content>
</section>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">3. <i>Resolved,</i> </resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That five hundred copies of the said register be printed; and that on the first Monday in January in each year, when a new congress shall be assembled, there be delivered to the president, the vice president, each head of a department, each member of the senate and house of representatives of the United States, one copy of such register; and to the secretary of the senate, and clerk of the house of representatives, each, ten copies, for the use of the respective houses; that twenty-five copies shall be deposited in the library of the United States, at the seat of government, to be used like other books in that library, and that the residue of the said copies be disposed of in such manner as congress shall from time to time direct.</content>
</section>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">4. <i>Resolved,</i> </resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That for the information of the present congress, such register as aforesaid be prepared and distributed as aforesaid, on the first day of its next session.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1816-04-27">April 27, 1816</date>.
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December,</i> 1816, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1817.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Madison</inline>, President of the United States; <inline class="smallCaps">John Gaillard</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">Henry Clay</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. I: for the relief of Nathaniel Williams.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>I.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nathaniel Williams.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-01-02">Jan. 2, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to discharge from imprisonment Nathaniel Williams of Rockingham, in the state of North Carolina, now confined in prison at Rockingham courthouse, on a judgment obtained in favor of the United States, in the district court of North Carolina.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the proper accounting officers<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury to give him credit.</p></sidenote> of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to place to the credit of the said Nathaniel Williams, the sum of four hundred and twenty-nine dollars, it being the balance which appears on the books of the comptroller due from him, but which he has disbursed for the use of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-01-02">January 2, 1817</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. II: directing the discharge of Nathaniel Taft from imprisonment.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>II</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1817-01-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">directing the discharge of Nathaniel Taft from imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-01-14">Jan. 14, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Nathaniel Taft, who is now confined in jail in the city of New York on a judgment obtained against him in favor<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> of the United States, be discharged from his imprisonment: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That any estate, real or personal, which the said Nathaniel Taft may have, or hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken to satisfy the judgment aforesaid, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further,</i> That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the liability of any co-obligor that may have been bound with the said Nathaniel Taft, for the payment of any sum of money to the United States.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-01-14">January 14, 1817</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of William Haslet.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 183</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-01-20</dc:date>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Haslet.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-01-20">Jan. 20, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim on account of ship Liberty to be settled.</p></sidenote> audit and settle the claim of William Haslet, on account of his ship Liberty, by ascertaining or causing to be ascertained the value thereof,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/183" renderingPosition="bottom">183</page>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/184">184</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 6, 8, 11, 12. 1817.</centerRunningHead>
at the time it was delivered, by the request of Charles D. Coxe, Esq. to the Bey of Tunis, in such manner and upon such terms as may be equitable and just.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said William Haslet, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-01-20">January 20, 1817</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VI: directing the discharge of John Ricaud from imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 184</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-01-22</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">directing the discharge of John Ricaud from imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-01-22">Jan. 22, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Ricaud, late paymaster of the thirty-sixth<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> regiment of infantry, now, and for some time past, confined in the jail of Baltimore, upon a judgment at the suit of the United States, which he is wholly unable to pay, be discharged and remain free from imprisonment and arrest, on account of the said judgment: <proviso><i>Provided always,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the said John Ricaud shall, before he be discharged as aforesaid, secure, to the satisfaction of the district attorney of the proper district, all and any property or credits he may now have, or be entitled to, for the payment of said judgment, and all property he hereafter may have or acquire shall be and remain liable for the payment of the said judgment, costs, and charges, in the same manner as if this act <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>had not been passed:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, further,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair the right of the United States to any estate which the said John Ricaud has assigned or conveyed to any person or persons whatever; nor shall affect the liability of any person who may have been bound with the said John Ricaud for the payment of any sum of money to the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-01-22">January 22, 1817</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VIII: directing the discharge of Oliver Spellman from imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 184</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-01-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">directing the discharge of Oliver Spellman from imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-01-22">Jan. 22, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Oliver Spellman, who is now imprisoned in a jail in the State of Rhode Island, on a judgment at the suit of the United States, by which he was sentenced to pay a fine to the United States, be discharged from his imprisonment: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That any estate which the said Oliver Spellman may have or hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken to satisfy the sentence against him in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-01-22">January 22, 1817</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of Henry Malcolm.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 184</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-02-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Malcolm.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-02-08">Feb. 8, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$1000 to be passed to his credit.</p></sidenote>hereby, directed to pass to the credit of Henry Malcolm, collector of the customs for the district of Hudson, in the State of New York, one thousand dollars, being the amount of a sum of money collected by said collector, and lost in its transmission from the city of Hudson to the city of New York, in the mail.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-02-08">February 8, 1817</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XII: to amend an act, entitled “An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Joseph Stewart and others.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 184</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-02-08</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to amend an act, entitled “An act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Joseph Stewart and others.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-02-08">Feb. 8, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money authorized to be paid to Joseph Stewart and others, to be paid to the persons named.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the money authorized to be paid to Joseph Stewart and his associates, of Dorchester county, in the State of Maryland, or to their legal representatives, by an act of Congress approved on the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall be paid to the following persons, their legal representatives or agents, viz: The said Joseph Stewart, Moses Navy, John Bell, Moses
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 14, 16, 17, 19. 1817.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/185">185</page>
Geoghegan, Mathias Travers, Samuel Travers, Henry K. Travers, Hicks<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 29, 1816, ch.161.</p></sidenote> North, Thomas Tolly, Joseph Cator, John Willoby, James Hooper, Hugh Roberts, John Tolly, Moses Simmons, Robert Travers, John Simmons, Edward Simmons, William Powers, William Geoghegan, (of James) William Geoghegan, (of Moses) Jeremiah Spicer, Travers Spicer, Jeremiah Travers, William Dove, Thomas Woolen, Samuel Edmonson, Henry Corder, Roger Tregal, Thomas Arnold, Samuel Creighton, Jeremiah Creighton, Benjamin Keene, Thomas Lecompte, James Lecompte, Fountain Lecompte, Elijah Tall, Charles Woodland, William Barnes, William M. Robinson, Joseph Saunders and Daniel Wilson.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the money authorized to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money authorized to be paid to S. Jennison, to be paid to S. Tennison.</p></sidenote> be paid to Samuel Jennison, of St. Mary’s county, in the State of Maryland, or to his legal representative, by the third section of the above recited act, shall be paid to Samuel Tennison, his legal representative or agent, of St. Mary’s county, in the State of Maryland.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-02-08">February 8, 1817</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIV: in addition to “An act for the relief of George T. Ross, and Daniel T. Patterson, and the officers and men lately under their command.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 185</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-02-22</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">in addition to “An act for the relief of George T. Ross, and Daniel T. Patterson, and the officers and men lately under their command.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-02-22">Feb. 22, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, for the purpose of carrying into effect the act, entitled “An act for the relief of George T. Ross and Daniel T.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretaries of War and Navy authorized to draw money and appoint agents to disburse it.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 124.</p></sidenote> Patterson, and the officers and men lately under their command,” the Secretaries of War and Navy are hereby authorized and required, by and with the approbation of the President of the United States, to draw, by their warrant or warrants, from the Treasury of the United States, out of any moneys therein not otherwise appropriated, the sum appropriated by the said act, and to appoint an agent or agents to disburse the same, according to the true intent and meaning of the act aforesaid.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-02-22">February 22, 1817</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVI: for the relief of Jacint Laval.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 185</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-02-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacint Laval.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-02-22">Feb. 22, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Department of War be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> the account of Jacint Laval, late of the army of the United States, in such manner and upon such terms as may be reasonable and just.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-02-22">February 22, 1817</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVII: directing the discharge of Lewis Olmsted from imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 185</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-02-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">directing the discharge of Lewis Olmsted from imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-02-22">Feb. 22, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Lewis Olmsted, who is now imprisoned in a jail in the state of Vermont, on a judgment at the suit of the United<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> States, by which he was sentenced to pay a fine to the United States, be discharged from his imprisonment: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That any estate which the said Lewis Olmsted may have, or hereafter acquire, shall be Hable to be taken to satisfy the sentence against him, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-02-22">February 22, 1817</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: granting a pension to Commodore Richard Taylor.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 185</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting a pension to Commodore Richard Taylor.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-01">March 1, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, from and after the third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, a pension of three hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted.</p></sidenote> dollars per annum be allowed to Commodore Richard Taylor, in consequence of a total disability arising from a wound received in a conflict with the enemy in the revolutionary war, while in the command of a
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/186">186</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 20, 26, 27, 28. 1817.</centerRunningHead>
flotilla in the waters of the Chesapeake, under a commission of captain in the navy from the state of Virginia; to be paid to him, the said Taylor, half yearly, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-01">March 1, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of the legal representatives ef John J. Yarnall, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 186</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives ef John J. Yarnall, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-01">March 1, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>hereby, required to adjust and settle the accounts of John J. Yarnall, deceased, late a lieutenant in the navy of the United States, upon principles of equity and justice, and to make such allowances therein as, under the circumstances of the case, shall appear reasonable.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-01">March 1, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: for the relief of Park Holland.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 186</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Park Holland.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-01">March 1, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to discharge from imprisonment Park Holland, who is now confined in prison at Castine, under an execution issued from the district court of the United States for the district of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Maine: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt any property which he may hereafter acquire from the satisfaction of the said debt and costs.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-01">March 1, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Ignace Chalmet Delino, deceased, and of Anthony Cruzat and L. P. Deverges.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 186</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Ignace Chalmet Delino, deceased, and of Anthony Cruzat and L. P. Deverges.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-01">March 1, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Department <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be compensated for property destroyed.</p></sidenote>of War be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of the legal representatives of Ignace Chalmet Delino, deceased, on account of the destruction of the property of the said Delino, and of Anthony Cruzat and L. P. Deverges, in the vicinity of New Orleans, by order of Major-general Andrew Jackson.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appraisers to be appointed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said accounting officers are hereby authorized to appoint three good and discreet citizens, who shall repair to the plantation of the said Delino, where the property is alleged to have been destroyed, and there diligently inquire what property may have been destroyed, in the manner aforesaid, and to make a just appraisement of the value thereof, and transmit a true return of such appraisement, under oath or affirmation, to the accountant of the War Department, who shall award thereupon such sum, to be paid to the claimants, as may appear reasonable and just; which sum, so awarded, shall be paid to the legal representatives of the said Delino, and to Anthony Cruzat and L. P. Deverges, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-01">March 1, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Flavil Sabin, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 186</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Flavil Sabin, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-01">March 1, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the additional accountant of the Department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent recruiting account to be settled.</p></sidenote> of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to adjust and settle the contingent recruiting account of lieutenant Flavil Sabin, with his administrator, Joseph Holland, in such manner as he may judge to be just and equitable.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-01">March 1, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of Robert Burnside.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 187</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 32, 46, 47, 48. 1817.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/187">187</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Burnside.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be paid to Robert Burnside the nett<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount paid by him in consequence of a forfeiture, to be refunded.</p></sidenote> amount paid by him for the use of the United States, in consequence of a forfeiture incurred by importing certain articles of British merchandise from Liverpool into New Orleans, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and that a sum not exceeding six thousand five hundred dollars be appropriated for this purpose, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of Madame Montriuel.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 187</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Madame Montriuel.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the additional accountant of the war department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, to audit and settle<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p></sidenote> the claim of Madame Montrieul, on account of the injury done to her plantation by the erection of public works of defence on the same, by order of Major-general Andrew Jackson; and to allow her in the settlement thereof the value of such injury, upon terms that may be equitable and just.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Madame Montrieul out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVII: for the relief of Henry Lee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 187</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Lee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the port of New York be, and he is hereby, authorized, under the direction of the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be adjusted.</p></sidenote> Treasury, to liquidate and adjust the duties on certain cotton goods imported by Henry Lee, into the said port of New York, in the month of July last, in the ship Portsea, a foreign bottom, from Calcutta, at the same rate as if the said goods had been imported in a vessel belonging to the United States, with the addition of ten per centum on the amount of said duties, any thing in an act, entitled “An act to regulate imposts<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 107.</p></sidenote> and tonnage,” passed April twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, to the contrary notwithstanding.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Isaac Lawrence and others, merchants, residing in the city of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 187</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaac Lawrence and others, merchants, residing in the city of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered, to pay to Isaac Lawrence, Gilbert<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain debentures to be paid.</p></sidenote> Aspenwell, John Shaw, George Rozier and Roulet, John B. Desdorty by his executor, John S. Roulet, Isaac Roget, Joseph Bouchard, Robert Steuart, Joseph Winter, Robert Bowne, Peter Mackie, Peter Kemble for Governeur and Kemble, Abraham Ogden, Robert H. Bowne, William Hill, A. L. Steuart, Nathan M’Vicar, William Radcliff, I. L. Steinback, Falconer and Stewart, I. P. Longchamp, Alexander M’Gregor, William Maxwell, James Thompson, John R. Murray, Martin Hoffman, Archibald M’Vicar, and Wait and Pierce, merchants, now, or lately, residents of the city of New York and of Salem, the amount of their several debentures, which were issued to the persons above mentioned, in their own rights, or held by them as legal representatives or assignees of the persons to whom such debentures were originally issued by Joshua Sands, when collector of the customs for the port of New York, and by Joseph Hiller, when collector of Salem and Beverly, for
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/188">188</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 52, 53, 54, 55. 1817.</centerRunningHead>
the payment of the drawbacks of duties on merchandise exported to New Orleans between the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and the tenth day of February, one thousand <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>eight hundred: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That satisfactory proof be first given, to the Secretary of the Treasury, that the goods, wares, or merchandise, on which the drawback of duties is hereby allowed, were landed at New Orleans.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the debentures above mentioned.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LII: for the relief of Charles Williams.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 188</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Williams.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the war department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim on account of two horses to be audited and settled.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Charles Williams, on account of two horses received into the service of the United States, and that he allow him, in the settlement thereof, the value of the said horses.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when ascertained as aforesaid, be paid to the said Charles Williams out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of William Chism.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 188</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Chism.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the additional accountant of the war department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of William Chism, on account of money advanced for shoeing horses belonging to the company which he commanded, in the month of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said William Chism, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of Peter Caslard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 188</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Caslard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the additional accountant of the war department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim on account of the destruction of his saw-mill, to be settled.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, to audit and settle the claim of Peter Caslard, on account of the destruction of his sawmill and property, by order of General David B. Morgan, and that he allow him, in the settlement thereof, the value of such injury, as he may satisfactorily show he has sustained in consequence of such destruction.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. [2.] </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid to the said Caslard, or his representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen, and marines, who were lost in the United States brig Epervier.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 188</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen, and marines, who were lost in the United States brig Epervier.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Six months’ pay allowed them.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the widows, if any such there be, and, in case there be no widow, the child or children, if there be no child, then to the parents or parent, and if there be no parent, then to the brothers and sisters of the officers, seamen, and marines, who were in the ser-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 64. 1817.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/189">189</page>
vice of the United States, and lost in the brig Epervier, shall be entitled to, and receive, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to six months pay of their respective deceased relatives aforesaid, in addition to the pay due to the said deceased on the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, to which day the arrears of pay due the deceased shall be allowed and paid by the accounting officers of the Navy Department.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: concerning invalid pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 189</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning invalid pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby directed to place the following named persons on the pension list of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place persons named on the pension list.</p></sidenote> invalid pensioners of the United States, who shall be entitled to and receive pensions according to the rates, and commencing at the times hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Johnson Cook, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote> the twenty-seventh of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Wilkinson, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Maxwell, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eighth of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elihu Lester, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Collomy, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Haile, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Haney, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Uriah Warren, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonathan D. Carrier, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Myers, at the rate of five dollars thirty-three and a third cents per month, to commence on the fifteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Newbury, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence the nineteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Arnold, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">R. J. Lowry, at the rate of eight dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the eleventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jesse M’Annally, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Apheus Hill, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Leroy Jones, at the rate of five dollars and thirty-two cents per month, to commence on the fifth of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Wilson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John M’Clure, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the tenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/190">190</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 64. 1817.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote>Robert Warrel, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the ninth of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Carter, at the rate [of] five dollars thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the seventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William English, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the ninth of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Henry Doherty, at the rate of four [dollars] per month, to commence on the seventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Hendrick, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the seventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Hinkson, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jeptha Brown, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Miller, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the second of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aaron Stafford, at the [rate of] five dollars thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the eighth of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elias Ware, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Daniel Moffett, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fifth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Frederick P. Stevenson, at the rate of eight dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the sixth of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sion Holly, at the rate of five dollars and thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Robert Lyon, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eighth of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Henry Turner, at the rate of five dollars and thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the seventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mark Miller, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George G. Gretten, at the rate of two dollars and sixty-six cents per month, to commence on the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Glover Baker, at the rate of two dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-ninth of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nathan Crosby, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Heard, at the rate of eight dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the twentieth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joshua Penny, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Enock Barnum, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Malyne Baker, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reuben Thacker, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pensions.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions of the following named persons, already placed on the pension list of the United
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 66, 68, 70, 71. 1817.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/191">191</page>
States, be increased to the sums herein respectively annexed to their<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> names; the said increase to commence at the times herein mentioned, and be in lieuof[the]pensions they at present receive, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nicholas Welch, at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Shannon, at the rate of twelve dollars per month, commencing on the eleventh of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for the relief of Joseph Summers and John Allen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 191</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Summers and John Allen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Joseph Summers and John Allen be, and they are hereby, authorized to withdraw their respective erroneous<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entries for land may be withdrawn, and payments transferred.</p></sidenote> entries made in the district of Vincennes; and the moneys paid by them on their said entries shall be placed to their credit on any purchase of public land they may have made or shall make.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of certain Creek Indians.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 191</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of certain Creek Indians.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary at War be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause the sum of eighty-five thousand dollars to be paid<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for property destroyed by hostile Creeks.</p></sidenote> to the friendly Creek Indians, whose property was destroyed by the hostile Creek Indians in the late war, in fair and just proportions to the losses which they have severally sustained from such Indians, which amount shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Francis Cazeau, late merchant at Montreal.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 191</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Francis Cazeau, late merchant at Montreal.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of forty-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninety-three cents be paid, out of any money<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$42,737.93 to be paid them in full of all claims.</p></sidenote> in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of Francis Cazeau, late merchant at Montreal, or to his or their assignee or attorney, or other person lawfully entitled to receive the same, in full compensation for all claims against the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Nathaniel Seavy and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 191</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Nathaniel Seavy and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Donation of $300.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred dollars in equal proportions to Nathaniel Seavey, Richworth Mason, and Daniel Tobey, of the State of Massachusetts, their agent, or legal representatives; which sum of three hundred dollars is paid to them as an evidence entertained by Congress of their valor and good conduct, in having recaptured the schooner Pink, in the late war with Great Britain, and made prisoners of the prize crew of said schooner, consisting of three British seamen; which prisoners were delivered to the collector of Wiscasset, in the district of Maine; and also as compensation for the prisoners so taken.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXII: directing the discharge of William Smith from imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 192</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/192">192</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 72, 73, 74, 75. 1817</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">directing the discharge of William Smith from imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Smith, who is now confined in the jail of the city of Charleston, in the district of South Carolina, on a judgment obtained against him in favor of the United States, be discharged <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>from his imprisonment: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That any estate, real or personal, which the said William Smith may now have, or hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken to satisfy the judgment aforesaid, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged; and that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the liability of any co-obligor that may have been bound with the said William Smith for the payment of any sum of money to the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIII: for the relief of Peyton Short.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 192</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peyton Short.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be passed to the credit of Peyton <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$517.85 to be passed to his credit.</p></sidenote>Short, who stands charged on the books of the treasury, for a balance as agent of the United States for purchasing spirits for the army, the sum of five hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty-five cents.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIV: for the relief of Anthony Buck.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 192</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Anthony Buck.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Anthony Buck shall not be made responsible<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not to be made responsible for the penalty of the bond specified.</p></sidenote> for the penalty of a bond, executed in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, to the United States, by a certain James Stewart, alias James A. Stewart, master of the schooner Sally Barker Windsor, and the said Anthony Buck, conditioned for the transportation of a cargo of flour in said schooner, from the port of Fredericksburg, in Virginia, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>to the State of Massachusetts: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing herein contained shall be construed to release the said James Stewart from any penalty by him incurred to the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXV: for the relief of James Villere.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 192</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Villere.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the additional accountant of the war department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim on account of fuel to be settled.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of James Villere, on account of fuel used by the American troops, and that he allow him, in the settlement thereof, the value of the same.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for damage by filling of canal.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said accountant be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of the said James Villere, on account of damages sustained by filling up a canal running through his plantation, by order of General Jackson, and that he allow him, in the settlement thereof, a reasonable compensation for opening the said canal, and one year’s rent for such part of his plantation as was planted with sugar-cane, and overflowed and destroyed in consequence of filling of the said canal.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> [3.] </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid to the said James Villere, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: for the relief of John de Castinado.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 193</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 76, 77, 78, 79. 1817.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/193">193</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John de Castinado.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the additional accountant of the War Department be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to settle the claim<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> of John de Castinado, on account of wood and hay taken for the use of the army, and to allow him the value thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Castinado, or his representative, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVII: for the relief of Peter Kindall.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 193</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Kindall.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the war department be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to audit and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled on account of merchandise captured by the British.</p></sidenote> settle the claim of Peter Kindall, on account of merchandise captured by the British forces in the late war, in consequence of having his wagon and team impressed into the public service, by order of Major-General Jacob Brown; and that he allow him, in the settlement thereof, the value of the said merchandise.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Peter Kindall, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of the widow and children of Arnold Henry Dohrman, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 193</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the widow and children of Arnold Henry Dohrman, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be, and hereby is, granted to Rachel Dohrman, widow of Arnold Henry Dohrman, late of Steubenville, in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$300 annually to the widow during life.</p></sidenote> the State of Ohio, deceased, the sum of three hundred dollars, annually, during her life, payable quarterly, from and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there be, and hereby is,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$100 to each of the children until they arrive at twenty-one.</p></sidenote> granted to each of the minor children of the said Dohrman, until they shah respectively arrive at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of one hundred dollars, payable quarterly, from and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen: the said grants to the said minor children shall be received and applied for their support and education, and shall be accounted for in conformity to the laws that now are, or hereafter may be, in force in the State of Ohio, providing for the management of the estates of orphans.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the grants herein made shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIX: for the relief of Joseph I. Green.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 193</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph I. Green.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the department of war be, and they are hereby authorized to adjust and settle<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for damage to his house, to be settled.</p></sidenote> the claim of Joseph I. Green, for the damage done to his house in Plattsburg, in the State of New York, under the orders of General Macomb, in the month of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> ascertained, shall be paid to the said Joseph I. Green, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: for the relief of Journonville de Villiers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 194</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 80, 81, 82, 83, 84. 1817.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/194">194</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Journonville de Villiers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the additional accountant of the war department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for a fence used as fuel, to be settled.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Journonville de Villiers, for a fence, used as fuel by the troops of the United States, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value thereof, in such manner and upon such terms as may be equitable and just.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the value thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Journonville de Villiers, or his representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: compensating Peter Hagner.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 194</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>14</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">compensating Peter Hagner.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Peter Hagner, additional accountant of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for extraordinary services.</p></sidenote>war department, be allowed, and paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred dollars, for extraordinary services rendered by him in the settlement of accounts in the war department.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of Asa Wells.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 194</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Asa Wells.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Asa Wells the sum of four <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement of certain expenses.</p></sidenote>hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ninety-five cents, on account of the costs incurred by him in the defence of suits brought against him for acts done in the discharge of his duty as an officer of the United States, and that the same be paid to the said Asa Wells out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: for the relief of Caleb Nicholls.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Caleb Nicholls.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for damage to his property, to be settled.</p></sidenote> of war be, and they are hereby, authorized to adjust and settle the claim of Caleb Nicholls, for the damage done to his house and store, under the orders of General Macomb, in the month of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen, at Plattsburg, in the state of New York.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of such damage, when ascertained, shall be paid to the said Caleb Nicholls, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Teahle Savage and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Teahle Savage and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<preamble>
<recital class="indent1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas, during the late war, Captain Teakle Savage did volunteer his <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote>services and the use of his boat to the officers commanding at Hampton, in Virginia, and did, with the assistance of some of the militia stationed at that place, and in company with the revenue cutter commanded by Captain Ham, capture one launch and two barges belonging to the enemy, and make prisoners of one lieutenant, one midshipman, one boatswain, and fifty-two privates and marines; which boats were valued, by officers appointed by General Wade Hampton, commander at Norfolk, at the sum of two thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars, which boats and prisoners were delivered to the proper authority of the United States:</recital>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 89, 90, 95. 1817.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/195">195</page>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it, therefore, enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
</preamble>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$4020 to be paid to T. Savage and others.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the said Teakle Savage, the officers and men of the militia who served with him, and to the officers and crew of the revenue cutter aforesaid, or to the agent of such persons, or their legal representative, where any of them should be dead, the sum of four thousand and twenty dollars, to be divided among the said officers and men, conformably to the principles of the laws relating to the division of prize money.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">An agent to be appointed to distribute the money.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized to appoint an agent to distribute the money aforesaid, in the manner herein directed, to the several persons authorized to receive the same, upon their producing to the said agent satisfactory evidence that they are entitled thereto.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: for the relief of Mary Wells, executrix of William Wells.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mary Wells, executrix of William Wells.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accountant of the war department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for a quantity of corn to be settled.</p></sidenote> of Mary Wells, executrix of William Wells, for a quantity of corn taken, by order of General William H. Harrison, for the use of the army of the United States, and that he allow her, in the settlement thereof, the value of the corn at the time it was taken as aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Mary Wells, executrix as aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XC: for the relief of George Buckmaster.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Buckmaster.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accountant of the navy department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for whale boats to be settled.</p></sidenote> of George Buckmaster, on account of whale-boats furnished the United States at New York, by order of General George Izard, and to allow him, in the settlement thereof, the value of the said boats.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> so ascertained, shall be paid to the said George Buckmaster, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCV: for the relief of James H. Boisgervais.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 195</citableAs>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James H. Boisgervais.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the additional accountant of the war department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for destruction of his saw-mill, &amp;c. to be settled.</p></sidenote> settle the claim of James H. Boisgervais, on account of the destruction of his saw-mill and property, by order of General David B. Morgan; and that he allow him, in the settlement thereof, the value of such injury as he may satisfactorily show he has sustained, in consequence of such destruction.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said accountant be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for wood and fencing to be settled.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, authorized and directed to settle the claim of the said Boisgervais on account of his wood and fencing, made use of by the American troops for fuel, while stationed below New Orleans; and to allow him, in the settlement thereof, the value of the fuel used as aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/196">196</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 97, 98, 113. 1817.</centerRunningHead>
ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid to the said Boisgervais, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVII: for the relief of the widow and children of Abraham Owen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 196</citableAs>
<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the widow and children of Abraham Owen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The benefits of the 2d section of the act for the relief of the officers and soldiers who served in the campaign on the Wabash, extended to them.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the widow and children of Abraham Owen, late a volunteer aid-de-camp of General William H. Harrison, shall be entitled to all the benefits of the second section of an act of Congress, approved the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, entitled “An act for the relief of the officers and soldiers who served in the late campaign on the Wabash;” that they be allowed the same sum of money to which they would have been entitled had the rank of major been regularly assigned to the said Abraham Owen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1812, ch. 54.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it, further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said allowance be paid to the said widow and children, according to the provisions of the said act, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCVIII: for the relief of Alexander Holmes and Benjamin Hough.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Holmes and Benjamin Hough.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of surveyors to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Alexander Holmes, and Benjamin Hough, for expenses incurred in endeavouring to survey military bounty lands in the Michigan territory, and to survey into sections the land on each side of the road, laid out from the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of the lake to the Western boundary line of the Connecticut western reserve, and from which survey they were prevented by Indian hostility; and that they allow them, in the settlement of the same, a reasonable compensation for such expenses as were necessarily incurred.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be itfurther enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Alexander Holmes and Benjamin Hough, respectively, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: for the relief of William Oliver.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1817-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>14</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Oliver.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for destruction of his houses to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the additional accountant of the war department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of William Oliver, on account of the destruction of his houses, by order of the officer who commanded at Fort Wayne, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve; and he allow him, in the settlement thereof, the value of the said houses at that time.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid to the said William Oliver, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1817-03-03">March 3, 1817</date>.
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<congress>15</congress>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1817</dc:date>
<dc:date>1818</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December,</i> 1817, <i>and ended on the twentieth day of April,</i> 1818.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Monroe</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Daniel D. Tompkins</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Henry Clay</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. II: to remit the duty on a painting presented to the Pennsylvania Hospital.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>II</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 197</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-01-14</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to remit the duty on a painting presented to the Pennsylvania Hospital.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-01-14">Jan. 14, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the duty secured<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on West’s painting remitted.</p></sidenote> to the United States on a painting lately presented by Benjamin West, president of the royal academy, London, to the Pennsylvania hospital, be, and the same is hereby, remitted.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-01-14">January 14, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. III: for the relief of Samuel Aikman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>III</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 197</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-01-14</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Aikman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-01-14">Jan. 14, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the register and receiver of public moneys<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed to rectify mistake in an entry made by James Aikman.</p></sidenote> of the land office for the district of Vincennes, on satisfactory evidence being produced to them that James Aikman, who entered at the said office the north-west quarter of section thirty-four, in township two north, and range seven west, had made application for the purchase of the said quarter section through mistake, intending at that time to have applied for the north-west quarter section thirty-five, in the same township and range, and that the occasion of the mistake in his application was the erroneous numbers marked at the corner of the aforesaid section on surveying the said lands, shall permit Samuel Aikman, the assignee of James Aikman, to withdraw the aforesaid entry, and, in lieu thereof, to enter the last mentioned quarter section, if the same shall at that time remain unsold; and the receiver of public moneys shall allow the said Samuel Aikman a credit on the said entry, or, in case of the previous sale of the land, on any other entry which he shall make of land within the said district, equal in amount to the moneys paid on the first mentioned quarter section: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no credit for the moneys<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> paid as aforesaid shall be allowed, until the said Samuel Aikman shall have returned the patent to him granted for the first mentioned quarter section to the said register, who shall transmit it to the general land office, where the same shall be cancelled.</proviso></content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-01-14">January 14, 1818</date>.
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/197" renderingPosition="bottom">197</page>
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<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of Winslow and Henry Lewis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 198</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-01-22</dc:date>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/198">198</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 6, 7, 11. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Winslow and Henry Lewis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-01-22">Jan. 22, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to be settled for moneys deposited in the hands of M. M. Noah.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle, in such manner as may [be] just and reasonable, the claim of Winslow and Henry Lewis, for moneys deposited in the hands of M. M. Noah, late consul of the United States at Tunis, and which may have been applied by the said M. M. Noah to the payment of certain bills of exchange, drawn by said Noah on the department of state, for the purpose <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of ransoming American prisoners at Algiers: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the sum to be allowed shall not exceed sixteen thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars and forty-nine cents.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-01-22">January 22, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the reliefof Joel Earwood.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 198</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-01-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the reliefof Joel Earwood.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-01-22">Jan. 22, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the receiver of public moneys for the district<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed to transfer moneys to any entry of land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of lands offered for sale at Jeffersonville be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to permit Joel Earwood to transfer, to any entry of lands he may make in said district, any moneys he may have paid into said office, on the north-east quarter of section numbered twenty-one, of township six, and range nine east, in said district; and the register of the said land office shall permit the said Earwood to withdraw his entry for the quarter section aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-01-22">January 22, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XI: to incorporate the Columbian Insurance Company of Alexandria.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 198</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-02-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the Columbian Insurance Company of Alexandria.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-02-16">Feb. 16, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Columbian Insurance Company of Alexandria,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The Columbian Insurance Co. created a body politic.</p></sidenote> which was formed and established in the town of Alexandria on the twenty-eighth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be, and they are hereby, created a body politic, and by that name shall have succession, shall sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in covenant, debt, case, by bill, or by warrant, before any judge or justice, and in all courts of law and equity.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capital.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the capital of the said company, which now consists of two hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each, may be increased whenever the business of the said company, in the opinion of the president and directors for the time being, may require it, to an extent not exceeding one million of dollars, in like shares.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election of president and directors.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the existing board of president and directors of said company may serve in those capacities until the next election of directors, on the first Monday of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; fourteen days before which period public notice shall be given by the said president and directors to the stockholders that an election will be held on that day; and they shall appoint two or more other stockholders as commissioners to superintend the same; at which election every stockholder shall be entitled to give one vote for each share which has stood in his name twenty days last preceding, for eleven persons, being stockholders, citizens of the United States, and residents of the District of Columbia, or of the county of Fairfax, in Virginia, as directors of said corporation.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary and election of president, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> The persons thus elected shall, at their first meeting, proceed forthwith to fix the salary of the president, and afterwards to his elec-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 13. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/199">199</page>
tion from their own body, and shall continue in office until the succeeding election of directors, and no longer. Under the same regulations shall an election be repeated annually. But if one happens not to be made on the day hereby limited, this charter shall not therefore be void, provided an election be completed within thirty days thereafter. No person shall continue president or director after ceasing to be a stockholder.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the president and directors<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of the president and directors.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall have power to make regulations for the government of the corporation : <proviso><i>Provided,</i> They be not repugnant to the laws of the United States or this act: to appoint a secretary, all other officers and servants, and to fix their compensations; to supply vacancies in their own body; to hold such real estate as may be necessary for the transaction of their business, not exceeding in amount forty thousand dollars, or that may be conveyed to them as security for debt; to vest the corporate funds in stock of the United States, or of any of the individual states, or in stock of any incorporated company, this corporation being inhibited from issuing any promissory note in the way of banking; to lend money on bottomry and respondentia; to insure lives; also, property against all manner of risks :</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided,</i> Every insurance be expressed in writing,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> signed by the president, and attested by the secretary; and to sell the shares of any stockholder who shall fail to give satisfactory security for any part thereof that may be unpaid; also to sell, if the security which may have been given be manifestly impaired and deficient, and such stockholder shall fail to make it satisfactory when thereunto required; and further, to sell if such stockholder shall fail to pay instalments when demanded: nor shall any such sale preclude the liability of any such stockholder, his executors, and administrators, the endorser or endorsers, or any security he may have given, from making good any further injury which may be sustained.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said president and directors<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Business to be conducted in Alexandria.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties of the president and directors.</p></sidenote> shall conduct business in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia; that they shall keep proper books and record their proceedings therein; that, on the first day of May and the first day of November in every year, they shall declare a dividend of so much of the clear profits as they may deem advisable, and within ten days thereafter shall pay the same to the stockholders: but it shall not be lawful for the said president and directors to include in such dividend the premium of any risk which has not actually terminated, nor to divide more than two-thirds of the clear profits, until, by the half yearly appropriation of the other third thereof, a contingent fund of twenty thousand dollars shall be formed; and- so often as the fund shall be impaired by losses, the said president and directors shall continue the half yearly appropriation aforesaid, until it be restored to the amount beforementioned.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That every director who shall be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Directors present at the declaration of an unlawful dividend, individually answerable unless, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> present at the declaration of any dividend, in violation of the sixth [fifth] section of this act, shall be individually answerable to the stockholders for the injury resulting therefrom, unless his protest be recorded on the books of the corporation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That every stockholder may sell<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stockholders may sell and transfer their stock; provided, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and transfer his stock, provided the transferee give satisfactory security for the regular payment of such part of said stock as may then be uncalled for and unpaid; but all debts actually due and payable to the corporation by the transferer, must be satisfied before such transfer shall be made; and, until such debts be recovered and paid, all dividends due, and which may become due, shall be applied to the credit thereof, unless the president and directors shall direct to the contrary.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation to continue until 31st December 1837.</p></sidenote></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That this corporation shall continue until the thirty-first day of December, in the year one thousand
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/200">200</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 15, 17, 20. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Concerns to be closed on dissolution, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>eight hundred and thirty-seven; and on the dissolution or expiration of this charter, the president and directors for the time being shall take prompt and effectual measures for closing all its concerns; but no such dissolution or expiration shall operate so as to prevent any suits being brought or continued by or against the said corporation for any debt or claim due by or to the same, and which arose previously to said dissolution or expiration; but, for the purpose of closing its concerns, its corporate powers shall remain unimpaired.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 9. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congress may repeal or annul the charter.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Congress may, at any time during the period for which this charter is granted, repeal and annul the same.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-02-16">February 16, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XV: to authorize certain purchasers of public land to withdraw their entries and transfer the moneys paid thereon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 200</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-03-09</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize certain purchasers of public land to withdraw their entries and transfer the moneys paid thereon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-03-09">March 9, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons permitted to withdraw their entries from the land office for Jeffersonville.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following persons shall be permitted to withdraw their respective entries, made with the register of the land office for the district of Jeffersonville, for the purchase of land in said district, viz : Abraham Wiseman, for the northeast and northwest quarters of section four, township four south, range one east; John Bones, for the northwest quarter of section thirty-four, township three south, range one east; Gory Jones, for the southeast quarter of section four, township four south, range one east; Abraham Van Winkell, for the northwest quarter of section three, township four south, range one east; and Joseph Tibbs, for the northeast quarter of section twenty-eight, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receiver to allow credit for other lands, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>township three south, range one east. And the receiver of public moneys for the said district shall be authorized to allow to any of the said persons, who shall withdraw his entry as aforesaid, a credit, on any purchase he shall or may have made of other public lands in the same district, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>for the moneys paid on the entry by him withdrawn: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said entries shall not be withdrawn until it shall be made appear, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of public moneys for the said district, that the said entries, or either of them, were made in mistake, in consequence of the erroneous marks of the surveyor; and in case of patents having been granted, the same shall be returned to the register, and, by him, to the general land office, and shall be there cancelled.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-03-09">March 9, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of Major-General Arthur St. Clair.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 200</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-03-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Major-General Arthur St. Clair.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-03-09">March 9, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to Gen. St. Clair.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary for the Department of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place upon the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States Major-General Arthur St. Clair, at the rate of sixty dollars a month, to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment, how to be made.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pension aforesaid shall be paid at the treasury of the United States, or in the same manner as invalid pensioners are paid, who have heretofore been placed on the list of pensioners, at the option of the said pensioner.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-03-09">March 9, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of Israel Smith.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 200</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-03-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Israel Smith.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-03-18">March 18, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit allowed to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the war department be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to place to the credit of Israel Smith, of the State of Vermont, four hundred dollars, which sum has been paid by the said Smith to a detach-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 25, 27, 28, 31. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/201">201</page>
ment of the troops of the United States, and, for which payment, the vouchers have been lost, without any fault or negligence on his part.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-03-18">March 18, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXV: for the relief of John Bate.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1818-04-03</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Bate.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-03">April 3, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury, in the settlement of the accounts of John Bate, arising under a lease from the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for permanent improvements at the salt-works on the Wabash.</p></sidenote> United States of the public salt-works on the Wabash, in the Illinois territory, be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to make such allowance to the said John Bate, for the permanent improvements made at said salt-works, as he shall think reasonable and just. And also to make such reduction in the rent stipulated to be paid by the said John Bate, as shall appear just and equitable, in consequence of any deterioration in the quality, or diminution in the quantity, of water at said saline, as may be proven to his satisfaction; as also such further allowance, as he may think reasonable, for loss sustained in said salt works by the extraordinary inundation of the river Ohio in the months of April and May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen : <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the whole amount of allowance and deduction so made shall not exceed the amount of money which, by the original contract, may be now due to the United States from the said John Bate.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-03">April 3, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of John Small.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 201</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Small.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-03">April 3, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Small be, and he hereby is, confirmed<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> his title to a tract of land, containing two hundred and fifty-five acres, situated on Embarass Creek, in the Illinois territory, as the assignee of Nicholas Bayarjon; which tract shall be limited to the quantity aforesaid, and to the boundaries as claimed by said Bayarjon.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-03">April 3, 1818</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of Abraham Byington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 201</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-03</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Abraham Byington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-03">April 3, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgment against him as security to be remitted.</p></sidenote> directed and empowered to remit, in favor of Abraham Byington, of the State of Vermont, the sum of one hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty cents, being that part of the judgment obtained against him as security for Robert Gilmore, which partakes of the nature of a penalty, on account of the neglect of the said Gilmore.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-03">April 3, 1818</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXI: for the relief of William Edwards and John G. Stubbs.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 201</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Edwards and John G. Stubbs.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-03">April 3, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts for surveying to be settled.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, directed, on equitable principles, to audit and settle the accounts of William Edwards and John G. Stubbs, for the respective expenses incurred under contracts entered into between Edward Tiffin, surveyor-general of the United States, and the said William Edwards and John G. Stubbs, on the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, for surveying lands in the Illinois territory; and the amount found to be due on such settlement shall be paid, respectively, to the said William Edwards and John G. Stubbs, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated : <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the sum so to be allowed shall not exceed six<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars in either case :</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further,</i> That no allowance<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall be made to them, or either of them, for personal services by them rendered.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-03">April 3, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: to provide for the erection of a Courthouse, Jail, and Public Offices, within the County of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 202</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/202">202</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 33, 38, 39, 41. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to provide for the erection of a Courthouse, Jail, and Public Offices, within the County of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-03">April 3, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The levy court of Alexandria may erect a jail for that county.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of the county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, to erect, or cause to be erected, a good and sufficient jail for said county; and, whenever the levy court of the said county shall transmit to the marshal a certificate, that the jail hereby provided for is so far finished as to be ready for the reception of persons, it shall be the duty of the marshal forthwith to remove to the said jail all prisoners who shall at that time be confined in the present jail of the said county.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May erect a court-house and fire-proof office for records, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said levy court may cause to be erected, if they deem expedient, at the expense of the county, a good and convenient courthouse, and a fire-proof office for records, to be built of stone or brick; and that it shall be the duty of the said court to cause the jail before provided for, and the said courthouse and office, when erected, to be kept in a good state of repair. And if it should be considered expedient by the said court to erect the said courthouse and office in any other place than the present market square, the said court is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase, within the limits of the town of Alexandria, a lot of ground, not exceeding two acres, for the erection of the said buildings and of the said jail, and for no other use whatever.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The court to levy the money necessary, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="centered smallCaps"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the levy court of the county of Alexandria shall, from time to time, as it shall be necessary, levy on the titheables, and other taxable property, within the said county, the sums of money which shall be necessary to carry into full effect the several provisions of this act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-03">April 3, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of Cata Bunnell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 202</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Cata Bunnell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-04">April 4, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to military land bounty, as mother of A. Turrill.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Cata Bunnell, the mother of Abden Turrill, late a soldier in the army of the United States, and who died in said service, be entitled to receive the bounty in land to which the heirs of said Abden would have been entitled had he left any heirs; and that the proper officers cause a warrant and patent to issue accordingly.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-04">April 4, 1818</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of Martin Warner.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 202</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Martin Warner.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-04">April 4, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bounty on account of fishing voyage allowed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the district of Fairfield, in the state of Connecticut, allow and pay to Martin Warner, owner of the schooner Nancy, the regular amount of bounty or allowance, as established by law, for and on account of the fishing voyage performed by that vessel in the months of August, September, October, and November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-04">April 4, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLI: for the relief of Narcissus Broutin and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 202</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Narcissus Broutin and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-09">April 9, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confirmed in their claims founded on Spanish warrants of surveys.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Narcissus Broutin, George Brewer, the legal representatives of John Baker, the legal representatives of Louis Duret, and the legal representative of John Trouiilet and of Joseph Chasting, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their respective claims, founded on Spanish warrants of surveys, to land lying on the east side of the Tombigbee river: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That not more than six hundred and forty acres be allowed to any one claim.</proviso></content>
</section>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch.44. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/203">203</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall be the duty of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register to make out an order of survey for each tract.</p></sidenote> register of the land office within whose district the said lands may be, and he is hereby required, to make out, for the surveyor of the land south of the state of Tennessee, an order of survey for each tract of land confirmed by this act, to be located on the tracts so claimed: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said lands have not been sold by the United States; but in case the lands shall have been sold, the location of the claims aforesaid may be laid on any lands of the United States lying on the east side of said river of Tombigbee, within the same district, and which shall have been offered at public sale; and on the return of the plat of survey, made and executed pursuant to the said order, directed to the commissioner of the general land office, patents shall be granted in like manner as provided by law for other lands of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-09">April 9, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company in the city of Washington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 203</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company in the city of Washington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-09">April 9, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the subscribers to this company, their successors and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby, created a body politic,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subscribers incorporated by the name of the Franklin Insurance Company.</p></sidenote> by the name and style of the Franklin Insurance Company, and shall, by that name, have succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all courts of law in the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a subscription be opened<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subscription to be opened in Washington.</p></sidenote> in the city of Washington, under the direction of John Davidson, Satterlee Clark, Alexander Kerr, R. C. Weightman, Benjamin G. Orr, William Brent, Samuel Miller, and William Doughty, or a majority of them, for raising a capital stock of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capital.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms of subscription.</p></sidenote> in shares of twenty-five dollars each; and that each person, upon subscribing, pay to the persons above mentioned, five dollars upon each share so subscribed for; and that the remainder of the said twenty-five dollars shall be secured by negotiable notes, signed and endorsed to the satisfaction of the aforesaid John Davidson, Satterlee Clark, Alexander Kerr, R. C. Weightman, Benjamin G. Orr, William Brent, Samuel Miller, and William Doughty, or a majority of them, and payment thereof may be thereafter demanded, at such times, and in such proportions, as the president and directors, hereafter mentioned, shall judge adviseable, giving six weeks’ notice in at least three of the gazettes printed in the District of Columbia.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That every subscriber shall be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subscribers may vote in person or by proxy.</p></sidenote> entitled to vote by himself, his agent, or proxy, appointed under his hand and seal, attested by two witnesses, at all elections made by virtue of this act; and shall have as many votes as he holds shares, as far as ten shares; one vote for every five shares, which he may hold over ten shares, as far as fifty other shares; and one vote for every thirty shares, which he may hold over sixty shares; and every stockholder, (not in debt to the company,) may, with the assent of the president and directors,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stockholders may transfer their stock, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> in person, or by power of attorney, assign and transfer his stock in the company, in the books of the same, or any part thereof, not being less than a whole share; but no stockholder, indebted to the company, shall be permitted to make a transfer, or receive a dividend, until such debt is paid, or secured to the satisfaction of the president and directors.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That as soon as five thousand<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A meeting to be called, when.</p></sidenote> shares shall be subscribed, the persons hereby authorized to receive subscriptions shall call a meeting of the subscribers, giving two weeks’ notice in two of the papers printed within the district; and the subscribers who shall assemble in person, or by proxy, shall choose by ballot, from
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/204">204</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 44. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Twelve directors to be chosen by ballot, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>among the stockholders, by a majority of votes, twelve directors, who shall continue in office until the first Monday in June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; on which Monday in June, in every succeeding year thereafter, an election shall be held for twelve directors, as aforesaid, who shall continue in office for one year from the time of their election, and until others be chosen in their stead. And <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A president to be chosen, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>the said directors, at their first meeting, shall choose, from among themselves, or from the stockholders at large, a president, and allow him a reasonable compensation for his services; and in case of death, removal, resignation, or other disqualification, of the president, or any of the directors, the remaining directors may elect others to supply their places during the remainder of the term for which they were chosen; and in every case where one of the directors shall be chosen president, the vacancy shall be supplied, as in the case of death, removal, or resignation.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Committee of elections, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> That the persons hereby authorized to receive subscriptions, or any three of them, be a committee to superintend the first election of directors, and a committee of three stockholders, not being directors, be appointed by the directors to superintend every succeeding election.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President and directors may make by-laws, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the president and directors shall have power to ordain and make such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, as shall appear necessary for regulating and conducting the concerns of the company, not being contrary to this act or the laws and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Funds of the company may be vested, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>constitution of the United States. And the funds of the company, as they shall arise, may be vested in the funded stock of the United States, or of any individual state, or in the stock of any incorporated bank.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Members of the company not liable further than property in the capital, &amp;c.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the members of the company shall not be liable for any loss, damage, or responsibility, other than the property they have in the capital or funds of the company, to the amount of the shares respectively held by them, and any profits arising therefrom not divided: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said corporation shall, from time to time, apply all sums of money received by them for premiums, to the payment of losses in the first instance, and to make up the amount of their original capital, whenever it shall have suffered any diminution by losses.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President and directors empowered to dispose of unsold shares, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the president and directors, for the time being, shall have power to dispose of, according to the provisions of the second section of this act, the shares which may remain unsold at the formation of the company; and they shall have power, also, to provide, by purchase, or otherwise, a suitable place for an office, to make all rules and regulations for conducting the business of insurance and the concerns of the company, not provided for by this act; to appoint a secretary, and such other officers as they may find necessary; and to make such compensation for their services as they may deem proper; that they shall have full power and authority to make insurances against <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Policies signed by the president, &amp;c. obligatory.</p></sidenote>fire, on any and every description of property. All policies of insurance and other contracts, made by said company, signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary, shall be obligatory on said company, and have the same effect as if the said policies and contracts had been attested by corporate seal.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Business to be conducted in Washington, &amp;c.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half yearly dividends, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said president and directors shall conduct business in the city of Washington; that they shall keep proper books, and record their proceedings therein; that, on the first Monday of May, and the first Monday of November, in every year, after the first year, they shall declare a dividend of so much of the clear profits as they may deem advisable, and within ten days thereafter shall <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions as to dividends.</p></sidenote>pay the same to the stockholders; but it shall not be lawful for the said president and directors to include, in such dividend, the premiums of any risk which has not actually terminated, nor to divide more than two-thirds of the clear profits, until, by the half yearly appropriation of the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch.46, 48. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
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other third thereof, a contingent fund of twenty thousand dollars shall be formed; and as often as the fund shall be impaired by losses, the said president and directors shall continue the half yearly appropriation aforesaid, until it be returned to the amount before mentioned.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 9. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That every director who shall be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability of directors.</p></sidenote> present at the declaration of any dividend in violation of the eighth section of this act, shall be individually answerable to the stockholders for the injury resulting therefrom, unless his protest be recorded in the books of the corporation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 10. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That in case any action shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service of process in case of action on any insurance, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> be prosecuted on any insurance made by virtue of this act, it shall be deemed sufficient service of such process to leave a copy thereof with the president or secretary for the time being, and all recoveries had in any such action or actions shall be conclusive on the company, so far as to render the stock and property of the company liable, and no further.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 11. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That this act shall be and continue<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">This act to continue in force for 20 years, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> in force for and during the term of twenty years from and after the passing thereof, and until the end of the next session of Congress; and on the dissolution or expiration of this charter, the president and directors, for the time being, shall take prompt and effectual measures for closing all its concerns; but no such dissolution or expiration shall operate, so as to prevent any suits to be brought or continued, by or against the said corporation, for any debt or claim due by or to the same, and which arose previously to said dissolution or expiration; but, for the purpose of closing its concerns, its corporate powers shall remain unimpaired.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation not to issue bank notes.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congress may repeal the charter.</p></sidenote></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 12. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That this corporation shall not issue any promissory note in the way of banking; and that Congress may, at any time during the period for which this charter is granted, repeal and amend the same.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-09">April 9, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: confirming the claim of Tobias Rheams to a tract of land granted to him by the Spanish government.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">confirming the claim of Tobias Rheams to a tract of land granted to him by the Spanish government.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-09">April 9, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That Tobias Rheams, or his legal representatives, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in the title to a tract of land, situate<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> in the territory of Alabama, on the east side of the Tombigbee river, granted by the Spanish government to the said Tobias Rheams, by warrant of survey, bearing date the tenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and containing, by actual survey, the quantity of two hundred and eighty arpents: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said land has not<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> been already disposed of under the authority of the United States.</proviso></content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the commissioner of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to issue.</p></sidenote> general land office be, and he is hereby authorized and required, on a return of the survey of the abovementioned tract of land, by the surveyor of the lands of the United States, south of the State of Tennessee, to issue a patent for the same to the said Tobias Rheams, or his legal representatives, or to any person legally claiming under him or them.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-09">April 9, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Daniel Burnet, Gibson Clark, and the legal representatives of Hubert Rowel.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1818-04-11</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Burnet, Gibson Clark, and the legal representatives of Hubert Rowel.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-11">April 11, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys west of Pearl river, in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination of land claims, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> State of Mississippi, to examine the evidence heretofore given, and to receive additional testimony, in the claims to land of Daniel Burnet
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/206">206</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 50, 52, 53. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
and Gibson Clark, of the State of Mississippi, founded on warrants or orders of survey granted by the Spanish government to James Davenport and James Stewart, and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said register and receiver, that the said James Davenport and James Stewart, under whom the said Daniel Burnet and Gibson Clark claim, were resident in the late Mississippi territory, on the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, then, and in that case, the claims aforesaid shall be respectively confirmed, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receiver of public moneys to refund, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>patents shall issue for the same as in other cases. And it shall moreover be the duty of the said receiver of public moneys to refund, to either of the said claimants, any moneys which they, or either of them, may have paid to the United States, in consequence of said lands being granted to them in right of pre-emption.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The legal representatives of Hubert Rowel confirmed in their claim to a tract of land.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the legal representatives of Hubert Rowel be, and they are hereby confirmed in their claim to a tract of land, lying and being in the State of Mississippi, on the waters of the Bayou Sarah, containing eight hundred and fifty arpents, granted by the Spanish government to said Hubert Rowel, by patent, legally and fully executed, bearing date the sixteenth day of May, one <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>thousand seven hundred and ninety-one: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said land has not been already disposed of under the authority of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-11">April 11, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of Ashael Clark.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 206</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ashael Clark.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-11">April 11, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to settle the accounts of Ashael Clark, on account of two judgments obtained against him in the Supreme Court of New York, at the suits of Peter Silvermail and Abraham Silvermail, with reasonable costs and charges; and the sum so found due shall be paid to the said Ashael Clark, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-11">April 11, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LII: for the relief of Lemuel H. Osgood.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 206</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lemuel H. Osgood.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-11">April 11, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to settle the accounts of Lemuel H. Osgood, late quartermaster in the third regiment of artillery, in such manner, and upon such terms, as may be equitable and just.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-11">April 11, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of John Rodgers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 206</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Rodgers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-11">April 11, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> settle the account of John Rodgers, for expenses actually incurred in the defence of a suit brought against him by John Donnell, of Baltimore, owner of the schooner Eleanor, and finally reversed in the Superior Court of the United States, and pay him the sum of sixteen hundred and ninety-five dollars seventy-nine cents.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sum of sixteen hundred and ninety-five dollars seventy-nine cents be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of said Rodgers.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-11">April 11, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of Sarah Dewees, relict and widow of William Dewees, deceased, and the heirs and legal representatives of the said William Dewees.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 207</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 54, 55, 57. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/207">207</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Sarah Dewees, relict and widow of William Dewees, deceased, and the heirs and legal representatives of the said William Dewees.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-11">April 11, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Sarah Dewees, relict of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$8000 to be paid to her.</p></sidenote> Colonel William Dewees, and the heirs and legal representatives of the said Colonel William Dewees, deceased, the sum of eight thousand dollars, in full of all claims the estate of the said deceased may have against the United States, for the loss of property, owing to its being taken for public use; and that the said sum be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-11">April 11, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of General Moses Porter.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 207</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of General Moses Porter.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-13">April 13, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized to grant to Moses Porter, a warrant for the quantity of two<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrant for 200 acres of land granted to him.</p></sidenote> hundred acres of land, for his services as a lieutenant in Crane’s, or the Massachusetts regiment, in the revolutionary war, which warrant is in lieu of one heretofore granted for said services, and which has been lost or destroyed; which warrant may be located on any lands appropriated<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May be located, where.</p></sidenote> for satisfying the warrants granted for military services performed in the revolutionary war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-13">April 13, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LVII: to incorporate the Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 207</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-13">April 13, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the society known by the name of the Mechanic<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incorporation.</p></sidenote> Relief Society of Alexandria, be, and the same is hereby, created a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the “Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria,” and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with a capacity to purchase, receive, and possess, goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in fee or otherwise, and the same to grant, sell, let, or assign: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> They shall not purchase, receive, or possess, more lands and tenements<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso, as to lands and tenements.</p></sidenote> than shall be sufficient to enable them to erect a seminary of learning for the instruction of youth, and the necessary accommodation and convenience of the said society; and by the name aforesaid may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all causes in law or equity.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That so much of the affairs of said<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erection and superintendence of the seminary to remain under the direction of the trustees named &amp;c.</p></sidenote> society as relates to the erection and superintendence of the said seminary of learning, shall be and remain under the direction of the following named trustees and their successors, to wit: John Longden, Dederick Shekell, William F. Thornton, Lewis Hipkins, James Galt, Charles Pascoe, James S. Scott, John Collagen, Bernard Cook, Alexander Baggett, James Carson, Adam Lynn, Greenberry Griffith, Horace Field, and Amos Alexander; the said trustees shall have power to fill any<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees may fill vacancies.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> vacancies which may occur in their own body: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the trustees named and created by this act shall continue and serve until the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, or until others shall be appointed; and on that day, or as soon thereafter as convenient,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual election of trustees.</p></sidenote> not exceeding thirty days, and annually, the like number of trustees, they being members thereof, shall be elected by said society.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That this act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof, and for the term of twenty years thereafter.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of real and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">This act in force for 20 years.</p></sidenote> personal property which may, at any time, be held by this society, shall not
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/208">208</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 59, 62 ,63, 72. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property not to exceed $40,000, &amp;c.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congress may repeal the charter.</p></sidenote>exceed the sum of forty thousand dollars; nor shall the said society be engaged in any banking or commercial operations; and Congress shall at all times have power, during the period for which this charter is granted, at their pleasure, to repeal or alter the same.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-13">April 13, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIX: in addition to an act, entitled “An act for the relief of John Thompson.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 208</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-14</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">in addition to an act, entitled “An act for the relief of John Thompson.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-14">April 14, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and interest allowed.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 11, 1812, ch. 81.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to review the settlement of the account of John Thompson, made under the authority of the act to which this is in addition, approved the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and to allow the said John Thompson interest, at six per centum per annum, from the fourth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, to the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred and twelve, on the sum which was found due to him, and paid under the act aforesaid; and that the amount of interest, which shall be so found to be due him, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-14">April 14, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of Michael Jones.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 208</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-16</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Michael Jones.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-16">April 16, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be paid to Michael Jones, of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$1500 to be paid him for extra services, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>Illinois territory, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, in full compensation for extra services performed, and clerk hire expended, by him while acting as register of the land office and commissioner of claims to land in the district of Kaskaskia.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-16">April 16, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of George Pearson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 208</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-16</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of George Pearson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-16">April 16, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate of Mississippi stock to be issued to the legal representatives of George Pearson, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be issued, by the proper officer, a certificate or certificates of Mississippi stock, for the sum of six hundred and twenty-five dollars, to the legal representatives of George Pearson, late of the city of Augusta, and State of Georgia, being an indemnity for his claim for five thousand acres of land, held as citizens’ rights, in the Georgia Company’s pretended purchase of land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>from the State of Georgia, in the Mississippi territory: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the legal representatives of the said George Pearson shall previously <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 31, 1814, ch. 39, sec. 3.</p></sidenote>take and subscribe the oath required by the third section of the act, passed on the thirty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and fourteen, providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The affidavit and transfer to be filed in the Department of State, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>in the Mississippi territory; which affidavit and the transfer, executed by the legal representatives of the said George Pearson, of all their claim, to the United States, according to the provisions of the act aforesaid, shall be filed in the department of state, with the transfers, conveyances, and records, returned to that department by the commissioners<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Jan. 23, 1815, ch. 24.</p></sidenote> appointed under the act supplementary to the act aforesaid, passed on the twenty-third day of January, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-16">April 16, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXII: for the relief of Major-General Jacob Brown.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 208</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-18</dc:date>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Major-General Jacob Brown.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-18">April 18, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 73, 74, 77, 78. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/209">209</page>
settle the claim of Major-General Jacob Brown, on account of a judgment<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> obtained against him in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at the suit of Henry Utley, together with reasonable costs and charges: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the sum to be allowed on the settlement aforesaid,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall not exceed the sum of six hundred [and] twenty-one dollars and ninety-two cents.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the aforesaid sum shall be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-18">April 18, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXIII: for the relief of Isaac Briggs.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 209</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaac Briggs.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-18">April 18, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account as surveyor to be balanced and closed.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized to close and balance the accounts of Isaac Briggs, as surveyor of the lands of the United States south of the State of Tennessee.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That when the said accounts shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suits to be discontinued.</p></sidenote> have been so closed and balanced, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to direct any suit or suits commenced for the recovery of any balance or balances which may appear to be now due, by the said Isaac Briggs, to the United States, to cease and be discontinued.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-18">April 18, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXIV: for the relief of Thomas Miller and Stephen Baker.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 209</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Miller and Stephen Baker.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-18">April 18, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the value of a house while occupied by the U. S.</p></sidenote> pay to Thomas Miller and Stephen Baker, composing the firm of Miller and Baker, of the city of New York, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, the value of the house in Greenwich, near the city of New York, which was rented in the autumn of one thousand eight hundred and twelve, by the said Miller and Baker, to C. Van De Venter, late deputy quartermaster-general, for the use and occupation of the troops of the United States, which said house, used and occupied at the risk of the United States, was subsequently burnt down, on the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, whilst used and occupied as aforesaid; which sum shall be in full of all demands, made on the part of the said Miller and Baker, against the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the aforesaid sum of three<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-18">April 18, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVII: for the relief of Mary Sullivan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 209</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mary Sullivan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-18">April 18, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> liquidate and settle the claim of Mary Sullivan, founded upon a certificate dated the tenth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, for ten thousand weight of tobacco, or money equivalent, signed by Richard Young, A. D. Q. M., according to the principles of equity and justice, and to allow to her such sum of money as may appear to be justly due; and the same shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-18">April 18, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of Seth Sprague and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 209</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Seth Sprague and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-18">April 18, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the district of Plymouth, in the State of Massachusetts, be, and he hereby is directed to pay to Seth
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/210">210</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 81, 85. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be be paid the amount of allowance to which vessel would have been entitled, if, &amp;c.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 29, 1813, ch. 35.</p></sidenote>Sprague, late owner of a fishing vessel called the schooner Nine Sisters, of sixty-six tons burden, and the legal representatives of the persons composing the late crew of said vessel, the amount of the allowance to which said vessel would have been entitled, had she returned into port according to law, to be distributed in the manner prescribed in the fifth section of the act, entitled “An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries,” passed on the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-18">April 18, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the relief of the widow and children of Jacob Graeff, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 210</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the widow and children of Jacob Graeff, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, upon the payment into the treasury, by the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The estate, &amp;c. of Jacob Graeff, dec’d, to be discharged upon payment, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>representatives of Jacob Graeff, deceased, formerly of Lancaster, in the State of Pennsylvania, of the sum of six thousand eight hundred and forty-seven dollars and one cent, being the balance found due to the United States upon the settlement of the accounts of the said Jacob Graeff, as a collector of the revenue, the said representatives, and the estate of the said Jacob Graeff, and his sureties, shall be discharged from any further claim on the part of the United States, and the accounting officers of the treasury shall be, and hereby are, authorized and empowered to give them a full acquittance and release from the same, and from all suits and judgments on account thereof.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXV: for the relief of Major Loring Austin and George R. Wells.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 210</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Major Loring Austin and George R. Wells.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of Major Loring Austin to be settled.</p></sidenote>authorized and empowered to compromise and settle, upon such terms as in his discretion shall appear just and reasonable, the claim against Loring Austin, major by brevet in the army of the United States, for six thousand six hundred and seventy-three dollars and ninety cents, on account of nine judgments obtained against the said Major Austin in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, for the arrest, detention, and confinement, of nine persons, to wit: Elisha Dennison, Asa Day, George C. Conant, Thomas Stedman, David Coffeen, John Philips, Willard Seaton, James Goddard, and Uriah H. Orvis, in obedience to an order of the twenty-fifth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, issued to the said Loring Austin by the late Brigadier-General Zebulon Pike, commanding at that time the forces of the United States in and around Sackett’s Harbor.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses in defending suits to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be also authorized and empowered to compromise and settle, upon such terms as in his discretion shall appear just and reasonable, the claim of the said Major Austin for six hundred and seven dollars and twenty-six cents; the sum, as he alleges, necessarily expended in making defence against the nine suits aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of G. R. Wells to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be also authorized and empowered to settle, upon the terms aforesaid, the claim of George R. Wells, of New York, for five thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-three cents, the amount of damages obtained against him by the nine persons aforesaid: And also, the claim of six hundred and eighty-seven dollars and four cents, the necessary costs incurred in defending the nine suits aforesaid.
<inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. And be it further enacted, That the amount of the claims
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 89, 93, 95, 96, 99. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/211">211</page>
aforesaid, when so ascertained, as aforesaid, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: for the relief of Captain Henry Gist and Captain Benjamin Johnson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 211</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Captain Henry Gist and Captain Benjamin Johnson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby authorized to audit and settle<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> the respective accounts of Captain Henry Gist and Captain Benjamin Johnson, late of the army of the United States, in such manner and upon such terms as may be reasonable and just.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIII: for the relief of Samuel F. Hooker.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 211</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel F. Hooker.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for property used, destroyed, &amp;c. to be settled.</p></sidenote> settle the claim of Samuel F. Hooker, of Sackett’s Harbor, in the state of New York, for property taken and occupied for public use, at Sackett’s Harbor, aforesaid, and for a house and barn destroyed by the enemy during the late war, at Cape St. Vincent, or Gravelly Point, which had been rented by authority of the United States for barracks; and the sum which shall be found due shall be paid to the said Samuel F. Hooker<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the sum so to be allowed and paid shall not exceed, in the whole, three thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCV: for the relief of John Seybold.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 211</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Seybold.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Seybold be permitted to withdraw his entry with the register of the land office for the District of Vincennes,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permitted to withdraw his entry with the register of the land office at Vincennes, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> for the purchase of the southwest quarter of section number twenty-five, in township number one north, of range number two west. And the receiver of public moneys for the said district shall be authorized to allow the said Seybold a credit on any purchase he shall or may have made of other public lands in the same district for the money paid on the entry by him withdrawn.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVI: for the relief of John Hall, late a major of marines.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 211</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Hall, late a major of marines.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit allowed him.</p></sidenote> credit John Hall, late a major of marines, with the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars, in the settlement of his accounts, the same being part of a sum of money deposited in the hands of the said Hall, for the purpose of purchasing supplies for the marines under his command, and of which the said Hall was robbed in Marseilles, in France.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIX: for the relief of John B. Dabney.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 211</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John B. Dabney.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for moneys advanced, &amp;c. to be adjusted.</p></sidenote> authorized to settle and adjust the accounts of John B. Dabney, as consul of the United States for the Azores, during the late war between the United States and Great Britain, for moneys advanced by him on
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/212">212</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 100, 105, 106, 111, 116. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
account of the United States, and for other incidental expenses relative to the same, and to allow him such sum for losses in exchange, and for interest of money so advanced, and other incidental expenses, as he may deem equitable and just.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. C: for the relief of John Dillon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>C</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 212</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>C.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Dillon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$3500 to be refunded to him, received by U. S. from schooner Rochelle.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to John Dillon, or to his assignees, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, three thousand five hundred dollars, being the amount received by the United States, under a sentence of condemnation pronounced by the district court of Orleans, against the schooner Rochelle, which sentence has been since reversed by the supreme court of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of Madame Poidevin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 212</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Madame Poidevin.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance in settlement of her claim.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and empowered to pay to Madame Poidevin, the sum of one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars and seventy-nine cents, the same being the amount of her claim against the consulate at l’Orient.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the aforesaid sum shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVI: for the relief of the houses of Thomas and John Clifford, Elisha Fisher and Company, Thomas Clifford and Son, and Thomas Clifford, of Philadelphia, and Charles Wirgman, of Baltimore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 212</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the houses of Thomas and John Clifford, Elisha Fisher and Company, Thomas Clifford and Son, and Thomas Clifford, of Philadelphia, and Charles Wirgman, of Baltimore.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be refunded and paid, to the houses <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties refunded.</p></sidenote>of Thomas and John Clifford, Elisha Fisher and Company, Thomas Clifford and Son, and Thomas Clifford, of Philadelphia, the sum of six hundred and ninety dollars sixty-eight cents, and to Charles Wirgman, of Baltimore, the sum of six hundred and ninety dollars and forty-six cents; the said several sums of money having been paid by the persons above named, to the collectors of Philadelphia and Baltimore, on the importation, into the United States, of sundry copper bottoms, and bolts or bars, the same not being by law subject to the payment of duties.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXI: for the relief of Richard M. Johnson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 212</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard M. Johnson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle, on the principles of equity, the account of Richard M. Johnson, for moneys disbursed in supplying a corps of mounted volunteers with rations and forage, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and to allow him any sum not exceeding one thousand and eight dollars and thirty-seven cents; which allowance shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of Jonas Harrison.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 212</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonas Harrison.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> to settle the accounts of Jonas Harrison, collector of the direct tax for the twenty-fifth collection district of the State of New York, in
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 117, 118, 119. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/213">213</page>
respect to the direct tax imposed by the act of August the second, one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Aug. 2, 1813, ch. 37.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred and thirteen, on equitable principles, and to make such allowances, and admit such credits, as, from the circumstances of that collection district, may appear to him reasonable and just.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: for the relief of Benjamin Berry.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 213</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin Berry.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to audit and settle, upon such<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be examined and settled.</p></sidenote> terms as may appear to him equitable and proper, the claim of Benjamin Berry, of the State of Massachusetts, for three hundred dollars, on account of a contract made in January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, between him and the collector of the port of Machias, by which the said Berry engaged to bring, for the benefit of the United States, certain property from the wreck of the British ship Diligent.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of the claim, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: for the relief of James Mackay, of the Missouri Territory.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 213</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Mackay, of the Missouri Territory.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James Mackay, of the Missouri territory, be, and he is hereby, authorized to file, with the recorder of land titles<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to file with the recorder at St. Louis a Spanish warrant of survey, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> at St. Louis, in said territory, a warrant of survey or concession from the Spanish government of Louisiana, bearing date the first day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, for the quantity of eighteen hundred arpents of land, granted to James M’Daniel; and it shall be the duty of the said recorder of land titles to examine the evidence which may be produced to him, in relation to the concession and claim to the land aforesaid, and shall report the substance of the evidence, with his opinion thereon, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, which shall be laid before Congress, at their next session, for their decision thereon.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIX: for the relief of Peggy Bailey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 213</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peggy Bailey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be lawful for Peggy Bailey, sister of Dixon Bailey, (a Creek Indian of the half blood, who was slain in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter a tract of land without payment.</p></sidenote> service of the United States, at the capture of Fort Mims,) and she is hereby, authorized to enter, without payment, with the register of the land office in whose district the land lies, three hundred and twenty acres of land, so as to include the settlement and improvements of the said Dixon Bailey in the Alabama territory: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That neither<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the said Peggy Bailey, nor her heirs, shall have power of alienating said land, or any part thereof, in any manner whatever; and in case of the voluntary abandonment of the possession and occupancy of the said tract of land by the said Peggy Bailey, or of her heirs, hereafter, the said land shall revert to the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of Jonathan Amory, junior, and of the Representatives of Thomas C. Amory, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 214</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/214">214</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 120, 121, 122, 125. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonathan Amory, junior, and of the Representatives of Thomas C. Amory, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount paid by them in consequence of condemnation of the ship Edward to be refunded.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be repaid to Jonathan Amory, and to the representatives of Thomas C. Amory, the amount of money received from them by the United States in consequence of the condemnation of the ship Edward.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, to carry this act into effect, a sum not exceeding six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: for the relief of John Work.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 214</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Work.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Work, out of any moneys<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$259.49 to be paid him, in full for provisions, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and fifty-nine dollars and forty-nine cents, in full for provisions and forage furnished for several corps of Kentucky militia, and others who volunteered their services and marched for the protection of the Pigeon Roost, and other frontier settlements of Indiana, in September, eighteen hundred and twelve.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: for the relief of Benjamin Birdsall and William S. Foster.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 214</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin Birdsall and William S. Foster.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> of war be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the several accounts of Benjamin Birdsall and William S. Foster, of the army of the United States, in such manner, and upon such terms, as may be reasonable and just.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXV: to incorporate the Columbian Institute, for the promotion of Arts and Sciences.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 214</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the Columbian Institute, for the promotion of Arts and Sciences.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Edward Cutbush, Andrew Hunter, Thomas<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edward Cutbush and others constituted a body politic.</p></sidenote> Law, Joseph Anderson, Robert Brent, Overton Carr, Nathaniel Cutting, Elias B. Caldwell, John Law, Roger C. Weightman, William Thornton, Josiah Meigs, James H. Blake, Samuel H. Smith, and others, composing the association in the District of Columbia, denominated the Columbian Institute for the promotion of Arts and Sciences, and their successors, duly elected, in the manner hereinafter mentioned, be, and they are hereby, constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and title of the Columbian Institute for the promotion of Arts and Sciences.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Goods, chattels, &amp;c. confirmed to the corporation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all and singular the goods, chattels, and effects, heretofore given, granted, or devised, to the said Columbian Institute for the promotion of Arts and Sciences, or to any person or persons for the use thereof, or that may have been purchased for, or on account of, the same, be, and the said goods, chattels, and effects, are hereby, vested in and confirmed to the said corporation hereby created; and the said corporation are hereby authorized and empowered<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May receive donations.</p></sidenote> to take and receive any sum or sums of money, or any goods, chattels, or effects, of any kind or nature whatsoever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, or bequeathed, unto the said corporation, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>making such gift or bequest: <i>Provided always,</i> That such money,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 130. 1818.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/215">215</page>
goods, chattels, or effects, be laid out or disposed of, for the use and benefit of the said corporation, according to the intention of the donors.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporation, hereby<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power of the corporation.</p></sidenote> created, shall have full power and authority to fill all vacancies which may happen in their number; to make, ordain, establish, and execute, such by-laws and ordinances as may be deemed useful to the institution, and the same to alter, amend, and abrogate, at pleasure; to make, have, and use, a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew, at will; to appoint such officers as may be required for the management of the concerns of said corporation, and to assign them their duties; and, generally, to provide for the transaction of all business appertaining to the said corporation: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no by-law, rule, or ordinance,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of the said corporation, shall be made repugnant to the laws of the District of Columbia.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporation may procure,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation may procure a building, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> by purchase or otherwise, a suitable building for the sittings of the said institution, and for the preservation and safe-keeping of a library and museum; and, also, a tract or parcel of land, for a botanic garden, not exceeding five acres: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the amount of real and personal<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> property to be held by the said corporation shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there shall be an annual<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual meeting.</p></sidenote> meeting of the members of the said corporation, at such time and place as the proper officers of the said corporation may appoint, of which due notice shall be given, in one or more of the newspapers published in the District of Columbia; at which time and place the members present<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election of officers.</p></sidenote> shall elect or choose, by ballot, the officers of the institution, to serve for one year ensuing their election, and until others shall be elected and consent to serve in their places.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="smallCaps"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporation shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not to engage in banking.</p></sidenote> not be engaged in any banking or commercial operations; and the continuance of this charter shall be limited to twenty years from and after<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charter limited to 20 years.</p></sidenote> the passage of this act, unless sooner revoked by Congress.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXX: for the relief of Cornelia Mason.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 215</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Cornelia Mason.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to place on the half-pay pension list, for five years, at the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on the half-pay pension list.</p></sidenote> rate of four dollars per month, Cornelia Mason, the widow of Alexander Mason, who volunteered his services as a militia man, with a detachment of militia commanded by Brigadier-General Perkins, on the northern frontier, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and who was killed in a battle with a party of Indians, in the month of September in the said year, to be to the use of her and her six children, the legitimate offspring of her, the said Cornelia Mason, and her said deceased husband, Alexander Mason, under the rules and regulations prescribed in, and provided for by, an act entitled “An act making further<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 55.</p></sidenote> provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes,” approved April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-04-20">April 20, 1818</date>.
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1818</dc:date>
<dc:date>1819</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixteenth day of November,</i> 1818, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1819.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Monroe</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Daniel D. Tompkins</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Henry Clay</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of William Barton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 216</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-12-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Barton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-12-28">Dec. 28, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entry of land may be withdrawn, and payments transferred.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the register and receiver of the land office at Vincennes be, and they are hereby, authorized to permit William Barton to withdraw his entry of the north-east quarter of section three, in township six, south of range twelve west, in said district, and to place the moneys by him paid on said entry, to his credit, on any purchase of public lands he may have made, or shall make, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>in the said district: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said register and receiver, that the numbers on the corner designating the north-east quarter of section thirty-one, in township six, south of range twelve west, in said district, were so defaced, or imperfectly made, as to have caused a mistake in his aforesaid entry.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-12-28">December 28, 1818</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of Major-General John Stark.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 216</citableAs>
<dc:date>1818-12-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Major-General John Stark.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1818-12-28">Dec. 28, 1818</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary for the War Department be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on the pension list.</p></sidenote>and he is hereby, directed to place upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, Major-General John Stark, at the rate of sixty dollars a month, to commence on the sixteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension where payable.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="smallCaps"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pension aforesaid shall be paid at the treasury of the United States; or in the same manner as invalid pensioners are paid who have heretofore been placed on the list of pensioners, at the option of said pensioner.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1818-12-28">December 28, 1818</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/216" renderingPosition="bottom">216</page>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of William B. Lewis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 217</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-01-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 8, 9, 10, 11, 14. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/217">217</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William B. Lewis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-01-08">Jan. 8, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> the account of William B. Lewis, assistant deputy quarter-master general to the Tennessee militia and volunteers under the command of Major-General Jackson, in such manner, and upon such terms, as may appear reasonable and just.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-01-08">January 8, 1819</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. IX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Alexander Montgomery, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 217</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-01-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Alexander Montgomery, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-01-08">Jan. 8, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the register of the land office, and receiver of public moneys, west of Pearl river, in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination of evidence as to their claims to land, with a view to the issuing of patents.</p></sidenote> State of Mississippi, to examine the evidence heretofore given, and to receive additional testimony, in the claims to land, of the legal representatives of Alexander Montgomery, deceased, founded on warrants, or orders of survey, granted by the Spanish government to Solomon Whitley and John Montgomery; and if it shall appear, to the satisfaction of said register and receiver, that the said Solomon Whitley and John Montgomery, or their legal representatives, under whom the said tracts of land are claimed, were resident in the Mississippi Territory on the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, then, and in that case, the claims aforesaid shall be respectively confirmed, and patents shall issue for the same, as in other cases: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing in this act shall affect the claim or claims of any person or persons to the same land, or any part thereof, derived from the United States, if any such there be, or the claim or claims of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> any other person or persons whatsoever.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-01-08">January 8, 1819</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. X: for the relief of Doctor Mottrom Ball.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 217</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-01-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Doctor Mottrom Ball.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-01-19">Jan. 19, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be paid unto Mottrom Ball, of Northumberland county, Virginia, the sum<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be compensated for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> of one thousand four hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; the same being in full for the destruction of his buildings on Old Court House Point.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-01-19">January 19, 1819</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of Frederick Brown.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 217</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-01-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Frederick Brown.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-01-19">Jan. 19, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> Frederick Brown, late a captain in the army of the United States, upon just and equitable principles: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That it shall appear that the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said Frederick Brown has not been guilty of any misconduct or default in failing to render his accounts for settlement.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-01-19">January 19, 1819</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIV: for the relief of Sampson S. King.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 217</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Sampson S. King.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-04">Feb. 4, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the account<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of Major Sampson S. King, on equitable principles, and give such credits as shall seem just and reasonable, from the best evidence the nature of the case will admit: <i>Provided,</i> That it shall appear that the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/218">218</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 16, 17, 20, 23. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
said Sampson S. King has not been guilty of any misconduct or default in failing to render his accounts for settlement.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-04">February 4, 1819</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVI: for the relief of Samuel H. Harper.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 218</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel H. Harper.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-04">Feb. 4, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$500 to be paid to him.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and empowered to pay to Samuel H. Harper, of the state of Louisiana, the sum of five hundred dollars, as compensation for bringing to the seat of the general government the record of the decisions of the register and receiver, acting as commissioners, for the eastern land district of Louisiana, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-04">February 4, 1819</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of Thomas B. Parish.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 218</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas B. Parish.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-04">Feb. 4, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$149.60 to be paid to him.</p></sidenote>paid unto Thomas B. Farish, the sum of one hundred and forty-nine dollars and sixty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-04">February 4, 1819</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of Samuel F. Hooker.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 218</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel F. Hooker.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-15">Feb. 15, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper officers of the treasury department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$785 to be paid to him.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to pay to Samuel F. Hooker the sum of seven hundred and eighty-five dollars; to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-15">February 15, 1819</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the civil department of the government of the United States, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 218</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the civil department of the government of the United States, in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-15">Feb. 15, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, from and after the passage of this act, all <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain persons incorporated.</p></sidenote>those persons who are, or shall hereafter become, members of the Provident Association of Clerks, employed in the civil department of the government of the United States, within the District of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, made a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of “The Provident Association of Clerks,” and shall so continue until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and by that name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in courts of record and in any other place whatsoever; and by that name may make, have, and use, a common seal, and the same may break, alter, and renew, at pleasure; and shall have power to ordain, establish, and put in execution, such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, as shall seem necessary and convenient for the government of said corporation, not being contrary to law nor the constitution thereof, and generally to do and execute all acts necessary or proper for the objects of said incorporation, subject to the rules, regulations, restrictions, limitations, and provisions, herein described and declared.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<chapeau class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the following rules, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fundamental articles of the corporation.</p></sidenote>regulations, restrictions, limitations, and provisions, shall form, and be fundamental articles of, the constitution of the said corporation, to wit:</chapeau>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="1">1st. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Association, of whom to consist.</p></sidenote></num>
<content class="inline">The association shall be composed of clerks, employed in the civil department of the government of the United States, within the District of Columbia; and its object shall be the benefit of the families
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 23. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/219">219</page>
of such clerks after their decease; and the funds thereof shall be applied agreeably to the provisions of this act, and for no other use or purpose whatever.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">2d. </num>
<content class="inline">Every such clerk shall, before he is considered a member of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Articles must be signed.</p></sidenote> association, sign these articles.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3">3d. </num>
<content class="inline">Every member shall pay, on or before the fifth day of January,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarterly payments.</p></sidenote> April, July, and October, respectively, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4">4th. </num>
<content class="inline">In addition to the payments mentioned in the preceding article,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra payments to form a special fund.</p></sidenote> every member is at liberty to pay such further sums as he may think proper, which payments shall form a separate and special fund, and, on the death of any member by whom such payments shall have been made, his family shall, in addition to the relief provided by other articles of the association, be entitled to an annuity or other benefit out of the special fund, proportionate to the amount of the payments made thereto by such member.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5">5th. </num>
<content class="inline">Any member who shall omit to pay his quarterly subscription,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeit for neglecting to pay at quarter-day.</p></sidenote> within the time prescribed by the third article, shall forfeit and pay, for the benefit of the association, the sum of fifty cents, and the like sum for every quarter during which the said subscription shall remain unpaid. And if any member shall omit, for more than one year, to pay<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Members omitting to pay for more than a year, to forfeit all rights, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the subscriptions required by these articles, together with such fines as he may have incurred, he shall thereby forfeit, both for himself and his family, all rights to any of the benefits of the association, together with all the moneys which he may have previously paid, and shall cease to be a member.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6">6th. </num>
<content class="inline">Any member ceasing to be a clerk, or removing out of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Membership not forfeited by ceasing to be a clerk, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia, shall not thereby be deprived of his membership.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7">7th. </num>
<content class="inline">The officers of the association shall consist of a president, six<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers of the association.</p></sidenote> directors, a secretary, and treasurer, to be elected by ballot, at a general meeting of the association, on the last Saturday in March, annually: and they shall form a board, to be called the president and board of officers. In all elections for officers, the person having the greatest<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election of officers.</p></sidenote> number of votes shall be considered as elected; but when two or more persons have an equal number of votes, the balloting shall be repeated to fill the office or offices for which no choice shall have been made. If any vacancy shall occur among the officers, a general meeting shall be called to fill the same.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacancies.</p></sidenote></content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8">8th. </num>
<content class="inline">It shall be the duty of the president to preside at all meetings of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty of the president.</p></sidenote> the association, and of the board of officers. In the absence of the president, his duties shall be performed by the director present, senior on the list.</content>
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<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9">9th. </num>
<content class="inline">The secretary [shall] keep a journal of the proceedings of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of the secretary.</p></sidenote> association, and of the president and board of officers; and he shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him, either by the association or by the president and board of officers.</content>
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<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10">10th. </num>
<content class="inline">The treasurer shall receive and pay all moneys of the association<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of the treasurer.</p></sidenote>; he shall keep an account of its receipts and disbursements, and shall lay before the association, at its annual meeting in the month of March, a general statement of all its moneyed transactions, as also a list of those members who are two quarters or upwards in arrear, which list and accounts shall be read and examined previously to the election of officers.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11">11th. </num>
<content class="inline">The quarterly subscriptions, and all other moneys received on<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moneys to be deposited in bank.</p></sidenote> account of the association, shall be paid to the treasurer, and shall be by him deposited, as soon as may be thereafter, in such bank as shall be fixed on by the president and board of officers; and shall, from time to time, be vested in the public stocks of the United States, or in loans
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 23. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
to individuals, secured upon real estate, or in the stocks of any incorporated banking institution; and the moneys so deposited shall be drawn out of the bank only on the order of the treasurer, countersigned by the secretary, and approved by the president.</content>
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<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12">12th. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution of funds among families of deceased members.</p></sidenote></num>
<content class="inline">The funds of the association shall be appropriated and paid to the families of deceased members, at the following rates, to wit: to the families of those members who may die after the expiration of the first year, and within five years from the time of their admission, twice the amount of the subscription which shall have been paid by such members, respectively: to the families of those members who may die within the sixth year, from the time of their admission, respectively, the sum of two hundred dollars: to the families of those members who may die within the seventh year, from the time of their admission, respectively, the sum of three hundred dollars: to the families of those members who may die within the eighth year from the time of their admission, respectively, the sum of four hundred dollars: to the families of those members who may die within the ninth year from the time of their admission, respectively, the sum of five hundred dollars: to the families of those members who may die within the tenth year, from the time of their admission, respectively, the sum of six hundred dollars: to the families of those members who may die within the eleventh year, from the time of their admission, respectively, the sum of seven hundred dollars: to the families of those members who may die after the expiration of the eleventh year from the time of their admission, not less than eight hundred dollars.</content>
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<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13">13th. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">What shall be deemed a member’s family.</p></sidenote></num>
<content class="inline">In all cases the widow and children of a deceased member shall be deemed his family, and as such entitled to the relief provided under the foregoing article; but a member having no wife or children, may adopt any other person or persons as his family, for all the purposes of this association, by giving notice in writing, to the president and board of officers, of the name and residence of such person or persons.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14">14th. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief by a sum of money or annuity.</p></sidenote></num>
<content class="inline">The relief to which the families of deceased members shall be entitled, may be granted either by the payment of a certain sum of money, as prescribed by the twelfth article, or by annuity, the terms of which shall be fixed by the claimant, and the president and board of officers.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15">15th. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pledge of endeavor to establish families of deceased members.</p></sidenote></num>
<content class="inline">In addition to the pecuniary relief to which the families of the deceased members are entitled, the members of this association pledge themselves to endeavor to provide for the permanent establishment in society of the persons composing such families.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16">16th. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual meetings.</p></sidenote></num>
<content class="inline">A general meeting of the association shall be held on the last Saturday in March, annually; but the president and board of officers may call a general meeting whenever they shall think it necessary.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17">17th. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of officers.</p></sidenote></num>
<content class="inline">The regular meetings of the president and board of officers shall be on the first Saturday of January, April, July, and October, annually; but a special meeting of the board of officers may be called by the president, on a requisition in writing from any member thereof.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18">18th. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Majority of a meeting to prevail.</p></sidenote></num>
<content class="inline">In all cases where it is not otherwise expressly provided, a majority of the votes of the members of the association, assembled at any meeting, shall prevail.</content>
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<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="19">19th. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legacies and donations.</p></sidenote></num>
<content class="inline">All legacies or donations made to the association, shall be appropriated to the general purposes thereof.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="20">20th. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">By-laws.</p></sidenote></num>
<content class="inline">The president and board of officers shall have power to make by-laws for their government, provided the same be consistent with these articles.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="21">21st. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">In case of dissolution, the funds to be divided, &amp;c.</p></sidenote></num>
<content class="inline">If the association shall be dissolved by any event, or in any manner whatsoever, otherwise than by the expiration of the charter, the funds then belonging to it shall, after all claims and demands thereon
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are satisfied, be divided among the families of deceased members, according to the sums paid in by such members respectively.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="22">22d. </num>
<content class="inline">The debts which the said corporation may, at any time, owe,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Debts not to exceed the value of the property.</p></sidenote> shall not exceed the value of the property lawfully held and owned by them; and, in case of excess, the directors who may have been assenting thereto, shall be liable for the same in their natural and individual capacities; and an action of debt may, in such case, be brought against them, or any of them, in the proper court, by any creditor or creditors, of the said corporation, and may be prosecuted to judgment and execution, any condition, covenant, or agreement, to the contrary notwithstanding: And the property of the corporation shall also be liable for<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property liable for excess.</p></sidenote> and chargeable with the excess.</content>
</level>
<level class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="23">23d. </num>
<content class="inline">It shall not be lawful for the said corporation to deal or trade in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation not to deal or trade as a bank, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the manner of a bank, nor issue any note in the nature of a bank note, nor transact any other kind of business, or deal in any other manner or thing, than is expressly authorized by the eleventh article of the second section of this act; and any director or directors, who shall have assented<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeit.</p></sidenote> to any such dealing or trade, shall, on conviction thereof, in the proper court, forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars; one half to the use of the poor of the city of Washington, and the other half to the use of the person who may prosecute for the same: <proviso><i>Provided always,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congress may alter or annul this act.</p></sidenote> That Congress may, at any time, amend, alter, or annul, this act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-15">February 15, 1819</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of Daniel Renner and Nathaniel H. Heath.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Renner and Nathaniel H. Heath.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-16">Feb. 16, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> claim of Daniel Renner and Nathaniel H. Heath, on account of cordage, spunyarns, and hemp, burned in their ropewalk on the twenty-fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen, upon their exhibiting such proof of the quantity and value of said articles, considering the circumstances they were under at the time, as shall be satisfactory to the officers aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the amount shall not exceed the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> sum of nineteen thousand eight hundred three dollars and sixty cents.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> so ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-16">February 16, 1819</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-16">Feb. 16, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted., &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Charles Worthington, James H. Blake, John T. Shaaff, Thomas Sim, Frederick May, Joel T. Gustine, Elisha Harrison,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">C. Worthington and others incorporated.</p></sidenote> Peregrine Warfield, Alexander M. Williams, George Clark, Henry Huntt, Thomas Henderson, John Harrison, Benjamin S. Bohrer, Samuel Horseley, Nicholas W. Worthington, William Jones, James T. Johnson, Richard Weightman, George May, Robert French, and such persons as they may, from time to time, elect, and their successors, are hereby declared to be a community, corporation, and body politic, for ever, by and under the name and title of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia; and by and under the same name and title they<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capacity of the society.</p></sidenote> shall be able and capable in law to purchase, take, have, and enjoy, to them and their successors, in fee or for lease, estate or estates, any land, tenements, rents, annuities, chattels, bank stock, registered debts, or other public securities within the District, by the gift, bargain, sale, or demise, of any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to make the same, and the same, at their pleasure, to alien, sell, transfer,
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 26. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
or lease and apply, to such purposes as they may adjudge most conducive to the promoting and disseminating medical and surgical knowledge, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>and for no other purpose whatever: <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless,</i> That the said society, or body politic, shall not, at any one time, hold or possess property, real, personal, or mixed, exceeding, in total value, the sum of six thousand dollars per annum.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Four stated meetings every year.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the members of the said society above designated, shall hold, in the city of Washington, four stated meetings in every year, viz: on the first Mondays in January, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote>April, July, and October: the officers of the Society to consist of a President, two Vice Presidents, one Corresponding Secretary, one Recording Secretary, one Treasurer, and one Librarian, who shall be appointed on the second Monday in March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and on the annual meeting in January forever thereafter, (not less than seven members being present at such meeting:) And the Society may make a common seal; and may elect into their body such <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present officers to remain till next election.</p></sidenote>medical and chirurgical practitioners, within the District of Columbia, as they may deem qualified to become members of the Society; it being understood that the officers of the Society now elected, are to remain in office until the next election after the passage of this act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The Society may elect a Board cf Examiners.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall and may be lawful for the said Medical Society, or any number of them attending, (not less than seven,) to elect, by ballot, five persons, residents of the District, who shall be styled the Medical Board of Examiners of the District of Columbia; whose duty it shall be to grant licenses to such medical and chirurgical gentlemen as they may, upon a full examination, judge adequate to commence the practice of the medical and chirurgical<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees for license to practise.</p></sidenote> arts, or as may produce diplomas from some respectable college or society; each person so obtaining a certificate to pay a sum not exceeding ten dollars, to be fixed on or ascertained by the society.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further regulations as to the admission of persons to practise.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That any three of the examiners shall constitute a board for examining such candidates as may apply, and shall subscribe their names to each certificate by them granted, which certificate shall also be countersigned by the President of the society, and have the seal of the society affixed thereto by the Secretary, upon paying into the hands of the Treasurer the sum of money to be ascertained, as above, by the society; and any one of the said examiners may grant a license to practise, until a board, in conformity to this <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>act, can be held: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing herein contained, shall authorize the said corporation in anywise to regulate the price of medical or surgical attendance, on such persons as may need those services.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for practising medicine without a diploma.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, after the appointment of the aforesaid medical board, no person, not heretofore a practitioner of medicine or surgery within the District of Columbia, shall be allowed to practise within the said District, in either of the said branches, and receive payment for his services, without first having obtained a license, testified as by this law directed, or without the production of a diploma, as aforesaid, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each offence, to be recovered in the county court where he may reside, by bill of presentment and indictment; one half for the use of the society and the other for that of the informer.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">New members to pay not exceeding ten dollars.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That every person who, upon application, shall be elected a member of the Medical Society, shall pay a sum not exceeding ten dollars, to be ascertained by the society.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of the society.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Medical Society be, and they are hereby, empowered, from time to time, to make such by-laws, rules, and regulations, as they may find requisite, to break or alter their common seal, to fix the times and places for the meetings of the board of examiners, filling up vacancies in the medical board, and to do and
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/223">223</page>
perform such other things as may be requisite for carrying this act into execution, and which may not be repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing herein contained shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> extend, or be construed to extend, to prohibit any person, during his actual residence in any of the United States, and who, by the laws of the state wherein he doth or may reside, is not prohibited from practising in either of the above branches, from practising in this District:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided always,</i> That it shall and may be lawful for any person, resident<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> as aforesaid, and not prohibited as aforesaid, when specially sent for, to come into any part of this District, and administer or prescribe medicine, or perform any operation, for the relief of such to whose assistance he may be sent for.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Congress may, at any time,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congress may alter or annul this act.</p></sidenote> alter, amend, or annul, this act of incorporation of said society at pleasure.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-16">February 16, 1819</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of Benjamin Pool.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 223</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-20</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin Pool.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-20">Feb. 20, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized to pay to Benjamin Pool, the amount of a judgment recovered<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of a judgment to be refunded.</p></sidenote> against him by Humphrey Moore, in the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, in consequence of an erroneous assessment of his property, together with the costs of suit, and all reasonable expenses and charges incident to the defence of the said suit.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-20">February 20, 1819</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of Adam Kinsley, Thomas French, and Charles S. Leonard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 223</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-20</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Adam Kinsley, Thomas French, and Charles S. Leonard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-20">Feb. 20, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay unto Adam Kinsley and Thomas French, such sum<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A. Kinsley and T. French to be paid such sum of money upon a contract as will eoual the price paid to others.</p></sidenote> of money, in addition to that already paid, under a contract entered into on the twentieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight, between Tench Coxe, on the part of the United States, with the said Adam Kinsley and Thomas French, for the manufacture of four thousand stand of arms, as shall increase the price of each stand of arms, delivered under the said contract, to a sum equal to that allowed to others who entered into contracts to manufacture and deliver arms to the United States, on or about the same time, keeping in view the quality of the arms delivered by each; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said Secretary make<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The like compensation to be made to C. S. Leonard.</p></sidenote> the like additional compensation to Charles S. Leonard, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for arms manufactured and delivered by him, under a contract entered into on or about the time abovementioned, keeping in view the rules prescribed in the preceding section.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-20">February 20, 1819</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of Henry Davis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 223</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Davis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-20">Feb. 20, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be paid unto Henry Davis, of Rockingham county, state of North Carolina,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to lim.</p></sidenote> the sum of forty-seven dollars and seventy cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-20">February 20, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: for the relief of John Clark.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 224</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/224">224</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 33, 34, 37, 38. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Clark.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-20">Feb. 20, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land-warrant to be issued to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to John Clark, late an officer in the him revolutionary army, a land warrant for the quantity of eight hundred and fifty acres of land; which warrant, when issued, shall be located on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships and fractional quarter townships, reserved by law for original holders of military land warrants; in the manner, and within the time, provided by law for other military warrants, issued for services in the revolutionary army; and a patent or patents shall be granted thereon, as in other cases.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-20">February 20, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: directing the payment of certain bills drawn by General Armstrong in favor of William Morgan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 224</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">directing the payment of certain bills drawn by General Armstrong in favor of William Morgan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-20">Feb. 20, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$5209 21 to be paid to Thomas Griffin, administrator of Wm. Morgan.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be paid to Thomas Griffin, administrator of William Morgan, deceased, and trustee of Alexander Macauley, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand two hundred and nine dollars and twenty-one cents, being the amount of certain bills of exchange drawn by General John Armstrong, in favor of said William Morgan, master of the ship Louisa, for the value of said ship Louisa, and cargo, under the Louisiana convention, and which bills were delivered to Joseph Fenwick, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>late consul of the United States at Bordeaux: <proviso><i>Provided, always,</i> That, before such payment shall be made, the said Thomas Griffin shall give bond, with one or more sureties, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, to indemnify the United States for such payment, against all persons whatsoever, who may hereafter make any claim on account of the said bills, or either of them.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-20">February 20, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief of Thomas Hall Jervey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 224</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Hall Jervey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-24">Feb. 24, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$5000 to be paid to him.</p></sidenote>be paid to Thomas Hall Jervey, surveyor of the port of Charleston, one-half of the amount received by the United States, on account of the condemnation of the schooner the Lovely Cordelia, and of the James and Elizabeth, and that an amount, not exceeding five thousand dollars, be appropriated for this purpose, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-24">February 24, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: concerning the heirs and legatees of Thomas Turner, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 224</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning the heirs and legatees of Thomas Turner, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-24">Feb. 24, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the commissioners of the navy pension fund <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to executors of T. Turner, for his services.</p></sidenote>are hereby authorized and required to pay, out of the said fund, to the executors of Thomas Turner, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and legatees of the said Thomas Turner, deceased, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars; the said sum being in consideration of services rendered by the said Thomas Turner, deceased, as accountant of the navy department, in receiving and settling all accounts respecting the said fund, and for which no compensation has heretofore been made.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-24">February 24, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of Kenzie and Forsyth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 225</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 39, 40, 42, 44. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/225">225</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Kenzie and Forsyth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-24">Feb. 24, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be authorized and directed to settle the accounts of Kenzie<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, for mules, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and Forsyth, for three mules and ten horses, which were lost in the public service at the evacuation of Chicago during the late war; and that the sum found due to said Kenzie and Forsyth, be paid to them out of any unappropriated money in the treasury.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-24">February 24, 1819</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XL: making provision for the claim of M. Poirey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XL</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 225</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">making provision for the claim of M. Poirey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-24">Feb. 24, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to liquidate, settle, and allow, the claim<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of M. Poirey, as secretary and aid-de-camp to Major-General La Fayette, during the time of his service, in those capacities, in the time of the revolutionary war between the United States of America and Great Britain.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-24">February 24, 1819</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLII: making provision for the claim of M. de Vienne.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 225</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">making provision for the claim of M. de Vienne.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-24">Feb. 24, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the war department be, and they are hereby, authorized to liquidate, settle, and allow,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To receive 7 months’ pay and emoluments of a lieutenant-colonel.</p></sidenote> the claim of M. de Vienne, for the pay, appointments, and emoluments, of lieutenant-colonel, for seven months’ service during the revolutionary war between the United States and Great Britain.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-24">February 24, 1819</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: to incorporate a company to build a bridge over the eastern branch of [the] Potomac, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets east, in the city of Washington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 225</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate a company to build a bridge over the eastern branch of [the] Potomac, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets east, in the city of Washington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-02-24">Feb. 24, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following persons, viz: William Prout, William Marbury, Samuel N. Smallwood, Timothy Winn, and Adam<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">W. Prcut and others constituted a board of commissioners to receive subscriptions.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capital.</p></sidenote> Lindsay, or any three of them, be, and are hereby, constituted a board of commissioners, with full power and authority to open, or cause to be opened, books for receiving and entering subscriptions, for raising a capital stock, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, for the purpose of erecting a bridge between Eleventh and Twelfth streets east, in the city of Washington, over the eastern branch, to the most convenient landing on the opposite shore, and making such other incidental works, and defraying such other incidental expenses, as shall be required by this act, or deemed necessary or expedient by the company, hereinafter named; the time, place, and manner, of receiving and entering such subscriptions, to be ascertained<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice by advertisement.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> by the said board of commissioners, and duly advertised in such newspapers as they may deem expedient: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the time [to] be fixed upon, by the said board of commissioners, for opening books for receiving said subscriptions, shall be on or before the second Monday in March next; and that no subscription shall be received, unless the sum of ten dollars be first paid into the hands of the person authorized to receive the same, on each share subscribed for.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That whenever two hundred of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subscribers shall be incorporated, when.</p></sidenote> said shares shall be subscribed for, all persons who may then be, or thereafter may become, the actual holders or proprietors of shares in the said capital stock, either as subscribers for the same, or as the legal representatives, successors, or assignees, of such subscribers, shall be, and they are hereby, made and created a body politic and corporate, by the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/226">226</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 44. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
name and style of “The Navy Yard Bridge Company;” and by that name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and do and suffer all acts, matters, and things, which a body politic and corporate may lawfully do and suffer; and may have a common seal, and the same may break and alter at pleasure, and may make all by-laws, rules, and regulations, and ordinances, for the good government of said company, and for carrying into effect the objects of their institution, so that such bylaws, rules, regulations, and ordinances, be not repugnant to the laws of the United States, in force within the District of Columbia.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rules of voting.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="smallCaps"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That at all elections for directors and officers of said company, each and every member of the said company shall be entitled to as many votes as he or she may hold shares of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election of officers.</p></sidenote>the capital stock of said company, and may vote by proxy, executed under their hands and seals, in the presence of two witnesses; and that when two hundred of the said shares shall be subscribed for, as aforesaid, or as soon after as may be, the said board of commissioners shall call a meeting of the company, at some convenient place in the city of Washington, giving at least three weeks’ notice thereof, by public advertisement, in one or more newspapers published in the District of Columbia; and the said company shall then and there elect, by ballot, five directors and a treasurer, and such other officers, agents, and servants, as the company may think fit to appoint; and as soon thereafter <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power of the board of commissioners to cease, when.</p></sidenote>as a board of directors shall be formed, they shall elect one of their body to be president of the said board of directors; and all the powers, authority, and duties, whatsoever, by this act vested in the said board of commissioners, shall cease and determine, and thenceforward become vested in the president and directors for the time being of the said company; and the said board of commissioners shall account to the president and directors of the said company, at their first meeting, for all moneys received by them or their agents, on account of subscriptions, and shall immediately pay over the same to the treasurer of said company.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Directors, &amp;c. to hold their offices until a new election.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual meeting for election of officers.</p></sidenote> And the said directors and treasurer shall hold their offices until the first Tuesday in October next, and until a new election shall be made by the company. And there shall be holden on that day, and, annually thereafter, on every first Tuesday in October, a meeting of the said company, for the purpose of electing five directors and a treasurer, and other officers and agents, as aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shares transferable, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said shares shall be negotiable and transferable from one to another, by assignments in writing, executed before two witnesses, at least, and authenticated and registered, as the said company may prescribe and direct in their bylaws and regulations, and shall be deemed personal, and not real, property; and that the shares held by any individual shall be liable to be attached, or taken by fieri facias, to satisfy the debts due from such individual, in like manner as other personal property may be.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A meeting may be called at any time, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a meeting of the said company may, at any time, be called, at some convenient place in the City of Washington, by a majority of the directors of the company for the time being, and by one-third of the members of the said company, or by the proprietors of one-third of the shares actually subscribed for, or <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>the legal representatives or proprietors: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That no meeting of the said company shall be legal or valid, unless a quorum shall be formed, consisting of the majority of the members of said company, or of the proprietors of at least two-thirds of the number of shares actually subscribed for, their legal representatives, successors, or proxies, nor unless the time of such meeting be previously advertised, for three weeks successively, in one or more gazettes in the District of Columbia; and the said company shall have power, at any meeting legally called and constituted in pursuance of this act, to displace any of their direc-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 44. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/227">227</page>
tors or officers, and to supply, by a new election, all vacancies that may happen among the directors or officers of the company; and a majority of the said directors may provisionally supply, by their own election, any vacancies that may happen among the number of directors, or among the number of the officers of the company; and the person so elected, by the said directors, may continue in office till the next legal meeting of the company.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of each share<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The amount of each share to be paid by instalments, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> shall be paid by instalments of ten dollars, at such time as the said company shall direct; and in case any instalment or instalments shall not be paid at the time appointed by the said company, or within ten days thereafter, the same may be recovered in the name of the said company, by warrant from a justice of the peace, if the amount due shall not exceed twenty dollars, and if the sum so due shall exceed twenty dollars, the same may be recovered by motion in the name of the said company, on ten days’ notice, in any court of record in the county or district where the debtor should be found; and in all such warrants and motions, the certificate of the clerk of the said company, authenticated by the president, under the common seal of the said company, shall be conclusive evidence of the defendant’s being a member of the company, and prima facie evidence of the amount due on the shares held by such defendant; and if such instalment be not paid within<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instalments not paid within 60 days, may be forfeited.</p></sidenote> sixty days after the time limited for the payment of the same, and advertisement for four weeks, successively, in one or more newspapers published in the District of Columbia, the president and directors of the said company may proceed to forfeit, for the use of the company, the share or shares of the person or persons so failing to pay.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said company be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The company authorized to build a bridge.</p></sidenote> they are hereby, authorized and empowered to erect and build, or cause to be erected and built, over the Eastern branch, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets East, in the City of Washington, and the land of William Marbury, on the opposite shore of the said Eastern Branch, a good and sufficient bridge, at least twenty-five feet wide, of sound and suitable materials, and in all respects adequate for the passage of travellers, horses, cattle, and carriages, with a secure railing on each side, at least four feet high.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said company shall cause<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A draw in the bridge.</p></sidenote> to be built, and kept and maintained in good repair, a convenient and sufficient draw, or passage way, at least thirty feet wide, in the said bridge, over the main channel of the Branch, for the passing and repassing of vessels, by day and by night. And the said company shall, at their own cost, and without toll, cause the said draw or passage way to be hoisted, or removed, without delay, for the passage of all vessels with masts, that are unable to pass under the same; and if, through the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Company liable for damages in case of detention of vessels at the draw.</p></sidenote> unskilfulness or negligence of the person or persons employed by the said company, to hoist or remove the said draw, any vessel shall be unjustly or unreasonably hindered or delayed, or shall be damaged in her hull, spars, or rigging, in passing the said draw, the said company shall be liable to the master, or the owner or owners, of such vessel, for damages, at the rate of six cents per ton of such vessel, for each and every hour such vessel shall be hindered or delayed, and for all damages in her hull, masts, and rigging, as aforesaid, to be ascertained and recovered, in a special action on the case, in any court of competent jurisdiction.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 9. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That as soon as the said bridge<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The company may demand tolls when the bridge is completed.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates of toll.</p></sidenote> shall be erected and built, and completed as required by this act, the said company shall be entitled to demand and receive, by their proper agents, servants, or officers, tolls at the following rates, viz: For each foot passenger, three cents; for each person and a horse, six and one
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/228">228</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 50, 51, 53. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
quarter of a cent; for carriages, wagons, or carts, seven cents for each wheel, and three cents for each horse, mule, or ox, drawing the same; for every other horse or mule, three cents; for cattle, three cents per <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>head; for hogs and sheep, two cents each: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no toll shall be exacted at the said bridge, for the passage of any wagon or carriage laden with the property of the United States, or for the drivers thereof, or for the passage of any troops of the United States, or the militia of any state, or of the District of Columbia, marching in a body, or any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>cannon, or military equipments, belonging to the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided also,</i> That if the number of two hundred shares shall not be subscribed within one year from the time of opening subscription books by the commissioners, as hereinbefore directed; or if the said bridge be not erected and built, and finished and completed, by this act, within three years from and after the first day of October next; or if it should remain, at any. time thereafter, so out of repair, for two years, as to be unsafe for travelling; then, and in that case, all the powers, authority, privileges, emoluments, and immunities, whatsoever, by this act granted to the said company, shall cease and determine, and shall become absolutely forfeited.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-02-24">February 24, 1819</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. L: confirming the claim of Alexander Macomb to a tract of land in the Territory of Michigan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 228</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">confirming the claim of Alexander Macomb to a tract of land in the Territory of Michigan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-02">March 2, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Alexander Macomb of the territory of Michigan,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> be, and he hereby is, confirmed in his right and claim to a tract of land, being an island, situated in the mouth of Detroit river, known by the name of Stoney Island, which was formerly occupied and improved for the benefit of the heirs of William Macomb, deceased, under whom the said Alexander Macomb now claims title; and upon a regular plat and survey of the said island being returned into the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent shall be granted <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>for the aforesaid island or tract of land: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the confirmation and grant, to Alexander Macomb, hereby made and directed, shall not prejudice the legal claim (if such there be) of any other person to the same tract of land.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-02">March 2, 1819</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief of John B. Timberlake.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 228</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John B. Timberlake.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-02">March 2, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed a credit in the settlement of his accounts.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized and required, in the settlement of the accounts of John B. Timberlake, a purser in the navy, to allow him a credit of three thousand eighty-four dollars and thirty-three cents; this sum having been drawn by the late lieutenant John Trippe, while in the command of the United States schooner Enterprize, over and above his pay and emoluments, from the said John B. Timberlake, the purser of the said vessel.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-02">March 2, 1819</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIII: to authorize William Prout to institute a Bill in Equity before the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, against the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, and to direct a defence therein.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 228</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize William Prout to institute a Bill in Equity before the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, against the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, and to direct a defence therein.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-02">March 2, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Prout, of the District of Columbia,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to institute a bill in equity, to try a certain claim.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized to institute a bill in equity, before the Circuit Court for the District aforesaid, against the commissioner of the public buildings for the time being, to try his claim to recover one thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents, and
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55, 56, 57, 58. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/229">229</page>
the interest thereon, which he alleges is due to him from the United States, for certain lands by them holden in the District of Columbia, reserved for a marine hospital; and the attorney for the District aforesaid is hereby directed to appear and defend, in said bill in equity, in behalf of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-02">March 2, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of Phebe Stuart.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 229</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Phebe Stuart.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the pension list, Phebe Stuart, widow of James<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on the pension list.</p></sidenote> Stuart, deceased, under the provisions of an act, passed the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, making provision for the widows and orphans of the militia who had died in the service of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVI: for the relief of John Rice Jones.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 229</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Rice Jones.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle, on<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled as interpreter and translator.</p></sidenote> equitable principles, the account of John Rice Jones, for services rendered, and. expenses incurred, as an interpreter and translator of the French language, to the board of commissioners appointed for inquiring into the validity of claims to land in the district of Kaskaskia; and the amount found to be due, on such settlement, shall be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, The sum to be paid shall not exceed two hundred and eighty-one dollars.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVII: in behalf of the Connecticut Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 229</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">in behalf of the Connecticut Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be granted to the Connecticut Asylum for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons, a township<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of a township of land.</p></sidenote> of land, or a tract of land equal thereto, to be located, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in tracts of not less than four entire sections each, in any of the unlocated lands of the United States to which the Indian title has been extinguished; which land shall be and forever remain to the use of said asylum, for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons; or, if said asylum shall sell said land, which they are authorized to do, the money arising from such sale shall be and remain for ever to the same use.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: in addition to an act, supplementary to an act, entitled “An act for the relief of Thomas Wilson.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 229</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">in addition to an act, supplementary to an act, entitled “An act for the relief of Thomas Wilson.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That [the] Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to revise, adjust, and settle, the accounts<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War authorized to settle his account.</p></sidenote> and claims of Thomas Wilson, arising under his contracts entered into with the department of war, dated the third and fourth of August, one thousand eight hundred and three; and that all the powers vested in the accounting officers of the war department, by an act of Congress for the relief of Thomas Wilson, passed on the eighth day of April, one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 8, 1812, ch. 52.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred and twelve, and to the accounting officers of the treasury department, by the act supplementary thereto, passed on the twenty-eighth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 28, 1814, ch. 33.</p></sidenote> be, and are hereby, vested in the Secretary of War.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of Aquila Giles.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 230</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/230">230</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Aquila Giles.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the claim of Aquila Giles, on account of a warrant issued by B. Lincoln, dated December twenty-eighth, seventeen hundred and eighty-two, and attested by Joseph Carleton, expressing on its face to have issued for the balance of his pay as a major for that year, for five hundred dollars; and the amount which may be found due shall be paid to the said Aquila Giles, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That any sum or sums of money, with which he may stand charged on the books of the treasury, be first deducted out of said amount.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of Robert M’Calla and Matthew H. Jouett.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 230</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert M’Calla and Matthew H. Jouett.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the accounts of Robert M’Calla, late a major in the service of the United States, and Matthew H. Jouett, late paymaster to the twenty-eighth regiment of infantry, upon the principles of equity and justice: <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided,</i> That it shall appear that the said Robert M’Calla and Matthew H. Jouett have not been guilty of any misconduct or default in failing to render their accounts for settlement.</proviso></content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of Henry Batman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 230</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Batman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a patent shall be granted to Henry Batman, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A patent for a tract of land to be granted to him.</p></sidenote>for the north-east quarter of section thirty, of township four south, and range six east, of the second principal meridian, in the Jeffersonville district, on the final settlement certificate which has been returned to the general land office, for the payment of the principal of the purchase money on the said quarter section of land.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of Harold Smyth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 230</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Harold Smyth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the accounts of Harold Smyth, late a captain by brevet in the army of the United States, and quartermaster at Fort McHenry, upon the principles of equity and justice.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of Daniel Moss.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 230</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Moss.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military landwarrant to be issued to him.</p></sidenote>authorized and directed to issue to Daniel Moss, of the city of New York, a military warrant, for one hundred acres of land, for revolutionary services, in lieu of a warrant alleged to have been issued to said Moss in one thousand eight hundred and seven, and to have been lost.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXV: for the relief of B. and P. Jourdan, brothers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 230</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>15</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of B. and P. Jourdan, brothers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle and adjust
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 66, 67, 68, 69. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/231">231</page>
the accounts of B. and P. Jourdan, brothers, of the state of Louisiana, not exceeding in amount the sum of twenty-eight thousand dollars; and that the same be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for the relief of George M. Brook and Edmund P. Kennedy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 231</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George M. Brook and Edmund P. Kennedy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> the respective accounts of Lieutenant-Colonel George M. Brook and Captain Edmund P. Kennedy, in such manner, and upon such terms, as may be reasonable and just.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVII: for the relief of Michael Hogan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 231</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Michael Hogan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled for damages done to house in Utica.</p></sidenote> claim of Michael Hogan, for damages done to his house in Utica, by a detachment of troops in the service of the United States, quartered therein, in February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen; and the amount so found due shall be paid to said Michael Hogan, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> sum so paid shall be in full for all demands, and that it shall not exceed in the whole eleven hundred dollars.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of Rees Hill.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 231</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Rees Hill.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled for moneys advanced.</p></sidenote> account of Rees Hill, late a colonel of militia, in the service of the United States, for moneys advanced by him to defray the necessary expenses of the troops under his command, while in service as aforesaid, in such manner as may appear to them to be just and equitable, reimbursing to him any sums he may have paid as interest on moneys loaned to make the advances aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIX: for the relief of Hannah Ring and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 231</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Hannah Ring and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place Jonathan Ring on the pension list.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 19.</p></sidenote> war, passed the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, shall be construed to authorize the Secretary of War to place on the pension list Jonathan Ring, a soldier in the revolutionary war, now insane, of the date of the eleventh day of July, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that the receipt of the said Hannah Ring, his wife, during his insanity, shall be sufficient for the pension allowed by the said act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said act shall be also<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, John Frink,</p></sidenote> construed to authorize the Secretary of War to place on the pension list John Frink, a soldier in the revolutionary war, now insane, of the first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that the receipt of Luther Frink, his son, shall be sufficient for the pension allowed by the said act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said act shall be also construed<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abraham Edwards, and</p></sidenote> to authorize the Secretary of War to place on the pension list Abraham Edwards, a mariner in the revolutionary war, now insane, of
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/232">232</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 76, 78, 79, 99. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
the date of the first of July, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and the receipt of Joseph Edwards, his son, shall [be] sufficient for the pension allowed by this act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Thos. Lucas.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said act shall be also construed to authorize the Secretary of War to place on the pension list Thomas Lucas, a soldier in the revolutionary war, now insane, of the date of the fourteenth of January, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and that the receipt of the wife of the said Thomas Lucas, or his guardian, shall be sufficient for the pension allowed by the said act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: for the relief of Joseph Wheaton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 232</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Wheaton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote>department be authorized and directed to settle and adjust the account of Joseph Wheaton, while acting in the quartermaster’s department, during the late war, upon principles of equity and justice.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of Isaac Minis and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 232</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaac Minis and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Their accounts for payments made to the troops, to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle, on just and equitable principles, the accounts of Minis and Henry, merchants, of Savannah, Theodore A. Schoedde, Stephen Hall, Asahel Howe, William T. Williams, Dunham and Reed, Meigs and Reed, and Elias Reed, for payments by them made to the troops of the regular army, and the militia employed in the service of the United States, during the late war with Great Britain.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIX: for the relief of Patrick Callan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 232</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>15</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Patrick Callan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and he is hereby, authorized to audit and settle the accounts of Patrick Callan, late a lieutenant in the second regiment of light dragoons, on principles of justice and equity.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCIX: concerning Invalid Pensions.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XCIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning Invalid Pensions.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain persons to be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place the following named persons on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, who shall be entitled to, and receive, pensions, according to the rates, and commencing at the times, hereinafter mentioned; that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote>Benijah Abro, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Robert Craighead, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Solomon Van Ranssallaer, at the rate of thirty dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of October, in eighteen hundred and twelve, and the sum of two thousand five hundred and eighty dollars, the amount of pension to him at the rate of twenty dollars per month, commencing on the thirtieth of January, one thousand eight hundred and two, and ending on the thirteenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, in consequence of wounds received while serving as a captain of dragoons under General Wayne, in a bat-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 99. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/233">233</page>
tle with the Indians, on the twentieth of August, one thousand seven<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety-four.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Bailey, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the ninth December, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Pincin, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Caleb J. Whaley, at the rate of six dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the thirtieth of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Earnest, whose father died of wounds received in battle during the late war, to be applied, under the direction of the Secretary for the Department of War, in the education of the said William, at the Connecticut asylum for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons, for a period not exceeding five years, at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Low, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jeremiah Burnham, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Sargent, of Vermont, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peter Francisco, of Virginia, at the rate of eight dollars a month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.</p>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions of the following<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Augmentation of pensions.</p></sidenote> named persons, already placed on the pension list of the United States, be increased to the sums herein respectively annexed to their names; the said increase to commence at the time hereinafter mentioned, and be in lieu of pensions they at present receive; that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Benjamin Merrill, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Timothy Mix, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Lackin, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Wright, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the fourth of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Samuel Key Kendoll, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Campbell, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Philip Krugh, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifth of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Pierson, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the tenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Long, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas M’Barney, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
William Simpson, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to com-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/234">234</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 103, 104. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p></sidenote>mence on the fifth of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James C. Wingard, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Arnold, at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph S. Van Driesen, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the tenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Tilton, at the rate of thirteen dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joseph Westcott, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aaron Stafford, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</p>
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<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers, &amp;c. who served in the revolution, on availing themselves of the act of 18th March 1818, ch. 19, not entitled to pensions under this or other future acts.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That any pension granted by this act, or any other act hereafter to be passed, to any officer, soldier, or marine, who served in the revolutionary war, shall cease and be discontinued, in case the individual, to whom the same may be granted, hath availed himself, or shall hereafter avail himself, of the provisions of an act, passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons entitled by the acts mentioned, may be placed on the pension list without report.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1806, ch. 25.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 25, 1808, ch. 58.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all persons entitled to pensions, in conformity with the provision of the act, entitled “An act to provide for persons disabled by known wounds during the revolutionary war,” passed April the eighteenth, eighteen hundred and six, and also, the fourth section of an act, entitled “An act concerning invalid pensioners,” passed the twenty-fifth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, may be placed on the pension list by the Secretary of War, without reporting the same to Congress.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CIII: for the relief of John M’Causland.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 234</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John M’Causland.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of a military fine to be returned to him.</p></sidenote>paid unto John M’Causland, or his legal representative, the sum of ninety-six dollars; being the amount of a militia fine improperly assessed on him in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CIV: for the relief of Robert Kid, Seth Webber, and Thomas Page.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 234</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Kid, Seth Webber, and Thomas Page.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be refunded and paid to Robert Kid, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote>of Philadelphia, the sum of six hundred and fifty-three dollars and twenty-nine cents, and to Seth Webber and Thomas Page, of Boston, the sum of three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and sixty-six cents; the said sums of money having been paid, by the persons above-mentioned, to the collectors of Philadelphia and Boston, on the importation
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 105, 106. 1819.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/235">235</page>
into the United States of sundry copper bottoms, and bolts or bars, the same not being by law subject to the payment of duties.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of James Orr.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 235</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Orr.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed, to pay to James Orr, out of any money in the treasury not<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for schooner Telegraph, taken and sunk for the defence of Baltimore.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, two hundred and fifty dollars, the value of a certain schooner called the “Telegraph,” taken and sunk for the defence of the harbour of Baltimore, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CVI: for the relief of Nathan G. Birdseye and Daniel Booth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 235</citableAs>
<dc:date>1819-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>15</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nathan G. Birdseye and Daniel Booth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the marshal of the district of Connecticut be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to release, by proper<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of U. S. to certain lands released to them.</p></sidenote> deed or deeds, unto Nathan G. Birdseye and Daniel Booth, all the right, title, and interest, acquired by the United States in and to certain lands and buildings, situated in Derby, in the state of Connecticut, by the levy of an execution, on the fourteenth of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, against Nicholas Moss, on a judgment of the district court of the district of Connecticut, in August, one thousand eight hundred and nine; the President of the United States having, on the fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, pardoned and remitted to the aforesaid Moss the judgment aforesaid; and the aforesaid Moss having, by deeds duly authenticated, for a good and sufficient consideration, on the twenty-ninth December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, conveyed the premises to the aforesaid Birdseye and Booth.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1819-03-03">March 3, 1819</date>.
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<congress>16</congress>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1819</dc:date>
<dc:date>1820</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December,</i> 1819, <i>and ended on the fifteenth day of May,</i> 1820.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Monroe</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Daniel D. Tompkins</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">James Barbour</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the 14th day of December, 1819; <inline class="smallCaps">John Gaillard</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 28th day of January, 1820; <inline class="smallCaps">Henry Clay</inline>, Speaker.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: for the relief of the legal representative of Philip Barbour, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 236</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-01-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representative of Philip Barbour, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-01-14">Jan. 14, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The register and receiver in Mississippi to report to the general land office the value of 1500 acres of land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys of the United States, in the state of Mississippi, west of Pearl river, be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, within twelve months after the passage of this act, to report to the Commissioner of the General Land Office the value of fifteen hundred acres of land, situated on the river Mississippi, at the mouth of Big Black, commonly called Grand Gulph, patented in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy, by the government of West Florida, to Philip Barbour, deceased; the said register and receiver having, in making such estimate, a due regard to the time when the said land, or any part of it, was sold by the government of the United States: whereupon the said Commissioner of the General Land Office shall issue to the legal representative of the said Philip Barbour, deceased, a certificate of the amount so reported by the said register and receiver; which certificate shall be receivable in payment of any debt which may have accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, to the United States, on the sale of any of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>public lands: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That, before the said Commissioner of the General Land Office shall issue the certificate, the said legal representative shall file in his office a written release, under his hand and seal, with all the solemnities necessary to make it valid and operative, whereby he shall release to the United States all his claim to the said fifteen hundred acres of land.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-01-14">January 14, 1820</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VI: allowing Sarah Allen the bounty land and pay which would have been due to her son, Samuel Drew, had he lived, for his services as a private in the late war.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 236</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-01-19</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">allowing Sarah Allen the bounty land and pay which would have been due to her son, Samuel Drew, had he lived, for his services as a private in the late war.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-01-19">Jan. 19, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A warrant for the bounty land due S. Drew to be issued.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized to issue, in the name of Sarah Allen, a land warrant for the bounty land to which Samuel Drew, a soldier in the army of the United States, deceased, would have been entitled, had he lived.</content>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/236" renderingPosition="bottom">236</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 7, 8, 12, 13, 15. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/237">237</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That whatever sum shall be found<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Any sum due S. Drew to be paid to Sarah Allen.</p></sidenote> due to the said Samuel Drew, for his service as a private soldier, on settlement of his account, be paid to the said Sarah Allen, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-01-19">January 19, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Matthew Barrow.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 237</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-01-28</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Matthew Barrow.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-01-28">Jan. 28, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Matthew Barrow, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury of the United States, the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$309.19 to be paid to him.</p></sidenote> sum of three hundred and nine dollars and nineteen cents; which sum was expended by the said Barrow in defence of a prosecution at the suit of Absalom Page, for property impressed by him, in and for the service of the United States, during the late war with Great Britain.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-01-28">January 28, 1820</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of James Hughes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 237</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-01-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Hughes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-01-28">Jan. 28, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue a certificate, for four hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate for $400 to be issued to him.</p></sidenote> dollars, to James Hughes, of Randolph county, in the state of Illinois, or his representatives, as a compensation for two hundred acres of land, to which he was entitled, and which has been sold by the United States; which certificate shall be receivable in payment for so much of any debt to the United States for public land.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-01-28">January 28, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XII: for the relief of the heirs of Anthony Burk.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 237</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of Anthony Burk.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-02-18">Feb. 18, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs of Anthony Burk be authorized to enter, within twelve months from the passage of this act, with the Register<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land without payment.</p></sidenote> of the Land Office at Chillicothe, without payment, two quarter sections, within the boundaries of the district of Chillicothe.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-02-18">February 18, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of Denton, Little, and Company, and of Harman Hendrick, of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 237</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Denton, Little, and Company, and of Harman Hendrick, of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-02-18">Feb. 18, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be refunded and paid to Denton, Little, and Company, of the city of New York, the sum of two hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> and seventy-one dollars seven cents; and to Harman Hendrick, also of New York, the sum of five thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty-one cents; the said several sums having been paid, by the persons above named, to the collector of New York, on the importation into the United States of sundry copper bottoms, bolts, or bars, the same not being liable to the payment of duties.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-02-18">February 18, 1820</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XV: for the relief of William M’ Donald, administrator of James M’ Donald, deceased, late captain in the army of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 237</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-02-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William M’ Donald, administrator of James M’ Donald, deceased, late captain in the army of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-02-28">Feb. 28, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further allowance for bounties and premiums, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> adjustment and settlement of the accounts of the late Captain James M’Donald, with his brother and administrator, William M’Donald, to make such further allowance for bounties and premiums paid, and for money due him, as an officer for recruiting, and for contingencies, as may appear equitable and just: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the sum so to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> be allowed shall not exceed the amount charged to the account of the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/238">238</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 16, 18, 29, 30. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
late James M’Donald aforesaid on the books in the office of the third auditor of the treasury department.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-02-28">February 28, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVI: confirming Anthony Cavalier and Peter Petit in their claim to a tract of land.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 238</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-02-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">confirming Anthony Cavalier and Peter Petit in their claim to a tract of land.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-02-28">Feb. 28, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Anthony Cavalier, and Peter Petit, of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to a tract of land confirmed.</p></sidenote>state of Louisiana, shall be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to a tract of land, containing two thousand and sixty-five acres, being an island in the Mississippi river, known by the name of Apple island; for which tract of land the said Anthony Cavalier and Peter <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Petit shall be entitled to a patent: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing in this act shall affect the claim or claims of any person or persons to the same land, or any part thereof, derived from the United States, if any such there be, or the claim or claims of any other person or persons whatsoever.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-02-28">February 28, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: for the relief of Ether Shipley, administrator of Thomas Buckminster, late lieutenant in the thirty-third regiment of United States infantry.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 238</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-02-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ether Shipley, administrator of Thomas Buckminster, late lieutenant in the thirty-third regiment of United States infantry.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-02-28">Feb. 28, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and. they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the accounts of Thomas Buckminster, deceased, late lieutenant in the thirty-third regiment of the United States’ infantry, upon the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>principles of justice and equity: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the sum so to be allowed shall not exceed the amount charged to the account of said deceased, on the books in the office of the third auditor of the treasury department.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-02-28">February 28, 1820</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of Mary Cassin, widow and administratrix of Patrick Cassin, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 238</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mary Cassin, widow and administratrix of Patrick Cassin, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p></sidenote> department audit and settle the claim of Mary Cassin, widow and administratrix of Patrick Cassin, deceased, for moneys advanced by her said husband to soldiers in the army of the United States, on account of pay due to them at the time said advances were made; and to allow and pay to the said Mary Cassin, administratrix as aforesaid, out of any unappropriated moneys in the treasury, such part of said claim as shall not appear to have been paid to the said soldiers, respectively, by any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>officer of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Mary Cassin, administratrix as aforesaid, shall, previous to the receipt of the moneys which may be allowed her under this act, deliver to the comptroller of the treasury a bond of indemnity, in such sum, and with such sureties, as he may direct.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Nicholas Vreeland, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 238</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Nicholas Vreeland, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be authorized to audit and settle the claim of the heirs and legal representatives of Nicholas Vreeland, deceased, on account of a certificate issued to the said Nicholas Vreeland, on the thirtieth of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for two hun-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 31, 32, 33, 34. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/239">239</page>
dred and forty-five dollars and sixty-six ninetieths, and numbered sixteen hundred and fifty; which certificate is alleged to have been accidentally destroyed, and appears, by the records of the treasury, to be outstanding and unpaid; and to pay to the surviving executors of said deceased, for the use and benefit of the heirs and representatives of the said deceased, the principal of said certificate, and so much of the interest thereof as may remain due thereon: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> surviving executors execute and deliver to the comptroller of the treasury a bond of indemnity, in such sum, and with such security, as the said comptroller may direct and approve.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXI: for the relief of John A. Dix.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 239</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John A. Dix.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to John A. Dix, a lieutenant in the army<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for extra services.</p></sidenote> of the United States, one hundred and twelve dollars, in full, for extra services performed as adjutant, under the command of Colonel John B. Walbach, in Portsmouth harbor, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of the legal representatives of John O’Connor, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 239</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of John O’Connor, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legal representatives of John O’Connor, deceased, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a tract of land situated on Buffaloe Creek, in the state of Mississippi, containing<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title con firmed.</p></sidenote> eight hundred arpens, granted by the Spanish government to William Conway, by patent, dated the fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and conveyed to John O’Connor, by the said Conway, on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> nothing in this act contained shall affect the claim or claims of any other person or persons to the said land, or any part thereof, derived from the United States, or any other source whatever.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: for the relief of Robert Swartwout.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 239</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Swartwout.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account for loss in sale of treasury notes to be settled.</p></sidenote> account of Robert Swartwout, and to allow him such sum as may appear equitable and just, in consequence of the loss sustained in the sale of certain treasury notes, for and on account of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of John Harding, Giles Harding, John Shute, and John Nichols.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 239</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Harding, Giles Harding, John Shute, and John Nichols.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to audit and settle the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to them for boats detained at Baton Rouge.</p></sidenote> claim of John Harding, Giles Harding, John Shute, and John Nichols, for fifteen boats belonging to them, and detained, at Baton Rouge, by Major-General Thomas, in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen; and to allow them any sum not exceeding, in the whole, nine hundred dollars; which allowance, when made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: for the relief of Jennings O’Bannon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 240</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-05</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/240">240</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 35, 36, 37, 38, 42. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jennings O’Bannon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed equitably to settle the account of expenses incurred by Jennings O’Bannon, in a suit erroneously instituted against him on behalf of the United States, on the exhibtion of proper vouchers; and the sum which shall be found due shall be paid to the said Jennings O’Bannon, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: authorizing the Secretary of State to issue Letters Patent to Richard Willcox.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 240</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the Secretary of State to issue Letters Patent to Richard Willcox.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent for a rotary portable oven to be issued.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to issue letters patent to Richard Willcox, for his invention of a rotary portable oven, and for his improvements of the ovens now in use; and also for his several inventions and improvements in the process of distillation, and modes and means of conducting the same, upon his complying with the directions of the act, entitled <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 17, 1800, ch. 25.</p></sidenote>“An act to promote the progress of the useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose,” and an act, entitled “An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees,” except so far as the said acts, or any part or parts of them, require a residence of two years within the United States; in like manner, in all respects, as if the said Richard Willcox had resided two years within the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-05">April 5, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief of Anthony S. Delisle, Edward B. Dudley, and John M. Van Cleef.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 240</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Anthony S. Delisle, Edward B. Dudley, and John M. Van Cleef.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-07">April 7, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture of brig Sally remitted.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the forfeiture of the brig Sally, of Wilmington, in North Carolina, by reason of the importation of six persons of color from Martinique into the United States, and the condemnation of the said brig for that cause, adjudged by the District Court of North Carolina, be, and the same is hereby, remitted, so far as the United States are interested therein.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-07">April 7, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: authorizing payment to be made for certain Muskets impressed into the Service of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 240</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing payment to be made for certain Muskets impressed into the Service of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-07">April 7, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to David Henley, agent of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$228 to be paid for muskets impressed for U.S.</p></sidenote>Edward Fox, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and twenty-eight dollars, it being the value of nineteen muskets, impressed into the service of the United <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said David Henley shall first give security to indemnify the United States against the claim of any other individual, for the value of said muskets.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-07">April 7, 1820</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of Walter Channing.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 240</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Walter Channing.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-11">April 11, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be repaid.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be repaid to Walter Channing, such sum or sums of money as were
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 43, 44, 49, 55. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/241">241</page>
paid into the treasury by the said Walter Channing, or by Gibbs and Channing, as, and for, duties upon saltpetre, imported into the United States in the year one thousand eight hundred and three.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-11">April 11, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: for the relief of certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported into Castine.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 241</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported into Castine.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-11">April 11, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be repaid, from the treasury, to the following persons, to wit: Jonathan<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be repaid on goods imported into Castine while in possession of the British forces.</p></sidenote> L. Stevens, Joseph Briant, Samuel Littlefield, Holbrook and Brooks, Doty Little, Rowell and Haskell, John Minot, Witherlee and Jarvis, John H. Jarvis, Caleb B. Hall, Ebenezer Noyes, Samuel Bartlett, John Bartlett, John Buck, Swazey and Folsom, John N. Swazey, Benson and Blodget, John Benson, Solomon Skinner, Eliphalet Parker, Henry Darling, Henry Rice, who made payment, or to their legal representatives, all sums which have been paid into the treasury, as, and for, duties upon goods imported into Castine, while in possession of the British forces, during the late war with Great Britain, the same not being, by law, subject to the payment thereof, upon which goods duties were also levied and paid to the British authorities, upon their importation into Castine: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That it shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Treasury, that the claimants above named were residents of Castine or Bucksport, or were purchasers from residents, of the goods on which the duties have been imposed.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-11">April 11, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of certain sufferers by fire, at Savannah, in Georgia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 241</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of certain sufferers by fire, at Savannah, in Georgia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-11">April 11, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the credit allowed by the existing laws upon the duties due and remaining unpaid to the United States, at the custom-house<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit for duties on merchandise destroyed by fire at Savannah, prolonged for four years.</p></sidenote> at Savannah, upon imported merchandise, which was destroyed by fire at Savannah, on the eleventh day of January last, and then belonging to the importers thereof, and not insured against fire, be, and the same is hereby, prolonged for four years, from the respective times when such duties may be payable: <proviso><i>Always provided,</i> That<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said bonds be renewed, with sufficient surety, to the satisfaction of the collector of the said district of Savannah.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-11">April 11, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of Elizabeth Braden.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 241</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-04-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elizabeth Braden.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-04-24">April 24, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Department of War be, and he is hereby, directed to issue, in the name of Elizabeth Braden, a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrant for bounty land to be issued.</p></sidenote> land warrant for the bounty land to which her son, George Braden, a soldier, who died of wounds received in the late war, would have been entitled had he lived.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-04-24">April 24, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of John Steele.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 241</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Steele.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-01">May 1, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, for the discharge of a judgment obtained against John Steele, collector of Philadelphia, on account of his refusal<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharge of a judgment against him as collector, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> to grant a clearance for the Spanish brig Los Dos Amigos, in which refusal the said collector acted under an instruction from the department of state, a sum, not exceeding three thousand three hundred dollars, be,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/242">242</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 56, 57, 58, 59, 60. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
and the same is hereby appropriated; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-01">May 1, 1820</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVI: confirming the proceedings of the inhabitants of the village of Cahokia, in the State of Illinois, in laying out a town on the commons of said village.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 242</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">confirming the proceedings of the inhabitants of the village of Cahokia, in the State of Illinois, in laying out a town on the commons of said village.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-01">May 1, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proceedings of the inhabitants of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceedings of inhabitants of Cahokia, in laying out Illinois city and distributing lots, confirmed.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1812, ch. 22.</p></sidenote>village of Cahokia, in the state of Illinois, by their agents, Jesse B. Thomas, John Hay, John Hays, Nicholas Jarrot, and Francis Turcotte, in laying out a town called Illinois city, on one of the tracts of land confirmed to them as a common, by an act of Congress, passed on the twentieth February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and the distribution made by the said agents, of the lots amongst the inhabitants of said village of Cahokia, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. B. Thomas and others authorized to convey the lots distributed by deed in fee simple.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said Jesse B. Thomas, John Hay, John Hays, Nicholas Jarrot, and Francis Turcotte, or any	 three of them, be, and they are hereby, authorized to convey, by deed, in fee simple, the lots that have heretofore been distributed as aforesaid, to those persons, or their legal representatives, to whom distribution as aforesaid was made.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-01">May 1, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVII: for the relief of John B. Regnier.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 242</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-02</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John B. Regnier.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-02">May 2, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John B. Regnier, of Ohio, be, and he hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a quarter section of land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>is, authorized to locate, in the Marietta district, any unappropriated quarter section of land which has been offered for sale by the United States; and, whenever the said Regnier shall have entered such quarter section with the register of the land office of the said district, it shall be the duty of the said register to give to him a certificate, describing the quarter section so entered; on the presentation of which to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent shall issue to the said Regnier, for the aforesaid quarter section of land.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-20">May 2, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: for the relief of Fielding Jones.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 242</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Fielding Jones.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-02">May 2, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Fielding Jones, out of any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse impressed.</p></sidenote>money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, eighty dollars, in full compensation for a horse impressed into the public service in the late war with Great Britain.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-20">May 2, 1820</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the benefit of Christopher Miller.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 242</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of Christopher Miller.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-02">May 2, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Christopher Miller, of Hardin county, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land without payment.</p></sidenote>state of Kentucky, be authorized to enter, without payment, at any land office of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, six hundred and forty acres of land, on any lands subject to entry at private sale; and, on return being made to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent shall issue as in other cases.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-02">May 2, 1820</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of Captain Stanton Sholes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 242</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Captain Stanton Sholes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-02">May 2, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 61, 62, 63, 64. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/243">243</page>
audit and settle, on the principles of equity, the account of Captain Stanton Sholes, late of the army of the United States, for any moneys disbursed by him whilst in the service of the United States, for public purposes.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-20">May 2, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of Joseph M. Skinner, administrator of George Skinner, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 243</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph M. Skinner, administrator of George Skinner, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be paid unto Joseph M. Skinner, administrator of the estate of George<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for a horse, &amp;c. impressed for use of U. S.</p></sidenote> Skinner, deceased, the sum of seventy-five dollars, for a wagon and other property, taken, by impressment, for the use of the United States; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXII: concerning the Banks of the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 243</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning the Banks of the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the charters of the several incorporated Banks in the District of Columbia, now paying specie, and during such<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charters of the banks in the district paying specie, &amp;c. continued until 1st June 1822.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charter of the Bank of Columbia limited.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> time only as such Banks respectively shall continue to pay specie, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, any thing in the said charters to the contrary notwithstanding; and the charter of the Bank of Columbia be, and the same is hereby declared to be, limited in its duration to the said first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall be of no force or effect to extend any charter aforesaid, till a majority in interest of the stockholders of the several Banks whose charters may be hereby extended, shall file their declarations, in writing, in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, assenting to, and accepting, the benefit of this act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of James Merrill.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 243</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Merrill.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be placed on the list of navy<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on navy pension list.</p></sidenote> pensioners, James Merrill, who, whilst engaged in the discharge of his duty, as an ordinary seaman, on board the United States’ ship Adams, in the month of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, was accidentally injured by falling from the gun-deck into the hold of the ship; which injury has disabled him from obtaining a subsistence by his labor. And, in placing the said James Merrill on the list of pensioners,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations provided by law to be observed.</p></sidenote> the Secretary of the Navy shall cause to be observed the regulations by law provided, in relation to persons authorized to be placed on the list of navy pensioners.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That this law shall be construed to take effect from the twenty-third day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Isaac Melchior, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 243</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Isaac Melchior, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond given by L. Jacoby and others to be cancelled.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized and required to cancel and annul a bond given by Leonard Jacoby, Henry Sheaff, and Mary Hassenclever, to the United States, bearing date the fourteenth day of December, Anno Domini one
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/244">244</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 65, 66, 67, 68. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
thousand eight hundred and three, in the penal sum of ten thousand two hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty cents, with a condition for indemnifying the United States against any claim that might be made on account of certain certificates issued in favor of the Baron d’Uttrick, then represented to have been lost or mislaid, or on account of the payment made therefor, to the representatives of said Isaac Melchior, deceased.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXV: for the relief of Jacob Konkopot, and others, of the Nation of Stockbridge Indians, residing in the Slate of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 244</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacob Konkopot, and others, of the Nation of Stockbridge Indians, residing in the Slate of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>authorized and directed to ascertain and settle, upon the principles of justice and equity, the claim of Jacob Konkopot, and others, of the Nation of Stockbridge Indians; and the amount, if any, found due to the said Indians, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That satisfactory proof be offered to the Secretary of War, of the actual service of such Indians on the Canadian frontier during the last war.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for the relief of William Coffin, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 245</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Coffin, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback allowed on whale oil exported.</p></sidenote>hereby is, authorized and directed to allow the drawback on so much of a quantity of whale and sea-elephant oil, imported into the United States by William Coffin, and others, in the brig Bonif, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, as shall appear to have been exported <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>from the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That it shall appear, to his satisfaction, that all the requisites of the existing laws respecting drawbacks have been complied with: And that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVII: for the relief of John Law and Jonathan Elliot, citizens of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 245</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Law and Jonathan Elliot, citizens of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time allowed to John Law and Jonathan<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed until 30th July 1821 to comply with building regulations.</p></sidenote> Elliot, (now purchasers and holders of a lot A, part of a reservation numbered ten, in the city of Washington,) for complying with the building regulations of the said city of Washington, be extended for and during the term of one year, from and after the thirtieth day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty; any thing contained in any law of Congress, or regulation made pursuant thereto, in anywise to the contrary notwithstanding.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-04">May 4, 1820</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of Elkanah Finney, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 244</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elkanah Finney, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-07">May 7, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector for the district of Plymouth, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of allowance under act of 29th July 1813, as if the vessel had returned to port.</p></sidenote>in the state of Massachusetts, be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Elkanah Finney and others, owners of a fishing vessel called the Juno, of forty-five seventy-three ninety-fifths tons, and the legal representatives of the persons composing the late crew of said vessel, the amount of the allowance to which said vessel would have been entitled had she returned into port, after completing the term required bylaw; to be distributed in the manner prescribed in the fifth section of the act, entitled<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 29, 1813, ch. 35.</p></sidenote> “An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 69, 70, 71, 72, 73. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/245">245</page>
fisheries,” passed on the twenty-ninth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-07">May 7, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIX: for the relief of Joseph Bruce.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 245</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Bruce.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for a horse lost in the public service.</p></sidenote> to Joseph Bruce, the sum of sixty-five dollars, in full for his claim against the United States, on account of a horse lost in the public service during the late war; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXX: for the relief of Daniel Converse and George Miller.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 245</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Converse and George Miller.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be paid to Daniel Converse one hundred and forty dollars, the value of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for horses taken for the public use.</p></sidenote> two horses taken from him for the use of the United States; and to George Miller thirty-five dollars, for one horse taken from him at the same time, for the use aforesaid; and that the said sums be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: for the relief of the widow of John Heaps, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 245</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the widow of John Heaps, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster General be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to the widow of John Heaps, late of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$500 to be paid her in ten semiannual instalments.</p></sidenote> the city of Baltimore, who, while employed as a carrier of the mail of the United States, and having the said mail in his custody, was beset by ruffians, and murdered; out of the money belonging to the United States arising from the postage of letters and packets, five hundred dollars, in ten equal semi-annual payments; the first payment to be made on the first day of June next.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXII: for the relief of Thomas C. Withers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 245</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas C. Withers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Thomas C. Withers the sum of three hundred and seventy dollars; the same being due for four horses,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for horses, &amp;c. impressed.</p></sidenote> a wagon, and gear, impressed into the service of the United States during the late war; and that the aforesaid sum be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That there shall be deducted from the aforesaid sum, whatever amount the claimant may have received for the use of his wagon, team, and gear, as aforesaid.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIII: for the relief of John H. Piatt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 245</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John H. Piatt.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1824, ch. 144.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to settle<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> the accounts of John H. Piatt, including his accounts for transportation, on just and equitable principles, giving all due weight and consideration to the settlements and allowances already made, and to the assurances and decisions of the war department: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> sum allowed under the said assurances, shall not exceed the amount now claimed by the United States, and for which suits have been commenced against the said John H. Piatt.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIV: for the relief of John McGrew, Richard Cravat, Hardy Perry, and Beley Cheney.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 246</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/246">246</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 74, 76, 77. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John McGrew, Richard Cravat, Hardy Perry, and Beley Cheney.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John McGrew, Richard Cravat, Hardy Perry, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confirmed in their claims to land in Alabama.</p></sidenote>and Beley Cheney, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their respective claims to land lying on the east side of the Tombigbee river, in the state of Alabama, founded on Spanish warrants of survey, issued prior to the twenty-seventh day of October, in the year one thousand <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>seven hundred and ninety-five: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said claimants shall prove, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the land office within whose district the said lands are situated, that they were residents of the Mississippi territory on the day aforesaid; and that, prior to that period, the conditions of said warrants of survey were performed by them.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register and receiver to receive and record the evidence, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the register and receiver aforesaid, are hereby required to receive and record the evidence which may be offered in support of the claims enumerated in the first section of this act; and if it shall appear that the said claimants were residents of the late Mississippi territory, or had complied with the conditions of their warrants of survey, on the day and year in the foregoing section specified, it shall be the duty of the said register and receiver to issue to the said claimants certificates of confirmation, for the quantity of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>land mentioned in the said warrants of survey: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> No certificate shall be for a larger quantity than six hundred and forty acres:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That the said lands have not been sold by the United States; in which case, the register and receiver shall make a special report of the fact, with all the evidence thereto appertaining, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, who shall present the same to Congress at their next session, for their decision thereon.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: for the relief of Beck and Harvey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 246</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Beck and Harvey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be refunded and paid to Beck and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote>Harvey, of Philadelphia, the sum of three thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars and nine cents; the said sum of money having been paid, by the persons above-mentioned, to the collector of Philadelphia, on the importation into the United States of sundry copper bottoms, and bolts, or bars, the same not being, by law, subject to the payment of duties.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Willis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 246</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Willis.</i><ref class="footnoteRef" idref="fn000246">(<i>a</i>)</ref><footnote id="fn000246"><num>(<i>a</i>)</num> The act of May 8, 1820, chap. 77, for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Willis, did not authorize them to enter land surveyed and laid off for the town of Claiborne, in the state of Alabama. Choutard <i>v</i>. Pope, 12 Wheat. 586, 6 Cond. Rep. 655.</footnote></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Dec. 29, 1820, ch. 4.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Henry Willis <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land, in lieu of two other tracts claimed by them.</p></sidenote>be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, without payment, in lieu of two tracts of land, claimed by them, on the waters of Bayou Sarah, and which have been sold by the United States, in any land office in the states of Mississippi or Alabama, and in such quantities, agreeably to the surveys made by the United States, as the claimants may desire, a quantity not exceeding thirteen hundred arpens; for which the register or registers of the land offices aforesaid, shall issue the necessary certificate or certificates, on return of which, to the General Land
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 78, 79, 80, 81. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/247">247</page>
Office, a patent or patents shall issue in favor of said legal representatives.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of Stephen Barter, late paymaster of the third regiment of New York volunteers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 247</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Stephen Barter, late paymaster of the third regiment of New York volunteers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> to settle the accounts of Stephen Baxter, late paymaster of the third regiment of New York volunteers, upon the principles of justice and equity; and to allow him such credits as may appear due for moneys advanced to the troops in the service of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the allowance as aforesaid shall not exceed the amount advanced to him by the government of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIX: for the relief of Charles S. Jones, and Richard Buckner, jun., administrators of William Jones.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 247</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles S. Jones, and Richard Buckner, jun., administrators of William Jones.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Charles S. Jones and Richard Buckner,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from liability for stamps lost.</p></sidenote> jun., administrators of William Jones, late collector of the direct tax for the twenty-third district of Virginia, be, and they are hereby, released and discharged from any liability for the sum of seven hundred and forty-seven dollars and forty-five cents; this sum being for stamps for which the estate of William Jones, deceased, stands charged on the books of the commissioner of the revenue, which stamps were lost during the absence and detention of the said William Jones from home, occasioned by an accident that deprived him of his life.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: for the relief of Daniel Bickley and Catharine Clark, administratrix of John Clark, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 247</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Bickley and Catharine Clark, administratrix of John Clark, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Daniel Bickley and to Catherine Clark, administratrix of John Clark, deceased, out of any<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of a bill of exchange drawn by the U.S minister in France, in favor of Bickley and Clark.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, being the amount in value of a bill of exchange for twelve thousand francs, drawn the twenty-ninth day of May, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and five, by the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in France, upon the treasury of the United States, in favor of Bickley and Clark, and recorded in the office of the first auditor of the treasury, number seventy: <proviso><i>Provided, always,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That, before the said payment shall be made as aforesaid, security be given, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to indemnify the United States against any claim that may be made on account of the said bill of exchange.</proviso></content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the benefit of the Columbian Institute, established for the promotion of Arts and Sciences in the city of Washington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 247</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of the Columbian Institute, established for the promotion of Arts and Sciences in the city of Washington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be granted, during the pleasure of Congress, to the Columbian Institute for the promotion of Arts and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The use of not exceeding five acres of ground granted to the Columbian Institute.</p></sidenote> Sciences, the use and improvement of a tract of public land in the city of Washington, not exceeding five acres, to be located under the direction of the President of the United States, for the purpose of enabling the said Columbian Institute to effect the object of their incorporation: <i>Provided,</i> That whenever the said Institute shall be dissolved, or cease<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to exist, or to employ the said tract of land for the purposes aforesaid,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/248">248</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 82, 83, 90, 91. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
all right, title, and interest, hereby granted to the same, shall revert to, and vest in, the United States, as completely as if such grant had never been made.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of John D. Carter.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 248</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John D. Carter.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John D. Carter, out of any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$5987.90 to be paid to him, being amount of U. S. portion of prize goods captured in the Mandarin, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated by law, the sum of five thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars and ninety cents, being that part of the proceeds of certain goods and merchandise, belonging to the said John D. Carter, captured on board the ship Mandarin, and brought into the port of Philadelphia, and there condemned, as prize of war, which were paid into the treasury of the United States, as the United States’ portion of said prize.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: for the relief of the heirs of Abijah Hunt and William Gordon Forman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 248</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of Abijah Hunt and William Gordon Forman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs of Abijah Hunt and William Gordon<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confirmed in their claim to a tract of land in Mississippi.</p></sidenote> Forman be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to fifteen hundred arpens of land, situated on the Mississippi river, near the mouth of Cole’s creek, in the state of Mississippi, being the same land which was conveyed to Abijah Hunt and William Gordon Forman, on the thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and two, by Charles Norwood, executor of the last will and testament of John Turnbull: <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided,</i> Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the claim of any other person or persons to the said land, or any part thereof, derived either from the United States or from any other source whatsoever.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-08">May 8, 1820</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XC: for the relief of General James Wilkinson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 248</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of General James Wilkinson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-11">May 11, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of a judgment against him to be discharged.</p></sidenote> department settle and discharge the amount of a judgment, with interest, if any shall have accrued, and cost, which General John Adair, lately, in the superior court of Mississippi, recovered of General James Wilkinson, for false imprisonment, to the person who may have paid off said judgment; or, if undischarged, to the person entitled thereto.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a sum, not exceeding three thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of said expenses and damages.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-11">May 11, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCI: for the relief of Martha Flood.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 248</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Martha Flood.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-11">May 11, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$122.04 to be paid to her, as administratrix, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Martha Flood, administratrix of William Flood, late of Buckingham county, in the state of Virginia, the sum of one hundred and twenty-two dollars and four cents, being the amount paid by the said William Flood for the duty charged on a boiler used for the boiling of water only, which boiler was not legally subject to duty.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-11">May 11, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCV: for the relief of Angus O. Fraser and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 249</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 95, 96, 98, 100. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/249">249</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Angus O. Fraser and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-11">May 11, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to officers of revenue cutter Louisiana, on account of seizure of British vessel Ardent, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to Angus O. Fraser and others, who, at the time of the seizure of the British vessel Ardent, in or near the river Mississippi, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, by the United States’ revenue cutter Louisiana, were officers of the said cutter, or to their legal representatives, the sum of five thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty-two cents, in such proportions as, by law, they are severally entitled to; being one half of the amount paid into the treasury, as the United States’ moiety of the net proceeds of the said vessel and cargo, condemned in the district court of the United States for the district of New Orleans; and to which half the said officers were entitled under the provisions of the “Act to prohibit<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 29.</p></sidenote> the importation of certain goods, wares, or merchandise,” passed on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, to be distributed among the said officers, or their legal representatives, as provided by the said act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-11">May 11, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVI: for the relief of Samuel B. Beall.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 249</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel B. Beall.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-11">May 11, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of two final settlement certificates, which were lost, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> pay to Samuel B. Beall, the amount of two final settlement certificates, issued to the said Samuel B. Beall on the first of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, for his services as a lieutenant in the army of the United States, during the revolutionary war, and numbered eighty-nine thousand four hundred and fifty-six, and eighty-nine thousand four hundred and fifty-seven, together with interest on the said certificates, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the times they bore interest, respectively; which said certificates were lost by the said Samuel B. Beall, and remain yet outstanding and unpaid: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, before payment is made as aforesaid, the said Samuel<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> B. Beall shall give bond to the United States, to be approved of by the Secretary of the Treasury, to refund the money, should the said certificates hereafter be presented for payment.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sums to be paid, in pursuance<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> of the first section of this act, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-11">May 11, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVIII: giving the right of pre-emption to James Shields.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 249</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">giving the right of pre-emption to James Shields.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-12">May 12, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James Shields be, and he is hereby, entitled to a preference in becoming the purchaser, at private sale, of fractional<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to a preference in the purchase of a fractional section, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> section numbered eighteen, in township numbered six, north of range numbered six, east of the second principal meridian, within the limits of the Jeffersonville district; at the same price, and on the same terms and conditions, as are provided by law for the other public lands in the said district at private sale.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-12">May 12, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. C: for the relief of Susannah Stewart.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>C</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 249</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>C.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Susannah Stewart.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-13">May 13, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized and required, upon the surrender of a certificate given at the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/250">250</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 105, 106, 114. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sec. of State authorized, on surrender of certificate, &amp;c., to deliver the papers mentioned therein.</p></sidenote>department of state, on the thirtieth December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and signed by S. Pleasonton, acknowledging the deposit of certain papers, therein specified, by Charles J. Ingersoll, attorney in fact of Susannah Stewart, to deliver to the said Susannah Stewart, or to her agent, duly empowered, the several papers in the said certificate mentioned and contained.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-13">May 13, 1820</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of James Leander Cathcart.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 250</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Leander Cathcart.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers in the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the account of James Leander Cathcart, and to allow his claim for one half of a bill of exchange drawn by John Robertson, master of the brig Independent, on the Secretary of State of the United States, paid by him, and charged to said James Leander Cathcart; also, for one thousand dollars paid by said Cathcart, for the support of American captives at Algiers; and two thousand dollars paid by him for his ransom from Algerine captivity; and five thousand six hundred dollars, for twentyeight months’ service, between October, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, and July, seventeen hundred ninety-seven, in originating and promoting the negotiation with Algiers, for the liberation of American captives, the conclusion of a treaty of peace, and the procuring in the United States the presents afterwards forwarded to Algiers. And that the said claims and services be paid to said Cathcart, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law; the said Cathcart receiving the same in full satisfaction of all his claims against the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CVI: authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and Richard O’Brien, late American Consul at Algiers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1820-05-15</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and Richard O’Brien, late American Consul at Algiers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1822, ch. 59.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and amount due to be paid.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the accounts subsisting between the United States and Richard O’Brien, late American consul at Algiers, under the instruction and direction of the Secretary of State, and that the amount due upon such settlement to said Richard O’Brien be paid out of any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall not be construed to authorize the allowance of any claim, except such as might have been settled at the department but for the loss of vouchers; and that no allowance shall be made for any interest of the said Richard O’Brien in the cargo of the polacre Vickelage, captured on her passage from Algiers to the United States.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: authorizing the Secretary of State to issue Letters Patent to Henry Burdin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 250</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-15</dc:date>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the Secretary of State to issue Letters Patent to Henry Burdin.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to be issued for an improved plough.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 17, 1800, ch. 25.</p></sidenote>authorized and required to issue Letters Patent to Henry Burdin, for his improvement in the construction of a plough, upon his complying with the directions of the act, entitled “An act to promote the progress of the useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose,” and an act, entitled “An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees,” except so far as the said acts, or any part or parts of them,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 115, 116, 120. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/251">251</page>
require a residence of two years within the United States, in like manner, in all respects, as if the said Henry Burdin had resided two years within the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXV: for the relief of Richard S. Hackley.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 251</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-15</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard S. Hackley.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Richard S. Hackley, or to his agent or attorney, duly authorized, out of any money in the treasury,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$6213.74 to be paid him, being his expenses in. the case of the ship Vigilant.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-four cents; being the amount of expenses incurred and paid by him, in and about the detention of the ship Vigilant, seized by him at Cadiz, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, under the orders of George W. Erwing, Esquire, then Minister of the United States in Spain.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of Ambrose Vasse.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 251</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-15</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ambrose Vasse.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Ambrose Vasse, of the town of Alexandria,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Award to him in the case of the ship Olive Branch.</p></sidenote> in the District of Columbia, the sum of thirteen thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-three cents; being the sum awarded to be paid him for the cargo of the ship Olive Branch, by the Board of Commissioners, under the seventh article of the treaty of the twentieth of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, between the United States and Great Britain: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> There is as<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> much money remaining of the fund which, by law, was appropriated for the payment of the awards under the said seventh article of the said treaty or to pay such part thereof, as the fund aforesaid, remaining in the treasury, will enable.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Conrad Laub, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 251</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-15</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Conrad Laub, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the person authorized to transact the business of the late Supervisor of the Revenue in the state of Pennsylvania,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of C. Laub to be revised and settled.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to revise the accounts of Conrad Laub, deceased, late a collector of internal duties in the state aforesaid, and to audit and settle the same, admitting, on sufficient evidence, all legal or equitable credits not heretofore allowed or rejected by Congress.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That if the administrator of the said Conrad Laub, deceased, shall be dissatisfied with the settlement and decision of the person authorized to transact the business of the supervisor aforesaid, he may, within three months after such decision, appeal from the same upon such items in the account as he shall specially designate, stating, in writing, his objections to the decision on the same, to the accounting officers of the treasury department; and, upon such appeal being taken and presented to the treasury department within the time aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the accounting officers of that department to audit and settle the same, according to the rules prescribed by this act, and in such manner as the justice of the case may require.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That if, upon the settlement of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further credits to be allowed, if, on settlement, he be entitled.</p></sidenote> accounts as aforesaid, of the said Conrad Laub, deceased, it shall appear that he is entitled to further credits than have heretofore been received, it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to allow the same, and credit his account therewith.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/252">252</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 124, 128, 129. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance made not to exceed the balance due, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the legal and equitable allowance so to be made, shall not exceed the balance which is due to the United States; nor shall any allowance, so ascertained, be passed to his credit, unless the administrator shall forthwith pay such remaining balance, if any, as shall, upon said settlement, be found to be due and owing from the said Conrad Laub.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXIV: for the relief of Thomas Leiper.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 252</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Leiper.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Thomas Leiper the specie <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the value of six loan office certificates, with interest.</p></sidenote>value of four Loan Office Certificates, numbered two thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand nine hundred and four, two thousand nine hundred and five, two thousand nine hundred and six, and issued by the Commissioner of Loans for the state of Pennsylvania, in the name of Thomas Leiper, on the twenty-seventh day of February, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, for one thousand dollars each; and also the specie value of two Loan Office Certificates, numbered two thousand nine hundred and sixty, and two thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, issued by the Commissioner of Loans for the state of Pennsylvania, on the second day of March, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, for one thousand dollars each; which certificates appear to be outstanding on the books of the treasury; with interest, at six per centum, annually; out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated:<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Thomas Leiper shall first execute and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond of indemnity, in such sum, and with such security, as shall be satisfactory to the said Comptroller.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXVIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Tench Francis, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 252</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Tench Francis, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="smallCaps"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the accounts of Tench Francis, deceased, late purveyor of public supplies, in such manner and upon such terms, as may appear just and reasonable<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the sum to be credited to said Francis, after charging him with all payments made to any person or persons for his use, shall not exceed the sum standing to his debit in the books of the treasury.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXIX: for the relief of Joshua Newsom, Peter Crook, and James Rabb.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 252</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joshua Newsom, Peter Crook, and James Rabb.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for horses impressed to be settled.</p></sidenote>department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claims of Joshua Newsom and of Peter Crook, for two horses each, and of James Rabb, for seven horses, alleged to have been impressed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso,</p></sidenote>into the public service in the Seminole war: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That such impressment, and the value of said horses when impressed, be satisfactorily proved; that said horses were not returned to their owners; and that any compensation which may have been allowed and paid for the service of said horses, after the time of their impressment, be deducted.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="smallCaps"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when ascertained as aforesaid, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXX: for the relief of Thomas Hunter.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 253</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 130, 138. 1820.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/253">253</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Hunter.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled, and amount paid to S. Johnson.</p></sidenote> department audit and settle the claim of Thomas Hunter, late a soldier in the nineteenth regiment of United States infantry, for retained bounty, pay, and travelling allowances, due him at the time of his honourable discharge; and to pay the amount due him to Sterling Johnson, his attorney in fact, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Sterling Johnson shall make and deliver,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond, in such sum, and with such surety, as the said Comptroller may direct, to secure the United States against a repayment of the sum which may be allowed and paid as aforesaid.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVIII: for the relief of Richard Smyth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 253</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-05-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard Smyth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized, in the settlement of the account of Richard Smyth,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be credited with amount of moneys of which he was robbed in April 1818.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> late collector of direct taxes and internal revenue, for the territory of Michigan, to credit the said Smyth with the amount of public moneys of which he was robbed in the month of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the amount so credited to him shall not exceed the balance now standing against him on the books of the treasury.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-05-15">May 15, 1820</date>.
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<congress>16</congress>
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<dc:date>1821</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the thirteenth day of November,</i> 1820, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1821.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Monroe</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Daniel D. Tompkins</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">John Gaillard</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, during the whole session; <inline class="smallCaps">John W. Taylor</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: to amend the act, entitled, “An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Willis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 254</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-12-29</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to amend the act, entitled, “An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Willis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-12-29">Dec. 29, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the act, entitled “An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Willis,” passed on the eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, be so construed as to except from location all town lots and lands now or hereafter reserved by the United States, or which may have been, or may be, appropriated by Congress for the use of any state, or for any other purpose, and that the location be made within two years from the passage of this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-12-29">December 29, 1820</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of Elias Parks.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 254</citableAs>
<dc:date>1820-12-29</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elias Parks.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1820-12-29">Dec. 29, 1820</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for goods destroyed in 1814 to be paid.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Elias Parks, of Oswego, in the state of New York, the amount of his claim against the United States, for goods destroyed by the British, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, in consequence of the boat in which said goods had been placed being impressed, by military authority, into the service of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That no allowance shall be made to the said Elias Parks for the loss of his account books: And, before he shall be entitled to the payment hereby directed to be made, he shall produce, to the accounting<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Satisfactory proof that the goods were in the boat, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> officers, satisfactory proof that the goods, for the loss of which he claims, were in the boat, and that the price at which they are charged is just and reasonable.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of the aforesaid claim, when ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1820-12-29">December 29, 1820</date>.
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/254" renderingPosition="bottom">254</page>
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Perley Keyes and Jason Fairbanks.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 255</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-01-11</dc:date>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 7, 9, 10. 1821.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/255">255</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Perley Keyes and Jason Fairbanks.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-01-11">Jan. 11, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cancel and give up a certain<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond in which they are sureties of Samuel Whittlesey to be cancelled.</p></sidenote> bond, heretofore executed to the United States by one Samuel Whittlesey, late a paymaster of militia in the state of New York, and the said Perley Keyes and Jason Fairbanks, as sureties of the said Whittlesey: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Keyes and Fairbanks shall first execute another bond to the said United States, with sufficient sureties, to be approved<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of by the said Secretary of the Treasury, for what shall appear to be due to the said United States, payable, with interest, in two years from the passing of this act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-01-11">January 11, 1821</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. IX: for the relief of Margaret Perry.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 255</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-01-17</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Margaret Perry.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-01-17">Jan. 17, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Department of War be, and he is hereby, directed to issue to Margaret Perry, a land warrant<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrant for bounty land to be issued to her.</p></sidenote> for the bounty land to which her son, William Valiant, a soldier, who died in the service of the United States, would have been entitled had he lived.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-01-17">January 17, 1821</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. X: to incorporate the Columbian College in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 255</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-02-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the Columbian College in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-02-09">Feb. 9, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be erected, and hereby is erected and established, in the District of Columbia, a college, for the sole and exclusive<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Object of the college.</p></sidenote> purpose of educating youth in the English, learned, and foreign languages, the liberal arts, sciences, and literature; the style and title of which shall be, and hereby is declared to be, “The Columbian College in the District of Columbia.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said college shall be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government.</p></sidenote> under the management, direction, and government of a number of trustees, not exceeding thirty-one, to be elected triennially, by the contributors<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Triennial elections.</p></sidenote> to the said college, qualified to vote, in such manner, and under such limitations and restrictions, as may be provided by the ordinances of the college, on the first Monday in May; and that the first trustees of the said college shall consist of the following persons, viz: Obadiah B. Brown, Luther Rice, Enoch Reynolds, Josiah Meigs, Spencer H. Cone, Daniel Brown, Return J. Meigs, Joseph Gibson, Joseph Cone, Thomas Corcoran, Burgis Allison, Thomas Sewall, and Joseph Thaw:<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees a body politic.</p></sidenote> which said trustees, and their successors, shall forever hereafter be, and they are hereby declared to be, one body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, in deed and in law, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, by the name, style, and title of “The Columbian College<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation may hold property.</p></sidenote> in the District of Columbia;” by which name and title, they, the said trustees, and their successors, shall be competent and capable, at law and in equity, to take to themselves and their successors, for the use of the said college, any estate, in any messuage, lauds, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, moneys, and other effects, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, will, devise, or bequest, of any person or persons whatsoever: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The same do not exceed, in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> whole, the yearly value of twenty-five thousand dollars; and the same messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and estate, real and personal, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, assure, demise, and to farm let, and place out on interest, for the use of the said college, in such manner as to them, or at least nine of them, shall seem most beneficial to
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/256">256</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 10. 1821.</centerRunningHead>
the institution, and to receive the rents, issues, and profits, income and interest, of the same, and to apply the same to the proper use and benefit of the said college: and by the same name to sue, commence, prosecute, and defend, implead and be impleaded, in any courts of law and equity, and in all manner of suits and actions whatsoever, and generally, by and in the same name, to do and transact all and every the business touching or concerning the premises.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Common seal.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said trustees shall cause to be made for their use one common seal, with such devices and inscriptions thereon as they shall think proper, under and by which all deeds, diplomas, certificates, and acts of the said college, shall pass and be authenticated; and the same seal, at their pleasure, to break, and devise a new one.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees, when and where to meet.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said trustees, or five of them at least, shall meet at the college, on College Hill, in the said District of Columbia, on the first Monday in March next, for the purpose of concerting and agreeing to such business as, in consequence of this act, shall be proper to be laid before them at the commencement of the work they have undertaken, and shall have power to adjourn from time to time, as they shall see cause, to any other times or places, for the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stated meetings.</p></sidenote>purpose of perfecting the same. That there shall be a stated meeting of the said trustees held twice in every year at least, at such place and time as the said trustees, or a quorum thereof, shall appoint, of which public notice shall be given, after the first meeting, at least twenty days before [the] time of such intended meeting, whenever the president, to be appointed by them, shall deem the business of the institution to require the same, and give due notice thereof, which he is hereby authorized to do; and if, at such stated or occasional meetings, five of the said trustees shall not be present, those of them who shall be present, shall have power to adjourn the meeting to any other day, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if the whole number of trustees for the time being were present; but, if five or more of the said trustees shall meet at the said appointed times, or at any other time of adjournment,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five trustees a board or quorum for business.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of the board of trustees.</p></sidenote> then such five of the said trustees shall be a board or quorum, and a majority of the votes of them shall be capable of doing and transacting all the business and concerns of the said college not otherwise provided for by this act; and particularly of making and enacting ordinances for the government of the said college; of electing and appointing the president, professors, and tutors, for the said college; of agreeing with them for their salaries and stipends, and removing them for misconduct, or breach of the laws of the institution; of appointing committees of their own body to carry into execution all and every the resolutions of the board; of appointing a president, treasurer, secretary, stewards, managers, and other necessary and customary officers, for taking care of the estate and managing the concerns of the corporation; and, generally, a majority of voices of the board, or quorum of the said trustees, consisting of five persons at least, at any semi-annual, occasional, or adjourned meeting, after notice given as aforesaid, shall determine all matters and things (although the same be not herein particularly mentioned) which shall occasionally arise, and be incidentally <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>necessary to be determined and transacted by the said trustees: <proviso><i>Provided always,</i> That no ordinances shall be of force which shall be repugnant to this charter, or to the laws of the District of Columbia.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The president, professors and tutors cannot be trustees.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the head or chief master for the said college shall be called and styled “The President,” and the masters thereof shall be called “Professors and Tutors;” but neither president, professors, or tutors, while they remain such, shall ever be capable of the office of trustee.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the president, professors,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 10. 1821.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/257">257</page>
and tutors, or a majority of them, shall be called and styled “The<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President, professors, &amp;c. to be called the faculty.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of the faculty.</p></sidenote> Faculty of the College,” which faculty shall have the power of enforcing the rules and regulations adopted by the trustees for the government of the pupils, by rewarding or censuring them, and, finally, by suspending such of them as, after repeated admonitions, shall continue disobedient and refractory, until a determination of a quorum of the trustees can be had; and of granting and confirming, by and with the approbation and consent of a board of the trustees, signified by their mandamus, such degrees in the liberal arts and sciences, to such pupils of the institution, or others, who, by their proficiency in learning, or other meritorious distinction, they shall think entitled to them, as are usually granted and conferred in colleges; and to grant, to such graduates, diplomas or certificates, under their common seal, and signed by the faculty, to authenticate and perpetuate the memory of such graduation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That persons of every religious<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">No preference or exclusion on account of religious sentiments.</p></sidenote> denomination shall be capable of being elected trustees; nor shall any person, either as president, professor, tutor, or pupil, be refused admittance into said college, or denied any of the privileges, immunities, or advantages, thereof, for or on account of his sentiments in matters of religion.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That no misnomer of the said corporation<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">No misnomer to defeat or annul any gift, &amp;c.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise, or bequest, to or from the said corporation: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The intent of the parties shall sufficiently appear upon the face of the gift, grant, will, or other writing, whereby any estate or interest was intended to pass to or from the said corporation.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 9. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the constitution of the said<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">This constitution to remain inviolate, forever.</p></sidenote> college, herein and hereby declared and established, shall be, and remain, the inviolate constitution of the said college forever; and the same shall not be altered, or alterable, by any ordinance or law of the said trustees: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That it may be lawful for the Congress of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> United States to revoke and repeal this act, at any and at all times whenever they shall think fit so to do.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 10. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall be the duty of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of trustees to keep a journal.</p></sidenote> said board of trustees to keep a regular book or journal, in which shall be entered, under their direction, besides an account of all their ordinary acts and proceedings, all the by-laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations, which may be adopted by the said board, for their own government, and for the government of the institution; also, a schedule of all the property and effects, real, personal, or mixed, which shall or may be vested in the said trustees, for the use of the said college, by virtue of any gift, grant, bargain, sale, will, or otherwise, together with annual statements concerning the accounts and finances of the institution. That it shall, moreover, be the duty of the said trustees, to cause to be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contributors qualified to vote for trustees, to be enrolled in the journal.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Journal subject to the inspection of the Attorney-General.</p></sidenote> enrolled, in the said book or journal, the names of all the contributors to the institution qualified to vote for trustees, with their respective places of residence; and the said book or journal, shall, at all times, be open to the inspection or examination of the Attorney General of the United States; and, when required by either house of Congress, it shall be the duty of the said trustees to furnish any information respecting their own conduct, the state of the institution, and of its finances, which shall or may be so required.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 11. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That in case any vacancy or<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees may fill vacancies in the board.</p></sidenote> vacancies shall happen in the board of trustees aforesaid, by death, inability, resignation, or otherwise, at any time between the stated or triennial elections, that then it shall and may be lawful for the other trustees, or any five of them, to proceed, at any subsequent meeting after the happening of such vacancy or vacancies, to choose, by ballot, any suitable person or persons to fill the same.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/258">258</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 19, 20, 21, 22. 1821.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 12. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights, &amp;c. under this act, forfeited by a misapplication of the funds.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the employment or application of the funds or income of the said corporation, or any part thereof, for any purpose or object other than those expressed and defined in the first section of this act, or the investment thereof in any other mode than is described and provided in the second section thereof, shall be deemed and taken to be a forfeiture of all the rights and immunities derived from this act, and the same shall, thenceforth, cease, and become null and void.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-02-09">February 9, 1821</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of James Brady.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 258</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-02</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Brady.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate of military land warrant No. 577, to be issued.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote>James Brady a duplicate of military land warrant number five hundred and seventy-seven, for two hundred acres, which, on the twenty-eighth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, issued to him as assignee of John Barclay, a lieutenant of the Pennsylvania line in the revolutionary war, and has been lost, which duplicate may be located on any vacant parts of the fifty quarter townships, and fractional quarter townships, reserved by law for the holders of military warrants, in lieu and satisfaction of said warrant number five hundred and seventy-seven, which is hereby declared to be null, void, and of none effect.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of Rosalie P. Deslonde.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 258</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-02</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Rosalie P. Deslonde.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Rosalie P. Deslonde, or <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for damages done to her houses, &amp;c., by U. S. troops.</p></sidenote>her legal representatives, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars, in full for damages done to her houses and plantation, by the troops of the United States, near New Orleans, during the invasion of that place by the British, in the years one thousand eight hundred and fourteen and fifteen.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of Samuel Tucker, late a Captain in the Navy of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 258</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Tucker, late a Captain in the Navy of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on the list of invalid pensioners.</p></sidenote>is, directed to place upon the navy list of invalid pensioners of the United States, Samuel Tucker, late a captain in the navy of the United States, who is unable, by reason of age, to support himself by labor; and who, having, by his bravery and long and faithful services, merited the gratitude of his country, shall be entitled to receive a pension of twenty dollars a month, to commence from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, agreeably to the provisions contained<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 23, 1800, ch. 33.</p></sidenote> in the act, entitled “An act for the better government of the navy of the United States.”</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of Nicholas Jarrott.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 258</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nicholas Jarrott.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Nicholas Jarrott, the legal representative of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter 400 acres within the Vandalia district.</p></sidenote>Francois Arcoit, or the legal representative of him, the said Nicholas, be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate four hundred acres, consisting of one entire half section, and one half quarter section, adjoining thereto, and in the same section, of any of the public land within the Vandalia district, established for the sale of the public lands in the state of Illinois, which may be already surveyed, and which, having been offered for sale previous to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 23, 24, 26, 27, 28. 1821.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/259">259</page>
and twenty-one, shall remain unsold; and in payment therefor the said Nicholas Jarrott, or his legal representative, shall be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A surrender of certificate of confirmation, &amp;c., will be received in payment.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 61.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> authorized to surrender his certificate of confirmation, as the legal representative of the said Francois Arcoit, for four hundred acres of land, in the said state, which was confirmed by act of Congress, bearing date the sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The same be not located on town sites and lots, or lands reserved by the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further,</i> That the said location be made before the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: for the relief of John Rodriguez.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 259</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Rodriguez.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Rodriguez, or his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for injuries to his property by U. S. troops.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of eighteen hundred and fifty-seven dollars, in full for the injuries sustained by him, in consequence of his plantation and buildings having been occupied by the troops of the United States, during the invasion of New Orleans by the British, in the years eighteen hundred and fourteen—fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of Francis B. Languille.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 259</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Francis B. Languille.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Francis B. Languille, or to his legal representatives, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for injuries to his buildings by U. S. troops.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, in full for injuries sustained by him, in consequence of the occupation of his buildings by the troops of the United States, in the winter of eighteen hundred and fourteen—fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: for the relief of Alexander Milne.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 259</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Milne.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Alexander Milne, or his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for losses sustained from U. S. troops.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, in full for the losses sustained by him in the destruction or injury of his building, and other property, by the troops of the United States, during the invasion of New Orleans by the British, in the years eighteen hundred and fourteen—fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Lewis H. Guerlain.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 259</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lewis H. Guerlain.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Lewis H. Guerlain, or his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for injuries to his property by U.S. troops.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of four hundred and twenty dollars, in full for injuries sustained by him, in consequence of his plantation and buildings having been occupied by the troops of the United States, during the invasion of New Orleans by the British, in the years eighteen hundred and fourteen—fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of Joseph McNiel.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 259</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph McNiel.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Joseph NcNiel, or his legal<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for injuries sustain-</p></sidenote> representative, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/260">260</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29, 30, 31. 1821.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">ed during the invasion of New Orleans by the British.</p></sidenote>priated, the sum of seven hundred dollars, in full for his claim for injuries sustained during the invasion of New Orleans by the British, in the years eighteen hundred and fourteen—fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of Bartholomew Duverge.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 260</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Bartholomew Duverge.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Bartholomew Duverge, or <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for losses sustained from U. S. troops.</p></sidenote>to his legal representatives, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand one hundred dollars, in full for injuries and losses sustained by him, in consequence of the use and destruction of his property, by the troops of the United States, during the invasion of New Orleans, in the winter of eighteen hundred and fourteen—fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of Pierre Dennis De La Ronde.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 260</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>16</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Pierre Dennis De La Ronde.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Pierre Dennis De La Ronde, or his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for injury sustained from U. S. troops.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of five thousand seven hundred seventy dollars and fifty cents, in full for the injury sustained by him, in consequence of his plantation and buildings having been occupied by the troops of the United States, from the twenty-third to the twenty-eighth of December, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXI: for the relief of the family of the late Oliver Hazard, Perry, Esquire.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 260</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the family of the late Oliver Hazard, Perry, Esquire.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, from and after the twenty-third day of August,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain sums settled, by way of annuity, upon the persons named.</p></sidenote> in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the following sums be, and the same hereby are, settled, by way of annuity, payable, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, half yearly, at the treasury of the United States, or at the loan office at Providence, at the option of the annuitants, on the widow and children <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">On the widow of the late O. H. Perry, $400 per annum during her life.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">C. G. Perry.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">O. H. Perry.</p></sidenote>of the late Oliver Hazard Perry, Esquire, of the United States’ navy; that is to say: On Elizabeth Perry, dowager of the aforesaid Oliver Hazard Perry, four hundred dollars during her natural life: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said annuity shall cease and determine on the determination of her widowhood: on Christopher Grant Perry, his eldest son, one hundred and fifty dollars: on Oliver Hazard Perry, his second son, one <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">C. R. Perry.</p></sidenote>hundred and fifty dollars: and on Christopher Raymond Perry, his third son, one hundred and fifty dollars: until the said Christopher Grant, Oliver Hazard, and Christopher Raymond, shall arrive at full age of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Margaret Perry.</p></sidenote>twenty-one years respectively: and on Margaret Perry, only daughter, and youngest child, of the said Oliver Hazard Perry, deceased, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, until she shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years, aforesaid:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, in case the said Margaret shall have contracted any marriage on or before she shall reach the age of twenty-one years, aforesaid, then the said pension or annuity shall cease and determine on the day whereon the said marriage shall have been contracted, as aforesaid:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided always,</i> That in case the said Margaret shall not have contracted any marriage on that day, or prior thereto, then the said pension or allowance shall continue to be paid until the marriage or natural demise of the said Margaret:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Any child dying before the time specified, his annuity ceases.</p></sidenote> That in case any of the said children of the said Oliver Hazard Perry, deceased, shall die under lawful age as aforesaid, then, and in that case, the pension or annuity granted by this act, shall, in such case, cease and determine, in respect to such child, so deceasing.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-02">March 2, 1821</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of General Robert Swartwout.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 261</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-03</dc:date>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55, 56, 57, 58, 59. 1821.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/261">261</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of General Robert Swartwout.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to General Robert Swartwout, out of any<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid amount of judgment and costs against him for a boat impressed in 1813.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the amount of a judgment and costs obtained against him in the Supreme Court of the state of New York, for the loss of a boat called the Night Hawk, impressed by him into the service of the United States, in the month of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, by order of the commanding general, and which boat was destroyed by the enemy in the descent of the army by the river St. Lawrence: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said sum shall not exceed two thousand eight hundred dollars.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LVI: or passing to the credit of Nathaniel Mien certain moneys by him disbursed in the public service.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 261</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">or passing to the credit of Nathaniel Mien certain moneys by him disbursed in the public service.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and are hereby, directed, in the settlement of the accounts<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit allowed for certain moneys disbursed by him to the militia.</p></sidenote> of Nathaniel Allen, late district paymaster of the militia in the state of New York, to pass to his credit all such sums of money as shall appear to have been by him disbursed in payments to the said militia, for clothing, in obedience to orders received from his commanding officers.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LVII: authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a Patent to Thomas Oxley.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 261</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a Patent to Thomas Oxley.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to issue letters patent to Thomas Oxley, for his<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for his Land Clearing Machine to be issued.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 17, 1800, ch.25.</p></sidenote> invention of a machine and engine, called “The American Land Clearing Machine and Land Clearing Engine,” upon his complying with the directions of the act, entitled “An act to promote the progress of the useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose,” and an act, entitled “An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees,” except so far as the said acts, or any part or parts of them, require a residence of two years within the United States, in like manner, in all respects, as if the said Thomas Oxley had resided two years within the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: for the relief of John Webster.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 261</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Webster.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to pay to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid $264.</p></sidenote> John Webster, late collector of the internal revenue for the county of Somerset, in the district of Pennsylvania, the sum of two hundred and sixty-four dollars; which sum shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LIX: concerning Thomas Shields and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 261</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning Thomas Shields and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to Thomas Shields, and to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$3850 to be paid them for 77 prisoners, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the persons associated with him in capturing and delivering to the Marshal of the Louisiana district, seventy-seven prisoners, during the late
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/262">262</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 60, 61, 62. 1821.</centerRunningHead>
war between the United States and Great Britain, the sum of three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; it being fifty dollars a head, one half the bounty allowed to private armed vessels for prisoners delivered by them as aforesaid; the said money to be paid to the said Thomas Shields and his associates aforesaid, or to their legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be divided among the said Thomas Shields and his associates aforesaid, upon the principles regulating the distribution of prize money.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of Robert Buntin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 262</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Buntin.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Surveyor General, and the Surveyor of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for surveying to be settled.</p></sidenote>the Lands of the United States in the territories of Illinois and Missouri, be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to settle the claim of Robert Buntin, and allow him a sum not exceeding three dollars per mile for the lines which bound each survey, whether separate or adjoining other claims, for each survey and resurvey which he may have made within their districts, under the authority of the United States, of the private claims of the Vincennes district; and that they allow him at the same rate for each line run by him in the said Vincennes district, not the boundary of any survey, but run in order to connect the surveys into a general plat: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the aforesaid allowance be in full for his services as Assistant or Deputy Surveyor in the district aforesaid.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXI: authorizing the settlement of the accounts of the late Le Roy Opie.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 262</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the settlement of the accounts of the late Le Roy Opie.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote>department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the accounts of the late Le Roy Opie, battalion paymaster in the service of the United States, upon the principles of justice and equity.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXII: to extend the term of Samuel Parker’s patents, for his improvement in currying and finishing leather of all kinds.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 262</citableAs>
<dc:date>1821-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to extend the term of Samuel Parker’s patents, for his improvement in currying and finishing leather of all kinds.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the rights and privileges of Samuel Parker,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents for improvements in currying and finishing leather extended for 14 years, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> under two several patents issued from the department of state, on the ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and on the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and nine, respectively, for his improvements in currying and finishing leather of all kinds, be, and hereby are, extended to the said Samuel Parker, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during the term of fourteen years, to commence from and immediately after the expiration of fourteen years, granted by said last-mentioned patent as aforesaid,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.</p></sidenote> subject to all the provisions of the act, entitled “An act to promote the progress of the useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose,” excepting so far as regards the extension of the term of his said patents herein authorized.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1821-03-03">March 3, 1821</date>.
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<congress>17</congress>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1821</dc:date>
<dc:date>1822</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December,</i> 1821, <i>and ended on the eighth day of May,</i> 1822.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Monroe</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Daniel D. Tompkins</inline>, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate, from the 11th day of January, to the 4th day of February; <inline class="smallCaps">John Gaillard</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 3d day of December, to the 11th day of January, and from the 4th day of February, to the end of the session; <inline class="smallCaps">Philip P. Barbour</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. II: for the relief of Samuel Clarkson and Alexander Elmslie.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>II</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 263</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-01-11</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Clarkson and Alexander Elmslie.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-01-11">Jan. 11, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be refunded<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain sums to be refunded to them.</p></sidenote> and paid to Samuel Clarkson and Alexander Elmslie, severally, the following sums of money: to Samuel Clarkson, four hundred and fifteen dollars and thirty-five cents, and to Alexander Elmslie, four hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty-three cents; which said several sums have been paid by the persons abovementioned to the collector of Philadelphia, on the importation into the United States of sundry copper bottoms, and bolts, or bars, the same not being by law subject to the payment of duties.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-01-11">January 11, 1822</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. III: for the relief of Isaac Finch.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>III</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 263</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-02-04</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaac Finch.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-02-04">Feb. 4, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury department be, and he is hereby, authorized to audit and settle the accounts<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> of Isaac Finch, late a major of the twenty-sixth regiment of infantry, on principles of justice and equity.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-02-04">February 4, 1822</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of Peggy Mellen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 263</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-02-04</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peggy Mellen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-02-04">Feb. 4, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized to issue, in the name of Peggy Mellen, a land warrant for the bounty land to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrant for bounty land to be issued.</p></sidenote> which Alford Stebbins, late a soldier in the army of the United States, deceased, would have been entitled, had he lived.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-02-04">February 4, 1822</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVII: to authorize the reconveyance of a tract of land to the city of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 263</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-03-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the reconveyance of a tract of land to the city of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-03-30">Mar. 30, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized, whenever he shall have determined that the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/263" renderingPosition="bottom">263</page>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/264">264</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 19, 20, 21, 22, 34. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Works to be dismantled, and reconveyed to the corporation.</p></sidenote>tract of land on and near the west head of the battery, (so called,) in the city of New York, heretofore granted to the United States by the Mayor and Corporation of said city, is no longer required as a military position for the defence of the harbor and city of New York, to cause the works erected thereon to be dismantled, and the materials thereof to be disposed of, in such manner as in his judgment the public interests may require; and to reconvey to the said Mayor and Corporation the said tract of land, granted by them for the purposes aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-03-30">March 30, 1822</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Jonathan N. Bailey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 264</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-04-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonathan N. Bailey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-04-17">April 17, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Jonathan N. Bailey, out <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain sum to be paid to him.</p></sidenote>of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-two cents, being for so much overpaid by him to the collector of the district of Niagara, on goods imported by him from Queenstown, in Upper Canada.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-04-17">April 17, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of Gad Worthington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 264</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-04-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Gad Worthington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-04-17">April 17, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit to be allowed in the settlement of his accounts.</p></sidenote>to allow credit in the settlement of the accounts of Joshua Danforth, collector of the direct tax, in the Eighteenth Collection District, in Massachusetts, for the sum of one hundred and ninety-three dollars, upon proof being adduced, to the satisfaction of the said Secretary, that Gad Worthington, a deputy collector of the said district, has, without fault on his part, been robbed of public money to that amount, and that he has been released from the payment of such sum by the said collector.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-04-17">April 17, 1822</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of Solomon Porter, junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 264</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-04-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Solomon Porter, junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-04-17">April 17, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Solomon Porter, junior, the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain sum to be paid to him.</p></sidenote>sum of five hundred and eighty-one dollars and forty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being for the same amount paid by him to the collector of the Fourth Collection District of the state of Connecticut, for duty on two thousand nine hundred and seven gallons of low wines, which the Supreme Court of the United States has decided not to be subject to duty.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-04-17">April 17, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of John Anderson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 264</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-04-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Anderson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-04-17">April 17, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Anderson, of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for loss of a house occupied by the U. S. troops.</p></sidenote>Michigan territory, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirteen hundred dollars, in full, for the loss of a house by fire, in the month of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen; and while, without the consent of the owner, it was occupied by the troops of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-04-17">April 17, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of certain Distillers within the Sixth Collection District of Pennsylvania.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 264</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of certain Distillers within the Sixth Collection District of Pennsylvania.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-04-26">April 26, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain distillers to have the specified duties refunded to them.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to refund, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the distillers of spirituous liquors within the Sixth Collection District of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 35, 36, 37, 38. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/265">265</page>
vania, who, at any time since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, have used stills made according to Henry Witmer’s improvement upon Anderson’s Condensing Tub, and who have paid a duty upon the capacity of the globes of such stills, all the moneys which they may have respectively paid as a duty on the capacity of the globes of their said stills.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-04-26">April 26, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: for the relief of William E. Meek.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 265</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William E. Meek.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-04-26">April 26, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed and paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to William E. Meek, a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed the monthly pay of a sergeant.</p></sidenote> sergeant in the army of the United States, the monthly pay of a sergeant, from the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight, to the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-04-26">April 26, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: for the relief of sundry citizens of Baltimore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 265</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of sundry citizens of Baltimore.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-04-26">April 26, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, for the detention of the vessels sunk at the mouth of the harbor of Baltimore, in the month of September, one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Owners ofvessels to be paid just and reasonable compensation for them.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred and fourteen, there shall be paid to the owners thereof, respectively, or to their legal representatives, such sums as shall be found just and reasonable, to be computed from the seventeenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, to the time when the said vessels were respectively delivered to their owners, and from thence to the termination of the period necessary to repair such injuries as were shown to have been done by sinking, and proof of which is exhibited in a copy of the original estimates, verified at Baltimore, by Thorndike Chace and John Snyder, on the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; the several sums to be ascertained<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">See act of May 7, 1822, ch. 94.</p></sidenote> in such manner as the Secretary of the Navy shall direct; and which, when ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-04-26">April 26, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief of Cornelius Huson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 265</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Cornelius Huson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-04-26">April 26, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the value of a pair of horses, impressed and drowned.</p></sidenote> unto Cornelius Huson, or his legal representatives, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, the value of a pair of horses impressed into the service of the United States, in February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and drowned in Lake Ontario while in said service; the same to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-04-26">April 26, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief of B. H. Rand.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 265</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of B. H. Rand.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-04-26">April 26, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That B. H. Rand be, and he is hereby, released from the payment of bonds, given at the Custom-House in Philadelphia,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from the payment of bonds given for certain duties.</p></sidenote> for the sum of one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents, being the amount of duties which accrued on the importation of a box containing fifty unfinished engravings and one plate, executed by American artists, in part, in Philadelphia, and finished by them in England, for an engraving of the farewell address of General Washington.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-04-26">April 26, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of James M’Farland.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 266</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/266">266</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 39, 42, 43. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James M’Farland.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-04-26">April 26, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the receiver of public moneys of the land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The receiver of the land office at Shawneetown to place to the credit of J. M’Farland the excess above $2 per acre on 480 acres, on account of money paid, &amp;c., and to remit the interest.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed until 30th Sept. 1822, to avail himself of the provisions of the act of 2d March 1821, ch. 12.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>office at Shawneetown, in the state of Illinois, be, and he is hereby, directed to place to the credit of James M’Farland, or the legal proprietor of fractional sections numbered twenty-six and twenty-seven, in township numbered twelve south, range eight east, of the third principal meridian, purchased at the public sales by the said James M’Farland, on account of the money heretofore paid by him on said fractional sections, the excess over and above the rate of two dollars per acre, upon four hundred and eighty acres thereof, and to remit any interest due, or that may become due, on said excess; and the said James M’Farland, or the legal proprietor as aforesaid, shall be allowed until the thirtieth day of September next to avail themselves of the provisions of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of the purchasers of the public lands prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty,” approved March second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That if the said James M’Farland, or the legal proprietor of the aforesaid fractional sections, accept a credit, that the excess aforesaid shall be placed to his or their credit on the instalments which shall become due at the time they would have been due had his or their acceptance been filed before the thirtieth day of September last, but shall not entitle him or them to a discount for payment on or before the thirtieth <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of September next:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the said James M’Farland shall not be entitled to the remission aforesaid, upon a greater quantity than one hundred and sixty acres, unless he shall make it appear, to the satisfaction of the receiver aforesaid, that Hampton Pankey and William Frizzle, or their legal representatives, for whose benefit, jointly with the said James M’Farland, the aforesaid land was purchased, have received a release from the said James M’Farland, for such proportion of the purchase money as will be equal to the amount hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>remitted upon their proportion of the said land:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, also,</i> That the benefits of this act shall be extended only to such of the aforesaid persons as shall show to the register and receiver aforesaid, that he would have been entitled to the right of pre-emption had he been settled<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 5, 1813, ch. 20.</p></sidenote> on a quarter section instead of a fractional section, according to the provision of the act of eighteen hundred and thirteen.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-04-26">April 26, 1822</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of James May and the representatives of William Macomb.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 266</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-01</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James May and the representatives of William Macomb.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-01">May 1, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for injuries done to their property by U. S. troops.</p></sidenote> to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight hundred dollars to James May, of Detroit, or his legal representatives; and the sum of two thousand nine hundred dollars to the legal representatives of the late William Macomb, of Detroit, deceased; being in full compensation for injuries done to the property pertaining to the farm of the said James May, and the farm late of the said William Macomb, in the vicinity of Detroit, by the troops of the United States, in the late war.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-01">May 1, 1822</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: for the relief of John Thomas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 266</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Thomas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-01">May 1, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department settle and adjust the accounts of John Thomas, (late
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 44, 59, 60, 63. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/267">267</page>
major-general of militia in the state of Kentucky,) and admit to his credit such sums as he shall be entitled to, according to the principles of justice and equity.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-01">May 1, 1822</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: restoring to the ship Diana the privileges of a sea-letter vessel.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 267</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">restoring to the ship Diana the privileges of a sea-letter vessel.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-01">May 1, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the ship Diana, belonging to John C. and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ship Diana restored to all the rights and privileges of a sealetter vessel.</p></sidenote> Thomas Vowel, merchants, of Alexandria, be, and she is hereby, restored to all the rights and privileges to which she was entitled, as a sea-letter vessel, prior to the first of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen; any thing in the act concerning the navigation of the United States, passed the third [first] of March, one thousand eight<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 1, 1817, ch. 31.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventeen, to the contrary notwithstanding.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-01">May 1, 1822</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIX: explanatory of an act, entitled “An act authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and Richard O’Brien, late American Consul at Algiers.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 267</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">explanatory of an act, entitled “An act authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and Richard O’Brien, late American Consul at Algiers.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-06">May 6, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, in settling the accounts subsisting between the United States and Richard O’Brien, the Secretary of State be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of 15th May 1820, ch. 106, to be so construed as to allow Richard O’Brien for the cost and outfit of the polacre Vickelhadge.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, authorized and directed to give such construction to the act, entitled “An act authorizing the settlement of the accounts subsisting between the United States and Richard O’Brien, late American Consul at Algiers,” passed the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, as to allow the said O’Brien for the cost and outfit of the Polacre Vickelhadge: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to allow to the said Richard O’Brien any part or portion of his claim not provided for by this or the above recited act.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-06">May 6, 1822</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LX: confirming the title to a tract of land to Alzira Dibrel and Sophia Hancock.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 267</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">confirming the title to a tract of land to Alzira Dibrel and Sophia Hancock.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-06">May 6, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the title to a tract of land containing five thousand one hundred and twenty acres, be, and the same is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to a tract of land reserved them by the treaty of Mount Dexter with the Choctaws, confirmed.</p></sidenote> confirmed to, and vested in, Alzira Dibrel, formerly Alzira Mitchel, and Sophia Hancock, formerly Sophia Mitchel, daughters of Samuel Mitchel, by Molly, a Choctaw woman, and their heirs, for ever, which tract of land was reserved to them by the treaty of Mount Dexter, concluded between the United States of America and the Choctaw nation of Indians, on the sixteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and five.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-06">May 6, 1822</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of Richard Matson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 267</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard Matson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to issue to Richard Matson a certificate for one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate for $191 to be issued, in full satisfaction of his claim.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety-one dollars, to be receivable in payment for public lands, which shall be in full satisfaction of his claim for moneys paid by him on the purchase of the south-west and north-west quarters of section number eight, in township number fifty-five, north, and range number five, west of the fifth principal meridian, in the St. Louis land district, in the now state of Missouri: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That said Richard Matson<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall previously surrender to the Commissioner of the General Land Office the certificates of purchase for the said quarter sections.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of James Green.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 268</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/268">268</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 64, 65, 66, 67, 68. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Green.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the United <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>States be, and they hereby are, authorized and required to settle the accounts of James Green, late a lieutenant of the third regiment of United States riflemen, and to make all allowances which he may be justly and equitably entitled to, as if no judgment had been obtained against him; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>is, authorized to discharge the said James Green from imprisonment, but without prejudice to the claim of the United States for any balance that may be found due upon the settlement of his accounts; for which balance, if any, the said judgment shall remain as a security.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXV: for the relief of William Henderson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 268</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Henderson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be compensated for the destruction of his property by the enemy.</p></sidenote> department cause to be paid to William Henderson, or to his legal representatives, the sum of two thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars, for the value of his property destroyed by the enemy during the late war, at Monday’s Point, in Virginia; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for the relief of James Miller, John C. Elliot, Noah Hampton, James Erwin, and Jonathan Hampton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 268</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Miller, John C. Elliot, Noah Hampton, James Erwin, and Jonathan Hampton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James Miller, John C. Elliot, Noah Hampton,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. Miller and others, sureties of J. H. Alley, late collector of direct taxes, released from all demands, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> James Erwin, and Jonathan Hampton, sureties of John H. Alley, late collector of direct taxes and internal duties, for the Twelfth Collection District of North Carolina, by bond to the United States, dated twenty-seventh April, eighteen hundred and fourteen, are hereby released from all demands, executions, and process, whatsoever, arising from any omission, deficiency, or misconduct, of the said collector, in collecting or paying over any taxes or duties imposed by any act of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Congress passed subsequent to the date of said bond: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing herein shall discharge or affect him, the said John H. Alley.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVII: for the relief of Charles Campbell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 268</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Campbell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, and proceedings upon a judgment against him to be suspended.</p></sidenote> be, and they hereby are, authorized and required to settle the accounts of Charles Campbell, formerly Brigade Inspector, or County Lieutenant, of the county of Westmoreland, in the state of Pennsylvania, upon just and equitable principles; and that, in the mean time, all proceedings upon the judgment against the said Charles Campbell be suspended.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of the representatives of John B. Dash.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 268</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representatives of John B. Dash.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be refunded and paid to the legal representative<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> or representatives of John B. Dash, deceased, the sum of two thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents; which said sum of money was paid by the said John B. Dash, in his lifetime, to the collector of New York, on the importation into the United States of sundry copper bottoms, and bars or bolts, the said articles not being subject by law to the payment of duties.</content>
</section>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 69, 70, 71, 72. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/269">269</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said sum shall be paid<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIX: for the relief of David Cummings.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 269</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Cummings.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be directed to settle the accounts of David Cummings<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> on principles of equity and justice.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXX: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Guthry, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 269</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of John Guthry, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to the legal representatives of John Guthry, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of an outstanding final settlement certificate, with interest, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty cents, being the amount of a final settlement certificate, numbered seventy-eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, issued to the said John Guthry, and which certificate appears to be outstanding on the books of the treasury, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said legal representatives shall first<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> execute and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond of indemnity, in such sum, and with such security, as shall be satisfactory to the said comptroller.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Girault.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 269</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of John Girault.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legal representatives of John Girault be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, without payment, in lieu of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter, without payment, two sections of land in Mississippi or Alabama, in lieu, &amp;c.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 30, 1812, ch. 110.</p></sidenote> two tracts of land which were confirmed to the said John Girault, by an act approved the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, entitled “An act confirming claims to lands in the Mississippi Territory, founded on warrants of survey granted by the British or Spanish government,” two sections of land, agreeably to the surveys made by the United States, in any of the land offices in the states of Mississippi and Alabama; and the register or registers with whom such entry or entries may be made, shall issue the necessary certificate or certificates, on the exhibition of which, at the General Land Office, a patent or patents shall issue in favor of the said legal representatives: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> Such entries be made within two years from the passage of this act, on lands which have been offered at public sale, and on at least four contiguous quarter sections at a place:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That the said<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> legal representatives shall first, in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, relinquish all their right in said lands so confirmed to their ancestor.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXII: for the relief of Benjamin Stephenson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 269</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin Stephenson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Benjamin Stephenson, of the state of Illinois, be, and is hereby, authorized to locate four hundred and ninety-five<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate 495 acres of any unappropriated lands lying within the Military Reserve, in full satisfaction of his claim, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> acres of any of the unappropriated lands lying within the Military Reserve, between the rivers Sciota and Little Miami, in the state of Ohio, which shall be in full satisfaction of the claim of the said Benjamin Stephenson, as the legal representative of George Hite, to whom the same quantity of land was, on the fourteenth day of September, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, patented by the state of Virginia,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/270">270</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 73, 74, 75, 76. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
for his services in the Virginia continental line during the revolutionary war, and which was transferred to the said Benjamin Stephenson by a regular deed of conveyance from the said George Hite, and of which he was afterwards evicted by virtue of a prior grant of the same land; and the said Benjamin Stephenson, or his legal representatives, shall obtain a patent therefor, in the manner prescribed by law for issuing patents upon warrants located within the said reserve.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIII: granting a right of pre-emption to Noble Osborne and William Doake.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 270</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting a right of pre-emption to Noble Osborne and William Doake.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Noble Osborne and William Doake, of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter the tracts of land on which they reside, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>county of Hinds, and state of Mississippi, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, with the register of the land office who may be appointed for the district in which they are situated, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the tracts of land on which they respectively reside, not to exceed, in quantity, six hundred and forty acres each, and to be bounded by sectional or quarter sectional lines; and, on producing to the said register the receipts of the receiver of public moneys for said district, for the full amount of the purchase <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>money, shall be entitled to patents as in other cases: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> Such entry and payment be made at any time anterior to the first public sale of lands within said district.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIV: for the relief of the heirs of Edward M’Carty, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 270</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of Edward M’Carty, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for property destroyed during the invasion of Louisiana.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to the heirs of Edward M’Carty, deceased, or to their legal representative, the sum of two thousand nine hundred and forty dollars, in full for property destroyed during the invasion of Louisiana, during the late war; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXV: authorizing the issuing of Letters Patent to Joshua Garsed.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 270</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the issuing of Letters Patent to Joshua Garsed.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to be issued for his improvement on a machine for the formation of the sliver in spinning flax and hemp, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State do issue letters patent to Joshua Garsed, of the city of New York, for his invention of a new and useful improvement on a machine for the formation of the sliver in spinning of flax and hemp, upon his complying with all the provisions of the several acts relative to the issuing of letters patent for improvements and inventions, except so far as the said acts require a residence of two years in the United States, in like manner as if the said Joshua Garsed were a citizen of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: granting a tract of land to William Conner and wife and to their children.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 270</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting a tract of land to William Conner and wife and to their children.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Conner be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Empowered to enter, without payment, 640 acres, to include his improvements.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to issue.</p></sidenote> and empowered to enter, with the register of the land office at Brookville, without payment, six hundred and forty acres of land, to include his improvements, at a place called the Delaware Towns, in the state of Indiana, which shall be bounded by sectional and divisional lines: and a patent shall issue for the same to the said William Conner and his wife, an Indian woman of the Delaware tribe, for and during the natural lives of the said William Conner and wife, jointly, and to the survivor of them during the natural life of such survivor, and to
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 77, 78, 79, 80, 81. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/271">271</page>
their children and legal representatives of any deceased child or children, as tenants in common, the representatives of any deceased child taking, together, such portion of the land as such child would have been entitled to if he or she had survived the said William Conner and his said wife, and the said land to be vested in the said children and their lawful heirs in fee simple.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVII: for the relief of the sureties of Joseph Pettipool.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 271</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the sureties of Joseph Pettipool.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> the accounts of Joseph Pettipool, late paymaster of the twentieth regiment of United States infantry, so far as respects the items of his account which were suspended at his last settlement, according to the principles of equity.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of Peter Cadwell and James Britten.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 271</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Cadwell and James Britten.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of two hundred and twenty-two<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation allowed for property imported in the ship Northern Liberties, seized and sold for a breach of the law.</p></sidenote> dollars and twenty-two cents be paid to Peter Cadwell and James Britten, or their legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being one-half the amount of the net proceeds of their property imported in the ship Northern Liberties, which was seized and sold in the port of New York, for a breach of the law.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIX: for the relief of James Barron.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 271</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Barron.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to James Barron, a captain in the navy of the United States, out of any money in the treasury not<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy dollars and twenty cents, being the amount of duties paid by the said Barron to the collector of New York, for certain models for spinning rope yarns, imported by the said Barron into the port of New York, in August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: for the relief of Henry Bee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 271</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Bee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be refunded and paid to Henry Lee, of Boston, in the state of Massachusetts, out of any moneys in the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of an export bond refunded.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and forty-three dollars and seventy-five cents, it being the amount of an export bond, given on the exportation of four bales of India piece goods in the schooner Industry, from the district of Charleston to the Havana, and paid by said Lee to the collector of said district: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the said Lee prove, to the satisfaction of the Comptroller of the Treasury, the “loss by sea” of said goods.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Marie Therese.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 271</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Marie Therese.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Marie Therese be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a tract of land of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confirmed in their title to a tract of land.</p></sidenote> three and a half arpens in front and forty back, situated on the right bank of the Bayou Rapide, in the parish of Rapide, and state of Louisiana, bounded above by the lands of Joseph Renois, and below by lands
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/272">272</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 82, 83, 84, 85. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
formerly owned by Bolon Layssard; which boundaries shall be more particularly designated, under the direction of the register of the land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>office of the district in which the said tract lies: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to weaken the claim of any third person.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of Joseph Bainbridge.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 272</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Bainbridge.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance in the settlement of his accounts.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow Joseph Bainbridge, a captain in the navy of the United States, the sum of five thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars and forty-two <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>cents, in the settlement of his accounts: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The same shall not exceed the apparent balance now standing against the said Joseph Bainbridge.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: for the relief of James Brisban and Jonah Lewis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 272</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Brisban and Jonah Lewis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Beit enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate of land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote>James Brisban, a duplicate of land warrant number thirty-two, originally issued to James Hoyt, a Canadian volunteer, and by him subsequently assigned to the said James Brisban, by whom the same has been lost; which said duplicate may be located, and a patent issued thereon, in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1821, ch. 44.</p></sidenote>the manner provided by the act, entitled “An act to regulate the location of land warrants and the issuing of patents in certain cases,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and twenty-one.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate of land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to Jonah Lewis, a duplicate of land warrant number thirty-four, which issued to him as a Canadian volunteer; which duplicate may be located, and a patent issued, in the manner provided by the act <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 107.</p></sidenote>under which the original issued, and the act amendatory thereto, passed the third of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: for the relief of William Dooly.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 273</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Dooly.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for six horses, &amp;c., to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of William Dooly, for six horses, bridles, and halters, alleged to have been impressed into the public service in the Seminole <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>war: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That such impressment, and the value of said horses, bridles, and halters, when impressed, be satisfactorily proved; that said horses, bridles, and halters, were not returned to their owner; and that any compensation which may have been allowed and paid for the service of said horses, after the time of their impressment, be deducted.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when ascertained as aforesaid, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXV: for the relief of John Post and Farly Fuller.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 272</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Post and Farly Fuller.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exempt from imprisonment on a judgment as securities.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Post and Farly Fuller shall be exempt from imprisonment on a judgment obtained against them in the Federal Court for the Northern District Court of New York, as the securities of Robert Dickson, late postmaster at Ripley, in said state, for a
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 92, 94, 95, 97. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/273">273</page>
balance due from said Dickson to the United States; on condition that they shall go before the judge of the said Federal Court, or some judge of the Superior Courts of the said state, and take the oath imposed upon persons imprisoned for debt, by the second section of the act, entitled “An act for relief of persons imprisoned for debt,” approved<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Jan. 6. 1800, ch. 4.</p></sidenote> the sixth of January, one thousand eight hundred, changing the phraseology thereof so as to make it applicable to the United States, instead of other creditors; and, also, substituting for the thirty dollars therein named such articles of property as the laws of said state secures to the family of an insolvent debtor; which oath, when so taken, shall be certified by the judge, and filed by said defendants with the clerk of said court before whom the judgment was had, or delivered to the marshal of the said northern district, who shall return the same with the process in his hands against the said defendants: <proviso><i>And provided,</i> That nothing<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> in this act contained shall prevent the issuing of process on said judgment against any estate, real or personal, which the said defendants now have, or may hereafter possess or acquire:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> nothing in this act contained shall in any manner affect the responsibility of the said Robert Dickson, or any other person, to the United States, for the said demands.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Hodgson, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 273</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Hodgson, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the legal representatives of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be allowed the value of a brick house destroyed while rented by the United States.</p></sidenote> Joseph Hodgson, late of the city of Washington, deceased, the sum of six thousand dollars, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the value of a three storied brick dwelling-house in said city, rented for the use of the United States, in the year eighteen hundred, by Samuel Dexter, then Secretary of War, and which was destroyed by fire in November of the same year, while in the occupation of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: explanatory of an Act for the relief of sundry citizens of Baltimore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 273</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">explanatory of an Act for the relief of sundry citizens of Baltimore.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the act, entitled “An act for the relief of sundry citizens of Baltimore,” shall be so construed as to refer to a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Referred to a copy of estimates, &amp;c.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 26, 1822, ch. 36.</p></sidenote> copy of estimates verified at Baltimore by Thorndike Chase and John Snyder, on the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, instead of the twentieth day of February aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCV: for the relief of Solomon Prevost.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 273</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Solomon Prevost.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Solomon Prevost, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remuneration for losses during the invasion of Louisiana.</p></sidenote> thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars, in full for losses sustained by him during the invasion of Louisiana by the British troops, in the years one thousand eight hundred and fourteen and one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVII: for the relief of James Pierce.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 274</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Pierce.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to James Pierce, of the state of Ohio, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/274">274</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 98, 99, 100, 101. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for wagon and horses, captured by the enemy.</p></sidenote>four hundred and thirty dollars; being the value of a wagon and four horses employed in the service of the United States in the late war, and captured by the enemy at the surrender of Detroit.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVIII: authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Gooding and James Williams.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 274</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Gooding and James Williams.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bounty money for prisoners.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Gooding and James Williams, late owners of the private armed schooner Midas, or to their legal representative or representatives, the sura of two thousand two hundred dollars, which sum is paid to them as bounty money, at the rate of one hundred dollars per man, for twenty-two prisoners who were slaves, but part of the crew, and combatants, on board of the privateer Dash, taken by the said schooner Midas, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>during the war between the United States and Great Britain: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That if the said John Gooding and James Williams, or either of them, shall be indebted to the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to retain the amount so due out of the money herein directed to be paid, and give credit for the sum so retained, to the person so indebted to the United States.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCIX: for the relief of William Gwynn.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 274</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Gwynn.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for loss of property by burning of the public storehouse.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to William Gwynn, of the state of Alabama, forty-seven dollars and fifty cents, for a horse killed in battle on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, at Oak Fusky; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CI: for the relief of Samuel Walker.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 274</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Walker.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the claim of Samuel Walker, upon the principles of equity, for provisions furnished Captain Holman’s company of militia, stationed on the frontiers of the state of Indiana in the late war, for the term of three months, from the twenty-eighth day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, to the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year eighteen
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 102, 103, 104, 105. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/275">275</page>
hundred and thirteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The sum to be allowed shall not exceed<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> two hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-four cents.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-22">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CII: for the relief of the President and Directors of the Planters’ Bank of New Orleans.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 275</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the President and Directors of the Planters’ Bank of New Orleans.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, for moneys advanced.</p></sidenote> accounts of the President and Directors of the Planters’ Bank of New Orleans, for moneys advanced by the said directors to pay sundry discharged soldiers of the United States, at the request of Ambrose D. Smith, deputy paymaster, upon the principles of justice and equity; and that the sum found to be due, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIII: for the relief of Matthew M’Nair.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 275</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Matthew M’Nair.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled for destruction of a flat-bottomed boat.</p></sidenote> the claim of Matthew M’Nair, on account of the destruction of a schooner-rigged flat bottomed boat, called the Columbia, while in the public service at the French Mills, in the fall of eighteen hundred and thirteen, by order of the commanding officer at that post; and to allow him for said vessel the value thereof, not exceeding three thousand dollars, together with his reasonable expenses for navigating said vessel while in the public service, crediting the United States with any sums of money paid to said M’Nair, on account of the contract of charter party for the same vessel; and that the balance which may be found due to the said M’Nair, be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIV: for the relief of William R. Maddox.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 275</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William R. Maddox.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay William R. Maddox the sum of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for bricks delivered.</p></sidenote> one hundred and seventy dollars thirty cents, being a part of his account of four hundred and seventy-four dollars and eighty-three cents, for sixty-seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-three bricks, delivered by him to the late commissioner for the public buildings, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty; and that the said sum be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of Alexander Roddy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 275</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Roddy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be authorized to settle the claim of Alexander Roddy, one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled for taking an account of manufacturing establishments.</p></sidenote> of the assistant marshals appointed to take the census, and an account of the manufacturing establishments and manufactures, in the district of South Carolina, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, and to allow him such compensation as may be adequate to his services in taking an account of the manufacturing establishments and manufactures in the Spartenburg division of said district.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount, when ascertained,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVI: for the relief of Susan Berzat, widow, and the legal representatives of Gabriel Berzat, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 276</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/276">276</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 106, 108, 109, 110, 111. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Susan Berzat, widow, and the legal representatives of Gabriel Berzat, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to land confirmed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the right and title to six hundred and forty acres of land shall be, and the same are hereby, confirmed to Susan Berzat, widow, and the legal representatives, of Gabriel Berzat, deceased, including the improvement made by the said decedent in his life-time, in the parish of Avoyelles, in the state of Louisiana; the boundaries of which tract of land shall be designated by the register of the land office of the district within which it is situated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: vesting in the Commissioners of the counties of Wood and Sandusky, the right to certain lots in the towns of Perrysburgh and Croghansville, in the state of Ohio, for county purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 276</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">vesting in the Commissioners of the counties of Wood and Sandusky, the right to certain lots in the towns of Perrysburgh and Croghansville, in the state of Ohio, for county purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The right to unsold town lots, &amp;c. in Perrysburgh, and Croghansville, vested in the commissioners of Wood and Sandusky counties, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the right to all the unsold town lots and outlots in the town of Perrysburgh be, and the same is hereby, vested in the Commissioners of Wood county, in the state of Ohio; and the right to all the unsold town lots and out-lots in the town of Croghansville be, and the same is hereby, vested in the Commissioners of Sandusky county, in said state; on condition that said Commissioners shall permanently locate the seat of justice for their respective counties at said towns; and that the nett proceeds of the sales of so many of said lots as are necessary to be retained for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon, be applied to the erection and improvement of the public buildings and squares in said towns respectively.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIX: for the relief of Samuel Ewings.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 276</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Ewings.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for land to be issued to him.</p></sidenote>issued to Samuel Ewings, or his legal representatives, upon application, a patent for five hundred acres of land, situated on the Miami of the Lake, it being the same tract which was confirmed to him under an act, entitled “An act regulating the grants of land in the territory of Michigan,”<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> passed the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven: And for which he holds the Register’s certificate, numbered five hundred and seventy-eight.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CX: for the relief of Trapmaun Jahucke and Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 276</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Trapmaun Jahucke and Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to them for an excess of duty on a cargo of imported salt.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized to pay to Trapmaun Jahucke and Company, (agents and consignees of the Swedish brig Anna Sophia,) out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixteen cents, being for an excess of duty charged on a cargo of salt imported by a Swedish vessel from St. Ubes, which had been condemned for a breach of the Navigation Act, and the condemnation mitigated by a restoration of the salt, on payment of a duty of forty cents a bushel.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXI: for the relief of John Crute.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 276</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Crute.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p></sidenote>department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the claim of John Crute, on account of a certificate issued on the first of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, and numbered sev-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 113, 114, 115, 116. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/277">277</page>
enty-eight thousand four hundred and ninety-one, for two hundred and forty dollars, which certificate is alleged to have been accidentally destroyed, and appears, by the records of the treasury, to be outstanding and unpaid; and to pay to the said John Crute the principal of the said certificate, and so much of the interest thereof as may remain due thereon: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said John Crute execute and deliver to the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> Comptroller of the Treasury a bond of indemnity, in such sum, and with such security, as the said Comptroller may direct and approve; the said moneys to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: for the relief of John Pellet.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Pellet.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Pellet, or to his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for losses during the invasion of New Orleans.</p></sidenote> the sum of three thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars, in full for losses sustained by him in the destruction of his buildings and other property, during the invasion of New Orleans, in the winter of eighteen hundred and fourteen—fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: to authorize the Secretary of State to issue Letters Patent to Frederick S. Warburg.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 277</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the Secretary of State to issue Letters Patent to Frederick S. Warburg.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue letters patent to Frederick S. Warburg, at present<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to issue to him for improvements in lamps, &amp;c.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of the city of New York, a native of the Danish city of Altona, as the inventor of various improvements in lamps, candlesticks, and the manufacture of candles, in the same manner as if the said Frederick S. Warburg were a citizen of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Frederick S. Warburg shall comply with all the provisions of the existing laws, to entitle himself to such letters patent, as if he were a citizen of the United States, and this act had not been passed.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXV: for the relief of Anthony Kennedy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 277</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Anthony Kennedy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Anthony Kennedy, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surplus money to be paid him.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty-four cents, being the surplus of money arising from the sale of lands belonging to the said Anthony Kennedy, in the state of Pennsylvania, which were sold for the direct tax by William Moorehead, designated Collector, and redeemed within the time prescribed by law.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: to authorize the issuing of Letters Patent to Richard Holden.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 277</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the issuing of Letters Patent to Richard Holden.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized to issue letters patent to Richard Holden, of the city of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to issue to him for an improvement in combining mechani cal powers.</p></sidenote> Philadelphia, for his invention of a new and useful improvement in the method of combining mechanical powers, so as to produce or increase the velocity of power of machinery, and to comunicate the same to various kinds of machinery which require projectile, reciprocating, or rotary, motion, upon his complying with all the provisions of the several acts relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require a residence of two years in
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/278">278</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 117, 120, 121, 123, 125. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
the United States, in like manner, and with the same effect, as if the said Richard Holden were a citizen of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Greenbury H. Murphy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 278</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Greenbury H. Murphy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for amount of judgment incurred in collecting militia fines.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to the legal representatives of Greenbury H. Murphy, the sum of one thousand four hundred and ninety dollars thirty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same being the amount of a judgment, costs, and charges, incurred by said Murphy in two suits brought against him as deputy marshal, in Pennsylvania, for collecting two militia fines.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of John Holmes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 278</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Holmes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Holmes, of the state <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to him for a horse killed in an Indian engagement.</p></sidenote>of Alabama, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of sixty dollars, being in full for a horse killed in the action with the Creek Indians, at Emuckfaw, on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: for the relief of Sally Fance.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 278</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Sally Fance.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant to issue to her for bounty land.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Department of War be, and he is hereby, directed to issue to Sally Vance a land warrant for the bounty land to which her son, Thaddeus Carby, who died a soldier in the United States’ service, would have been entitled had he lived.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-07">May 7, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXIII: for the relief of Joshua Cannon, Reuben Hickman, and Fielding Hickman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 278</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joshua Cannon, Reuben Hickman, and Fielding Hickman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-08">May 8, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patents for bounty lands to issue to them, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper officers of the government be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to issue to Joshua Cannon, Reuben Hickman, and to Fielding Hickman, soldiers in the late war with Great Britain, patents for their bounty lands, of one hundred and sixty acres each, and also to pay to each of them whatever sum may be due for the balance of their pay or bounty.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-08">May 8, 1822</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXV: explanatory of the act for the relief of James Leander Cathcart, passed May fifteenth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 278</citableAs>
<dc:date>1822-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">explanatory of the act for the relief of James Leander Cathcart, passed May fifteenth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1822-05-08">May 8, 1822</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to him for the half of a bill of exchange, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow the said James Leander Cathcart the sum of one thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty cents, being the one half of a bill of exchange bearing date the seventeenth of August, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, and drawn by John Robertson, master of his brig Independent, (then in the service of the United States,) on the Secretary of State, paid by him, and charged to the said Cathcart in the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 125. 1822.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/279">279</page>
settlement of his account, in the year eighteen hundred and five, the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 105.</p></sidenote> other half of said bill having been allowed to him by the act of the fifteenth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said James Leander Cathcart shall, previously to the payment hereby authorized, deposit with the proper officer of the treasury department satisfactory release to the United States, of so much as may be recovered by him under the provisions of the eleventh article of the treaty with Spain, on account of those expenditures consequent on the capture of said brig, and his detention in Cadiz, for the discharge of which the aforesaid bill was drawn.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sum hereby allowed,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1822-05-08">May 8, 1822</date>.
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1822</dc:date>
<dc:date>1823</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December,</i> 1822, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1823.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Monroe</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Daniel D. Tompkins</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">John Gaillard</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore: <inline class="smallCaps">Philip P. Barbour</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: to repeal part of an Act passed by the State of Maryland, in the year 1784, and note in force in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, entitled “An Act for an addition to Georgetown, in Montgomery county.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 280</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-01-14</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to repeal part of an Act passed by the State of Maryland, in the year 1784, and note in force in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, entitled “An Act for an addition to Georgetown, in Montgomery county.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-01-14">Jan. 14, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part of the third section of an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, respecting certain lots in Georgetown, repealed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That so much of the third section of an act of the General Assembly of the state of Maryland, entitled “An Act for an addition to Georgetown in Montgomery county,” as prohibits the proprietors of lots fronting on the north side of Water street, from selling or erecting buildings on the south side of said street, or on wharves made on the south side of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>aforesaid street, be, and the same is hereby repealed: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the proprietors aforesaid shall not have power to erect any building or buildings on the south side of said street, not authorized by an ordinance <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of the corporation of Georgetown:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That, after being thus authorized by said Corporation, the proprietors aforesaid may sell and dispose of their property on either side of the said street, without affecting the title to that on the other side, as effectually as they could have done before the passage of the aforesaid act of Maryland.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-01-14">January 14, 1823</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XII: to provide for the settlement of the accounts of Daniel D. Tompkins, late Governor of the State of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1823-02-21</dc:date>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to provide for the settlement of the accounts of Daniel D. Tompkins, late Governor of the State of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-02-21">Feb. 21, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to adjust and settle the accounts and claims of Daniel D. Tompkins, late Governor of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Dec. 22, 1823, ch. 1. 1824. ch. 210.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">2d section of appropriation act of April 30, 1822, ch. 41, not to affect Daniel D. Tompkins.</p></sidenote>state of New York, on principles of equity and justice, subject to the revision and final decision of the President of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That nothing contained in the second section of the act, entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and for other purposes,” passed April twentieth [thirtieth,] one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, shall be construed to extend or apply to the said Daniel D. Tompkins.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-02-21">February 21, 1823</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of Samuel Buel.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1823-02-21</dc:date>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Buel.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-02-21">Feb. 21, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Attorney of the United States for the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharged.</p></sidenote>District of Vermont be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/280" renderingPosition="bottom">280</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 20, 73, 74. 1823.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/281">281</page>
consent to the discharge of Samuel Buel from imprisonment, on the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">from imprisonment on finding bail.</p></sidenote> judgment recovered against him, in favor of the United States, and to the allowance of a new trial to the said Samuel, on condition that special bail be put in and perfected, if the same has not been already done; that the judgment stand as security for the amount which may be found due; and that his past imprisonment shall not exempt him from re-imprisonment on the recovery which may hereafter be had against him in said action.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-02-21">February 21, 1823</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of Samuel F. Hooker.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 281</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-02-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel F. Hooker.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-02-28">Feb. 28, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to be settled.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized and empowered to audit and settle, upon such principles as are applicable to contracts, the claims of Samuel F. Hooker, against the navy department of the United States; with authority, if he shall think proper so to do, to submit said claims to arbitration.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of the claims,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount when ascertained to be paid.</p></sidenote> when ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, deducting whatever advances may have been made to the said Samuel F. Hooker, upon such claims.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-02-28">February 28, 1823</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIII: for the relief of James Rees, of New York, one of the sureties of Joseph H. Rees, deceased, late assistant deputy Paymaster General, in service of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 281</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Rees, of New York, one of the sureties of Joseph H. Rees, deceased, late assistant deputy Paymaster General, in service of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the accounts of Joseph H. Rees, deceased, late assistant deputy Paymaster General, in the service of the United States, upon the principles of justice and equity; and to allow to James Rees, one of the sureties of said deceased, such credits as he may prove himself entitled to, in consequence of payments actually made to troops in service of the United States during the life-time of said deceased: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That no allowances shall be made in the settlement aforesaid, greater than the amount for which the said surety, James Rees, is now held liable to the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the suit now pending in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit now pending to be suspended.</p></sidenote> the District Court of the United States, for the Northern District of New York, against James Rees and Gerrit L. Dox, sureties of Joseph H. Rees, deceased, as aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby, suspended till the settlement directed in the first section of this act shall be fully completed.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIV: for the relief of Edward Evat.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 281</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edward Evat.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1338 dollars 81 cents to be paid to Edward Evat.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Edward Evat, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, thirteen hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-one cents, being for the value of a house, burnt while occupied by the American troops: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That there shall be deducted out of the aforesaid sum of thirteen hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-one cents, whatever amount may have been paid to the said Evat for the hire or use of the said house.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXV: for the relief of Eleanor Lawrence.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 282</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/282">282</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 75, 76, 77, 78. 1823.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Eleanor Lawrence.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Eleanor Lawrence, out of any money in treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages to be paid for occupation of her farm.</p></sidenote>thousand and seventy dollars, being in full for damages, occasioned by the military occupation of her farm on Long Island, in the state of New York, from the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, to the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: for the relief of John B. Hogan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 282</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John B. Hogan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1824, ch. 40.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceedings against John B. Hogan to be stayed.</p></sidenote>hereby, required, with the assent of the surety of John B. Hogan, to stay all further proceedings in any suit or suits, commenced in the District Court of the United States for the District of Alabama, against John B. Hogan, late a paymaster in the service of the United States, and his surety, until the end of the next session of Congress, and until the final adjustment of the claims of the officers and volunteers engaged in the late campaign against the Seminole Indians, for horses and other property lost.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVII: for the relief of Robert Purdy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 282</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Purdy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">816 dollars 70 cents to be paid to Robert Purdy.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be paid to Robert Purdy, late lieutenant- colonel in the army of the United States, the sum of eight hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy cents, the amount of judgment, fine, and cost, paid by said Purdy for the imprisonment of William Luty; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Alexander Montgomery, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 282</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Alexander Montgomery, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain lands granted to the heirs of Alexander Montgomery.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs and legal representatives of Alexander Montgomery, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to enter four quarter sections of land, at any time within three years from the passing of this act, at either of the land offices in the states of Mississippi or Alabama; which said four quarter sections shall be in full satisfaction of all their claims for, and on account of, five hundred and seventeen arpens of land, situate on the waters of the Homochitto, in the now state of Mississippi, to which Alexander Montgomery was entitled by virtue of a Spanish order of survey for four hundred arpens, to Solomon Whitley, dated the fifth of May, seventeen hundred and ninety, and another for three hundred arpens, to John Montgomery, dated the twenty-sixth of April, seventeen hundred and ninety, which said lands have been in part sold by the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands must have been offered at public sale.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That no lands shall be entered in virtue of this act, which shall not have been previously offered at public sale; nor shall any lands, surrendered under the authority of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands prior to the first day of July, 1820,” be so entered, until such lands shall have again been offered at public sale.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIX: for the relief of Henry Lee, one of the sureties of John Ricaud, late a paymaster in service of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 283</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 79, 80, 81, 82. 1823.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/283">283</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Lee, one of the sureties of John Ricaud, late a paymaster in service of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, in settling the accounts of John Ricaud,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credits to be allowed to John Ricaud and his sureties.</p></sidenote> late paymaster in service of the United States, the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow to the said Ricaud, to Henry Lee, and Abner Stewart, his sureties, such credits as they may prove themselves entitled to, by the best evidence which the nature of the case will admit of, and which it may be in their power to produce: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That no allowance, made as aforesaid, shall exceed the amount now claimed of them by the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the judgment, by default,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgment against Henry Lee suspended.</p></sidenote> lately recovered against Henry Lee, one of the sureties as aforesaid, in the District Court of Virginia, be, and the same is hereby, suspended, for and during the term of twelve months, from and after the passage of this act: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> that the accounting officers<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of the treasury department aforesaid be, and they are hereby, directed to require of the said Henry Lee such surety as will, in their opinion, eventually secure the payment of whatever demand the United States may have against him, after settlement shall be made in the manner directed in the first section of this act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: for the relief of James Morrison, of Kentucky.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 283</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Morrison, of Kentucky.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in settling the accounts of James Morrison, the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credits to be allowed to James Morrison.</p></sidenote> are hereby authorized and directed to allow to the said Morrison, such credits as he may prove that he is entitled to, under his contract of the thirteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and ten, by the best evidence which the nature of the case will admit of, and which it may be in his power to produce; <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That no allowance, made as aforesaid, shall exceed the sum of eight thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and three cents.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That any balance which may be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Any balance due him to be paid.</p></sidenote> found due to the said Morrison, in settling his accounts as aforesaid, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the relief of Woodson Wren.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 283</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Woodson Wren.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the register and receiver of the land office at Jackson Court House be, and they are hereby authorized and required, on the application of Woodson Wren, to receive and decide on<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register and receiver at Jackson Court House to decide on the claim.</p></sidenote> the proofs of his claim to a tract of land situated on the northeast side of the Bay of Biloxi, between Belle Fontaine Point and the old French Fort, which land he claims by virtue of a purchase from Littlepage Robertson; and the said officers are to be governed, in all respects, by the act, entitled “An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices, in the districts east of the island of New Orleans,”<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100.</p></sidenote> passed the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> Such application be made before the first day of July, one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of Nimrod Farrow, Richard Harris, and their securities.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 283</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nimrod Farrow, Richard Harris, and their securities.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, by some suitable person or persons to be ap-<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of</p></sidenote>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/284">284</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 83, 84, 85. 1823.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">War to examine into the damages sustained by them.</p></sidenote>pointed by him, to ascertain whether there has been any failure on the part of the United States in the fulfilment of the contract for erecting fortifications on Dauphin Island: and, if so, to ascertain and report to Congress, at the next session, the amount of damages thus sustained by Richard Harris and Nimrod Farrow, the contractors, by such failure; and also to ascertain and report, whether the said contractors themselves have failed in fulfilling the contract on their part, and the cause of such failure.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suits now pending to be suspended.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the suits now depending in the Circuit Court, in Virginia, in behalf of the United States, against the said Harris and Farrow, and their securities, shall be suspended till the end of the next Congress, with the written assent of their securities.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: for the relief of the legal representative of James M’ Clung, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 284</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representative of James M’ Clung, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">74 dollars 62 cents to be paid.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be paid to the legal representative of James M’Clung, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy-four dollars and sixty-two cents, being the amount of a final settlement certificate, numbered nine hundred and fifty-nine, issued to the said James M’Clung, and which certificate appears to be outstanding on the books of the treasury, with interest, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight: <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said legal representative shall first execute and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond of indemnity, in such sum, and with such security, as shall be satisfactory to the said Comptroller.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: for the relief of John Coffee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 284</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Coffee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts for clerk hire to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby authorized to audit and settle the accounts of John Coffee, surveyor of public lands in Alabama, for clerk hire, previously to the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, on the principles of justice and equity, and to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.,</p></sidenote>make such allowance as may appear reasonable: <proviso><i>Provided</i>; Such allowance shall not exceed the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, from the commencement of his services as Surveyor General, to the passing <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 126.</p></sidenote>of the “Act respecting the surveying and sale of the public lands in the Alabama territory,” that being the amount allowed him for clerk hire after the passing of said act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXV: for the relief of Samuel Walker and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 285</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Walker and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain claims to be paid.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums to wit: To Samuel Walker, the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars; to Joseph L. Dutton, the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars; and to John Martin, Samuel Peterson, and Hannah Peterson, the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars; it being for injuries done to their lands in erecting works of defence, near the town of Marcus Hook, on the Delaware river, in the fall of the year eighteen hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVI: for the discharge of John Burgin from imprisonment.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 285</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 86, 87, 88, 89, 90. 1823.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/285">285</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the discharge of John Burgin from imprisonment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Burgin, of Eastport, in Maine, shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be discharged from imprisonment.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, exempt and discharged from imprisonment on a judgment obtained against him as security for Oliver Shead, late Postmaster, by the United States, in the District Court for the district of Maine: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said John Burgin shall render a schedule<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of his estate, and take the oath required by the laws of said state of Maine, of insolvent debtors, before some judge or justice of the peace, which oath, being certified by such judge or justice, the said Burgin shall file in the office of the clerk of the court where the said judgment was rendered:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That any estate, real or personal,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> that the said Burgin now hath, or may hereafter have, or possess, shall be subject to execution for the satisfaction of the aforesaid demand, in the same manner as though this act had not passed.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVII: for the relief of Captain Richard Hightower.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 285</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Captain Richard Hightower.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers settle and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be adjusted.</p></sidenote> adjust the account of Captain Richard Hightower, on the principles of justice and equity, and admit to his credit such sums, not exceeding seven hundred dollars, as shall be proved, to their satisfaction, to have been disbursed in the recruiting service, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, by said Hightower, and the subaltern officers of his company.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVIII: for the relief of Polly L. Campbell, widow of Colonel John B. Campbell, deceased, late of the eleventh regiment of the United States’ Infantry.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 285</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Polly L. Campbell, widow of Colonel John B. Campbell, deceased, late of the eleventh regiment of the United States’ Infantry.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in settling the accounts of Colonel John<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be allowed such credits as she shall prove her title to.</p></sidenote> B. Campbell, deceased, late of the eleventh regiment of United States’ infantry, the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow to Polly L. Campbell, the widow of said deceased, such credits as she may prove that she is entitled to, by the best evidence which the nature of the case will admit of, and which it may be in her power to produce: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That no credits shall be allowed which exceed the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> amount now claimed by the United States from Polly L. Campbell, widow of Colonel John B. Campbell, deceased, as aforesaid.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: for the relief of Sophia B. Ford, Nathan Ford, and Jacob Arnold, junior, administrators of the estate of Mahlon Ford, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 285</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Sophia B. Ford, Nathan Ford, and Jacob Arnold, junior, administrators of the estate of Mahlon Ford, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The unpaid pension of Mahlon Ford, to be paid to his administrators.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized to pay to Sophia B. Ford, Nathan Ford, and Jacob Arnold, junior, administrators of the estate of Mahlon Ford, deceased, the amount due and unpaid on the pension certificate which was granted to the said Mahlon Ford in his life-time, from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, to the fourteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and that the said moneys be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XC: for the relief of Daniel Seward.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 285</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Seward.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to issue to Daniel Seward a certifi-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/286">286</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 91, 92, 93. 1823.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certificate to be issued for 38 dollars 66 cents, with interest.</p></sidenote>cate for the sum of thirty-eight dollars and sixty-six cents, with interest thereon, at six per centum per annum, from the twenty-ninth day of January, eighteen hundred and fourteen; being the sum, with interest, which was paid by the said Daniel Seward, to the United States, for nineteen acres and one third of an acre of land, part of a tract granted to him by patent, bearing that date, and which lias been since legally adjudged to be the property of another person; which certificate shall be receivable in payment for public lands, and shall be in full satisfaction of his claim for money paid for said nineteen acres and one third <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of an acre of land: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That said Daniel Seward shall previously make, and file with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a release to the United States of all right, title, and claim, to the said nineteen acres and one third of an acre of land.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCI: for the relief of Amos Nichols.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 286</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Amos Nichols.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Amos Nichols, of the state of Maine, four hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, being the amount of pay due him for seven months’ service as clerk in the navy department, during the years eighteen hundred and eighteen and nineteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCII: for the relief of James H. Clark.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 286</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James H. Clark.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">816 dollars to be allowed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow James H. Clark the sum of eight hundred and sixteen dollars, in the settlement of his accounts; the same being the amount of money of which he was robbed in Marseilles, on the third day of December, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIII: for the relief of Joshua Russell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 286</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joshua Russell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed to relinquish certain land.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for Joshua Russell, at any time before the thirtieth day of September next, to file with the Register of the Land Office at Marietta, in the state of Ohio, a relinquishment, in writing, of a quarter section of the land mentioned and described in a certain certificate of purchase issued to him by Joseph Wood, register of said Land Office, bearing date the twenty-second day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and to retain the south-east fractional section of the said land; and, upon his filing said relinquishment, all sums of money paid on account of the part relinquished, shall be applied towards the discharge of any instalments which may be due, or shall hereafter become due and payable, on the said land so purchased, as shall not be relinquished; and, if the said Joshua Russell, or his assignee, or other legal representative, shall, within one year from the passing of this act, pay to the receiver of public moneys, at said office, or into the treasury of the United States, the balance of purchase money that may remain due for the said fractional quarter section of land, calculated at the price stated in said certificate, with interest, at the rate of six per centum per annum, upon such balance, from the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, then the said Joshua Russell, or his assignee, or other legal representative, shall be entitled to receive a patent for the said fractional quarter section of land.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: for the relief of Abraham Snyder.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 287</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 94, 95, 96, 97. 1823.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/287">287</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Abraham Snyder.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Abraham Snyder, of Ulster county, in the state of New York, who is imprisoned within the limits of the jail of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enabled to take the benefit of the act.</p></sidenote> the said county, on execution issued out of the District Court of the Southern District of New York, at the suit of the United States, shall be entitled to the relief and benefit of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt,” passed January sixth, one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Jan. 6, 1800, ch. 4.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred, in the same manner, and to the same effect, as if he were imprisoned at the suit of an individual creditor: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the notice required by the said act to be given to the creditor, his agent or attorney, shall be given to the District Attorney of the United States for the Southern District of New York:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, further,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That such discharge of the said Abraham Snyder shall not be deemed to affect the right or remedy of the United States against his sureties, or either of them.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCV: for the relief of Nathan Branson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 287</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nathan Branson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Nathan Branson, out of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">669 dollars and 3 cents restored to him.</p></sidenote> any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and sixty-nine dollars and three cents, being the amount recovered from him in the District Court for the district of Alabama, on two bonds given by him for duties on goods, on which duty had already been paid, according to law, on their original importation into the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCV: for the relief of Ebenezer Stevens and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 287</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ebenezer Stevens and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid, after the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, out of any moneys in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Award to be paid to the representatives of Comfort Sands, and others.</p></sidenote> the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Ebenezer Stevens and Austin L. Sands, representatives of Richardson Sands, deceased; to Robert Morris, surviving assignee, under the late United States’ law of bankruptcy, of Comfort Sands, or to whomsoever shall appear to the Comptroller of the Treasury to be entitled to his share; and to Joshua Sands, the sum of twenty-two thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars, in full satisfaction of their claim upon the United States under an award of referees in favor of them and others, dated at New York, on the twenty-fifth of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and the contracts therein referred to; one third part of which sum is to be paid to each of the said Richardson, Comfort, and Joshua Sands, or to their legal representatives as above mentioned: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, before such payment, each of the said parties shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> relinquish to the United States all further claim against them on account of said award, and the several contracts upon which that award was founded.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVII: for the relief of Samuel Hodgdon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 287</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Hodgdon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to revise the accounts<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of John Smith to be revised.</p></sidenote> of John Smith, late of Ohio, as contractor for the supply of the army of the United States, arising out of the contracts in which the said Samuel Hodgdon was one of the sureties of said contractor, and to cause the judgment, obtained by the United States against said Samuel, on such contracts, to be credited with all such sums as shall appear to be equitably due to said contractor upon such contracts.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVIII: for the relief of the heirs of Johnston Blakeley.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 288</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/288">288</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 98, 99, 100, 101. 1823.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of Johnston Blakeley.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">3028 dollars 64 cents to be passed to his credit.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pass to the credit of the account of Johnston Blakeley, late a captain in the United States’ Navy, the sum of three thousand and twenty-eight dollars and sixty-four cents, being the amount of moneys advanced to the said Blakeley, before the first day of May, eighteen hundred and fourteen, for the use of the United States’ Navy.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIX: for the relief of the heirs of Joseph Wilcox.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 288</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of Joseph Wilcox.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">400 dollars to be paid to his heirs.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred dollars to the legal heirs of the late Joseph Wilcox, deceased; it being for the passage of George A. Hughes, bearer of the Louisiana treaty from Havre, in France, to the city of New York, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three, in the brig Enterprize, owned by the said Wilcox.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. C: for the relief of Robert F. Stockton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>C</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 288</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>C.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert F. Stockton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of certain suits to be allowed to him in the cases of the Jeune Eugenia and the Marianna Flora.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and allow the accounts of Lieutenant Robert F. Stockton, late commander of the United States’ schooner Alligator, for money paid and expenses incurred, or which may hereafter be incurred, by him, in any suit or suits instituted in the courts of the United States, in the case of the schooner Jeune Eugenia, captured off the coast of Africa, by the said schooner Alligator, for an alleged violation of the laws prohibiting the slave trade; and in the case of the ship Marianna Flora, likewise captured on the high seas, for an alleged piratical aggression on the said schooner Alligator, while under the command of the said Stockton; and which vessels, respectively, were sent into the United States for adjudication.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of said expenses, when ascertained by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be paid to the said Robert F. Stockton, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CI: for the relief of James Morrison.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 288</citableAs>
<dc:date>1823-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>17</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Morrison.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">10,000 dollars to be allowed to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to allow James Morrison, late Deputy Quartermaster-General, in the settlement of his accounts, the sum of ten thousand dollars, which was advanced by Thomas II. Pindall, an Assistant Deputy Quartermaster-General, under the said Morrison, to Thomas Buford, late Deputy Commissary-General: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said James Morrison shall first assign and transfer to the United States all his right and claim to the moneys mentioned in a certain receipt signed by said Thomas Buford to said James Morrison, bearing date the twenty-first day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve. But, if the said James Morrison, on the final settlement of his accounts with the treasury department, should not be found indebted to the United States in the amount of the sum herein allowed him, in that event, the said sura, or so much thereof as
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 102, 103. 1823.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/289">289</page>
shall be found due the said Morrison, on such final settlement, shall be paid to him out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CII: for the relief of John Byers.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CII</docNumber>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Byers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be credited for certain moneys.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized to pass to the credit of John Byers, such sum as shall be satisfactorily shown to have been the depreciation on treasury notes, advanced by the government, and expended by him, in the supply of rations in the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, from the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to the thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, both days inclusive, taking for the rule of allowance the difference in value between the treasury notes so advanced, and the money current at par in those states, at the periods when the advances were made; and confining the allowance to the loss on the sums actually expended within the periods above mentioned: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> It shall be made to appear, to the satisfaction of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the said officers, that, after the contract of the said John Byers, the Secretary of War did promise the indemnity provided by this act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CIII: for the relief of Charles Carr, of Kentucky, late Paymaster to Colonel William Dudley’s regiment of Kentucky militia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII</docNumber>
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<congress>17</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Carr, of Kentucky, late Paymaster to Colonel William Dudley’s regiment of Kentucky militia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, in settling the accounts of Charles Carr,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain credits to be allowed.</p></sidenote> late Paymaster to Colonel William Dudley’s regiment of Kentucky militia, in service of the United States, the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow to the said Charles Carr, such credits as he may prove that he is entitled to, by the best evidence which the nature of the case will admit of, and which it may be in his power to produce: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That no credits allowed as aforesaid shall exceed the amount claimed of the said Charles Carr, by the United States.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the further prosecution of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgment suspended.</p></sidenote> the judgment obtained by the United States against the said Charles Carr, in the District Court of Kentucky, be, and the same is hereby, suspended for and during the term of twelve months from and after the passage of this act: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department aforesaid shall require of the said Charles Carr good and sufficient surety for the eventual payment to the United States of whatever sum may be found due from him, on a settlement of his accounts, in the manner directed in the first section of this act.</proviso><proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the proper accounting<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> officers of the treasury department aforesaid shall require of the said Charles Carr good and sufficient surety for the eventual payment to the United States of whatever sum may be found due from him, on a settlement of his accounts, in the manner directed in the first section of this act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-03-03">March 3, 1823</date>.
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<congress>18</congress>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<dc:date>1824</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December,</i> 1823, <i>and ended on the twenty-sixth day of May,</i> 1824.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Monroe</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Daniel D. Tompkins</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">John Gaillard</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">Henry Clay</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. I: appropriating a certain sum of money for the relief of Daniel D. Tompkins.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>I</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1823-12-22</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>I.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">appropriating a certain sum of money for the relief of Daniel D. Tompkins.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1823-12-22">Dec. 22, 1823</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$35,190 to be paid to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to Daniel D. Tompkins, late Governor of the state of New York, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty-five thousand one hundred and ninety dollars; being the amount reported in favor of the said Daniel D. Tompkins, by the accounting officers of the treasury, in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 21, 1823, ch. 12.</p></sidenote>compliance with the act of Congress, entitled “An act to provide for the settlement of the accounts of Daniel D. Tompkins, late Governor of the state of New York,” passed the twenty-first February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1823-12-22">December 22, 1823</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of Thomas W. Bacot.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1824-01-07</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas W. Bacot.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-01-07">Jan. 7, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General of the United States <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him out of the funds of the General Post Office Department.</p></sidenote>shall be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay Thomas W. Bacot, postmaster at Charleston, South Carolina, three hundred dollars, out of the funds of his department; it being the amount paid by said Bacot, for apprehending and re-delivery of Patrick Smith, who had escaped from the state prison of said state, where he was confined on conviction had in the Circuit Court of the United States at Charleston, for robbing the mail.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-01-07">January 7, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of Charles M. Collier.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 290</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-01-07</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles M. Collier.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-01-07">Jan. 7, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him or his legal representatives for the loss of his packet boat captured, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Charles M. Collier, or to his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand dollars, in full for the loss of his packet boat, the Huntress, captured by the enemy, during the late war, while in the service of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-01-07">January 7, 1824</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/290" renderingPosition="bottom">290</page>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Jeremiah Manning, of New Jersey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 291</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-01-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch .7, 8, 10, 11, 12. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/291">291</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jeremiah Manning, of New Jersey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-01-07">Jan. 7, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote> Jeremiah Manning, the sum of one hundred and fourteen dollars, in full for a quantity of hay, furnished during the late war, to the troops in service of the United States, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-01-07">January 7, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of Loudon Case.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 291</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-01-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Loudon Case.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-01-07">Jan. 7, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Loudon Case, or his legal representative, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him or his legal representative for oxen impressed.</p></sidenote> the sum of ninety-two dollars, the value of a yoke of oxen, impressed into the service of the United States, in the fall of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-01-07">January 7, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. X: for the relief of William Bartlett and John Stearns, owners of the schooner Angler, and Nathaniel Carver, owner of the schooner Harmony, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 291</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-01-19</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Bartlett and John Stearns, owners of the schooner Angler, and Nathaniel Carver, owner of the schooner Harmony, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-01-19">Jan. 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector for the District of Plymouth, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector to pay them the amount to which their fishing vessels would have been entitled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> William Bartlett and John Stearns, owners of a fishing schooner called Angler, of seventy-two tons and fifty-one ninety-fifths of a ton; and to Nathaniel Carver, owner of a fishing vessel called the Harmony, of seventy- nine tons; and to the persons composing the crews of the said vessels, the amount of the allowance to which said vessels would have been entitled, had they returned into port, after completing their fishing terms, to be distributed according to law.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-01-19">January 19, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of certain Distillers within the county of Berks, in the state of Pennsylvania.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 291</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-01-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of certain Distillers within the county of Berks, in the state of Pennsylvania.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-01-19">Jan. 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to refund, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the treasury to refund certain duties paid by them, respectively.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the distillers of spirituous liquors within the county of Berks, in the state of Pennsylvania, who, at any time since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, have used stills made according to Henry Whitmer’s improvement upon Anderson’s condensing tub, and who have paid a duty upon the capacity of the globes of such stills, all such sums of money as they may have paid, respectively, as a duty on the capacity of the globes of their said stills.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-01-19">January 19, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XII: for the relief of Brintnel Robbins.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 291</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-01-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Brintnel Robbins.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-01-19">Jan. 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department settle and adjust the claim of Brintnel Robbins, for sundry<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be adjusted for sundry boats built by him for the U. States.</p></sidenote> boats, not exceeding eleven in number, built by him for the United States, in the spring and summer of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, at Cleveland, in the state of Ohio, under a contract with Thomas S. Jesup, agent for the United States, as he shall satisfactorily prove to have been lost, in consequence of a storm, when said
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/292">292</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 13, 14, 18, 19. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
boats were nearly ready for inspection and delivery to said agent, and at the time under the protection of a guard, placed over them by said agent, at the contract price; and, also, that said officers settle and adjust the claim of said Brintnel Robbins, for such number of oars for boats, beyond those he was bound to furnish by contract, as he shall satisfactorily prove to have been delivered at the garrison at Cleveland.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That such sums as shall be found due to said Brintnel Robbins, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-01-19">January 19, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of William Kendall.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 292</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-01-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Kendall.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-01-19">Jan. 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To enter vacant land without payment, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Kendall be, and he is hereby authorized, as soon as he shall have relinquished to the United States, by a deed duly executed, all his right, title, and interest, in, and to, the northeast quarter of section fourteen, township four, range nineteen, in the Chillicothe District, to enter, without payment, with the register of said district, any vacant quarter section, situated within the same; and he shall be entitled to a patent therefor, as in other cases.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-01-19">January 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIV: for the relief of Jacob Babbitt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 292</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-01-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacob Babbitt.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-01-19">Jan. 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Jacob Babbitt, of the town of Bristol, in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from payment of a bond for $3775 73 cents.</p></sidenote>the state of Rhode Island, be, and he is hereby, released and discharged from the payment of a bond, dated the seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, for the sum of three thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-three cents, given by the said Babbitt to the United States, for interest on the sum of nine thousand four hundred and ninety-one dollars and forty-seven cents—the amount of duties on certain sugars imported by him into Bristol, in the said state, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-01-19">January 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: for the relief of Garrett Fountain.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 292</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-01-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Garrett Fountain.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-01-31">Jan. 31, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for house rent.</p></sidenote>department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Garrett Fountain, of the state of New York, the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, in full for the rent for three years and a half of a house erected by said Fountain, on the public ground, at New-Utrecht, Long-Island, in the state of New York; and that the said sum be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-01-31">January 31, 1824</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Samuel Wharton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 292</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-02-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Wharton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-02-04">Feb. 4, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To receive compensation for taking census in 1810.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, to settle the claim of Samuel Wharton, one of the Assistant Marshals appointed to take the census and an account of the manufacturing establishments and manufactures in the District of South Carolina, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, and to allow him such compensation as he may be entitled to by law for taking an account of the manufacturing establishments and manufactures in the Laurens division of said state.</content>
</section>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 21, 24, 40, 41. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/293">293</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of the claim, when ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-01-04">February 4, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Michael, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 293</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-02-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of John Michael, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-02-20">Feb. 20, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of State to deliver certificate No. 1095, issued by the New England Mississippi Land Co.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to deliver to Jesse Mercer, administrator de bonis non, with the will annexed, upon the estate of John Michael, late of Hancock county, in the state of Georgia, deceased, or to the legally constituted attorney in fact of the said Jesse Mercer, administrator as aforesaid, a certificate, number one thousand and ninety-five, issued by the New England Mississippi Land Company, in the name of Robert Williams, Jr., for twenty thousand acres of land, which said certificate is annexed to a relinquishment executed by the said John Michael, by his attorney in fact, Bolling Hall, bearing date on the twenty-fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen, and is now of file in the office of the said Secretary of State: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, before delivering<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary to retain a copy of the same.</p></sidenote> said certificate, the said Secretary of State shall make and retain a copy of said certificate in his office, and shall also take the receipt of said Jesse Mercer, or his attorney in fact, for the same.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-02-20">February 20, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: to authorize the issuing of letters patent to Samuel Brown.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 293</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-02-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the issuing of letters patent to Samuel Brown.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-02-28">Feb. 28, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to issue letters patent in the usual form to Samuel<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to issue to him.</p></sidenote> Brown, for his invention of a new and useful engine for producing power by which water may be raised, machines worked, and vessels propelled, without the aid of steam, upon his complying with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress, relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-02-28">February 28, 1824</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XL: to repeal an act, approved the third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, entitled “An act for the relief of John B. Hogan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XL</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 293</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-04-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to repeal an act, approved the third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, entitled “An act for the relief of John B. Hogan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-04-22">April 22, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the act approved on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, entitled “An act for the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of 3d March, 1823, ch. 76, repealed, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> relief of John B. Hogan,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that the accounting officers of the government be authorized to take such judicial measures or otherwise as may be necessary to compel a settlement of his accounts.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the proper accounting officer<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount paid to be credited on treasury books.</p></sidenote> of the treasury department be, and the same is hereby, directed to carry to the credit of the said Hogan, the amount paid by him, on account of clothing, to the Tennessee militia volunteer gunmen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-04-22">April 22, 1824</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLI: authorizing the executors of John B. Mebane to collect certain arrears of tax.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 293</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-04-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the executors of John B. Mebane to collect certain arrears of tax.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-04-22">April 22, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Joseph I. Alston and John Mebane, or the survivor of them, executors and legal representatives of John B. Mebane,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The executors to collect taxes for his estate.</p></sidenote> deceased, late collector of internal duties and direct tax in the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/294">294</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 42, 48, 49. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
county of Chatham, in the state of North Carolina, be, and they are <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A ct of May 19, 1824, ch. 127.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized to demand and collect, for the use of the estate of the said John B. Mebane, such arrearages of said district tax as remain uncollected, and which the said John B. Mebane had paid over to the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>United States, in the same manner as heretofore directed by law: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the said Joseph I. Alston and John Mebane to recover any arrears of such tax from the representatives of any deceased person, or from any person who shall make oath that the said tax, due from such person, had been paid to the said John B. Mebane, in his life-time.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-04-22">April 22, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of Barbara Paulas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 294</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-04-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Barbara Paulas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-04-22">April 22, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be paid to Barbara Paulas, mother<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Barbara Paulas, mother of John Zeabold, seaman on board U. S. sloop of war Wasp.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 20, 1816, ch. 65.</p></sidenote> and heir at law of John Zeabold, late a seaman on board the United States’ sloop of war Wasp, the amount of gratuity, and prize money, to which she was entitled, by an act passed on the twentieth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act respecting the late officers and crew of the sloop of war Wasp,” in the same manner as if she had made application therefor within the time limited by said act; and that the same shall be paid out of the navy pension fund, of which, by the provision of said act, it has become apart; the limitation, as to the time within which application was required to be made, contained in said act, to the contrary notwithstanding.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-04-22">April 22, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Joseph Wood, of Ohio.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 294</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Wood, of Ohio.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-04">May 4, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance in the settlement of his accounts as Register of Land Office at Marietta.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department allow to Joseph Wood, of the state of Ohio, the sum of two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents, in the settlement of his accounts as Register of the Land Office at Marietta, in that state; the said sum being hereby allowed to the said Joseph Wood, for performing the duties of a receiver in that office, from November, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, to the latter end of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-04">May 4, 1824</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for enclosing the burial ground of Christ Church, Washington Parish.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 294</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for enclosing the burial ground of Christ Church, Washington Parish.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-04">May 4, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for a wall round burial ground.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized to cause to be paid to the vestry of Christ Church, Washington parish, in the city of Washington, the sum of two thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a substantial wall around the burial ground of said parish: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said vestry shall execute a bond to the United States, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, and deposited in his department, conditioned in the penalty of four thousand dollars, for the faithful application of the money, and execution of the work, and securing to the United States the four hundred sites reserved in said burial ground, for the interment of members of Congress, and others, connected with the General Government.</proviso></content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-04">May 4, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of Celestin Moreau, of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 295</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-04</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 50, 51, 52, 53. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/295">295</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Celestin Moreau, of Louisiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-04">May 4, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Celestin Moreau, of the county of Rapide, in the state of Louisiana, be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his claim<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim confirmed to land in Louisiana.</p></sidenote> to four hundred superficial arpens of land, situate in the Bayou Rouge Prairie, in the county aforesaid, agreeably to his notice of claim, filed on the thirtieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, with the Register of the Western Land District of Opelousas: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That this confirmation shall only operate as a release of the title of the United States to the said tract of land, and not affect the claim of any other person to the same.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-04">May 4, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph C. Boyd.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 295</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph C. Boyd.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-04">May 4, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to audit<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him as District Paymaster for state of Maine.</p></sidenote> and settle the claim of the legal representatives of Joseph C. Boyd, late district paymaster for the state of Maine, for the sum of one thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirty-five cents, paid captain Joseph Wiscott, commander of a company of volunteers stationed at Castine, in the state of Maine, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and allow him a credit for the same amount in the settlement of his accounts.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-04">May 4, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LII: for the relief of James Johnson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 295</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Johnson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-04">May 4, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department, in settling the accounts of James Johnson, as paymaster to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To allow him a credit as paymaster during the late war.</p></sidenote> the mounted regiment commanded by Richard M. Johnson, in the late war with Great Britain, are hereby authorized and directed to allow him a credit of four thousand three hundred and two dollars seventy-five cents, being a balance against the said James Johnson, constituted by the payment of thirty-two and one half cents, to the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, for rations and forage, per day, for the time, during said service, in which the said non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, furnished themselves, instead of the sum of twenty-five cents for such rations and forage per day, authorized by the act of the second of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Jan. 2, 1795, ch. 9.</p></sidenote> making an excess of seven and an half cents per day, to each man, more than the last recited act warranted.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-04">May 4, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of Napier, Rapelye, and Bennett, and Petray and Piel.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 295</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-05</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Napier, Rapelye, and Bennett, and Petray and Piel.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Napier, Rapelye, and Bennett, merchants of Charleston, S. C. Duties paid by them.</p></sidenote> appropriated, to Napier, Rapelye, and Bennett, merchants of Charleston, South Carolina, the sum of two hundred and nineteen dollars and thirteen cents, being the amount of duties paid by them on four boxes muskets, one box of pistols, eight boxes sugar, three boxes cigars, eight boxes sulphur, and two boxes almonds, received by them, from St. Augustine, in the month of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Petray and Viel, merchants,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/296">296</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 54, 55, 56. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Petray and Viel of same place.</p></sidenote>of Charleston, South Carolina, the sum of six hundred twenty-nine dollars sixteen cents, being the amount of duties paid on twelve pipes of brandy, received by them from St. Augustine, in January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-04">May 5, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of Noah Smith, of Maine.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 296</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-05</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Noah Smith, of Maine.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on the pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place Noah Smith, an insane person, one of the revolutionary soldiers, on the pension list of the United States, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, which shall be paid as other pensions, by the agent for that purpose, in the state of Maine: <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said pension shall be paid to the wife of the said Noah Smith during his life, and that the said agent shall require evidence, at each payment, that the said Noah Smith is alive, and that the person applying for the pension is duly authorized by the wife of said Noah Smith to receive it, under such forms and regulations as the Secretary of War may direct; and should the wife of the said Noah Smith die previous to the death of the said Noah Smith, upon proof of that fact, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, he is hereby directed to authorize the payment of the said pension to be continued and paid to the legal representative of the said Noah Smith, and for his use, under such regulations as he may think proper.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-04">May 5, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the benefit of Alfred Moore and Sterling Orgain, assignees of Morris Linsey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 296</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of Alfred Moore and Sterling Orgain, assignees of Morris Linsey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them as assignees for blacksmith work during the Seminole war.</p></sidenote> department be directed to adjust and settle the account of Alfred Moore and Sterling Orgain, assignees of Morris Linsey, and allow to them the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars; being the amount of the account of Morris Linsey, for work and labor done by him as a blacksmith in furnishing horse-shoes for the mounted volunteers of Tennessee, employed in the Seminole war; and which account was assigned to said Moore and Orgain for valuable consideration.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-04">May 5, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Firman Le Sieur.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 296</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Firman Le Sieur.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To enter one section of land in any land office in Missouri.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Firman Le Sieur, late of the state of Missouri, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter one section of land, in any of the land offices in the state of Missouri, the sale of which is authorized by law, in full satisfaction for a like quantity, patented to them by the United States, on the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> said representatives of Firman Le Sieur shall first release to the United States all claim by virtue of the said patent, and surrender the same to the Commissioner of the General Land Office; and shall confine such entry to lands which have been heretofore offered for public sale, and conformably to the lines of the public surveys.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVII: for the relief of Ichabod Lord Skinner.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 297</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 57, 58, 59, 60, 61. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/297">297</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ichabod Lord Skinner.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of Ichabod Lord Skinner,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">His accounts as sub-contractor to be settled.</p></sidenote> lately engaged as a sub-contractor in “making a road from Cumberland, in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio,” on principles of equity; and that the balance which may be found due to the said Ichabod Lord Skinner be paid to him out of any money in the treasury unappropriated; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the proceedings of the said Secretary be first<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> approved by the President of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: for the relief of Elijah Vansyckel, of Philadelphia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 297</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elijah Vansyckel, of Philadelphia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the credit allowed by the existing laws upon the duties due, and remaining unpaid, to the United States, at the custom-house<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The payment of $4217 to be prolonged for four years.</p></sidenote> at Philadelphia, on three hundred and fifty-two cases of sugar, the property of Elijah Vansyckel, which were destroyed by fire on the night of the fifteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and not insured against fire, which duties amounted to four thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars, be, and the same is hereby, prolonged, for four years, from the respective times when said duties may be payable: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said bonds be renewed, with sufficient<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> surety, to the satisfaction of the collector of the said district of Philadelphia.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of Charles Gwynn, of Baltimore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 297</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Gwynn, of Baltimore.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Charles Gwynn, of Baltimore, out of any<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred and forty-four dollars sixteen cents and a half, being so much paid by him into the treasury of the United States, on a judgment obtained against him, as surety for the faithful administration of the estate of William Greetham, deceased, more than the assets of that estate had produced.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LX: to authorize the settlement of the accounts of Benjamin Lincoln, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 297</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the settlement of the accounts of Benjamin Lincoln, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed, to cause the accounts standing upon<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be balanced and cancelled.</p></sidenote> the books of his department, against Benjamin Lincoln, David Humphreys, and Cyrus Griffin, to be balanced and cancelled, said accounts consisting of charges against them as Commissioners for negotiating a treaty with the Creek Indians, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of Captain Thomas Staniford.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 297</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Captain Thomas Staniford.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, directed to credit, on the account<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting officers of the treasury to credit him for $7282 93 cts.</p></sidenote> of Thomas Staniford, the sum of seven thousand two hundred and eighty-two dollars and ninety-three cents, being the amount of vouchers accidentally lost, of money disbursed as paymaster, and which,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/298">298</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 62, 63, 64, 67. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
with the amount found for him, by the jury, in a suit in behalf of the United States, in the state of New York, balances his account, as heretofore stated by the accounting officers.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of Thaddeus Mayhew.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 298</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thaddeus Mayhew.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for property taken for troops at New Orleans.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Thaddeus Mayhew, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven hundred and fifteen dollars, for property taken for the use of the American troops at New Orleans.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of Amasa Stetson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 298</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Amasa Stetson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for interest on moneys advanced.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Amasa Stetson, of Boston, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars, being for interest on moneys advanced by him for the use of the United States, and on warrants issued in his favor, in the years eighteen hundred and fourteen and eighteen hundred and fifteen, for his services in the ordnance and quartermaster’s department, for superintending the making of army clothing, and for issuing the public supplies.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of Hanson Kelly.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 298</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Hanson Kelly.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Hanson Kelly, of North Carolina, three thousand five hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-six cents; being the balance of pay due him for rations furnished to prisoners of war, at Wilmington, from the twelfth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to the eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; and that the said sum be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-05">May 5, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVII: for the relief of Colonel William Duane.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 298</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Colonel William Duane.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-13">May 13, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The accounting officers of the treasury department, to settle the accounts of Col. W. Duane, and allow him for copies of the Cavalry System.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of Colonel William Duane, and that they be directed, in that settlement, to allow him the sum of three dollars seventy-five cents per volume for one thousand copies of the Cavalry System of Discipline, which he was to furnish the war department, deducting therefrom the price for which said volumes were sold by said Duane; that the said Duane be also allowed a credit of five hundred dollars, which he received from General Bloomfield, on the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and repaid on the fifteenth of April following: <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless,</i> That, in settling the accounts aforesaid, previous to the advance of any balance that may be due said Duane, the amount of a judgment, obtained against him by the government of the United States, be deducted therefrom.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-05">May 13, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of William N. Earle.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 299</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 68, 69, 70, 71, 72. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/299">299</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William N. Earle.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to adjust and settle the accounts of William N. Earle, late a lieutenant in the thirty-sixth regiment<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> United States’ infantry, in like manner as if no judgment had been obtained against him: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the judgment, heretofore recovered<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> against the said William N. Earle, shall stand as a security for the balance, if any, that may be found due on such settlement; and, upon payment thereof, and the costs of the suit; or, if no balance shall be found due, on payment of the costs, the said judgment shall be considered satisfied.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIX: releasing the owners of the ship General Jackson, from the payment of certain duties.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 299</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">releasing the owners of the ship General Jackson, from the payment of certain duties.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Francis G. Macey, and the other owners of the ship General Jackson, of the port of Nantucket, in the state of Massachusetts,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The owners of the ship Gen. Jackson released from payment of duties, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, released and discharged from the payment of all duties upon oil, imported into the said port, in the said ship, in the month of July last, and also, from the payment of any extra tonnage duty, charged upon the said ship, in the said month, by reason of the foreign character of John Fisher, the master of the said vessel.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXX: for the relief of Alvin Bronson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 299</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alvin Bronson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Alvin Bronson, or his legal<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to be made to him for value of his schooner Penelope, captured.</p></sidenote> representative, or representatives, the sum of three thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated; being the value of his schooner called the Penelope, captured by the British at Oswego, during the late war, while in the military service of the United States, without an agreement that the risk was to have been incurred by the owner.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: for the relief of Nathaniel Jones.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 299</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nathaniel Jones.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Nathaniel Jones, the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars, out of any money in the treasury, not<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for value of a boat captured.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, in full for the value of a boat captured by the enemy, in the late war, on Lake Ontario, while in the service of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXII: authorizing the issuing of certain debentures to Barnard Thooft.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 299</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the issuing of certain debentures to Barnard Thooft.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the customs in and for the district of New York be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue to Barnard<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To issue to him debentures for duties on two parcels of coffee exported by him.</p></sidenote> Thooft, merchant, of said city, debentures for duties on two parcels of coffee, exported by said Barnard Thooft, in the brig Ohio, in the month of May last, from the port of New York, for the port of Amsterdam; in the same manner as if the export bond had been executed by the said Barnard Thooft within the period of twenty days from the clearance of the said vessel, conformable to the provisions of the act of Congress in such case made and provided.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIII: for the relief of the representatives of Samuel Mims, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 300</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/300">300</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representatives of Samuel Mims, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to the legal representatives of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$1800 to be paid his representatives for loss of buildings, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>Samuel Mims, deceased, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars, in full, for the loss of his buildings at Fort Mims, in the summer of eighteen hundred and thirteen; they having been destroyed by the hostile Indians, while in possession of the troops of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXIV: for the relief of the representative of Elijah Brush.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 300</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representative of Elijah Brush.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to his representatives for destruction of fences, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to pay unto Adelaide Brush, executrix of Elijah Brush, or to his legal representative, the sum of five hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, in full for the destruction of fences on the farm of the said Elijah Brush, near Detroit, in the years one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, by the troops of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXV: for the relief of Solomon Sibley.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 300</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Solomon Sibley.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for fences, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to pay unto Solomon Sibley, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and three dollars and sixty cents, in full compensation for his fences, necessarily taken for the public use, in the years one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, at Detroit, in the territory of Michigan.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: for the relief of Henry Lightner.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 300</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Lightner.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster General shall be, and is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages to be released, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized, upon the payment of the debt, interest, and costs, recovered against Henry Lightner, late Postmaster at Landisburg, Pennsylvania, in the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to remit and release to the said Lightner, the damages recovered in said cases against him.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVII: for the relief of William T. Nimmo.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 300</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William T. Nimmo.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to the representatives of William<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to his representatives for the destruction of his pleasure house, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> T. Nimmo, the sum of five hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, in full, for the destruction by the enemy, in the fall of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, of the pleasure house of said William T. Nimmo, situate in the county of Princess Ann, state of Virginia, occupied by a detachment of the United States’ troops.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of David Beard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 300</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Beard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to David Beard, of the state of New York,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 79, 80, 81, 82, 83. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/301">301</page>
out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, such sum<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Such sum to be paid to him as shall have accrued to the U. S. from the forfeiture of goods, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> as he shall be satisfied accrued to the United States from the forfeiture and sale of certain goods, wares, and merchandises, belonging to the said David Beard and Joseph Farewell, introduced into the district of Oswegatchie, in the state of New York, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and which were seized by officers of the customs, for an alleged violation of the laws of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIX: for the relief of David Cooper.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 301</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Cooper.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to David Cooper, or his legal representative, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for value of an unfinished house pulled down, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the sum of eighty dollars, the value of an unfinished house pulled down and converted into United States’ barracks, in the month of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: for the relief of John Thomas and Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 301</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Thomas and Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Thomas and Company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them for flour, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> sum of four hundred and forty-one dollars, being the amount of transportation, and price of twenty-one barrels of flour, taken in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, from said Thomas and Company, by the officers commanding at Forts Jennings and Winchester, and issued to the troops of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the relief of Elliott Rucker.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 301</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elliott Rucker.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster General shall be, and he is hereby, authorized, upon the payment of two hundred and eighty dollars<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Release of judgment against them.</p></sidenote> and eighty-two cents, by Elliott Rucker, one of the securities of Edmond F. Vawter, late Postmaster at Versailles, to relinquish to the said Rucker, the residue of the judgment obtained against him, as one of the securities of said Vawter, at the May term, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, of the Circuit Court for the district of Kentucky.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of Charles Humphrey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 301</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Humphrey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Charles Humphrey, late a captain in the army of the United States, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for premium for enlisting recruits.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty-two dollars; it being the premium to which he is entitled for enlisting certain recruits for the army; a sum which has been withheld at the treasury, upon the supposition that he was indebted to the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: for the relief of George B. R. Gove.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 301</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George B. R. Gove.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to George B. R. Gove, or his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him as a moiety of forfeiture, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of four hundred and fourteen dollars and thirteen cents, being the amount paid into the treasury of the United States by Nathan Sage, Esq., Collector of the port of Oswego, in the third quarter of the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, as a moiety of a forfeiture of certain goods, wares, and merchandise, the property of the said
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/302">302</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 84, 85, 86, 87. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
George B. R. Gove, which forfeiture was remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the eighth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: for the relief of Stephen Brace.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 302</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Stephen Brace.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to settle his account.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the account of Stephen Brace, deducting therefrom any amount he may have received, either for his services as a boatman, or for subsistence while in captivity, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXV: for the relief of Joseph Wheaton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 302</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Wheaton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-17">May 17, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to be made to him for expenses, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Joseph Wheaton, former Sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives, the sum of two hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-one cents, being the amount of expenses incurred in the removal of himself, family, and furniture, in eighteen hundred and three, from New Jersey to Washington, the seat of the General Government, and that the said sum shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVI: for the relief of Josiah Hook, Jun.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 302</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Josiah Hook, Jun.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Josiah Hook, Jr., collector<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for expenses in an action of trespass, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of Castine, in the state of Maine, the sum of eleven hundred and sixty-five dollars, it being for his expenses in an action of trespass, and the amount of a judgment recovered against him in said action, by Josiah Hoit, in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, in the June term of said court, in the county of Hancock, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for seizing in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, as collector of Penobscot, twenty-one oxen, one heifer, and one steer, the property of said Josiah Hoit, he, the said Hook, having probable cause to suspect and believe, that said Hoit was transporting said cattle to the territories of the enemies of the United States, to supply them with provisions; and that the said sum be paid to said Josiah Hook, Jr., out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVII: to provide for repaying to Bazaleel Wells, a certain sum of money by him erroneously paid into the treasury.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 302</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-18</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to provide for repaying to Bazaleel Wells, a certain sum of money by him erroneously paid into the treasury.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">300 dollars to be paid to him on account of lands, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to Bazaleel Wells, of the state of Ohio, the sum of three hundred dollars, being the amount paid by him into the treasury, on the twelfth day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two, by mistake, on account of three several tracts of land, in the district of Vincennes, in the state of Indiana, which had been before that <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12.</p></sidenote>time relinquished by him to the United States, under the “Act for the relief of purchasers of public lands, prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty.”</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XC: to compensate William Cocke for certain military services rendered the United States during the late war; and for the relief of John T. Johnson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 303</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-18</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 90, 91, 92, 93. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/303">303</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to compensate William Cocke for certain military services rendered the United States during the late war; and for the relief of John T. Johnson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to William Cocke, formerly of the Tennessee mounted gun-men, out of the moneys of the treasury not<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wm. Cocke to receive two months’ full pay, &amp;c. as a colonel,</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. T. Johnson to be allowed the pay of a captain.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, two months’ full pay and emoluments, as a colonel in the infantry of the army of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, directed, in the settlement of the account of John T. Johnson, for services rendered in the late war against Great Britain, during the time he acted as volunteer aid to Major-General William H. Harrison, to allow him the pay of the captain, with the additional pay and emoluments allowed by law to the aids of Majors-General.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCI: for the relief of David Giffin and Samuel Hoag.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 303</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Giffin and Samuel Hoag.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department settle and adjust the claims of David Giffin and Samuel<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to David Giffin and Samuel Hoag, for damage done their fencing, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Hoag, of the county of St. Lawrence, in the state of New York; and pay unto them, or to their legal representatives, a sum not exceeding seventy-five dollars to each, for damage done to the fencing on their farms, in the month of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, by the troops under the command of General Wilkinson; and that the said sums be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCII: for the relief of Mareen Duval.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 303</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mareen Duval.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay Mareen Duval, or his representative,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for provisions, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty-seven dollars eighteen cents, in full for provisions purchased by said Duval, of Joseph Harris, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and furnished to a regiment of Ohio militia, at their rendezvous, at Steubenville, commanded by said Duval.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIII: for the relief of John Wilmot.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 303</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Wilmot.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Wilmot, of the city of Baltimore, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for money paid on a decree reversed, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the sum of two thousand six hundred and sixty-eight dollars, in full, of the sum of money paid into the treasury, by the Marshal of the District of Maryland, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, out of the proceeds of the sale of the cargo of the schooner Collector, for duties on said cargo, sold by order of the District Court of Maryland, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, under a decree condemning said vessel and cargo, for a violation of the act, entitled “An act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 28, 1806, ch. 9.</p></sidenote> States and certain parts of the Island of St. Domingo,” which decree was afterwards reversed by the Supreme Court of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: for the relief of Lemuel Arms.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 304</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/304">304</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 94, 95, 96, 97, 98. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lemuel Arms.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Lemuel Arms, the sum of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for destruction of a building, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>one hundred and fifty dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, deducting therefrom any money which may have been received by him for rent, in full for the loss by him sustained, in the destruction of a building, in the village of Sackett’s Harbor, by the American troops, in the month of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCV: for the relief of William Blagrove.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 304</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Blagrove.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Blagrove be, and he is hereby, released<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharged from the payment of a judgment recovered against him at the suit of the U. States.</p></sidenote> and discharged from the payment of a judgment recovered against him, at the suit of the United States, in the southern district of New York, in the month of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, amounting to four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty-four cents; which release and discharge shall be in full for all claims in favor of the said William Blagrove, against the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVI: for the relief of Joseph Marechal.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 304</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Marechal.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Joseph Marechal, late captain<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit against him by the U. S., &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of the fourteenth regiment United States’ Infantry, the sum of two hundred and eighty-eight dollars, out of any moneys of the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. And that there be refunded to him, any sum which he may have paid as costs of suit in any action brought against him by the officers of the United States, in the District Court of the United States, for the district of Maryland, for March term, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVII: for the relief of Thomas Williams.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 305</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Williams.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A warrant for 100 acres of land to be issued to him.</p></sidenote>authorized and required, on application, to cause to be issued to Thomas Williams, who was a soldier in Captain Ransom’s company of Colonel Dunker’s regiment of the American army, in the revolutionary war, a warrant for one hundred acres of land, which may be located on any vacant part of the fifty quarter townships, and fractional townships, reserved by law for the holders of military warrants, and a patent issue, as in other cases.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVIII: for the relief of Frederick Perley.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 304</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Frederick Perley.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">His claim to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the claim of Frederick Perley, under a contract made on the twentieth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, with Justus Post, agent for fortifications at New York, and to pay the said Perley for such losses and damages as he shall prove, by the best evidence which the nature of the case will admit of, he sustained, in consequence of the agent refusing to receive the stone according to contract.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount of the claim, when ascertained, as aforesaid, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-18">May 18, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIX: concerning invalid pensions.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 305</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 99, 100, 101, 102. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/305">305</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning invalid pensions.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the following named persons on the pension list of invalid<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The following persons to be placed on the pension list:</p></sidenote> pensioners, of the United States, who shall be entitled to, and receive, pensions according to the rates, and commencing at the times, hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Andrew Gorril, at the rate of eight dollars per month; to commence<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Andrew Gorril to receive $8 per month.</p></sidenote> on the third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Wilson, at the rate of four dollars per month; to commence<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">James Wilson, $4 per month.</p></sidenote> the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Parker, Rock, and Thomas, three Seneca Indians, residing<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parker, Rock, &amp;c., each $4 per month.</p></sidenote> at Buffalo, in the state of New York, at the rate of four dollars per month, each; to commence the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.</p>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. C: for the relief of certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported into Castine.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>C</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 305</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>C.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of certain persons who have paid duties on certain goods imported into Castine.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be paid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the Treasury to pay to J. Aubin and others, all sums paid by them on goods imported into Castine in 1814.</p></sidenote> to Joshua Aubin, Nathaniel W. Appleton, and to C. H. Appleton, John Tappan, William Whitehead, James Crawford, Daniel Johnson, Otis Little, David Howe, Thatcher Avery, Ebenezer Hodsdon, John Lee, Benjamin Hazletine, Samuel Adams, and James Graham, who made payment, or to their legal representatives, all sums which have been paid into the treasury as, and for, duties upon goods imported into Castine, while in possession of the British forces, during the late war with Great Britain; the same not being, by law, subject to the payment thereof; upon which goods duties were also levied by, and paid to, the British authorities, upon their importation into Castine.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CI: for the relief of Joshua Bennett.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 305</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joshua Bennett.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be directed to pay to Joshua Bennett, of Kentucky,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for value of a horse lost, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the sum of sixty dollars, in full for the value of a horse lost by said Bennett on the north-western frontier, during the late war, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CII: for the relief of Robert Blean.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 305</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Blean.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain, by<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To receive such compensation for materials, &amp;c. as may be ascertained.</p></sidenote> such satisfactory testimony as may be produced, the value to the United States of the materials, taken for the public use, from the house erected by Robert Blean, at West Point, which house was erased by order of the officer commanding at that place.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay the sum, so ascertained, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the said Robert Blean, or to his legal representative.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Charles Bradford.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 306</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/306">306</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 103, 104, 105, 106. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Charles Bradford.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The Secretary of War authorized to pay the pension allowed Charles Bradford.</p></sidenote>is hereby directed, to pay to the legal representatives of Charles Bradford, late an invalid pensioner of the United States, the pension allowed him from the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, the time he was last paid, up to the first September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, the time he died.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIV: for the relief of James, Jehu, and Nathaniel Brooks, and the representatives of either of them.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 306</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James, Jehu, and Nathaniel Brooks, and the representatives of either of them.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To allow to them such further sum, as shall equal that allowed to others, for the manufacture of arms.</p></sidenote>authorized to allow unto James, Jehu, and Nathaniel Brooks, and to the legal representatives of either of them, such further sum, under a contract, of the date of November first, one thousand eight hundred and eight, between the United States, by Tench Cox, their agent, on the one part, with the said James, Jehu, and Nathaniel Brooks, on the other part, for the manufacture of four thousand stand of arms, as shall increase the price of each stand of arms delivered under the said contract, to a sum equal to that allowed to others who entered into contracts to manufacture and deliver arms to the United States, on or about the same time, keeping in view the quality of the arms delivered by each, with the additional labor bestowed more than would have been necessary<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to have made the muskets equal to the pattern: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the proof for such allowance be exhibited to the Secretary of War, within six months.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sum so allowed shall be applied, by the proper accounting officers, towards the sum of four thousand dollars, advanced on said contract; and interest on the balance of said sum so advanced, shall be computed from the time the same was made until its payment, for which the judgment, recovered <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgment against said Brooks to remain.</p></sidenote>against the said Brooks, shall remain as if this act had not passed, except that further proceedings thereon shall be stayed for six months; and when said balance and interest shall be paid, the same shall be in full discharge of said judgment.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of Robert Brotherton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 307</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Brotherton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Robert Brotherton, of the county of Erie, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be released from the payment of a judgment.</p></sidenote>in the state of Pennsylvania, be, and he is hereby, released from the payment of a judgment obtained against him in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, held at Pittsburg, as one of the sureties of John Crabb, formerly collector of the direct tax and internal duties of the United States, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, at Pittsburg aforesaid; and from all claims and demands arising, or that may arise, to the United <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>States, on account of his being surety as aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing herein shall release or discharge the said John Crabb from his liability to the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVI: for the relief of Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 306</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Daniel Carroll, of Dud-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 107, 108, 109, 110, 111. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/307">307</page>
dington, and others, proprietors of the building occupied by the Congress<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, and others, for rent, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of the United States, from the year eighteen hundred and sixteen, to the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, the sum of fifteen hundred and fifty-five dollars, for repairing the same, and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVII: for the relief of Archibald Clark.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 307</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Archibald Clark.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the Treasury to indemnify A. Clark.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to indemnify Archibald Clark, collector of the customs for the district of St. Mary’s, for the payment of a judgment obtained by Jean Jacques Edon [Edou], against the said collector, for the detention of the ship Apollon, together with the interests and costs.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: for the relief of Isaac Collyer and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 307</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaac Collyer and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector for the District of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and he is hereby, directed to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To pay to him the amount of his fishing vessel’s allowance.</p></sidenote> pay to Isaac Collyer, owner of a fishing schooner, called the Dove, of sixty-eight tons, and to the persons composing the crew of the said vessel, the amount of the allowance to which the said vessel would have been entitled, had she returned into port after completing her fishing term; to be distributed according to law.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIX: for the relief of Benjamin Desobry.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 307</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin Desobry.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the District of New York, be authorized to issue certificates of debenture to Benjamin<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To issue certificates of debenture to him.</p></sidenote> Desobry, or his attorney, legally constituted and appointed, for the amount of drawback of duties on forty bags of coffee, shipped on board the ship Caroline, to Hamburg, from the port of New York, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two, which shipment was entered at the custom-house for exportation, but the oath required by law was not taken, nor the bond given within the time prescribed by law, by reason of sickness: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Benjamin Desobry, or his<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> attorney, legally constituted and appointed, shall in all other respects comply with the law, to entitle him to debenture.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CX: for the relief of Jonas Duncan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 307</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonas Duncan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Jonas Duncan, or to his legal representative, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for use of a house, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of sixty dollars, in full compensation for the use of a house owned by the said Duncan, and occupied by the officers of the United States during the late war with Great Britain.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXI: for the relief of the administrator of John B. Fanning, deceased, late a purser in the Navy of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 307</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the administrator of John B. Fanning, deceased, late a purser in the Navy of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The Secretary of the Navy to adjust the ac-</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized and required to adjust and settle the accounts of John B. Fanning, late a purser in the navy of the United States, upon
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/308">308</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess . I. Ch . 112,113,114,115. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">counts of John B. Fanning.</p></sidenote>principles of equity and justice, and to make such allowances to the administrator of his estate, as, under the circumstances of the case, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>shall appear just and reasonable: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That no allowance shall be made by virtue of this act, beyond the balance now standing against said Fanning on the books of the navy department.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXII: for the relief of Joseph Firman and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 308</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Firman and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joseph Firman and others, of Louisiana, confirmed in their titles to a tract of land.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Joseph Firman, and others, of the parish of Avoyelles, in Louisiana, who hold under a grant made about the year seventeen hundred and eighty-two, or three, to one Beaumond, an officer under the late Spanish government in Louisiana, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title or titles to a tract of land, twenty arpens in front, with the depth of forty arpens, in proportion to the quantity of land which each one holds from the said Beaumond; the said tract being the same which the said Joseph Firman, and others, or those under whom they hold, have inhabited and cultivated for more than thirty years; the boundaries of which said tract of land to be more particularly designated under the direction of the Register of the Land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Office at Opelousas, in Louisiana: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> This section shall only operate as a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and shall not affect the rights of any third person.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sums paid by them to the U. S. to be refunded.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be refunded to the said Joseph Firman, and others, or their legal representatives, any sum or sums of money which he or they may have paid to the United States, for the purchase of said tract of land, or any part thereof.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: for the relief of Robert S. Foreman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 308</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert S. Foreman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A warrant for 160 acres of land to be issued to him.</p></sidenote>Robert S. Foreman, late a private of the thirteenth regiment of United States’ infantry, a warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land; which may be located as other warrants are, which have been issued in favor of soldiers of the late war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: for the relief of the legal representatives of Fry and Spalding.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 308</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Fry and Spalding.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized to settle the claim of the legal representatives of John Fry and Samuel Spalding, under three certificates of the Georgia Mississippi Company, numbers one hundred and fifty-nine, three hundred and fifty-seven, and three hundred and fifty-eight; and also, for citizens’ rights to four thousand four hundred and ten acres of land in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>the Georgia Company: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the legal representatives of the said Fry and Spalding, shall previously take and subscribe the oath, and make the transfer and relinquishment to the United States required by the several acts of Congress in such cases made and provided.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXV: for the relief of Morris Goldsmith and Anthony Roderick.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 308</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Morris Goldsmith and Anthony Roderick.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to pay, unto Morris Goldsmith and Anthony Roderick, the sum of five hundred and six dollars and fifty
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 116, 117, 118, 119. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/309">309</page>
cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full for moneys expended, and services rendered, in the apprehension of persons charged with piracy, in the years eighteen hundred and nineteen and eighteen hundred and twenty.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of Maturin Guichot.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 309</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Maturin Guichot.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Maturin Guichot, an inhabitant of the parish of Avoyelles, in the state of Louisiana, or his legal representatives, be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The title of Maturin Guichot to a tract of land in Avoyelles, Louisiana, confirmed.</p></sidenote> and he or they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a tract of land, of ten arpens in front, with the depth of forty arpens, situated in the parish of Avoyelles, in the state of Louisiana, and being the same land which the said Maturin Guichot, or those under whom he holds, have actually cultivated and inhabited for thirty years, and which said tract of land was originally granted to one Baptiste Duplechin, the boundaries of which are to be more fully and particularly designated under the direction of the Register of the Land Office of the district in which said land lies: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> This section shall operate only as a relinquishment<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> on the part of the United States, and shall not affect the rights of any third person.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money paid by him to the U. S. to be refunded.</p></sidenote> of the United States be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be refunded to the said Maturin Guichot, or his legal representatives, any sum of money which he may have paid to the United States for the purchase of said tract of land, or any part thereof.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: for the relief of William Hall, an invalid soldier of the revolutionary army.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 309</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Hall, an invalid soldier of the revolutionary army.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized, and he is hereby directed, to place William Hall on the pension list of invalid<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on the pension list.</p></sidenote> pensioners of the United States, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, in lieu of the pension he now receives.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: for the relief of Mary H. Hawkins.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 309</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mary H. Hawkins.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed to Mary H. Hawkins a credit, without interest, for five years from the first day of June next,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be allowed a credit.</p></sidenote> upon the balance due from her, on account of the purchase money of the real estate of William Hawkins, deceased, sold at the suit of the United States, and purchased by the said Mary.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIX: for the relief of Benjamin King.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 309</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin King.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That so much of a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, at the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on balance due remitted to him.</p></sidenote> October term of said court, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty-two, in favor of the United States, against Benjamin King, as was rendered for interest on the balance due from said King, shall be, and hereby is, remitted; and any sum of money which may have been paid, by said King, into the treasury of the United States, in discharge of the said amount, included in said judgment as interest, shall be refunded to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Louderman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 310</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/310">310</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125. 1824</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of John Louderman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension allowed to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized, and he is hereby directed, to pay to the legal representatives of John Louderman, late a soldier of the United States’ army, a sum at the rate of six dollars and forty cents per month, commencing from the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, up to the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: for the relief of J. M. C. Montgomery.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 310</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of J. M. C. Montgomery.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be paid out of any money in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for a sum overpaid.</p></sidenote>treasury not otherwise appropriated, to J. M. C. Montgomery, or his legal representative, the sum of sixty-one dollars, that sum being the amount paid by said Montgomery, to the master boat-builder at Floydsville, in the state of Georgia, above the sum allowed by law.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: for the relief of Hugh M’Culloch.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 310</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Hugh M’Culloch.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for property, the sale of which was reversed.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized to pay to Hugh M’CulIoch, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred dollars, the amount paid by the said Hugh for the purchase of certain property in North Carolina, sold by the Marshal for the District of North Carolina, at the suit of the United States, which sale was subsequently reversed by reason of irregularity in the execution.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXIII: for the relief of Jacob Slough.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 310</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacob Slough.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Jacob Slough, formerly a captain in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from a balance against him.</p></sidenote>army of the United States, be, and he is hereby, released from the payment of the sum of one thousand five hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifteen cents, the balance which stands charged against him on the books of the treasury of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXIV: for the relief of Joseph Smith, of Alexandria.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 310</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Smith, of Alexandria.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To receive wages and prize money for his slave.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to pay to Joseph Smith, of Alexandria, the wages and dividend of prize money to which he is entitled, for the services, during the late war, of his slave Tom, alias Thomas Mitchel, on board the United States’ ship the Wasp.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXV: for the relief of John Topp.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 310</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Topp.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any moneys in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for wood.</p></sidenote>treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Topp, of Davidson county, Tennessee, the sum of three hundred dollars, the value of a quantity of wood necessarily taken by the United States’ troops, from the lands of the said Topp, near Nashville, in the state of Tennessee, during the last war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXVI: for the relief of Dean Weymouth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 311</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 126, 127, 128, 129. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/311">311</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Dean Weymouth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Dean Weymouth, late a soldier in the New York volunteers, and afterwards a soldier in the regular<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for services as a soldier.</p></sidenote> army of the United States, out of any moneys of the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighty dollars, being in full for ten months’ pay as a private in the former corps.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXVII: supplementary to an act, entitled “An act authorizing the executors of John B. Mebane to collect certain arrears of tax.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 311</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">supplementary to an act, entitled “An act authorizing the executors of John B. Mebane to collect certain arrears of tax.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Joseph J. Alston and John Mebane, or the survivor of them, executors and legal representatives of John B.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executors to collect for the use of the estate such arrears as remain uncollected. Act of April 22, 1824, ch. 41.</p></sidenote> Mebane, deceased, late collector of internal duties and direct tax, in the county of Chatham, in the state of North Carolina, be, and they are hereby, authorized to demand and collect, for the use of the estate of the said John B. Mebane, such arrearages of said direct tax and internal duties as remain uncollected, and which the said John B. Mebane had paid over to the United States, in the same manner as heretofore directed by law: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing in this act shall be construed<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to authorize the said Joseph J. Alston and John Mebane to recover any arrears of such tax, from the representatives of any deceased person, or from any person who shall make oath that the said tax, due from such person, had been paid to the said John B. Mebane in his lifetime.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-19">May 19, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXVIII: for the relief of John K. Carter.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 311</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John K. Carter.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to pass to the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To have passed to his credit such sum as shall be satisfactorily shown to have been the depreciation on treasury notes.</p></sidenote> credit of John K. Carter, such sum as shall be satisfactorily shown to have been the depreciation on treasury notes, advanced by the government, and expended by him in the recruiting service, in the city of New York, from the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, taking for the rule of allowance the difference in value between the treasury notes so advanced, and the money current at par, in the city of New York, at the periods when the advances were made, and confining the allowances to the loss on the sums actually expended within the periods before mentioned.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXIX: for the relief of the heirs of Miguel Eslava.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 311</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of Miguel Eslava.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs of Miguel Eslava, deceased, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to a lot of ground situated<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">His heirs confirmed in their claim to a lot of ground below Fort Mobile.</p></sidenote> below Fort Mobile, purchased by the said Miguel Eslava, at a judicial sale of Jean Baptiste de Lusser, on the thirtieth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, and bounded on the east by Royal street continued, on the north by Monroe street, on the west by Washington street, and on the south by a lot claimed by the family of Durette, and containing sixteen thousand nine hundred and one square feet: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> This confirmation shall only amount to a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> relinquishment, on the part of the United States, and shall not affect the rights of any third person.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXX: for the relief of Edward Evans.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 312</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/312">312</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 130, 131, 132, 133, 134. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edward Evans.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The officers of the treasury department to adjust the claim of Edward Evans.</p></sidenote> department settle and adjust the claim of Edward Evans, surviving partner of the firm of Owen and Edward Evans, for the manufacture of two thousand and forty-three muskets, manufactured for the United States, under a contract with Tench Cox, entered into on the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight; and to make him such further allowance as shall be equal to that allowed to others, who contracted about the same time to manufacture arms for the United States, and who have had their accounts settled under special acts of Congress; keeping in view the quality of the arms delivered, with the additional labor bestowed, more than would have been necessary to have made muskets equal to the pattern gun; and such allowance, so made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXI: for the relief of John S. Moffitt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 312</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John S. Moffitt.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled as collector, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle and adjust the accounts of John S. Maffitt, late a collector of the third collection district of the state of Maryland, and to allow him commissions on all sums on which commissions had not been allowed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXII: for the relief of Landie Richardson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 312</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Landie Richardson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for a horse lost.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to pay unto Landie Richardson, or to his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighty dollars, being the value of a horse he lost in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, when a private soldier in Captain Bilboa’s company of mounted volunteers, for the reason that the government failed to furnish forage.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIII: for the relief of Robert Strain.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 312</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Strain.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain sum to be paid to him for two rifle guns impressed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department settle the account of Robert Strain, and pay unto him, or to his legal representative, a sum not exceeding fifty-eight dollars, it being for two rifle guns, said to have been impressed from him into the public service during the late war, and not since returned to him; and that the said sum of fifty-eight dollars be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIV: for the relief of Dean Weymouth and Zachariah Bunker.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 312</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Dean Weymouth and Zachariah Bunker.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to be increased.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 19, 1824, ch. 126.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, in consideration of the numerous and severe wounds which he received in the battle of Bridgewater, the pension of Dean Weymouth, already placed on the pension list of the United States, shall be increased to the sum of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.</content>
</section>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 135, 142, 143. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/313">313</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pension of Zachariah<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension of Zachariah Bunker increased.</p></sidenote> Bunker, heretofore placed upon the pension list, be increased to the sum of fifteen dollars per month, to commence on the fourth of March last.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXV: to authorize the issuing of a register to the brig William, of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 313</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the issuing of a register to the brig William, of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be issued, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register to the brig William, a British<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A register to be issued to the Brig William.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> vessel, lately called the Union, which vessel was stranded on the coast of the United States, and purchased by William Porter, a citizen of the United States, and by him repaired: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> It shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that the cost of the repairs made in the United States, after the purchase of the said vessel by the present owner, exceeds three-fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-21">May 21, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLII: for the relief of the representatives of John Donnelson, Stephen Heard, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 313</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representatives of John Donnelson, Stephen Heard, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-24">May 24, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs and representatives of John Donnelson,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1832, ch. 81.</p></sidenote> Stephen Heard, William Downs, Joseph Martin, John Sevier,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">His heirs to enter 5000 acres of land in any land office in Mississippi or Alabama.</p></sidenote> and Thomas Carr, or their heirs and representatives, respectively, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered, severally, to enter, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand acres of land, at any time within two years from the passing of this act, in any Land Office in either of the states of Mississippi or Alabama; being the amount of a grant made to them, by a resolution of the Legislature of the state of Georgia, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said claim shall be satisfied out of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> five millions of acres of land, set apart by the act of Congress, of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and three, pursuant to the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1803, ch. 27.</p></sidenote> articles of agreement and cession, between the state of Georgia and the United States, entered into on the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, also,</i> That the acceptance of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the grant hereby made shall be a discharge of all further claims against the United States by the persons herein named, or their heirs or legal representatives, under the said resolution of the Legislature of the state of Georgia.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That said claims shall not be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">No entry to be made for less than a quarter section.</p></sidenote> located or entered on any lands, except those which may have been, previously to the making of said entry, offered at public sale, nor upon any lands forfeited or relinquished to the United States; nor shall any entry be made for a less quantity than a quarter section: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> Nothing herein contained shall prevent the entry of any fraction.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-24">May 24, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIII: for the relief of J. Ottramare.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 313</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of J. Ottramare.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-24">May 24, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be paid to J. Ottramare, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for jewelry libelled.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of three hundred and sixty dollars, being the amount received into the treasury, arising from the sales of four packages of jewelry, libelled and condemned in the District Court for the District of Louisiana.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-24">May 24, 1824</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIV: for the relief of the assignees and legal representatives of John H. Piatt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 314</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/314">314</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 144, 147, 148, 150. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the assignees and legal representatives of John H. Piatt.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-24">May 24, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to the assignees and legal <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">63,626 dollars 42 cents to be paid to him.</p></sidenote>representatives of John H. Piatt, late of Cincinnati, in the state of Ohio, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of sixty-three thousand six hundred and twenty dollars and forty-eight cents; being the amount found due to said Piatt by the accounting <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 8, 1820, ch. 73.</p></sidenote>officers of the treasury department, under the act of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, passed for his relief; of which said sum so much is first to be paid to the person or persons holding said Piatt’s assignment of said claim, as will satisfy the same; and the balance to be paid to his administrators.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-24">May 24, 1824</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLVII: for the relief of Hezekiah Langley and Benjamin M. Belt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 314</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Hezekiah Langley and Benjamin M. Belt.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-25">May 25, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them for work on the Circuit Court room.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, there be paid to Hezekiah Langley, for work and labor, and repairs, done on the Circuit Court room, in the city of Washington, the sum of eleven hundred and sixteen dollars; and to Benjamin M. Belt, for a mahogany desk furnished said court room, the sum of forty dollars.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-25">May 25, 1824</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLVIII: for the relief of Alexander M’Nair.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 314</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander M’Nair.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-25">May 25, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for a house destroyed.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Alexander M’Nair, of Missouri, two thousand dollars, being for the value of a house destroyed by fire, near Fort Massack, while occupied by the troops of the United States as barracks.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-25">May 25, 1824</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CL: appropriating a sum of money to Benjamin Huffman, of the state of Indiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CL</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 314</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CL.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">appropriating a sum of money to Benjamin Huffman, of the state of Indiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">500 dollars to be paid to him to regain his son.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Benjamin Huffman the sum of five hundred dollars, to enable him to regain his son, Peter Hoffman [Huffman], who was taken a captive by hostile Indians during the late war: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Benjamin Huffman shall previously give bond with sufficient security, to be approved of by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned upon the said Huffman’s rendering to the proper accounting officers of the treasury department, correct accounts of his expenditure of the whole or any part of the said sum of money for the sole purpose of regaining the possession of his son aforesaid; and that the said Huffman shall pay any balance that may remain in his hands after the expenditure provided for as aforesaid, into the treasury of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the aforesaid sum shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXX: to authorize the President to exchange five arpens of land on the south side of the public lot at Baton Rouge for an equal quantity of land on the north side of said lot.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 315</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 180, 193, 196. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/315">315</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the President to exchange five arpens of land on the south side of the public lot at Baton Rouge for an equal quantity of land on the north side of said lot.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The President authorized to exchange land on the south side of public lot in Baton Rouge, for land of the north part of said lot.</p></sidenote> authorized to exchange five arpens of land, on the south side of the public lot, in the town of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for an equal quantity of land on the north part of the said lot, which has been confirmed to the heirs of Eulogia de Casas; and to give and receive such titles as he may deem proper for perfecting said exchange.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCIII: granting to the Corporation of Tuskaloosa certain lots and privileges over the reservations and commons in said town.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 315</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting to the Corporation of Tuskaloosa certain lots and privileges over the reservations and commons in said town.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the right and title of the United States to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The right and title of the U. S. to the public streets, &amp;c., in the town of Tuskaloosa, vested in the corporation of said town forever.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The right, &amp;c. to another tract vested in said corporation on certain conditions.</p></sidenote> the public streets, and to certain lots in the town of Tuskaloosa, set apart for public uses, and designated in the plan of said town, by the names of the “Court Square,” the “ Market Square,” the “ Jail Lot,” the “ Spring,” the “ Church,” and the “ Burial Ground,” be, and the same is hereby, vested in the corporation of said town forever: And, also, all the right of the United States to that tract, between the lots and the river Tuskaloosa, called the “ River Margin,” and of that called the “Pond;” and, also, of that called “the Common;” on condition, however, that the corporation shall not lease or sell any portion of the last-mentioned tracts; but, that the same shall be appropriated to the purposes for which they were designated and set apart, as well for the benefit of the inhabitants of said town, as for that of those resorting to, or visiting the same; and in case the same, or any part thereof, be applied to any other purpose, that it revert to the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCVI: for the relief of the Corporation of the Church of St. Anne, and to authorize the extension of Larned Street, in the town of Detroit.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the Corporation of the Church of St. Anne, and to authorize the extension of Larned Street, in the town of Detroit.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be lawful for the Governor and Judges<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Larned street, in. Michigan, to be continued.</p></sidenote> of the Territory of Michigan, to cause Larned Street, in the town of Detroit to be continued, westerly, parallel to Jefferson Avenue, until it intersects the street which runs northerly from said Avenue, at right angles therewith, near the public barn, agreeable to the plan of the town; and to cause the public barn, and the pickets bounding the military reserve, to be removed to the north side of Larned Street.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That so much of the military<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part of military reserve confirmed to the corporation of St. Anne.</p></sidenote> reserve, lying south of Larned Street, thus extended, as is included in the deed from the said governor and judges to the Corporation of the Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church of St. Anne, of Detroit, on the 11th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, confirmed to the said corporation.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the residue of the said military<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Residue to be disposed of agreeably to the act of April 21, 1806, ch. 43.</p></sidenote> reserve, between Larned Street and Jefferson Avenue, included within the pickets of the said reserve, and bounded west by said street, which runs from said Avenue to the public barn, and east by the east bounds of the military reserve, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, vested in the said governor and judges, to be disposed of as, by the act of Congress, passed the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, entitled “An act to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in the town of Detroit, and territory of Michigan, and for other purposes,” is directed.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCVII: for the relief of Samuel Cleveland, junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 316</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/316">316</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 197, 198, 199, 200, 201. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Cleveland, junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for services as a soldier.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to pay unto Samuel Cleveland, junior, or to his legal representative, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred fourteen dollars, forty cents, being in full for his monthly pay as a soldier in the eleventh regiment of infantry, for three years three months and nine days.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCVIII: for the benefit of [the] Columbian Institute.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 316</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of [the] Columbian Institute.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A tract of ground granted to the Columbian Institute.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be granted, during the pleasure of Congress, to the Columbian Institute, for the promotion of the arts and sciences, the use and improvement of the tract of public ground in Washington City, which is bounded, on the east, by the Botanical Garden, in the occupancy of the said Columbian Institute; on the north, by the Pennsylvania Avenue; on the west, by the Tiber and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Canal; and on the south, by the Maryland Avenue; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, whenever the said Columbian Institute shall be dissolved, or cease to exist, or to employ the said tract of land, for the purposes aforesaid, all right, title, and interest, hereby granted to the same, shall revert to, and vest in, the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCIX: for the relief of George Fisher.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 316</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Fisher.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for land.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized to pay to George Fisher, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred eighteen dollars fifty cents, being the amount of purchase money paid by said George Fisher, for the north-east quarter section, twenty-six, of land, township seven, range three east, in the state of Alabama, the title to which has been transferred to Richard Rivers, and the full <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>amount of the price thereof paid by the said Richard Rivers: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said George Fisher shall satisfy the Secretary of the Treasury that the said quarter section of land is released from the operation of a pledge heretofore given upon it by him to the Tombeckbee Bank.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CC: for the relief of Arthur H. Henly.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CC</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 316</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CC.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Arthur H. Henly.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit to be allowed to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow to Arthur H. Henly, heir and representative of the late Colonel David Henly, deceased, a credit of six thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars and thirty-nine cents, the balance which stands to the debit of the said David Henly, deceased, on the books of the treasury department; which said sum shall be in full of all demands against the United States, for the services of the said David Henly, deceased.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCI: for the relief of John Holliday.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 316</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Holliday.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for wagon and team.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Holliday, or his legal representative, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and fifty-five dollars, the value of a wagon and team, captured by the hostile Indians, while in the service of the United States, during the late war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCII: for the relief of John H. Howland, of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 317</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 202, 203, 204. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/317">317</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John H. Howland, of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John H. Howland, of New York, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for drawback on sugar.</p></sidenote> sum of two thousand five hundred and forty-seven dollars thirty-two cents, being the amount of drawback on two hundred and thirty-seven boxes of sugar, shipped on board the brig William Howland, Captain Akin, for Hamburg, and which were retained from him by the collector of the customs at New York, in consequence, as alleged, of his not having given the bond prescribed by law, on exportation, for the benefit of drawback.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCIII: for the relief of John Mitchell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 317</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Mitchell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to allow to John Mitchell, late<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$1500 to be allowed him in addition to his stated salary.</p></sidenote> agent for prisoners of war at Halifax, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, in addition to his stated salary, during the time of his absence from the United States, on said agency; and, also, such further credits as shall appear just and equitable, for so much of his account as shall have been suspended for want of regular vouchers; and, in addition thereto, the sum of five thousand dollars, the amount of a bill of exchange standing to his debit on the books of the treasury.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCIV: for the relief of the legal representative of Thomas Robinson, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 317</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representative of Thomas Robinson, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled at the Treasury.</p></sidenote> department be, and hereby are, authorized and directed to settle and adjust, upon principles of equity and justice, the account of Thomas Robinson, now deceased, who was one of the sureties of Sharp Delaney, deceased, lately collector of the customs for the port of Philadelphia, in the Pennsylvania district; charging the said Thomas Robinson with the balance ascertained, at the treasury department, to be due from the said Sharp Delaney, collector as aforesaid, without interest, and allowing him credit for all sums of money which have been paid by him, or his co-sureties, in the said obligation, and for all other sums that have been paid or secured to the United States, towards satisfaction of the balance claimed to be due from the said Sharp Delaney, as collector aforesaid, and which, according to the principles of equity, ought to be allowed; and, upon such settlement, if no balance shall be found against the said Thomas Robinson, or if any balance shall be found against him, then, upon the payment of such balance by his legal representative, the Secretary of the Treasury shall release and discharge the legal representative, and the estate of the said Thomas Robinson, from all further claim and demand by the United States, for, or on account of, the obligation by which he became bound to the United States, as surety for said Sharp Delaney, and for, or on account of, any judgment or judgments heretofore obtained by the United States against the said Thomas Robinson, in his life-time, upon the said obligation, or for any sum of money claimed from him, as surety of the said Sharp Delaney: <proviso><i>Provided, always,</i> That nothing herein shall release the estate of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sharp Delaney’s estate not released.</p></sidenote> said Sharp Delaney from the claim of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCV: granting a tract of land to the inhabitants of the parish of Point Coupee, on certain conditions.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 318</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/318">318</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 205, 206, 207, 208, 209. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting a tract of land to the inhabitants of the parish of Point Coupee, on certain conditions.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the right of the United States to a tract of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A tract of land on the Mississippi river granted to the inhabitants of the Parish of Point Coupee.</p></sidenote>land, forty arpens front, upon the Mississippi river, and running back the depth of forty arpens, at a remarkable bend on said river, be, and the same is hereby, granted to the inhabitants of the parish of Point Coupee, within which said land is situated, on condition that said parish shall, at all times, hereafter, keep a good and sufficient levee in front of said land, upon the river Mississippi; and, if they should, at any time hereafter, cease to keep up such good and sufficient levee, the land shall revert to the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVI: for the relief of Alexander Scott, late Collector of Pensacola.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Scott, late Collector of Pensacola.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">500 dollars to be paid him annually.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Alexander Scott, late collector of Pensacola, a salary of five hundred dollars per annum, from the day on which his salary of one thousand dollars per annum ceased, until his duties, as collector of Pensacola, were discontinued.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVII: for the relief of Samuel White.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 318</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel White.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him on account of bonds.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Samuel White, of Pennsylvania, the sum of sixty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents, being part of the amount of two bonds, paid by him to George Welsh, deputy collector, dated the third day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, given for two licenses to distil spirituous liquors, which licenses were unoccupied for a part of the time for which the same were given, in consequence of the said Samuel White being called into the military service of his country; and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVIII: for the relief of Joseph M. White and William Davidson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 318</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph M. White and William Davidson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled for services.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of Joseph M. White and William Davidson, of Florida, for services by them rendered, in the capacity of district attorney, and marshal, of the district of West Florida, under the appointment of the district judge, in the same manner, and upon the same principles, as if the said officers had been legally and regularly appointed by the President of the United States.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIX: to authorize the issuing of letters patent to Nathaniel Sylvester.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 318</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the issuing of letters patent to Nathaniel Sylvester.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to be issued to him for his invention for preparing paper.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and hereby is, authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to Nathaniel Sylvester, for his invention of a new and useful preparation, for paper, to prevent frauds in bank checks and other writings, by ex-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 210, 211. 1824.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/319">319</page>
tracting the ink from the paper through chemical applications, upon his complying with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCX: making an appropriation for the payment of the claims of Daniel D. Tompkins, late Governor of the state of New York, against the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 319</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">making an appropriation for the payment of the claims of Daniel D. Tompkins, late Governor of the state of New York, against the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of sixty thousand two hundred and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1323, ch. 12.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">60,239 dollars 24 cents to be paid to him for his services and losses, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> thirty-nine dollars and twenty-four cents, shall be, and is hereby, appropriated, to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to Daniel D. Tompkins, late Governor of the state of New York, in full for the balance found due him, for his services, losses, and disbursements, for, or on account of, the United States, during the late war with Great Britain.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXI: granting a tract of land to the parish of West Baton Rouge, on certain conditions.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 319</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting a tract of land to the parish of West Baton Rouge, on certain conditions.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the right of the United States to a tract of land, of about eight arpens front, on the Mississippi river, be, and the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The right of the U. S. to a tract of land granted to the Parish of West Baton Rouge on condition, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> same is hereby, granted to the inhabitants of the parish of West Baton Rouge, within which said land is situated, on condition that said parish shall, at all times, keep, or cause to be kept, a good and sufficient levee on said land, in front on the river Mississippi; and if they should at any time hereafter cease to keep, or cause to be kept, a good and sufficient levee, the land shall revert to the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-05-26">May 26, 1824</date>.
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1824</dc:date>
<dc:date>1825</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December,</i> 1824, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1825.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">James Monroe</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Daniel D. Tompkins</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">John Gaillard</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">Henry Clay</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. II: concerning General Lafayette.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>II</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 320</citableAs>
<dc:date>1824-12-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning General Lafayette.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1824-12-28">Dec. 28, 1824</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">200,000 dollars to be paid General Lafayette.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, in consideration of the services and sacrifices of General Lafayette, in the war of the Revolution, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to him the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">One township of land to be granted him.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there be granted to the said General Lafayette and his heirs, one township of land, to be laid out and located under the authority of the President, in any of the unappropriated lands of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1824-12-28">December 28, 1824</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VIII: authorizing the issuing of letters patent to Adolphus G. Trott.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 320</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-02-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the issuing of letters patent to Adolphus G. Trott.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-02-05">Feb. 5, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to be issued to him for invention of a new dye.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to Adolphus G. Trott, for his invention of a new and useful dye for the coloring of cloths, upon his complying with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-02-05">February 5, 1825</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of Samuel Baylies.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 320</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Baylies.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for apprehending and delivering deserters.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Samuel Baylies, the sum of two hundred dollars, for apprehending and delivering twenty deserters to the commanding officer at Fort Armstrong, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Jacob A. Blackwell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 320</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacob A. Blackwell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$433.75 to be paid him, being the amount paid</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Jacob A. Blackwell, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-five cents, being the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/320" renderingPosition="bottom">320</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/321">321</page>
amount by him paid to the Collector of Washington, in the state of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">by him as extra tonnage duty, &amp;c. on the brig Prospect.</p></sidenote> North Carolina, as extra tonnage duty and light money on the brig Prospect, in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen; the said brig being taken to be a foreign vessel, when, in point of fact, she was bona fide an American vessel.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of Malachi Burns.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 321</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Malachi Burns.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued to him for 302 arpens of land.</p></sidenote> Office, upon application, cause a patent to be issued to Malachi Burns, or his legal representatives, for three hundred and two arpens of land, situated in the parish of Feliciana, in the state of Louisiana, according to the boundaries of a plat thereof, made for Edward Metcalf, on the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> This act shall not prejudice or in any wise affect the rights of any third person.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of Captain Daniel T. Patterson, of the Navy of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 321</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Captain Daniel T. Patterson, of the Navy of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain credit to be allowed to him.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pass to the credit of Captain Daniel T. Pattterson, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, the amount with which he stands overcharged on the books of the navy department.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: discharging a judgment against the representatives of Elijah Wadsworth, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">discharging a judgment against the representatives of Elijah Wadsworth, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a judgment rendered in favor of the United<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgment obtained by the U. S. against his representatives to be discharged.</p></sidenote> States, in the Circuit Court of the United States, in and for the seventh Ohio district, at the July term, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-four, against the representatives of Elijah Wadsworth, deceased, late a Major-General in the service of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, discharged, and made null and void.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of Joel Abbott, junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 321</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joel Abbott, junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for a horse lost in the late war.</p></sidenote> hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Joel Abbott, junior, the sum of eighty dollars, for a horse lost while in the service of the United States, during the late war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: for the relief of Peter Yandez.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 321</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Yandez.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for a horse lost in the service of the U. S. during the late war.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Peter Yandez, one hundred and twenty dollars, the value of a horse lost by said Yandez while engaged in the service of the United States, by towing a boat to Ogdensburg during the late war; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Priscilla Adams.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 321</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Priscilla Adams.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of monthly pay,</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/322">322</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">&amp;c. to be paid her, due her late husband.</p></sidenote>ascertain and pay to Priscilla Adams, widow and administratrix of Charles Adams, deceased, late a soldier of the sixteenth regiment United States’ Infantry, the amount of monthly pay and bounty due to the said Charles Adams, at the time of his death; and that the same shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of Elisha Snow, junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 322</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elisha Snow, junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$248.75 to be paid him, being the amount paid into the treasury from the proceeds of the sloop Mary Snow.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Elisha Snow, junior, of Thomaston, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents, being the amount paid into the treasury from the proceeds of the sale of the sloop Mary Snow, condemned in the District Court for Maine district, at June term, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, and afterwards remitted by the President of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of Jonathan Hudson, of Baltimore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 322</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonathan Hudson, of Baltimore.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part payment of a revenue bond to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of four hundred and thirty dollars be allowed to Jonathan Hudson, of Baltimore, in part payment of a revenue bond, given by Matthew Pascal, on which he was one of the sureties, being so much paid by him as consignee of the Spanish brig San Francisco, Miguel Zenteno master, to the Collector of Norfolk; which payment was illegally exacted, he having previously paid the tonnage duty, on entry of said brig, to the Collector of the port of Baltimore.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of Samuel Dale, of Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 322</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Dale, of Alabama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be allowed pay, &amp;c. for 15 months, for his services during the late war.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be directed to allow Samuel Dale, of Alabama, the pay and emoluments of a major of infantry in the United States’ army, for the period of fifteen months, in full compensation for his services during the late war between the United States and Great Britain, and the Creek and Seminole Indians; and that the sum so allowed shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXI: for the relief of Thomas Hewes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 322</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Hewes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance to be paid him in virtue of an execution issued against him by the marshal of Louisiana, as security of J. Jones.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Thomas Hewes, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the balance which will remain of the sum of four thousand one hundred and sixty-four dollars twenty-four cents, being the amount collected from him by the Marshal of the District of Louisiana, in virtue of an execution issued against him as the security of James Jones, from the District Court of the United States for the state of Vermont, after deducting the amount of duties remaining due upon certain goods imported into Vermont from Canada, by said Jones, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, with interest thereon, and all necessary expenses incurred by the United States, in prosecuting the suits instituted against the said Jones and Hewes, on account of the importation of said goods.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of Elias Glen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 322</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elias Glen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for taking depositions.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Elias Glen, the sum of one hundred dol-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 33, 34, 36, 37. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/323">323</page>
lars, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full for his services in taking depositions, at the instance and request of the late Secretary of the Navy.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: granting certain rights to David Tate, Josiah Fletcher, and John Weatherford.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 323</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting certain rights to David Tate, Josiah Fletcher, and John Weatherford.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all right, title, and interest, which the United States possess, in each of the reservations severally made to David<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">All right which the U.S. possesses in their reservations vested in each occupant.</p></sidenote> Tate, Josiah Fletcher, and John Weatherford, of lands within the tract of country ceded to the United States by the treaty of Fort Jackson, of the ninth day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen, with the Creek Nation of Indians, be, and the same is hereby, vested in each occupant and claimant of the tract so reserved and occupied and claimed by him: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no one claim shall exceed the quantity of six hundred and forty acres.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of Joseph Forrest.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 323</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Forrest.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Joseph Forrest the sum of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for demurrage on the schooner William Yeaton.</p></sidenote> two thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars, for demurrage on the schooner William Yeaton, at the port of Laguira, not already paid under the award made at Laguira, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve; and that the said sum be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, before any payment shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> be made, the said Joseph Forrest shall release the United States from any claim in future, on account of said vessel.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: for the relief of Joseph Dozet and Antoine Bourgoud.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 324</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Dozet and Antoine Bourgoud.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to be settled for damage to their property during the late war.</p></sidenote> ascertain and settle the claims of Joseph Dozet and Antoine Bourgoud, for the damage done by the destruction of their property, adjoining the garrison on the river Raisin, in the Michigan territory, on the fifteenth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, by order of Colonel John Anderson, commandant of said garrison; and that the amount thereof be paid out of any unappropriated moneys in the treasury: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the sum, so allowed, shall not exceed four hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> dollars:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That it shall be made to appear that<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the said Joseph Dozet and Antoine Bourgoud have not received the amount of their claim, or any part thereof, from the said John Anderson; and that the aforesaid sum, when paid, shall be in full satisfaction for two several judgments, heretofore recovered against the said Anderson.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief of David Gilmore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 323</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Gilmore.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a judgment, recovered by the United States against David Gilmore and others, at the District Court of the United<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgment received by U. S. against him and others released, and $70 to be paid him.</p></sidenote> States, holden at Portland, in the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, for the sum of eighty-four dollars and fifteen cents, damages and costs, be, and the same is hereby, released and discharged.
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/324">324</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 38, 39, 40. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the said David Gilmore, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy dollars, being the amount of cost expended by the said Gilmore in defending a suit wrongfully commenced against him.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of judgment, if paid before they avail themselves of this act, to be refunded.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That if the said David Gilmore, and others, have paid or shall hereafter, and before they can avail themselves of the benefit of this act, pay the amount of said judgment, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the said David Gilmore, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of said judgment, together with the amount of the marshal’s fees taken thereon.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of John M. Moody and Samuel Moody, and Elijah Bailey, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 324</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John M. Moody and Samuel Moody, and Elijah Bailey, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector to pay amount of allowance of schooner Welcome Return, as if said vessel had completed her term and returned into port.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector to pay amount of allowance of sloop Lucy Anne.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector for the District of Bath be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to John M. Moody and Samuel Moody, owners of a fishing schooner, which was called the Welcome Return, of one hundred and six tons, and to the persons composing the crew of the said vessel, or their legal representatives, the amount of the allowance to which they would have been by law severally entitled, if said vessel had returned into port after completing her fishing term.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Collector of New London, in the state of Connecticut, be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Elijah Bailey, Christopher Lester, Daniel Douglas, and Noyes Barber, owners of a fishing sloop, called the Lucy Anne, of forty-seven tons, and twenty-three ninety-fifths of a ton, and to the persons composing the crew of the said vessel, or their legal representatives, the amount of the allowance to which they would have been by law severally entitled, if said vessel had returned into port after completing her fishing term.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: granting pensions to James Barker and Zebulon Pike.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 324</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting pensions to James Barker and Zebulon Pike.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">James Barker to be placed on the pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place James Barker on the list of revolutionary pensioners of the United States, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four; and that said Barker shall be entitled to receive said pension in the manner provided by law.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colonel Z. Pike to be placed on the pension list.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place Colonel Zebulon Pike upon the list of revolutionary pensioners of the United States, and cause to be paid to him at the rate of twenty dollars per month, commencing on the day the said Zebulon Pike was stricken from the pension roll, up to the sixth of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, from which time his pension shall continue.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XL: for the relief of Craven P. Luckett and William Reynolds.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XL</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 324</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Craven P. Luckett and William Reynolds.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper officers of the treasury be, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$500 to be paid to each of them.</p></sidenote>they are hereby, authorized and required to allow and pay unto Craven P. Luckett, one of the commissioners for ascertaining the rights of persons claiming lands in the territory of Florida, the sum of five hundred dollars, as a full compensation for having brought to the seat of govern-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 41, 42, 43, 44, 47. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/325">325</page>
ment the report of the said commissioners, and to William Reynolds, the sum of five hundred dollars, as a full compensation for having brought to the seat of government the report of the commissioners for the settlement of land claims in East Florida; and the said sums shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLI: for the relief of Joseph Decrits.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 325</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Decrits.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to settle and adjust the accounts of Joseph<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">His accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> Decrits, who served as a volunteer artillerist in the army of the United States, during the fall of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen; and that they allow him the pay of a sergeant for the time he may prove he was in the service.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount so found due be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of Sarah Shillito.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 325</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Sarah Shillito.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Sarah Shillito, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$350 to be paid to her for the destruction of her house while occupied by U. S. troops.</p></sidenote> the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars for a house destroyed in the summer of one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, while in the occupation of the United States’ troops; deducting, however, from the above sum, the amount that has been paid for the rent of said house, by any officer of the army of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: for the relief of Lemuel Wootten.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 325</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lemuel Wootten.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Lemuel Wootten, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for a wagon, &amp;c. lost in the service of the U. S.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars, for a wagon and four horses, with harness, lost in the service of the United States, in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, deducting therefrom whatever sum may have been paid for the use of said wagon and team.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of John McLure.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 325</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John McLure.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to settle, upon the principles of equity, the accounts<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled for making a road.</p></sidenote> of John McLure, of Virginia, lately engaged as a contractor, in making a road from Cumberland, in Maryland, to the state of Ohio; and that the balance which may be found due to the said John McLure, be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVII: for the relief of James Lenox, and William Maitland, G. B. Abeel, Gulian Ludlow, and Hector Scott.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 325</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Lenox, and William Maitland, G. B. Abeel, Gulian Ludlow, and Hector Scott.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to pay to J. Lenox and W. Maitland,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Their several debentures issued by Joseph Sands to be paid.</p></sidenote> G. B. Abeel, Gulian Ludlow, and Hector Scott, the amount of their several debentures, which were issued to the persons above-mentioned, in their own rights, or held by them as legal representatives or assignees of persons to whom such debentures were originally issued, by Joshua Sands, when collector of the customs for the port of New York,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/326">326</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 48, 49. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
for the payment of the drawbacks of duties on merchandise exported to New Orleans, between the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and the tenth day of February, one thousand eight <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>hundred: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That satisfactory proof be first given to the Secretary of the Treasury, that the goods, wares, or merchandise, on which the drawback of duties is hereby allowed, were landed at New Orleans.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not exceeding $739 to be paid.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a sum not exceeding seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the debentures above mentioned.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Walter Story Chandler.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 325</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Walter Story Chandler.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper officers of the treasury be hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of principal, &amp;c. due on certain final settlement certificates, destroyed by fire, to be paid to him.</p></sidenote>authorized and directed to pay to Walter Story Chandler, or to his legal representatives, the amount of principal and interest due on the five following final settlement certificates, which are alleged to have been destroyed while in the possession of said Walter Story Chandler, viz: number eighty-four thousand six hundred and seventy-six, dated November first, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, issued to Christopher Henson, amount, forty-seven dollars sixty cents, interest from first January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight; number eighty-four thousand six hundred and fifty-one, dated first November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, issued to John Gray, amount, forty-three dollars thirty cents, interest, from first January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight; number eighty-four thousand four hundred and eighty-nine, dated first of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, issued to Solomon Barret, amount, forty-three dollars thirty cents, interest the same as the foregoing; number eighty-eight thousand and three hundred and twenty-nine, dated first of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, issued to William Lewis, amount, forty-eight dollars forty-one cents, interest, the same as the foregoing; number seventy-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-one, issued the eleventh of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, to Thomas Auboney, for one hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty cents, interest, the same as on the foregoing. The same to be paid out <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Walter Story Chandler, or his legal representatives, execute a satisfactory security to the Secretary of the Treasury, to indemnify the United States against all claims for the future payment of the said certificates to any person whatever.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of John S. Stiles.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 326</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John S. Stiles.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of Navy to reexamine the case of the Fabius, the Aid, and the Ann, sunk, in defence of the harbor of Baltimore.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to institute a re-examination of the case of three vessels, to wit: the ship Fabius, the brig Aid, and the schooner Ann, formerly owned by George Stiles, now deceased; which vessels, during the late war, were sunk for the defence of the harbor of Baltimore. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby further authorized to allow to the legal representative of said George Stiles, such sum as, with what has already been allowed, he, the said secretary, shall deem a just and reasonable compensation for the detention of said vessels, from the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, to the time when they were delivered to the owner, and from thence to the termination of the period necessary to repair the injury
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 53, 54, 55, 56, 58. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/327">327</page>
done to them by sinking; according to the intent and meaning of the act of Congress, passed on the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, entitled “An act for the relief of sundry<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 26, 1822, ch. 36.</p></sidenote> citizens of Baltimore;” the said sum to be ascertained in such manner as the Secretary of the Navy shall direct, which sum, so allowed, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of William Townsend.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 327</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Townsend.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to William Townsend, out of any money in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for an anchor taken for the use of the U. States.</p></sidenote> the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred twenty-six dollars and fourteen cents, in full, for an anchor, taken from the navy-yard, in New York, during the late war, and applied to the use of the government.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of Gregory Ennis and William R. Maddox.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 327</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Gregory Ennis and William R. Maddox.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them for graduating road, &amp;c., round Capitol Square.</p></sidenote> appropriated, to Gregory Ennis and William R. Maddox, the sum of three thousand and eighteen dollars and fifty-five cents, in full for a balance due them by the Corporation of Washington, for the graduation and improvement of the circular road around the Capitol Square.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of Thomas L. Ogden and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 327</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas L. Ogden and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Thomas L. Ogden, and others, proprietors of grounds contiguous to the village of Sackett’s<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them for wood consumed by the U. States’ army in the late war.</p></sidenote> Harbor, for wood consumed by the army of the United States, during the late war, the sum of three thousand seven hundred and ten dollars, being in full of the claim made by the said Ogden, on behalf of himself and others, for property taken for public use, as aforesaid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVI: for the relief of Mary Miller, administratrix of Amos Miller, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 327</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mary Miller, administratrix of Amos Miller, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Mary Miller, administratrix of Amos Miller,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To receive $450 for a keel boat impressed into the service of the U. States in 1812.</p></sidenote> deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars, the value of a keel-boat impressed into the service of the United States, in the autumn of eighteen hundred and twelve, and not returned, belonging to the estate of said Amos.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: for the relief of Richard Cain and Isaac Baldwin, of Ohio.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 327</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard Cain and Isaac Baldwin, of Ohio.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue a patent to Richard Cain and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to be issued to them for the east half of a fractional section No. 15, in the Marietta district, Ohio.</p></sidenote> Isaac Baldwin, for the east half of the southeast quarter of a fractional section number fifteen, in township number three, of range number three, in the Marietta land district, in the state of Ohio, which was purchased of the United States at a sale thereof, made under a circular
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/328">328</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 59, 60, 61, 62. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
of the late Commissioner of the General Land Office, issued by mistake, dated January second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of the Companies of Mounted Rangers commanded by Captains Boyle and M’Girth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 328</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the Companies of Mounted Rangers commanded by Captains Boyle and M’Girth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the provisions of an act, entitled “An act <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act for the reliefofofficers, &amp;c. engaged in the late campaign against the Seminoles, extended to two companies.</p></sidenote>for the relief of the officers, volunteers, and other persons, engaged in the late campaign against the Seminole Indians,” be, and the same are, extended so as to embrace the officers and men who composed two companies of mounted rangers, commanded by Captain Thomas H. Boyle and captain M’Girth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, on the southern frontier of the United States; and the officers and men composing the companies before-mentioned, shall be entitled <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 4, 1822, ch. 48.</p></sidenote>to receive all the benefits of said recited act, as those who served in the campaign against the Seminole Indians, and no more.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of the heirs and devisees of John Ferrell, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 328</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs and devisees of John Ferrell, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the executors of the last will and testament <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">His executors to relinquish to the U. S. the east quarter of section 31, township 5, in Marietta district, Ohio, and receive the west half in return.</p></sidenote>of John Ferrell, deceased, late of the state of Ohio, be, and they are hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, the east half of the south-east quarter of section thirty-one, in township five, range five, in the Marietta land district, in the state of Ohio, according to the directions of the said last will and testament; upon which relinquishment, in the manner directed by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, the west half of the said quarter section, heretofore relinquished to the United States by the said executors, shall revert to, and become vested in, the heirs or devisees of the said John Ferrell, as fully as if the same had not been so relinquished.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of Thomas R. Broome.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 328</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas R. Broome.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas R. Broome be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be released from the payment of $262, part of a judgment obtained by the U. S. against him.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">His account for forage to be settled.</p></sidenote>released from the payment of the sum of two hundred and sixty-two dollars, being part of a judgment obtained against him by the United States, in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the fourth circuit in and for the District of Maryland, at the December term thereof, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the account for forage of the said Thomas R. Broome, on principles of equity, by allowing him a credit on the judgment obtained against him in the District Court of the United States, for the sum actually paid by him for forage.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of Ebenezer Averill.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 328</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ebenezer Averill.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for pasturing horses in the service of the U. States.</p></sidenote>hereby is, directed to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Ebenezer Averill, the sum of seventy dollars, for pasturing horses for a corps of artillery in the service of the United States; and for fences used for fuel, in the fall of eighteen hundred and twelve, by the United States’ troops.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of the representatives of Noel Soileau, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 329</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 63, 67, 68, 69, 70. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/329">329</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representatives of Noel Soileau, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs and legal representatives of Noel Soileau, deceased, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Their claim to 640 acres of land in Louisiana confirmed.</p></sidenote> six hundred and forty acres of land, lying near the Bayou Crocodile, in the Grand Prairie, in the county of Opelousas, in the state of Louisiana; it being the same on which Hilaire Bordelou resided in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> This act shall be considered<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> only as a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and as not operating to the prejudice of any third person.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVII: for the relief of Francis Wright, Son, and other heirs of Francis Wright, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 329</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Francis Wright, Son, and other heirs of Francis Wright, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to Francis Wright, Son, and other<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A land warrant of 100 acres to be issued to them.</p></sidenote> heirs of Francis Wright, deceased, a military land warrant for one hundred acres of land for revolutionary services of the deceased, in lieu of a warrant for the same quantity of land which had been issued to the said Francis Wright, Son, and other heirs of Francis Wright, in February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and which is proven to have been lost before the same was located.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of Stephen Thatcher.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 329</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Stephen Thatcher.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, in settling the accounts of Stephen Thatcher, collector of the customs of the district of Passamaquoddy, in the state<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be allowed $2802 charged against him.</p></sidenote> of Maine, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and required to allow to said Thatcher the sum of two thousand eight hundred and two dollars and sixty-one cents; which sum is charged said Thatcher in his accounts with the treasury department, and claimed by him as a foreign tonnage duty on certain British colonial vessels, which entered in said district in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two, said Thatcher having admitted them to enter on the payment of the same duties as American vessels.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIX: for the relief of Captain Richard Hightower.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 329</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Captain Richard Hightower.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$500 to be placed to the credit of Capt. Richard Hightower, the am’t of a judgment obtained against him by the U.S.</p></sidenote> department admit to the credit of Captain Richard Hightower, the sum of five hundred dollars, and if that sum shall exceed the amount of his account, or the judgment which the United States have obtained against the said Hightower, that such remaining balance be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXX: for the relief of Moses Plumer.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 329</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Moses Plumer.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for Moses Plumer, a soldier in the late war, to locate and enter, with the Register of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Any unappropriated military quarter section of land in Arkansas to be entered by him.</p></sidenote> Land Office for the proper district in the territory of Arkansas, according to the sectional and divisional lines, any unappropriated quarter section of land within the military district in said territory; and, upon such location and entry being made, it shall be the duty of the register to issue to the said Moses Plumer, a certificate, specifying therein the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/330">330</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 71, 72, 73. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
quarter section so located and entered. And it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue a patent for the land so located and entered, whenever the certificate aforesaid shall be presented <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>to him for that purpose: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, before such location and entry shall be made, the said Moses Plumer shall surrender to the register the patent which he now holds from the United States, for the south-east quarter of section four, of township ten, in range five, west of the tract appropriated for military bounties, in the territory of Arkansas, accompanied by such a release of his interest to the land therein specified, as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall direct.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: for the relief of Peter Burt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 330</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Burt.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to issue for his improved Sounding Machine.</p></sidenote>authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to Peter Burt, for his Improved Sounding Machine, upon his complying with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress, relative to the issuing letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXII: for the relief of Otis Pendleton, Harris Pendleton, John F. Delaplaine, Elijah P. Delaplaine, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 330</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Otis Pendleton, Harris Pendleton, John F. Delaplaine, Elijah P. Delaplaine, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the district <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Otis Pendleton and others to be paid the am’t to which their vessel would have been entitled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>of New London, in Connecticut, be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Otis Pendleton, and Harris Pendleton, late owners of a fishing schooner called the Elizabeth, of sixty-three tons, and forty-two ninety-fifths of a ton burthen; which vessel was lost at sea, and to the persons composing the crew of said schooner, the amount of the allowance to which said vessel would have been entitled had she returned into port after completing her fishing term, to be distributed according to law.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">John F. Delaplaine, and E. P. Delaplaine, to receive the amount of allowance, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the collector for the port of New York be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to John F. Delaplaine and Elijah P. Delaplaine, owners of a fishing schooner called the Sandford William, of the burthen of one hundred and twenty-five tons, and to the persons composing the crew of the said schooner, to be distributed according to law, the amount of the fishing allowance, the payment of which was refused by the said collector, in consequence of the loss of the original fishing agreement, accidentally burnt during the fishing voyage, of the said schooner, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIII: authorizing Noah Webster to import into the United States his work on languages, at a rate of duty herein specified.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 330</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing Noah Webster to import into the United States his work on languages, at a rate of duty herein specified.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Noah Webster, of New Haven, in the state <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to import his work into the U. S., for five years, at the same rate as is now imposed on books of foreign languages.</p></sidenote>of Connecticut, be, and he is hereby, authorized to import into the United States, for the period of five years, at the same rate of duty as is now imposed upon books in foreign languages, copies of a work prepared by the said Noah Webster, concerning the origin, history, and affinities of languages; also, a Dictionary of the English Language, and a Synopsis of the Principal Elementary Words in Different Languages.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVII: making an appropriation for the benefit of Joseph Smith, of Alexandria.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 331</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 77, 79, 81, 82, 84. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/331">331</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">making an appropriation for the benefit of Joseph Smith, of Alexandria.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for the services of his slave.</p></sidenote> appropriated, to Joseph Smith of Alexandria, the amount of wages, and dividend of prize money, due to said Smith for the services, during the late war, of his slave Tom, alias Thomas Mitchel, on board the United States’ ship the Wasp, and which has not heretofore been paid to him, for the want of an appropriation in the act passed at the last session,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 19, 1824, ch. 124.</p></sidenote> entitled “An act for the relief of Joseph Smith, of Alexandria.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIX: for the relief of Stephen Arnold, David and George Jenks, Second.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 331</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Stephen Arnold, David and George Jenks, Second.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury settle and adjust the claim of Stephen Arnold, David and George<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for muskets to be settled.</p></sidenote> Jenks, Second, for the manufacture of three thousand nine hundred and twenty-five muskets, manufactured for the United States, under a contract with Tench Coxe, entered into on the twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and to make them such further allowance as shall be equal to that allowed to others, who contracted about the same time, to manufacture arms for the United States, and who have had their accounts settled under special acts of Congress, keeping in view the quality of the arms delivered, with the additional labor bestowed, more than would have been necessary to have made muskets equal to the pattern gun, and such allowance, so made, deducting therefrom such sums, if any, as the claimants are indebted for advances, already made on said contract, (with the interest thereon from twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen,) shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the relief of William Pemberton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 331</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Pemberton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to William Pemberton the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for the loss of a horse.</p></sidenote> sum of fifty-five dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the loss of a horse during the late war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of Thomas Taylor, junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 331</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Taylor, junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay Thomas Taylor, junior, out of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for filling up, &amp;c., on the north side of the President’s house, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one thousand and eighty-one dollars and sixty cents, being in full for filling up and gravelling the carriage way on the north side of the President’s house, and for work done on New York avenue, between Seventeenth street west, and the President’s wall.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: for the relief of Nimrod Farrow and Richard Harris.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 331</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nimrod Farrow and Richard Harris.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be withdrawn<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit of U. S. against them to be dismissed.</p></sidenote> and dismissed, a suit which is now pending by the United States against Nimrod Farrow and his securities, for moneys advanced him by the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/332">332</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 85. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
United States, as one of the contractors for erecting a fort on Dauphin Island; and that the bond on which the suit was instituted, be cancelled.</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to deliver up all liens on N. Farrow’s property.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War cause to be delivered up and released, by proper conveyances, to Nimrod Farrow, contractor for erecting a fort on Dauphin Island, all liens or securities which the United States may hold on property, real or personal, of the said contractor.</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$73,747.78 to be paid him.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department pay unto Nimrod Farrow, contractor for erecting a fort on Dauphin Island, or to his legal representatives, the sum of seventy-three thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>and seventy-eight cents: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Nimrod Farrow, before he shall receive any of the personal property to be delivered as aforesaid, and before he shall be entitled to receive the money abovementioned, he shall enter into a bond to the Secretary of War, with security to the acceptance of said secretary, in the penal sum of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, conditioned that the said Nimrod Farrow shall appropriate the nett proceeds of the personal property, and the money so to be received, towards the payment of the debts contracted by Farrow and Harris, or either of them, or any other person or persons contracting under said Farrow and Harris, for supplies furnished, and services rendered, in and about the erection of said fortification; and that, if there shall be any surplus, after paying the said debts contracted as aforesaid, said Farrow shall pay to the said Harris, or his legal representatives or assignees, his just proportion of said surplus; which bond shall be deposited with the Secretary of War; and it shall be the duty of the said secretary, upon the application of any of the parties interested therein, and satisfactory proof of the failure of the said Nimrod Farrow to fulfil the condition thereof, to cause the said bond to be prosecuted for the benefit of the party or parties making such application, and of such other person or persons as may have an interest in said bond.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">An inventory of property returned to Farrow, to be taken.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That an inventory be taken of such personal property as shall be returned to the said Farrow, under the provisions of this act, and an estimate of its value be made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and that there be paid unto the said Farrow such difference as exists between the value of the personal property at the time the same was taken possession of by the government, and its return, together with the value of the personal property destroyed or lost while the same was in the possession of the government, except the same was lost or destroyed by the act of God.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the several sums to be paid by the provisions of this act, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXV: for the relief of George Love.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 331</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Love.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for money advanced to the representatives of deceased officers, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to pay to George Love, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of sixty-two dollars eighty cents, the amount paid as paymaster of the New York militia, to the representatives of deceased officers and soldiers, not heretofore allowed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVI: for the relief of Holden W. Prout, administrator on the estate of Joshua W. Prout, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 333</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 86, 87, 88, 89, 90. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/333">333</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Holden W. Prout, administrator on the estate of Joshua W. Prout, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for pay due certain soldiers to be settled.</p></sidenote> audit and settle the claims of Holden W. Prout, administrator on the estate of Joshua W. Prout, deceased, for pay due James Milliken, William Melone, Lewis Ashburn, William Trotman, Henry King, James McClenden, William Hill, James Ferguson, William Forest, and Samuel Vance, soldiers of the Mississippi militia, at the time of their respective discharges, and pay the amount found due to the said Holden W. Prout, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVII: for the relief of James Porter and Tunstall Quarles.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 333</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Porter and Tunstall Quarles.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James Porter and Tunstall Quarles, of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from a judgment obtained against them by P. O. Department.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> state of Kentucky, be, and they are hereby, released from a judgment obtained against them by the post office department, as the sureties of William J. Salee: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That said sureties shall pay the legal costs which have accrued in the prosecution of said demand.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVIII: for the relief of Gilbert C. Russell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 333</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Gilbert C. Russell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain (by the best evidence the nature of the case will admit, the rules for<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of certain property owned by him to be ascertained.</p></sidenote> taking of which he shall prescribe,) the value (at the time of seizure,) of the property owned by Gilbert C. Russell, at Mobile Point, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one, that was seized by an armed force acting under the orders of Captain De Russey, of the United States’ army.</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said auditor, in like<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, of labor performed by said Russell towards erection of a fort, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> manner, ascertain the value of the labor performed, by the said Gilbert C. Russell, towards the erection of a fort at Mobile Point; whether the same was in erecting barracks, or in preparing materials for the further prosecution of the works at that place; and that the said auditor report the amounts, so ascertained, to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is authorized and directed to pay the same to the said Russell, out of any<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: for the relief of Christian Jacob Burcle.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 333</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Christian Jacob Burcle.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the port of Philadelphia be, and he is hereby, authorized to permit Christian Jacob Burckle to export,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback on playing cards allowed.</p></sidenote> with the benefit of drawback, two packages of Spanish playing cards, which were imported into that port in the brig Hibernia, from Hamburg, the said Christian Jacob Burckle complying with all the forms and requisites of the existing acts allowing the benefit of drawback in other cases.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XC: for the relief of John Heck.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 333</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Heck.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Heck be, and he is hereby, released<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from a judgment against him.</p></sidenote> from a judgment obtained against him, as the surety of Nicholas Krehl, late a Postmaster at Shippingsburg, by the Postmaster-General, for the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/334">334</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 91, 92, 94. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>use of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Heck shall pay the legal costs which have accrued in the prosecution of said demand.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCI: for the relief of John Crain.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 334</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Crain.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim on account of a certain certificate, to be settled.</p></sidenote> be, and they hereby are, authorized to audit and settle the claim of John Crain, on account of a certificate No. eight thousand three hundred and fourteen, issued in favor of James Swart, by John Pierce, and dated thirteenth of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for one hundred dollars; which certificate has been lost, and appears to be outstanding and unpaid, and to pay to the said John Crain, or his legal representatives, the principal of the said certificate, and so much of the interest as appears to be due thereon, out of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said John Crain, or his legal representatives, execute and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond of indemnity, in such sum and with such security as the said comptroller may approve.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCII: for the relief of the representatives of Frederick Goetz and Charles W. Westfall.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 334</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representatives of Frederick Goetz and Charles W. Westfall.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for the manufacture of muskets to be settled.</p></sidenote> department settle and adjust the claim of the representatives of Frederick Goetz and Charles W. Westfall, for the manufacturing of one thousand and nineteen muskets for the United States, under a contract with Tench Coxe, entered into on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and make them such further allowance as shall be equal to that allowed to others who contracted about the same time to manufacture arms for the United States, and who have had their contracts settled under special acts of Congress, keeping in view the quality of the arms delivered, with the additional labor bestowed, more than would have been necessary to have made muskets equal to the pattern gun; and such allowance, so made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, before the representatives of Frederick Goetz and Charles W. Westfall be entitled to receive any money under the provisions of this act, they shall exhibit to the said officers satisfactory proof of their appointment.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: for the relief of Luther Chapin, of Ohio.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 334</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Luther Chapin, of Ohio.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for services during the late war.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Luther Chapin, the sum of fifty dollars, for services performed by said Chapin during the late war, in navigating from Cleveland, in Ohio, to Malden, in Upper Canada, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, the schooner Miami, employed in transporting a part of the Ohio volunteers across Lake Erie, after their surrender by General Hull.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<block>
<note>
For ch. XCVII. An act amendatory of the act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the Civil Department of the Government of the United States, in the District of Columbia,” omitted in this, its proper place, see p. 337, post.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIV: for the relief of William P. Yonge.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 335</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 104, 105, 108, 109, 110. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/335">335</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William P. Yonge.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to William P. Yonge, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra tonnage duty refunded to him.</p></sidenote> hundred and thirty-eight dollars, being the amount of extra tonnage duty and light money, illegally exacted by the Collector of St. Mary’s of the owners of the British brig Henry, in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of Colonel William Duane.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 335</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Colonel William Duane.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and allowance to him.</p></sidenote> settle the claim of Colonel William Duane, and allow him at the rate of three dollars and fifty cents [per copy] for one thousand copies of the System of Infantry Discipline, prepared by him, under assurances given by the Secretary of War, deducting therefrom the price for which said copies were sold at auction by said Duane: <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That, before the payment of any balance found due to the said Colonel William Duane, the amount or balance of any judgment or judgments obtained against him, by the United States, shall be deducted therefrom.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the balance, if any is found<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> in favor of Colonel William Duane, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: for the relief of Reuben Ewing and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 335</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Reuben Ewing and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Agent of the Treasury be empowered and directed to cause that the judgment recovered in the state of Kentucky<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgment against him to be endorsed satisfied.</p></sidenote> against Reuben Ewing and others, the security of William Whitsell, late Regimental Paymaster, be endorsed satisfied, on the payment of sixty dollars, the interest on this sum, and the costs of suit.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIX: for the relief of Rachael McClure.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 335</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Rachael McClure.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department settle the account of William McClure, deceased, late<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of W. McClure to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> a soldier in the United States’ army, for balance of bounty and monthly pay due him at the time of his discharge; and that the same be paid to Rachael McClure, widow of said William, and administratrix of his estate, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War issue<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to issue a warrant to his heirs.</p></sidenote> a warrant to the heirs of said William McClure, for the bounty land to which their father was entitled by his enlistment and service in the army of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CX: for the relief of Michael McKewen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 335</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Michael McKewen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Attorney General of the United States<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Satisfaction to be entered upon certain judgments.</p></sidenote> be authorized and directed to cause satisfaction in full to be entered upon certain judgments of the United States against Michael McKewen, upon condition that the said Michael McKewen, or his legal represent-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/336">336</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 115, 116, 117, 118, 119. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
atives, execute a full release of all claims of the said Michael McKewen for an assignment of an account of John Morris, a ward-master in the revolutionary war, for one hundred and seven dollars, and forty-four ninetieths, and also for two final settlement certificates, the one of them numbered eighty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four, for eighty dollars, and the other of them numbered eighty-two thousand one hundred and fifty-four, for forty-three dollars and thirty ninetieths, as well as for all other claims of the said Michael McKewen against the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXV: for the relief of Moses Shepherd.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 336</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Moses Shepherd.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Moses Shepherd, out of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance due him to be paid.</p></sidenote>any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirtythree thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty-six cents, in full for the balance due him.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of Samuel Russell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 336</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Russell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for clerk hire, &amp;c. during the late war.</p></sidenote>department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Samuel Russell, late Deputy Commissary of Purchases, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars, as an allowance for clerk hire, office rent, superintending the making up of army clothing, and for issuing public supplies during the late war; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: concerning Charles D. Brodie.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 336</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning Charles D. Brodie.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for work done on the Delaware 74.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Charles D. Brodie, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand dollars, for his invention and services in stopping a leak in the bottom of the Delaware seventy-four.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: for the relief of William Little, administrator of Minor Reeves.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 336</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Little, administrator of Minor Reeves.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for a horse lost in the campaign against the Seminoles, to be settled.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 4, 1822, ch. 48.</p></sidenote>be directed to settle and allow the claim of William Little, administrator of Minor Reeves, for a horse and equipage lost in the campaign against the Seminole Indians, upon the same principles that other claims have been settled, for similar losses under the act, approved the fourth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, [twenty-two,] entitled “An act for the relief of the officers, volunteers, and other persons, engaged in the late campaign against the Seminole Indians,” and that the amount, so allowed, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIX: for the relief of Paul Chase.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 337</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Paul Chase.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharged from the payment of certain duties.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Paul Chase and Samuel Clark, his security, be, and they are hereby, discharged from the payment of the sum of three thousand two hundred dollars, due to the United States, on ac-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 97. 1825.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/337">337</page>
count of duties on merchandise, imported into the United States, prior to the occupation of the town of St. Mary’s, in Georgia, by the British forces under the command of Admiral Cockburn, in eighteen hundred and fifteen, which merchandise was captured and carried out of the United States by the enemy.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the United States’ Attorney<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The attorney, &amp;c. to enter credit to such effect.</p></sidenote> for the District of Georgia, be, and he is hereby, required to enter a credit for three thousand two hundred dollars, on any judgment or judgments heretofore recovered in the District Court of the United States, against the said Paul Chase and his said security, on account of duties claimed by the United States on merchandise so imported into the United States, by the said Paul Chase; and also for the costs, which may have accrued thereon.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVII: amendatory of the act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the Civil Department of the Government of the United States, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 337</citableAs>
<dc:date>1825-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>18</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">amendatory of the act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the Civil Department of the Government of the United States, in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, from and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, the funds of “The Provident Association of Clerks” shall be appropriated<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates, after the 1st April, 1824, to be allowed by the Provident Association of Clerks to the families of deceased members.</p></sidenote> and paid to the families of deceased members, at the following rates, to wit: to the families of such members as may die before the expiration of the fifth year of their membership, twice the amount of the subscription which shall have been paid by such members, respectively: to the families of members dying after the expiration of the fifth year of their membership, one hundred dollars; and, after the expiration of each succeeding year, until the fifteenth year of their membership shall have expired, the additional sum of fifty dollars shall be paid—so that every member dying after the fifteenth year of his membership, shall have provided for his family, out of the funds of the Association, the sum of six hundred dollars: to the families of such members as may die, at any time after the expiration of the sixteeenth year of their membership, there shall be paid six hundred dollars, and an interest of twelve per centum per annum, on the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, computing the said interest from the expiration of the fifteenth year, to the commencement of the year in which such deaths may occur, and a further interest of twelve per centum per annum, upon all sums, exclusive of fines, which shall have been paid into the funds of the Association by such members, respectively, after the said sixteenth year of their membership, to be computed from the periods at which such payments shall have been made, to the commencement of the year in which such deaths may occur: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That, if it shall happen that the payments herein<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> directed to be made, shall, in any year, diminish the funds of the Association below the amount thereof at the end of the next preceding year, the President and Board of Officers be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to reduce the amount of interest, so as to prevent the recurrence of such diminution of the funds:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also, and it is further directed,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That it shall be the duty of the eaid President and Board of Officers, at the end of each successive period of five years, computing from the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, if it shall appear that the increase of the funds of the Association shall have been, during such periods, respectively, at a rate greater than six per centum per annum, at compound interest, to pay to each of the families of such as may have died during the next preceding five years, such additional sum as shall be proportioned to the sums herein before provided:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That such additional sums shall not, in the aggregate, exceed the amount of the funds of the Association, over and above the amount produced by the aforesaid interest of six per centum per annum.</proviso></content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the President and Board of Officers of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The President, &amp;c. of Association to sell the stock whenever advantageous.</p></sidenote> Provident Association of Clerks, be, and they are hereby authorized, whenever they shall judge it expedient and advantageous to the Association, either for the purpose of paying the debts of the Association, or for the purpose of reinvesting it in more safe and profitable stock, to sell any of the stock now belonging to, or that may, at any time hereafter, belong to, the said Association.</content>
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<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the membership of persons belonging to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commencement of membership.</p></sidenote> “The Provident Association of Clerks,” shall commence from the date of their first quarterly payments, made agreeably to law.</content>
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<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That any member of the Association may designate,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Any member may designate the person to whom payment shall be made.</p></sidenote> in writing, addressed to the President and Board of Officers, the particular person or persons to whom the payment of money, accruing from the Association, shall be made for the benefit of his family; which person or persons, so designated, shall receive the same, and his or their receipt therefor to the Treasurer, shall be a full acquittal to the Association.</content>
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<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That so much of the act, of which this is amendatory,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parts of former act repealed.</p></sidenote> as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1825-03-03">March 3, 1825</date>.
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<congress>19</congress>
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<dc:date>1825</dc:date>
<dc:date>1826</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE NINETEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December,</i> 1825, <i>and ended on the twenty-second day of May,</i> 1826.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">John Quincy Adams</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John C. Calhoun</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Nathaniel Macon</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 20th day of May, 1826; <inline class="smallCaps">John W. Taylor</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Louis Chretien, deceased.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Louis Chretien, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-03-03">March 3, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$12,999 to be paid them, having been illegally collected from Louis Chretien, deceased.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Gerard Chretien and Hypolite Chretien, heirs, and legal representatives, of Louis Chretien, late of the state of Louisiana, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the principal sum of twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum, from the third day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, until sixty days after the passage of this act; the said sum having been illegally collected by the Marshal of the United States, under a treasury warrant, from the said Louis Chretien, as one of the sureties of John Thompson, late collector of the direct tax for the second district of Louisiana.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-03-03">March 3, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Richard Matson.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1826-03-31</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard Matson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-03-31">March 31, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Richard Matson, of the state of Missouri, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to withdraw his locations of warrants, and locate them elsewhere.</p></sidenote>be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw his locations of warrant, number one hundred and fifty-five, for six hundred and forty acres, and of warrant number one hundred and forty-three, for two hundred arpens of land, issued by the recorder of land titles in the state of Missouri, and located on the twentieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in township fifty-five north, range three west, in said state, and since mostly covered by a confirmed Spanish grant; and to locate the same warrants upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States, in the state of Missouri, that were liable to be located, under <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act ofFeb. 17, 1815, ch. 45.</p></sidenote>the act of the seventeenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen, for the relief of sufferers by earthquakes; conforming such relocations, as nearly as may be, to the divisional lines of the public surveys, and subject, in all respects, to said act of the seventeenth of February, eighteen <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>hundred and fifteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said warrants shall be located within one year from the passing of this act, and on lands which have not before been located or sold.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-03-31">March 31, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of Elijah Buckley.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1826-03-31</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 20, 24, 30, 42, 43. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/339">339</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elijah Buckley.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-03-31">March 31, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That any forfeiture which may have accrued to the United States, from the non-payment of the purchase money for the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands at Cahawba relinquished to him.</p></sidenote> east half of the south-east quarter of section numbered two, in township numbered nineteen, of range nine, in the district of lands offered for sale at Cahawba, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished; and that Elijah Buckley shall be entitled to receive a patent for the same, on making payment to the receiver of public moneys for the land office at Cahawba, of the sum of one dollar and one cent.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-03-31">March 31, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the benefit of the incorporated Kentucky Asylum, for teaching the deaf and dumb.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 339</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-04-05</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of the incorporated Kentucky Asylum, for teaching the deaf and dumb.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-04-05">April 5, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be granted to the incorporated Kentucky Asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb, one township of land,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of land to the Kentucky Asylum.</p></sidenote> excepting section numbered sixteen, for the use of schools therein, to be located under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; which lands shall be, and for ever remain, to the use of said asylum, for the education of indigent deaf and dumb persons; or, if said asylum shall sell said land, which it is authorized to do, the money arising from such sale shall be, and remain forever, to the same use: And it shall be the duty of the said corporation to sell the said lands within five years from the passage of this act, and the same shall be located in one of the territories, on lands to which the Indian title has been extinguished.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-04-05">April 5, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXX: to exempt the professors, tutors, stewards, and students of the different seminaries of learning in the district of Columbia, from militia duty.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1826-05-04</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to exempt the professors, tutors, stewards, and students of the different seminaries of learning in the district of Columbia, from militia duty.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-04">May 4, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the president, professors, tutors, stewards,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President, professors, &amp;c. exempt from militia duty, except in case of war.</p></sidenote> and students, of the different seminaries of learning in the district of Columbia, be, and they hereby are, declared to be exempt from the performance of militia duty, except in case of war.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-04">May 4, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of Clark McPherrin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 339</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-13</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Clark McPherrin.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-13">May 13, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place Clark McPherrin on the list of invalid pensioners,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on the invalid pension list.</p></sidenote> (who served in captain and brevet-major H. Bradley’s company, third regiment of infantry of the United States,) at the rate of twelve dollars per month, commencing on the tenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five; and that the said Clark McPherrin shall continue to receive said pension, until otherwise directed by law.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-13">May 13, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: for the relief of Elizabeth Lewis, executrix of Thomas Lewis, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 339</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elizabeth Lewis, executrix of Thomas Lewis, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-13">May 13, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Elizabeth Lewis, executrix of the estate of Thomas Lewis, deceased, be, and she is hereby, released from all suits<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from suits as executrix of T. Lewis, deceased.</p></sidenote> and causes of action which the United States have against her, as executrix of the last will and testament of Thomas Lewis, deceased, upon any bond which the said Thomas Lewis may have executed, as the security
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/340">340</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 44, 48, 49, 50. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
of Thomas L. Patterson, formerly a collector of internal duties and direct tax in the state of Kentucky.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-13">May 13, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: remitting the duties upon certain articles imported for the use of the University of Virginia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 340</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-13</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">remitting the duties upon certain articles imported for the use of the University of Virginia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-13">May 13, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the duties arising upon certain cases of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on imported marble capitals and bases refunded.</p></sidenote>marble capitals imported into the port of Boston, in the brig Tamworth, and there entered in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-five, for the use of the University of Virginia, be, and the same are hereby, remitted, and the bond or bonds taken therefor, directed to be cancelled; and that the sum of three hundred and ninety-four dollars and thirty-two cents, being the amount of duties paid by Thomas Jefferson, Rector of the said University, on thirty-one cases of marble bases imported into New York, in the ship Caroline, for the use of the said University, be, and the same is hereby, refunded, and authorized to be paid to said Thomas Jefferson, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-13">May 13, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Moses Kenney.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 340</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-15</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Moses Kenney.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-15">May 15, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Moses Kenney, or his legal representative, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to change the location of a survey.</p></sidenote>shall be, and hereby is, authorized to change the location of survey, number three hundred and ninety-nine, founded upon a Spanish concession in Upper Louisiana, for three hundred and fifty arpens of land, equal to two hundred and ninety-seven acres, and seventy-four hundredths, so as to make the survey conformable to the true location; and if the land, or any part thereof, which would be included in such true location, shall have been sold, or otherwise disposed of, then the said Moses Kenney may locate the said quantity of two hundred and ninetyseven acres, and seventy-four hundredths, in parcels, conformable [to] sectional divisions and subdivisions, upon any lands belonging to the United States, and liable to be sold at private sale; and if, after locating part of said quantity, there should remain a fractional excess, not equal to the smallest subdivision of a section, then the party interested may enter for such part, and pay for the remainder with ready money.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-15">May 15, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: to extend and continue in force “An act for the relief of the representatives of John Donnelson, Stephen Herd, and others.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 340</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-15</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to extend and continue in force “An act for the relief of the representatives of John Donnelson, Stephen Herd, and others.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-15">May 15, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 24, 1824, ch. 142. extended for 12 months.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That an act, entitled “An act for the relief of the representatives of John Donnelson, Stephen Herd, and others,” passed the twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, be, and the same is hereby, extended and continued for twelve months, from and after the passing of this act.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-15">May 15, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of Charles Anderson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 340</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-16</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Anderson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Charles Anderson be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May surrender a certain quarter section, and receive another in return.</p></sidenote>authorized to relinquish and surrender to the government of the United States the east half of the south-east quarter of section twenty-eight, in township four, range six west, in the Huntsville Land Office District, containing seventy-nine acres and seventy-five hundredths of an acre, for which a patent was issued in his name, on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, upon a declaration for relinquishment erroneously made, upon which said relinquishment and surrender,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 51, 52, 53. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/341">341</page>
as above-mentioned, to the Register and Receiver of the Land Office in Huntsville: and in consideration thereof, they are hereby authorized and required to cause a patent to be issued, in the name of the said Anderson, for the west half of the said south-east quarter of section twenty-eight, in township four, of range six west, in lieu of the east half of the said south-east quarter of section twenty-eight, hereby authorized to be relinquished: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> Application shall be made to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at any time previous to the land being offered for sale by the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief of Davis Floyd.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 341</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Davis Floyd.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to allow and pay unto<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for conveying report of commissioners to Washington.</p></sidenote> Davis Floyd, one of the commissioners for ascertaining the rights of persons claiming lands in East Florida, the sum of five hundred dollars, as a full compensation for having brought to the seat of government the report of the said commissioners; and the said sum shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LII: for the relief of James Gibson, of Vincennes, Indiana, and James Kay, of Kentucky.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 341</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Gibson, of Vincennes, Indiana, and James Kay, of Kentucky.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">James Gibson to be placed on the pension list.</p></sidenote> directed to place James Gibson on the list of invalid pensioners, who served in Captain Begg’s company of light dragoons, in the battle with the Indians at Tippecanoe, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the fourth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, James Kay.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, directed to place James Kay, of Kentucky, upon the list of invalid pensioners, who was wounded in the battle of Brandywine, during the revolutionary war, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence upon the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of William Hambly and Edmund Doyle.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 341</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Hambly and Edmund Doyle.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be granted to William Hambly and Edmund Doyle, each, a tract of land of six hundred and forty acres, in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A tract of land granted to them in lieu of, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> one body, in lieu of tracts of the same quantity, which they respectively claimed, and were entitled to by the opinion of the commissioners for ascertaining claims and titles to land in West Florida, situated on the Appalachicola river, and which, by a late treaty with the Indians of the territory of Florida, were reserved for chiefs, to be located on uninhabited lands, under the direction of the receiver and register of the land office of West Florida, within twelve months from the passage of this act; and that they be, respectively, entitled to patents for the same, upon the presentation of certificates of survey thereof, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office; and that, if the location be not made before the survey of the public lands, the said tract shall be bounded by sectional lines: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall only be considered as a relinquishment<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of title on the part of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of Isaac Hodsdon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 342</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/342">342</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 54, 55, 57, 58, 60. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaac Hodsdon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be repaid the amount of certain judgments recovered against him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Isaac Hodsdon, the sum of four hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-eight cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount paid by the said Isaac Hodsdon, on judgments recovered against him, in the states of New Hampshire and Vermont, by reason of his enforcing the laws of the United States, while acting as a captain in her service during the late war, and for his expenses in defence of a proceeding against him before the Supreme Judicial Court of New Hampshire.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of Michael Copp.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 342</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Michael Copp.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for a rifle, &amp;c. taken by U. S.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Michael Copp, out of any money, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighteen dollars, the value of a rifle gun and appendages taken from him in the late war, by order of an officer in service, for the use of the United States, and not returned.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVII: relinquishing the right of the United States in a certain tract of land, to Samuel Brashiers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 342</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">relinquishing the right of the United States in a certain tract of land, to Samuel Brashiers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of the U. S. in certain land surrendered to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all right, title, and interest, which the United States possess, in the reservation made to Samuel Brashiers, of lands within the tract of country ceded to the United States, by the treaty of Fort Jackson, on the ninth day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen, with the Creek nation of Indians, be, and the same is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>vested in Samuel Brashiers, the occupant of the same: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That only six hundred and forty acres shall be granted in virtue of this act, and that the same shall be laid out according to the provisions of the treaty.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: for the relief of Penelope Denny.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 342</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Penelope Denny.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to her.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a pension of one hundred and eight dollars per annum, for the term of five years, from the ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, be allowed and paid in half yearly payments, out of the navy pension fund, to Penelope Denny, the mother of James Denny, late a quarter gunner in the navy of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That in case of the marriage or <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>death of the said Penelope, before the expiration of said term, the said pension shall cease, from and after the time of such marriage or death.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LX: relinquishing the right of the United States in a certain tract of land, to William Hollinger.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 343</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">relinquishing the right of the United States in a certain tract of land, to William Hollinger.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of U. S. in certain land surrendered to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all right, title, and interest, which the United States possess, in the reservation made to William Hollinger, of lands within the tract of country ceded to the United States, by the treaty of Fort Jackson, on the ninth day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen, with the Creek nation of Indians, be, and the same is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>vested in the said William Hollinger: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That only six hundred and forty acres shall be granted in virtue of this act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of William M. Dever.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 343</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 61, 63, 68. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/343">343</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William M. Dever.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be lawful for William M. Dever, of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter land in Vincennes District.</p></sidenote> the county of Perry, and state of Indiana, to enter with the register of the land office at Vincennes, in the state aforesaid, the west half of the northwest quarter of section seven, in township six, south of range one west, in the Vincennes district; and, upon such entry being made, it shall be the duty of the register aforesaid, to issue to the said William M. Dever, a certificate for the aforesaid half-quarter section. And it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the general land office to issue a patent for the half quarter section of land so entered, whenever the certificate aforesaid shall be presented to him for that purpose: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That before such entry shall be made, the said William M. Dever shall surrender to the register of the land office aforesaid, the patent which he now holds from the United States, for the west half of the north-west quarter of section seven, in township five south, of range one west, accompanied by such a release of his interest to the land therein specified, as the commissioner of the general land office shall direct:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That the said William M. Dever shall produce evidence,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the land office at Vincennes aforesaid, that his entry with the said register, of the half quarter section of land described in the foregoing proviso of this act, and for which a patent was issued to the said William M. Dever, was occasioned by an error of the surveyor, in marking the number of the township, in the range aforesaid.</proviso></content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the west half of the northwest<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certain tract reserved from entry for one year, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> quarter of section seven, in township six south, of range one west, in the district aforesaid, shall be reserved from entry, for the term of one year, from and after the passage of this act; unless the same shall be previously applied for, by the said William M. Dever, under the provisions of this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the reliefof Joseph Shomo, late a Captain in the United States’ Army.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 343</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-16</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the reliefof Joseph Shomo, late a Captain in the United States’ Army.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer be, and he is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the accounts of Joseph Shomo, late a captain in the United States’ army, upon principles of equity and justice, so far as relates to the enlistment of ten soldiers.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-16">May 16, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of James Wolcott, and Mary his wife, of the State of Ohio.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 343</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Wolcott, and Mary his wife, of the State of Ohio.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-18">May 18, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them in full satisfaction for a tract of land sold by mistake.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, unto James Wolcott, and Mary his wife, of the state of Ohio, late Mary Wells, a half blooded Indian, of the Miami nation, the sum of nineteen hundred and twenty dollars, in lieu of, and in full satisfaction for, a section of land, which was reserved to her by the treaty held at St. Mary’s in the state of Ohio, on the sixth of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, between the United States and the Miami nation of Indians, and which is described in said treaty, as “lying at the mouth of Stony Creek, on the south-east side of the Wabash river, the centre of which was to be at the mouth of said creek, running with the meanders thereof, up and down said river, one half mile, and thence back, for quantity:” about two hundred acres of
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/344">344</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch . 69, 70, 71. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
which said section of land has since been sold, by mistake of the officers of the Government of the United States, at the Land Office at Crawfordsville, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>in the state of Indiana: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That, before the payment of the said sum of nineteen hundred and twenty dollars, or any part thereof, to the said James Wolcott, and Mary his wife, they shall execute a release, conveying all their interest in and to said section of land to the United States, which they shall deposit with the Commissioner of the General Land Office.</proviso></content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-18">May 18, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIX: for the relief of James Cook.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 344</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Cook.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-18">May 18, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay unto <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for supplies furnished U. S. troops in 1813.</p></sidenote>James Cook, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and forty-eight dollars and forty cents, the balance due him as assignee of James McLaughlin, for supplies furnished the troops of the United States, in the years one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, under a contract made with Lieutenant Fuller.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-18">May 18, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXX: for the relief of Arthur Jones.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 344</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Arthur Jones.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-18">May 18, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Arthur Jones be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish a certain tract of land, and receive a patent of another therefor.</p></sidenote> and empowered to relinquish and surrender to the Government of the United States, the east half of the south-west quarter of section thirty, in township four, of range two west, containing eighty acres, and eight-hundredths of an acre, a patent for which issued in his name, dated the first day of October, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, on a declaration for relinquishment erroneously made: in consideration of which relinquishment and surrender, as above-mentioned, to the register and receiver of the land office in Huntsville, they are hereby authorized and required to cause a patent to be issued, in the name of the said Arthur Jones, for the west half of the said south-west quarter of section thirty, in township four, of range two west, in lieu of the east half of said quarter section, hereby authorized to be relinquished on the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>application of the said Jones: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> It shall be made at any time previous to said land being offered for sale by the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-18">May 18, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: for the relief of Henry Hitchcock.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 344</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Hitchcock.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-18">May 18, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit allowed him for four horses for the use of the militia.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department are hereby authorized and required to enter to the credit of Henry Hitchcock, a sum not exceeding two hundred and seventy dollars, it being the sum stated to have been paid by said Hitchcock, for four horses, to individuals belonging to the company of Captain Thomas H. Boyles, of the militia, in the late territory of Mississippi: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That credit, as aforesaid, shall not be given, unless, within a reasonable time, the said Hitchcock produces to said accounting officers such evidence as would have authorized the payment for said horses, under the provisions of the act of the ninth of April, one thousand <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.</p></sidenote>eight hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act to authorize the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed, by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes.”</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-18">May 18, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXII: to provide for the settlement of the accounts of Colonel James R. Mullany, late quartermaster-general in the army of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 345</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 72, 84, 85, 86, 87. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/345">345</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to provide for the settlement of the accounts of Colonel James R. Mullany, late quartermaster-general in the army of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-18">May 18, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to adjust and settle the accounts<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> and claims of James R. Mullany, late division quartermaster-general in the army of the United States of America, on principles of equity and justice, subject to the revision of the Secretary of the War Department.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-18">May 18, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: for the relief of John Donly.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 345</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Donly.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of the funds arising from post offices,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for transporting the mail.</p></sidenote> to pay to John Donly two thousand dollars, in full discharge for transporting the mail from Nashville to Columbus, in Mississippi, during the years one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one and twenty-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXV: for the relief of William P. Gould.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 345</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William P. Gould.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to William P. Gould, of Alabama, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury of the United<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for his services in land office at Tuscaloosa.</p></sidenote> States, the sum of one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and forty cents, as a compensation for the services of the said William P. Gould, in the land office at Tuscaloosa, in the state of Alabama, from the sixteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, to the fourteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-four.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVI: for the relief of David Tate.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 345</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Tate.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay David Tate two hundred and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for forage impressed for U. S.</p></sidenote> eighteen dollars, for forage impressed by the officers of the United States, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, for the use of the army, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVII: for the relief of John Stienman, James Winner, and Ann M. Nippes, executrix of Abraham Nippes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 345</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Stienman, James Winner, and Ann M. Nippes, executrix of Abraham Nippes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury settle and adjust the claim of John Stienman, James Winner, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for the manufacture of arms under a contract with Tench Coxe, to be settled.</p></sidenote> Ann M. Nippes, executrix of Abraham Nippes, for the manufacture of four thousand one hundred stand of arms, for the United States, under a contract with Tench Coxe, entered into in the year eighteen hundred and eight, and to make to them such further allowance as shall be equal to that allowed to others who contracted about the same time to manufacture arms for the United States, and who have had their accounts settled, under special acts of Congress, keeping in view the quality of the arms delivered, with the additional labor bestowed, more than would have been necessary to have made muskets equal to the pattern gun, and such allowance so made, deducting therefrom such sums, if any, as the claimants are indebted to the United States for advances made on said contract, with the interest thereon from the twenty-sixth of October, eighteen hundred and thirteen, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCI: for the relief of Benedict Joseph Flaget, bishop of Bardstown, in the state of Kentucky.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 346</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/346">346</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 91, 92, 93, 94. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benedict Joseph Flaget, bishop of Bardstown, in the state of Kentucky.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties due upon certain vestments, &amp;c. remitted.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the duties due and payable on certain vestments, furniture, and paintings, imported into the United States by Benedict Joseph Flaget, bishop of Bardstown, in the state of Kentucky, for the use of the church over which he presides, and recently entered at the custom-house in the city of New York, be, and the same are hereby, remitted.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCII: granting certain grounds in the city of Detroit to the Mayor, Recorder, Aidermen, and freemen of that city.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting certain grounds in the city of Detroit to the Mayor, Recorder, Aidermen, and freemen of that city.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the right and claim of the United States <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain public grounds in Detroit vested in the mayor, &amp;c. of said city.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>in and to the public grounds within the limits of the city of Detroit, heretofore occupied for military purposes, excepting as hereinafter provided, be, and the same are hereby, granted to, and vested in, the Mayor, Recorder, Aidermen, and freemen of the city, for the use of said freemen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> There be reserved and excepted from this grant the following lots: one lot, upon which the public store-house is situate, bounded one hundred and fifty feet in front upon Jefferson avenue, and extending the same width to the channel of the river; one other lot, upon which the public arsenal is situate, containing one hundred and fifty feet front upon Jefferson avenue, and extending the same width, by parallel lines, at right angles, with said avenue, in a north-western course, two hundred feet; and one other lot, upon which the building occupied by the military store-keeper is situate, containing one hundred and twenty-five feet in front upon Jefferson avenue, and extending back, in a north-western direction, by parallel lines, at right angles with that avenue, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>two hundred feet:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That the grant expressed in this act shall not take effect, until the said Mayor, Recorder, Aidermen, and freemen, in their corporate capacity, shall have secured to the United States a sum of money, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, sufficient for the erection of a magazine, at a place without the limits of the city, to be designated by the war department.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIII: for the relief of John Matthews.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Matthews.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a certain tract of land in Louisiana.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Matthews be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate, within twelve months after the passing of this act, under the direction of the Register and Receiver for the Western District of Louisiana, on the Bayou Boeuf, in the county of Opelousas, a tract of land equal to the quantity which the said Matthews lost, by a decree of court, in consequence of an erroneous location made and approved by <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>the authority of the proper officer: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The quantity so located shall not exceed five hundred and forty-two arpens.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: for the relief of Walley and Foster.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 346</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Walley and Foster.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of debentures to be issued to them.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the ports of Boston and Charlestown be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue to Walley and Foster the amount of the debentures which accrued upon the export of seven hundred bags of pepper to Russia and France, in one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in the ship Tartar and brig Garland, in the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 95, 96, 97, 98. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/347">347</page>
same manner as if the export oath of the said Walley and Foster had been made within the ten days then required by law.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCV: for the relief of Davis Floyd.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 347</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Davis Floyd.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote> accounts of Davis Floyd, upon the principles of justice and equity, and allow him such credits as shall be found due him, not exceeding the amount with which he stands charged on the books, exclusive of his pay as Deputy Quartermaster-General.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVI: for the relief of Rebecca Blodget.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 347</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Rebecca Blodget.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Attorney-General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain whether Mrs.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorney-General to ascertain whether she hath right of dower in certain lots, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Rebecca Blodget hath right of dower in certain lots formerly owned by her husband, Samuel Blodget, but now held by the United States, to wit: in lots number one, four, and fourteen, in the square number four hundred and thirty, in the city of Washington; and if she hath such right of dower, to ascertain, in the manner he may think most advisable, what is the value of such her right of dower in the said lots, and the improvements thereon erected, at the time her right accrued, and that he report the same to Congress at its next session.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCVII: for the relief of Gilbert C. Russel.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 347</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Gilbert C. Russel.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Gilbert C. Russel, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for his buildings at Mobile Point, taken possession of by U. S. troops.</p></sidenote> the sum of fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-one dollars seventeen cents, being the value of his buildings at Mobile Point, which were taken possession of by an armed force of the United States, in October, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, under an order of the then Secretary at War, and for the work and labor done and performed by him on the public works at Mobile Point, and for labor performed at Dog River, Fowl River, Shell Banks, and elsewhere, in preparing materials for the erection of said works, and for such materials as were prepared at the several places last aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the Secretary<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury retain the sum of nineteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-four dollars and forty-nine cents, the estimated value of the buildings at Mobile Point, until the said Gilbert C. Russel, or his grantee or grantees, or their assignee or assignees, shall deposit with him a release or releases, of all liens or conveyances of said buildings heretofore given or made by said Russel, so that all the interest of which the said Russel was possessed, be vested in the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the said Secretary do not issue his warrant for the sum awarded by the Third Auditor, under the act for the relief of Gilbert<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 88.</p></sidenote> C. Russel, passed March third, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, the same being included in the sum appropriated in this act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVIII: supplementary to the act, entitled “An act for the relief of Daniel Seward.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 347</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">supplementary to the act, entitled “An act for the relief of Daniel Seward.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate for $116 to be issued to him.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to Daniel Seward, (in addition to the certificate heretofore issued, under the act of March third
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/348">348</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 99, 100, 101, 102. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 90.</p></sidenote>eighteen hundred and twenty-three, to which this act is supplementary,) a certificate for one hundred and sixteen dollars; with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the twenty-ninth of January, eighteen hundred and fourteen, being the sum which, with the sum of thirty-eight dollars and sixty-six cents, allowed by that act, was paid by the said Daniel Seward, for the tract of nineteen acres and one-third of an acre of land, mentioned in that act to have been sold and conveyed by the United [States] to him, and afterwards legally adjudged to be the property of another person, which certificate, with the interest thereon, shall be receivable in payment for public lands, and shall be in full satisfaction of the claim of the said Daniel Seward, for the sum paid by him for said tract of land.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCIX: giving the right of pre-emption of a certain lot of land to Charles Noble.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 348</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">giving the right of pre-emption of a certain lot of land to Charles Noble.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Charles Noble be, and he is hereby, entitled <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of preemption granted to him.</p></sidenote>to a preference, in becoming the purchasing [purchaser] at private sale, of one square acre of land, known and designated as the “Wayne Stockade,” lying and being in the southern land district of the territory of Michigan, and bounded as follows, to wit: in the front, or the south, by the public highway, on the north side of the River Raisin, leading up and down said river, and on the east, north, and west, by lands patented to Jacques and Francis Lasselle, upon the payment of forty dollars to the Receiver of Public Moneys, in the aforesaid Land District, and on the presentation of the said Receiver’s receipt for that amount to the Secretary of the Treasury, the said Charles Noble, or his legal representatives, shall be entitled to a patent from the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. C: for the relief of John A. Webster.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>C</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 348</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>C.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John A. Webster.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for a horse lost in the late war.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John A. Webster, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and forty-two dollars, being the value of a horse killed, and accoutrements lost, in battle during the late war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CI: for the relief of Jacob Hampton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 348</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacob Hampton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for a fractional section of land to be issued.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to make out and deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Jacob Hampton, of Wayne county, in the state of Indiana, a patent, in due form, for the fractional section number seven, in township number fourteen, and range one west, of the lands directed to be sold at Cincinnati, agreeably to the final receipt given to the said Jacob Hampton for the said fractional section, when the same shall be demanded.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CII: for the relief of Jarvis Jackson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 348</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jarvis Jackson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from all demands of P.O. Departm’t against him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Jarvis Jackson, late deputy Postmaster at Hazelpatch, in Kentucky, be, and he is hereby, released from all demands which the Post office department may have against him, in consequence of moneys received by him whilst in that office.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIII: for the relief of Sarah Venable and Jane Morgan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 349</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 103, 101, 105, 106, 107. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/349">349</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Sarah Venable and Jane Morgan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the bounty land which Peter Woosely, alias Oosely, a deceased soldier, is, or was entitled to, be, and the same is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bounty land to which Peter Woosely is entitled, vested in Sarah Venable, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> hereby, declared to be vested in Sarah Venable, to whom it was devised by the last will of the said Peter; and that such arrearages of pay, pension, and clothing, as may be found due to him, be paid to Jane Morgan, formerly Jane Venable, to whom he devised it, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> this act shall affect the right or claim of the heirs of the said Peter, should they be able in any court to assert their claim, and show that said devises are insufficient in law, and of none effect.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIV: to make compensation to Hugh McClung, for a tract of land situate in the state of Tennessee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 349</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to make compensation to Hugh McClung, for a tract of land situate in the state of Tennessee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Hugh McClung, of the county of Lancaster,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for land in Tennessee.</p></sidenote> in the state of Pennsylvania, the sum of five thousand dollars, in full compensation for a tract of land, containing six hundred and forty acres, situate in the county of Hamilton, and District of East Tennessee, to which the said Hugh claimed title, and which is secured to James Brown, a Cherokee Indian, in fee simple, by the third article of the Convention between the United States and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, made at the city of Washington, and dated the twenty-seventh day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and which was recovered by the said James Brown, by the judgment of the Federal Circuit Court, for said District of East Tennessee, at the October term thereof, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said sum of money shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> be paid to the said Hugh out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of William Thompson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 349</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Thompson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to place William Thompson, a seaman, who was<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> wounded on board the cutter Louisiana, on the tenth of August, eighteen hundred and nineteen, with a musket-ball, upon the pension list, in the same manner, and upon the same terms, as if he had received the said wound in the naval service of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVI: for the relief of W. and J. Montgomery.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 349</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of W. and J. Montgomery.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to pay to W. and J. Montgomery the sum of eight<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$871.94 to be paid them as drawback.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventy-one dollars ninety-four cents; being the nett amount of drawback, to which they are entitled, on the shipment of one hundred and fifty bags of coffee, from New Orleans to Antwerp, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-three, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVII: for the relief of Michael Hoff.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 349</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Michael Hoff.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to remit to Michael Hoff
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/350">350</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 108, 113, 114, 115. 1826</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties on a still remitted.</p></sidenote>such proportion of the duties as may have accrued under a license, in the years eighteen hundred and fifteen, and eighteen hundred and sixteen, to the said Michael Hoff, for the use of his still, for the time during which the use of the said still was discontinued; in the same manner<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 56.</p></sidenote> as is directed by the act, entitled “An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit the duties therein mentioned.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: for the relief of James Dickson and Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 350</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Dickson and Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid a moiety of the proceeds of certain goods sold as forfeited by U. S.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and required to pay to James Dickson and Company, of Savannah, or to their lawful attorney, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-three thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety-five cents, being a moiety of the proceeds of certain goods imported from Liverpool, by the said James Dickson and Company, in November, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, which were sold as forfeited, and the amount thereof paid into the treasury of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: for the relief of Daniel Davis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 350</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Davis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote>directed to issue to Daniel Davis, a soldier of the revolutionary army, a land warrant for one hundred acres of land, which warrant, when issued, shall be located on any unlocated land in the manner and within the time provided by law for other military warrants issued for services in the revolutionary army, and a patent shall be granted thereon, as in other cases.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: for the relief of John H. Mills.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 350</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John H. Mills.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John H. Mills be, and he is hereby, confirmed<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confirmed in his title to land in Louisiana.</p></sidenote> in his title to a tract of land of one hundred and ninety-five arpens, situated on Thompson’s creek, in the parish of West Feliciana, Louisiana, between lands owned by Moses Samples below, and Levi Lush above; and shall be entitled to patent therefor, upon exhibiting a survey of the same to the commissioner of the general land office: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That this act be construed to operate merely as a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and not to prejudice the rights of any third person.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXV: for the relief of the securities of Joseph Crockett, of Kentucky, late marshal and acting supervisor of the old internal revenue and direct tax.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 350</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the securities of Joseph Crockett, of Kentucky, late marshal and acting supervisor of the old internal revenue and direct tax.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Samuel H. Woodson, Andrew McCalla, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from liability as securities of Joseph Crockett.</p></sidenote>the executor of James Morrison, deceased, securities of Joseph Crockett, late acting supervisor of the old internal revenue and direct tax, in the district of Kentucky, be, and they are hereby, released, from the payment of any balance due by said Crockett to the United States, as late acting supervisor aforesaid: but nothing herein contained shall release or discharge the said Crockett from his liability to the United States, as supervisor aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of Garrigues Flaujac, of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 351</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 116, 117, 118. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/351">351</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Garrigues Flaujac, of Louisiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Garrigues Flaujac, of the county of Opelousas, in the state of Louisiana, or his legal representatives, are hereby<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate a certain tract of land in Louisiana.</p></sidenote> authorized and empowered to locate a certain tract of land, derived from an order of survey in favor of Louis Berten D’Antilly, for three thousand two hundred superficial arpens of land, being forty arpens in front, by forty arpens in depth, on both sides of the Bayou Gross Tate, in Louisiana, and which said tract of land was confirmed by an act of Congress, dated the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1823, ch. 15.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty-three, in conformity with the report of the register and receiver of the eastern land district of Louisiana; the said tract of land, thus confirmed, having been surveyed and sold by the United States; which location shall be made upon any of the unappropriated public lands in the south-western district of Louisiana, south of Red river: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said location shall, as far as possible, be made<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> in one body, and conform, as near as practicable, to the lines of the public surveys:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That the said Garrigues Flaujac,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> or his legal representatives, before such location, shall release to the United States, in such manner as the commissioner of the general land office shall direct, all his right, title, claim, and interest, in the land heretofore confirmed to him, on the said Bayou Gross Tate; and the said release and location shall be made in one year from and after the passage of this act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: for the relief of John Adams.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Adams.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John Adams, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> the sum of sixty-five dollars, the value of a horse lost, by reason that the said John was dismounted, and separated from said horse, in the expedition into Canada, in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, commanded by General Harrison.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: for the relief of Ann D. Baylor, Leroy Edwards, and John Eustace.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 351</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ann D. Baylor, Leroy Edwards, and John Eustace.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Ann D. Baylor, for the use of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Ann D. Baylor for the infant children of J. W. Baylor.</p></sidenote> infant children of John Walker Baylor, deceased, heir at law of Colonel George Baylor, the sum of three hundred and fifty-four dollars and fifteen cents, with interest thereon, after the rate of six per centum per annum, from the thirtieth day of December, seventeen hundred and eighty-six, until paid: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That, before receiving the sum of money aforesaid, the said Ann D. Baylor shall execute bond and surety to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the faithful application of said money to the education and maintenance of the infant children aforesaid.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to heirs of Capt. Edwards and Ensign Eustace.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the heirs of Captain Leroy Edwards, the sum of one hundred and sixty dollars, and to the heirs of ensign John Eustace, the sum of eighty dollars, with interest on each of the aforesaid sums, from the thirtieth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, till paid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIX: for the relief of a company of rangers, under the command of Captain James Bigger.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 352</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/352">352</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 119, 120, 121, 122. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of a company of rangers, under the command of Captain James Bigger.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers in the treasury department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed full pay for certain periods.</p></sidenote> pay to the company of rangers which entered into the service of the United States, for one year, in the month of May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, their full pay as mounted rangers, from the first to the twenty-fourth of March, eighteen hundred and fourteen, inclusive, deducting therefrom what they have heretofore received, as dismounted rangers, for that period; also the full pay allowed by law for mounted rangers, for the first and second days of June, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid as dismounted rangers from 25th March to 15th May 1814.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And he it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That said company be paid, as aforesaid, as dismounted rangers, from the twenty-fifth of March to the fifteenth of May, eighteen hundred and fourteen, inclusive; the said payments to be made out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That this act shall not be so construed, as to entitle any officer, non-commissioned officer, or private, of said company, to pay as aforesaid, from and after the twenty-fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and fourteen, who did not, subsequent to that time, perform duty in said company.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of Otway Burns.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 352</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Otway Burns.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of U.S. against him for duties to be settled.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized to adjust and settle the claim of the United States against Otway Burns, on certain bonds given by him to the collector of Beaufort, North Carolina, for duties on goods imported into that port, in the brig La Fortuna, and entered at the custom house in the month of August, eighteen hundred and eighteen, on which bonds judgment has been obtained, in the same manner, and under the same rules and regulations of the treasury department, as if no such judgment had been obtained.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: for the relief of William L. D. Ewing.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 352</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William L. D. Ewing.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit to be allowed to him for money lost by robbery.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, in settling the accounts of William L. D. Ewing, receiver of public moneys at Vandalia, in the state of Illinois, to pass to the credit of the said Ewing the sum of one thousand dollars, that being the amount which was lost by a robbery of the State Bank of Illinois, on the twenty-sixth Alarch, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, and which the said Ewing had deposited in said bank for safe keeping, the said money being the property of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: for the relief of the legal representatives of William V. Keary, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 352</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of William V. Keary, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legal representatives of William V. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote>Keary, deceased, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a tract of land of four hundred arpens, lying on the east side of the Little Bayou Sarah, a part being in the state of Mississippi, and a part in the state of Louisiana, and being the same for which the said Keary received a deed of conveyance, on the twenty-fifth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventeen, from Richard Graves, and on which the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 141, 142, 143, 144. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/353">353</page>
widow of the said decedent now resides, and that the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon being furnished with a plat and certificate of the survey of the land, executed by any authorized surveyor of the United States, issue a patent for the same: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That this act shall be construed as a mere relinquishment on the part of the government, and as not affecting the rights of any third person.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLI: for the relief of Jesse F. Royston, of Missouri.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 353</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jesse F. Royston, of Missouri.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to Jesse F. Royston, of Missouri,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the value of a horse lost in the late war.</p></sidenote> the sum of eighty dollars, being the value of a horse lost by said Royston, while in the service of the United States, during the late war, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-20">May 20, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLII: for the relief of Walker K. Armistead.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 353</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Walker K. Armistead.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to adjust<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and allowance made.</p></sidenote> and settle the accounts of Walker K. Armistead, late Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers, and allow him not exceeding four hundred dollars, for moneys advanced for the recruiting service in eighteen hundred and thirteen, and that the sum be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIII: for the relief of Alfred Flournoy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 353</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alfred Flournoy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Alfred Flournoy, of the state of Tennessee, lately a Lieutenant in the army of the United States, and who, in consequence<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter two sections of land in full discharge of his pension.</p></sidenote> of the loss of a leg, from a Spanish battery at Pensacola, has been placed on the pension list at fourteen dollars a month, be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered, within eighteen months from the passing of this act, to enter in any office in the states of Mississippi or Alabama, two sections of land, in commutation of, and in full discharge of his pension: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no entry shall be made, but of land<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> which may have been previously offered at public sale:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> He shall not enter a less quantity than a quarter section, unless where it may be a fraction, nor any lands which may have been heretofore relinquished, until after they may be again offered at public sale.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, on making any entry, in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">On making any entry, his pension certificate is to be returned.</p></sidenote> pursuance of the provisions of this act, with any Register, the said Alfred Flournoy shall deposite his pension certificate, to be returned by said Register to the Secretary of War; and thereupon, his said pension shall cease and determine, on the next quarter day after such surrender.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIV: for the relief of William Biggs.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 353</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Biggs.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Biggs, of the state of Illinois, be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter three sections of land, in quarter<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter three sections of land in Illinois.</p></sidenote> sections, of the lands subject to entry at private sale in the Sangamon district, in Illinois, in consideration of his services as lieutenant in the regiment of the late General George Rogers Clark, which marched against, and subdued, the posts of Kaskaskias and Vincennes.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLV: for the relief of William Tharp.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 354</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/354">354</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 145, 146, 155, 156. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Tharp.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled.</p></sidenote>be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to settle the claims of William Tharp, late a suttler in the army of the United States, from eighteen hundred and six to eighteen hundred and thirteen, inclusive, for debts due to him from deceased and deserted non-commissioned officers and soldiers, and which have not heretofore been paid, upon the same principles of justice and equity, as are extended to suttlers under <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>the existing army regulations: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said accounting officers shall, in said settlement, be the judges of the validity and equity of the accounts rendered by said Tharp in lieu of the certificates from a board of officers, as is the practice under existing army regulations:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>And provided also,</i> That no larger sum shall, in any case, be awarded to said Tharp, on account of his claims against a deceased or deserted soldier, either as principal or interest, than appears, from the muster and pay rolls, to have been actually and justly due to such non-commissioned officer and soldier, from the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sums awarded to the said Tharp, under the foregoing section, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLVI: for the relief of James Monroe.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 354</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Monroe.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him in full of all his demands.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and required to cause to be paid to James Monroe, out of any unappropriated moneys in the treasury, the sum of twenty-nine thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars, in full of all demands whatever, against the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLV: for the relief of the Florida Indians.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 354</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the Florida Indians.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for reliefof Florida Indians.</p></sidenote>the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the directions of the President, in affording sustenance to the suffering Florida Indians.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVI: for the relief of Mack and Conant.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 354</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mack and Conant.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the accounts of Mack and Conant, late partners, trading under the firm of Mack and Conant, at the city of Detroit, in the Michigan Territory, as well those of which they are possessed by purchase, as those which they hold in their own right as original claimants, upon the principles of equity and justice; and that the sums found due be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Before any money shall be paid them, they shall enter bond to the U. S. &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, before any money shall be paid to said Mack and Conant, on accounts assigned to them, they, or either of them, shall enter a bond to the United States, with sureties to the acceptance of the Secretary of the Treasury, which shall be lodged with him, in double the amount of such accounts so allowed, conditioned for refunding such sums of money, and the interest thereon, as
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 157, 158. 1826.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/355">355</page>
may be hereafter allowed at the treasury department, to the original claimants of such accounts, on making proper proof that they are entitled thereto.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVII: for the relief of Phinehas Underwood, andfor other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 355</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Phinehas Underwood, andfor other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Phinehas Underwood be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter with the proper register, any unlocated quarter section<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter an unlocated quarter section in Illinois.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of land in the state of Illinois, within one year after the passage of this act, and shall be entitled to a patent therefor, as in other cases: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That such quarter section shall have been previously offered at public sale:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> He shall, prior to making such location, surrender to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent which issued to Eli B. Mott, on the thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for the north-west quarter of section twenty-two, of township six north, in range eight west, of the Illinois Bounty Lands.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the time for filing petitions<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of filing petitions extended to 26th May 1828.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 173.</p></sidenote> under the provisions of an act, entitled “An act enabling the claimants to lands within the limits of the state of Missouri, and territory of Arkansas, to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims,” shall be, and the same is hereby, extended to the twenty-sixth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVIII: for the relief of William Kellogg.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 355</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Kellogg.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be refunded and paid to William Kellogg, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain foreign tonnage duty to be refunded.</p></sidenote> sum of five hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-three cents, it being the amount of the foreign tonnage duty and light money, paid by said William Kellogg to the collector of Middletown, on the schooner Five Sisters, an American built vessel, and the amount of ten per centum additional duty, paid to the said collector on goods imported in the said schooner, which additional duty, light money, and foreign tonnage duty, were charged, by said collector, in consequence of an irregularity in the issuing of the register of said schooner, by which the same was rendered void.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-05-22">May 22, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1826</dc:date>
<dc:date>1827</dc:date>
</meta>
<privateLaws>
<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE NINETEENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of December,</i> 1826, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1827.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">John Quincy Adams</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John C. Calhoun</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Nathaniel Macon</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">John W. Taylor</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. I: for the relief of Edward Lee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>I</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 356</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-12-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>I.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edward Lee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-12-29">Dec. 29, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for bread contracted for, for the use of the navy.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Edward Lee, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand eight hundred twelve dollars and fifty cents, the value of thirty-seven thousand five hundred pounds of navy bread, which he contracted with Commodore Chauncey, to deliver at Sackett’s Harbor on or before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and thirteen, for the use of the navy, and which, being examined by the proper officer, was left in the possession of the said Lee, for the want of a convenient place to receive it into the public stores, and was thereafter accidentally destroyed by fire.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-12-29">December 29, 1826</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. II: for the relief of Warner Wing.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>II</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 356</citableAs>
<dc:date>1826-12-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Warner Wing.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1826-12-29">Dec. 29, 1826</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for services as Clerk of the Board of Commissioners.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Warner Wing, the sum of one thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full satisfaction for the services of the said Warner Wing, as Clerk to the Board of Commissioners, and for making out <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 85.</p></sidenote>copies of their decisions, under the act of the eleventh of May, eighteen hundred and twenty, entitled “An act to revive the powers of commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to land in the district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to land at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, in the territory of Michigan.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1826-12-29">December 29, 1826</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. III: for the relief of the indigent sufferers by the fire at Alexandria.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>III</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 356</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-01-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the indigent sufferers by the fire at Alexandria.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-01-24">Jan. 24, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$20,000 appropriated for their relief.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the relief of the indigent sufferers by the destructive fire in the city of Alexandria, in the district of Columbia, to be distributed under the direction of the Mayor and
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/356" renderingPosition="bottom">356</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 10, 11, 12, 13, 15. 1827.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/357">357</page>
Common Council of the city of Alexandria, for the immediate relief of such class of sufferers, and for no other purpose.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-01-24">January 24, 1827</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. X: to provide for the settlement of the accounts of James W. Lent, junior, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 357</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-02-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to provide for the settlement of the accounts of James W. Lent, junior, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-02-08">Feb. 8, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to adjust and settle<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> the accounts and claims of lieutenant James W. Lent, junior, deceased, late battalion quarter-master of the corps of artillery, in the army of the United States of America, on principles of equity and justice, subject to the revision of the Secretary of the War Department.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-02-08">February 8, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of Von Kapffe and Brune, of Baltimore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 357</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-02-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Von Kapffe and Brune, of Baltimore.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-02-08">Feb. 8, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow to Messrs. Von Kapffe and Brune, of Baltimore,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback on playing cards allowed them.</p></sidenote> the benefit of drawback on two boxes of Spanish playing cards, imported into that port in the month of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, in the brig George and Henry, from Bremen, and by the said Von Kapffe and Brune exported from Baltimore to the Havanna, in the schooner Iris, William S. Taylor, master, and to refund to them the duties thereon paid, after a deduction of two and a half per centum, therefrom, upon satisfactory proof of the landing of the said cards in the Havanna, as provided by law in other cases.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-02-08">February 8, 1827</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XII: for the relief of Lieutenant Isaac McKeever.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 357</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-02-08</dc:date>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lieutenant Isaac McKeever.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-02-08">Feb. 8, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be authorized to allow to lieutenant Isaac McKeever so much<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to him to cover his expenses in the case of the vessels Marino and Louisa.</p></sidenote> of the proceeds of the forfeitures and penalties as have accrued to the United States, from the condemnation of the vessels Marino and Louisa, and their cargoes, as may be necessary to cover his reasonable expenses in prosecuting the suits against the said vessels and cargoes, in the District Court of the United States for the district of Alabama, for the violation of the laws of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-02-08">February 8, 1827</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of Francis King, assignee of William King.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 357</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-02-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Francis King, assignee of William King.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-02-08">Feb. 8, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay unto Francis King, assignee in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$519 to be paid him.</p></sidenote> trust of William King, the sum of five hundred and nineteen dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being a balance due said William King, on sundry mahogany chairs and sofas, delivered at the President’s house for the use of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-02-08">February 8, 1827</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XV: for the relief of Benjamin Woodworth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 357</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-02-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin Woodworth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-02-22">Feb. 22, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Benjamin Woodworth, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of retained bounty due from the U. S. to certain soldiers.</p></sidenote> the sum of five hundred forty-four dollars forty-nine cents, being the amount of retained bounty, arrearages of pay, and allowance for travel, due from the United States to George Daffon, Joseph Allaways, Henry Babcock, Robert King, Daniel Kingsland, Thomas M. Peck, John Wartsbough, Joseph Pickell, William Shears, and David
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/358">358</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 16, 17, 24. 1827.</centerRunningHead>
Gassett, who enlisted for and during the war, were honorably discharged at Detroit, on the twentieth of July, eighteen hundred and fourteen, and on the following day, by regular assignments, and for adequate considerations, transferred to the said Benjamin Woodworth their respective claims on the United States, and by powers of attorney, duly authenticated, empowered him to receive the same.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-02-22">February 22, 1827</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVI: for the relief of Alfred Flournoy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 358</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-02-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alfred Flournoy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-02-22">Feb. 22, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That patents do issue from the General Land Office <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to issue for land in Alabama.</p></sidenote>to Alfred Flournoy, of Giles county, state of Tennessee, for eight quarter sections of land, which he hath located, and entered in the register’s office at Huntsville, in the state of Alabama, of the following descriptions; that is to say: the south-west quarter of section twenty-five, township four, range three, west; south-east quarter of section six, township five, range two, west; south-west and north-west quarters of section thirty-two, west: north-west quarter of section twenty-four, township four, range ten, west; north-east and south-west quarters of section four, township four, range ten, west; north quarter of section seven, township four, range seven, west; and the same is hereby declared to be in full compensation for and commutation of his pension heretofore granted by the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-02-22">February 22, 1827</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of Noah Noble, of Indiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 358</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-02-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Noah Noble, of Indiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-02-22">Feb. 22, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit allowed him.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to pass to the credit of Noah Noble, receiver of public moneys at Indianapolis, in Indiana, the sum of one hundred and thirty-two dollars, by him heretofore paid to Josiah F. Polk, Esquire, for the safe keeping of the public money, books, and other property appertaining to that office, and for paying over, and delivering the same, between the death of the late, and the appointment of the present, receiver of the said office.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-02-22">February 22, 1827</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of the representatives of John Kerlin, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 358</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representatives of John Kerlin, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for the manufacture of muskets to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department settle and adjust the claim of the representatives of John Kerlin, deceased, for the manufacturing of one thousand two hundred and twenty-seven muskets, for the United States, and make them such fur-ther allowance for each stand of arms, as shall be equal to that allowed to others, who contracted, in eighteen hundred and eight, to manufacture arms for the United States, and who have had their contracts settled under special acts of Congress; keeping in view the quality of the arms delivered, with the additional labor bestowed, more than would have been necessary to have made muskets equal to the pattern gun, deducting from said sum so found, the sum of five hundred thirtyone dollars and sixty-six cents, the interest on an advance made by the United States, until the same was repaid; and the balance remaining to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated  <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, before the representatives of the said John Kerlin shall be entitled to receive any money under the provisions of this act, they shall exhibit to said officers satisfactory proof of their appointment.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXV: for the relief of John W. Bingey, the legal representative of Alexander Young.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 359</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 25, 26, 27, 28, 38. 1827.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/359">359</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John W. Bingey, the legal representative of Alexander Young.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to refund to John W. Bingey, of New Orleans, in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties refunded.</p></sidenote> the state of Louisiana, the legal representative of Alexander Young, deceased, the sum of one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and ninety-eight cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That it shall first be proved to the satisfaction<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of said Secretary, that the said sum of one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and ninety-eight cents was paid to the Collector of the District of Mississippi, for duties on merchandise imported into said district by said Young, from Pensacola, in the month of February or March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and that said merchandise was purchased in the city of New York, in the month of August, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and that the duties thereon were paid to the Collector of the port of New York, according to law.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: for the relief of Jacob Butler.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 359</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacob Butler.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for horses lost.</p></sidenote> to Jacob Butler, the sum of one hundred seventy-two dollars forty-four cents, the balance of the value of two horses, belonging to the said Jacob Butler, which died in the service of the United States for the want of forage.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Jacob Shafer.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 359</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacob Shafer.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be issued to Jacob Shafer, late a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A warrant for land to be issued to him.</p></sidenote> corporal in the twentieth regiment of infantry, a warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land, which may be located as other warrants are, which have been granted to soldiers of the late war, in lieu of his own bounty land, which he surrendered at the time of his discharge; and not by virtue of the assignment of John Sharp’s discharge.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: making appropriation for prize money due to Thomas Douty.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 359</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">making appropriation for prize money due to Thomas Douty.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of nineteen dollars ninety-six cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prize money to be paid to him.</p></sidenote> appropriated, for the payment to Thomas Douty of his share of prize money, for the capture of the Algerine vessels, in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen; the same having been heretofore appropriated, and carried to the surplus fund.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, [1827.]</date>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of William Mendenhall.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 359</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Mendenhall.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay unto William Mendenhall, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for horses lost.</p></sidenote> the sum of eighty-five dollars and fifty cents, the balance due him for two horses, lost in the service of the United States for want of forage.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of Daniel Fielding.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 360</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/360">360</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 39, 53, 54, 63, 64. 1827.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Fielding.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for horses and wagon lost.</p></sidenote> department pay unto Daniel Fielding, or to his legal representative, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars and fifty cents, being in full for two horses and the body of a wagon, lost while in the service of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIII: concerning a Seminary of Learning in the Territory of Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 360</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning a Seminary of Learning in the Territory of Arkansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A quantity of land to be set apart for the use of an university.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized to set apart and reserve from sale, out of any of the public lands within the Territory of Arkansas, to which the Indian title has been, or may be, extinguished, and not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land not exceeding two entire townships, for the use and support of an University within the said territory, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever; to be located in tracts of land of not less than an entire section, corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed, one of which said townships, so set apart and reserved from sale, shall be in lieu of an entire township of land directed to be located on the waters of the Arkansas river in said territory, for the use of a Seminary of Learning therein, by an act of Congress, entitled “An act making provision for the establishment of additional land offices in the Territory of Missouri,” approved February the seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of James May.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 360</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James May.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for his services as marshal.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to James May, of Detroit, or his legal representatives, the sum of four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and sixty-two cents, in full for his claim upon the United States for services rendered as Marshal of the Territory of Michigan.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of Joseph Dunbar, receiver of public moneys for the land office west of Pearl river, in the state of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 360</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Dunbar, receiver of public moneys for the land office west of Pearl river, in the state of Mississippi.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for extra services.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized to allow to Joseph Dunbar, receiver of public moneys in the district west of Pearl river, in the state of Mississippi, in the settlement of his accounts, a reasonable sum, not exceeding five hundred dollars, for extra services rendered by him in bringing up the arrearages in said office at the time of his appointment.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Louis de la Houssaye, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 360</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Louis de la Houssaye, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs and legal representatives of Louis <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confirmed in their title to a tract of land in Louisiana.</p></sidenote>de la Houssaye, deceased, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a certain tract of land lying in the state of Louisiana, one league in length, and fronting upon each side of the Bayou Cailloux, and of the ordinary depth; and that the Commissioner of the General Land
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 65, 66, 67, 68. 1827.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/361">361</page>
Office, upon the presentation of a plat and certificate of survey of said tract of land, executed by a proper officer, issue a patent for the same, which patent shall operate as a relinquishment only on the part of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXV: for the relief of William Morrison.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 361</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Morrison.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, directed to adjust the claim of William<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for supplies furnished, to be settled.</p></sidenote> Morrison, late a contractor for supplies to the army, and allow him credit for sixty-nine beef cattle, taken from near the military post of Prairie du Chien, or Fort Crawford, in July, eighteen hundred and sixteen, by certain predatory tribes of Indians; and the amount, so found to be due, shall be paid to the said William Morrison, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXV: for the relief of William Morrison.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 361</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Morrison.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, directed to adjust the claim of William<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for supplies furnished, to be settled.</p></sidenote> Morrison, late a contractor for supplies to the army, and allow him credit for sixty-nine beef cattle, taken from near the military post of Prairie du Chien, or Fort Crawford, in July, eighteen hundred and sixteen, by certain predatory tribes of Indians; and the amount, so found to be due, shall be paid to the said William Morrison, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for the relief of Richard W. Steele.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 361</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard W. Steele.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury liquidate and adjust the account of Richard W. Steele, late a soldier<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled as a soldier.</p></sidenote> in the eighteenth regiment of infantry, who enlisted for and during the war, but who, by mistake, was reported as having enlisted for and during the term of five years, and to make him such allowance for pay and bounty, not including land, as he is entitled to, under an enlistment for and during the war; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Steele did not leave the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> service until the close of the war.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the money found due to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> him, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVII: for the relief of Isaac Richer.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 361</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaac Richer.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for a horse impressed.</p></sidenote> to Isaac Ricker, or his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred dollars, being the value of a horse, saddle, and bridle, impressed into the public service by Colonel Miller, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, and captured by the British, at the surrender of Detroit by General Hull.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of Polly Bell, alias Polly Collins.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 361</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Polly Bell, alias Polly Collins.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Polly Bell, otherwise called Polly Collins, or, in case of her decease, her legal representative, be, and hereby is, authorized<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter a section of land in Mississippi.</p></sidenote> to enter with the Register of the Land Office for the Choctaw District, in the state of Mississippi, one section of land, in said district, of any lands within the same, which have not been offered at public sale: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Polly Bell, otherwise Polly Collins, shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> release to the Governor of the state of Mississippi, for the use and benefit of a seminary of learning, all her right, title, and interest, in section numbered thirty-two, of township nine, and range four west, in said Choctaw District, which section has been heretofore entered by the Governor of said state for the use aforesaid:</proviso> <i>And provided, also,</i> That<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the said Polly Bell, otherwise Polly Collins, actually resided upon the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/362">362</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 69, 70, 71, 72. 1827.</centerRunningHead>
said section of land upon the day the same was entered by the Governor of said state with the Register of the Land Office.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIX: for the relief of Isaac Delawder.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 362</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaac Delawder.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Isaac Delawder be, and he is hereby, permitted<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter a tract of land in Ohio.</p></sidenote> and allowed to enter one half quarter section of any land liable to entry, at private sale, in the Chillicothe Land District, in the state of Ohio, for which he shall be entitled to a patent, on his releasing to the United States the east half of the south-east quarter of section number ten, township four, range seventeen, in the Chillicothe District, and which was entered by the said Delawder by mistake, by reason of the Surveyor’s marks upon the corner trees of said last named quarter section having become obliterated and rendered illegible, by time and accident.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Balthazar Kramar, and the legal representatives of Captain Richard Taylor.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 362</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Balthazar Kramar, and the legal representatives of Captain Richard Taylor.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Representatives of B. Kramar to be paid $8 per month from 28th Nov. 1822. until his death.</p></sidenote>is hereby directed, to pay to the legal representatives of Balthazar Kramar, at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the twenty-eighth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, until the time of his decease, the same being due to him as an invalid pensioner of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Representatives of Capt. R. Taylor to receive amount due to him at his decease.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be authorized and directed to pay to the legal representatives of Captain Richard Taylor, an invalid pensioner, the amount of pension due the said Richard Taylor, at the time of his decease, in the same manner as if his biennial examination had taken place.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: for the relief of John Boardman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 362</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Boardman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Boardman, of Madison county, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter a tract of land in Alabama.</p></sidenote>state of Alabama, be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate and enter with the Register and Receiver of the Land Office in the Huntsville District, in the state of Alabama, the north-west quarter of section twenty-four, and the south-west quarter of section thirteen, in township four, of range two, west of the basis Meridian, on paying for the samp, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>at the rate of five dollars per acre: Provided, That such location and entry shall be made prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; and that patents do issue from the General Land Office, to Alfred Flournoy, of Giles county, state of Tennessee, for eight quarter sections of lands, which he hath located and entered in the Register’s Office, at Huntsville, in the state of Alabama, in lieu, and in full satisfaction of, eight quarter sections of land, specified and described in an act entitled “An act for the relief of Alfred Flournoy,” approved February twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXII: for the relief of Edward R. Gibson, and William H. Simmons, and their clerks.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 362</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edward R. Gibson, and William H. Simmons, and their clerks.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to receive, audit, and settle, the accounts of Edward R. Gibson and William H. Simmons, and their
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 73, 74, 75. 1827.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/363">363</page>
two clerks, for services performed under instructions from the Department of State, in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States, passed on the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, requesting the President to take measures for the safe keeping and security of the public archives in Florida; and to pay the same out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the allowance to the said Edward<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> R. Gibson and William H. Simmons, for such services, shall not exceed the sum specified in the instructions aforesaid, and that the allowance to their clerks shall not exceed the rate at present allowed by law for similar services.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIII: for the relief of John E. Dorsey, administrator of John Dorsey, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 363</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John E. Dorsey, administrator of John Dorsey, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the agent of the treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause satisfaction, on behalf of the United States, to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Satisfaction to be entered on any judgments against him.</p></sidenote> be entered on any judgments that have been recovered by the United States against John E. Dorsey, administrator of John Dorsey, deceased, for, or on account of the sum of, three thousand dollars, advanced to said John Dorsey, by the United States, on the thirty-first of May, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, upon a contract for anchors, to be delivered at the navy-yard at Gosport, for the whole of said judgments, except the costs thereon accrued; and the said John E. Dorsey shall be discharged from said judgments, except as to the costs aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIV: for the relief of Thomas C. Withers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 363</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-02</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas C. Withers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the claim<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for hire, &amp;c. of team and wagon, to be settled.</p></sidenote> of Thomas C. Withers, for the hire of his team of five horses, wagon, gear, and driver, into the service of the United States, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, and for the said wagon and gear, and four of the said horses, which were destroyed, lost, or consumed in said service, upon the principles of the act, entitled “An act to authorize the payment<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.</p></sidenote> for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixteen, in the same manner as if the claim had been presented within two years from the passage of said act; and to pay him for said services, and for the said property so destroyed, lost, or consumed, as aforesaid, so much as, including the amount paid him during said service, on account thereof, and also, the amount paid him under the law passed for his relief, eighth of May, one thousand<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 8, 1820, ch. 72.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and twenty, he would have been entitled to receive under the provisions of the said act of April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixteen, aforesaid. And the sum thus found due him, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-02">March 2, 1827</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXV: for the benefit of the heirs of Gregory Strahan, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 363</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of the heirs of Gregory Strahan, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the provisions of the several acts of Congress,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acts relating to refugees from Canada, &amp;c. extended to his heirs.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1798, ch. 26.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1801, ch. 5.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1803, ch. 35.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1804, ch. 23.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1810, ch. 12.</p></sidenote> relating to refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the heirs of Gregory Strahan, deceased; and that the amount of land, awarded by the officers directed in said acts to settle and adjust like claims, shall be located in the territory of Arkansas, upon such lands as have been surveyed, and are or may be unappropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: concerning Invalid Pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 364</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/364">364</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 76. 1827.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">concerning Invalid Pensioners.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place certain persons on the pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place the following named persons on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States, who shall be entitled to, and receive pensions according to the rates, and commencing at the times hereinafter mentioned, to wit:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Lord, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Names of pensioners, and their rates.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and twenty-five;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isaac Carpenter, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Simon Crygier, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alexander Watts, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Robert Dinsmore, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty- six;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Joshua Wheeler, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mark R. Roberts, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Levi Hathaway, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Adam Cooper, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John Y. Hall, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eleazer Scott, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">James De Witt, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thomas Jones, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Patrick Mulligan, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lina T. Helm, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edmund W. Wood, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vassal White, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, to be paid in the same manner as the invalid pensioners who have been placed on the invalid pension roll, are now paid.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 81, 82. 1827.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/365">365</page>
authorized and directed to pay to the executors of James Campbell, deceased,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sec. of War to pay to the executors of J. Campbell and the widow of W. Nithercut, the amount due them at the time of their death.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">George Siddle.</p></sidenote> an invalid pensioner, the amount of pension due the said James Campbell at the time of his decease, and also to the widow of William Nithercut, deceased, a pensioner, the amount of pension due the said William Nithercut at the time of his decease;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George Siddle, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alexander McNutt, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A. McNutt.</p></sidenote> on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">T. Pendexter to be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby, directed to place Thomas Pendexter, of Maine, on the list of invalid pensioners, who served in Captain Dunn’s company of infantry in the late war with Great Britain, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the relief of the assignees or legal representatives of Kendall and Butterfield.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 365</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the assignees or legal representatives of Kendall and Butterfield.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to be settled.</p></sidenote> settle the claims of the assignees, or legal representatives of Kendall and Butterfield, late sutlers of the second regiment of Infantry, in the army of the United States, from October, eighteen hundred and sixteen, to November, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, .inclusive; for debts due to them from deceased and deserted non-commissioned officers and soldiers, and which have not heretofore been paid, upon the same principles of justice and equity, as are extended to sutlers under the existing army regulations: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said accounting officers shall, in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said settlement, be the judges of the validity and equity of the accounts rendered by said Kendall and Butterfield, or their assignees, or legal representatives, in lieu of the certificates from a board of officers, as is the practice under existing army regulations:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> no larger sum shall, in any case, be awarded to the said assignees or legal representatives of Kendall and Butterfield, on account of their claims against a deceased or deserted soldier, either as principal, or interest, than appears, from the muster and pay rolls, to have been actually and justly due to such non-commissioned officer and soldier, from the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sums awarded to the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> said assignees, or legal representatives of Kendall and Butterfield, under the foregoing section, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of Bar. J. V. Valkenburgh.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 365</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Bar. J. V. Valkenburgh.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to pay to Bar. J. V. Valkenburgh,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of interest to him.</p></sidenote> the sum of five hundred and ninety-seven dollars and twenty-four cents, being the amount of fourteen indents of interest, with interest thereon, from the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-one, to the thirty-first of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-six; which sum shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Henry M. Breckenridge, keeper of the public archives in Florida.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 366</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 83, 84, 85, 86. 1827</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/366">366</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the settlement of the accounts of Henry M. Breckenridge, keeper of the public archives in Florida.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts as keeper of public archives to be settled.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1825, ch. 83.</p></sidenote>and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the claim and account of Henry M. Breckenridge, of Florida, as keeper of the public archives, allowing him therefor a compensation, not exceeding the rate fixed by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, for similar services, and deducting therefrom any payments heretofore made to him for such service.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sum found due to the said Henry M. Breckenridge, for such services, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: for the relief of the legal representative of Giles Egerton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 366</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representative of Giles Egerton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legal representative or assignee of Giles <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter a certain quarter section of land in Illinois.</p></sidenote>Egerton, late a sergeant in Cotton’s company of the twenty-sixth regiment of Infantry, be, and he or they is or are hereby, authorized to enter with the register of the proper land office, any unappropriated quarter section of land in the tract reserved for the satisfaction of military bounties, in the state of Illinois, in lieu of the quarter patented to the said Giles, on the tenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, which had been previously patented to James Durney; and upon such entry a patent shall issue to such representative or assignee, for the quarter section so selected.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXV: for the relief of Pedro Miranda.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 367</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Pedro Miranda.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to refund and pay over to Pedro Miranda, the sum of two hundred and three dollars and sixty-three cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; it being the amount of duties illegally demanded of him, and paid by the said Pedro Miranda, on a quantity of sugar and molasses, at the port of Savannah, which was of the growth and manufacture of the United States, and saved from a wreck on the coast of Florida.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVI: for the relief of Thomas Gulledge.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 366</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Gulledge.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas Gulledge, of Pike county, in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter a tract of land in Mississippi.</p></sidenote>state of Mississippi, be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter with the Register of the Land Office at Washington, in said state, one-half quarter of a section of land, in the land district west of Pearl river, upon any land in said district which may have been offered at public sale before such entry shall be made, and which shall not have been sold: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the said Thomas Gulledge shall, previous to such entry, surrender his patent for the west half of the north-west quarter section twenty, in township four, of range ten east, in the state of Mississippi, containing eighty acres, and convey to the United States all his right, title, and interest in the said half quarter of a section above described in the said patent, according to the laws of the state of Mississippi, and to the satisfaction of the said Register.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVII: for the relief of Haley and Harris.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 367</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 87, 88, 89, 90. 1827.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/367">367</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Haley and Harris.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of the funds arising from post offices,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for transporting the mail.</p></sidenote> to pay to Haley and Harris, two thousand dollars, in full discharge for transporting the mail from Columbus to Natchez, in the state of Mississippi, during the years one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVIII: for the relief of Horace Waite, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 367</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Horace Waite, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the District of New London be, and be is hereby, directed to pay to Horace<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the allowance of a schooner lost in the cod fishery.</p></sidenote> Waite, owner of the schooner Parnell, of the burthen of sixty-one tons and thirty-five ninety-fifths of a ton, which schooner, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-three, was driven on shore, after having been employed, under a license for carrying on the cod fishery, more than three months, such proportion of the allowance to which said schooner would have been entitled if she had completed her fishing term, as the time during which she was actually employed at sea (to be proved to the satisfaction of said Collector) bears to the said fishing term of three months and a half; which amount so [to] be paid, shall be distributed among the persons composing the crew of said schooner, according to law.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: for the relief of Joseph Le Carpentier.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 367</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Le Carpentier.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the port of New Orleans, in Louisiana, be authorized to issue certificates of debenture<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of debenture to be issued to him.</p></sidenote> to Joseph Le Carpentier, or his attorney, legally constituted, for the amount of drawback of duties on thirty-three packages of merchandise, shipped on board the schooner 1’Aimble Caroline, L. Ducant, master, at New Orleans, on the nineteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, for the Havana: which shipment was entered at the custom-house for exportation, but the oath required by law was not taken, nor the bond given within the time prescribed by law, by reason of sickness: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Joseph Le Carpentier<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall, in all other respects, comply with the law, to entitle him to the said debenture.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XC: for the relief of J. Balastier and Company, Peter Harmony, and W. W. Russel.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 367</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of J. Balastier and Company, Peter Harmony, and W. W. Russel.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the port of New York be, and he is hereby, authorized to permit J. Balastier and Company, Peter<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback allowed on playing cards.</p></sidenote> Harmony, and William W. Russel, merchants of New York, to export, with benefit of drawback, certain cases or packages of Spanish playing cards, by them severally imported into that port, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-five; the said J. Balastier and Company, Peter Harmony, and William W. Russel, complying with the forms and requisites of the existing acts, allowing the benefit of drawback.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVIII: for the relief of John Abraham Willink.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 368</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/368">368</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 98, 99, 100, 101. 1827.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Abraham Willink.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed to John Abraham Willink <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback allowed on sugar.</p></sidenote>the benefit of drawback upon one hundred and eighty-two boxes of brown Havana sugar, exported in the brig Pilgrim, from New York to Antwerp, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-three, in the same manner as if the said John A. Willink had executed the export bond within the time prescribed by law; the said John A. Willink complying, in all other respects, with the provisions of the several laws in such case made and provided.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIX: for the relief of P. B. Price, administrator of George Mansell, late a Collector of Internal Duties and Direct Tax in the state of Kentucky.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 368</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of P. B. Price, administrator of George Mansell, late a Collector of Internal Duties and Direct Tax in the state of Kentucky.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit allowed him as administrator, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to allow to P. B. Price, as administrator of the estate of George Mansell, deceased, late of Scott county, Kentucky, on the judgments obtained against Price, administrator of the said Mansell, by the United States, on account of the balance due for moneys received by him as Collector of Internal Duties and Direct Tax, for the first and second Collection Districts of Kentucky, a credit for commissions on the amount paid by him on said judgments, and on all sums paid by him, on which commissions have not been allowed: <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no allowance shall be made for such commissions, except for payments made for the principal sum due for said internal duties <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>and direct tax, but not for interests nor costs:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further,</i> The allowances thus made shall not exceed the amounts due on such judgments; and the same judgments, and executions thereon, shall continue in force for any sums which may remain due after such deductions and allowances.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. C: for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Jeans, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>C</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 368</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>C.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Jeans, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for horses impressed during the late war.</p></sidenote> department pay unto the legal representatives of Joseph Jeans, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars, it being for two horses, taken by impressment into the public service, during the late war, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>lost while in said service: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That whatever sum may have been paid to said Jeans, for the use of the said horses, shall be deducted from the sum above-mentioned.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CI: for the relief of Thomas Collins.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 368</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Collins.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas Collins be exonerated from the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exonerated from payment of a balance against him.</p></sidenote>payment of two hundred dollars sixty-seven cents, a balance charged against him by the accounting officers of the treasury department, in the settlement of his accounts as captain in the service of the United
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 102. 1827.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/369">369</page>
States, in the late war, and that a judgment recovered against him, for the same, in the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, be released.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CII: making compensation to Peter Hagner, Third Auditor of the Treasury Department.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 369</citableAs>
<dc:date>1827-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>19</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">making compensation to Peter Hagner, Third Auditor of the Treasury Department.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be paid to Peter Hagner, Third Auditor of the Treasury Department, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for extra services.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand dollars, as a compensation for extra services performed by him, under the provisions of the act of Congress, passed the third March, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 67.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.</p></sidenote> and twenty-five, entitled “An act further to amend the act authorising payment for property lost, captured or destroyed by the enemy while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes; passed the ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1827-03-03">March 3, 1827</date>.
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<congress>20</congress>
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<component role="session">
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1827</dc:date>
<dc:date>1828</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December,</i> 1827, <i>and ended on the twenty-sixth day of May,</i> 1828.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">John Quincy Adams</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John C. Calhoun</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Nathaniel Macon</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Stevenson</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. III: for the relief of Simeon Broadmeadow.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>III</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 370</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-01-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Simeon Broadmeadow.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-01-25">Jan. 25, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of State to issue letters patent to Simeon Broadmeadow.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to Simeon Broadmeadow, for his improved method of exhausting, condensing or propelling air, smoke, gas, or other æriform products; also, letters patent for his pneumatic engine; and letters patent for his improvement in the steam engine; on his paying into the treasury the usual fees, and making oath that he is the true inventor and discoverer of the said inventions and improvements, and delivering into the Patent Office models of the same, with specifications, as is required by the acts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements; and that the same have not, nor hath either of them, to the best of his knowledge or belief, been <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>used or known, either in this or any foreign country: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said letters patent shall be subject to all the conditions, limitations, and restrictions of the said acts of Congress.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-01-25">January 25, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of General Thomas Flournoy, of Georgia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 370</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-02-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of General Thomas Flournoy, of Georgia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-02-12">Feb. 12, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of Treasury to satisfy judgment, &amp;c. recovered against Gen. T. Flournoy.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and required to pay and satisfy to the attorney on record, or other person legally authorized to receive it, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of a judgment and cost, recovered in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, in May, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, by Gonzales and Colmanero, against General Thomas Flournoy, for the detention, at New Orleans, in the fall of the year eighteen hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>and thirteen, of three vessels laden with flour, &amp;c: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That if said Flournoy shall have satisfied said judgment, or be in execution therefor, before the payment herein authorized, then the amount of said judgment and costs shall be paid to said Flournoy.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-02-12">February 12, 1828</date>.
</action>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/370" renderingPosition="bottom">370</page>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VII: authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to Elizabeth H. Bulkley, widow of Chauncey Bulkley, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 371</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-02-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch.7, 8, 9, 10. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/371">371</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to Elizabeth H. Bulkley, widow of Chauncey Bulkley, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-02-21">Feb. 21, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of State<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A patent to be issued to the widow of C. Bulkley, deceased, for the invention of a plan for making shovels, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> to issue letters patent to Elizabeth H. Bulkley, widow of Chauncey Bulkley, deceased, two-thirds of the proceeds to be in trust for the children of said Chauncey Bulkley, for the invention of a plan for making shovels, spades, and scythes, by welding iron and steel together, and rolling the same, alleged to have been discovered by the said Chauncey Bulkley, in his lifetime, upon the presentation at the Patent Office of the original specification and application, made out by the said Chauncey Bulkley, which patent shall have the same force and effect as if it had been granted to the said Chauncey Bulkley, himself.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-02-21">February 21, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of Hampton L. Boone, of Missouri.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 371</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-02-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Hampton L. Boone, of Missouri.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-02-21">Feb. 21, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized and required to allow and pay to Hampton L. Boone,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$362.75 to be paid to Hampton L. Boone for certain duties performed.</p></sidenote> late clerk in the Register’s Office at Franklin, in Missouri, the sum of three hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy-five cents, in full, for performing the duties of register of that office, from the fourteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, to the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-02-21">February 21, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. IX: authorizing a register to be issued for the brig Liberator, of Bath.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 371</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-03-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing a register to be issued for the brig Liberator, of Bath.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-03-10">March 10, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to order a register to be issued to the brig Liberator, of Bath,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A register to be issued to the brig Liberator.</p></sidenote> formerly a British vessel, called the Liberator, the said vessel having been stranded on the coast of the United States, and purchased by Parker McCobb, a citizen of the United States, and by him repaired: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that the repairs made in the United States, after the purchase of the said vessel by the present owner, exceed three-fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-03-10">March 10, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. X: for the relief of William Thompson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 371</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-03-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Thompson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-03-10">March 10, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to William Thompson, late paymaster of the thirty-sixth regiment of Virginia<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$298.68 to be paid William Thompson on account of Elsey Farr and others.</p></sidenote> militia, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents, for so much money paid by said William Thompson on account of the services of Elsey Farr, Thomas Waters, William Gibbs, William M’Clanahan, John Pennquite, Isaac Silvey, Caleb Walker, Henry Way, Robert Shackleford, Fauntly R. Stone, George Appleby, Ignatius Mitchell, William Remus, and George Scott, an allowance whereof was suspended for the want of proper vouchers, deducting therefrom any sum due from the said William Thompson to the United States: <i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That, before any money be paid under this act, the said William
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sesss. I. Ch. 11, 12, 13, 14. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/372">372</page>
Thompson shall execute a bond, with security, to the acceptance of said secretary, and payable to the United States, in the penal sum of six hundred dollars, conditioned to pay to the United States the like sums of money, that the treasurer thereof may pay to the legal representative of either of the persons above-named, on the production of proof that such a representative is entitled thereto.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-03-10">March 10, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of Joshua T. Chase and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 372</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-03-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joshua T. Chase and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-03-10">March 10, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the district <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for a fishing schooner, lost at sea.</p></sidenote>of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, is hereby authorized to pay to Joshua T. Chase, John Dennett, Joseph Todd, and Joseph Litchfield, jun., late owners of a fishing schooner, lost at sea, called the Betsey, of forty tons and seventy-six ninety-fifths of a ton burthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive, had the said schooner completed her fishing term, and returned into port.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-03-10">March 10, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XII: for the relief of Henry G. Rice.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 372</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-03-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry G. Rice.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-03-10">March 10, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the district of Boston and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed the amount of debentures on a quantity of cottons</p></sidenote>Charlestown be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow Henry G. Rice the amount of debentures on a quantity of colored cottons, exported by him, in the fall of the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, in the brig Franklin, for Leghorn, in the same manner as if the export <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>oath had been taken within the time then required by law: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That said collector shall be satisfied that all the other requirements of the law were complied with by said Rice, so as to entitle him to the drawback on the cottons aforesaid.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-03-10">March 10, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of the late General William Hull.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of the late General William Hull.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-03-10">March 10, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them in full.</p></sidenote>paid to the legal representatives of General William Hull, deceased, or to their authorized agent, the sum of one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars, in full for his claims against the United States; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-03-10">March 10, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIV: for the relief of William Cloyd.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1828-03-10</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Cloyd.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-03-10">March 10, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of a fine improperly assessed.</p></sidenote>is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to William Cloyd, the sum of ninety-six dollars, the amount of a fine improperly assessed and paid by him, for not performing a tour of duty in the military service of the United States during the late war.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-03-10">March 10, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 373</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-03-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 20, 24, 25. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/373">373</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-03-19">March 19, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Treasurer of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to deliver up to the trustees of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obligations, &amp;c., or other evidences of debt, to be de. livered to the trustees.</p></sidenote> the Columbian College, all the obligations, notes, or other evidences of debt which have heretofore been given by the trustees, or by any treasurer, or agent of the trustees of the said college when, and so soon as the trustees of the said college shall deliver up, re-assign, transfer or convey to the United States, the obligations, notes, claims, or property, in consideration of which, the trustees of the said college became indebted to the United States, and also all property heretofore pledged to the United States in security of the said debts, so due from the trustees of the said college to the United States.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the trustees of the said<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees to be discharged and released.</p></sidenote> college shall be discharged and released from the said claims of the United States, immediately upon complying with the requisitions of the first section of this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-03-19">March 19, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of William Augustus Archbald.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 373</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-04-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Augustus Archbald.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-04-03">April 3, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent for improvements in refining sugar, to be issued.</p></sidenote> William Augustus Archbald, for his improvements in refining sugar, on his paying into the treasury the usual fees, and making oath that he is the true inventor and discoverer of the said inventions and improvements, and delivering into the patent office models of the same, with specifications, as is required by the acts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, and that the same has not, to the best of his knowledge or belief, been used, or known, either in this, or any foreign country: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso,</p></sidenote> letters patent shall be subject to all the conditions, limitations, and restrictions, of the said acts of Congress.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-04-03">April 3, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXV: for the relief of George Johnston, Jonathan W. Ford, Josiah Mason, and John English.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 373</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-04-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Johnston, Jonathan W. Ford, Josiah Mason, and John English.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-04-03">April 3, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to George Johnston, Jonathan W. Ford, Josiah Mason, and John English, out of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of their expenses in an action of trespass.</p></sidenote> any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand two hundred forty-one dollars and eighty-one cents, it being for their expenses in an action of trespass, and the amount of a judgment recovered against them in said action, by Jeremiah Weatherbee, in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, for seizing certain articles in trunks and boxes, which contained articles of merchandise, which George Johnston, one of the inspectors of the customs for the district of Boston, had probable cause, and good reason to believe, the said Weatherbee was importing into the United States against the laws thereof.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-04-03">April 3, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: for the relief of Catharine Stearns.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 374</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-04-03</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/374">374</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 26, 27, 32, 33. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Catharine Stearns.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-04-03">April 3, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the estimated value of her dower in a certain parcel of land.</p></sidenote>any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Catharine Stearns, the sum of eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-four cents, the estimated value of her dower in about three acres of land in the navy-yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, on her relinquishing to the United States all her right of dower in said land, by deed, in all things executed in conformity to the laws of Massachusetts.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-04-03">April 3, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Mrs. Brown, widow of the late Major General Brown.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 374</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-04-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mrs. Brown, widow of the late Major General Brown.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-04-03">April 3, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A sum equal to the pay, &amp;c. of her husband, for a certain period, to be paid her.</p></sidenote>paid to Mrs. Brown, widow of the late Major-General Brown, commanding the army of the United States, a sum equal to the pay and emoluments and allowances of the said major-general, from the time of his death, until the thirty-first of December next, inclusive; the same to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-04-03">April 3, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of Thomas Flowers, and the legal representatives of John Kingsbury.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 374</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-04-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Flowers, and the legal representatives of John Kingsbury.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-04-17">April 17, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary for the Department of War <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate military bounty land warrants to be issued to them.</p></sidenote>be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a duplicate military bounty land warrant to Thomas Flowers, a revolutionary soldier of the Pennsylvania line, for one hundred acres of land, numbered one thousand two hundred and one, the original warrant having been lost or mislaid: And a duplicate military bounty land warrant to the legal representatives of the late Captain John Kingsbury, of the North Carolina line, in the revolutionary war, for three hundred acres of land, number one thousand two hundred and eight, the original having been accidentally consumed by fire.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-04-17">April 17, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: for the benefit of Mary Ann Bond, and Mary Loveless.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 374</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-04-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of Mary Ann Bond, and Mary Loveless.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-04-17">April 17, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Mary Ann Bond, and Mary Loveless, daughters<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter and obtain patents for 400 acres ofland in Michigan.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of Hugh Smith, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, and obtain patents for, four hundred acres of land in the Territory of Michigan, without making payment therefor: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the entry or entries shall be made on such land, in said Territory, as has been offered for sale, and is now subject to entry, and shall be made, as to three hundred and twenty acres thereof, in a half section, or in quarter sections, and, as to the remaining eighty acres, by taking one-half of a quarter section adjoining said entry, running the lines parallel with those of the quarter section, or half section so entered.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-04-17">April 17, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of John Shirkey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 375</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-04-17</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 34, 35, 36. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/375">375</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Shirkey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-04-17">April 17, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place John Shirkey on the pension list of military pensioners<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on the pension list.</p></sidenote> of the United States, who shall be entitled to, and shall receive, a pension, at the rate of five dollars thirty-three and one-third cents per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-04-17">April 17, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: for the relief of Anthony Hermange.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 375</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-04-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Anthony Hermange.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-04-28">April 28, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to issue for his improved machinery for propelling ships.</p></sidenote> Anthony Hermange, of the city of Baltimore, in the state of Maryland, for certain improvements in the machinery for propelling ships and other vessels, on his paying into the treasury the usual fees, and making oath that he, being a citizen of the United States, does verily believe, that he and Paul Steenstrup, of Kongsberg, in the Kingdom of Norway, are the true inventors or discoverers of the said improvements, and delivering into the patent office models of the same (if the Secretary of State shall deem it necessary) with specifications, as is required by the acts of Congress, relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions or improvements: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said patent shall be subject to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> all the conditions, limitations, and restrictions, of the said act of Congress.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-04-28">April 28, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: for the relief of William Benning.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 375</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-04-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Benning.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-04-28">April 28, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the act of the Legislature of the state of Maryland, entitled “An act for erecting a bridge over the Eastern<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act for erecting a bridge over the Eastern Branch, of Nov. 1797, revived and reenacted, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Branch,” passed at November Session, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, by which a company is incorporated, by the name of “The Anacostia Bridge Company,” be, and the same is hereby, revived and re-enacted; and that William Benning, of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, his executors, administrators, and assigns, be, and they are hereby, vested with all the powers, rights, and privileges, by the said act of incorporation granted to the said Anacostia Bridge Company, and shall be subject to all the pains and penalties by the act aforesaid imposed on the said Company.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, so long as the said William<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">So long as W. Benning, &amp;c. shall remain the sole proprietor, the sole control shall remain with such proprietor, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Benning, his executors, or administrators, or any assignee of the entire stock of the said Company, shall remain the sole proprietor of the said stock, the sole control and management of the said Company shall remain and be with such sole proprietor, without the intervention of directors to be elected for that purpose; and, if it shall hereafter happen, that the said William Benning, his executors, or administrators, or any assignee of the entire stock of said Company, shall, by assignments of the stock of said Company, to be made as prescribed by the said act of incorporation, create two or more proprietors, less than five, the interest of the said Company shall be managed by such proprietors as, by agreement or convention, to be entered on the books of said Company, they may think best; but, whenever the number of the said proprietors shall exceed four, it shall be the duty of such proprietors to meet and elect
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/376">376</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 37, 38, 43. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
directors, from among the stockholders, for the management of the said Company, as is directed by the original act of incorporation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The proprietor or proprietors, &amp;c. shall use the name of the Anacostia Bridge Company, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the proprietor or proprietors of the stock in said Bridge Company shall continue to have and use the name of “The Anacostia Bridge Company,” and by such name, shall sue and be sued, and do every other matter and thing which the said Company is by law authorized to do; and in consideration of the expense of rebuilding and repairing the said bridge, and keeping the same in repair, the said bridge, and all its profits, shall be, and the same is hereby, vested in the said William Benning, his executors, administrators, and assigns, according to their respective shares; and it shall and may be lawful for the said William Benning, his executors, administrators, and assigns, at all times hereafter, to take and receive the same tolls, from persons passing the said bridge, as are now by law allowed to be taken by the Navy Yard Bridge, in the District of Columbia, incorporated by an act of Congress.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congress may alter or repeal this act.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall be competent for Congress, at any time hereafter, to repeal or modify this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-04-28">April 28, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief of Richard Taylor.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 376</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-04-28</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard Taylor.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-04-28">April 28, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$2551.58 to be paid him for pension.</p></sidenote>directed to pay to Richard Taylor, of Kentucky, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand five hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents, for pension, being the difference between two dollars and a half per month, from the sixth of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, to the last day of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, and twenty dollars per month, for the same time.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-04-28">April 28, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of Asa Herring.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 376</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-04-28</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Asa Herring.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-04-28">April 28, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from payment of a debt due general P. O. by W. Myers.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Asa Herring be, and he is hereby, released from the payment of that portion of the debt due to the general post office department by William Myers, formerly Post Master at Mechanicsburg, in Pennsylvania, which accrued subsequently to the seventeenth of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-04-28">April 28, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: to authorize the cancelling of a bond, therein mentioned.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 376</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the cancelling of a bond, therein mentioned.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-02">May 2, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it. enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Clerk of the sixth Circuit Court of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A bond for the exportation of sundry African negroes to be cancelled.</p></sidenote>United States for the District of Georgia, be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cancel a certain bond, given in pursuance of the decree of the said court, for the exportation, beyond the limits of the United States, of sundry African negroes, parcel of the cargo of the Spanish vessel called the Antelope, or Ramirez, which bond was executed by Cuesta Manzanal and brothers, by their Attorney, and Joseph Cummings, and Francis Sorrell, and acknowledged by them on the twenty-fourth December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, before the Marshal of the Georgia District, in the penalty of fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars, and conditioned for the exportation of the slaves aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-02">May 2, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of William Gentry, of Missouri.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 377</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-09</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 50, 51, 54, 61. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/377">377</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Gentry, of Missouri.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-09">May 9, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Gentry, of Saline county, in the state of Missouri be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish a certain tract of land, and enter another in lieu thereof.</p></sidenote> United States the north-west quarter of section twenty-five, in township fifty, in range twenty, west, of the fifth principal meridian, in Missouri; and to enter, instead thereof, the north-east quarter of the same section, if it shall remain unsold when he shall make his application; or if it shall have been sold, then he may enter any other quarter section, in the same land district, that shall be liable to entry at private sale, instead of the said north-east quarter; for which he has heretofore paid the United States, in consequence of the mistake of the Clerk in the Register’s office, at Franklin, in inserting the said north-west quarter in the entry.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-09">May 9, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief of Elvington Roberts, of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 377</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elvington Roberts, of Mississippi.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-09">May 9, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Elvington Roberts, of Adams county, in the state of Mississippi be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish a certain tract of land, and enter another in lieu thereof.</p></sidenote> to the United States the east half of the south-east quarter, section twenty-four, in township two, of range four, east, in the state of Mississippi; and to enter, instead thereof, the east half of the south-west quarter of section number twenty-four, in township number two, of range number four, east of the basis meridian, in the district of lands sold at W ashington, Mississippi, if the same shall remain unsold when he makes application; or if it shall have been sold, then he is permitted to enter any other half quarter section in the same land district, that shall be liable to entry at private sale, instead of the lands relinquished by the provisions of this bill.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-09">May 9, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of Willoughby Barton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 377</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Willoughby Barton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-15">May 15, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to adjust and settle the contract of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract for live-oak to be adjusted.</p></sidenote> Willoughby Barton with the Commissioners of the Navy for live oak, entered into on the eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, upon the same terms on which a like contract, entered into between Robert Newell and the Commissioners of the Navy, on the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, was settled.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-15">May 15, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the benefit of John B. Dupuis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 377</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of John B. Dupuis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a location of a Madrid certificate, made on the twenty-second day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location of a Madrid certificate for land confirmed.</p></sidenote> and twenty-three, for six hundred and forty acres, in the state of Missouri, being the south-west quarter of section twenty-two, the north-east quarter of section twenty-eight, and the northern half of section twenty-seven, in township fifty-two north, range seventeen west, in the name of John B. Dupuis, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed, and that a patent for the same shall issue to the said John B. Dupuis, upon the presentation of a plat and certificate of the survey thereof, at the proper office: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That it shall operate as a relinquishment<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> only on the part of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXII: granting compensation to Rebecca Blodget, for her right of dower in the property therein mentioned.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 378</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/378">378</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 62, 63, 64, 65. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting compensation to Rebecca Blodget, for her right of dower in the property therein mentioned.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General shall, out of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to her for her right of dower in certain property in Washington.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>proceeds of the General Post-Office, pay to Rebecca Blodget, during her natural life, the yearly sum of three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, commencing from the twentieth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That before any payment be made, the said Rebecca Blodget shall, in due form of law, execute a release to the United States of all her right of dower, in the building now occupied as a General Post-Office, in the city of Washington, and the lots whereon the same is erected, and which are occupied as appurtenances thereto, particularly the lots number one and number four, in square number four hundred and thirty.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part of the annuity to be paid, when.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the part of the annuity which shall be due for the time between the said twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and the time of executing the release above provided for, shall be paid when the said release shall be delivered, and that part which shall grow due thereafter, shall be paid in quarterly payments.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of the representatives of Patience Gordon, widow, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 378</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representatives of Patience Gordon, widow, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to the legal representatives of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of a certificate of loan.</p></sidenote>Patience Gordon, deceased, the sum of one hundred and forty-five dollars and fifteen ninetieths, with interest at six per centum per annum, from the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eightyeight; it being the specie value of a certificate issued in the name of the said Patience Gordon, by the Commissioner of Loans for the state of New Jersey, bearing date April seventh, seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, numbered two thousand and twenty-seven, out of any moneys <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said legal representatives shall first execute and deliver to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond in such sum, and with such security, as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve, to indemnify the United States from and against the lawful claim of any other person or persons, for, or on account of, the said certificate.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of William Bell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 378</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-19</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Bell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to issue for his improvement in the construction of the carriage for cannon for vessels of war, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to William Bell, for his improvement in the construction of the carriage for cannon, to be used on board of vessels of war, and letters patent for his invention to ascertain the depth of water in the hold of a vessel; upon his complying with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXV: for the relief of Thomas Brown and Aaron Stanton, of the state of Indiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 378</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Brown and Aaron Stanton, of the state of Indiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of one hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents, be paid out of any money in the treasury not other-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 66, 74, 78. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/379">379</page>
wise appropriated, to Thomas Brown and Aaron Stanton, of the state<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for furnishing flour for the treaty with the Indians on the Wabash.</p></sidenote> of Indiana, in full satisfaction of their claim for furnishing flour for the treaty held with the Indians, on the Wabash river, in said state, in the autumn of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-six, by Lewis Cass, James B. Ray, and John Tipton, Commissioners on behalf of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for the relief of William McClure.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 379</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William McClure.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to William McClure, or to his legal representatives,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for his services as commissioner under the French Convention of 1803.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven thousand thirty-seven dollars and three cents, in full satisfaction for his services as a Commissioner under the Convention of the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between France and the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIV: making an appropriation to extinguish the Indian title to a reserve allowed to Peter Lynch, of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, within the limits of the state of Georgia, by the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the United States and said tribe of Indians.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 379</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">making an appropriation to extinguish the Indian title to a reserve allowed to Peter Lynch, of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, within the limits of the state of Georgia, by the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the United States and said tribe of Indians.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be extinguished the title of Peter<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President of U.S. authorized to cause to be extinguished the title of Peter Lynch to a lot of land in Georgia.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> Lynch, formerly of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, to a lot of land, lying within the limits of the state of Georgia, which was reserved to the said Peter Lynch, by the treaty of eighteen hundred and nineteen, entered into between the United States and said tribe of Indians.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a sum of money, not exceeding three thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry the foregoing section into effect.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of Marinus W. Gilbert.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 379</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Marinus W. Gilbert.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for suttler’s stores to be settled.</p></sidenote> ascertain and settle the claim of Marinus W. Gilbert, late a suttler in the army of the United States, on account of goods, wares, and merchandises, (being his suttler’s stores,) which were captured or destroyed by the British at French Mills, Constable, and Malone, in February, eighteen hundred and fourteen, or were destroyed by the United States troops, by order of the commanding officer, to prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy, on the evacuation of the post at the French Mills, at the time aforesaid, (the said Marinus W. Gilbert having been prevented from removing his said property to places of safety by the teams which he had provided for the purpose, by the impressment of those teams into the service of the United States army,) by order of the commanding officer: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Marinus shall produce satisfactory<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> proof of the quantity and value of said goods, at cost, and including carriage:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided,</i> The allowance for the same shall not exceed<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars in amount.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount thereof, when<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> so ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Merriwether Lewis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 380</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/380">380</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 79, 80, 81, 82, 83. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Merriwether Lewis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the act approved the third day of March, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 32. making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, extended to the heirs of M. Lewis.</p></sidenote>one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled “An act making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, and their companions,” be, and the same is, hereby so extended, as to allow to the legal representatives of Merriwether Lewis, deceased, the right of entering any of the public lands of the United States, subject to entry at private sale, to the amount of the residue of the warrant of sixteen hundred acres, issued to said Lewis by virtue of said act, which has not heretofore been satisfied, or of applying the same in payment for any public lands, in the same manner, and at the same rate prescribed by said act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: for the relief of Francis English, of Indiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 380</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Francis English, of Indiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to issue for a section of land in Indiana.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized to cause a patent to be issued to Francis English, of the state of Indiana, for the west half of the south-east quarter of section twenty-four, town fourteen, in range eight, in the district of land sold at Indianapolis, in that state, upon the said Francis English relinquishing to the United States, in such manner as the said secretary shall prescribe, the west half of the south-east quarter of section twenty-four, town fourteen, in range nine, in the same district, entered for the said Francis by mistake.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the relief of Dodd and Barnard, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 380</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Dodd and Barnard, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties refunded.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to Dodd and Barnard, the sum of two hundred and twenty-nine dollars forty-five cents; to Alexander Morgan, forty dollars fourteen cents; and to Tilson Ripley thirteen dollars seventy cents; the said sums being the amount of duties paid by them, respectively, on goods brought from St. Augustine to Charleston, South Carolina, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and which were imported into Florida before the cession of that territory to the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of Alexander Garden.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 380</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Garden.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and allowance to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of Alexander Garden, and to allow him five years’ full pay as lieutenant in the Revolutionary War; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: for the benefit of Andrew Wesbrook.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 380</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of Andrew Wesbrook.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A patent or patents for land to be issued.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a patent or patents shall issue to Andrew Wesbrook, formerly of the province of Upper Canada, but now a citizen of the United States, for a quantity of land equal to two sections of land, which may be located according to any of the legal subdivisions
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 84, 88. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/381">381</page>
of the public lands, on any of the unappropriated lands of the United States, which have been hitherto offered for sale; and which are now subject to entry at private sale.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: for the relief of Edward Mien Talbot.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 381</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edward Mien Talbot.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the State be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent for his improved reciprocating steam engine.</p></sidenote> form, to Edward Allen Talbot, for his improvement in a reciprocating steam engine, for propelling vessels, upon his complying with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-23">May 23, 1828</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVIII: to incorporate the trustees of the Female Orphan Asylum in Georgetown, and the Washington City Orphan Asylum in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 381</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the trustees of the Female Orphan Asylum in Georgetown, and the Washington City Orphan Asylum in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John I. Stull, William G. Ridgely and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">John I. Stull and others appointed trustees.</p></sidenote> Daniel Bussard and their successors in office, duly elected or appointed in the manner hereinafter directed, be, and they are hereby made, declared and constituted a corporation and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, by the name, style, and title of “The Trustees of the Female Orphan Asylum of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That William Hawley, John P.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wm. Hawley and others incorporated under the name of the Washington City Orphan Asylum.</p></sidenote> Van Ness, Nathan Towson, Obadiah B. Brown, and James Larned, and their successors in office, to be appointed as is hereinafter directed, are hereby made, declared and constituted a corporation and body politic in law, and in fact, to have continuance forever, under the name, style, and title of “The Washington City Orphan Asylum.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all and singular the lands,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands, &amp;c. vested in and confirmed to the said corporations respectively.</p></sidenote> tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, privileges, goods, and chattels, heretofore given, granted, devised or bequeathed to either of said asylums, or to any person or persons for the use thereof, or that have been purchased for, or on account of the same, be, and they are hereby, vested in, and confirmed to, the said corporations respectively, and that they may purchase, take, receive, and enjoy any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, rights or privileges, or any goods, chattels or other effects, of what kind or nature soever, which shall, or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed or devised unto either of them, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such grant, and to dispose of the same: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The clear annual income<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of property to be acquired by either of said corporations, shall at no time exceed the sum of three thousand dollars.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporations respectively,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Said corporations capable to sue and liable to be sued, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> by the name and style aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter, capable, in law and equity, to sue and be sued, within the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, in as effectual a manner as other persons or corporations can sue or be sued, and that they shall adopt and use a common seal, and the same to use, alter or change at pleasure, to appoint a treasurer and secretary, and such other officers as they may deem necessary and proper, to assign them their duties, and fix their compensation, and to remove any or all of them, and appoint others, as often as they shall think fit, and to make such by-laws as may be useful for the government of the said asylum, and not inconsistent with
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/382">382</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 92. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
the laws of the United States, or the laws in force in the District of Columbia, and the same to alter, amend or abrogate at pleasure.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual meeting of contributors to Orphan Asylum of Georgetown.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there shall be an annual meeting of the contributors to the Orphan Asylum of Georgetown, on the first Monday in June, in every year, at which they shall appoint a first female directress, a second female directress, and ten female managers, who shall have power to superintend and manage the internal affairs of the asylum, and to fill vacancies in their own board, and any vacancy that may happen by death or otherwise among the trustees, and to serve until their successors are duly appointed; and a majority of the said trustees shall be a quorum, and authorized to act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present managers of the Washington City Asylum to discharge the duties of the same until the 2d Tuesday in October next.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the present managers of the Washington City Asylum, called by the article of association “a board of trustees,” may continue in office, discharging the duties of the same, until the second Tuesday in October next, at which time, and on the same day in each year thereafter, said corporation, by those who from their by-laws may be qualified to vote, shall be regulated, and the officers thereof appointed, agreeably to the provisions of this act; that is to say, there shall be appointed a first, and a second female directress, and also fifteen female managers; and these directresses and managers, a majority of whom shall be necessary to do business, at such time and place as they may direct, shall appoint a treasurer and secretary, and such other officers; and also perform such other duties as the by-laws <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>may direct: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> No by-law shall be enacted inconsistent with any law now existing in the District of Columbia.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">When any destitute male or female child be received into the Asylum, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That when any destitute male or female child may be received into the asylum with the approbation of the parent, guardian or friends who may have the care of said child, they shall not thereafter be at liberty to withdraw or leave the asylum without the consent of the directors, until, if a male, he shall attain the age of twenty-one years, or if a female the age of eighteen years: but, up to the periods and ages aforesaid, they shall remain subject to the direction of the asylum, or those to whom, by said asylum, they may be bound, unless by consent given by those directing the institution they may be exonerated from service previous to attaining those respective ages.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacancies, how to be filled.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That any vacancy which from death, resignation, or otherwise may happen in any of the offices or places of said asylum, shall be supplied or filled after the mode to be prescribed in their by-laws; and also in pursuance of said by-laws, power shall be possessed to alter and amend the same from time to time, and to remove and appoint to office whenever it shall be deemed advisable to do so.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCII: to confirm claims to Lands in the District between the Rio Hondo and Sabine Rivers, founded on habitation and cultivation.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to confirm claims to Lands in the District between the Rio Hondo and Sabine Rivers, founded on habitation and cultivation.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to lands reported for confirmation by the Register, &amp;c. of the Southwestern District of Louisiana, in report of Nov. 1, 1824, confirmed, except claim No. 42, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the claims to lands founded on habitation and cultivation, reported for confirmation by the register and receiver of the southwestern district of Louisiana, in their report, dated November first, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, in conformity to the provisions of the acts of Congress, of the third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, and twenty-sixth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, contained in the third class of the report of said register and receiver, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, except claim number forty-two, near Cantonment Jesup, and the claims of Leonard Dyson, numbers fourteen and eighteen; Samuel Norris, numbers ten and thirteen; Baptiste Poiret, brother and sisters, number nineteen; Baptiste
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 106, 112. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/383">383</page>
Poiret, senior, number twenty; Henry Stockman, number thirty-one; Peter Stockman, number <fillIn style="font-family:monospace">_________</fillIn>; Moses Robison, number twenty-one; James Pharis, number twenty-four; Cesare Wallace, number thirty-four and fifty-six; John Montgomery, junior, number sixty-nine; and Emanuel Trickel, number two hundred and thirty-one; which claims are suspended until it is ascertained whether they are situated within the limits of the lands claimed by the Caddoe Indians.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the confirmations made by this<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confirmations by this act not to be construed to extend further than to a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States.</p></sidenote> act shall not be construed to extend farther than to a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and the claims hereby confirmed shall be located under the direction of the Register and Receiver of the proper Land Office, in conformity with the legal subdivisions of the public surveys, so far as practicable, and shall include the improvements of the claimants respectively.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CVI: to authorize the selection of Lands for the benefit of a Seminary of Learning, in the State of Alabama, instead of other Lands heretofore selected.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the selection of Lands for the benefit of a Seminary of Learning, in the State of Alabama, instead of other Lands heretofore selected.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the trustees of the University of the State<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees of the University of the State of Alabama authorized to surrender the patents issued for section 12, &amp;c., for a seminary of learning, and to receive, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of Alabama be, and they are hereby, authorized to surrender the patents issued for section twelve, the north-east quarter of section seventeen, the north-east quarter of section twenty-eight, and the east half of the north-east quarter of section thirty-four, in township four, range eleven, west, in the Huntsville land district, and to select a like quantity in lieu thereof, of any of the public lands of the United States, in said State; and that, on such relinquishment being made by the trustees as aforesaid, patents shall issue to the purchasers from the United States, of said lands, or their assignees.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXII: to incorporate the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph and the Sisters of the Visitation of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 383</citableAs>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph and the Sisters of the Visitation of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Mary Augustine Decount, Elizabeth Boyle, Jane Smith, Rosetta White, Margaret George, Bridget Ferrell, Frances<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mary A. Decount and others incorporated.</p></sidenote> Jourdan, Ann Gruber, Adele Salva, Sarah Thompson, Margaret Felicita Brady, Scholastica Beams, Julia Shirk, Louisa Roger, Martha Dadisman, Mary Joseph Rivell, Mary Agnes O’Conner, Mary Clare Shirley, Mary Paul Douglass, Eliza Martina Butcher, Eugina Clarke, Jane Boyle, Rosetta Tyler, Mary Love, Ann Collins, Mary M’Ginnis, Elizabeth Dellow, Rachael Green, Ann Elizabeth Corbey, Mary Maria Sexton, Jane Regina Smith, Helena Elder, Catharine Stigers, Ann Frances Richardson, Ann Magdalene Shirley, Maria Muller, Ann Parsons, Rebecca Gough, Ellen Pigot, Margaret Shannon, Mary Green, Mary Delene, Ellen Timmons, Mary Harding, Mary Ann Fagan, Eliza Susan Knot, Margaret Brady, Mary Frances Boarman, Ann Dorsey, Eliza Magner, Barbara Mario, Mary Gibson, Lydia Dix, Mary Twyger, Eliza Smith, Bridget Gibson, Ellen Hughes, Ann Wickham, Elizabeth Graver, Mary Councel, and their successors hereafter to become Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph, according to the rules and regulations, that have been, or may hereafter be, established by their association, be, and they are hereby made, declared and constituted a corporation or body politic, in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, by the name, style and title of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="smallCaps"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Eliza Matthews, Alice<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eliza Matthews and others incorporated as Sisters of the Visitation, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Lalor, Harriet Brent, Mary Neale, Elizabeth Neale, Margaret Marshal, Ann Combes, Louisa Jones, Jane Neale, Ann Wightt, Elizabeth Clarke, Louisa Queen, Jane C. Neale, Mary Ann Boarman, Grace Turner,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/384">384</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 126. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
Mary Cummins, Eleanor Miles, Mary Olivia Neale, Ann Diggs, Catharine Corish, Lucretia Ford, Mary Caroline Neale, Mary King, Johanna Barry, Mary E. Neale, Margaret Cooper, Sarah Cooper, Margaret Dent, Elizabeth Wiseman, Jerusha Barber, Elizabeth Lancaster, Matilda Flanagan, Mary Brooks, Margaret King, Rebecca Harrison, Laura Bevans, Williamina Jones, Susan Duke, Catharine Murry, Eleanor Corcoran, Bridget Lynch, Margaret O’Conner, Elizabeth Myers, Catharine Waide, and Ann French, and their successors hereafter to become Sisters of the Visitation, according to the rules and regulations that have been, or may hereafter be, established by their association, be, and they are hereby made, declared and constituted a corporation or body politic, in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, by the name, style and title of the Sisters of the Visitation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bequests to either of said sisters, vested in and confirmed to said corporations respectively.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all and singular the lands, houses, tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, property, privileges, goods, and chattels, heretofore given, granted, devised or bequeathed to either the said Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph, or Sisters of the Visitation, or to any individual of either, or to any person or persons for the use of either of said societies, or that have been purchased for or on account of the same, be, and they are hereby, vested in and confirmed to the said corporations respectively, and that they may severally purchase, take, receive, and apply to the uses of their associations, according to the rules and regulations that they may respectively establish, from time to time, for the management of the concerns of their societies, any lands, tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, property and privileges, or any goods, chattels, or other effects, of what kind or nature soever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed, or devised unto them respectively, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such grant, and that they <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>may respectively dispose of the same: <proviso><i>Provided, always,</i> That neither of the said associations shall at any time hold, use, possess, and enjoy, within the District of Columbia, either by legal seizure or trust, for their uses and benefit respectively, more than two hundred acres of land; nor shall either of said societies hold, in their own right, or by <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Income not to exceed $3500.</p></sidenote>any other person in trust, or for their benefit, an amount of real estate, the annual income of which shall exceed thirty-five hundred dollars.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num> 
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporations, by the names, styles, and titles aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter, capable in law and in equity, respectively, to sue and be sued, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, in as effectual a manner as other persons or corporations can sue or be sued, and that the said corporations or a majority of them, respectively, shall severally adopt and use a common seal, and the same to use, alter or change at pleasure; and from time to time make such by-laws, not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States, or any law of Congress, as either may deem expedient and proper.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That if, at any time hereafter, any of the persons hereinbefore named, or any of their successors, shall cease to be members of said sisterhoods, respectively, such person or persons shall thereafter have no control in the proceedings of said corporation, under and in pursuance of the provisions of this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVI: for the, relief of the legal representatives of William Shannon and Hugh Shannon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 385</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the, relief of the legal representatives of William Shannon and Hugh Shannon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for manufacture of.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury settle and adjust the claim of the representatives of William Shannon
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 127, 128, 129, 130. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/385">385</page>
and Hugh Shannon, for the manufacture of one thousand and fifty-three<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">muskets under a contract with Tench Coxe, to be settled.</p></sidenote> muskets, delivered to the United States, under a contract with Tench Coxe, entered into on the twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and make to them such further allowance as shall be equal to that allowed to others, who contracted about the same time to manufacture arms for the United States, and who have had their accounts settled under special acts of Congress; keeping in view the quality of the arms delivered, with the additional labor bestowed, more than would have been necessary to have made muskets equal to the pattern gun furnished by the United States; and such allowance to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVII: for the relief of Elizabeth Shaw.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 385</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elizabeth Shaw.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Elizabeth Shaw, or her<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of arrearages of pension due her late husband.</p></sidenote> legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, in full for the arrearages of the pension due to her late husband, John Shaw, at the time of his death.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXVIII: for the benefit ofthe trustees of the Lafayette Academy, in Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit ofthe trustees of the Lafayette Academy, in Alabama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be granted to the trustees of the Lafayette<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of land for the use of the Lafayette Academy.</p></sidenote> Academy, in the state of Alabama, and their successors in office, the east half of section thirty-four, and the east half of the south-east and north-east quarters of section twenty-seven, in township four, range ten, west, in the Huntsville land district; to be applied or disposed of by them, for the sole use and benefit of said academy.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIX: for the relief of Frederick Onstine.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 385</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Frederick Onstine.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Frederick Onstine, of the state of Ohio, shall be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter, of any of the unappropriated<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter two sections ofland.</p></sidenote> lands of the United States, which have been heretofore offered for sale, two sections of land; and the register of the proper district shall give him a certificate therefor, in due form; upon the presentment of which to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, he is hereby authorized and required to issue, to the said Frederick Onstine, a patent, or patents, for the same; which shall be taken and held as full compensation for all services rendered to the United States, by the said Frederick Onstine and his sons during the late war.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXX: for the relief of Benjamin Freeland, of Indiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 385</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin Freeland, of Indiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Benjamin Freeland, of Indiana, be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish a certain tract of land and enter other land.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such manner as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe, the northeast, north-west, and south-west quarters of section number five, in township number eleven, range number one, west, of the second principal basis meridian, in Terre Haute land district, in the state of Indiana; Provided, He shall show, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of that district, that the right of the said three quarter sections is in him at the time of making such relinquishment; and, thereupon, the said Freeland shall be permitted to enter three quarter sections of any land within the said land district, subject to purchase at private sale.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXI: for the relief of Mary James, of Bedford county, Virginia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 386</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/386">386</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 131, 132, 133, 134, 135. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mary James, of Bedford county, Virginia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to her in full for a half-monthly pension to her husband, pursuant to act of April 16, 1816, ch. 55.</p></sidenote>department are hereby authorized and required to pay to Mary James, the widow of Johnson James, late of the county of Bedford, in the state of Virginia, deceased, the sum of two hundred and forty dollars out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full of her claim for a half monthly pay pension for the term of five years, in pursuance of the act of Congress of the sixteenth April, eighteen hundred and sixteen; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Mary James, shall make it satisfactorily appear, that she was the lawful wife of the said Johnson James at the time of his death, and that she remained unmarried for the term of five years immediately thereafter.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXII: for the relief of Samuel Ward.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 386</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Ward.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of one thousand and forty-seven <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of principal due on final settlement certificate.</p></sidenote>dollars and fifty-two ninetieths be paid to Samuel Ward, surviving partner of the late firm of Samuel Ward and Brothers, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the principal sum due on a final settlement certificate, issued by Benjamin Walker to Abraham Whipple, Esq., dated the twenty-third day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, number two hundred and eighty-one; which certificate is alleged to have been lost or destroyed, and appears <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>by the books of the treasury to be outstanding and unpaid: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Samuel Ward shall first execute, and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond of indemnity in double the amount of the sum so to be paid, with such sufficient security as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIII: for the relief of Allan B. M’Alhany.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 386</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Allan B. M’Alhany.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A military bounty land warrant to issue to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized, and he is hereby required, to cause to be issued, in favor of Allan B. M’Alhany, who served as a private in the seventh regiment United States infantry, during the late war, a military bounty land warrant.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIV: for the relief of Sarah Chitwood.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 386</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Sarah Chitwood.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity for five years granted to her.</p></sidenote>hereby authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Sarah Chitwood, widow and relict of John Chitwood, deceased, late a captain in the fourth regiment of Tennessee militia, the sum of twenty dollars a month, for five years, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight; <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>said sums to be paid half yearly: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, in case of the death or marriage of the said Sarah Chitwood, before the expiration of the said five years, the said sum of twenty dollars a month shall thereafter be paid, in the manner before mentioned, to the children and heirs of the said John Chitwood, deceased, if any such there were, under the age of sixteen years, at the time of the death of said J. Chitwood.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXV: confirming to Francis Valle, Jean Baptiste Valle, Jean Baptiste Pratte, and St. James Beauvois, or to their heirs or legal representatives of the county of Madison, in the state of Missouri, certain lands.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 386</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">confirming to Francis Valle, Jean Baptiste Valle, Jean Baptiste Pratte, and St. James Beauvois, or to their heirs or legal representatives of the county of Madison, in the state of Missouri, certain lands.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be, and hereby is, confirmed to Francis<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A tract of land in Missouri confirmed to them.</p></sidenote> Valle, Jean Baptiste Valle, Jean Baptiste Pratte, and St. James Beauvois, or in case of their or either of their decease, to their heirs, or
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 136, 137, 138. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/387">387</page>
either of their heirs, or legal representatives, a tract of land not exceeding two leagues square, situated in the county of Madison, and state of Missouri, commonly known by the name of the Mine La Motte, according to a field plat and survey, made by Nathaniel Cook, deputy surveyor, of St. Genevieve, made on the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and six: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> Said location shall be made, as<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> nearly as may be, conformable to the contiguous public surveys:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That this confirmation shall extend only to a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, nor prejudice the rights of third persons, nor any title heretofore derived from the United States, either by purchase or donation.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to be issued.</p></sidenote> shall cause patents to issue to the before-named Francis Valle, Jean Baptiste Valle, Jean Baptiste Pratte, and St. James Beauvois, or to their heirs or legal representatives, upon the exhibition to him, in case of the decease of the aforesaid persons, that those who may claim patents under this act are the legal heirs or representatives of the person or persons deceased.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVI: for the relief of John Miles.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 387</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Miles.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for the manufacture of muskets to be settled.</p></sidenote> department settle and adjust the claim of John Miles, for the manufacturing of one thousand one hundred and thirteen muskets, for the United States, and make him such further allowance, for each stand of arms, as shall be equal to that allowed to others who contracted with the United States, by Tench Coxe, purveyor, to manufacture arms, and who have had their contracts settled under special acts of Congress; keeping in view the quality of the arms delivered, with the additional labor bestowed more than would have been necessary to have made muskets equal to the pattern gun; and the amount so allowed shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVII: for the relief of Mary Reynolds.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 387</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mary Reynolds.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of one thousand three hundred and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to her of a balance due her late husband for revolutionary claim.</p></sidenote> twenty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents, be paid to Mary Reynolds, executrix of the last will and testament of John Reynolds, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, which sum appears to have been due to the said John Reynolds, in his lifetime, as a commissary in the clothing department for the state of Rhode Island, during the revolutionary war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVIII: for the benefit of John Winton, of the state of Tennessee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 387</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of John Winton, of the state of Tennessee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be paid to John Winton, of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for land ceded to a Cherokee Indian.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> state of Tennessee, the sum of five thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <i>Provided, however,</i> That said sum shall not be paid until said Winton shall produce to the Secretary of the Treasury satisfactory proof that, by deed, recorded in the proper office of the clerk of Hamilton county, he has relinquished to William Brown, all title which he has to a certain tract of land, of six hundred and forty acres, situated in said county, and which was reserved in fee simple to said William Brown, by treaty between the United
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/388">388</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 139, 140, 141, 142. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
States and the Cherokee nation of Indians, made on the twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIX: for the relief of Abraham C. Truax.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 388</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Abraham C. Truax.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, and payment made.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the accounts of Abraham C. Truax, of the township of Monguagon, in the territory of Michigan, as well those of which he is possessed by purchase, as those which he holds in his own right, as original claimant, upon the principles of equity and justice; and that the sums found due be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Before any money shall be paid him, he shall enter bond to the U. S. &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That before any money shall be paid to said Abraham C. Truax, on accounts assigned to him, he shall enter a bond to the United States, with sureties, to the acceptance of the Secretary of the Treasury, which shall be lodged with him, in double the amount of such accounts so allowed at the treasury department, with condition to pay over the amount thereof with interest to the original claimants of such accounts, on making proper proof that they are entitled thereto.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXL: for the relief of Caleb Stark.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXL</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 388</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXL.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Caleb Stark.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid his commutation for half-pay as lieutenant, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay to Caleb Stark, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of his commutation for half-pay as a lieutenant in the army of the United States, on the continental establishment, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>during the revolutionary war: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no interest shall be allowed on such commutation.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A bounty land warrant to be issued to him.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War issue to the said Caleb Stark a warrant for the land bounty to which he was entitled as a lieutenant in said army.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLI: for the relief of Bannister Stone.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 388</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Bannister Stone.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from a judgment against him as security of A. Carruth.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Bannister Stone be, and he is hereby, released from a judgment recovered against him by the United States, in the Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina, as one of the securities of Adam Carruth, late of South Carolina, in a contract entered into by said Carruth with the ordnance department of the United States, for the manufacture and delivery of ten thousand stand of arms to the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to release any other person or persons than the said Bannister Stone; nor shall it be so construed as to release him from the payment of the costs of recovering said judgment.</proviso></content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLII: for the relief of Philip Coombs, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 388</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Philip Coombs, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the district of Newburyport, in Massachusetts is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Philip Coombs, late owner of a fishing schooner, lost at sea, called the John, of eighty-six tons burthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 143, 144, 145. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/389">389</page>
would have been entitled to receive had the schooner completed her fishing term and returned into port: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The collector shall be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso,</p></sidenote> satisfied that every other provision of the laws regulating fishing vessels has been complied with by the master and owner of the said schooner.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIII: for the relief of the widow and children of Captain William Beckham.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 389</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the widow and children of Captain William Beckham.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of William Beckham, deceased, late a captain of the thirteenth regiment of Louisiana militia, the sum of twelve hundred dollars, to be equally divided between the mother and the children, share and share alike, viz: His widow, (alias) Polly Campbell, who is now the wife of James Campbell, to be entitled to an equal part with one of the children; and the balance to be equally divided amongst all the lawful children of the said deceased William Beckham; and in case either of them have died, or should die, without receiving their proportionable part of the above-mentioned sum, their heirs shall, and are hereby entitled to all such sums which they themselves otherwise would have been entitled to.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIV: for the relief of Amos Sweet, Stephen Jenks, Arnold Jenks, David Jenks, and Betsey Jenks widow of George Jenks, second, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 389</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Amos Sweet, Stephen Jenks, Arnold Jenks, David Jenks, and Betsey Jenks widow of George Jenks, second, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for the manufacture of muskets, under a contract with Tench Coxe, to be settled.</p></sidenote> settle and adjust the claim of Amos Sweet, Stephen Jenks, Arnold Jenks, David Jenks, and Betsey Jenks widow of George Jenks, second, deceased, for the manufacture of seven hundred and fifty muskets, for the United States, under a contract with Tench Coxe, entered into on the thirteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ten, and to make them such further allowance as shall be equal to that allowed to others who contracted about the same time to manufacture arms for the United States, and who have had their accounts settled under special acts of Congress; keeping in view the quality of the arms delivered, with the additional labor bestowed more than would have been necessary to have made muskets equal to the pattern gun; and such allowance, so made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLV: to continue a copy-right to John Rowlett.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 389</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to continue a copy-right to John Rowlett.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a copy-right be continued and granted, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1843, ch. 140.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copy-right continued for a book entitled “Rowlett’s Tables of Discount or Interest.”</p></sidenote> the same is hereby continued and granted to John Rowlett, for a book, entitled “Rowlett’s Tables of Discount or Interest,” for the term of fourteen years from the passage of this act, with all the rights and privileges, and the same remedies against any person who shall interfere with his right, as are provided by existing laws in relation to copy-rights: <proviso><i>Provided, </i>That it shall be lawful for any person or persons who may<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> heretofore have published copies of said book, or of parts thereof, to sell such as may have been heretofore published:</proviso> <i>And provided further,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the said John Rowlett, shall, within two months from the passage of this act, deposit in the office of the District Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a copy of the title of his book, with the additions as now printed, to be recorded, and shall cause a copy of the said
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/390">390</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 146, 147, 148. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
record to be advertised, once a week, for four weeks in succession, m one or more newspapers printed in the United States, and to be inserted on the back of the title-page of the books now printed, and shall, within six months, deposit a copy of said book in the office of the Secretary of State.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLVI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Summerl and Israel Brown, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 390</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Summerl and Israel Brown, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback on certain merchandise to be paid to them.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of Joseph Summerl and Israel Brown, deceased, formerly of Philadelphia, the amount of the drawback of the duty on merchandise exported by them to New Orleans, on the eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>in the brig Franklin of Philadelphia: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that all the provisions of the laws then in force concerning the exportation of merchandise for debenture have been complied with, except that which required the oath to be taken, and the bond to be executed within a limited term.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLVII: for the relief of Nathaniel Briggs.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 390</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nathaniel Briggs.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A penalty to be remitted.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to remit a penalty of two hundred dollars, incurred by Nathaniel Briggs, master of the brig Enterprize, of Freetown, in Massachusetts, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 1, 1796, ch. 45.</p></sidenote>under “An act providing passports for the ships and vessels of the United States,” passed the first of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six; and to direct the prosecution for the recovery <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1797, ch. 13.</p></sidenote>thereof to be discontinued, in the mode prescribed by “An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned,” passed the third of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLVIII: for the relief of John Willard and Thomas P. Baldwin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 390</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Willard and Thomas P. Baldwin.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$393.91 to be endorsed, as of same date, on a judgment recovered against them.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the District Attorney for the Northern District of the Court of the United States, in the state of New York, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to endorse, as of the same date, on a judgment recovered in said court in favor of the United States, against the said John Willard and Thomas P. Baldwin, the sum of three hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-one cents, being the amount suspended by the proper accounting officers of the treasury, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>on settling the accounts of the said Thomas P. Baldwin: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> Said judgment has not been paid; but if said judgment shall be paid before the taking effect of this act, then the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-one cents to the said John Willard and Thomas P. Baldwin, if said payment shall be, or shall have been made by them jointly; but, if not, then to the one who shall prove to the satisfaction of the Secretary of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>the Treasury that such payment was made by him:</proviso> <i>Provided,</i> That, before a partial satisfaction of said judgment shall be made, or before any money shall be refunded, as the case may be, under the provisions of this act, a bond in the penal sum of eight hundred dollars, drawn in favor of the United States, with security approved by the Secretary of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 149, 150, 151, 152, 153. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/391">391</page>
the Treasury, shall be lodged in the treasury department, conditioned to pay to the United States each and every sum of money the United States shall be obliged to pay to the persons named in the list of suspended items, as aforesaid, or to their legal representatives.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-24">May 24, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIX: for the relief of James Fraser.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 391</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Fraser.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to James Fraser, of the District<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for work done for government.</p></sidenote> of Columbia, the sum of thirty-three dollars and twenty-five cents, being the balance due him for twenty-one days’ work done and performed for the Government, in the city of Washington, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CL: for the relief of Philip Slaughter.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CL</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 391</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CL.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Philip Slaughter.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and allowance made.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, required to settle and adjust the account of Philip Slaughter, and to allow him five years’ full pay for his services as a captain in the revolutionary war, (without interest;) which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1830, ch. 206.</p></sidenote> That the acceptance by said Slaughter, of the grant herein made, shall be in lieu of any claim he may have under the provisions of a bill passed at this session of Congress, entitled “An act for the relief of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53.</p></sidenote> the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution.”</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLI: for the relief of John T. Ross.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 391</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John T. Ross.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of drawback on certain merchandise.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John T. Ross, of Newburyport, in Massachusetts, the amount of drawback on three trunks of Madras handkerchiefs, exported by him in November, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, on board the brig William, at Boston, for the West Indies, which he would have been entitled to receive, had he executed the bond, and taken the oath, within the time prescribed by law: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That all<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> other provisions of the laws concerning the exportation of merchandise, with the benefit of drawback, shall have been complied with.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLII: for the relief of Robert Huston.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 391</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Huston.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Robert<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for provisions furnished in 1812.</p></sidenote> Huston, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety-two cents, for provisions and forage furnished the detatchment of militia under the command of Major-General Samuel Hopkins, in the fall of the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLIII: for the relief of Seth Knowles.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 391</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Seth Knowles.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Boston and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of debentures on rum shipped for Hamburg.</p></sidenote> Charlestown be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow to Seth Knowles the debentures upon one hundred hogsheads of rum, shipped on board the Florida, for Hamburg, in the year one thousand eight hundred and
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/392">392</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 154, 155, 156. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
nineteen, in the same manner as if the entries had been sworn to within <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>the time prescribed bylaw: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said collector shall be satisfied that all the other requirements of the law, to entitle the said Knowles to the debentures, have been complied with.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLIV: for the relief of John Brahan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 392</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Brahan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit to be allowed to him of amount paid for clerk hire.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit the account of John Brahan, late receiver of public moneys at Huntsville, in the state of Alabama, with the sum of six thousand nine hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents, being the amount actually paid by said John Brahan, for clerk hire, in the Receiver’s and Register’s offices, under the authority of the late Secretary of the Treasury, and which has been suspended in the settlement of his accounts at the treasury department, which credit shall be entered as of the date when the said amount was so paid by the said Brahan.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLV: for the relief of the legal representatives of General Moses Hazen, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 392</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of General Moses Hazen, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them for his loss of half pay as a lieutenant on the British establishment.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of the said Moses Hazen, the amount due for the loss of half pay, as a lieutenant on the British establishment, which he sustained in consequence of entering into the military service of the United States, agreeably to a resolution of Congress of the twenty-second day of January, Anno Domini <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>seventeen hundred and seventy-six: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no interest shall be allowed on the amount due for loss of half pay, as aforesaid.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVI: for the relief of Archibald Bard and John Findley, executors of the last will and testament of Doctor Robert Johnson, deceased, and for the relief of John Scott, executor of Charles Yeates, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 392</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Archibald Bard and John Findley, executors of the last will and testament of Doctor Robert Johnson, deceased, and for the relief of John Scott, executor of Charles Yeates, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of Bard and Findley, executors, &amp;c. on account, of three loan office certificates, to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be authorized to audit and settle the claim of Archibald Bard and John Findley, executors of the last will and testament of Doctor Robert Johnson, deceased, on account of three several Loan Office Certificates, issued to, and in the name of Doctor Isaac Foster, for the sum of four hundred dollars each, and numbered six thousand three hundred and thirty-one, six thousand three hundred and thirtynine, and six thousand three hundred and forty, and to ascertain the true specie value of the same, with interest at six per centum per annum thereon, (which certificates are alleged to have been lost or stolen, and appears, by the books of the treasury, to be outstanding and unpaid,) and that the amount so ascertained, as aforesaid, be paid to the said executors, or either of them, out of any money in the treasury not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>otherwise appropriated : <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said executors shall first execute and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond of indemnity in double the amount of the sum to be paid, with such sufficient security as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to John Scott of the specie value of a loan certificate.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be authorized to pay to John Scott, executor of Charles Yeates, deceased, the specie value of a Loan Office Certificate issued to, and in the name of Edward Watkins, for the sum of five hundred dollars, and numbered eight thousand four hundred and ninety-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVII: for the relief of Francis H. Gregory, and Jesse Wilkinson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 393</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 157, 158, 159, 160. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/393">393</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Francis H. Gregory, and Jesse Wilkinson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of F. H. Gregory in the case of the brig Palmira, to be audited and allowed.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and allow the accounts of Lieutenant Francis H. Gregory, late commander of the United States’ schooner Grampus, for expenses incurred by him in prosecuting, in the courts of the United States, the suit in the case of the brig Palmira or Panchita, captured on the high seas for alleged piratical aggressions, and sent into the United States for adjudication, and that the amount of said expenses, when ascertained, be paid to the said Francis H. Gregory, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall be the duty of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of damages decreed against J. Wilkinson in the case of the schr. Ninfa Catalana.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Navy to pay, content, and satisfy, to the persons who may be legally entitled to receive the same, or who may have legally satisfied and paid the same, the damages and taxed costs decreed to be paid by Jesse Wilkinson, a master commandant in the navy of the United States, to Don Pablo Daunes, by the District Court of the United States, for the District of Virginia, in the cause of the “United States of America, as well in behalf of themselves as of the officers and crew of the United States brig of war Spark, Jesse Wilkinson, Esq., commander, against the schooner Ninfa Catalana, her tackle, apparel, armament, and furniture.” And that the sum of thirteen thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVIII: for the relief of David Ellis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 393</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Ellis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of debenture to be issued to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the District of Boston and Charlestown be authorized to issue certificates of debenture to David Ellis, for the amount of drawback of duties on two half pipes and four quarter casks of Madeira wine, shipped on board the brig Hero, Joseph Kinsman, master, at Boston, on the twenty-fifth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, for Surinam; which shipment was entered at the custom-house for exportation, but the oath required by law was not taken, nor the bond given within the time prescribed by law : <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said David Ellis<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall, in all other respects, comply with the law, to entitle him to the said debenture.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLIX: for the relief of Cyrus Sibley, agent of George M. Brooke.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 393</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Cyrus Sibley, agent of George M. Brooke.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Cyrus Sibley, out of any<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the half of a judgment obtained at the suit of the U. S. against Walden and others.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand five hundred and twenty-six dollars and eighty cents, being one half of a judgment obtained at the suit of the United States, against Walden, Simonton, and Garrow, and paid by the marshal for the Eastern District of the state of Louisiana, into the office of discount and deposit of the Bank of the United States at New Orleans, to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLX: for the relief of Jonathan Taylor of Kentucky.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonathan Taylor of Kentucky.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of a balance due him</p></sidenote> is hereby, directed to pay to Jonathan Taylor, out of any money in the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/394">394</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 161. Res. 2. 1828.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">for mustering militia in 1807.</p></sidenote>treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars; being the balance due to the said Taylor for mustering into and out of service a detachment of Kentucky militia, embodied in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, for the suppression of the seditious expedition projected by Aaron Burr, and for his services as paymaster to the said detachment.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXI: further to indemnify the owner and underwriters of the British ship Union and her cargo.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 396</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-26</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">further to indemnify the owner and underwriters of the British ship Union and her cargo.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnified for destruction of ship Union and her cargo, destroyed after the peace with England in 1815.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Captain Robert Holl, owner of the British ship Union, and assignee of the underwriters on said ship and her cargo, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-three thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars, in full satisfaction of the claim of the said owner and underwriters, for the capture and destruction of the said ship Union and her cargo, taken and burnt by the American ship of war Peacock, after the period fixed, by the Treaty of Ghent, for the termination of hostilities between the United States and Great Britain and her dependencies.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-26">May 26, 1828</date>.
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<preface>
<firstPageHeading class="centered">RESOLUTION.</firstPageHeading>
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<dc:title>Resolution 2: authorizing an examination of the claims to land of John F. Carmichael.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>2</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 394</citableAs>
<dc:date>1828-05-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<docNumber>No. 2</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="inline italic">Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline italic">authorizing an examination of the claims to land of John F. Carmichael.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it resolved, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to two tracts of land under the Spanish government, to be examined.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John F. Carmichael, of Wilkinson county, state of Mississippi, be authorized to present to the register and receiver of the Land Office at Washington, Mississippi, the papers and documents having relation to the title to two tracts of land which he claims by virtue of what he alleges to be complete grants from the Spanish government, in favor of Claudio Bougard, one dated the thirtieth of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, for one thousand arpens, the other dated the sixth of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, for one thousand and thirty-four arpens, lying and being in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, divided by the line of demarcation which then existed between the two governments, and the said register and receiver are hereby authorized to examine and report upon the same; under all the rules, regulations, and responsibilities, which were made applicable to the Board of Commissioners appointed west of Pearl river.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1828-05-19">May 19, 1828</date>.
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1828</dc:date>
<dc:date>1829</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December,</i> 1828, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1829.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">John Quincy Adams</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John C. Calhoun</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Samuel Smith</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Stevenson</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of John B. Lemaitre, junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 395</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-01-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John B. Lemaitre, junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-01-06">Jan. 6, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback on playing cards allowed him.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow to John B. Lemaitre, junior, of New York, the privilege of exporting with the benefit of drawback, fourteen trunks of Spanish playing cards, imported into the port of New York in the month of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, in the ship Edward Bonaffe, and the ship Lewis, from Havre, under and subject to the existing provisions of the laws of the United States in other cases.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-01-06">January 6, 1829</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVI: releasing the lien of the United States upon a part of the land of Benjamin Owens, in Anne Arundel county, state of Maryland, to the trustees of Mount Zion meeting-house, in said county and state.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 395</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-02-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">releasing the lien of the United States upon a part of the land of Benjamin Owens, in Anne Arundel county, state of Maryland, to the trustees of Mount Zion meeting-house, in said county and state.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-02-05">Feb. 5, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That any lien which the United States may have upon so much of a tract of land, owned by Benjamin Owens, of Anne<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Release by U. S. of lien on property of Mount Zion congregation.</p></sidenote> Arundel county, in the state of Maryland, as is contained in a deed of conveyance from said Owens to the trustees of Mount Zion meetings house, in the said county and state, shall be, and the same hereby is, released to the said trustees, and their successors in office, in perpetuity, for the benefit of the religious society owning said meeting-house.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-02-05">February 5, 1829</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of Daniel Goodwin, executor of Benjamin Goodwin, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 395</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-02-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Goodwin, executor of Benjamin Goodwin, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-02-05">Feb. 5, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Daniel Goodwin, executor of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for the use of a wharf.</p></sidenote> Benjamin Goodwin, deceased, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and thirty-seven pounds and ten shillings, equal to seven hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-six cents, being the amount of the award rendered in favor of the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/395" renderingPosition="bottom">395</page>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/396">396</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 21, 22, 23, 44, 45. 1829.</centerRunningHead>
said Benjamin Goodwin, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one, for the use and occupation of his wharf for the building of a seventy-four gun ship.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-02-05">February 5, 1829</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of Jacob Rentleman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 396</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacob Rentleman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-02-24">Feb. 24, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Jacob Rentleman, of the state of Illinois, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a half section of land in Illinois.</p></sidenote>who entered by mistake, in the office of the Register of the Land Office for the district of Kaskaskia, the east half of section thirty-five, in township twelve, south of range three, west, and who obtained a patent therefor, be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter with the said register any other half section of land, within the said district, which is subject to private sale, upon his relinquishing to the United States the half section described as aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-02-24">February 24, 1829</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of Augustus Aspinwall.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 396</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Augustus Aspinwall.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-02-24">Feb. 24, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback allowed on white sugar.</p></sidenote>hereby is, authorized and directed to allow the drawback on forty-one boxes of white sugar, laden at Boston, on board the brig Cherub, bound for Gibraltar, which boxes of sugar had been entered by Augustus Aspinwall, at the Custom-House in Boston, for debenture, on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-02-24">February 24, 1829</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: for the relief of Robert L. Kennon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 396</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert L. Kennon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-02-24">Feb. 24, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certain sum, overpaid by him, to be refunded.</p></sidenote>hereby, directed to refund to Robert L. Kennon, the amount of money he has overpaid at the Land Office at Tuscaloosa, for a fractional section north of section eighteen, township twenty, range five, in the Tuscaloosa land district, in Alabama, it being the difference between one hundred and forty-six acres, and seventy-five acres and eighty-eight hundredths, at the rate of five dollars and five cents per acre.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-02-24">February 24, 1829</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of William Otis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 396</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Otis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-02">March 2, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts as Collector to be settled.</p></sidenote> be, and hereby are, authorized and directed to audit and settle, upon principles of justice and equity, the accounts and claims of William Otis, formerly Collector of the Customs for the district of Barnstable, in the state of Massachusetts; and to satisfy and discharge such amount of principal and interest as may be found due to said Otis, a sum sufficient is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, before any sum shall be paid to the said William Otis, under the authority of this act, agreeably to the decision of the accounting officers of the treasury, such decision shall receive the sanction and approval of the President of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-02">March 2, 1829</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLV: for the relief of George Wilson, of Pennsylvania.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 396</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Wilson, of Pennsylvania.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-02">March 2, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-seven and one half cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to George Wilson, of Pennsylvania, paya-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 46, 47, 48. 1829.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/397">397</page>
ble out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnified for his claim to certain land in Georgia.</p></sidenote> an indemnification for his claim for seventy-one thousand one hundred and eleven acres of land, held as citizens’ rights, in the pretended purchases of land from the state of Georgia, by the Georgia and Tennessee companies: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said George Wilson shall previously<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> take and subscribe the oath required by the third section of the act passed on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1814, ch. 39.</p></sidenote> fourteen, providing for the indemnification of claimants of public lands in the Mississippi Territory, which affidavit, and the transfer of the said George Wilson of all his claim, to the United States, according to the provisions of the said act, shall be filed in the Department of State, with the transfers, conveyances, and records, returned to that department, by the Commissioners appointed under the act supplementary to the act aforesaid, passed on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1815, ch. 24.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifteen :</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That before any payment shall be made,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> under the provisions of this act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney-General, or any two of them, shall certify<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 31, 1814, ch. 39.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Jan. 23, 1815, ch. 24.</p></sidenote> that this case comes within the class of cases intended to be embraced by the acts of Congress of thirty-first March, 1814, and twenty-third February, [January,] 1815, and that it ought in justice to be paid.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-02">March 2, 1829</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of John Smith T. and Wilson P. Hunt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 397</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Smith T. and Wilson P. Hunt.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-02">March 2, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they hereby are, authorized and instructed to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of A. Kingsley to be audited and settled.</p></sidenote> audit and settle the accounts of Alpha Kingsley, late a paymaster in the army of the United States, on principles of equity and justice; and to extend the benefit of such settlement, if any, to the judgment obtained against the securities of said Kingsley, in the state of Missouri, so far as the same may operate, or lessen, or discharge the said judgment, but not to the payment of any balance from the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-02">March 2, 1829</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVII: for the relief of the heirs of John Gwyn.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 397</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of John Gwyn.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-02">March 2, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to issue to the heirs of John Gwyn, deceased, late a soldier of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant to be issued to them.</p></sidenote> the revolutionary army, a land warrant for one hundred acres of land; which warrant, when issued, shall be located on any unlocated land, in the manner, and within the time, provided by law for other military warrants for services in the revolutionary army; and a patent shall be granted thereon as in other cases.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-02">March 2, 1829</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Thomas Griffin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 397</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Griffin.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-02">March 2, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas Griffin be, and he is hereby, released from the payment of a debt due to the United States by Thomas Archer,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from debt due U. S. by T. Archer, Collector, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> heretofore Collector of the Customs of the district of Yorktown, in the state of Virginia; and that the Attorney of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia be, and he is hereby, authorized, and required to execute, in the name and behalf of the United States, and to cause to be affiled in the Registry of the District Court of the United States, for the said district, a release of the judgment obtained in behalf of the United States in the said court, on the sixteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, against the said Thomas Griffin, administrator of Lawrence Gibbons, and of the forthcoming
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/398">398</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 49, 56. 1829.</centerRunningHead>
bond, executed by the said Thomas Griffin, on the levy of the writ of fieri facias founded on the said judgment, and of the costs accruing thereon.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-02">March 2, 1829</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the benefit of the trustees of the Valley Creek Academy, in the state of Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 398</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of the trustees of the Valley Creek Academy, in the state of Alabama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-02">March 2, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees authorized to enter certain land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Trustees of the Valley Creek Academy, in the state of Alabama, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter with the Register of the Cahawba land district, in said state, the northwest quarter of section number twenty-six, in township number eighteen, range number ten; and upon paying to the receiver of public moneys for the said district, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, the said trustees shall be entitled to receive a patent for the said quarter section, vesting the title to the same in them and their successors for ever.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-02">March 2, 1829</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVI: to incorporate the Washington, Alexandria, and George Town Steam Packet Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 398</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the Washington, Alexandria, and George Town Steam Packet Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from and after the passing of this act, all <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Members of the limited partnership made a body corporate, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>those persons who have already associated and formed, or may hereafter join, a company or limited partnership, under the name and title of the Washington, Alexandria, and Baltimore Steam Packet Company, and their successors, shall be, and they are hereby, incorporated, and made a body corporate, and politic, by the name and style of the Washington, Alexandria, and George Town Steam Packet Company; and, as such, shall continue until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Privileges.</p></sidenote> and forty-nine; and by that name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in courts of records, and any other place whatsoever; and by that name may have and hold, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy, and retain, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, and effects, of what nature, kind or quality, soever, necessary for the objects of this incorporation; and the same may sell, grant, demise, alien, and dispose of; and by that name shall have, during the continuance of this act, succession; and may make, have, and use a common seal, and the same may break, alter, and renew, at pleasure; and shall have power to ordain, establish, and put in execution, such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, as shall seem necessary and convenient for the government of the said corporation, not being contrary to law, nor the Constitution thereof; and, generally, to do and to execute all acts, necessary or proper for the objects of said incorporation, subject to the rules, regulations, restrictions, limitations, and provisions, herein described and declared.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capital.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the capital stock of the said Company shall consist of not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, money of the United States, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President and directors.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the affairs of the said Company shall be conducted by four Directors and a President, whose place, if chosen from among their number, shall be supplied by that body. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quorum.</p></sidenote>Two of the Directors, with the President, shall form a board or quorum, for transacting all the business of the Company. In case of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Absence of the President.</p></sidenote>sickness of the President, or his necessary absence, his place may be supplied by any Director, whom he, by writing, under his hand, may nominate for that purpose; or, in case of his not making such nomination, the Board may appoint a President to act during his sickness or absence. The President and Directors, who may be in office at the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 56. 1829.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/399">399</page>
time of the passage of this act, shall continue in office under and by virtue of this act of incorporation, until others shall be duly chosen in their stead. No person shall be a Director or President, who is not a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Qualification of Directors and President.</p></sidenote> stockholder; and a Director ceasing to be a stockholder, shall cease to be a Director. Every stockholder shall be entitled to vote by himself, his agent, or proxy, appointed under his hand and seal, at all elections, in virtue of this act; and shall have as many votes as he shall have shares.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That a general meeting of stockholders<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meetings.</p></sidenote> of the said Company shall be holden on the first Monday of January next, after the passing of this act, and on the first Monday of January in every year thereafter, at such place within the District of Columbia as the President and Directors shall appoint, by giving two weeks notice in one or more of the newspapers of the District, for the purpose of electing Directors for the ensuing year; who shall meet<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election of Directors.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of President.</p></sidenote> speedily after their election, and choose a President; and the President and Directors, for the time being, shall continue in office until others shall be duly elected in their places, and be organized, by the assembling of a quorum, and the choice of a President. At all elections, the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rules of elections.</p></sidenote> persons having the greatest number of votes shall be deemed to be chosen : all elections shall be held under the superintendence of the President of the Company, for the time being, and four Stockholders, not being, at the time, Directors, appointed by the Board of Directors, any three of whom shall be the judges thereof; and who shall immediately thereafter notify the persons elected, and make a return thereof to the Directors, at their first meeting; should two or more persons have the same number of votes, the other individuals elected Directors shall determine, by ballot, from among said persons, who shall be the Director or Directors. All elections shall be opened at ten o’clock in the forenoon, and close at three in the afternoon.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the President and Directors<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of the President and Directors.</p></sidenote> shall have full power to make, revise, alter, and annul, all such rules, orders, by-laws, and regulations, for the government of the said Corporation, and that of its officers, servants, and affairs, as they shall, from time to time, think expedient; and to use, employ, and dispose of the funds and property of the said Company, for the interest and benefit of the stockholders, and agreeably to the objects of the said incorporation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the books, correspondence,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transactions of comp’y open to Directors.</p></sidenote> and papers, of the Company, shall, at all times, be subject to the inspection of the Directors.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the President and Directors<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment and compensation of officers, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> shall have power to appoint all officers or servants requisite for executing the business of the said Company, and to establish the compensation to be made to the President and to the other officers or servants of the said Company, respectively; but no compensation shall be given to a Director, for his services, except by a vote of the stockholders, in a general meeting.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the President and Directors<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power to call general meeting.</p></sidenote> shall have power to call a general meeting of the stockholders, for the purposes concerning the interests of the Company, giving at least two weeks notice in one or more newspapers of the District.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 9. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the shares of the capital<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of shares.</p></sidenote> stock, at any time owned by any individual stockholder, shall be transferable only on the books of the Company, according to such rules as may, conformably to law, be established in that behalf, by the President and Directors; but all debts actually due to the Company by a stockholder, requesting a transfer, must be satisfied before such transfer shall be made.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/400">400</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 58, 59, 60. 1829.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 10. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dividends to be declared half-yearly.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the dividends of the profits of the Company, or so much of said profits as shall be deemed expedient and proper, shall be declared half yearly, in the second week in January and July, in each year; the amount of said dividend to be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not to exceed nett profits.</p></sidenote>from time to time, determined by the President and Directors, and in no case to exceed the amount of the nett profits actually acquired by the Company, so that the capital stock of said Company shall never be impaired by dividends.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 11. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consequences of declaring a greater dividend.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, if the said Directors shall, at any time wilfully and knowingly, make or declare any dividend which shall impair the said capital stock, all the Directors present at the making or declaring of said dividend, and consenting thereto, shall be liable, in their individual capacities, to the Company, for the amount or proportion of said capital stock, so divided by the said Directors; and each Director who shall be present at the making or declaring of such dividend, shall be deemed to have consented thereto, unless he shall immediately enter, in writing, his dissent, on the minutes of the proceedings of the Board.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 12. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacancies.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That if any vacancy shall, at any time, happen among the Directors, by death, resignation, or otherwise, the rest of the Directors, for the time being, shall elect a Director to fill the vacancy.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 13. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Failure of election.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That in case it should, at any time, happen that an election of Directors should not be made on any day when pursuant to this act it ought to have been made, the said Corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved; but it shall be lawful, on any other day, to hold and make an election of Directors at a meeting to be called in such manner as shall be prescribed by the laws and ordinances of said Corporation.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: for the relief of Charles A. Burnett.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 400</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles A. Burnett.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Charles <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for work done.</p></sidenote>A. Burnett, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty-nine dollars sixty-one and a half cents, the balance due him for work done, and articles furnished, for the President’s House, during the administration of James Monroe.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Guest, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 395</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-03</dc:date>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of John Guest, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department is hereby authorized to settle and adjust the claim of the legal <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for a house burnt to be adjusted and settled.</p></sidenote>representatives of John Guest, deceased, for a frame house and brick office, burnt, in the town of Havre de Grace, in the state of Maryland, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, by the British, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 66.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.</p></sidenote>upon the principles of the act of the third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, the same as if application had been made to the Commissioner, under the act of Congress of the ninth April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. The sum found due, if any thing, by the Third Auditor, under this act, and the acts referred to, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of Samuel Chesnut.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 400</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>20</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Chesnut.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Samuel Ches-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 61, 62, 63, 64. 1829.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/401">401</page>
nut, the sum of eighty-five dollars, the value of a horse lost by him<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for a horse lost in the late war.</p></sidenote> while in the military service of the United States, during the late war, by reason of his being dismounted, by order of Governor Shelby, at Portage river, while on an expedition to Canada.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of the representatives of James A. Harper, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 395</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representatives of James A. Harper, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, to the legal representatives of James A. Harper, deceased, out of any money<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for money expended in recruiting service.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred fifty-two dollars and ninety-three cents, for money expended by the said Harper, in the recruiting service of the United States during the late war, and which is now due to said representatives, as it appears by a statement from the treasury department.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of Thomas Hunt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 401</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Hunt.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers pay unto Thomas Hunt, or his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him as adjutant U. S. army.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and five dollars and sixty-seven cents, in full for his pay and subsistence, as an adjutant, with the pay and rank of a lieutenant, from the twenty-first of July, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, to thirtieth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of William R. Maddox.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 401</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William R. Maddox.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers pay unto William R. Maddox, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for bricks.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of three hundred and four dollars and fifty-three cents, being in full for the balance of the price of sixty-seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-three bricks, delivered at the Capitol for the use of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of Joshua Foltz.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 401</citableAs>
<dc:date>1829-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>20</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joshua Foltz.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle and adjust the account of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim as wagoner in the revolutionary war to be settled.</p></sidenote> Joshua Foltz, and to allow him for ten months’ services, as a wagoner in the revolutionary war; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1829-03-03">March 3, 1829</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<congress>21</congress>
</meta>
<collection role="sessions">
<component role="session">
<meta>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1829</dc:date>
<dc:date>1830</dc:date>
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<privateLaws>
<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of December,</i> 1829, <i>and ended on the thirty-first day of May,</i> 1830.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Jackson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John C. Calhoun</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Stevenson</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. II: to authorize the exchange of certain lots of land between the University of Michigan Territory and Martin Baum and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>II</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 402</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-01-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the exchange of certain lots of land between the University of Michigan Territory and Martin Baum and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-01-13">Jan. 13, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees of University of Michigan authorized to exchange certain land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Trustees of the University of Michigan be, and they are hereby, authorized to exchange with Martin Baum and others, the tracts of land designated as river lots, numbered one and two, in the United States’ reserve of twelve miles square, on the Miami of Lake Erie, heretofore purchased from the United States, and which, having been relinquished by the said Martin Baum, under the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 12.</p></sidenote>provisions of the Act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, for the relief of the purchasers of the public lands, were afterwards selected by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the said <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 90.</p></sidenote>university, under the provisions of the act of the twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, entitled “An act concerning a seminary of learning in the Territory of Michigan,” for such other lands as may be agreed upon by them; and the President of the United States, upon being advised by the said trustees that such exchange has been made, is hereby authorized and required to issue patents in such manner as may be necessary to carry this act into full effect.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-01-30">January 13, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. IV: for the relief of Elijah Carr.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 402</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-01-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elijah Carr.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-01-13">Jan. 13, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Elijah Carr, assignee of Elisha Carr, be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to relinquish certain land.</p></sidenote>and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such manner and form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, the south-east quarter of section thirty-four, in township three north, of range two east, in the district of lands offered for sale by the United States at Jeffersonville.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain other land.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said Elijah Carr be authorized to enter at the office of the Register of the Land Office at Jeffersonville aforesaid, the north-east quarter of section three, in township two north, of range two east; and to receive from the United <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>States a patent for the same: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said quarter section of land last described shall remain unsold, and that the said Elijah Carr shall make the relinquishment and entry aforesaid, prior to the fourth day of July next.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-01-13">January 13, 1830</date>.
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/402" renderingPosition="bottom">402</page>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of Lewis Schrack.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 403</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-01-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 6, 7, 8, 9, 13. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/403">403</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lewis Schrack.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-01-30">Jan. 30, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Lewis Schrack, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for rifle stocks.</p></sidenote> the sum of one hundred and five dollars, the value of four hundred and twenty rifle stocks, delivered by the said Lewis to the military storekeeper at Philadelphia, under a contract with the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-01-30">January 30, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Joel Byington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 403</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-01-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joel Byington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-01-30">Jan. 30, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Joel Byington, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for damage done to his house and barn.</p></sidenote> the sum of two hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixteen cents, in full for the damage done to the house and barn of the said Byington, while in the military service of the United States, during the late war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-01-30">January 30, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of Nathaniel B. Wood.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 403</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-01-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nathaniel B. Wood.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-01-30">Jan. 30, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury liquidate the claims of Nathaniel B. Wood, and allow him the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for services as special commissary, &amp;c., to be liquidated.</p></sidenote> pay and emoluments of a deputy quartermaster-general, from the fifteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to the tenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, both days inclusive, for his services as special commissary, rendered to a detachment of Kentucky militia, in the service of the United States, for the period aforesaid, deducting therefrom such pay and forage as he may have received: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no allowance for forage shall be made after<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the eleventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, unless the said Wood proves that he had a horse in service subsequent to that period, and sustained by him.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the balance so found due,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-01-30">January 30, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. IX: for the relief of Theophilus Cooksey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 403</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-01-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Theophilus Cooksey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-01-30">Jan. 30, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Theophilus Cooksey, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> the sum of sixty dollars, the value of a horse that died in the military service of the United States, in one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for want of forage.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-01-30">January 30, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: to amend “An act to continue a copyright of John Rowlett.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 403</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act,</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to amend “An act to continue a copyright of John Rowlett.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-11">Feb. 11, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That notwithstanding any thing contained in the last proviso of the “Act to continue a copyright to John Rowlett,”<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stipulation in act of May 24, 1828, ch. 145, continuing copy right to John Rowlett, restricted to such books as were in his possession, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> approved the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, only such of the printed books, entitled Rowlett’s Tables of Discount or Interest, as were in the possession of the said John Rowlett, at the time of the passage of the said act, are, or shall be, required to contain on the back of the title-page of each, a copy of the record of the title of the book in the office of the clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-11">February 11, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XV: for the relief of the widow and children of Benjamin W. Hopkins.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 404</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/404">404</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 15, 16, 17, 18. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the widow and children of Benjamin W. Hopkins.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-11">Feb. 11, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to widow and children of B. W. Hopkins, for damages resulting from default of U.S., &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Harriet Strong, widow, Edwin W. Hopkins, and Maria A. Hopkins, children of Benjamin W. Hopkins, deceased, the sum of thirteen thousand two hundred and seventy dollars, being for damages sustained by the said Benjamin W. Hopkins, in consequence of the government failing to furnish an engineer to lay out the fort at Mobile Point, at the time the contract commenced, <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That from said sum of thirteen thousand two hundred and seventy dollars, there be deducted the amount of three judgments which the United States recovered in the Northern District of New York before the District Court of the United States at the January term of said court, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, against Roswell Hopkins and Phaddeus Laughlin, sureties of Benjamin W. Hopkins, on three different custom-house bonds, amounting, with the costs, to one thousand seven hundred sixty-two dollars and thirty-one cents; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to discharge said judgments, and to release and cause to be re-delivered to the owner, any and all property on which any execution or executions which have been issued on said judgments or either of them, has been levied.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-11">February 11, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVI: for the relief of Nancy Dolan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 404</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nancy Dolan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-11">Feb. 11, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Nancy Dolan, of Louisiana, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for loss of a lot of ground at Baton Rouge.</p></sidenote>out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twelve hundred dollars, which shall be in full satisfaction of the claim of said Nancy, for remuneration from the United States for the loss of a lot of ground at Baton Rouge, in said state.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-11">February 11, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of the churchwardens of Elizabeth City parish, in the State of Virginia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 404</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the churchwardens of Elizabeth City parish, in the State of Virginia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-11">Feb. 11, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a bell broken in the service of the U. S.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars, and fifty cents, to the churchwardens of Elizabeth City parish, in the state of Virginia, to defray the expense of recasting a bell, broke during the late war, while used by direction of an officer commanding at that place, as an alarm bell.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-11">February 11, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: for the relief of Joseph Dixon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 404</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Dixon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-11">Feb. 11, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to pay Joseph Dixon the sum of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for damages to his land.</p></sidenote>thirty dollars, in full for the damages done to his lot of land, in taking part of the soil of said lot to erect a fortification on Dixon’s Point, on the eastern side of Piscataqua river, in the state of Maine, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-11">February 11, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Orson Sparks, and John Watson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 405</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/405">405</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Orson Sparks, and John Watson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-11">Feb. 11, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Orson Sparks, the sum of forty-five dollars, and to John Watson the sum of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for horses lost.</p></sidenote> sixty dollars, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated; the value of two horses lost by them during the late war, while in the service of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-11">February 11, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of James D. Cobb.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 405</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James D. Cobb.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-11">Feb. 11, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to James D. Cobb, late a first<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him as first lieutenant of artillery.</p></sidenote> lieutenant in the regiment of light artillery, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the full amount due for the pay, subsistence, and other emoluments of a first lieutenant of light artillery, from the day when the said James D. Cobb was last paid, to the time when the regiment of light artillery was incorporated with the artillery, by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 13.</p></sidenote> twenty-one.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-11">February 11, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of William Jacocks.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 405</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Jacocks.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-11">Feb. 11, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a warrant, for his military bounty land,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bounty land warrant to issue to him.</p></sidenote> to William Jacocks, who, during the late war, enlisted for five years, as a musician, in a company of bombardiers, sappers, and miners, and who, after having served the period of his enlistment, was honorably discharged.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the proper accounting officers<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">All arrears due him to be paid.</p></sidenote> of the department of war do pay to the said William Jacocks all the arrears of pay, of gratuity, allowed by the United States to soldiers honorably discharged, and of commutation for clothing, which may appear to be due and owing to him.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-11">February 11, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of John Long.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 405</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Long.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-11">Feb. 11, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department, cause to be paid to John Long, of the state of Kentucky, or to his legal representative, the sum of one hundred and ten dollars,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, in full, for a horse lost by him, while in the service of the United States, during the late war with Great Britain.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-11">February 11, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: for the relief of Peter Ford.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 404</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Ford.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-11">Feb. 11, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Peter Ford, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and thirty-three dollars, the value of that part of his<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for oxen and sled lost in service.</p></sidenote> team of oxen, with a sled and chains, impressed into the service of the United States, on the twenty-first of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, by order of General Simon Perkins, and which were
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/406">406</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 24, 28, 29. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
lost on the retreat of the guard having charge of the same, after the defeat of General Winchester, at the river Raisin, without any fault or negligence on the part of said Ford.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-11">February 11, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of the legal representatives of Benjamin Clark, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 406</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-11</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Benjamin Clark, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-11">Feb. 11, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for loss of wagon, &amp;c. to be settled.</p></sidenote>audit and adjust the claim of the legal representatives of Benjamin Clark, deceased, for the loss of a wagon, horse, and gears, while in the military service of the United States, during the late war, and allow them such compensation therefor as they are entitled to, on the principles and by the rules which have heretofore governed the department in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.</p></sidenote>adjusting claims for the loss of like property, under the law of April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and the act amendatory <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 110.</p></sidenote>thereto; and that said sum, so found due, be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-11">February 11, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of Ezra Thurbur, and the legal representatives of Gideon King.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 406</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ezra Thurbur, and the legal representatives of Gideon King.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-27">Feb. 27, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for detention of sloop Essex by the British.</p></sidenote> be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to Ezra Thurbur, and the legal representatives of Gideon King, in full satisfaction of the claim against the United States, for the capture and detention of the sloop Essex, by the British, on Lake Champlain, during the late war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-27">February 27, 1830</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the benefit of Elijah L. Clarke, of Louisiana, and of the heirs and legal representatives of Lewis Clarke, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 406</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of Elijah L. Clarke, of Louisiana, and of the heirs and legal representatives of Lewis Clarke, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-02-27">Feb. 27, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Elijah L. Clarke, of the state of Louisiana, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">E. L. Clarke’s claim for a certain tract of land confirmed.</p></sidenote>be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his claim, to a tract of land containing seven hundred and thirty-three acres, to the extent of one mile square thereof, situated on the Lake St. Joseph, in the county of Concordia, and state of Louisiana, adjoining the claim of one Durosset, on the south, being claim number sixty-eight, as entered for confirmation with the Register of the Land Office, north of Red River, in said state, by the said Elijah L. Clarke.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heirs of Lewis Clarke confirmed in their title to a certain tract of land.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the heirs and legal representatives of Lewis Clarke, deceased, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a tract of land containing six hundred and forty acres, situated on the Lake St. Joseph, in the county of Concordia, and state of Louisiana, adjoining the claim of Durosset, on the north, being claim number sixty-nine, as entered for confirmation with the Register of the Land Office, north of Red River, in said state, by said Lewis Clarke.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to issue for same.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall, upon being presented with plats and certificates of survey of the said tracts of land, legally executed by a proper officer, issue patents for the same, which patents shall operate only as a <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>relinquishment on the part of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided nevertheless,</i> that if, prior to the passage of this act, the land above specified shall have been sold by the United States to any other person or persons, the same shall not be confirmed to the said Elijah L. Clarke, and the heirs and legal representatives of Lewis Clarke, but they shall, respectively, be at liberty to enter any other land, now subject to entry, within the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 30, 34, 37. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/407">407</page>
same district, equal in quantity to that above-mentioned; and a patent shall issue therefor, under the restrictions above recited:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That, should a part only of the said land have been sold, the said Elijah L. Clarke, and the heirs and legal representatives of Lewis Clarke, shall have liberty to take such parts of the said land as shall not have been sold, in part satisfaction of their claims respectively, and to enter elsewhere, within the said district, so much other land, as shall be equal to the part sold; or the said Elijah, and the said heirs and legal representatives, may, respectively, relinquish to the United States all claim to the said land so remaining unsold, and enter elsewhere, within the said district, the quantity of land (now subject to entry) equal to their whole claims respectively.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-02-27">February 27, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of Abigail Appleton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 407</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Abigail Appleton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-03-03">March 3, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and hereby is, authorized and required to place the name of Abigail Appleton, the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on the pension list.</p></sidenote> widow of Daniel Appleton, upon the pension list, and to allow to her a pension, to commence from the third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, pursuant to the provisions of the act, entitled “An act in addition to an act giving pensions to the orphans<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 16, 1818, ch. 65.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1819. ch. 60.</p></sidenote> and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States,” and the act to which the same is an addition, subject to the conditions and limitations therein contained.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-03-03">March 3, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of Richard Biddle, administrator of John Wilkins, junior, formerly Quartermaster-General of the army of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 407</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-03-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard Biddle, administrator of John Wilkins, junior, formerly Quartermaster-General of the army of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-03-18">March 18, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the accounts of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> John Wilkins, junior, formerly Quartermaster-General of the army of the United States, upon the principles of equity and justice.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-03-18">March 18, 1830</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief of Antoine Prudhomme, Louis Closeau, and Gilbert Closeau, of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 407</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-03-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Antoine Prudhomme, Louis Closeau, and Gilbert Closeau, of Louisiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-03-23">March 23, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the claim of Antoine Prudhomme, for six hundred and forty acres of land, situated on the right bank of the Rigolet<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for a tract of land confirmed.</p></sidenote> de Bon Dieu, in the parish of Natchitoches, and opposite to the place called Petitte Ecore; as, also, the claim of Louis Closeau, to six hundred and forty arpents of land, situated on the right bank of Red River; and the claim of Gilbert Closeau, to four hundred arpents of land, situated on the same side of said river, and bounded above by the claim of Louis Closeau, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby required, upon the presentation of plats and surveys of the said several tracts of land, regularly made, by competent authority, to issue patents to the said respective claimants, for the lands hereby confirmed to each: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That this act shall amount only to a relinquishment on the part of the United States; and shall in no manner affect the rights of third persons.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-03-23">March 23, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of the heirs of John Pierre Landerneau, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 408</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-03-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/408">408</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 38, 39, 42, 43. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of John Pierre Landerneau, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-03-23">March 23, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued to them.</p></sidenote> upon application, cause a patent to be issued to the heirs of John Pierre Landerneau, deceased, for four hundred arpents of land, situated in the parish of Ouachita, in the state of Louisiana, according to the boundaries of a plat thereof, made for the said John Pierre Landerneau, on the twenty-third day of October, eighteen hundred and two, by James McLaughlin, formerly a Spanish surveyor, in the said parish of Ouachita: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall not prejudice, or in any way affect, the rights of any third person.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-03-23">March 23, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of Hyacinth Bernard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 408</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-03-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Hyacinth Bernard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-03-23">March 23, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Hyacinth Bernard be, and he is hereby, confirmed<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to land confirmed.</p></sidenote> in his claim to thirty-three arpents of land, by forty arpents in depth, on both sides of the Bayou Teche, in the state of Louisiana, to be surveyed and taken according to the plot of survey made by James L. Johnson, on the twenty-first of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and as recommended for confirmation by the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Commissioner of the Land Office, to whom it was presented: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall only be construed to a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and shall not interfere with the rights of third persons.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-03-23">March 23, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLII: to provide for the payment of sundry citizens of the territory of Arkansas, for trespasses committed on their property by the Osage Indians, in the years one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 408</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-03-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to provide for the payment of sundry citizens of the territory of Arkansas, for trespasses committed on their property by the Osage Indians, in the years one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-03-25">March 25, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to certain persons for property lost.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. Kerkendall.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. English.</p></sidenote>directed to pay to Robert Kerkendall, the sum of four thousand four hundred and ten dollars, in full compensation for sixty-three horses and mules, taken from him by the Osage Indians, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen; that he likewise pay to Joseph English, eight hundred and fifteen dollars, in full compensation for six horses taken from him by said Indians, in the year one thousand eight hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. Bowman.</p></sidenote>and seventeen; also, to John Bowman, eight hundred and seventy dollars, in full compensation for eleven horses, taken from him in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three; and likewise, to Antoine <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A. Barrague.</p></sidenote>Barrague, six hundred and sixty-one dollars, in full compensation for property of his destroyed and taken, by the Osage Indians, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-03-25">March 25, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: for the relief of Elizabeth Mays.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 408</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-03-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elizabeth Mays.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-03-25">March 25, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a pension of one hundred and fourteen dollars<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted.</p></sidenote> per annum, for the term of five years from the third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, be allowed and paid, in half-yearly payments, out of the Navy Pension Fund, to Elizabeth Mays, the mother of Wilson Mays, late a Carpenter’s Mate in the Navy <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That such pension shall be deemed to continue only during the life and widowhood of the said Elizabeth Mays.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-03-25">March 25, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of Henry Dickins and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 409</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-03-25</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 44, 45, 46, 47, 51. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/409">409</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Dickins and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-03-25">March 25, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the district of New London, in Connecticut, is hereby authorized to pay to Henry<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the allowance of a schooner in the cod fishery.</p></sidenote> Dickins, Thomas Dunbar, junior, and Trustum Dickins, owners of a fishing schooner, called the Whale, of sixty-eight tons and sixty-eight ninety-fifths of a ton burthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive, had she completed her fishing term; the said schooner having returned into port three days before the expiration of the four months required, in consequence of the death of one, and the sickness of three others of her crew.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-03-25">March 25, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLV: for the relief of Oread Glover.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 409</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-03-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Oread Glover.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-03-25">March 25, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Cread Glover, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> the sum of sixty dollars, the value of a horse lost by him while in the military service of the United States, during the late war, in the expedition under the command of Governor Shelby, by reason of the said Glover’s being dismounted and separated from his horse at the mouth of Portage river, in the state of Ohio.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-03-25">March 25, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of Francis Comparet.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 409</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-03-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Francis Comparet.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-03-25">March 25, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Francis Comparet five hundred dollars, that being<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him by treaty stipulation.</p></sidenote> the sum stipulated to be paid to him, by the name of Jean B. Comporet, in the treaty held with the Pottawattamie tribe of Indians, at St. Joseph, September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-03-25">March 25, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVII: for the relief of Thomas Buford.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 409</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-03-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Buford.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-03-25">March 25, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of six hundred dollars be paid to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as deputy quartermaster general.</p></sidenote> Thomas Buford, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for his services as a Deputy Quartermaster-General, from the twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, to the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-03-25">March 25, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief of Richard Taylor, of Kentucky.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 409</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-03-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard Taylor, of Kentucky.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-03-31">March 31, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That nothing in the provisions of the act, entitled “An act to prevent defalcations on the part of disbursing agents of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exempted from operation of act of Jan. 25, 1828, ch. 2.</p></sidenote> Government, and for other purposes,” approved the twenty-fifth of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall be so construed as to prevent the payment of the pension now due, or which may hereafter become due and payable to Richard Taylor, of Kentucky, an invalid pensioner; but the same shall be paid to him as though the said act had never passed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-03-31">March 31, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Erastus Granger.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 410</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 53, 54, 55, 56. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/410">410</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Erastus Granger.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-02">April 2, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from a judgment against Erastus Granger.</p></sidenote>and directed to discharge and release, to the legal representatives of Erastus Granger, late of Buffalo, in the state of New York, a judgment rendered against the said Erastus Granger, in the District Court of the Northern District of New York, in favor of the Postmaster-General of the United States, for the sum of one thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty-two cents and costs, at the August term of said Court in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-02">April 2, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIV: to increase the pension of Charles Larrabee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 410</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to increase the pension of Charles Larrabee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-02">April 2, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Charles Larrabee, an invalid pensioner, be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$25 per month to be paid him.</p></sidenote>and he is hereby, entitled to receive twenty-five dollars per month, in lieu of the pension to which he is now entitled.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-02">April 2, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of Captain Daniel McDuff.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 410</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Captain Daniel McDuff.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-02">April 2, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the provisions of the act, entitled “An act <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions of act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53, extended to him.</p></sidenote>for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution,” approved on the 15th May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the said Daniel McDuff, as a captain in the continental line, in the same manner, and to the like effect, as if he had been placed on the pension list, as captain, under said act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant to be issued to him.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it farther enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said Daniel McDuff shall be entitled to demand and receive a warrant for the like quantity of land, for which warrants have been issued to other captains of the continental line, in the war of the revolution.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-02">April 2, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Francis Tennille, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 410</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Francis Tennille, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-02">April 2, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of fourteen hundred and twenty-eight<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnified for his claim to certain land in Georgia.</p></sidenote> dollars and fifty-seven cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to the legal representatives of Francis Tennille, late of the county of Washington, and state of Georgia, payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being an indemnification for the claim of said Francis, for one four hundred and twentieth part of the Tennessee Company’s pretended purchase of land from the state of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Georgia: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said legal representatives shall previously <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 31, 1814, ch. 39.</p></sidenote>take the oath required by the third section of the act, passed on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, providing for the indemnification of claimants of lands in the Mississippi Territory, which affidavit, and the transfer of the interest and claim of the representatives and heirs of Francis Tennille to the United States, shall be filed in the department of state, with the transfers, conveyances, and records, returned to that department by the Commissioners appointed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Jan. 23, 1815, ch. 24.</p></sidenote>under the act supplementary to the act aforesaid, passed on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-02">April 2, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVII: for the relief of Marigny D’Auterive.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 411</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 57, 58, 61, 62. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/411">411</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Marigny D’Auterive.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-02">April 2, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Marigny D’Auterive, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for wood, &amp;c. taken by U. S.</p></sidenote> the sum of eight hundred and fifty-five dollars, for ninetyfive cords of wood, taken by the troops, during the late war, under the command of General Carroll, near New Orleans, and for the use of a cart, horse, and driver, from the seventeenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to the twenty-fourth of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-02">April 2, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: for the relief of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 411</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-02">April 2, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be paid unto the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or to their authorized<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them for money expended in defence of said city during the late war.</p></sidenote> agent, the sum of seven thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty-three cents, in full for their claim against the United States, for money borrowed and expended by them, in defence of said city, during the late war.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That said Secretary cause to be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, interest on said sum.</p></sidenote> paid, as aforesaid, interest on the sum mentioned in the preceding section, according to the provisions and regulations of “the act to authorize<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 79.</p></sidenote> the payment of interest due to the city of Baltimore,” passed May the twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six; and that said sum be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-02">April 2, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
</component>
<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Jean Baptiste Couture.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1830-04-07</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Jean Baptiste Couture.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Beit enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed by the British.</p></sidenote> of Jean Baptiste Couture, the sum of two thousand dollars, the value of a dwelling-house, store, and lumber-house, stable, bake, and wash-house, situate at Frenchtown, on the river Raisin, which were in the military occupation of the United States, by the command of an officer in the service, and while so occupied, and in consequence thereof, were destroyed by the British and Indians, on the twenty-third of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of J. W. Hollister and Company, and George Anderson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 411</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of J. W. Hollister and Company, and George Anderson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the port of Portland, in the state of Ohio, District of Sandusky, be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> to refund to J. W. Hollister and Company, and George Anderson, of Sandusky, the sum of four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty cents, being the amount of duties paid by them on certain goods imported by them in the schooner Governor Cass, B. W. Miller, master, in the month of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of Captain John Burnham.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 412</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/412">412</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Captain John Burnham.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of one thousand six hundred and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of balance due him for effecting his ransom.</p></sidenote>three dollars and seventy-five cents be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Captain John Burnham, being the balance of the sum paid by him to the Government of Algiers, to effect his ransom.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of John Rodriguez.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 412</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Rodriguez.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Rodriguez, or to his <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for damages done to his property.</p></sidenote>legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight hundred and eighty-three dollars, for damages done to his plantation by digging and using earth for works of defence during the late war, and for materials and labor to repair said plantation.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXV: for the relief of Thomas Shiverick.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 412</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Shiverick.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for not renewing coasting license, to be remitted.</p></sidenote>authorized to pay to Thomas Shiverick, of Dennis, in Massachusetts, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty dollars, being the amount of a penalty incurred and paid by him for not renewing, before the expiration of the legal term, the coasting license of the schooner Adeline.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for the relief of Hubert La Croix.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 412</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Hubert La Croix.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of eleven hundred and fifty dollars <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for house destroyed by the enemy.</p></sidenote>be paid, out of the treasury, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to Hubert La Croix, of the Territory of Michigan, in full satisfaction for the destruction of a dwelling-house, the property of said La Croix, by the British and Indians, at Frenchtown, on the river Raisin, on the twenty-third of January, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and, at the time of its destruction, in the military occupation of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVII: for the relief of Andrew Wilson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 412</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Andrew Wilson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the District <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for a fishing schooner, lost at sea.</p></sidenote>of Newburyport, in Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to Andrew Wilson, late owner of a fishing schooner, lost at sea, called the Betsey, of sixty-five tons and sixteen ninety-fifths of a ton burthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive, had the said schooner completed her fishing term and returned into port.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-07">April 7, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIX: authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund a sum of money, now in the Treasury, to Charles Henry Hall.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 412</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund a sum of money, now in the Treasury, to Charles Henry Hall.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-15">April 15, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties refunded.</p></sidenote>authorized to refund to Charles Henry Hall the sum of two thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars, being the nett proceeds, after paying the duties, of four hundred and twenty-two casks of wine, im-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 70, 71, 75. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/413">413</page>
ported into New Orleans in the brig Sarah, by Hazard and Williams, and improperly condemned for an alleged breach of the revenue laws: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Hall shall produce satisfactory evidence to show<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> that the said wines in fact belonged to him, and that he is the person entitled to receive such part of the proceeds as now remains in the treasury.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-15">April 15, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXX: for the relief of the Mercantile Insurance Company, in Salem, Massachusetts.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 413</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the Mercantile Insurance Company, in Salem, Massachusetts.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-15">April 15, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties refunded.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized and required to repay to the President and Directors of the Mercantile Insurance Company, in Salem, Massachusetts, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and thirty dollars and ninety-two cents, being the amount paid to the Collector of the Customs for the District of Belfast, in the state of Maine, for duties on sails, rigging, and other materials, saved from the American brig Lydia, which was wrecked at Martinique, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and which materials were subsequently brought back and landed in said district: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> It shall be satisfactorily shown to the Secretary of the Treasury, that the articles upon which said duty has been paid, were a part of the materials of said brig Lydia.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-15">April 15, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: for the relief of Peter and John S. Crary and Company, of New York, and of Allen Reynolds.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 413</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter and John S. Crary and Company, of New York, and of Allen Reynolds.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-15">April 15, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to extend the provisions of an act, entitled “An act authorizing<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions of act of March 3, 1825, ch. 45. extended to Crary and Co.</p></sidenote> the Secretary of the Treasury to direct the completion of entries for the benefit of drawback after the period of twenty days,” to the entries made by Manuel Velez, of Colombia, in the months of September and October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, of five bales of merchandise, exported on board the brig Athenian, Sullivan, master, for Carthagena, and to direct the Collector of the port of New York, to permit Peter Crary, John S. Crary, Henry Todd and Oliver E. Cobb, trading under the firm of Peter and John S. Crary and Company, to complete the said entries, as the lawful attorneys of the said Manuel Velez.</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That in like manner the Collector<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorneys of A. Reynolds permitted to complete his entries.</p></sidenote> of the port of New Orleans, be directed to permit the firm of Currell, Kilshaw, and Company, as the lawful attorneys of Allen Reynolds of Matamoros, to complete the entries made by the said Allen Reynolds, in the month of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, for the benefit of drawback, on two cases of calicoes exported on board the sloop Washington, Sawyer, master, for Rio Grande, and that in like manner, the benefit of drawback shall be extended to the said entries.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-15">April 15, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXV: for the relief of Gabriel Godfroy and John Baptiste Beaugrand.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 413</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Gabriel Godfroy and John Baptiste Beaugrand.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-23">April 23, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue a patent to Gabriel Godfroy and John<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for land to be issued to them.</p></sidenote> Baptiste Beaugrand, for a tract of two hundred and twenty-five acres, surveyed for them under an act, entitled “An act regulating the grants
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/414">414</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 76, 77, 80, 81. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 34.</p></sidenote>of land in the Territory of Michigan,” and designated on the plat of survey of the United States reserve, of twelve miles square, on the Maumee of the Lake, as number five hundred and ninety-five, on their paying to the Receiver of Public Moneys in the Land Office at Detroit, the balance of the purchase money due thereon, without interest, and with the usual discount, at any time within one year after the passage of this act: Provided, The said tract of land shall not have been sold to any other person.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-23">April 23, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: for the relief of Arund Rutgers, of Missouri.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 414</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Arund Rutgers, of Missouri.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-23">April 23, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Arund Rutgers be, and is hereby, authorized <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May locate a certain tract of land, upon relinquishing, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>to locate five hundred arpents of land, upon any of the public lands in the state of Missouri, that are subject to private entry, upon relinquishing to John Welden, his heirs, or assigns., before the Recorder of land titles at St. Louis, all his right and claim to the like quantity of land, confirmed to the said John Welden, within the boundaries of his original grant; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon a duly certified copy of such relinquishment being presented to him, together with a plat and survey of said land, duly and regularly made, shall issue a patent therefor.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-23">April 23, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVII: for the relief of Luther Chapin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 414</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Luther Chapin.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-23">April 23, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for vessel captured by the enemy.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized to pay to Luther Chapin the sum of two thousand dollars out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for his vessel, called the Cuyahoga Packet, captured by the enemy, on Lake Erie, during the late war, while in the military service of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-23">April 23, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen, and marines, of the sloop of war Hornet.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 414</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen, and marines, of the sloop of war Hornet.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-24">April 24, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the widows, if any such there be, and in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to six months’ pay in addition to amount due on 10th Sept. 1829.</p></sidenote>case there be no widow, the child or children; and if there be no child, then the parent or parents; and if there be no parent, then the brothers and sisters of the officers, seamen, and marines, who were in the service of the United States, and lost in the United States’ sloop of war Hornet, shall be entitled to, and receive, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to six months’ pay of their respective deceased relatives, aforesaid, in addition to the pay due to the said deceased, on the tenth day of September last, up to which day the arrears of pay due the deceased, shall be allowed and paid by the accounting officers of the navy department.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-24">April 24, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the relief of the president, directors, and company, of the Bank of Chillicothe.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 414</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the president, directors, and company, of the Bank of Chillicothe.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-24">April 24, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them, agreeably to a contract.</p></sidenote>any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to the President, Directors, and Company, of the Bank of Chillicothe, the sum of two thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars eighty-five cents, the interest on certain bills, drawn on the Paymaster General, conformable to a contract, and on the Secretary of War, which were duly accepted,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 82, 83, 85. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/415">415</page>
and protested for non-payment; and for advances made on the requisition of the Commanding General of the eighth military district, for money to pay the troops under his command, on their march to the frontier.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-24">April 24, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the benefit of Daniel M’Duff.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 415</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of Daniel M’Duff.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-24">April 24, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Daniel M’Duff be, and he is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locale his warrant for bounty land in Jackson county, Alabama.</p></sidenote> to locate his warrant for military bounty land, in the county of Jackson, and state of Alabama, so as to include his improvement in Ashburn’s Cove, by legal subdivisions, in adjoining tracts, not to exceed in the whole three hundred and twenty acres or half a section.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall be lawful for the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter a half section, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> said Daniel M’Duff, upon surrendering to the Register of the Land Office at Huntsville, his said warrant for military bounty land, paying one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, for the excess over and above three hundred acres of land expressed in said warrant, and making proof before said Register of the quarter section in which said improvement lies, to enter one half section of land as aforesaid; and thereupon it shall be the duty of said Register to issue to said Daniel M’Duff a final certificate of purchase; and to forward the same, together with said warrant, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, whose duty it shall be to issue a patent or patents for the land so entered.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-24">April 24, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: refund the moiety of theforfeiture upon the schooner Volant.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 415</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-04-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">refund the moiety of theforfeiture upon the schooner Volant.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-04-24">April 24, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be repaid to John Burton, Dunbar Henderson, E. Hale, Charles Holmenhouser, Benjamin Burton, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A moiety of the forfeiture of schr. Volant to be refunded.</p></sidenote> Thomas Burton, the amount paid by them into the Treasury of the United States, as a moiety of the forfeiture decreed against the schooner Volant; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-24">April 24, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXV: for the relief of Charles Wilkes, junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 415</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Wilkes, junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-05">May 5, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury allow to Charles Wilkes, junior, a lieutenant in the naval service of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for mathematical instruments, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> United States, and to any other person or persons with whom he may have contracted for the same, all such sums of money as he shall have paid, or, in the case of such other person or persons, he shall have contracted to pay them, for such astronomical and mathematical instruments, as, by the letter of the Secretary of the Navy to him, dated the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, he was directed to procure for the exploring expedition to the Pacific Ocean and South Seas, on said accounting officer being furnished with satisfactory evidence that the respective articles are of the value and quality specified in the contract therefor, and have been delivered to such person or persons as the Secretary of the Navy shall have directed: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The amount to be allowed and paid for the said instruments,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> exclusive of the sums already paid by the navy department and navy agent at New York, shall not exceed the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars; which sum is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-05">May 5, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVIII: to amend an act, entitled “An act for the benefit of the incorporated Kentucky Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb” and to extend the time for selling the land granted by said act.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 416</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/416">416</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 88, 93, 94, 97. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to amend an act, entitled “An act for the benefit of the incorporated Kentucky Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb” and to extend the time for selling the land granted by said act.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-05">May 5, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the further time of live years, from and after <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further time allowed for the sale of certain lands.</p></sidenote>the fifth of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, be, and the same is hereby, allowed the trustees of the Centre College of Kentucky, who are also trustees of the Kentucky Asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb, to sell the land granted to said trustees for the use and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 5, 1826, ch. 24.</p></sidenote>benefit of said Asylum, by an act, entitled “An act for the benefit of the incorporated Kentucky Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb,” passed on the fifth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six; and all sales under the provisions of this act, by the trustees aforesaid, or their successors in office, for use of the said Asylum, shall be good and valid to pass the title, any thing in any former law to the contrary notwithstanding.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-05">May 5, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Richard Eppes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 416</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Richard Eppes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-10">May 10, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for clothing refunded to him.</p></sidenote>legal representatives of Richard Eppes, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred ninety-four dollars twenty-five cents, for that amount paid by him into the treasury, on account of clothing which was delivered to the fourth regiment of Virginia Militia, by the Quartermaster-General of the state of Virginia, and improperly debited in the account of said Eppes.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-10">May 10, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: for the relief of James Abbott.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 416</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Abbott.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-10">May 10, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to James <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for fences taken by U.S. troops.</p></sidenote>Abbott, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy dollars for his fences necessarily taken by the soldiers of the United States, stationed at Detroit, and burnt for fuel, in the winter of eighteen hundred and thirteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-10">May 10, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVII: for the relief of sundry revolutionary and other officers and soldiers, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 416</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of sundry revolutionary and other officers and soldiers, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-20">May 20, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place certain persons on the pension list.</p></sidenote>authorized and required to place the names of John L. Polleresky, a major, Samuel Snow, and David Meade Randolph, captains, Sylvanus Wood, Samuel Gerock, William Holgate, and Nathaniel Elliot, lieutenants, and George Wunder, an ensign, in the revolutionary war, on the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay them each at the rate of twenty dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on invalid pension list.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the names of Samuel Hoadly, late a major, Robert Kane, an adjutant in a corps of volunteers, Zachariah S. Conger, John Downer, Stephen Shea, and Michael Fishel, lieutenants, and Henry Starring, jr. an ensign in the late war, on the list of invalid pensioners; and to pay them as follows, to wit: to Samuel <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amounts of pension.</p></sidenote>Hoadly, twelve dollars a month, to Robert Kane, eight dollars a month, to Zachariah S. Conger, fourteen dollars a month, to John Downer, fifteen dollars a month, to Stephen Shea, twenty dollars a month, to
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 97. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/417">417</page>
Michael Fishel, seventeen dollars a month, and to Henry Starring, jr. ten dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on revolutionary pension list.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby, required to place the names of the following persons upon the list of revolutionary pensioners, viz: Samuel French, William Lawrence, Asa Wilkins, Stephen Fuller, Stephen Wilcox, Elijah Johnston, Samuel Sykes, Josiah Morse, Abiel Brown, John Lemmon, Andrew Bacon, Joseph Raynsford, Benjamin Mott, Joseph Boss, Levi Hutchins, John Perry, second, James Johnson, James Robinson, Chamberlain Hudson, Philemon Tiffany, Lemuel Pardee, Joseph Wilson, Isaac Smally, William Cole, Hartman Lower, John Reizer, Daniel Hinds, Joseph B. Jennison, Henry Romer, David Carswell, Joseph Barlow, Hamblin Cole, John Powell, Christopher Cary, William Scott, of Connecticut, Joseph Chaplin, John Putney, John Stout, Philip Nagle, Frederick Stull, James Porter, Absalom Baker, Richard Nagle, Robert Ditcher, Ezekiel Knowles, Caleb Wiseman, Thomas Putney, Anselm Bailey, William Scott, of Smithfield, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, Micajah Mayfield, Tristram Dagget, Edward Currin, George Geller, Samuel Fox, Joseph Nielson, Eli Sugart, Timothy Benedict, AsaQuiry, Seth Higley, William Higginbotham, Lemuel Withington, William Harris, Amos Ingraham, Benjamin Jones, Thomas Salsbury, John Israel, Elias Porter, Frederick Sheckler, Reuben Ricker, Anthony Sluthour, Reuben Carter, Joseph Smith, John Hudson, Nathaniel Fuller, Henry Doll, Amos Andrews, Valentine Stickell, Joel Riggins, William Vickroy, Joseph Randall, John McMurtry, James Long, William Rockwell, Stephen Bennet, Josiah Mott, Simon Fobes, Thomas Bloomfield, Obed Cushman, Nathan Lockwood, Dennis Jones, Robert Milton, James Needs, Christopher Ward, Eliakim Clap, William Pew, revolutionary soldiers, John McClain, a sailor, and Christopher Sype, a musician, and restore to the same list the names of Archibald Jackson, Roger Merrill, David Colson, Samuel Payson, Zadock Morris, Jacob Cramer, James Davidson, George Lucas, Jacob Redington, Ebenezer Beeman, Charles Sterns, Zacheus Rich, Francis Newton, Joshua Spears, Zephaniah Ross, Leonard Corl, and Moses Weld, and to pay them each at the rate of eight dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain allowances substituted for present pensions.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, instead of their present pensions, to Humphrey Beckit, Levi Hathaway, and Jacob Zimmerman, revolutionary soldiers, the sum of eight dollars a month to the two former, four dollars to the latter, and eight dollars a month each to Minney Ryneason and George Doogan, soldiers of the late war, to commence respectively on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on invalid pension list.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby authorized and required to place the names of James McFarland, Henry Houser, James Ferrell, Esau Ritchey, George W. Morrison, Robert Gumbleton, Robert Curry, William Ferguson, Levi M. Roberts, William M. Fowler, Ebenezer Lord, Joseph Booth, John Carlton, second, soldiers of the late war, Tandehetse, a Seneca warrior of the late war, Thomas Flemming, Cornelius Huson, Stephen Twist, William Turney, James Riley, and Adrian Peters, on the list of invalid<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1831, ch. 94.</p></sidenote> pensioners, and to pay them at the rate of eight dollars per month each, commencing respectively on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on invalid pension list.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the names of the following persons upon the invalid pension list, at the following rates,
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 97. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amounts of pension.</p></sidenote>to wit: Silas Pease and Peter Shite, at the rate of eight dollars a month each; Joshua Bill, Henry Barton, Robert Mophet, James D. Richardson, and Daniel Depay, at the rate of five dollars thirty-three and one-third cents each; Benjamin Gates, at the rate of six dollars; William Gamage, Isaac Plumer, Thomas Gilbert, Jonathan Edwards, Asa Pratt, Elisha Douglass, John Pearle, William Clark, Jonathan Hoyt, and Henry Johnson, an Indian warrior of the Six Nations, at the rate of four dollars a month each; commencing respectively on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension due Wm. Little to be paid to his administratrix.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Ann Little, administratrix of the estate of William Little, deceased, the amount of pension of said William Little, for one year nine months and twenty-nine days.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rachel Turner.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of Rachel Turner, widow of Peter Turner, a soldier of the late war, on the list of half-pay pensioners, and pay to her at the rate of four dollars a month, for the term of five years, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 9. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">And. Herrick.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of Andrew Herrick, a soldier of the revolution, and now a lunatic, upon the list of revolutionary pensioners, and pay to such person or persons as may be appointed and properly authorized, for the time being, to take charge of his person and estate, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
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<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 10. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Thomas Scott.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Thomas Scott, alias Knox, a soldier of the late war, and now a lunatic, upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, and to pay to such person or persons as may be appointed and properly authorized to take charge of the person and estate of said Thomas Scott, alias Knox, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; which said pension shall continue so long as the said secretary shall be satisfied of the continuance of the disability aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 11. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minor children of C. Hurlburt.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, directed to pay to the minor children ofCollins Hurlburt, a soldier of the late war, their guardians, or such other person as may be lawfully authorized to receive the same for the use of the said children, the sum of four dollars per month, for the term of five years, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 12. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">James Royal.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized and required to place upon the pension roll, the name of James Royal, of Tennessee, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to be paid at the same time, and in the same manner, as pensions are usually paid, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 13. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions aforesaid shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in the same manner that other pensions are now payable.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 14. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrears to be paid to widows,</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That in all cases of the death of any of the pensioners named in this act, leaving a widow, such widow shall be entitled to receive the arrears of pension due at the decease of her husband, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-20">May 20, 1830</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. C: for the relief of the City Council of Charleston, South Carolina.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>C</docNumber>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 100, 103, 104. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/419">419</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>C.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the City Council of Charleston, South Carolina.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-20">May 20, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, if so much be necessary, be applied by the Secretary of the Treasury to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for the erection of a marine hospital, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the erection, or purchase of a United States’ Marine Hospital for the sick and disabled seamen, at Charleston, South Carolina; and also to indemnify the City Council of Charleston for the damages which they have sustained, from being obliged to provide a building or buildings for such sick and disabled seamen, as would have been entitled to relief from the Marine Hospital Fund, in consequence of the failure of the Treasury Department to furnish the amount of fifteen thousand dollars, for the erection of a Marine Hospital according to the terms of a contract entered into in the year one thousand eight hundred and four, between the then Secretary of the Treasury, and the said City Council.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sum of twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the foregoing purposes, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-20">May 20, 1830</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CIII: for the relief of Jonathan Taylor, and the representatives of James Morrison and Charles Wilkins.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 419</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-20</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonathan Taylor, and the representatives of James Morrison and Charles Wilkins.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-20">May 20, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to Jonathan Taylor, and the representatives<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for their improvements at certain salt-works.</p></sidenote> of James Morrison and Charles Wilkins, twelve thousand sixty-one dollars and ninety-nine cents, in the proportion of one-third to each, for the improvements made by the said Taylor, Morrison, and Wilkins, at the salt works, in what is now the state of Illinois, under a lease between the United States and them, dated on the fifth of February, one thousand eight hundred and ten; which amount was liquidated by the President of the United States, on the second of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and to be discharged by surrendering to said lessees, kettles of that value, at said works, but which the state of Illinois has declined to surrender, claiming to own them by the cession of said works by the United States to the state of Illinois.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-20">May 20, 1830</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CIV: to incorporate the Alexandria Canal Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 419</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-26</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate the Alexandria Canal Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Roberts, Phineas Janney, Robert J. Taylor, Thompson F. Mason, Hugh Smith, Anthony C. Cazenove, William<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners appointed to receive subscriptions.</p></sidenote> H. Millar, Charles Bennett, Edmund I. Lee, Colin Auld, Henry Dangerfield, George Brent and Jonathan Bucher, be, and they are hereby, appointed Commissioners, any three of whom shall be competent to act, to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of the company hereinafter incorporated. The said Commissioners shall cause books to be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books to be opened.</p></sidenote> opened at such times and places as they shall think fit, under the management of such persons as they shall appoint for receiving subscriptions to the capital stock of the said Company, which subscriptions may be made either in person or by power of attorney; and notice shall be given by the said Commissioners of the time and place of opening the books.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said Commissioners shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">General meeting of subscribers.</p></sidenote> cause the books to be kept open at least twenty days, and within sixty days after the expiration thereof, shall call a general meeting of the subscribers at the town of Alexandria, of which meeting notice shall be given by a majority of the Commissioners in at least one newspaper
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/420">420</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 104. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
published in the city of Washington, and one published in the town of Alexandria, at least twenty days next before the said meeting; and such meeting shall and may be continued until the business shall be finished; and the Commissioners at the time and place aforesaid, shall lay before the subscribers the books containing the state of the said subscription, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">If one fourth of $250,000 be not subscribed, then, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>and if one-fourth of the capital sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars should not appear to have been subscribed, then the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, are empowered to take and receive subscriptions to make up such deficiency, and may continue to take and receive subscriptions for the term of twelve months thereafter; and a just and true list of all subscribers, with the sum subscribed by each, shall be made out and returned by the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, under their hands, to the Secretary of the Treasury of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">If more than $250,000 be subscribed, then, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>United States, to be carefully preserved; and in case more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be subscribed, then the sum subscribed shall be reduced to that amount by the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, by beginning at, and striking off a share from, the largest subscription or subscriptions, and continuing to strike off a share from ah subscriptions under the largest, and above one share, until the same shall be reduced to the capital aforesaid, or until a share shall be taken from all subscriptions above one share; and lots shall be drawn between subscribers of equal sums to determine the number of shares which each subscriber shall be allowed to hold on a list to be made for striking off, as aforesaid; and, if the sum subscribed shall exceed the capital aforesaid, then to strike off by the same rule, until the sum subscribed shall be reduced to the capital aforesaid, or all subscriptions reduced to one share, respectively; and if there be still an excess, then lots shall be drawn to determine the subscribers who are to be excluded in order to reduce the subscription to the capital aforesaid, which striking off shall be certified on the list aforesaid: and the capital stock of the Company hereby incorporated shall consist of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, of which every person subscribing may take and subscribe for one or more whole shares: <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided,</i> That unless one-fourth of the said capital shall be subscribed as aforesaid, all subscriptions under this act shall be void; and in case one-fourth and less than the whole, shall be subscribed, then the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby empowered and directed to take and receive the subscriptions which shall first be offered in whole shares, as aforesaid, until the deficiency shall be made up, a certificate of which additional subscription shall be made under the hands of the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, for the time being, and returned, as aforesaid.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subscribers to become a body corporate, when.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That whenever one-half, or a greater part of the said stock shall have been subscribed in the manner aforesaid, then the subscribers, their heirs and assigns, shall be, and are hereby declared to be incorporated into a company by the name of the Alexandria Canal Company, and may sue and be sued as such, and as such shall have perpetual succession, and a common seal; and it shall <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">General meeting of subscribers.</p></sidenote>thereupon be the duty of the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, to call a general meeting of the subscribers, as they or a majority of them, shall appoint, after advertising the same in such public prints as they or a majority of them, may think proper; and such of the said subscribers as shall be present at the said meeting, or a majority of them, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President and Directors to be elected.</p></sidenote>are hereby empowered and required to elect a President and six Directors, for conducting the said undertaking, and managing all the said Company’s business and concerns, for and during such time, not exceeding three years, as the said subscribers, or a majority of them, shall <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Votes.</p></sidenote>think fit; and, in counting the votes of all general meetings of the said Company, each member shall be allowed one vote for every share as far
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 104. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/421">421</page>
as ten shares, and one vote for every ten shares above ten, by him, or her, held at the time, in the stock of the said Company; and any proprietor, by writing, under his, or her hand, executed before two witnesses, may depute any other member or proprietor to vote and act as proxy for him, or her, at any general meeting: <proviso><i>Provided, also,</i> That<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> no officer or director of said Company shall be allowed to vote on any stock but his own:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That nothing herein contained<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall be construed to prevent any person or persons who may, from time to time, be by law appointed, from voting at any general meeting on any stock which may be held by any state.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said President and Directors,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of the President and Directors.</p></sidenote> and their successors, or a majority of them assembled, shall have full power and authority to appoint, and, at their pleasure, dismiss, such engineer or engineers, and agent or agents, as they may deem expedient, and to fix their compensation, and to agree with any person or persons, on behalf of the said company, to cut canals, erect dams, open feeders, construct locks, and perform such other works as they shall judge necessary and expedient for completing a canal, from the termination, or other point on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, to such place in the town of Alexandria as the Board of Directors shall appoint, and out of the money arising from the subscriptions and tolls, to pay for the same, and to repair and keep in order the said canals, locks, and other necessary works thereto, and to defray all incidental charges: and also to appoint a Treasurer, Clerk, and other officers, toll-gatherers managers, and servants, as they shall judge requisite, and to agree for, and settle their respective wages or allowances, and to settle, pass, and sign their accounts; and, also, to make and establish rules of proceeding, and to transact all other business and concerns of the said Company, in and during the intervals between the general meetings of the same; and they shall be allowed, as a compensation for their trouble therein, such sum of money as shall, by a general meeting of the stockholders, be determined: <proviso><i>Provided, always,</i> That the Treasurer shall give bond,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> in such penalty, and with such security, as the said President and Directors, or a majority of them, shall direct, for the true and faithful discharge of the trust reposed in him; and that the allowance to be made him for his services shall not exceed three dollars in the hundred, for the disbursements by him made; and that no officer in the company shall have any vote in the settlement or payment of his own account.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That on all subscriptions there<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of subscriptions.</p></sidenote> shall be paid, at the time of the subscription, on each share, one dollar; and thereafter, when the company shall be formed, the stock subscribed shall be paid in such instalments, and at such times, as the President and Directors shall, from time to time, require, as the work advances: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That not more than one-half shall be demanded within any one year from the commencement of the work, nor any payment demanded until at least thirty days’ public notice thereof shall have been given in such public newspapers as the said President and Directors shall direct such notices to be published in; and, whenever<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Failure to pay.</p></sidenote> any subscriber shall fail to pay any instalment called for by the Company, it shall and may be lawful for the Company, upon motion, to be made in any Court of Record, after ten days’ notice, to obtain a judgment against the subscriber so failing to pay; or the said Company, at their option, may sell the stock of such subscriber, after giving sixty days’ notice in such public newspapers as they may judge proper; and, if the proceeds of any such sale shall exceed the sum demanded, the surplus, after paying the expenses of such sale, shall be paid to the subscriber so failing, or his legal representatives; and the purchaser at such sale shall become a stockholder, and be subject to the same rules and
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/422">422</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 104. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
regulations, and entitled to the same privileges, rights, and emoluments, as original subscribers under this act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuance of board.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula><i>And, </i></enactingFormula>to continue the succession of the said President and Directors, and to keep up the same number, be it enacted, That from time to time, upon the expiration of the said term for which the said President and Directors were appointed, the stockholders of the said Company, at their next general meeting, shall either continue the said President and Directors, or any of them, or choose others in their stead; (and, until such choice be made, the President and Directors for the time being shall continue in office;) and, in case of the death, removal, resignation, or incapability of the President, or any of the Directors, may and shall, in manner aforesaid, elect any other person or persons to be President and Directors, in the room of him or them, so dying, removing, or resigning; and may, at any one of their general meetings, remove the President, or any of the Directors, and appoint others for and during the remainder of the term for which such person or persons were at first to have acted.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath of office.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That every President and Director, before he acts as such, shall take an oath or affirmation, for the due execution of his office.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual general meeting.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the presence, in person or proxy, of the stockholders having a major part of the stock, at least, shall be necessary to constitute a general meeting of the stockholders, which shall be held on the first Monday in May, in every year, at such convenient place as shall be, from time to time, appointed by the said general meetings; but, if a sufficient number shall not attend on that day, the stockholders who do attend may adjourn from time to time, until the stockholders holding the major part of the stock do attend, and the business of the Company is finished; to which meeting, the President and Directors shall make report, and render distinct accounts of all their proceedings; and, on finding them fairly and justly stated, the stockholders then present, or a majority of them, shall give a certificate thereof, duplicate of which shall be entered on the Company’s <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual dividend.</p></sidenote>books; and, at such yearly general meetings, after leaving in the hands of the Treasurer such sums as the stockholders, or a majority of them, shall judge necessary for repairs and contingent charges, an equal dividend of all the nett profits arising from the tolls hereby granted, shall be ordered and made to and among all the stockholders of the said Company, in proportion to their several shares, subject to the several provisions and enactments hereinafter declared; and, upon any emergency, in the interval between the said yearly meetings, the said President, or a majority of the said Directors, may appoint a general meeting of the stockholders of the Company, at any convenient place, giving at least one month’s previous notice in such newspapers as they shall think proper; which meeting may be adjourned, and continued, as aforesaid; and in case the stockholders, or a majority of them, in any general <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Semi-annual dividend.</p></sidenote>meeting aforesaid, shall deem it expedient to order a semi-annual, rather than a yearly dividend, as aforesaid, then, in like manner, with like notice, and under the like restrictions, there shall be a half yearly, or semi-annual dividend of nett profits declared and paid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 9. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property in the canal, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, for and in consideration of the expense the said stockholders will be at in cutting the said canal, erecting locks and dams, providing aqueducts, feeders, and other works, and in improving and keeping the same in repair, the said canal, and all other works aforesaid, or which may be required to improve the navigation thereof, at any time thereafter, with all their profits, subject to the limitations herein provided, shall be, and the same are hereby, vested in the said stockholders, their executors, administrators and assigns, forever, as tenants in common, in proportion to their respective shares;
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 104. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/423">423</page>
and that it shall and may be lawful for the said President and Directors<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tolls.</p></sidenote> at all times, forever thereafter, to demand and receive, at such places as shall hereafter be appointed by the President and Directors aforesaid, tolls for the passage of vessels, boats, rafts, produce, and all other articles, at such rates as the said President and Directors may hereafter allow and establish, according to the provisions of this act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 10. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, if the Commissioners, or<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacancies in commission.</p></sidenote> any of them, hereby required to be appointed, shall die, resign, or refuse to act, the vacancy occasioned thereby, shall be filled by a person or persons appointed by the President of the United States; and the person or persons so appointed, shall have all the power and authority which was vested in the commissioners, whose place he or they may be appointed to supply; and when any part of the canal aforesaid shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tolls.</p></sidenote> have been completed, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, the President and Directors of the Company, hereby created, shall have power, and it shall be their duty to ordain and establish, a rate of tolls to be paid upon boats, vessels, rafts, or other property, passing on the part of the canal so completed, and so from time to time, as a part or parts shall be completed, until the entire canal shall have been finished, according to the true intent and meaning of this act; for the collection of which tolls, the President and Directors shall have power to establish so many toll-houses, and, at their pleasure, appoint and remove so many collectors, and at such places as from time to time they may judge expedient; and the said President and Directors shall have full authority, subject to the direction and control of a majority in interest of the stockholders represented in any general meeting, to regulate and fix a tariff of tolls, not exceeding an average of two cents per ton, per mile; and so to adjust the said tolls in relation to the capacity or burden of the boats, and the dimensions of the rafts, passing the locks of the said canal, as to promote economy of water and time, in the navigation thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 11. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the President and Directors<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dividend restricted.</p></sidenote> shall annually or semi-annually declare and make such dividend of the nett profits, from the tolls to be received, according to the provisions of this act, and from other resources of the Company, as they may deem advisable, after deducting therefrom the necessary current and the probable contingent expenses, to be divided among the proprietors of the stock of the said Company, in proportion to their respective shares, until the annual dividend thereon shall have reached twenty per centum, beyond which it shall never extend; but should the nett revenue<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application of surplus revenue.</p></sidenote> of the Company exceed that amount for any two years in succession, then such excess shall be applied by the President and Directors, in such mode as shall be agreed on by a majority of the stockholders, convened in general meeting, to strengthening, improving, and extending the works of the canal of every description requiring the same; and should the said tolls continue, after such improvements have been completed, to nett more than twenty per cent, per annum to the stockholders, for any two years in succession, the tolls upon the same shall be reduced by the President and Directors, according to some just and equitable ratio, till the said dividend shall fall to twenty per cent, per annum: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That should the said dividend thereafter sink below twenty<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> per cent, per annum, the said tolls, or a part thereof may be renewed, till the said nett dividend reaches that amount.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 12. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said canal, and the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canal to be a public highway.</p></sidenote> works to be erected thereon, in virtue of this act, when completed, shall forever thereafter be esteemed and taken to be navigable as a public highway, free for the transportation of all goods, commodities, and produce, whatever, on payment of the tolls to be imposed, as provided by this act; and no other toll or tax whatever, for the use of the said canal,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/424">424</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 104. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
and the works thereon erected, shall at any time hereafter be imposed, unless under sanction of a law of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 13. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of soil.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall and may be lawful for the President and Directors, or a majority of them, to agree with the owners of any land, through or on which it is intended that the said canal, or any of the works thereunto appertaining, shall pass, or be situated, or of the land necessary for the construction of a basin at the termination of the said canal at Alexandria, for <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages assessed.</p></sidenote>the purchase or use and occupation thereof; and in case of disagreement, or in case the owner thereof shall be a femme-covert, under age, non compos, or out of the District of Columbia, on application to a justice of the peace of the county in which such land shall be, the said justice of the peace shall issue his warrant, under his hand and seal, to the marshal of the District of Columbia, to summon a jury of eighteen inhabitants of that county, not related to the parties, nor in any manner interested, to meet on the land to be valued, at a day to be expressed in the warrant, not less than ten, nor more than twenty days thereafter; and the marshal, upon receiving the said warrant, shall forthwith summon the said jury, and, when met, shall administer an oath, or affirmation, to every juryman who shall appear, being not less than twelve in number, that he will faithfully, justly, and impartially, value the land, and all damages the owner thereof shall sustain by cutting the canal through such land, or the use or occupation for the purposes and period necessary, of such land, according to the best of his skill and judgment, and that, in such valuation, he will not spare any person for favor or affection, nor any person grieve for malice, hatred, or ill-will; and in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">In assessing damages, benefit to be considered.</p></sidenote>every such valuation and assessment of damages, the jury shall be, and they are hereby, instructed to consider in determining and fixing the amount thereof, the actual benefit which will accrue to the owner, from conducting the said canal through, or erecting any of the said works upon his land, and to regulate their verdict thereby, except that no assessment shall require any such owner to pay or contribute anything to the said company, where such benefit shall exceed, in the estimate of the jury, the value and damages ascertained as aforesaid; and the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceedings on the assessment.</p></sidenote>inquisition thereupon taken, shall be signed by the marshal, and some twelve or more of the jury, and returned by the marshal to the clerk of the county, and unless good cause be shown against the said inquisition, it shall be affirmed by the court, and recorded; but, if the said inquisition should be set aside, or if, from any cause, no inquisition shall be returned to such court within a reasonable time, the said court may, at its discretion, as often as may be necessary, direct another inquisition to be taken, in the manner above prescribed; and upon every such valuation, the jury is hereby directed to describe and ascertain the bounds of the land by them valued, and the quantity and duration of the interest and estate in the same, required by the said company for its use; and their valuation shall be conclusive upon all persons, and shall be paid by the said President and Directors to the owner of the land, or <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estate of the Company.</p></sidenote>his legal representatives; andon payment thereof, the said Company shall be seised of such land as of an absolute estate in perpetuity, or with such less quantity and duration of interest in the same, or subject to such partial or temporary use or occupation, as shall be required and described as aforesaid, as if conveyed by the owner of them; and whenever<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Similar proceedings as to materials.</p></sidenote> in the construction of the said canal, or any of the works thereof, locks, dams, ponds, feeders, tunnels, aqueducts, bridges, or works of any other description whatsoever appurtenant thereto, it shall be necessary to use earth, timber, stone, or gravel, or any other material, to be found on any of the lands adjacent or near thereto, and the said President and Directors, or their agent, cannot procure the same for the works aforesaid, by private contract, of the proprietor or owner, or in
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 104. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/425">425</page>
case the owner shall be a femme-covert, or non compos, or under age, or out of the District of Columbia, the same proceedings, in all respects, shall be had, as in the case before mentioned, of the assessment and condemnation of the lands for the said canal, or the works appurtenant thereto.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 14. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall be the duty of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of canal.</p></sidenote> the company hereby incorporated, to cut, make, and construct the said canal, with good and sufficient locks, on the most improved plan for expedition in the use thereof, and with a width of not less than forty feet at the surface of the water therein, or of twenty-eight feet at the bottom thereof, unless the quality of the soil shall require a narrow base, to admit of a sufficient slope to preserve the banks from sliding down, and sufficient to admit, at all seasons, the navigation of boats and rafts with a depth of not less than four feet water, at the least; and whenever wastes shall be essential to the security of the said canal, and in no other situation whatever, along the same, the waste water of the said canal may be, from time to time, sold or disposed of by the said company, for the purpose of supplying such works and machinery as require a water power; and along one side, at least, of the said canal, and such aqueducts as it may render necessary, there shall be provided, throughout its whole extent, a towing path of sufficient breadth to apply the power of horses to the navigation thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 15. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the stock of the said<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legal character of stock.</p></sidenote> company shall be considered as personal estate, and shall only be transferable by the owners thereof, in person or by proxy, on the books of the company: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no transfer shall be made except for one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> or more whole shares, and not for part of such share or shares, and that no share or shares shall at any time be sold, conveyed, or held in trust, for the use and benefit, or in the name of another, whereby the said President and Directors or the stockholders of the said company, or any of them, shall or may be challenged, or made to answer, concerning any such trust; but that every person appearing, as aforesaid, to be a stockholder, shall, as to the others of the said company, be, to every intent, taken absolutely as such; but as between any trustee, and the person for whose benefit any trust shall be created, the common remedy may be pursued.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 16. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be itfurther enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That if the capital aforesaid shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of capital.</p></sidenote> prove insufficient, it shall and may be lawful for the said company, from time to time, to increase the said capital, by the addition of so many whole shares as shall be judged necessary by the said stockholders, or a majority of them, present at any general meeting of the said company; and the said President and Directors, or a majority of them, are hereby empowered and required, after giving at least two months’ previous notice thereof in such newspapers as they may think proper, to open books at such places as they shall think proper, for receiving such additional subscriptions, in which the stockholders of the said company, for the time being, shall, and are, hereby, declared to have the preference of all others, for the first thirty days after the said books shall be opened, as aforesaid, of taking and subscribing for so many whole shares as any of them shall choose; and the said President and Directors are hereby required to observe, in all other respects, the same rules therein, as are by this act prescribed for receiving and adjusting the first subscriptions, and in like manner to return, under the hands of any three or more of them, an exact list of such additional subscriptions, with the sums subscribed, to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, to be by him preserved, as aforesaid; and all stockholders of such additional shares, shall, and are hereby declared to be, from thenceforward, incorporated into the said company.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 17. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That whenever it shall become
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/426">426</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 108, 109. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Works not to be suspended, pending an ad quod darnnum, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>necessary to subject the lands of any individuals to the purposes provided for in this act, and their consent cannot be obtained, it shall and may be lawful for the company to enter upon such land, and proceed to the execution of such works as may be requisite; and that the pendency of any proceedings in any suit, in the nature of a writ of ad quod damnum, or any other proceedings shall not hinder or delay the progress<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Precedence to be given to such cases.</p></sidenote> of the work; and it shall be the duty of every Court to give precedence to controversies which may arise between the company created by this act, and the proprietors of land sought to be condemned for public uses, and to determine them in preference to all other causes.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 18. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Common Council of Alexandria authorized to take stock, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Common Council of the town of Alexandria be, and they are hereby, authorized to subscribe for the capital stock of the said company, on behalf of the Corporation of the said town, and to borrow money for the payment thereof, and to raise by taxes to be imposed on the inhabitants of the said town, and the property therein, such sums as shall be necessary for the payment of such subscriptions or loans.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: for the relief of Jonathan Chapman.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonathan Chapman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the District <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of debenture to be issued.</p></sidenote>of Boston and Charlestown, be authorized to issue certificates of debenture to Jonathan Chapman, for the amount of drawback of duties on fifty hogsheads of domestic spirits, containing five thousand five hundred and thirty-one gallons, which were shipped on board the brig Prudent, Benjamin Barney, master, at Boston, on the eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for Gibraltar and a market; which shipment was entered at the custom-house conformably to law, except that the necessary oath was not taken, nor the bond given within <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>the time prescribed: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Jonathan Chapman shall, in all other respects, comply with the law, to entitle him to the said debenture.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CIX: to confirm the claim of Isidore Moore, of Missouri.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to confirm the claim of Isidore Moore, of Missouri.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the claim of Isidore Moore, of Perry county,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to certain land confirmed.</p></sidenote> Missouri, to five hundred arpens of land, at the place where he now resides, as assignee of Thomas Fenwick, under a concession, granted by Zenon Trudeau, late Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Louisiana, dated the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed; and the proper Surveyor of the United States shall survey the said claim, so as to include the improvements of the said Isidore Moore, as nearly in the centre of the tract as the situation of other private claims may admit; and, upon presentation of an authentic copy of such survey to the General Land Office, a patent shall be issued to the said Isidore Moore, for the land so surveyed:<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall not affect the rights of any other individual to the same grant hereby confirmed; and that, if any part of such survey should fall upon the sixteenth section, reserved for township schools, the County Court of Perry may select any other section, or part of a section, in the same township, the sale of which is authorized bylaw, and enter the same with the Register of the proper Land Office, to be reserved for the use of schools in said township, instead of such sixteenth section.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CX: for the relief of Nancy Moore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CX</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch 110, 111, 112, 113, 114. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/427">427</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nancy Moore.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Nancy Moore, of the county of St. Charles, state of Missouri, is hereby authorized to relinquish to the United States,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to relinquish certain land, and to enter another tract.</p></sidenote> the north-east quarter of section number thirty-six, in township forty-eight, in range seven, west, entered by mistake and patented to said Nancy Moore, on the first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and the said Nancy shall be, and hereby is, authorized to select any other quarter section of land containing one hundred and sixty acres, from any lands within the district of St. Louis aforesaid, which may be subject to entry at private sale; for which quarter section, when entered, a patent shall issue as in other cases.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXI: for the relief of Payson Perrin.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXI</docNumber>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Payson Perrin.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the district of Boston and Charlestown, be authorized to issue certificates of debenture<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of debenture to be issued.</p></sidenote> to Payson Perrin, for the amount of drawback of duties on one hundred and five bales and thirty half bales of Bengal cotton, shipped on board the ship Tartar, of which the said Payson Perrin was master, at Boston, in September, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for Havre, in France; which shipment was entered at the custom-house for exportation, but the oath required by law was not taken, nor the bond given within the time prescribed by law: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That said Payson<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> Perrin shall, in all other respects, comply with the law, to entitle him to the said debenture.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXII: for the relief of Mountjoy Bayly.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 427</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mountjoy Bayly.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to pay to Mountjoy Bayly, his commutation of five years’ full pay as a Captain in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of pay as a captain.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the Maryland line, in the war of the revolution: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> He shall satisfy the said Secretary that he was entitled to said commutation, and never received it from the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: for the relief of Lucy M. Lipscomb.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 427</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lucy M. Lipscomb.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of one hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to her, amount erroneously deposited.</p></sidenote> hereby, appropriated, to the payment of that sum to Lucy M. Lipscomb, of Missouri, for so much money, erroneously deposited by her agent to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States; to be paid to the said Lucy, or to her order on demand.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: for the relief of John Edgar, of Illinois.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 427</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Edgar, of Illinois.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury department be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to General John<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to benefits of act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53.</p></sidenote> Edgar,, heretofore an acting Captain in the Navy, during the revolutionary war, the same sum, in gross, and the same pay during his life, which other captains have received, in virtue of the provisions of the act of Congress, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution,” approved fifteenth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXV: for the benefit of the creditors of Bennet and Morté.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 428</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/428">428</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of the creditors of Bennet and Morté.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment on account of work done.</p></sidenote>hereby is, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine thousand three hundred and forty dollars to Isaac T. Preston, Eleazer W. Ripley, and Eben Fisk, for and on account of Bennet and Morte, late contractors for building the fortifications at Petite Coquille, and the Rigolets Pass, in Louisiana; to be distributed and paid by them to the creditors of the said Bennet and Morte, according to law.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-26">May 26, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of James Smith.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 428</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Smith.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to James <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote>Smith, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighty dollars, for the loss of a horse which Captain Robert Brackenridge impressed into the service of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, the property of said Smith.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: for the relief of Thomas Wheatley.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 428</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Wheatley.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Thomas<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> Wheatley, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of forty-five dollars, the value of a horse that died in the military service of the United States, in one thousand eight hundred and twelve, for the want of forage.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: for the relief of Henry Williams.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 428</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Williams.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Henry <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for horses lost.</p></sidenote>Williams, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars, the value of two horses which died in the service of the United States, in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, for the want of forage, in the campaign against the Creek Indians, the property of said Williams.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIX: for the relief of James Barnett.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 428</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Barnett.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ pay as a lieutenant allowed.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of James Barnett, a lieutenant of infantry in the Continental line in the revolutionary war, and to allow to him five years’ full pay for his services in said war as a lieutenant as aforesaid, it being the commutation for his half pay for life; and that it be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of Joseph Shaw.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 428</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Shaw.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension allowed him.</p></sidenote>directed to cause Joseph Shaw, a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, to be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, (the date of his <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 19.</p></sidenote>first declaration under the act, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 121, 122, 123, 124. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/429">429</page>
the revolutionary war,” approved the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,) up to the eleventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, the day on which his pension was allowed to commence under the regulations of the department of war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: for the relief of the heirs of Baptiste Le Gendre.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 429</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of Baptiste Le Gendre.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs of Baptiste Le Gendre be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to six arpents of land in front,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> by forty in depth, situated on the river Mississippi, in the parish of West Baton Rouge, and bounded above by lands of Jean Baptiste Tuillier, and below by land of Ivon Le Gendre; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon being presented with a plat and survey of the said land, regularly made by competent authority, shall issue to the petitioners a patent therefor: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall amount only<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and shall, in no manner, affect the rights of third persons, or claims derived from the United States by donation or purchase.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: for the relief of Francois Isidore Tuillier.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 429</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Francois Isidore Tuillier.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Francois Isidore Tuillier be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> confirmed in his claim to a tract of land of six arpents in front, by forty in depth, situated on the River Mississippi, in the parish of. West Baton Rouge, and state of Louisiana, bounded above by lands of Joseph Grand, and below by lands of J. Charles Tuillier, and containing two hundred and forty superficial arpents, equal to two hundred and two acres and forty-two one-hundredths; and that the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon the presentation of a plat and survey of the same, regularly made by competent authority, shall issue a patent therefor, to the said Francois Isidore Tuillier: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso</p></sidenote> shall amount only to a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and shall not affect, in any manner, the rights of third persons, or claims derived from the United States by donation or purchase.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXIII: for the relief of Peter Gasney.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 429</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Gasney.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> dollars, to Peter Gasney, a mounted volunteer soldier in the campaign under Governor Shelby, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for the loss of his horse, in consequence of his having been dismounted and separated from him.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXIV: for the relief of John Cooper, William Saunders, and William R. Porter.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 429</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Cooper, William Saunders, and William R. Porter.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a judgment obtained by the United States against John Cooper, William Saunders, and William R. Porter, in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain judgment against them to be held as security for the payment of $964.83 with interest.</p></sidenote> Circuit Court of the United States for the fifth Circuit and Virginia district, on the fifth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, for the sum of five thousand and thirty dollars and seventy-one cents, with interest from the twentieth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be henceforth held, and taken to have been, and to be, a security only for the payment to
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/430">430</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 125, 126. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
the United States, of the sum of nine hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty-three cents, with interest thereon from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and the costs of said judgment; and, also, as security for all such sums of money as may rightfully, hereafter, be paid at the treasury, in discharge of balances due the fourth regiment of Virginia militia, to pay which the funds were placed in the hands of William Estes, paymaster to that, regiment, and for whose default the judgment aforesaid was rendered against the defendants as his sureties.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceedings on the j udgment</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, whensoever any payment or payments shall hereafter be made by the treasury department which ought to have been made by the said William Estes, out of the money placed in his hands for the payment of balances due the fourth regiment of Virginia militia, of which he was paymaster, that the United States shall and may, from time to time, have writs of scire facias, on the judgment aforesaid, against the defendants, their executors, or administrators, to have execution for the sums so paid, with interest from the times of payment until the whole amount of said judgment shall be levied and paid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, whenever demand of payment shall hereafter be made at the treasury department, by any of those who were entitled to be paid out of the funds so held by William Estes, payment of such demand shall be suspended, until notice thereof be given to the defendants, or such of them as may afterwards be proceeded against, and time allowed to investigate the justice of the claim at the said department and not elsewhere.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXV: for the relief of Judah Alden.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 430</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Judah Alden.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bounty land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote>authorized and directed to issue a duplicate military bounty land warrant to Judah Alden, a Captain in the second Massachusetts regiment, in the army of the revolution, for three hundred acres of land; the original warrant, number twelve, having been lost or mislaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-30">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXVI: for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Joseph Falconer, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 430</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Joseph Falconer, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for loan office certificates, alleged to have been lost, to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be authorized to audit and settle the claim of Joseph Falconer, an officer of the revolution, formerly of Philadelphia, deceased, on account of two several loan-office certificates, issued April twenty-first, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, to and in the name of John Cox; namely, one for the sum of one thousand dollars, and numbered thirty-five, and one for the sum of six hundred dollars, and numbered two thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven; and to ascertain the true specie value of the same, exclusive of interest: which certificates are alleged to have been lost, and appear by the books of the treasury to be outstanding and unpaid; and that the amount so ascertained as aforesaid, be paid to the heirs or legal representatives of the said Joseph Falconer, or either of them, duly authorized and empowered to receive the same, out of any money in the treasury, not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the person or persons receiving the amount aforesaid, shall first execute, and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond of indemnity in double the amount of the sum to be paid, with sufficient security, as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXVII: for the relief of Wilkins Tannehill.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 431</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 127, 128, 129, 130, 131. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/431">431</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Wilkins Tannehill.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to Wilkins Tannehill,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for hire of wagons, &amp;c. to be settled.</p></sidenote> the sum of four hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty cents, the amount of two accounts, one in favor of Erasmus Chapman, and the other in favor of Robert H. Boon, for services performed for the United States, during the late war, with their teams and wagons, of which the said Tannehill is the owner by assignments.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXVIII: for the relief of John H. Wendal, a Captain in the revolutionary war.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 431</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John H. Wendal, a Captain in the revolutionary war.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to place the name of John H. Wendal upon the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of forty dollars a month, during his natural life.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXIX: for the relief of the legal representatives of James Davenport, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 431</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of James Davenport, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury department be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment on account of pension due James Davenport.</p></sidenote> legal representatives of James Davenport, deceased, late an invalid pensioner of the United States, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the pension allowed to the same James Davenport, from the fourth of September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, when he received his last payment, until the time of his death.</content>
</section>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXX: for the relief of the heirs of Jean Marie Trahaud, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 431</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of Jean Marie Trahaud, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs of Jean Marie Trahaud, deceased, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to six arpents front<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> by forty in depth, on the river Mississippi, in the parish of West Baton Rouge, bounded above by Joseph Tuillier, and below by lands of Baptiste Guedry. The same to be located agreeably to a plat of survey made by Ephraim Davidson, by order of the Surveyor of the lands of the United States, on the ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon a return of a survey of the same as aforesaid, duly executed by competent authority, shall issue a patent therefor: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall only amount to a relinquishment of the right of the United States, and shall, in no manner, affect the rights of third persons, or claims derived from the United States by purchase or donation.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXI: for the relief of Michael Lewis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 432</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Michael Lewis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to Michael Lewis, or his legal<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as pilot.</p></sidenote> representatives, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and eighty dollars, as a compensation in full for his services as pilot on board the United States’ schooner Vixen, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and subsequent detention as a prisoner of war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXII: for the relief of Alexander Fridge.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 432</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/432">432</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 132, 133, 134. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Fridge.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Alexander Fridge be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote>confirmed in his claim to six hundred and forty acres of land, on which he now resides, in the parish of East Baton Rouge, in the state of Louisiana, as a donation; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon the presentation of a plat and survey of said land, regularly made <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>by competent authority, shall issue a patent therefor: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall amount only to a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and shall, in no manner, affect the rights of third persons, or any claim derived from the United States, either by donation or purchase.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIII: for the relief of Captain John Woods.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 432</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Captain John Woods.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, instead of the reservation of six hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain land allowed him.</p></sidenote>and forty acres, heretofore surveyed in a square, and allowed to the said John Woods, a Cherokee Indian, in the county of Jackson, in the state of Alabama, the said John Woods be, and he is hereby, allowed to take his reservation, of the like quantity of six hundred and forty acres, in the county aforesaid, according to the following metes and bounds, to wit: Beginning at a large poplar, on the state line; thence, south fifteen degrees east, sixty poles, to a stake; thence, south forty-eight degrees east, twenty poles, to a stake; thence, south twenty-seven degrees east, sixty-four poles to a sourwood; thence, south fifty degrees east, fortyeight poles to a dog-wood; thence, south sixty-seven degrees east, two hundred and eighty-eight poles, to a white oak; thence, south seven degrees west fifty-two poles to a white oak; thence, south forty-one degrees west, fifty-five poles, to a large white oak; thence, south twentyfour degrees east, twenty poles to a black walnut; thence, west two hundred and six poles, to a large white oak on the south side of the cove; thence, north fifty-nine degrees west, one hundred and four poles, to a hickory; thence, north twelve degrees west, fifty poles, to a Spanish oak; thence, north thirty-one degrees west, thirty-nine poles, to a stake; thence, north eleven degrees west, eighteen poles, to an elm; thence, north thirty degrees west, forty-two poles, to a white oak; thence, north forty-seven degrees west, thirty-six poles, to a hamham; thence, north seventy-seven degrees west, fourteen poles, to a stake above the head of a spring; thence, north forty degrees west, fifty-seven poles, to the edge of the west part of Box’s cove, to a small beech; thence, west two hundred and fifteen poles, to a box elder; thence, north seventy poles, to a beech; thence, east one hundred and thirty poles, to a stake, north fifty degrees east, sixty poles, to a white oak at the foot of a rocky bluff; <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>thence, east one hundred and sixty poles, to the beginning: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to authorize the removal of any individual who may have settled upon, and may now occupy, any part of the land included within the metes and bounds aforesaid, without the consent of such occupant.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIV: for the relief of the heirs of John Tuillier, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 432</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of John Tuillier, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs of John Tuillier, deceased, be, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote>they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to a tract of land situated on the west bank of the river Mississippi, in the parish of West Baton Rouge, containing six arpents in front by forty in depth, and bounded above by lands of Francois I. Tuillier, and below by lands of Joseph
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 135, 136, 137. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/433">433</page>
Trahan; said tract of land to be located according to a plat of survey made by Ephraim Davidson, on the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby required, upon the presentation and return of a survey of said land, so made by competent authority, to issue a patent therefor: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall amount only to a relinquishment on<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the part of the United States, and shall, in no manner, affect the rights of third persons, or claims derived from the United States by purchase or donation.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXV: for the relief of Stephen Olney.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 433</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Stephen Olney.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the benefits of the provisions of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to be. nefits of act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53.</p></sidenote> of the army of the revolution,” passed May the fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, be extended to Stephen Olney, of Rhode Island, a captain in the army of the revolution, and that he be paid and accounted with in the same manner as if he had already, at any time heretofore, since the passage of said act, complied with all the requisitions of the fourth section thereof, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVI: for the relief of John Moffitt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 433</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Moffitt.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continental loan office certificate to be paid.</p></sidenote> settle and ascertain the value of a Continental Loan Office certificate, number one hundred and four, issued in favor of John Moffitt, by the Commissioner of Loans of the state of South Carolina; and that the sum found to be due on said certificate (exclusive of interest) be paid to the said Moffitt, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVII: for the relief of Alexander Montgomery, John H. Watts, and the administrators of John Wilson, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 433</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Montgomery, John H. Watts, and the administrators of John Wilson, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John H. Watts, of the state of Alabama, be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. H. Watts authorized to relinquish a patent, and receive another therefor.</p></sidenote> manner as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, the patent heretofore issued in his favor, for the east half of the northeast quarter of section twenty-one, in township ten, of range twelve, in the Cahaba district; and upon the execution of such relinquishment, the moneys heretofore paid upon the said east half of the north-east quarter, shall be applied to the payment of the west half of the same quarter, and the said Commissioner shall cause a patent to be granted therefor.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, whenever Alexander Montgomery,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to issue to Alexander Montgomery.</p></sidenote> of the state of Ohio, shall produce to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, satisfactory evidence that he has paid to the United States, the sum of one hundred and fifty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents, on account of the south-west quarter of section twenty, in township seventeen, of range eighteen, in the Chillicothe Land District, the said Commissioner be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause a patent to be issued for the same, in favor of the said Alexander Montgomery.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the administrator and administratrix of the estate of John Wilson, of Ohio, be, and they are here-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/434">434</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 138, 139, 140. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">John Wilson’s heirs authorized to relinquish a certain tract of land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>by, authorized to relinquish to the United States, the west half of the south-west quarter of section thirteen, in township seven, of range twelve, in the Chillicothe Land District, and apply the amount heretofore paid thereon towards the payment of the east half of the same quarter; and upon payment in full being made for the said east half in cash, at a discount of thirty-seven and a half per cent., the Commissioner of the General Land Office, shall cause a patent to be issued for that tract.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVIII: for the relief of William, Tipton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 434</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William, Tipton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of arrears of pension.</p></sidenote> department be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to William Tipton the sum of one thousand one hundred and forty dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; that sum being the amount of the arrears of pension, due him from the United States, as an invalid pensioner from the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four; at which time, the payment of his pension ceased, until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and three, when he was restored to the pension roll.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIX: for the relief of General Simon Kenton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 434</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of General Simon Kenton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>authorized and required to place General Simon Kenton upon the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of twenty dollars a month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And he it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pension aforesaid shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, in the same manner that other pensions are now paid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXL: for the relief of Alexander Claxton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXL</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 434</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXL.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Claxton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">1833, ch. 118.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of costs in the case of ship James Mitchell.</p></sidenote>Navy, to pay to the person or persons who may be legally entitled to receive the same, or who may have legally paid the same, the taxable costs decreed to be paid by Alexander Claxton, a Master Commandant in the Navy of the United States, in the suit prosecuted by him against the English merchant-ship James Mitchell, in the Superior Court of the District of East Florida; and that a sum, not exceeding five thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-eight cents be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses in said case to be settled and allowed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to audit and allow the accounts of the said Alexander Claxton, for his reasonable expenses, incurred by him in and about the prosecution of his claim for salvage against the English merchant-ship James Mitchell, in the Superior Court of the District of East Florida, so as that said expenses shall not exceed eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and seventy-five cents; and that the amount of the said expenses, when ascertained, be paid to the said Alexander Claxton, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-30">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLI: for the relief of Jacob Wilderman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 435</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 141, 142, 143, 144. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/435">435</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacob Wilderman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department cause to be paid to Jacob Wilderman, of the state of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him as a mounted ranger.</p></sidenote> Illinois, the sum of two hundred and forty dollars, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, in full for the balance of his pay as a mounted ranger, in the company of Captain Short, from the sixteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLII: for the relief of Abraham Brownson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 435</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Abraham Brownson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the provisions of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions of act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53, extended to him.</p></sidenote> the revolution,” approved fifteenth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, be, and they are hereby declared to be, applicable to the case of Abraham Brownson, who enlisted in the regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner, in the revolutionary war; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to extend the benefit of the said act to him, any thing contained in the same to the contrary notwithstanding.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIII: for the relief of Vincent de Rivafinoli, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 435</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Vincent de Rivafinoli, and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to issue for a machine for washing ores, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Vincent de Rivafinoli, for himself, and as attorney in fact for Charles Harsleben, and William Davis, of the kingdom of Great Britain, as joint inventors of a machine for facilitating the washing of ores and alluvial soils, and the extraction of metallic substances and precious stones from ores, earth, sand, or other matter in which they may be found, upon his making oath that he verily believes that he, and the said Charles Harsleben and William Davis, are the true joint inventors and discoverers of the said machine, and upon his complying with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United States.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIV: for the relief of Wallace Robinson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 435</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Wallace Robinson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Wallace Robinson be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender to the Register of the Land Office at St. Stephen’s,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to surrender a certain tract of land, and enter another therefor, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Alabama, the patent which issued to him on the twentieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, for the west half of the south-west quarter of section twenty-nine, in township seventeen, of range one east, in the district east of Pearl river, in the said state; and that the said Wallace Robinson be authorized, in lieu thereof, to enter with said Register the west half of the south-west quarter of section twenty-nine, in township seventeen, of range two east, in the same district, for which a patent shall issue: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> last named half quarter section shall remain unsold and unappropriated, and that the said Wallace Robinson shall, at the time of surrendering said patent for the first named half quarter section, file therewith a release of all title to the same.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLV: for the relief of Ann Brashears, of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 436</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/436">436</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 145, 154, 155, 156, 157. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ann Brashears, of Mississippi.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-28">May 28, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That upon the return of a plat and certificate of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to issue.</p></sidenote>survey, legally made, to the General Land Office, a patent shall be issued to Ann Brashears for four hundred and eighty arpents of land, in the county of Claiborne, and state of Mississippi, on the north side of the North Fork of Bayou Pierre, being the residue of a tract of eight hundred arpents surveyed for her, under the Spanish Government, by one William Thomas, then Deputy-Surveyor for William Vausdan, Surveyor, after deducting therefrom the quantity of three hundred and twenty arpents which has been confirmed to one Richard Sparks; which survey of eight hundred arpents included the place called the White Lick Ground, and a camp near the centre thereof, in which one Benjamin <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Foy once resided: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That such patent shall convey such title only as the United States now may have to it, and shall not include any land to which any other person has a legal title, and shall not be issued until satisfactory evidence be laid before the Commissioner of the General Land Office, that it does not include any land to which any other person sets up a legal title.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-28">May 28, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLIV: providing for the settlement of the accounts of certain Diplomatic Functionaries.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 436</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">providing for the settlement of the accounts of certain Diplomatic Functionaries.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain accounts to be settled under direction of Secretary of State.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to settle the accounts of William B. Lawrence, late charge des affaires of the United States at London; of Alexander H. Everett, late Minister of the United States to Spain; and of James Barbour, Junior, late acting Secretary of Legation at London; of William Radcliff, late Consul of the United States at Lima, for diplomatic services performed upon the death of the charge des affaires of the United States, and of William H. D. C. Wright, Consul of the United States at Rio de Janeiro, for diplomatic services performed upon the retirement of the charge des affaires of the United States; as far as the same shall appear to the Secretary of State to have been sanctioned by instructions from the Department of State, or to have a just and equitable foundation in usage.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLV: for the relief of Thomas Blackwell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 436</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Blackwell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ pay as captain allowed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are, authorized and required to settle and adjust the account of Thomas Blackwell, a captain of the army of the revolution, and allow to him five years’ full pay; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVI: for the relief of Alexander Scott.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 436</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Scott.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as a political agent in Venezuela.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of one thousand four hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-seven cents be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Alexander Scott, on account of his services as a political agent of the Government of the United States in Venezuela.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVII: for the relief of Charles Collins.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 436</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Collins.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him on account of brig Nedeshda.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, directed to pay to Charles Collins, late Collector of the Port and District of Bristol, in Rhode Island, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, two hundred and forty-five dollars and
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 158, 159, 160. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/437">437</page>
fifty cents, being the moiety of the proceeds of the forfeiture of the brig Nedeshda, to which the said Charles Collins was by law entitled.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVIII: for the relief of Fielding L. White.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 437</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Fielding L. White.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Fielding L. White, late jailer of Madison<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rewarded for capturing a criminal.</p></sidenote> county, in the state of Alabama, be allowed and paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty dollars, paid by him as a reward for the arrest and commitment of David H. Dyer, on a charge of robbing the Post Office at Florence.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLIX: for the relief of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer, children and heirs at law of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 437</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer, children and heirs at law of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ pay as lieutenant-colonel allowed.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 291, allowing interest on the commutation of half pay.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, directed and required to adjust and settle the account of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer, children and heirs at law of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, and pay to them five years’ full pay, being the commutation for half pay for life, due to their said father in his life-time, for services by him rendered to the United States in their army, during the revolutionary war, as a Lieutenant-Colonel on the continental establishment; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bounty land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, authorized, directed and required to issue to the said Sarah and Dorothy, and in their names, a land warrant for four hundred and fifty acres of military bounty land, as, and for the lands to which the said Robert Hanson Harrison, was, while in full life, entitled, for and on account of the services by him so as aforesaid rendered; and that the same may be located on any vacant or unlocated lands heretofore appropriated by Congress for said purposes.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLX: for the relief of Ann D. Baylor.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 437</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ann D. Baylor.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain loan office certificates to be settled.</p></sidenote> and they hereby are, authorized, directed, and required to settle the account of Ann D. Baylor, widow of John Walker Baylor, Esquire, deceased, who was only son and heir at law of Colonel George Baylor, late of the army of the United States in the revolutionary war, deceased, for all such loan office certificates as were issued from the Loan Office of the United States, in Virginia, in the name of the said George Baylor, payable to him, and now remain on the books of the treasury, outstanding and unpaid, and not transferred to any other person by him; and that they pay to her, the said Ann D. Baylor, as trustee for the heirs at law and distributees of the said John Walker Baylor, and to their sole use, the same amount of money which might have been received on said certificates, had they been subscribed to the loan of the United States, under the act, entitled “An act making provision for the debt of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> the United States,” passed August fourth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; making out said account, and settling and paying the same, in all respects, in manner and form as if such subscription had then been made, and the dividends credited thereunto, according to the several provisions of said act, and the act passed April twenty-eighth, one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 28, 1796, ch. 16.</p></sidenote> thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, in aid thereof, and the whole amount left uncalled for in the treasury till the present time; together with that part thereof which has been credited with interest at three per cent, per annum; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXIV: for the relief of the heirs or representatives of widow Dupree.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 438</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/438">438</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 164, 165, 166, 167, 168. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs or representatives of widow Dupree.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the heirs or representatives of widow Dupre, late of New Orleans, deceased, (on the presentation of satisfactory evidence of heirship, or of being executors or administrators,) out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight thousand nine hundred and ninetyfive dollars for the destruction and damage of her buildings, and for the destruction of her fences below New Orleans, during the late war, while her plantation was in the military occupation of the United States’ army; being the amount estimated for such destruction and damage by the Commissioners appointed for that purpose, by General Jackson.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXV: for the relief of John Conard, Marshal of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 438</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Conard, Marshal of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment by U. S. of judgment against him, for official acts.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount now due upon a judgment rendered on the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, by the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in favor of Francis H, Nicoll, and against John Conard, Marshal of the said district, for the sum of thirty-nine thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars and sixty-six cents, together with all the legal costs which have accrued against the said Conard, either in the said Circuit Court or upon the affirmance <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of the said judgment in the Supreme Court: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the Secretary of the Treasury shall retain from the amount hereby appropriated, so much as Francis H. Nicoll may be indebted to the United States on his own account, or as security of any other person.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXVI: for the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel Enos Cutler, of the United States’ Army.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 439</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lieutenant-Colonel Enos Cutler, of the United States’ Army.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for expenses in certain suits.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, there be paid to the Secretary of War, the sum of two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars, to be applied by him to the payment of damages, costs, and expenses, incurred by Lieutenant-Colonel Enos Cutler, to that amount, in defending certain suits brought against him as the representative of the United States, and acting under the orders of the department of war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXVII: for the relief of Thomas W. Newton, assignee of Robert Crittenden.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 438</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas W. Newton, assignee of Robert Crittenden.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for horses lost.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to Thomas W. Newton, assignee of Robert Crittenden, two hundred and thirty dollars, the value of two horses, lost for the want of forage, by the said Robert Crittenden in the service of the United States, in the Seminole war, in May, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the said Crittenden being the commander of the Kentucky Guards, in said campaign.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXVIII: for authorizing a patent to be issued to Moses Shaw.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 438</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for authorizing a patent to be issued to Moses Shaw.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent for a mode of blasting rocks, to be issued.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Department of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue letters patent to Moses Shaw, for a mode for blasting rocks, upon his complying with the directions of the act, entitled “An act to promote the progress of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 169, 170, 171, 172, 173. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/439">439</page>
the useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose,”<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1794, ch. 58.</p></sidenote> and the several acts supplementary to, and amendatory of, the said act, except so far as the said acts or any part or parts of them, require a residence of two years within the United States, in like manner, in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 357.</p></sidenote> all respects, as if the said Moses Shaw had resided two years within the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXIX: for the relief of Mesheck Browning.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 439</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mesheck Browning.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Mesheck<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for horses lost.</p></sidenote> Browning, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred dollars, the value of two horses owned by him, and in the service of the United States, by impressment to transport a part of the baggage of the army commanded by General Hull; which horses died for the want of forage, in the wilderness on their return to Cincinnati.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXX: for the relief of Major M. M. Payne, of the United States’ Army.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 439</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Major M. M. Payne, of the United States’ Army.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of twelve hundred and seventy-five<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement of certain expenses for defending a suit.</p></sidenote> dollars be paid to Major M. M. Payne, of the United States’ Army, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as a reimbursement for the expenses which he incurred in defending a suit brought against him in the state of South Carolina, to recover from him damages for the performance of an act strictly within the line of his professional duty.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXI: for the relief of Isaiah Townsend, Peter Dox, and Gerrit Le Grange, sureties of Gerrit L. Dox.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 439</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaiah Townsend, Peter Dox, and Gerrit Le Grange, sureties of Gerrit L. Dox.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit allowed upon a judgment against G.L. Dox.</p></sidenote> authorized to allow the sum of one thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents, together with any interest which may have been charged upon that sum, from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, as a credit upon any judgment which may have been recovered against Isaiah Townsend, Peter Dox, and Gerrit Le Grange, as the sureties of Gerrit L. Dox, late a Postmaster at Albany, in the state of New York, that amount of postage having been paid by him, and for which no credit has ever been given.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-04-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXII: for the relief of Jeremiah Walker, of the state of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 439</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jeremiah Walker, of the state of Louisiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Jeremiah Walker be, and he is hereby, confirmed<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> in his title to a certain tract of land, situate in the parish of East Feliciana, and state of Louisiana, lying on the Lost Fork of Thompson’s Creek; it being the place first settled by Thomas Smith, and transferred by him to Sullivan, by Sullivan to White, and by White to the said Walker; containing not more than six hundred and forty acres: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this confirmation shall only operate as a relinquishment<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> on the part of the United States only.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXIII: for the relief of Roger Enos.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 439</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Roger Enos.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him on account of a penalty.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized to pay to Roger Enos, late Collector of the district of Memphreymagog, in Vermont, out of any moneys in the trea-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/440">440</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 174, 175, 176, 177. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
sury, not otherwise appropriated, one hundred and three dollars, being the moiety of the proceeds of a penalty recovered by the said Roger Enos, in the name of the United States, against a certain Josiah Parmelee, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXIV: for the relief of Abel Alien.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 440</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Abel Alien.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the act to provide for certain persons engaged<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on the pension list.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 19.</p></sidenote> in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, passed the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, shall be construed to authorize the Secretary of War, toplace on the pension list Abel Allen, a soldier in the revolutionary war, now insane, of the date of the eighteenth of August, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty-nine; and that the receipt of his guardian for the time being, shall be sufficient for the pension allowed by the said act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXV: to reimburse Lieutenant Daniel Tyler for money advanced by him for the Government of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 440</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to reimburse Lieutenant Daniel Tyler for money advanced by him for the Government of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, out of any moneys in the treasury, not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement of certain expenses.</p></sidenote>otherwise appropriated, there be paid to Lieutenant Daniel Tyler, of the United States’ Army, the sum of four hundred and thirty dollars and eleven cents, to reimburse him for so much paid by him for and on account of the Government.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVI: for the relief of John Scott, executor of Charles Yates, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 441</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Scott, executor of Charles Yates, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of interest on certificate of loan.</p></sidenote>department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to pay to John Scott, executor of Charles Yates, deceased, interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, upon the specie value of a Ioan office certificate issued to, and in the name of Edward Watkins, for the sum of five hundred dollars, and numbered eight thousand four hundred and ninety-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVII: for the relief of Ephraim F. Gilbert.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 440</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ephraim F. Gilbert.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be remunerated for certain losses.</p></sidenote> be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to ascertain the damages and losses sustained by Ephraim F. Gilbert, after the close of his labor in delivering stone for the United States at Fort Niagara, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, under his contract for that purpose, dated the twenty-ninth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen; which losses and damages were sustained in preparing to deliver a further quantity of stone, under an extension of said contract, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and the same is to be ascertained on just and equitable principles, so as to indemnify him for his expenditures in making preparations for delivering a further quantity of stone in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and for damages sustained in the particulars mentioned in the report of the Committee of Claims on this subject. And the sum thus ascertained, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to said Gilbert, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVIII: for the relief of James Fisk.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 441</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 178, 181, 184. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/441">441</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Fisk.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to James Fisk, of the state of Vermont, late Collector of the Customs for that<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him, amount of which he was robbed.</p></sidenote> state, four hundred and forty-nine dollars and seventy cents, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated; it being the amount of which the Deputy Collector of the Customs, at Berkshire, in said state, was robbed of, on the sixth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and which the said James Fisk has paid into the treasury of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXI: granting pensions to Samuel H. Phillips, Cord Hazard, and John M’Creary, and to increase the pension of George W. Howard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 441</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting pensions to Samuel H. Phillips, Cord Hazard, and John M’Creary, and to increase the pension of George W. Howard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the following named persons on the list of invalid pensioners<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to place certain persons on the pension list.</p></sidenote> of the United States, who shall be entitled to, and receive pensions, according to the rates, and commencing at the times hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cord Hazard, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners and their rates.</p></sidenote> on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; Samuel H. Phillips, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">John M’Creary, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine;</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">George W. Howard, who has been heretofore placed on the invalid pension list, to receive, hereafter, the sum of fourteen dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the pensions above granted,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions, how long to continue, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> shall be continued to the persons, respectively, during their respective lives; and that it shall not be necessary for them to produce an affidavit of continued disability.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXIV: to relinquish the reversionary interest of the United States in certain Indian reservations in the State of Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 441</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to relinquish the reversionary interest of the United States in certain Indian reservations in the State of Alabama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the right, title, and interest, which<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain reversionary interests.</p></sidenote> might accrue or revert to the United States, to the reservations of land now claimed and possessed by Conaleskee, commonly called Challenge, James Ore, and Giles McAnulty and his wife Alice, and William Wilson and his wife Peggy Wilson, under a treaty made and concluded between the United States and the Cherokee tribe of Indians, on the eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen; and all the right, title, and interest, which might accrue or revert to the United States, to reservations of land, now claimed and possessed by George Stiggins and Arthur Sizemore, under a treaty made and concluded between the United States and the Creek Indians, at Fort Jackson, on the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, all lying in the State of Alabama, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished, and vested in the said reservees, and their<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relinquished.</p></sidenote> heirs, respectively: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Conaleskee, commonly<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> called Challenge, James Ore, Giles McAnulty, and William Wilson,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/442">442</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 186, 187, 188, 190. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
George Stiggins, and Arthur Sizemore, with their respective families, shall remove to their respective tribes west of the Mississippi river, not included within any State or Territory; and that the government of the United States shall not be chargeable with the expense of their removal or transportation, or with any allowance of land to, or on account <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of either of them, or their respective families;</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That no conveyance or deed of the said lands, or any part of them, shall be valid or effectual, until every such conveyance or deed shall be submitted to one of the District Attorneys for the District of Alabama, for his approbation; and if, after inquiry into the facts and circumstances attending the contracts for the sale of any of the said lands, he shall be satisfied that such contracts are fair, and that the consideration paid, or agreed to be paid therefor, is adequate, he shall indorse his approbation on each conveyance and deed so approved; and, thereafter, the same [shall] be deemed valid and effectual.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXVI: for the relief of John Hayner.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 442</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Hayner.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John Hayner, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred dollars, the value of a horse he lost at the attack on Baltimore during the late war, by reason of being dismounted and separated from him, the said John Hayner serving as a mounted riflleman in cavalry, in a company commanded by H. St. G. Tucker.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXVII: for the relief of William Morrison.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 442</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
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<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Morrison.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for supplies.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to William Morrison, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars seventytwo cents, the balance due him for supplies furnished the troops of the United States, under his contract with the Secretary of War, dated the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXVIII: for the relief of Elisha Ives.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 442</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elisha Ives.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a boat captured by the enemy.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Elisha Ives, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, the value of a boat of his, which was captured by the enemy, in May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, while said boat was used for transporting munitions of war from Oswego to Sackett’s Harbor, the said boat being in said service, under a contract made with Captain Woolsey, and not at the risk of the owner.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXC: for the relief of the owners of the ship Alleghany, and their legal representatives.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXC</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 442</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXC.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the owners of the ship Alleghany, and their legal representatives.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for ship Alleghany, captured by the enemy.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed to the owners of the ship Alleghany, which was captured at Gibraltar, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, while in the service of the United States, and condemned as a prize of war, the sum of sixteen thousand and four hundred dollars; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to the said owners, or their legal heirs and representatives.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCI: for the relief of David Rogers and Sons.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 443</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 191, 192, 193, 194, 195. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/443">443</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Rogers and Sons.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to David Rogers and Sons, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of amount of drawback.</p></sidenote> one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixty-seven cents, being the amount of drawback on certain teas, entered for benefit of drawback, and exported to St. Croix, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCII: for the relief of Benjamin Homans.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 443</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin Homans.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Benjamin<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as clerk.</p></sidenote> Homans, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred dollars, in full for his services in the navy department as temporary clerk, from the first of August to the thirtieth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, both days inclusive.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCIII: for the relief of Samuel Sprigg, of Virginia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 443</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Sprigg, of Virginia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be granted to Samuel Sprigg, of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to issue for a half section of land.</p></sidenote> the state of Virginia, as a full compensation for three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and a few cents, paid by Bezaleel Wells, in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, into the treasury of the United States, as the first instalment on the purchase of a fraction of land, entered by said Wells, in the state of Ohio, in the Steubenville district, being section twenty-six, in township two, range two, which amount was thereafter paid to him by said Sprigg, one half section of any land belonging to the United States, which has been heretofore offered for sale, and which is, by law, now subjected to entry; and that, upon an entry thereof being made with the proper officer, a patent for the same shall issue to the said Samuel Sprigg.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCIV: for the relief of John Glass.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 442</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Glass.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, whenever John Glass, of Lawrence county,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to issue on certain conditions.</p></sidenote> Alabama, shall produce to the Register and Receiver of Public Moneys in the Land Office at Huntsville, in said state, satisfactory evidence that he is equitably entitled to the north-east quarter of section four in township five, of range seven west, in the district of land sold at Huntsville, and shall pay to the said Receiver of Public Moneys the balance of the purchase money due on said quarter section, without interest, and deducting therefrom thirty-seven and a half per centum, the said John Glass shall be entitled to receive a patent for the said quarter section: <i>Provided,</i> said Glass shall make said proof, and pay said balance, with<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the deduction aforesaid, on or before the first day of January next; and that the patent hereby directed to be issued shall only operate as a relinquishment from the United States, as far as regards the moiety which might have been claimed by Alexander McQuie.</content>
</section>
<section class="inline">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said John Glass may,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May avail himself of the provisions of the Act of March 31, 1830, ch. 48.</p></sidenote> under the conditions and restrictions contained in the foregoing section, in his election, avail himself of the provisions of “An act for the relief of purchasers of public lands, and for the suppression of fraudulent practices at the public sales of the lands of the United States,” passed at the present session of Congress.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCV: for the relief of Nathaniel Childers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 443</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nathaniel Childers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Court of the United States for the fifth<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further compensation for</p></sidenote> circuit of Virginia, holden in the city of Richmond, be, and the same
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/444">444</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 196, 197, 198. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">taking fourth census.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized, at the next, or any succeeding term, on due proof being made, to allow to Nathaniel Childers such further compensation as they may think he is entitled to for taking the fourth census, in the county of Norfolk, in the state of Virginia, by reason of the dispersed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>situation of the inhabitants in said county: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the further allowance the said Court may make, shall not exceed, with what the said Childers has heretofore received, exclusive of taking the manufactories, one dollar and twenty-five cents for each fifty persons enumerated.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount so allowed, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, on the certificate of said Court, showing the amount thus allowed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCVI: for the relief of Alexander Love.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 444</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Alexander Love.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Alexander Love be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his title to two thousand arpents of land situated on the east side of the river Perdido, in the Territory of Florida, to be located according to a plat and survey made of the same, on the tenth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-one. And the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon being presented with a plat and survey of said <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>land, regularly made as aforesaid, shall issue a patent therefor: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall amount only to a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and shall in no manner affect the rights of third persons, or claim derived from the United States by purchase or donation.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCVII: for the relief of Martha Yeomans, widow of John Yeomans, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 444</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Martha Yeomans, widow of John Yeomans, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain sum to be paid her.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Martha Yeomans, widow of John Yeomans, deceased, a Lieutenant of Infantry in the Continental Line, during the revolutionary war, such sum as the said John Yeomans, who died on the twelfth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, would have been entitled to, under the provisions<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53.</p></sidenote> of an act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution,” passed the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, from the third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty- six, to the twelfth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, had he, the said John Yeomans, survived, and been living at the time of the passing of the aforesaid act; and that the amount which would in such case have been so due to the said John Yeomans, when liquidated and ascertained by the proper accounting officers of the treasury, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCVIII: for the relief of the heirs of Colonel John Ellis, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 444</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of Colonel John Ellis, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a section of land.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">that the heirs of Colonel John Ellis, formerly of the state of Mississippi, now deceased, be permitted to enter, without the payment of any consideration therefor, one section of the public land, according to the public surveys hitherto made, in the state of Mississippi; and that a patent therefor be issued to them by the proper authority;<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> <i>Provided, however,</i> That, previous to the issuing of said patent, they shall file with the Commissioner of the General Land Office a deed, relinquishing to the United States all claim to a tract of land of like quantity, for which a certificate, number thirty-one, Register’s
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 199, 200, 201, 202, 203. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/445">445</page>
number one thousand and one, was issued to their ancestor John Ellis, on the eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, by Nicholas Gray, Register, and Parker Walton, Receiver, west of Pearl River, acting as commissioners under the act of Congress of the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, entitled “An act confirming claims to lands in the Mississippi Territory, founded<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 30, 1812, ch. 110.</p></sidenote> on warrants of survey granted by the British or Spanish Governments.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That no patent shall be issued on any survey founded on said certificate; and that any patent so issued shall be absolutely void.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXCIX: for the relief of David Brooks.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 445</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Brooks.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the benefits of the provisions of the act,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53, extended to him.</p></sidenote> entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution,” passed May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, which a lieutenant in the army of the revolution on the continental establishment is entitled to receive, be extended to David Brooks, of the city of New York, in the same manner as if the said David Brooks had fully complied with the provisions of the fourth section of the said act; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay to him or his authorized attorney, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such monthly pay as he is entitled to under the provisions of the said act, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CC: for the benefit of Charles Brown, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CC</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 445</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CC.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of Charles Brown, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Charles Brown upon the pension list, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to continue during his natural life; and to commence on the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCI: for the relief of William Price.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 445</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Price.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ pay as lieutenant allowed.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 142.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of William Price, and to allow him five years’ full pay as a Lieutenant incite revolutionary war, which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Jeans, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 445</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Jeans, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for horses lost.</p></sidenote> legal representatives of Joseph Jeans, deceased, the sum of sixty-one dollars, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, that being the difference between the value of two horses impressed into the service of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and never returned to said Jeans, and the sum which said Jeans has received for the use and risk of said horses.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCIII: for the relief of George Ermatinger.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 445</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Ermatinger.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> the value of a horse which belonged to said George, and was killed at
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/446">446</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 204, 205, 206, 209. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
the attack on Fort Stephenson, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, while the said George was in the military service of the United States; and when said value shall be so ascertained, on such proof as the said George may produce, the said Auditor is directed to make such deduction therefrom of such sum as he shall ascertain the said George has received for forage after his said horse was killed, and before he obtained another; and when the said Auditor shall report to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount due the said George, on account of said loss, said Secretary is directed to pay to said George the said sum so found to be his due, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIV: for the settlement of the accounts of Samuel Sitgreaves.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the settlement of the accounts of Samuel Sitgreaves.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit allowed him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to pass to the credit of the late Samuel Sitgreaves the sum of ten thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars and fifty-six cents, with which sum he now stands charged on the books of the treasury.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCV: for the relief of Ephraim Whitaker and John J. Jacobs.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ephraim Whitaker and John J. Jacobs.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53, extended to them.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the benefits of the provisions of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution,” passed May the fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, which a captain in the army of the revolution on the continental establishment is entitled to receive, be extended to Ephraim Whitaker of the city of Troy, and John J. Jacobs of Virginia, in the same manner as if the said Ephraim Whitaker and John J. Jacobs, had fully complied with the provisions of the fourth section of the said act; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay to them, or their authorized attorneys, respectively, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such monthly pay as they are respectively entitled to, under the provisions of the said act, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVI: to repeal the proviso in the act for the relief of Philip Slaughter, passed the twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to repeal the proviso in the act for the relief of Philip Slaughter, passed the twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part of act of May 26, 1828, ch. 150, repealed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That so much of the act for the relief of Philip Slaughter, passed the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, as provides that the acceptance by the said Slaughter, of the grant herein made, shall be in lieu of any claim he may have under the provisions of a bill passed at this session of Congress,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53.</p></sidenote> entitled “An act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIX: for the relief of Elizabeth Williams.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 446</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Elizabeth Williams.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for labor performed by her husband.</p></sidenote>any money not otherwise appropriated, to Elizabeth Williams, widow of the late Thomas Williams, of the District of Columbia, the sum of two hundred eighty-five dollars, the value of the labor performed by the said Thomas Williams, on the wall around the jail of the county of Washington, in said district.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCX: for the relief of Jasper Parish.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 210, 212, 114. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/447">447</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jasper Parish.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Jasper Parish, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents, the value of his fences necessarily taken and consumed by the troops of the United States, near to, or at the mouth of, Conjockety Creek, in the state of New York, under the command of Brigadier-General Smythe</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCXII: for the relief of Benjamin Wells.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 447</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin Wells.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, and credits allowed.</p></sidenote> and they hereby are authorized, directed, and required to settle the accounts of Benjamin Wells, as Deputy Commissary of Issues at the magazine at Monster Mills, in Pennsylvania, under John Irvine, Deputy Commissary General of the army of the United States in said state, in the revolutionary war, and as Deputy Foragemaster, under David Duncan, Deputy Quartermaster at the same magazine of the army aforesaid, in said war; and that they credit to him the sum of five hundred and seventy-five dollars and four cents, as payable February ninth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, and three hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, payable July twentieth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, in the same manner, and with such interest, as if those sums, with their interest from the times respectively as aforesaid, had been subscribed to the loan of the United States, proposed by an act, entitled “An act making provision for the debt of the United States,” passed August fourth, one thousand seven hundred and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> ninety, and such subscription had been made on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; and pay to him such sums so credited, together with the amount of principal which would have been paid, or now remain due, under the provisions of said act; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCXIV: for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 447</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-29</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post, p. 552 and p. 570.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of certain vessels to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> the value of the following vessels, at the time they were taken to be sunk for the defence of the city of Baltimore, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to wit: The ships Thomas Wilson, Chesapeake, Adriana, Scioto, Temperance, Fabius, India Packet, Mars, and Nancy; brigs Aid, George, Swallow, Blanche, Sally, Eliza, Betsey, Father and Son, and Ann; schooners Scudder, Ann, Columbia, Enterprise, and Packet, and the sloop Rosanna; and to allow to the owners, respectively, the amount of twenty-five per centum on said valuation; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That in each and every case, the said valuation shall be duly established by full and competent disinterested testimony, and that the damages sustained in the vessels in question, by being sunk and raised exclusively, was to the full extent of the said per centum over and above all the amount or amounts heretofore received for said damages by said owners, or their legal representatives, respectively;</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That the said vessels, at the time they were taken, were sound and seaworthy, and would have remained sea-worthy at the return of peace in one thousand eight hundred and fifteen;</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That in no instance where any vessel is not proven to have been sea-worthy at the time she was taken to be sunk, shall a greater allowance be made than will, with the money heretofore received for damage and detention
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/448">448</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 216, 221, 222, 223. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
of such vessel, and the value thereof at the time she was raised, with such rigging or other articles as have been sold or reserved by the proper owner, amount to the value of the vessel at the time she was taken to be sunk.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the amount so found by the Third Auditor shall be paid to the owners respectively, or to their legal representatives, by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, or be applied on debts due by them to the United States, as the case may be.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-29">May 29, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCXVI: for the relief of Lewis Rouse.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 448</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lewis Rouse.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-30">May 30, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain whiskey furnished to garrison.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury Depart" ment is hereby authorized to settle and adjust the claim of Lewis Rouse, on just and equitable principles, for two hundred and sixty-five gallons of whiskey, furnished for the use of the Garrison at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, the twenty-third day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in consequence of the failure of the contractor to furnish the liquor part of the rations to the troops at that post. The sum found justly due him by the Third Auditor, under this act, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-30">May 30, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCXXI: authorizing the county of Allen to purchase a portion, of the reservation including Fort Wayne.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 448</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the county of Allen to purchase a portion, of the reservation including Fort Wayne.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the associate Judges of the county of Allen, and state of Indiana, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, at minimum price, for the use and benefit of said county, so much of the forty acres reservation, including Fort Wayne, and reserved for the use of the Indian Agency, established there, as may not fall to the state of Indiana, under the act of the second day of March, one thousand <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 56.</p></sidenote>eight hundred and twenty-seven, entitled “An act to grant a certain quantity of land to the state of Indiana, for the purpose of aiding said state in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Wabash river with those of Lake Erie.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCXXII: for the relief of John Reily.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 448</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Reily.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of 1000 acres of land.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be granted to John Reily one thousand acres of land, in full satisfaction of a land warrant, issued by the state of Georgia on the twenty-second day of December, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, for one thousand acres of land, to be located within the district ceded by the said state of Georgia to the United States. And the said John Reily is hereby authorized to locate the said quantity of land, by legal subdivisions, as near as may be, on any lands now offered for sale by the United States, at the minimum price. And the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause patents to issue to the said John Reily, for the land so to be located, on producing the certificate of the Register of the Land Office, as in other cases.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCXXIII: for the relief of John Raptiste Jerome.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 448</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Raptiste Jerome.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the Third Auditor of the Treasury to ascertain the value of a certain barn, the property of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 224, 225. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/449">449</page>
said Jerome, and marked on a map referred to in the deposition of James Ganou, on file in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, number sixteen, which was destroyed by fire, by order of an American officer, to prevent its use as a cover by the British and Indians, in the battle of the twenty-second of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, at Frenchtown, on the River Rasin; and, also, to ascertain the value of the personal property of said Jerome in and about said barn, and which was destroyed in consequence of such burning; and the sums so found to be due, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXIV: for the relief of the legal representatives of Simeon Theus, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXIV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1830-05-31</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Simeon Theus, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment on account of bad bonds.</p></sidenote> be, and is hereby, authorized to pay out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of Simeon Theus, deceased, the sum of thirty-eight thousand two hundred and eleven dollars and ninety-nine cents, being the amount of bad bonds, for which he receipted to his predecessor, and for which he obtained no credit upon settlement at the treasury.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXV: for the relief of John F. Carmichael, of the state of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1830-05-31</dc:date>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John F. Carmichael, of the state of Mississippi.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John F. Carmichael, of the state of Mississippi,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his claims to two tracts of land, by virtue of two Spanish grants in favor of Claudio Bourgard, one dated the thirtieth of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, for one thousand arpens, the other dated sixth March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, for one thousand and thirty-four arpens, lying and being partly in each of the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, on Week’s Creek, which rises in Wilkinson county, Mississippi, and runs into the parish of Feliciana, Louisiana, through the line of demarkation dividing said states, near the Lake of the Cross, adjoining the lands of Christian Bingaman on the south; the same having been reported for confirmation by the Commissioners of the Land Office at St. Helena, Louisiana, in their report of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Commissioner of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to issue.</p></sidenote> General Land Office, upon being presented with plats and certificates of survey of the said tracts of land, legally executed by a proper officer, shall issue patents for the same; which patents shall operate only as a relinquishment, on the part of the United States, of all right and title to said lands.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, if it shall appear to the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right to enter other land.</p></sidenote> satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office that the claims, or any part thereof, herein mentioned, shall have been sold, patented, or confirmed, to any other person, previous to the passage of this act, then, and in that case, the said John F. Carmichael shall be allowed to enter the same number of acres of the claims thus sold, patented or confirmed, to any other person, on any of the unappropriated lands in the state of Mississippi, or in the land district of St. Helena, in the state of Louisiana, that may be subject to private entry, conforming, in such entry, to the divisions and subdivisions established by law.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCXXVI: for the relief of Gabriel Godfroy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 450</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-31</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/450">450</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 226, 227, 230, 231. 1830.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Gabriel Godfroy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation for property destroyed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the Third Auditor of the Treasury to ascertain the value of a certain barn, the property of said Godfroy, and marked on a map referred to in the deposition of John M. McCalla, on file in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, number fifteen, which was destroyed by order of an American officer, to prevent its use by the British and Indians as a cover, in the battle of the twenty-second of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, at Frenchtown, on the river Raisin; and, also, to ascertain the value of the personal property belonging to said Godfroy, and destroyed in and about said barn, in consequence of the burning of the same; and the sum, so found to be due, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCXXVII: for the relief of Samuel Ward.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 450</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-31</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Ward.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of interest on final settlement certificate.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Samuel Ward, surviving partner of the late firm of Samuel Ward and brothers, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the legal interest due on a final settlement certificate, issued by Benjamin Walker to Abraham Whipple, Esquire, dated the twenty-third day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, number two hundred and eighty-one, the principal of which certificate has been paid to the said Samuel <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 132.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Ward, under a law passed the twenty-fourth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That Samuel Ward shall first execute and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond of indemnity in double the amount of the sum so to be paid, with such sufficient security as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCXXX: for the relief of David Beard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 450</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Beard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment on account of forfeiture of certain merchandise.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to David Beard, the sum of three thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-four cents, being a balance due him, arising from the forfeiture and sale of certain goods, wares and merchandise belonging to the said David Beard and Joseph Farwell, introduced into the district of Oswegatchie, in the state of New York, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and which were seized by officers of the customs, for an alleged violation of the laws of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXI: for the relief of Isaac Finney.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 450</citableAs>
<dc:date>1830-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Isaac Finney.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on revolutionary pension list.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to restore the name of Isaac Pinney, to the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and to cause him to be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month, from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1830-05-31">May 31, 1830</date>.
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1830</dc:date>
<dc:date>1831</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December,</i> 1830, <i>and ended on the second day of March,</i> 1831.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Jackson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John C. Calhoun</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Stevenson</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: for the benefit of schools in Lawrence county, Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 451</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-01-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of schools in Lawrence county, Mississippi.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-01-13">Jan. 13, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That one section of the public lands subject to private entry and sale in the state of Mississippi,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Section of land to be located.</p></sidenote> be located for the use and benefit of schools in Lawrence county, in said state, in lieu of the sixteenth section sold and patented to Will Whitehead.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That any person appointed by order of the Probate Court, in and for the county of Lawrence, be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to locate.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, authorized to locate the quantity of land named in this act, for the purposes above named.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-01-13">January 13, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of Aaron Fitzgerald.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 451</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-01-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Aaron Fitzgerald.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-01-13">Jan. 13, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place Aaron Fitzgerald on the pension list during life, at twelve dollars per<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> month, instead of the pension which he now receives.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there be paid to the said Aaron Fitzgerald the sum of three hundred and sixty-one dollars and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him, difference of pensions.</p></sidenote> sixty-six cents, being the difference between six dollars per month actually allowed him as a pension, and eight dollars per month which ought to have been allowed him from the twenty-first of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, to the eleventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and that the said sum be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-01-13">January 13, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Thomas Fitzgerald.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 451</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-01-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Fitzgerald.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-01-19">Jan. 19, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to cause to be paid to Thomas Fitzgerald, an invalid pensioner<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of arrears of pension.</p></sidenote> of the United States, the sum of two hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-two cents, being arrearages of pension to which he is enti-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/451" renderingPosition="bottom">451</page>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/452">452</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 13, 18, 21, 25. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
tled on account of a total disability received while in the service of the United States, and which has heretofore been withheld in consequence of a mistake in first placing his name on the pension roll.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-01-19">January 19, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Edward Moore, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 452</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-01-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Edward Moore, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-01-27">Jan. 27, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy pay to the legal <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of prize money.</p></sidenote>representatives of Edward Moore, deceased, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars and forty-two cents, reported on the books of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury to the said Edward Moore, for his share of the prize money for the British vessels captured on Lake Erie, during the late war; to be paid out of any money hot otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-01-27">January 27, 1831</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: for the relief of Matthias Roll and William Jackson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 452</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-02-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Matthias Roll and William Jackson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-02-03">Feb. 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate of military bounty land warrant to be issued to M. Roll.</p></sidenote>Matthias Roll, a private in the New Jersey line, in the revolutionary war, a duplicate of military bounty land warrant, number one thousand one hundred and sixty-four, for one hundred acres of land, which issued to Matthew, alias Matthias Roll, the twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and which has been lost. And the said Matthias Roll shall have the said duplicate located and proceeded upon, in the same manner as if it were an original warrant; and the said original warrant is hereby declared null and void.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, to Wm. Jackson.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to William Jackson, a private in the Virginia line in the revolutionary war, a duplicate of military bounty land warrant, number one thousand and thirty-six, for one hundred acres of land, which issued to said William Jackson on the thirteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, and which has been lost; and that said William Jackson shall have all the rights under said duplicate that he could or might have under the original warrant; and the said original warrant is hereby declared null and void.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-02-03">February 3, 1831</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXI: authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to John Powell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 452</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-02-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to John Powell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-02-12">Feb. 12, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to issue for his machine for separating the metal from gold ore, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to John Powell, for his invention of a machine “for the purpose of separating the metal from gold ore, and the auriferous earth of alluvial deposites,” upon his compliance with all the provisions of the existing laws, except so far as they require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-02-12">February 12, 1831</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXV: for the relief of William Smith, administrator of John Taylor, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 452</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-02-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Smith, administrator of John Taylor, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-02-12">Feb. 12, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Register of the Land Office at Cahaba<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relinquishment of certain land to be cancelled.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cancel the relinquishment made by the said William Smith, as administrator of John Taylor, deceased, on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of the west half of the south-west quarter of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29, 33, 35. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/453">453</page>
land, of section fifteen, in township ten, of range fourteen, in Butler county, in the state of Alabama, and which still remains unsold by the United States; and that he be authorized and directed to deliver over the certificate therefor to the said William; and the said William Smith is authorized and empowered to dispose of the same by assignment or otherwise, in as full and ample manner, to all intents and purposes, which he might or could have done before the relinquishment thereof; and that all the benefits and privileges given by this act to the said William Smith shall be given and extended to his assignee or assignees; and that the said William Smith, or his assignee or assignees, be allowed to hold the same, free from forfeiture for twelve months from the passage of this law: <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless,</i> That the said William Smith,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall, before he be entitled to the benefit of this act, pay over to the receiver of public moneys at Cahaba, the sum. of ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight and a quarter cents, that being the full amount of money which had been paid thereon previous to the relinquishment, and which has been transferred and credited on other lands purchased by his intestate in his life-time.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-02-12">February 12, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of William Burris, of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 453</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-02-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Burris, of Mississippi.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-02-19">Feb. 19, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Burris be allowed to relinquish to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1834, ch. 176.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish a certain tract of land, and locate another.</p></sidenote> the United States the east half of the south-west quarter of section twenty-one, township three, range six, east, containing eighty acres entered by mistake, and to locate in lieu thereof, another half-quarter section of land on any of the public lands of the United States, in the state of Mississippi, which has been offered at public sale, and is now subject to entry at private sale.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-02-19">February 19, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to make compensation to the heirs of Taliaferro Livingston and Francis W. Armstrong for the maintenance of fifteen Africans illegally imported into the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 453</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-02-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to make compensation to the heirs of Taliaferro Livingston and Francis W. Armstrong for the maintenance of fifteen Africans illegally imported into the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-02-25">Feb. 25, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized to pay, out of the sum appropriated for the suppression of the slave trade,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">T. Livingston’s claim for the maintenance of 15 Africans to be settled.</p></sidenote> the claim of the heirs of Taliaferro Livingston, late Marshal of the United States for the district of Alabama, for the maintenance of fifteen Africans, illegally imported into the United States in the schooners Louisa and Marino, in one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That satisfactory evidence of the reasonableness of the charges for said maintenance shall be furnished, and that the sums received by the said Livingston for the hire of said Africans, and for the labor performed for him, by them, if any, be accounted for and deducted.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the same allowance shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">F.W. Armstrong’s claim to be settled.</p></sidenote> be made to Francis W. Armstrong, Marshal of the United States for the district of Alabama, for the time that the aforesaid fifteen Africans were kept by him, subject, in the settlement, to the same restrictions provided for in the first section of this act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-02-25">February 25, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: to incorporate Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 453</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-02-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-02-25">Feb. 25, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Matthews, Matthew Deagle, Peter S. Shreiber, Thomas Carberry and William Hickey, and their successors<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">W. Matthews and others incorporated.</p></sidenote> in office are hereby made, declared, and constituted a corporation and body politic, in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, under the name style and title of Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/454">454</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 35. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property of corporation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all and singular the lands, tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, privileges, goods, and chattels, that may hereafter be given, granted, sold, devised, or bequeathed to Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, be and they are hereby, vested in, and confirmed to, the said corporation; and that they may purchase, take, receive, and enjoy any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, rights, or privileges, or any goods, chattels, or other effects, of what kind or nature soever, which shall, or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed, or devised unto them, or either of them, as Trustees of the said Asylum, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>capable of making such grant, and to dispose of the same: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The clear annual income of property to be acquired by said corporation shall, at no time, exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capacity to sue, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said corporation, by the name and style aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter, capable, in law and equity, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, in as effectual a manner as other persons or corporations can sue or be sued; and that they shall adopt and use a common seal, and the same to use, alter, or exchange at pleasure; <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of officers.</p></sidenote>that they may appoint such officers as they shall deem necessary and proper, to assign them their duties, and regulate their compensation, and to remove any or all of them, and appoint others, as often as they shall think fit; and the said corporation shall make such by-laws as may be useful for the government and support, and for the general accomplishment of the objects of the said Asylum, as hereinafter mentioned, and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States, or the laws in force in the District of Columbia, for the time being, and the same to alter, amend, or abrogate at pleasure.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meeting of contributors.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That there shall be a meeting of the regular annual contributors to the support of Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, in the month of June, in each year, the hour and day and manner of giving notice for which, to be regulated by the by-laws; at which meeting, by those who from the by-laws may be qualified to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Managers, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>vote, nine female managers shall be elected, who shall appoint a first and second Directress, and may fill vacancies in their own Board until the next annual election; that their duties shall be regulated by the bylaws; and the present managers may continue in office until the election in June next.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right to receive children, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, with the consent and approbation of the parent, guardian, or friends, who may have the care of any male or female child, or where a child may be destitute of any friend or protector, the same may be received into Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, under such regulations as may be made by the by-laws, and there protected, instructed, and supported; and they shall not thereafter be withdrawn, or be at liberty themselves to withdraw from the Asylum, without the consent or dismissal of the corporation aforesaid, until, if a male, he shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, or, if a female, the age of eighteen years; but, up to the ages aforesaid respectively, they shall remain subject to the direction of the said corporation, unless they may, by the same, be exonerated from service previous to attaining those ages respectively; and the said corporation shall <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power to bind out, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>have the power to bind any child under their care, for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of some useful trade, occupation or profession, under such conditions as may be determined by the by-laws, a copy of which conditions shall be delivered to, and they shall be binding on every person to whom any child may be so bound; that there may also be established, in connection with Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p></sidenote>schools for the daily attendance of children whose parents or guardians are or may be unable to pay for their instruction, or whose parents or
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 43, 44, 45, 46. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/455">455</page>
guardians may contribute toward the support of the Asylum, under such regulations as may be made in the by-laws.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That any vacancy, which, from<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees.</p></sidenote> death, resignation, or otherwise, may happen in the Board of Trustees, shall be filled according to the mode to be prescribed in the by-laws; they may hold such meetings as they shall think proper, and, to give form to their proceedings, may appoint such officers as they may deem necessary, and provide proper checks and responsibilities for the security of the property and funds of the corporation aforesaid; that that they shall keep a journal of their proceedings, upon which the bylaws shall be recorded; and that they shall make report, at the annual meeting to be held in June, of the affairs and condition of the institution for the preceding year.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it may be lawful for Congress hereafter to alter, amend, modify, or repeal the foregoing act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-02-25">February 25, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: for the relief of Thomas Porter, of Indiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 455</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Porter, of Indiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Thomas Porter on the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on invalid pension list.</p></sidenote> list of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of William Clower.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 455</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
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<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Clower.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to settle the claim of William Clower, for<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for carrying the mail to be settled.</p></sidenote> carrying the mail between Greenville and Fayette, Mississippi, upon principles of equity and justice.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLV: for the relief of Simeon C. Whittier.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 455</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Simeon C. Whittier.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Simeon C. Whittier, of Hallowell, in the state of Maine, out of any money in the treasury, not<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain moneys illegally demanded of h m as surety, &amp;c., refunded.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, the principal sum of three hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-three cents, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum from the twelfth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and, also, the further principal sum of one hundred dollars, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and, also, the further principal sum of two hundred and one dollars and two cents, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; the said several sums having been illegally demanded and received by the United States of said Whittier, as one of the sureties of Daniel Evans, formerly a collector of the direct taxes and internal duties for the fourth collection district in Massachusetts.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of Ebenezer Rollins.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 455</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ebenezer Rollins.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Ebenezer Rollins, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of drawback on certain merchandise.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, twelve hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty cents, being the amount of drawback on twenty-nine hogs-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/456">456</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 47, 48, 49, 50. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
heads, four barrels, and fifty-two bags of coffee, which were exported in the ship Rebecca Coffin, for Gottenburg, although the said ship did not proceed to sea until after the expiration of twelve months from the time <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of the entry of the said merchandise: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said merchandise was shipped on board said vessel, and cleared at the customhouse, before the expiration of twelve months from the time of its entry, and that all the other requirements of the law, to entitle it to debenture, have been complied with.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel McIntire, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 456</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel McIntire, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of amount due D. McIntire.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to pay to the legal representatives of Daniel McIntire, late an invalid pensioner, deceased, the sum due said pensioner at his death.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Joseph E. Sprague.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 456</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph E. Sprague.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as counsellor.</p></sidenote> pay to Joseph E. Sprague the sum of two hundred and forty-nine dollars, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, in full for services rendered by him, as counsellor and attorney in attending to, and taking, depositions, in cases in which the United States were interested.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of John Daly, late of Canada.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 456</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Daly, late of Canada.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services, &amp;c. in Canada.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to John Daly, late of New Ark, in the province of Upper Canada, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, being for supplies furnished and services rendered to the army of the United States in Canada, and for losses of property sustained by him on the Niagara frontier during the late war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of Nathaniel Cheever and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 456</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nathaniel Cheever and others.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain moneys illegally demanded of them as sureties, &amp;c., to be refunded.</p></sidenote>treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Nathaniel Cheever, Ariel Mann, Benjamin Dearborn, Thomas B. Coolidge, and Stephen Tuckerman, who were formerly inhabitants of the town of Hallowell, in the state of Maine, each and severally, the principal sum of three hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-three cents, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the twelfth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and, also, the further principal sum of one hundred dollars each, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; the said several sums having been illegally demanded and received by the United States of each of the several abovementioned persons, as one of the sureties of Daniel Evans, formerly a collector of the direct taxes and internal duties for the fourth collection district in Massachusetts.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">In case of death, may be paid to executors, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And he it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, if said Cheever, Mann, Dearborn, Coolidge, and Tuckerman, or any of them have deceased, or shall decease before the payment shall be made to each of them, respec-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 51, 52, 53, 54. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/457">457</page>
tively, as above provided, then said sums of three hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-three cents, and one hundred dollars, with interest as aforesaid, shall be paid to the executors or administrators of each of the said persons so deceased.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief of Peters and Pond.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 457</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peters and Pond.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to Peters and Pond, merchants of Boston, the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moiety of proceeds of schr. Anna, &amp;c., to be refunded.</p></sidenote> sum of seventeen thousand eight hundred and twenty-two dollars and forty-five cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; being the moiety paid into the treasury of the United States on the sale of their schooner Anna and her cargo, which had been seized and condemned for a violation of the revenue laws by the district court of the United States for the district of Georgia, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, deducting therefrom the duties accruing on said moiety.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LII: for the relief of Lucien Harper.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 457</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lucien Harper.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to Lucien Harper, the sum of fifteen<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of certificate of loan.</p></sidenote> dollars and sixty-six cents, being the specie value of a certificate issued by Francis Hopkinson, treasurer of loans, numbered two thousand one hundred and sixty, with interest on the said specie value, at six per centum per annum, from the twenty-seventh day of November, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine; which certificate was issued in the name of Captain George Wolsey, and of which the said Lucien Harper is now owner: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Lucien Harper shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> first execute and deliver to the first Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond in such sum and with such security as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve, to indemnify the United States from and against the lawful claim of any other person or persons, for, or on account of, the said certificate.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of James Sprague.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 457</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Sprague.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James Sprague be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate three hundred and twenty acres of land, by legal subdivisions,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land.</p></sidenote> on any public land in the state of Ohio now offered for sale, at the minimum price, in satisfaction of an equal quantity of land heretofore located by the said James Sprague on the east half of the eighth section of the fifth township, in the twenty-second range, under the act of Congress of the twenty-third of April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, from which the said James has been evicted by an older title; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized to issue to the said James Sprague a patent for the land so located, on his producing the certificate of the register of the land office within whose district the location may be made.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIV: to provide for the final settlement and adjustment of the various claims preferred by James Monroe, against the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 457</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to provide for the final settlement and adjustment of the various claims preferred by James Monroe, against the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, for public services, losses and sacrifices, the sum of thirty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for public services, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> James Monroe immediately after the passing of this act, out of any
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/458">458</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 71, 72, 74. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, which shall be in full <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of all demands of the said James Monroe for claims aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The accounting officer of the treasury department shall, upon an examination of his accounts, believe so much is due to him upon principles of equity and justice.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: for the relief of Mrs. Clarissa B. Harrison.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 458</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mrs. Clarissa B. Harrison.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain credits to be allowed, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> be authorized and directed to allow the representatives of J. C. S. Harrison, late Receiver of Public Money at Vincennes, the following credits, to take date from the respective times the money was paid or the services rendered by said Receiver, viz: one thousand five hundred dollars for bringing up the books of Nathaniel Ewing, his predecessor; two thousand and fifteen dollars and four cents, paid out under a deed of trust from the Bank of Vincennes, with commissions on the same, amounting to thirty-five dollars and fifty-one cents; and the said accounting officers are hereby authorized to settle and adjust any other claims of the late Receiver, arising from the discharge of his official duty, upon the principles of justice and equity, and to credit the amount thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for payment of balance.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That after the final adjustment of said accounts, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to allow to the legal representatives and heirs of said Receiver the period of eighteen years to pay the amount which shall be found due from said Receiver, without interest, upon such terras and conditions as to the Secretary of the Treasury shall be deemed reasonable and equitable, by taking a lien on the estate of the said Receiver, or such other security as, in his opinion, will secure the debt.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXII: for the relief of Bichard Smith and William Pearse, the second, of Bristol, in Rhode Island.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 458</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Bichard Smith and William Pearse, the second, of Bristol, in Rhode Island.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be issued, under the direction of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register for brig Hope to be issued.</p></sidenote>the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the brig Hope, built in Holland, but now owned by Richard Smith and William Pearse, the second, citizens of the United States, and now lying at the port of Bristol, in Rhode Island, unseaworthy, whenever the said Smith and Pearse shall furnish the Secretary of the Treasury with satisfactory proof that the said brig has been repaired in the United States, and that the cost of repairing her, by her present owners, exceeds three-fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIV: to extend the patent of John Adamson for a further period of fourteen years.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 458</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to extend the patent of John Adamson for a further period of fourteen years.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be, and hereby is, granted unto John <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent right extended for fourteen years.</p></sidenote>Adamson, a citizen of the United States, his heirs, administrators, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the twelfth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, his improvement, called a “Floating Dry Dock,” a description of which is given in a schedule annexed to letters patent granted to the said John Adamson for the same on the thirteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVII: for the relief of George Johnston.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 459</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/459">459</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George Johnston.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That George Johnston be, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from a judgment against him as surety.</p></sidenote> released from the effects of the judgment obtained against him by the United States, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the first judicial district, as one of the sureties of Benjamin F. Bourne, late a Purser in the Navy of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of J. N. Cardozo.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 459</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of J. N. Cardozo.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to make such deductions from the amount of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the Treasury authorized to make deductions from his debt, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> debt due by Jacob N. Cardozo to the United States, and such extension of the time for the payment thereof as may, in his opinion, be consistent with equity and justice.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIX: for the relief of Peter Cleer, of Maryland.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 459</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Cleer, of Maryland.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and directed to place the name of Peter Cleer on the roll of revolutionary<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension allowed him.</p></sidenote> pensions, and to cause him to be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: for the relief of Jonathan Crocker.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 459</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jonathan Crocker.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to restore the name of Jonathan Crocker to the roll of revolutionary<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name to be restored to pension list.</p></sidenote> pensioners, and to cause him to be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month, from and after the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: to authorize the executor of Stephen Tippett to locate a tract of land in the state of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 459</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the executor of Stephen Tippett to locate a tract of land in the state of Louisiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Stephen Tippett be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate and enter a tract of land<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter a tract of land.</p></sidenote> of fifteen arpens front, by the ordinary depth of forty arpens, within the counties of Attakapas and Opelousas, in the state of Louisiana, under a grant of Baron de Carondelet of the twenty-first of September, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> location authorized to be made under this act shall not be made so as to interfere with the claims of others.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of Hugh Barnes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 459</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Hugh Barnes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to cause to be paid to Hugh Barnes, an invalid pensioner of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of arrears of pension.</p></sidenote> the United States, an arrearage of pension withheld from him, in consequence of a mistake made by the examining surgeon in September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, being in addition to what he has received, at the rate of ten dollars per month, from the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, to the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/460">460</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 83, 84, 89, 90. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, when his pension of twenty dollars per month was restored to him.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: for the relief of Henry Becker.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 460</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Becker.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place Henry Becker on the list of invalid pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: confirming the claim of John B. Toulmin to a lot in the City of Mobile.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 460</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">confirming the claim of John B. Toulmin to a lot in the City of Mobile.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John B. Toulmin be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to a lot in Mobile confirmed.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>confirmed in his claim to a lot in the city of Mobile, bounded west by Saint Joseph street, north by Saint Anthony street, and on the east by Royal street, originally granted to John Linder: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to prevent adverse claimants from asserting their rights, in a court of justice.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: for the relief of Samuel Nowell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 460</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Nowell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be paid to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted.</p></sidenote>Samuel Nowell, of New Hampshire, a pension of eight dollars per month during his natural life, commmencing on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XC: to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 460</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the subscribers to this company, their <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incorporation.</p></sidenote>successors and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby, created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the “Potomac Fire Insurance Company of Georgetown;” and shall by that name have succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all courts of law in the United States, and to make and use one common seal, and the same to alter and amend at their pleasure.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That subscriptions be opened in Georgetown, in the district aforesaid, under the direction of Francis Dodge, Raphael Semmes, Walter Smith, John Kurtz, William S. Nicholls, L. G. Davidson, John Marbury, Joel Cruttenden, O. M. Linthicum, James Dunlop, William G. Ridgeley, Samuel Humphreys, and William Hayman, as Commissioners, or a majority of them, for raising a capital stock of two hundred thousand dollars, divided into eight thousand shares of twenty-five dollars each.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stock, how subscribed for, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said Commissioners after giving ten days’ previous notice of the time and place for receiving subscriptions of the said stock shall proceed to receive the same; and should the number of shares subscribed exceed the number of which the capital stock consists, then, and in such case, the said Commissioners are hereby authorized and directed so to apportion the shares subscribed among the several subscribers, by proportional reduction, as may reduce the whole to the aforesaid number of eight thousand shares.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, the sum of one dollar on
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 90. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
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each share shall be paid to the Commissioners at the time of subscribing,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments on stock.</p></sidenote> and a further sum of four dollars on each share of stock by instalments, after giving thirty days’ previous notice to the stockholders, in one or more newspapers printed in the District of Columbia, not exceeding two dollars on each share; and that the remainder of the said twenty-five dollars shall be secured by notes payable on demand, signed and endorsed to the satisfaction of the President and Directors. The said notes shall be renewed whenever the directors may consider it proper; but the directors are hereby required to cause the same to be renewed at least once in every twelve months; and every stockholder<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeitures.</p></sidenote> neglecting or refusing to renew his note, or neglecting or refusing to pay any instalment, when required by the President and Directors so to do, shall forfeit all his interest in this company, and be held liable for his proportion of any loss which may have occurred previous to such neglect or refusal.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, should any forfeiture be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remission of forfeiture.</p></sidenote> incurred by any member of this institution, the same may be annulled, remitted, and made void by a majority of the whole board of directors present at the meeting at which the motion for such remission shall be made: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no remittance of any forfeiture under this act<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall take place without the payment of the principal of said instalment, and interest thereon, or the renewal of his note, as required by the directors, as also the payment of his proportion of such loss as may have occurred previous to such forfeiture.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, as soon as two thousand<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Directors.</p></sidenote> shares shall be subscribed for, the Commissioners hereby authorized to receive subscriptions shall call a meeting of the subscribers, after giving ten days’ notice in one or more of the newspapers printed in the District of Columbia; and the subscribers who shall assemble in consequence of such notice, or appear by proxy, shall choose by ballot from among the stockholders, by a majority of votes, twelve directors, who shall continne in office until the first Monday in August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; on which Monday in August, in every succeeding year thereafter, an election shall be held for twelve directors as aforesaid, who shall continue in office for one year from the time of their election, and until others be chosen in their stead: and the said directors, at their first meeting, shall choose from<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">President.</p></sidenote> among themselves, or from the stockholders at large, a president, and allow him a reasonable compensation for his services; and, in case of death, removal, resignation, or other disqualification of the president or any of the directors, the remaining directors may elect others to supply their places during the remainder of the term for which they were chosen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That every subscriber shall be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Votes.</p></sidenote> entitled to vote by himself, his agent or proxy, appointed under his hand and seal, attested by two witnesses, at all elections made by virtue of this act; and shall have as many votes as he holds shares, as far as ten shares; one vote for every five shares which he may hold over ten shares as far as fifty other shares; and one vote for every twenty shares which he may hold over sixty shares.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, the affairs of this institution<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of president and directors.</p></sidenote> shall be conducted by the president and directors elected as aforesaid; that the president shall preside at all meetings of the directors, and, in case of absence, his place may be supplied by one of the directors, appointed by the board; that the president and directors shall have power and authority to make all kinds of insurances against loss or damage by fire, and insurances on inland transportation of goods, wares, merchandise, and country produce, not exceeding ten thousand dollars in any one policy, and to invest the funds of the institution in
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 90. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
stock, or dispose of the same in such manner as in their judgment may be most advantageous to the said institution; that they shall have full power and authority to appoint a secretary, and such other clerks and servants under them as shall be necessary for transacting the business of the said institution, and may allow them such salary as they shall judge reasonable; to ordain and establish such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, as shall appear to them necessary for regulating and conducting the concerns of the said institution, not being contrary to, or inconsistent with, this act, or the laws and constitution of the United States; that the said president and directors shall conduct business in Georgetown, that they shall keep full, fair, and correct entries of their transactions, which shall be at all times open to the inspection of the stockholders; they shall also have power to hire or purchase a suitable building or buildings in Georgetown, for the purpose of transacting the affairs of the institution; that the president, or such other person as may be appointed in his place, and four directors, shall form a quorum for transacting business, and all questions which may come before them shall be decided by a plurality of votes.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 9. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Policies.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, all policies of insurance made by this corporation shall be signed by the President, attested by the Secretary, and sealed with the common seal thereof; and all losses on any such policy or policies shall be adjusted by the president and board of directors, and paid, agreeably to the terms of the policy, out of the funds of the company.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 10. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dividends.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, dividends of the nett profits arising on the capital stock, or so much thereof as to them may appear advisable, after reserving one-third of the nett profits as a surplus fund, until it shall amount to the sum of twenty thousand dollars, shall be made at such periods as the president and directors may judge proper, not oftener than once in six months, and the same shall be paid to the stockholders or their legal representatives; but if a dividend shall at any time be declared of a greater amount than the nett profits of the said company at the time of making the same, each and every director that consented thereto, shall, and is hereby declared to be liable for, in his individual capacity, and bound to contribute to make good the deficiency in the capital stock occasioned by such improper dividend.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 11. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability of stockholders.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, no stockholder shall be answerable, in his person or individual property, for any contract or agreement of said company, or for any losses, deficiencies, or failures, of the capital stock of said institution, except in the case of a director declaring an improper dividend, as before provided for in the tenth section of this act; but the whole of the said capital stock, together with all property, rights, and credits, belonging thereunto, and nothing more, shall at any time be answerable for the demands against the said company.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 12. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legal nature of stock.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, the stock of this institution is hereby declared personal and not real estate, and may be assigned and transferred on the books of the company, in person or by power of attorney only; but no stockholder indebted to the company shall be permitted to make a transfer, or receive a dividend, until such debt is paid or secured to the satisfaction of the president and board of directors.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 13. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That this act shall be and continue in force until the first day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and until the end of the next session of Congress which shall happen thereafter; and on the dissolution or expiration of this charter, the president and directors for the time being shall take prompt and effectual measures for closing all its concerns; but no such dissolution or expiration shall operate so as to prevent any suits to be brought or continued by or against the said corporation, for any debt or
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/463">463</page>
claim due by or to, the same, and which arose previously to said dissolution or expiration; but for the purpose of closing its concerns, its corporate powers shall remain unimpaired.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCIII: for the relief of James Belger.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 463</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Belger.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of James Belger on the list<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: to rectify the mistake in the name of William Tumey, an invalid pensioner.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 463</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to rectify the mistake in the name of William Tumey, an invalid pensioner.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the name “William Turney” in the fifth<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mistake in his name rectified.</p></sidenote> section of the act, approved the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, entitled “An act for the relief of sundry revolutionary and other officers and soldiers, and for other purposes,” be changed to William Tumey, and that the said <i>William Tumey</i> and no other, may have and enjoy all the relief and benefit granted by the said act to “<i>William Turney</i>.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCV: for the relief of Daniel Jackson and Lucius M. Higgins of Newbern, in North Carolina.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 463</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Daniel Jackson and Lucius M. Higgins of Newbern, in North Carolina.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be issued, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the schooner Julia D. Ramsey,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A register for schr. Julia D. Ramsey to be issued.</p></sidenote> built in Quebec, but now owned by Daniel Jackson and Lucius M. Higgins, citizens of the United States, and lying at the port of Newbern, in North Carolina, whenever the said Jackson and Higgins shall furnish the Secretary of the Treasury with satisfactory proof that the said schooner has been repaired in the United States, and that the cost of repairing her, by her present owners, exceeds three-fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVI: for the relief of William Delzell, of Ohio.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 463</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Delzell, of Ohio.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required toplace the name of William Delzell, on<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. C: for the relief of the legal representatives of Peter Celestino Walker and John Peter Walker, deceased, and of Joseph Walker, of the state of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>C</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 463</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>C.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Peter Celestino Walker and John Peter Walker, deceased, and of Joseph Walker, of the state of Mississippi.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Peter Celestino Walker, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Representatives, &amp;c. authorized to enter certain lands.</p></sidenote> locate on any of the public lands of the United States, in the state of Mississippi, which have been offered for sale at public sale, and are now subject to entry at private sale, the quantity of five hundred acres of land, by legal subdivisions, in lieu of the quantity of five hundred acres
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/464">464</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 101, 102. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
of land granted to the said Peter Celestino Walker, by the Spanish Government by warrant, and order of survey, which has been sold by the United States. And that the legal representatives of John Peter Walker, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter and locate on any of the public lands of the United States in the state of Mississippi which have been offered for sale, and are now subject to entry at private sale, five hundred acres of land, in legal subdivisions, in lieu of the quantity of five hundred acres, granted to the said John Peter Walker, by the Spanish Government by warrant and order of survey, which has been sold by the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joseph Walker authorized to locate a tract of land.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Joseph Walker be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter and locate on any of the public lands of the United States, in the state of Mississippi, which have been offered at public sale, and are now subject to entry at private sale, five hundred acres of land, by legal subdivisions, in lieu of five hundred acres granted to the said Joseph Walker by the Spanish Government, by warrant and order of survey, which has been sold by the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-02">March 2, 1831</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CI: for the relief of William T. Carroll, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United Slates.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 464</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William T. Carroll, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United Slates.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of two thousand dollars be appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services in transcribing causes in Supreme Court, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to compensate William T. Carroll, Clerk of the Supreme Court, for engrossing the minutes of the said Court from August term, eighteen hundred and twenty, to August term, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, for transcribing the causes decided in said court for thirty-one terms, entering under each cause, all motions, orders, continuances, judgments, decrees, and other proceedings; and, also, for arranging and labelling the documents of the said Court: all which services, not pertaining to the regular official duties of the said Carroll, were performed in obedience to an order of the Court, made at January term, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CII: for the relief of Beverly Chew, the heirs of William Emerson, deceased, and the heirs of Edwin Lorraine, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 464</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Beverly Chew, the heirs of William Emerson, deceased, and the heirs of Edwin Lorraine, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<preamble>
<recital class="indent1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote>Whereas, the brig Josepha Secunda was condemned in the name of the United States, in the District Court of the United States for the Louisiana District, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, on the seizure and prosecution, and at the sole expense of Beverly Chew, Collector of the District of Mississippi, William Emerson, deceased, Surveyor, and Edwin Lorraine, deceased, Naval Officer of the port of New Orleans, for an infraction of the slave laws: And whereas the one-half of the proceeds of the said brig and her cargo are now deposited, subject to the order of the said Court, which half would have been payable to the said Beverly Chew, William Emerson, and Edwin Lorraine, but for an omission in the laws heretofore passed on that subject: Therefore,</recital>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
</preamble>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the District Court of the United States for <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds of a certain seizure to be paid.</p></sidenote>the Louisiana District, be authorized and directed to order the proceeds of the said seizure now deposited, subject to the order of the said court, to be paid over to the said Beverly Chew, and the legal representatives of the said William Emerson and Edwin Lorraine, respectively</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIV: for the benefit of Percis Lovely, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 465</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 104, 105, 106. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/465">465</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of Percis Lovely, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the tract of land not exceeding one half section, including the present residence of Mrs. Percis Lovely, in Pope<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain land secured to her.</p></sidenote> county, in the Territory of Arkansas, shall be reserved by the President of the United States from public sale, during the life-time of said Percis, and that she shall have the entire use and privilege of, and possession of the said half section of land, for and during her life: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the said Percis Lovely, shall not commit, or permit any other person to commit, on said land, any voluntary waste.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain improvements, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> pay unto the said Percis Lovely, or her legal representative, out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to that for which her improvements upon the land secured to her by the treaty at Hiawassee, in one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, for life, were valued, and which improvements and land were taken from her by the treaty at Washington, of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, with the Cherokee Indians: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That before the money shall be paid the said Percis Lovely, she shall produce to the treasury department satisfactory evidence that the said sum of money has not been heretofore paid her by the Government of the United States, through the Indian department: and,</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, also,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the half section granted by this act, shall not interfere with, or include any lands lying within the limits of any reservation made by the last named treaty, made at Washington as aforesaid, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, for carrying into effect the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seneca treaty.</p></sidenote> treaty concluded with the Seneca tribe of Indians at Washington, the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the sum of eleven thousand and one hundred and seventy-five dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of William B. Matthews, trustee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 465</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William B. Matthews, trustee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be paid to William B. Matthews, trustee for sundry securities of Lawrence Muse, out of any money in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount overpaid to be refunded.</p></sidenote> the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and seventy-two dollars; being the amount which the said Matthews, as trustee for the securities of the said Muse, overpaid upon a judgment against one of them.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVI: for the relief of John Nicks.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 465</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Nicks.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay John Nicks, of Arkansas,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment on account of protested draft.</p></sidenote> two thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars and eight cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of a draft, drawn by Colonel David Brearley, Indian agent for the emigrating Creeks, upon the war department, and protested for non-payment.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVII: for the relief of Brevet Major Riley, and Lieutenants Brook and Seawright.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 466</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/466">466</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 107, 108, 109, 110, 111. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Brevet Major Riley, and Lieutenants Brook and Seawright.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of two hundred and ten dollars, out <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for horses lost.</p></sidenote>of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to be paid to Brevet Major Bennet Riley, Lieutenant F. J. Brook, and Lieutenant J. D. Seawright, of the army of the United States, under the orders of the Secretary of War, for the loss of three horses, captured from them in an action with the Camanche and other Indians, on the Sante Fe trace, in the summer of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, while giving convoy to a caravan of traders from United States to the Mexican dominions, under the orders of the President of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: for the relief of Duval and Carnes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 466</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Duval and Carnes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of three thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-nine cents, be paid to Duval and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for losses by an illegal seizure of their property.</p></sidenote>Carnes, merchants in company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full of all claims for losses and damages sustained by them in consequence of an unlawful seizure of their goods, in the Territory of Arkansas, by Colonel Arbuckle, on the fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CIX: for the relief of the legal representatives of General Moses Hazen, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 466</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of General Moses Hazen, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of interest.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of the said Moses Hazen, the amount of interest due on the sum of thirteen thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and two-nineteenths of a dollar, a balance found to be due to the said Hazen, agreeably to a resolution of Congress of the twenty-fifth of April, anno domini, seventeen hundred and eighty-one.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CX: for the relief of Benjamin S. Smoot, of Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 466</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benjamin S. Smoot, of Alabama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Benjamin S. Smoot one thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the value of a store-house owned by him, and destroyed by order of the officers of the United States, to prevent its being shelter to the British, in their attack upon Fort Bowyer, in one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
</action>
</main>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXI: for the relief of John Nicholson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 466</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Nicholson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper officers of the Treasury settle and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for maintenance of Africans, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>pay to John Nicholson, Marshal of the eastern district of Louisiana, such sums as may reasonably be due, or may hereafter become due, to him, for the care, custody, maintenance and clothing of such Africans as may have been brought into the port of New Orleans, and legally
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 112, 113, 114. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/467">467</page>
committed to his custody by order of the court of the United States for the said district, and that such payment be made out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXII: for the relief of John Gough, and other Canadian refugees.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 467</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Gough, and other Canadian refugees.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Beit enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be authorized to issue to John Gough, of Indiana, a patent for the north-east<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to issue.</p></sidenote> quarter of section eleven, in township twelve, north, of range nine, west, in the Vincennes land district, upon the condition expressed therein, that neither said John, nor any person under him, shall claim any benefit under a patent erroneously issued for the south-east quarter of said section, and alleged to be lost.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the existing laws for the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Existing laws applicable to correction of errors, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> correction of errors in the purchase of the public land, shall be equally applicable to erroneous locations of the warrants of the Canadian refugees.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: to extend the patent of Samuel Browning for a further period of fourteen years.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 467</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to extend the patent of Samuel Browning for a further period of fourteen years.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be, and hereby is, granted unto Samuel Browning, a citizen of the United States, his heirs, administrators<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent right extended for 14 years.</p></sidenote> and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the twenty-fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, his improvement called a “magnetic separating machine,” a description of which is given in a schedule annexed to letters patent granted to the said Samuel Browning for the same, on the twenty-fifth day of November, eighteen hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: for the relief of John Culbertson, and to provide an interpreter for the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 467</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Culbertson, and to provide an interpreter for the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three and one-third cents be paid by the Marshal of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as interpreter.</p></sidenote> the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana to John Culbertson, for his services rendered as interpreter to the United States’ court for said district under the provisional appointment of the Judge, for each regular term of said court, from the December term of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, inclusively, up to the time of the passage of this act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Judge of the district<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">An interpreter created.</p></sidenote> court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, be and is hereby, authorized to appoint an interpreter to said court, and to allow him a compensation not exceeding three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three and one-third cents, for his services at each regular term of said court, to be holden subsequently to the passage of this act; and the Marshal is authorized to pay the same upon the order of the Judge: <proviso><i>Provided, always,</i> That it shall be the duty of the said<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> interpreter, during his continuance in office, to attend all and every of the called or irregular sessions of the said court, without any additional compensation therefor:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, also,</i> That the said interpreter shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> not receive, under this act, more than one thousand dollars for each year.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: for the relief of George B. Dameron and William Howze, of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 468</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/468">468</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 117, 118, 119, 120, 121. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George B. Dameron and William Howze, of Mississippi.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for extra services.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized to make a reasonable allowance to the Register and Receiver of the land office at Jackson Court House, Mississippi, for extra services performed by them under the third section of the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: for the relief of James Thomas, late quartermaster General in the army of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 468</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Thomas, late quartermaster General in the army of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and allowance made.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to adjust and settle the accounts and claims of Col. James Thomas, late Quartermaster General of the army of the United States, and allow him a credit for all vouchers which he shall satisfactorily prove to have been lost for the expenditure of money duly authorized and not heretofore placed to his credit, and that they allow him such compensation for all extra official duties performed, and services rendered by him as he is entitled to if any, according to former regulations and precedents of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>department: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That no allowance shall be made in the settlement aforesaid greater than the amount for which the said Thomas is now held liable to the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIX: for the relief of Christopher Bechtler.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 468</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Christopher Bechtler.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to issue for two machines for washing gold ores.</p></sidenote>authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to Christopher Bechtler, for each of his two machines for the purpose of washing gold ores, upon his compliance with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require, on the part of aliens, a residence of two years in the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of James Hogland.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 468</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Hogland.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James Hogland, of the state of Indiana, be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to surrender a certain tract of land, and enter another therefor, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>and he is hereby, authorized to surrender and cancel, at the land office at Indianapolis, in such form as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, his patent for the east half of the south-east quarter of section seventeen, in township fourteen, north, of range three, east, in the district of lands offered for sale at Indianopolis; and that he be permitted to enter, in lieu thereof, and without paying for the same, any other half quarter section in said district subject to entry at private sale.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: granting a pension to Martin Miller.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 468</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting a pension to Martin Miller.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Martin Miller on the list of revolutionary pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: for the relief of Joseph S. Cannon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 469</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 122, 123, 124, 125. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/469">469</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph S. Cannon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and required toplace the name of Joseph S. Cannon<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> on the Navy Pension List, at the rate of ten dollars per month, payable from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXIII: for the relief of Antoine Dequindre, and the legal representatives of Louis Dequindre, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 469</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Antoine Dequindre, and the legal representatives of Louis Dequindre, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to release and discharge Antoine Dequindre,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from the payment of certain bonds.</p></sidenote> and the legal representatives of Louis Dequindre, deceased, from the payment of three several bonds given to the collector of Detroit, on the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, for the payment of duties on a quantity of goods transported through Canada, from Buffalo to Detroit, amounting together, to the sum of five hundred and seventy-nine dollars and forty-nine cents: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, if any costs have arisen, by the commencement of suits<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> on either of the said bonds, the same shall be first paid and satisfied by the said Antoine Dequindre, and the legal representatives of Louis Dequindre, deceased.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-31">March 3, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXIV: for the relief of Samuel Coburn, of the state of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 469</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Coburn, of the state of Mississippi.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Surveyor-General of the public lands south of the state of Tennessee, be, and he is hereby, authorized and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey of land claim.</p></sidenote> required to cause to be surveyed by the proper officer a certain tract of land, claimed by Samuel Coburn, lying on the waters of Chubby’s Fork of the Bayou Pierre, Claiborne county, Mississippi, originally claimed by William Thomas, by virtue of a Spanish warrant or order of survey, granted to said Thomas on the twenty-first of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five; and that a correct return and plat of the same be made to his office, stating how much of said claim has been sold or confirmed by the United States, to Abraham Barnes or any other person.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the said Samuel Coburn<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location of land.</p></sidenote> is authorized to locate, on any of the public lands within the state of Mississippi, so many acres of the claim above referred to as may be ascertained by said survey and plat to be sold or confirmed to Abraham Barnes or any other person; and that the remainder of the original Spanish grant to Thomas be, and the same is hereby, confirmed to Samuel Coburn: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That such confirmation shall only operate as a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> relinquishment of all right and title on the part of the United States to said land.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXV: for the relief of Woodson Wren, of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 469</citableAs>
<dc:date>1831-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>21</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Woodson Wren, of Mississippi.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Woodson Wren, of the state of Mississippi, be, and he is hereby, confirmed to a tract of land containing eight hundred<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to land confirmed.</p></sidenote> arpens, situated on the east side of the bay of Biloxi, in the county of Jackson, and state of Mississippi, between Bellfontaine and the old French fort, claimed by virtue of a purchase from Littleberry Robert-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/470">470</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 125. 1831.</centerRunningHead>
son, and reported for confirmation by the Register and Receiver of the land office at Jackson Court-house, Mississippi, dated July the twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to be issued.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon being presented with plats and certificates of survey of the said tract of land, legally executed by a proper officer, shall issue a patent for the same; which patent shall operate only as a relinquishment, on the part of the United States, of all right and title to said land.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">In case said tract shall have been sold, &amp;c., allowed to enter another tract.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office that the claim herein above alluded to, or any part thereof, shall have been sold, patented, or confirmed, to any person, previous to the passage of this act, then and in that case, the said Woodson Wren shall be allowed to enter the same number of acres of the claim thus sold, patented, or confirmed, to any other person, or any of the unappropriated lands in the state of Mississippi that may be subject to private entry, conforming, in such entry, to the divisions and subdivisions established by law.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1831-03-03">March 3, 1831</date>.
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<meta>
<congress>22</congress>
</meta>
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<component role="session">
<meta>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1831</dc:date>
<dc:date>1832</dc:date>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at thefirst session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fifth day of December,</i> 1831, <i>and ended on the fourteenth day of July,</i> 1832.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote><inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Jackson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John C. Calhoun</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Stevenson</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. II: for the relief of William J. Quincy and Charles E. Quincy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>II</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 471</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-01-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William J. Quincy and Charles E. Quincy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-01-19">Jan. 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Collector<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to them, amount of debenture certificate.</p></sidenote> of the Customs of the District of Boston and Charlestown be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow to William J. Quincy, and Charles E. Quincy the sum of seven hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-two cents, the amount of a debenture certificate issued by the Collector of the Customs for the District of Ocracoke, on the fifth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, upon the exportation of twelve pipes of brandy: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That said William J.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> Quincy and Charles E. Quincy shall first produce to the said Collector at Boston satisfactory evidence that the duties which accrued upon the original importation of said brandies have been paid, and that the said brandies have been exported from the United States, and actually landed in a foreign port.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-01-19">January 19, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. III: for the relief of Henry H. Tuckerman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>III</docNumber>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry H. Tuckerman.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-01-19">Jan. 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to refund to Henry H. Tuckerman, of Boston, the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties refunded.</p></sidenote> duties paid by him on a package of Casimeres, imported in April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and re-exported, with a view to obtain the benefit of drawback, on the eleventh September, eighteen hundred and eighteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Secretary of the Treasury shall be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> satisfied that all the requirements of the law have been complied with, except that which makes it necessary that an oath should be taken, and the export bond should be given, within twenty days from the time when the said merchandise was re-exported.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-01-19">January 19, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: for the relief of Robertson and Barnwell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1832-01-19</dc:date>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robertson and Barnwell.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-01-19">Jan. 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties refunded.</p></sidenote> appropriated, to the firm of Robertson and Barnwell, of the city
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/471" renderingPosition="bottom">471</page>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/472">472</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 5, 6, 7, 8. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
of Mobile, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars, being the amount of duties paid by them upon certain barrels of Spanish playing cards, by them imported into the port of Mobile, and thence re-exported to Mexico.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-01-19">January 19, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of Lewis Anderson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 472</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-01-19</dc:date>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lewis Anderson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-01-19">Jan. 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Lewis <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote>Anderson, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars and ten cents, the value of a horse, the property of said Anderson, after deducting the hire and forage of said horse for seven days, the term for which payment was made after said horse was lost; the same being captured by the Indians, on the twenty-third of January, eighteen hundred and eighteen, while in the service of the United States, during the war with the Seminole Indians.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-01-19">January 19, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of William Forsythe.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 472</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-01-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Forsythe.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-01-19">Jan. 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a stable purchased by U. S.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to William Forsythe, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and eighty-one dollars, the value of a stable purchased of the said Forsythe, by Captain Joel Collins, to erect quarters for the United States’ troops, at Sandwich, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-01-19">January 19, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Charles Cassedy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 472</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-01-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Charles Cassedy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-01-19">Jan. 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Charles <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for his services as secretary, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>Cassedy, four hundred and ten dollars, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, for his services as Secretary and Clerk to a Commission appointed by the United States to ascertain the boundary lines of cession made by the Creek Indians to the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-01-19">January 19, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of Dixon Spears.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 472</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-01-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Dixon Spears.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-01-19">Jan. 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Dixon Spears, of the county of Laurence, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to surrender a section certificate, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>in the state of Alabama, be, and he is hereby authorized, to surrender to the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Huntsville, in said state of Alabama, the certificate heretofore issued to him, for the west half of the north-east quarter of section twenty-three, township six, and range eight, west of the meridian of Huntsville, which was purchased by him through mistake; and said Dixon Spears on filing his relinquishment to all right and title thereto, is authorized to enter in the said Land Office at Huntsville, the east half of the north-east quarter, in the township and range aforesaid, and in payment therefor, shall be credited with the amount of money which was paid for the tract first named: <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said half quarter section shall remain unsold until application to purchase be made by said Spears, and in the event that it shall have been sold before such application, then said Dixon Spears shall be entitled to a certificate from the Register and Receiver, stating the amount which has been by him so paid by mistake, which shall be received in payment for any land of the United States, which may hereafter be offered for sale.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-01-19">January 19, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of Robert A. Forsythe.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 473</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-01-23</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 11, 12, 13, 14, 16. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/473">473</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert A. Forsythe.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-01-23">Jan. 23, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Robert A. Forsythe, out of any money, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services among Patawatamie Indians.</p></sidenote> six hundred and twenty-five dollars, for his services and expenses for one hundred and fifty-three days in collecting and accompanying the Patawatamie tribe of Indians to meet the commissioners of the United States, in council, at Greenville, in the state of Ohio, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-01-23">January 23, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XII: for the relief of William D. King, James Daviess, and Garland Lincicum.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 473</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-01-23</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William D. King, James Daviess, and Garland Lincicum.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-01-23">Jan. 23, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to William D. King, James Daviess, and Garland Lincicum, out of any money<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for attending an exploring party of Chickasaws.</p></sidenote> in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, and to each of them, the sum of four hundred and forty-eight dollars, for their services from the twentieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to the tenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and twentynine, both days inclusive, for attending an exploring party of the Chickasaw nation of Indians beyond the Mississippi.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-01-23">January 23, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of Stephen Hook.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 473</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-01-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Stephen Hook.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-01-23">Jan. 23, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay unto Stephen Hook, of New Hampshire,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services in arresting criminals.</p></sidenote> the sum of four hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, in full for moneys expended and services rendered in the apprehension, at Louisburgh, Cape Breton Island, of Charles Marchant and Winslow Curtis, charged with the commission of piracy and murder on board the American schooner Fairy.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-01-23">January 23, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIV: for the relief of Henry Kilbourn.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 473</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-01-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Henry Kilbourn.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-01-23">Jan. 23, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Agent of the Treasury of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to discharge a<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgment in favor of U.S. to be discharged.</p></sidenote> judgment rendered in the United States’ Court for the district of Connecticut, against Henry Kilbourn, in favor of the United States; and shall also cancel a bond given to the United States, on the twenty-third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, by the said Henry Kilbourn, for the sum of six hundred and eighty dollars and ten cents, the purchase money of a certain lot in the city of Hartford, and state of Connecticut, on the said Henry Kilbourn filing in the treasury department his assent to the provisions of this act, and a relinquishment of all claims to the said lot.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-01-23">January 23, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XVI: to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claim of the United States on the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 473</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claim of the United States on the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-10">Feb. 10, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claim of the U. S. on Commercial Bank of Lake Erie.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized to compromise and finally settle the claim of the United States on the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, on such terms as he may deem most conducive to the best interests of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-10">February 10, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of John Proctor.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1832-02-18</dc:date>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/474">474</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Proctor.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-18">Feb. 18, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Proctor, of the county of Perry, in the state <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to surrender land certificate, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>of Alabama, be, and he is hereby authorized to surrender the certificate issued to him from the Land Office at Cahawba, in said state, for the east half of the north-west quarter section twenty-six, township twenty, range seven, east of the meridian, which was entered by him through mistake; and on filing his relinquishment to all right and title thereto, said John Proctor is authorized to enter in said Land Office at Cahawba, the east half of the north-west quarter section twenty-seven, in township twenty, and range seven; and in payment therefor, shall be credited with the amount of money which was paid for the tract first named.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-18">February 18, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: for the relief of Lawrence L. Van Kleeck.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 474</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-18</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Lawrence L. Van Kleeck.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-18">Feb. 18, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be opened, and allowance made.</p></sidenote> open the accounts of Lawrence L. Van Kleeck, late collector of the internal revenue in the thirteenth collection district in the state of New York, and allow him such further sum as he is entitled to as the successor of Thomas Lenington, by dividing the compensation between the two, according to the time that each served in said office in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen; and on the amount being ascertained, the Solicitor of the Treasury is directed to apply the same on a judgment recovered against said Van Kleeck before the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of New York; and if interest was computed on the money contained in said judgment, and formed a part thereof, then he is directed to compute interest on the additional allowance from the same time that the interest in said judgment was computed; and if such allowance equals the judgment, then the same is to be discharged.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-18">February 18, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of James Lucius Sawyer.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 474</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-18</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James Lucius Sawyer.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-18">Feb. 18, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as Judge Advocate, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James Lucius Sawyer, thirty dollars for his services as Recorder or Judge Advocate on the trial of Doctor Pendergrast, before a court-martial ordered by General Wilkinson, during the late war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-18">February 18, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XX: granting a pension to Jared Cone.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 474</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting a pension to Jared Cone.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-18">Feb. 18, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Jared Cone upon the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, 1830.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-18">February 18, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of Andrew H. Richardson, executor of Valentine Richardson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 474</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Andrew H. Richardson, executor of Valentine Richardson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-18">Feb. 18, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Andrew<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him, amount improperly collected</p></sidenote> H. Richardson, executor of Valentine Richardson, late collector of the internal revenue in the state of North Carolina, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty-one dollars and sixty-six cents, the amount of commissions on eight hundred and sixty-one dollars and thirteen cents, and the interest on said commission from May
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 22, 23, 24. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/475">475</page>
fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, the same having been improperly collected, together with the interest computed thereon.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-18">February 18, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of Ariel Ensign.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 475</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ariel Ensign.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-18">Feb. 18, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain improvements.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized and directed to pay Ariel Ensign, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and two dollars, in full satisfaction of all improvements made by the said Ariel Ensign, on a certain lot in the city of Hartford, and state of Connecticut, heretofore belonging to the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-18">February 18, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: for the relief of Adam Peck.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 475</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Adam Peck.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-18">Feb. 18, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury be directed to re-open, audit, and settle the account of Adam Peck,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be re-opened, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> on the principles of justice and equity, and make him such further allowance as he may be entitled to; and if the amount so allowed to him shall be equal to the debt claimed by the United States, after deducting the credit heretofore allowed to him on account of money due to him as administrator on the estate of a deceased soldier, then said account is to be balanced; and if judgment has been rendered thereon, said judgment is to be discharged on the payment of costs; and if such allowance shall be less than the judgment, the same to apply in part satisfaction of said judgment, interest to be computed on the allowance made, if interest has been included in the judgment, and from the time the interest in the judgment commenced.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="smallCaps"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, if said account shall be balanced<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> without including the credit of the sum due to said Peck as administrator as aforesaid, then said accounting officer shall certify the amount due to him, as administrator, to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is directed to pay the same, out of any money not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-18">February 18, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of Antoine Dequindre, Richard Smith, and others, Michigan volunteers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 475</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Antoine Dequindre, Richard Smith, and others, Michigan volunteers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-18">Feb. 18, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury audit<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions of act of Feb. 6, 1812, ch. 21, extended to them.</p></sidenote> and adjust the claims of Antoine Dequindre and Richard Smith, and of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, in the companies under their respective commands, who enrolled themselves as a part of the quota of fifty thousand volunteers, under the act of February sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve; and to allow to the said Antoine Dequindre and Richard Smith, and to the officers non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, so enrolled, and who were in the service of the United States under said enrolments, such further sum as they are entitled to, by extending to them the provisions of the act of February sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, authorizing the President of the United States to accept the services of fifty thousand volunteers, so that said companies be put on a footing of equality with the Ohio volunteers.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the respective sums so found due be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> the claimants, if living, or to their executors or administrators, if dead.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-18">February 18, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of William Tharp.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 476</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/476">476</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 29, 30, 31. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Tharp.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-24">Feb. 24, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be opened, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to open and adjust the accounts of William Tharp, late a suttler in the army of the United States, and allow to him interest on moneys paid and advanced by him for letters of administration on the estates of deceased non-commissioned officers and soldiers, where allowances have heretofore been made to him for debts due to him from such deceased non-commissioned officers and soldiers; and shall allow to the said Tharp, in cases where he has taken out letters of administration, the per centage allowed by the laws of Maryland on settlements made by administrators, on the several sums <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>settled by him as administrator: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no larger sum shall in any case be awarded to said Tharp, on account of his claims against any deceased non-commissioned officer or soldier, than appears from the muster and pay rolls to be actually and justly due to such non-commissioned officer and soldier from the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the sums awarded to the said Tharp, under the foregoing section, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-24">February 24, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of the representatives of Doctor Hanson Catlett.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 476</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representatives of Doctor Hanson Catlett.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-24">Feb. 24, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers pay to the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for pay and rations advanced.</p></sidenote>legal representatives of Doctor Hanson Catlett, late of the United States’ army, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and forty-five dollars, being the amount claimed by said Doctor Catlett, in his life-time, for pay and rations advanced to a hospital steward at the arsenal near Pittsburg, from the ninth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, to the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-24">February 24, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXI: for the relief of the heirs of William Robertson, deceased, and Daniel S. Leonard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 476</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of William Robertson, deceased, and Daniel S. Leonard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-24">Feb. 24, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Robertson authorized to surrender certificate of further credit, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs of William Robertson, late of Madison county, Alabama, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to surrender, in the Land Office at Huntsville, in the state aforesaid, the “certificate of further credit,” bearing date on the seventh of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, which issued to the said William Robertson, in his life-time, for the north-east quarter of section number four, in township number one, of range number two east, in the district of lands offered for sale at Huntsville; and, on the payment of the balance due, if any, under the act of Congress, entitled “An act supplemental to an act, passed on the thirty-first March, eighteen hundred and thirty, entitled ‘An act for the relief of purchasers of public lands, and for the suppression of fraudulent practices at the public sales of lands of the United States,’ ” passed on the twenty-fifth day <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 25, 1831, ch. 34.</p></sidenote>of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, the said heirs of the said William Robertson, deceased, shall be entitled to a patent for the said quarter section of land, in all respects, as they would have been if said certificate had been surrendered, and such balance paid, at or before the expiration of the time limited for that purpose by the provisions of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>said act: <i>Provided, </i>Said quarter section of land shall not have been, before such surrender of said certificate, purchased by any other person; and, in that event a certificate shall issue to said heirs from said
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 32, 33, 34. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/477">477</page>
Land Office, for the full amount which may have been paid by the said Robertson, in his life-time, which shall be received in payment for any land of the United States which may be hereafter sold.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Daniel S. Leonard, who was<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">D. S. Leonard authorized to avail himself of act of Feb. 25, 1831, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> the purchaser of the north-east quarter of section twenty-two, in township one, of range one, east of the basis meridian of lands offered for sale at Huntsville, Alabama, be, and he is hereby, authorized to avail himself of the provisions of the act referred to in the foregoing section of this act, which was passed on the twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, under the limitations and restrictions prescribed for the heirs of the said William Robertson, deceased.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-24">February 24, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of John Sapp.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 477</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-24</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Sapp.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-24">Feb. 24, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain the value of a horse the said John Sapp lost in the service of the United<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, by reason that he was dismounted and separated from said horse at Portage river, in the expedition under the command of Governor Shelby; and when the value of said horse shall be so ascertained, the same shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-24">February 24, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: for the relief of Peter Peck.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 477</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Peter Peck.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-24">Feb. 24, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Peter Peck, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost</p></sidenote> dollars, the value of a horse lost by him at Portage river, in the state of Ohio, during the last war, by reason of his having been dismounted, and ordered into Canada in the expedition commanded by Governor Shelby.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-24">February 24, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of Cornelius Overton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 477</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Cornelius Overton.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-02-24">Feb. 24, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for Cornelius Overton, of the state of Indiana, upon application at the Land Office at<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to correct error in entry, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Vincennes, to correct the error committed by him in an entry, of the twenty-eighth December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, for the east half of the north-east quarter of section numbered two, in township numbered four, south of range numbered thirteen west, and to apply the money paid on said quarter section to the entry and payment therefor of the east half of the south-west quarter of section numbered thirty-six, in township numbered three, south of range numbered thirteen west, which is the tract of land the said Overton designed originally to enter and pay for.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That upon the application of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to be issued, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> said Overton, as aforesaid, the Register and Receiver shall give to him the necessary vouchers, receipts, &amp;c. in order to enable him to obtain a grant for the said half quarter section, and shall take up from the said Overton the receipt given him for the payment made by him, or a release of his claim to the land aforesaid entered by mistake; and the said Overton shall be entitled to a patent for the land which he intended to enter, in the same manner as though he had correctly entered the said land: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall not be construed to affect the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> right of any other person to the said half quarter section numbered thirty-six, in township numbered three, south of range thirteen west.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-02-24">February 24, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: for the relief of Edward Lee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 478</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-07</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/478">478</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edward Lee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-07">March 7, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for bread taken by U. S. troops.</p></sidenote>Edward Lee, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, three hundred and fifty dollars, the value of five thousand pounds of hard bread, taken from him by the soldiers in the service of the United States, at Sackett’s Harbor, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the same being necessary for their subsistence.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-07">March 7, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: for the relief of Eber Hubbard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 478</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Eber Hubbard.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-07">March 7, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Eber <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a boat captured by the enemy.</p></sidenote>Hubbard, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven hundred dollars, the value of a boat captured by the enemy during the late war, on the return of said boat from Ogdensburg to Sackett’s Harbor, having been employed to transport a cargo of provisions and munitions of war from the latter to the former place, by the order of General Dodge.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-07">March 7, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Samuel Wagstaff.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 478</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Samuel Wagstaff.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-07">March 7, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a house destroyed by the enemy.</p></sidenote> the value of a house destroyed by the enemy, during the late war, at Youngstown, in the state of New York, while it was in the military occupation of the United States as a hospital, belonging to Samuel Wagstaff; and that, on his reporting the value to the Secretary of the Treasury, he pay the same to the legal representatives of said Samuel Wagstaff, now deceased, out of any money not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-07">March 7, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of Percia Tupper, executrix of Samuel Tupper, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 478</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Percia Tupper, executrix of Samuel Tupper, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-07">March 7, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Percia <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a barn destroyed by the enemy.</p></sidenote>Tupper, executrix of the last will and testament of Samuel Tupper, deceased, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, four hundred and fifty dollars, for a barn of the said Samuel Tupper, on his farm near the village of Buffalo, occupied for military purposes of the United States, and destroyed by the enemy, during the late war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-07">March 7, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of Jane Muir.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 478</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jane Muir.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-07">March 7, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Jane <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for injuries done to her property.</p></sidenote>Muir, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and fifty dollars, the damages she sustained by the injury done to her house at Fernandina, while occupied by the United States’ troops, in the years one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-07">March 7, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XL: for the relief of Edward Livingston.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XL</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 478</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edward Livingston.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the value of timber taken, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain the quantity and value of the timber necessarily taken and used from the land of Edward Livingston, at Pass Christian, by the troops of the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 41, 42, 43. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/479">479</page>
United States, in the years eighteen hundred and thirteen, eighteen hundred and fourteen, eighteen hundred and fifteen, and eighteen hundred and sixteen; computing the said value as the same was, considering the situation of the timber, whether standing or prepared for market; and that the Secretary of the Treasury, on the requisition of the said Auditor, pay the amount so found due to the said Edward Livingston, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> The said Auditor shall make no allowance for any time he is not satisfied the said Livingston had a title to said land.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLI: for the relief of William Owens.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 479</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Owens.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to William Owens, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of arrears due J. Shirley.</p></sidenote> one hundred and ten dollars and seventy-eight cents, that sum having been due from the United States to James Shirley, a soldier in the service of the United States, at the time of his death, and to which money Elizabeth Owens, wife of William Owens, is justly entitled, as sole heir at law of said James Shirley.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of Amariah Squirrel, administrator of Jacob Squirrel, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 479</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Amariah Squirrel, administrator of Jacob Squirrel, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury, adjust the amount due to Jacob Squirrel, late of the sixteenth regiment of infantry,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be adjusted and paid.</p></sidenote> and report the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is directed to pay the amount so reported to Amariah Squirrel, administrator of said Jacob Squirrel, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: for the relief of Robert Jones and William A. Fleming.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 479</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-15</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Jones and William A. Fleming.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Robert Jones, of the county of Jackson, in the state of Alabama, be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Robert Jones authorized to surrender land certificate, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> certificate which heretofore issued to him from the Land Office at Huntsville, in said state, for the south-east quarter of fractional section number eleven, in township number one, of range number eight, east of the meridian, which was entered by him through mistake; and, on filing therewith his relinquishment of all right and title thereto, said Robert Jones is authorized to enter in the said Land Office, at Huntsville, the south-east quarter of fractional section number fourteen, in the township and range aforesaid, and, in payment therefor, shall be credited to the amount of money which was paid for the tract, or quarter section first named: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said last mentioned quarter section shall<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> remain unsold till application to purchase be made by said Jones; and, in the event that said last named quarter section shall have been sold before such application, then said Robert Jones shall be entitled to a certificate for the amount which has been, so paid by mistake on the first named tract, which shall be received in payment for any other land of the United States which may be hereafter sold.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That William A. Fleming be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">W. A. Fleming authorized to surrender land certificate, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby, authorized to surrender to the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Vandalia, in the state of Illinois, the certificate heretofore issued to him for the west half of the south-east quarter of section thirty-two, in township number ten north, range five east, which was purchased by him through mistake; and said William A. Fleming,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/480">480</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 44, 45, 46. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
on filing his relinquishment to all right and title thereto, is authorized to enter, in the said Land Office at Vandalia, any other half quarter section of public land subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of the legal representatives of Samuel Keep.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 480</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Samuel Keep.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to adjust and settle, upon the principles of justice and equity, the accounts and claims of the legal representatives of Samuel Keep, relative to a certain contract made on the eighth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, by the Board of Navy Commissioners of the one part, and the said Samuel Keep of the other part.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That all moneys allowed to the legal representatives of the said Samuel Keep on such adjustment and settlement, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLV: for the relief of Anthony Foreman, John G. Ross, Cherokee delegation.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 480</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Anthony Foreman, John G. Ross, Cherokee delegation.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of slaves taken from A. Foreman to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to ascertain what was the value of three slaves, in the month of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, which were taken from Anthony Foreman, a Cherokee, by James S. Cunningham, in violation of the act of thirtieth of March, one thousand eight hundred and two, entitled, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 30, 1802, ch. 13.</p></sidenote>“An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” and have not been restored or paid for; and that the amount so ascertained, be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, on the requisition of the Secretary of War in favor of the representative of said Anthony Foreman, or to such person as shall be, or now is, authorized by the said representative, by such power as is, or has been, usually required at the war department, when money has been paid to an individual claimant of the Cherokee nation.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of Bernard Marigny, of the state of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 480</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Bernard Marigny, of the state of Louisiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Bernard Marigny, as assignee of Antonio <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim of 4020 arpents confirmed.</p></sidenote>Bonnabel, be, and is hereby, confirmed in his claim to a tract of land of four thousand and twenty superficial arpents, situate in the state of Louisiana, and parish of St. Tammany, bounded on the south-west by Lake Pontchartrain, and on the north-west by lands formerly owned by the heirs of Lewis Davis; the tract confirmed by this section being the same which was surveyed for Antonio Bonnabel, by Carlos Trudeau, on the fifteenth January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and granted to said Bonnabel on the twenty-fifth January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, by Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Governor General of the provinces of Louisiana and West Florida; and for which a claim was filed in the name of said Bonnabel, in the Land Office at St. Helena Court-house, under the act of Congress of twenty-fifth April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of 774 arpents, also confirmed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Bernard Marigny be, and is hereby, confirmed in his claim to a tract of land of seven hundred and seventy-four superficial arpents, situate in the state of Louisiana and
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess I . Ch . 47, 48, 49. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/481">481</page>
parish of St. Tammany, bounded on the south-west by Lake Pontchartrain, on the northern side by Castin Bayou, and on the southern side by the lands confirmed in the first section of this act; the said tract of seven hundred and seventy-four arpents being the same which was granted on the twentieth January, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, by Peter Chester, British Governor at Pensacola, to Lewis Davis, whose title to the same was afterwards, to wit, on the eleventh June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, confirmed by decree of Estevan Miro, Spanish Governor of the provinces of Florida and Louisiana, and for which a claim was filed in the name of the heirs of Lewis Davis, in the Land Office at St. Helena court-house, under the act of Congress of the twenty-fifth April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said two tracts of land shall be considered<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> as confirmed, in the same manner, and under the same regulations, restrictions, and provisions, as if the same had been recommended for confirmation in the reports of the commissioner for the district west of Pearl river, and east of the island of New Orleans, which were confirmed by the act of Congress, approved on the third day of March, one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled “An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the districts east of the island of New Orleans:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, also,</i> That the claim of Antonio<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> Bonnabel, embraced in the said commissioner’s reports, as of four hundred arpents, shall be considered as comprised in, and forming part of the tract of four thousand and twenty arpents, confirmed in the first section of this act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of William Williamson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 482</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William Williamson.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at St. Stephens, to correct the mistake<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mistake in relinquishment of land to be corrected.</p></sidenote> committed by William Williamson in the relinquishment made by him, the tenth September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, of the west half instead of the east half of fractional section number six, township number nine, range number seventeen west; and upon the said Williamson surrendering the original grant for the east half of said fractional section which has issued to him in consequence of the mistake aforesaid, the Register and Receiver shall apply the money heretofore paid into the Land Office to the west half of said fractional section, and give to the said Williamson the certificate of payment necessary to enable him to obtain a grant from the United States for the said west half of said fractional section: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing herein<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shah be so construed as to affect the claim of any other person to the said tract of land.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Nathan Towson, Paymaster-General of the Army of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 481</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Nathan Towson, Paymaster-General of the Army of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Quartermaster-General be authorized and directed to pay to Nathan Towson, Paymaster-General of the army<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarters and fuel allowed him.</p></sidenote> of the United States, his accounts for quarters and fuel for such time as he has not received the allowance, since his appointment to that office.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of Richard S. Hackley.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 481</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard S. Hackley.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Richard S. Hackley, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/482">482</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 50, 53, 54, 55. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of expenses in the case of the ships Franklin and Acushnett.</p></sidenote>two thousand and seventy-eight dollars, being the amount of expenses incurred and paid by the said Hackley in and about the detention of the ships Franklin and Acushnett, seized by him at Cadiz, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, under the orders of George W. Erving, Charge des Affaires of the United States in Spain.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of J. P. and E. B. Penny.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 482</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of J. P. and E. B. Penny.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">certain duty and penalty to be refunded.</p></sidenote> refund to J. P. and E. B. Penny, merchants in the city of Mexico, or their agent or factors, the excess of duty on one hundred and five bales of jalap root, which was appraised in New York in June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, at twenty-eight dollars per quintal, instead of twenty-four dollars, the actual and invoice price, as also the fifty per centum penalty imposed thereon, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-15">March 15, 1832</date>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of John McDonough.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 483</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John McDonough.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-22">March 22, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the claim of John McDonough be, and is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote>hereby, confirmed to four tracts of land embraced in the report of the Register and Receiver of the land office at St. Helena court-house, in the district west of Pearl river, in Louisiana, of the fourth December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, namely; one tract of four hundred arpens, claimed under a Spanish patent to David Williams, dated eighth April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine; one tract of two hundred and forty arpens, claimed under a Spanish patent to Guillemo Williams, dated eighth April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine; one tract of three hundred and eighty-eight arpens, claimed under a Spanish patent to William Estevan, dated eighteenth December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven; and one tract of twelve hundred arpens, claimed under a Spanish patent to Domingo Assaretto, dated eighteenth February, one thousand seven hundred and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>eighty-eight, and all situate in the parish of East Baton Rouge: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall only extend to a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and shall not prejudice the rights of third persons.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-22">March 22, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of Sylvester Havens.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 471</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-22</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Sylvester Havens.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-22">March 22, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula> That the Agent of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">credit of $131.25 to be allowed him.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and required to credit on a note given by Sylvester Havens, of Hartford, Connecticut, to the United States, for the sum of three hundred and fifty-four dollars and seventy-five cents, dated the twenty-third day of October, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and payable in six months, with interest, the sum of one hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents; the said credit to be allowed and given as of the day of the date of the said note.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-22">March 22, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of Leonard Denison and Elisha Ely.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 482</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Leonard Denison and Elisha Ely.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-22">March 22, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnified for certain damages.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury ascertain the damages sustained and the expenses incurred by Leonard Denison and Elisha Ely, arising from the omission, on the part of the Navy officer at Sackett’s Harbor, to deliver, within a reasonable time, the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 56, 59, 60, 61, 62. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/483">483</page>
whole of one thousand four hundred and ninety-one tons fourteen hundreds three quarters and five pounds of the armament and naval stores at that station to them, after the tenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, to be transported, under a contract made with the Navy Commissioners, to Brooklyn in New York.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the damages and expenses<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> so ascertained, shall be subject to the supervision of the Secretary of the Navy: and when the amount shall be finally settled and adjusted, the same shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-22">March 22, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVI: for the relief of Captain Thomas Paine.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 483</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-22</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Captain Thomas Paine.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-22">March 22, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and are hereby, authorized to pay to Thomas Paine, the sum<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for provisions lost.</p></sidenote> of five hundred dollars, in full for two months and a half provisions lost in the revenue cutter Crawford, on the sixteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-22">March 22, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of John Rodgers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 483</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Rodgers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-31">March 31, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain improvements.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to John Rodgers, of the Cherokee nation, the sum of one thousand dollars, for the improvements made by the said John Rodgers on the land occupied and improved by him, and on which he dwelt at the time of the treaty between the United States and the Cherokee nation, of the eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-31">March 31, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of Robert Smart.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 483</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Smart.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-31">March 31, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Robert Smart of Detroit, the sum of one hundred and twenty-three dollars, in<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for plank, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> full compensation for plank, boards, and shingles, taken from him in Sandwich and Detroit, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for the use of the United States’ army.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-31">March 31, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of John Menary.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 483</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Menary.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-31">March 31, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John Menary, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> eighty-five dollars, the value of a horse taken from him by Col. Hindman, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, for the benefit of the military service of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-31">March 31, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of Thomas Dennis, and the legal representative of Asa Hartfield.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 484</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas Dennis, and the legal representative of Asa Hartfield.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-31">March 31, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office cause to be issued to Thomas Dennis, of the state of Alabama,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents for land to be issued to T. Dennis.</p></sidenote> patents for the following tracts of land; the east half of the north-west quarter of section number nine, in township number twenty-two, range one, east; and the east half of the south-west quarter of section number four, in the township and range above described. The said tracts of
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/484">484</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 63, 68, 73. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
land, having been purchased by said Dennis, at the Land Office at St. Stephen’s, and full payment made thereon; but from some informality or mistake in said office, the patents have been withheld.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Asa Hartfield authorized to surrender a patent, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That Asa Hartfield, his assignee or legal representative be, and he is hereby authorized to surrender the patent granted to said Asa Hartfield, bearing date the first of December eighteen hundred and thirty, for the south-east fractional quarter of section seven, and the north-west fractional quarter of section eight, north of the Arkansas river, in township seven south of range five west, containing ninety-two acres, and eighty-two hundredths of an acre: and to locate in lieu of it, the north-east quarter of section seven, and the north-west quarter of section eight on the south side of the Arkansas river. The said location having been made by the mistake of the Register of the Land Office at Little Rock in said Territory of Arkansas.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-31">March 31, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of Benedict Joseph Flaget.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 484</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-03-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Benedict Joseph Flaget.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-03-31">March 31, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the duties on certain paintings, and other <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties remitted.</p></sidenote>articles, for the use of the church, imported in the brig Union, into the port of New Orleans, from Marseilles, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, by Benedict Joseph Flaget, Bishop of Bairdstown, be, and the same are hereby, remitted; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to repay to the said Benedict Joseph Flaget, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the amount of such duties on the articles aforesaid, which he may already have paid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-03-31">March 31, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of the sureties of Amos Edwards.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 484</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-04-05</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the sureties of Amos Edwards.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-04-05">April 5, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit of $4652.47 to be allowed them.</p></sidenote>department be, and he is hereby authorized and required to allow to William W. Whitaker, James Wilson, and the heirs and legal representatives of Joseph D. Hamilton, deceased, sureties of Amos Edwards, late collector of the direct tax and internal duties within the sixth collection district in the state of Kentucky, a credit upon their bonds to the government, for the sum of four thousand, six hundred and fifty-two dollars forty-seven cents, together with the interest which was calculated thereon and included in the said bonds, and also the interest which has since accrued thereon.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-04-05">April 5, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXIII: for the relief of Jefferson College in the state of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 484</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jefferson College in the state of Mississippi.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-04-20">April 20, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees authorized to relinquish right to certain lands.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Trustees of Jefferson College in the state of Mississippi be, and they are hereby, authorized to relinquish by a resolution of the Board, all the right, title and interest of said College in and to certain lands to be particularly described in said resolution by the sectional numbers being in township number ten, of ranges number one and two west, in the district of lands offered for sale at St. Stephen’s, heretofore reserved for the use of said College; and an attested copy of said resolution signed by the President and Secretary of the Board under the corporate seal of the Institution, shall be placed on file in the General Land Office, and operate as a full release of all claim to said lands on the part of said College.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate certain other lands,&amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Board of Trustees of said College, under the superintendence of the Secretary of the Trea- 
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 76. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/485">485</page>
sury shall be, and is hereby, authorized to locate or enter, or cause to be located or entered, in tracts not less in quantity than two sections in one body, such a number of sections, or legal subdivisions of sections of the unappropriated land of the United States, within the state of Mississippi, as may be equal in number to those which may be relinquished by said Board in virtue of the first section of this act, to be selected, entered or located, either before or after the same may have been offered at public sale, conforming in such entries or locations, to the legal subdivisions established by the surveys made or to be made under the authority of the United States; and such entries or locations<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register to issue certificate, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> shall be made with the Register of the Land Office for the district in which the land so entered or located may lie, and it shall be the duty of such Register to designate such land on the maps and other books in his office in the same manner as lands sold by him, and to issue in each case a certificate of such entry or location in the form to be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, which certificate shall vest a full and complete title to the land described therein in Jefferson College, and thereupon a patent shall issue.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Board of Trustees of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to sell or lease.</p></sidenote> Jefferson College be and they are hereby authorized and permitted to sell or lease for any term of years, the lands which may be entered or located by virtue of this act, for the benefit of said College, and the deed or deeds of the said Trustees, shall vest a valid title in fee simple in all lands sold by them in virtue of the authority herein conferred: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the proceeds of such sales shall constitute a permanent<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> fund for the use of said College.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That to enable the Trustees to<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to transfer right of location or entry, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> secure to the said College, all the benefits arising from this act with as little delay and expense as practicable, they may and they are hereby authorized, if in their opinion the interests of said Institution would be promoted thereby, to transfer the right of location or entry conferred by this act, either in whole or in part; and the person or persons legally holding the deed or deeds of transfer, passed under the corporate seal of said College, shall be allowed to make the selection, entry, or location, in the manner provided and in the quantity so transferred, and shall be entitled to receive a certificate or certificates from the Register of the proper Land District, and which shall be issued to the legal holder of such deed of assignment as the assignee of Jefferson College, and the title under such certificates shall be accounted and held as valid and complete as if a patent had issued therefor, and all certificates, which may be issued by virtue of this act, shall be recorded in the office from which they emanate, and for each certificate so issued and recorded, the Register shall be entitled to two dollars, to be paid by the party in whose favor such certificate may be issued.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-04-20">April 20, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: confirming to Joshua Kennedy, his claim to a tract of land in the city of Mobile.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 485</citableAs>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">confirming to Joshua Kennedy, his claim to a tract of land in the city of Mobile.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-05">May 5, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Joshua Kennedy, of the city and county of Mobile, in the state of Alabama, be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> claim to a tract of land, containing twenty and twenty-eight hundredths arpens, situate in the south part of the city of Mobile, which said claim is designated as “claim number ten, in abstract A, number two” of the report made to the Secretary of the Treasury on the twenty-ninth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, by the Commissioners appointed under the act of Congress of third March, one<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1827, ch. 78.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, entitled “An act supplement-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/486">486</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 78, 81, 82. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
ary to the several acts providing for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Alabama.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to be issued.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, on a return of the survey of the above-mentioned tract of land, by the surveyor of the lands of the United States in the state of Alabama, to issue a patent for the same, to the said Joshua Kennedy, or his legal representatives, or to any person legally claiming under him or them: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the confirmation of this claim, and the patent provided to be issued, shall not be held to interfere with any part of said tract which may have been disposed of by the United States previous to the passage of this act; and this act shall be held to be no more than a relinquishment of whatever title the United States may now have to such tract of land.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-04">May 5, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: to extend the patent of Jethro Wood.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 486</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to extend the patent of Jethro Wood.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be, and hereby is, granted unto Jethro <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent right for a plough extended for 14 years.</p></sidenote>Wood, a citizen of the United States, his heirs, assigns, and legal representatives, for the term of fourteen years from the last day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, the full and exclusive right and privilege of making, using, and vending to others to be used, his improvements in the construction of a plough; a description of which is given in a schedule or specification annexed to letters patent granted to the said Jethro Wood for the same on the first day of September, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>one thousand eight hundred and nineteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That all rights and privileges heretofore sold by the said patentee, to make, use, or vend the said improvements, shall enure to and be enjoyed by the purchasers, respectively, as fully and upon the same conditions during <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>the period hereby granted, as for the existing term:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That the price at which the same has been usually sold by the said patentee, shall not be advanced upon future purchasers.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: to revive and continue inforce “An actfor the relief of the representatives of John Donelson, Stephen Heard, and others.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 487</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to revive and continue inforce “An actfor the relief of the representatives of John Donelson, Stephen Heard, and others.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That an act, entitled “An act for the relief of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 24, 1824, ch. 142, revived and continued for 12 months.</p></sidenote>representatives of John Donelson, Stephen Heard, and others,” passed the twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force for the term of twelve months, from and after the passage of this act.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of Richard G. Morris.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 486</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-19</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard G. Morris.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of certificates of loan.</p></sidenote>treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Richard G. Morris, the sum of five hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents, the amount of two certificates issued by Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster-General, numbered three thousand seven hundred and forty-four, and three thousand seven hundred and forty-six, with such interest thereon, from the first day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, (the medium time of payment,) as together with the said principal, will amount to the sum that would have been payable on the said certificates if they had been subscribed to the loan created for funding the debts of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote>the United States by the act of one thousand seven hundred and ninety; which certificates were issued in the name of Henry Morris, and of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 83, 84, 85. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/487">487</page>
whose estate the said Richard G. Morris is administrator: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the said Richard G. Morris shall first execute and deliver to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond, in such sum and with such security as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve, to indemnify the United States from and against the lawful claim of any other person or persons, for, or on account of, the said certificates.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: for the relief of Joseph Bogy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 487</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Bogy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Joseph Bogy, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for rations furnished by him.</p></sidenote> amount of the then contract price of one thousand and sixty-five complete rations, furnished by said Bogy to a recruiting party at St. Genevieve, in the state of Missouri, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, under the command of Captain S. Gant, and Lieutenant John J. H. Lewis.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: for the relief of the Miami Exporting Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 487</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the Miami Exporting Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to the President and Directors of the Miami Exporting Company, out of any money in the treasury,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of moneys advanced on account of U. S.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight thousand five hundred and eighty-five dollars, in full satisfaction on advances made by the said Company for and on account of the United States, from the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, to the tenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXV: for the relief of Mien W. Hardie.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 487</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Mien W. Hardie.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Allen W. Hardie, of the city of New York, be, and he is hereby, permitted, at any time before the first day of July,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permitted to complete payment for certain lands, and to receive patents.</p></sidenote> in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to complete the payment for the south-east quarter of section three, in township three, of range five, east, in the district of land west of Pearl river, containing one hundred and forty-six and sixty-two hundredths acres; and, also, for the south-west quarter of section three, in township three, of range five, east, in the same district, containing one hundred and forty-six and sixty-two hundredths acres; which two quarter sections of land were purchased in one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, at the price of two dollars per acre, each, and one-fourth of the price then paid, by Abram Lundy, under whom the said Hardie claims by several assignments, but the remaining three-fourths of the price are still unpaid; and that, upon said Hardie completing the payment for said two quarter sections of land at the General Land Office in Washington, at any time before said first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, according to the terms offered by the first section of an act, approved thirty-first March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, entitled “An<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 31, 1830, ch. 48.</p></sidenote> act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands, and for the suppression of fraudulent practices at the public sales of the lands of the United States,” patents for the two quarter sections above described shall issue to him in the usual form: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That nothing<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> herein contained shall be construed to affect the right of any other person or persons claiming under the original purchase of Abram Lundy.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVI: for the relief of Prosper Marigny.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 488</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-19</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/488">488</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 86, 87, 88, 89. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Prosper Marigny.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the claim of Prosper Marigny be, and the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed,</p></sidenote>same is hereby, confirmed to a tract of land on which he now resides, situated on the river Mississippi, bounded above by lands of the widow Bienvenu, and extending back to the river Des Ouatchas, and containing two thousand one hundred and thirty-nine French arpens; which tract of land the said claimant holds by sundry mesne conveyances from Governor de Bienville, to whom it was granted by the Company <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of the Indias: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall extend only to a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and shall not prejudice the rights of third persons.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVII: for the relief of Arnaud Lanaux.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 488</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Arnaud Lanaux.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the title of Arnaud Lanaux be confirmed, in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote>and to a certain tract of land lying and being in the state of Louisiana, on the left bank of the Mississippi, about six leagues below the city of New Orleans, at a place called the English Turn, containing eight arpents front and forty arpents in depth, according to the survey made by B. Lafon, on the twenty-first of January, eighteen hundred and five, and which is recognised in a patent from the French Government, bearing date the fifth of March, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, and which is recorded among the patented concessions of land, in book number one, at page one hundred and fifty-eight, in the Register’s office of the lands of the United States, at New Orleans, in the same manner and upon the same conditions, as if notice had been regularly filed with the Commissioners of the United States, and the same had been by <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>them confirmed: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall only be construed as a relinquishment of the Government of all claim to said tract of land to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>said claimant:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That this act shall not operate against the claim of any other person to said tract of land.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVIII: for the relief of Joseph Soniat Dufossat.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 488</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph Soniat Dufossat.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Joseph Soniat Dufossat be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> confirmed in his title, to a certain tract of land situated in the parish of St. Tammany, and state of Louisiana, it being a small island in Lake Pontchartrain, called Les Coquilles, which was granted by patent from the French Government of Louisiana, dated the second June, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, to J. Desruissaux, described to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>be two leagues in length, and one and a half leagues in breadth: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall be considered only as a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and not to prejudice the rights of third persons.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: for the relief of John H. Thomas, claiming under Antoine Patin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 488</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John H. Thomas, claiming under Antoine Patin.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Antoine Patin, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote>claiming a tract of land in the county of Attakapas, in the state of Louisiana, situated on the east side of Bayou Teche, and numbered one thousand one hundred and fourteen in the report of the Commissioners for the adjustment of land titles in the western district of Louisiana, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed in them to the quantity of land
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 90, 94, 95, 96. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/489">489</page>
embraced in said claim: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall only be construed,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> as a relinquishment of the Government of all claim to said tract of land to said claimant:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That this act shall not<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> operate against the claim of any third person to said tract of land.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XC: for the relief of Celestin Chiapella.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 489</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-19</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Celestin Chiapella.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Celestin Chiapella be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his title to a tract of land situated on the left bank of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> Mississippi river, about eight miles below the city of New Orleans, containing the quantity of three thousand and eighty-seven acres, bounded above by lands of R. Ducros, and below by lands of Magloire Guichard; and which he holds by virtue of a French grant to Joseph Laloire, dated July eighth, seventeen hundred and twenty-three; and another French grant to J. Laloire, of January second, seventeen hundred and sixtyseven; and another French grant in favor of Mr. Chaperon, dated January twenty-third, seventeen hundred and fifty-nine; and that a patent issue for the same, according to a survey made by A. S. Phelps, a deputy surveyor of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the quantity<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of three hundred and ninety-three superficial arpens heretofore confirmed in the name of Mary de Moleon, by the Board of Commissioners for the Eastern District of the Territory of Orleans, as evidenced by their certificate, number one hundred and forty-six, shall be considered as forming part of the tract of land hereby confirmed:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, further,</i> That this act shall be construed to operate merely as a relinquishment<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of title on the part of the United States, and not to prejudice the rights of third persons.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-19">May 19, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: for the relief of De Garmo Jones.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 489</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-22</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of De Garmo Jones.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-22">May 22, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to De Garmo Jones, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, eight<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment on account of certain certificates.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty-five dollars and twenty-five cents, the amount of nine receipts or certificates, given by Duncan Reed, Quartermaster of a detachment under the command of General McArthur that invaded Canada in the fall of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, for property of different descriptions taken or purchased of the Canadians by the order of General McArthur, and necessary for the use or consumption of said detachment.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-22">May 22, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCV: for the relief of George J. Knight.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 489</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of George J. Knight.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of two thousand dollars be paid to George J. Knight, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a schooner captured by the enemy.</p></sidenote> for a schooner owned by him, and which was pressed into the service of the United States, and captured and destroyed by the enemy during the last war.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVI: for the relief of the heirs of William Vawters.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 489</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of William Vawters.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle and adjust the account<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay as lieutenant allowed.</p></sidenote> of the heirs of William Vawters, and allow to them five years’ full pay for their father’s services as Second Lieutenant in the revolutionary war, with such interest thereon as the party would have been entitled
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/490">490</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 97, 98, 99, 100. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
to if a final settlement certificate had been issued for the amount of his commutation, and the same had been subscribed to the loan created by the act of one thousand seven hundred and ninety, providing for the funding of the debt of the United States, which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVII: for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Samuel Kennedy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 490</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Samuel Kennedy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting 6fficers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay as surgeon allowed.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, required to settle and adjust the accounts of the heirs of Doctor Samuel Kennedy, and allow to them seven years’ half-pay for their father’s services as surgeon in the revolutionary war, who died in the service on the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</date>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCVIII: for the relief of John Roberts, late Major of Infantry, in the war of the Revolution.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 490</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Roberts, late Major of Infantry, in the war of the Revolution.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay as major allowed.</p></sidenote> do settle and adjust the account of Major John Roberts, of the Virginia line on continental establishment, and allow him five years’ full pay as Major of Infantry, in commutation of the half pay for life, promised by the resolutions of Congress, with such interest thereon as the party would have been entitled to if a final settlement certificate had been issued for the amount of his commutation, and the same had been subscribed to the loan created by the act of one thousand seven hundred and ninety, providing for the funding of the debt of the United States; and that the same be paid him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XCIX: for the relief of the legal representative of Rignald, alias Reynold, Hillary.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 491</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representative of Rignald, alias Reynold, Hillary.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay allowed.</p></sidenote>be, and they are hereby, directed and required to pay to Elizabeth Magruder, the legal representative of Rignald, alias Reynold, Hillary, five years’ full pay, it being the commutation for half pay for life, due to said Hillary in his life-time, (for services rendered during the revolution in the first regiment of Maryland troops,) and so much interest thereon as he would have been entitled to thereon by the principles of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, chi 34.</p></sidenote>the “Funding Act,” had a certificate issued for such commutation at the close of the war, and all dividends thereon were now remaining unpaid; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. C: for the relief of the heirs and residuary legatees of William Carter, late of the state of Virginia, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>C</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 491</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>C.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs and residuary legatees of William Carter, late of the state of Virginia, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay as surgeon allowed.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, required to settle and adjust the account of William Carter (now deceased,) and to allow to his heirs or residuary legatees, five years’ full pay for his services as surgeon in the revolutionary war, which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life, together with such interest as would have accrued on the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 101, 102, 103. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/491">491</page>
said five years’ full pay, if a certificate for that amount had been issued by the United States and funded under “the Act making provision for<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> the debt of the United States,” passed the fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CI: for the relief of John Hughes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 491</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Hughes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury refund to the Reverend John Hughes, of Philadelphia, three hundred and sixty-three<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> dollars, being the amount of duties paid by him on one case of church vestments and ornaments, imported into the port of New York in November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, in the ship Sully, from Havre, and one case of church plate, imported into the port of Philadelphia, in the brig Caroline, from Havre, fifth September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; the said articles being donations for the use of the church whereof the said John Hughes is pastor.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CII: for the relief of Ann D. Baylor.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 491</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ann D. Baylor.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay Ann D. Baylor, as trustee for the heirs and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay as colonel allowed.</p></sidenote> distributees of John Walker Baylor, deceased, who was only son and heir-at-law of the late Col. George Baylor, five years’ full pay as a Colonel of Cavalry in the war of the revolution, together with such interest as would have accrued on said five years’ full pay, if a certificate for that amount had been issued by the United States on the fifteenth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, and the said certificate, with its accruing interest, had been subscribed to the loan of the United States under the act, entitled “An act making provision<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> for the debt of the United States,” passed August fourth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety: making up the account, and settling and paying the same, in all respects, as if the same had been so subscribed, and was now outstanding and unpaid; and that the same be paid to the said Ann D. Baylor, trustee as aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CIII: for the relief of Edmund Brooke.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 491</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-25</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edmund Brooke.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are, authorized, empowered, and required, to settle<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay as lieutenant allowed.</p></sidenote> the account of Edmund Brooke, late a Lieutenant in the army of the United States in the revolutionary war on continental establishment, and allow to him five years’ full pay, that being the commutation for half pay for life due to him at the close of the war, in consideration of his services therein; together with such interest as would have accrued on the said five years’ full pay, if a certificate for that amount had been issued by the United States on the fifteenth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, and the said certificate, with its accruing interest, had been subscribed to the loan of the United States, under the act, entitled “An act making provision for the debt<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> of the United States,” passed August fourth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; making up the account, and settling and paying the same, in all respects, as if the same had been so subscribed, and was
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/492">492</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 108, 116. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
now outstanding and unpaid; and that the same be paid to the said Edmund Brooke, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: supplementary to “An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Female Orphan Asylum of Georgetown, and the Washington City Asylum, in the District of Columbia.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 492</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">supplementary to “An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Female Orphan Asylum of Georgetown, and the Washington City Asylum, in the District of Columbia.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p>
<p class="centered fontsize8">1828, ch. 88.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Directresses and Managers of the Female<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Directresses to have sole control, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Orphan Asylum of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, shall have sole power, direction, management, and control, in all matters concerning the government, rule, order, direction, and management of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers, &amp;c. of trustees not impaired.</p></sidenote>affairs of the said asylum: but nothing herein contained shall be construed as abrogating or impairing the duties or powers vested in the trustees by the act of incorporation, with the exception of the appointment and fixing the compensation of all officers immediately attached to the asylum and the internal police and regulation of the same, which shall be under the immediate control of the directresses and managers.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reception of children.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That any destitute child or children may, with the consent and approbation of the parent, guardian, or friends, who may have the care of any such child or children, or where a child may be destitute of any friend or protector, be received into the said asylum under such regulations as may be made by the by-laws thereof, and there protected, instructed, and supported; and they shall not be thereafter withdrawn, or be at liberty themselves to withdraw from the asylum, without the consent or dismissal of the said directresses and managers, or a majority of them, until the attainment of the age of eighteen; but up to said age they shall remain subject to the direction <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power to bind out.</p></sidenote>of the said board, unless exonerated as aforesaid; and the said board shall have power to bind out any child under their care, for the age aforesaid, for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of some useful trade, occupation, or profession, under such conditions as may be determined on, and which shall be expressed in an indenture to be signed by the first and second directresses, on behalf of said institution, and the person to whom bound, and recorded in the Orphans’ Court of Washington county, district aforesaid, within thirty days after the execution thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Managers, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That, instead of ten managers, as heretofore provided, there shall be twelve, to be elected at the next annual election, and so to be continued forever thereafter; and instead of the mode of appointing the Treasurer and Secretary of said asylum, heretofore used, said officers shall henceforth be elected at the time and place, and in the same manner, by the contributors, that the managers have been, or shall hereafter be, elected.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination of treasurer’s books.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That it shall be the duty of the said trustees to examine the Treasurer’s books of accounts at some time before the annual meeting aforesaid, and to make a report thereof, to be submitted at the said meeting for the inspection of such of the said contributors as shall desire it.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-25">May 25, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of James W. Hill, Elijah Hill, and Philip Barnes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 492</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James W. Hill, Elijah Hill, and Philip Barnes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the said James W. Hill, Elijah Hill, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to surrender land certificate, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>Philip Barnes, be, and they are hereby, authorized to surrender the certificate for the south-west quarter of section number thirty-six, in township number three, of range number five, west of the basis meridian of Huntsville, Alabama, and relinquish all claim thereto in the land office
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 117, 118, 119, 120. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/493">493</page>
of said place; and, instead thereof, to enter the south-east quarter of section number thirty-five, in the same township and range, which was heretofore relinquished by them through mistake; and they shall be credited, in the payment of said last named quarter section, the amount which has been by them paid on the said first named quarter section: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said quarter of section number thirty-five shall remain<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> unsold till they apply for the same; and, if sold, they shall receive a certificate for the amount paid on said first named quarter, which shall be received in payment for any land of the United States hereafter sold.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: for the relief of William R. Fickett.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 493</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William R. Fickett.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at St. Stephen’s, in Alabama, be, and they are hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate of land scrip to be issued.</p></sidenote> to issue to William R. Pickett a duplicate of a certificate of forfeited land scrip, number six thousand five hundred and thirty-nine, for the north-west quarter of section thirty-three, township eleven, range three, west, for the sum of seventy-nine dollars and sixty-five cents, dated the twelfth of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, which certificate was originally issued to the representative of George Buckhannan, and by him, for a valuable consideration, assigned to William R. Pickett, and which has been lost or destroyed; and the said duplicate shall have all the effect, and be receivable at the land offices in the same manner, as the original certificate of scrip.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: for the relief of Thomas and James Massingill.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 493</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Thomas and James Massingill.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Little Rock, in the Arkansas Territory, be, and they are hereby,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be reconsidered, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> authorized to reconsider, hear, and determine the claim of Thomas and James Massingill, assignees of Thomas Morrow, for a donation of three hundred and twenty acres of land, under and by virtue of the act<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 8, 1830, ch. 90.</p></sidenote> of Congress, approved the twenty-fourth [eighth] May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; upon such proof as has, or may hereafter be adduced to them in support of the claim, dispensing with the affidavit of the said Thomas Morrow, the original claimant; and if, in their opinion, the said Thomas and James Massingill shall establish the right of the said Thomas Morrow, to a donation under the before mentioned act, of three hundred and twenty acres of land, by other testimony than the affidavit of the said Morrow, the Register and Receiver shall award to the said Massingill, their heirs or assigns, the right to enter the said three hundred and twenty acres of land, according to the provisions of the act aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXIX: for the relief of Captain John Burnham.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 493</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Captain John Burnham.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents be allowed and paid to Captain John Burnham,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote> or his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of Robert Kaine, of Buffalo, in the state of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 493</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Robert Kaine, of Buffalo, in the state of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury be, and<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for boards to be settled.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, authorized and directed to settle, upon just and equitable
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/494">494</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 121, 122, 125, 132, 133. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
terms, the account of Robert Kaine, for boards taken by the troops at Buffalo, in the years one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for the use of the United States’ army; and when the quantity and value are so ascertained, the same shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: for the relief of James McCarty.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 494</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of James McCarty.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for lime to be settled.</p></sidenote> of the United States audit and settle the claim of James McCarty, for a quantity of lime, by him deposited in the ordnance yard at Baton Rouge, in eighteen hundred and twenty, and which was used in the public works, after deducting therefrom the quantity which the said McCarty may have sold and not accounted for, and for the balance to pay the said McCarty at the rate of thirty cents per bushel, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: for the relief of Joseph W. Torrey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 494</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Joseph W. Torrey.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Joseph W. Torrey be allowed the sum of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as an attorney.</p></sidenote>one hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for his services as an attorney in defending three Indians indicted for murder in the Circuit Court of Green Bay.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-05-31">May 31, 1832</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXV: for the benefit of Doctor Eliakim Crosby.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 494</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-06-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of Doctor Eliakim Crosby.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-04">June 4, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a patent or patents shall be issued to Doctor <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to issue.</p></sidenote>Eliakim Crosby, formerly of the province of Upper Canada, now a citizen of the United States, for a quantity of land equal to two sections of land; which may be located on any of the unappropriated lands of the United States which have been hitherto offered for sale, and which are now subject to entry.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-04">June 4, 1832</date>.
</action>
</main>
</pLaw>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXII: for the relief of the heirs and, legal representatives of Dr. Samuel J. Axson, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 494</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-06-15</dc:date>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs and, legal representatives of Dr. Samuel J. Axson, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay as surgeon allowed.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the heirs and legal representatives of Dr. Samuel J. Axson, five years’ full pay as a surgeon in the revolutionary war; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of half pay for life; together with such interest thereon as would now be due if a certificate for such commutation had been issued at the close of the war, and subscribed under the principles of the funding act, and all dividends thereon were now remaining in the treasury unpaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIII: for the relief of Jacob Remf, otherwise called Jacob Kemf.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Jacob Remf, otherwise called Jacob Kemf.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Register of the Land Office at Zanesville,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to withdraw his entry, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Ohio, be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow Jacob Remf, otherwise called Jacob Kemf, of Holmes county, Ohio, to withdraw his entry and purchase of the west half of the north-east quarter of section numbered fifteen, township numbered six, of range numbered five, of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 134, 135, 136, 137. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/495">495</page>
land in the Zanesville district; and to enter, in lieu thereof, the west half of the north-east quarter of section numbered fifteen, township numbered nine, of range numbered six, military, of the Zanesville district, and to apply the moneys paid for the tract first named aforesaid, to the payment of the tract last aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, if the tract<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> first named aforesaid shall have been patented to the said Remf before the taking effect of this act, then the said Remf shall execute and deliver, to said Register of the Land Office aforesaid, at the time of said withdrawal, a release to the United States for said tract of land first above named.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIV: for the relief of the legal representatives of John McHugh.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1832-06-15</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of John McHugh.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be, and hereby is, confirmed unto the legal representatives of John McHugh, the tract of land settled<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> upon and cultivated by John McHugh, in his life-time, situate on White Bayou, within a survey once supposed to be the property of D. Amos, but which claim was rejected by Congress; the same lying and situate in the parish of east Baton Rouge, in the state of Louisiana, not to exceed, in the whole, more than six hundred and forty acres, and that a patent shall issue for the said tract of land in the usual form: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the said legal representatives of the said John McHugh have not, and shall not, claim any other lands in right of settlement and cultivation, and that this act shall operate only as a relinquishment on the part of the United States of all their right and claim to the said lands, and shall not interfere with, or affect the right or claim of other persons.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXV: for the relief of John Knight.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1832-06-15</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Knight.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of John<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay as surgeon’s mate allowed.</p></sidenote> Knight, and to allow him five years’ full pay as a surgeon’s mate in the revolutionary war; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life, together with such interest thereon as would now be due if a certificate for such commutation had been issued and subscribed under the principles of the funding act, and no payments made thereon;<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVI: to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise with the Trustee of the late firm of Thomas H. Smith and Son and their securities, the claims of the United Slates Upon the saidfirm and their securities.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise with the Trustee of the late firm of Thomas H. Smith and Son and their securities, the claims of the United Slates Upon the saidfirm and their securities.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to compromise, and finally settle with the trustee of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compromise of claim against them.</p></sidenote> the late firm of Thomas H. Smith and Son, all the claims of the United States upon the said firm and their securities, upon such terms as he may deem most conducive to the best interest of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVII: for the relief of the representatives of David Dardin, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the representatives of David Dardin, deceased.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/496">496</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 138, 139, 142, 143. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">David Dardin’s heirs paid for the stud horse Romulus.</p></sidenote>of the legal representatives of David Dardin, deceased, and to allow them one thousand five hundred dollars; to be paid and received in full satisfaction of a certificate of the date of sixth February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, given by Epaphroditus Rudder, then a lieutenant in the American army, to the said David Dardin, for seven hundred and fifty pounds, specie, of the currency of Virginia, for a stud horse called “Romulus,” impressed for the public service; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVIII: for the relief of Ichabod Ward.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1832-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ichabod Ward.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paid for a certificate of revolutionary debt.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to pay to Ichabod Ward, of Connecticut, one certain certificate given for interest due from the United States, signed by William Imlay, Commissioner of the Loan Office of the state of Connecticut, numbered four thousand one hundred and seventy-four, for the sum of twenty dollars and forty-five ninetieths, payable to James Shelden, or bearer, and dated the twentieth day of December, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, with three per centum interest per annum thereon from its date, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIX: for the relief of Hopkins Rice.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 496</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Hopkins Rice.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Hopkins Rice be hereby authorized to enter <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote>and locate a half quarter section of land of the public land in the state of Alabama, which may be subject to entry at private sale, in lieu of the west half of north-east quarter of section numbered two, township numbered twenty-two, range numbered one west, containing seventy-six and twenty-eight hundredths acres of land, entered by him by mistake, on the twenty-seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, for which half quarter section when entered, a <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>patent shall issue as in other cases: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Hopkins Rice file in the proper land office a relinquishment to the United States of the said half quarter section of land entered by mistake as aforesaid.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-15">June 15, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLII: for the benefit of the Alexandria Canal Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 496</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-06-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the benefit of the Alexandria Canal Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment towards constructing an aqueduct.</p></sidenote>is hereby, required to pay to the President and Directors of the Alexandria Canal Company, or to such officer of said Company as they may empower to receive it, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to be applied to the construction of an aqueduct across the river Potomac, at or near Georgetown, in the District of Columbia; which sum shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, at such times and in such proportions, (having a due regard to the progress of the work,) as the President of the United States may, from time to time, direct.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLIII: for the relief of John Heard, junior, surviving assignee of Amasa Davis, junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 496</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-06-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of John Heard, junior, surviving assignee of Amasa Davis, junior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Heard, junior, as surviving assignee of Amasa Davis, junior, deceased, out of any money in
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 145, 146, 147. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/497">497</page>
the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one thousand dollars, in full for<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment of the moiety of a certain penalty.</p></sidenote> the repayment of the moiety of a penalty erroneously collected from the said Davis by the Marshal of the District of Massachusetts, and by him paid into the treasury of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLV: for the relief of Richard W. Steele, a soldier in the late war.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 497</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-06-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Richard W. Steele, a soldier in the late war.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Richard W. Steele, a soldier in the late war, be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter, of any of the lands of<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a quarter section of land.</p></sidenote> the United States subject to entry at this time, one quarter section of land, the same being due to him for and on account of a bounty for his services, as a soldier in the late war against Great Britain; for which, when so entered, the Register of the proper Land Office shall give him a certificate, upon the presentation of which to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent shall be issued in due form.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLVI: for the relief of Hannah McKim.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 497</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-06-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Hannah McKim.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Hannah McKim be confirmed in her claim to a tract of six hundred and forty acres of land, for which she filed<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> her claim with the Register and Receiver of the Land Office south of Red river, pursuant to the acts of Congress of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in relation to lands situated between the Rio Honde and Sabine rivers, in the state of Louisiana, on the main fork of the Bayou Provincial; and which claim was, by the said Register and Receiver, in their report of the first of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, made to the Secretary of the Treasury, ranked in the fourth class, number one hundred and sixteen; and that the said claim be regarded and considered as if the same had been ranked by the said Register and Receiver, in their said report, in the third class; and that the said Hannah McKim be entitled to all the privileges, advantages, and benefits to which she would have been entitled, or which would have accrued to her, if her said claim had been ranked in the third class of the said report: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to affect or impair the claim, title, or interest of any other person to the same land, or any part thereof, derived either from the United States or otherwise. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passage thereof.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVII: for the relief of Dorothy Wells.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 497</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-06-25</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Dorothy Wells.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there shall be, and hereby is, confirmed unto Dorothy Wells, the tract of land by her occupied and cultivated, in the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> parish of West Feliciana, in the state of Louisiana, situate on the river Mississippi, which bounds it westwardly; and bounded north by lands granted to William Williams, on the east by land granted to Gilbert Miles, and on the south by other lands, the owner whereof is not known; not to exceed, in the whole, more than six hundred and forty acres; and that a patent shall be issued and granted to the said Dorothy Wells, for the land above described, in the usual form: <i>Provided, however,</i> That<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the said Dorothy Wells has not and shall not claim any other lands in right of settlement and cultivation; and that this act shall only operate
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/498">498</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 148, 149. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
as a relinquishment on the part of the United States, of all their right and claim to the said land, and shall not interfere with, or affect the claim or claims of third persons derived from the Government of Spain, or of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVIII: to confirm certain claims to land in the Territory of Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 498</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-06-25</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to confirm certain claims to land in the Territory of Arkansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the second, third, and fourth sections of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part of act of 8th May 1830, ch. 90, repealed so far as to allow entries to be made and patents issued to certain persons.</p></sidenote>act, approved eighth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, entitled “An act for further extending the powers of the Judges of the Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas, under the act of the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and for other purposes,” be, and the same are hereby repealed, so far as to allow entries to be made and patents to be issued, to the following persons, for, the number of arpens of land respectively affixed to the name of each, in the same manner as though the said act had never passed, viz :</p>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">To John Battiste Billiette, four hundred arpens. To Stephen Vaugine, four hundred arpens. To Harrold Stillwell, three hundred and twenty arpens. To Crittenden, Sevier, and Searcy, assignees of German Charbenau, three hundred and twenty arpens. To A. H. Sevier, four hundred arpens. To Looney Price, three hundred and twenty arpens. To Charles Refeld, four hundred arpens. To A. H. Sevier, assignee of Solomon Bodwell, four hundred and forty arpens. To Antoine Beauvois, four hundred and forty arpens. To Louis Placide, six hundred arpens. To John Stillwell, six hundred and forty arpens. To Noah Wall, six hundred and forty arpens. To Athanasse Racine, one hundred and sixty arpens. To Sylvanus Phillips, eight hundred arpens. To James Scull, four hundred and eighty arpens. To Don Francis Vaugine, eight hundred arpens. To James Scull, three hundred and twenty arpens. To Francis Vaugine, eight hundred arpens. To Terrence Farrelly and Mary his wife, assignees of John Lavergne, four hundred arpens. To Nathaniel Bassett, six hundred and forty arpens. To Joseph Bogy, three hundred and twenty arpens. To William Webber, three hundred and twenty arpens. To Marie Message, three hundred and twenty arpens. To William Patterson, three hundred and twenty arpens. To James Scull, assignee of John B. Duchassin, four hundred and eighty arpens. To A. H. Sevier, assignee of Sylvanus Phillips, who was assignee of Peter Edwards, four hundred arpens. To John B. Calliot, one hundred and sixty arpens. To William Russell, assignee of Sylvanus Phillips, assignee of Battiste Socia, six hundred and forty arpens. To James Scull, assignee of La Cource, one hundred and twenty arpens. To James Scull, assignee of Michael Gimblet, two hundred and forty arpens. To Charles Refeld’s heirs, eight hundred arpens. To Joseph Stillwell’s heirs, three hundred and twenty arpens. To John Henry Fooy, three hundred and twenty arpens.</p>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIX: for the relief of the inhabitants of Terre Aux Boeufs.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 498</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-06-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the inhabitants of Terre Aux Boeufs.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claims confirmed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the claims of the inhabitants residing on the Bayou Terre Aux Bœufs, in the parish of St. Bernard, and state of Louisiana, to the several tracts of land lying on said Bayou, as described in the plat of survey made by Augustus S. Phelps, deputy surveyor of the United States for the state of Louisiana, in May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, to wit:</p>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 149. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/499">499</page>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claims confirmed.</p></sidenote>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">Arpens.</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">Toises</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">Feet.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1.</td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">E. Marin and J. Wogan</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">10</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1½</td>
<td rowspan="18" style="text-align:center"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mo stretchy="true">}</mo>
</math></td>
<td rowspan="18" style="width:40px; height:200px; writing-mode:vertical-rl; transform:rotate(360deg); white-space:normal; word-wrap:break-word; padding:5px; text-align:center">Lying on both sides of the Terre aux Boeufs.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Widow Joseph Fons</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5⅓</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Gabriel Perrera</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">29</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4.</td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Francisco de Torres</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Bernard Gutierres</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">9</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">6.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Antonio Guera</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">16</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">7.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Antonio Gutierres</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">24</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">8.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Bisente Sardina</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">14</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">9.</td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Succession of Serpas</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">29</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">10.</td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">John Baptiste Bourg</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">11.</td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Widow Francisca Lopez</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">19</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">12.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Andrea Gonzales</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">10</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4⅔</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">13.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Succession of Esteves</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3½</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">14.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Madam Garie</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">8</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Cyprien Lefebvre</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">13</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5½</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">16.</td>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Eugene Charles Dumouchel</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">27</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2⅔</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Manuel Solis</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3½</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">18.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Etienne Veillon</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3½</td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">19.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Pierre Thomas</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">20.</td>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Balthazar Enoul Livaudais</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Manuel Solis</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> And on the opposite side of Terre aux Bœufs</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">22</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">22.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Maria Lopez</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">07</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">23.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Succession of Dimanche</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">29</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5½</td>
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<td rowspan="9" style="width:40px; height:200px; writing-mode:vertical-rl; transform:rotate(360deg); white-space:normal; word-wrap:break-word; padding:5px; text-align:center">Lying on both sides of the Terre aux Boeufs.</td>
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<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">24.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Francisca Rodriguez</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">25.</td>
<td colspan="5" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Marcelina Lamar, widow Casanova</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">16</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">26.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Gabriel Cassanova</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">27.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Francis Carle</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">16</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4¼</td>
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<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">28.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Bastien Gonzales</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">10</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4½</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">29.</td>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Widow Joseph Hernandez</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">30.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Manuel Asevedo</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">26</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3½</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">31.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Nicholas Dejean</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">14</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5½</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">32.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Joseph Oramos</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">7</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1⅓</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On the opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">8</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">33.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Juan Cassanova</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">14</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0¾</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On the opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">34.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Gregoire Malarin</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">7</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0⅓</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On the opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">7</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3⅚</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">35.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Lorenzo Medina</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">7</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0 5/12</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On the opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">7</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3⅚</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">36.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Widow Ramirez</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">14</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1⅚</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">37.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Laurent Millaudon</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">19</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">19</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">04</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">38.</td>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Succession of Joseph Sanchez</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">23</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3⅔</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">10</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">39.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Diego Sanchez</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On the opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">10</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">40.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Geronimo Oramus</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">10</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">41.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Juan Gutierres</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">23</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">42.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Marie Ojeda</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">24</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">43.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Francisco Gutierres</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4⅔</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">24</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">44.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Antonio Lopez</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">26</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">45.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Manuel Solis</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">13</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">46.</td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Santiago Rodriguez</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">19</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">8</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5¾</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 149. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claims confirmed.</p></sidenote>
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<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center">Arpens.</td>
<td style="text-align:center">Toises.</td>
<td style="text-align:center">Fee.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">47.</td>
<td colspan="3" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Martial St. Germain</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">48.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Widow Stopinal</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">13</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">29</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">49.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Juan Medina</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">14</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">13</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">50.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Martial St. Germain</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">22</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">24</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">51.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Francisco Sanchez</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">12</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2⅔</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">52.</td>
<td colspan="5" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Debouchelle and Chalaire, brothers,</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">01</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">6</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">11</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">53.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Francisco Gutierres</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">10</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">54.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Antonio Serpas</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">55.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Louis Cure</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">01</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">01</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">56.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Pierre Jorda</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">18</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">18</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">57.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Bienvenu, brothers</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">58.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Juan Solis</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">16</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1¾</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">59.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Joseph Serpas</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">18</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0¾</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">18</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">60.</td>
<td colspan="5" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Succession of Joseph de Armas</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">7</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5¼</td>
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<td rowspan="8" style="width:40px; height:200px; writing-mode:vertical-rl; transform:rotate(360deg); white-space:normal; word-wrap:break-word; padding:5px; text-align:center">Lying on both sides of the   Terre aux Boeufs.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">61.</td>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Succession of Antonio Nieves</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">7</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5¼</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">62.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Joseph Nieves</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">63.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Juan Perez</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">29</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4½</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">64.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Bienvenu, brothers</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">28</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1¼</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">65.</td>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Roman Catholic Church land</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">01</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">18</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1⅓</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">66.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Bienvenu, brothers</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">18</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">67.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Gabriel N. Allard</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">26</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">68.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Jacques Toutant</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">22</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">06</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On the other side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">22</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">07</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">69.</td>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">P. Reaud and Olivier, brothers</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On the opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">70.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Felix Marrero</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">11</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:left"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">11</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">71.</td>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Succession of Bisente Marero</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">14</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">14</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">72.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Charles Fagot</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2¾</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  On opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2¾</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">73.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Martin Robin</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">74.</td>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">P. Reaud and Olivier, brothers</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">22</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">22</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">22</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">75.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Madam Olivier</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">06</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">07</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4¼</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">76.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Augustin Reggio</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">05</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">05</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">77.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Bartole de Armos</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">04</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">04</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">78.</td>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Succession of Antonio Meneses</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">23</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">05</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">23</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">05</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">79.</td>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Succession of Edwd. Alpuente</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">07</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">06</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5⅓</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">80.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Catalina Alfonso</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">07</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">06</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5⅓</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">81.</td>
<td colspan="4" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Succession of Edwd. Alpuente</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0¾</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">29</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">82.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Bartole Molaro</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">04</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1¾</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 156, 157. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/501">501</page>
<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claims confirmed.</p></sidenote>
<table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">Arpens.</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">Toises.</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">Feet.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">3</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">04</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">4</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">83.</td>
<td colspan="5" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Marguerite Molero, widow Nunez</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">84.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Christoval Molero</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">16</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">17</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">85.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Antony Molero</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">14</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">1</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">86.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Manuel Lombas</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">29</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">  Opposite side</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">29</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">0½</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">87.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Juan Alfonson</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">28</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">03½</td>
<td rowspan="9" style="text-align:center"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mo stretchy="true">}</mo>
</math> </td>
<td rowspan="9" style="width:40px; height:200px; writing-mode:vertical-rl; transform:rotate(360deg); white-space:normal; word-wrap:break-word; padding:5px; text-align:center">Both sides of the Terre aux Boeufs.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">88.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Roque Acosta</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">89.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Antoine Landier</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">05</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">03</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">90.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Francisco Alfonso</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">2</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">14</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">05½</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">91.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Manuel Solis</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">21</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">14</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">92.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Widow Nunez</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">14</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">93.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Pedro Hernandez</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">20</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">94.</td>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Widow Nunez</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">5</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">22</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">95.</td>
<td style="text-align:left; vertical-align:bottom">Felix Marrero</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom">-</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">13</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">15</td>
<td style="text-align:right; vertical-align:bottom">00</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="indent0 firstIndent0 fontsize10">be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, and recognised as valid, upon the same terms and conditions that other Spanish claimants, residing in the state of Louisiana, east of the Mississippi, and Island of Orleans, have been heretofore confirmed: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall only be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> construed as a relinquishment of any claim of the United States in and to any part or portion of the lands described in said plat:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided also,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That this act shall not be deemed or held to interfere with the claims or rights of any person or persons whatever.</proviso></p>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted, </i></enactingFormula>That the tract of land described<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Itoman Catholic church lands confirmed.</p></sidenote> in said plat, as belonging to the church, measuring one arpent, eighteen toises, and one foot, and one-third of a foot, and numbered in the preceding list sixty-five, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed and recognised as valid, to and for the uses and purposes for which the same has been heretofore held and used : <proviso><i>Provided, also,</i> That this act shall be<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> only considered a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and not to interfere with the rights of others.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-06-25">June 25, 1832</date>.
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<docNumber>CLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Ephraim Whitaker.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-03">July 3, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<content class="inline">That, in addition to the allowance and payments authorized and required to be made to Ephraim Whitaker by the act,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay granted to E. Whitaker.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 205.</p></sidenote> entitled, “An act for the relief of Ephraim Whitaker and John J. Jacobs,” passed on the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, he shall be accounted with, and paid in the same manner, and to the same extent, as is authorized and required by the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53.</p></sidenote> army of the revolution,” which pay shall begin on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and continue during his natural life.</content>
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<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby authorized and required to audit, adjust, and settle, upon principles of justice and equity, the account of John Lacy, for losses said to have been sustained by him in consequence of the non-compliance on the part of the United States, with the conditions of a contract into which the said John Lacy had entered with Captains
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 158, 159, 160. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
Porter and Warrington, acting in behalf of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four; and that the amount ascertained to be due, be paid to the said John Lacy, or to his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated : <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the said accounting officers do not allow any estimate for salvage on account of the loss of the schooner Mary and Elizabeth.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-03">July 3, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLVIII: for the relief of William McCormick.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 502</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of William McCormick.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-03">July 3, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for William <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish a certain tract of land entered by mistake, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>McCormick, of the state of Indiana, to file, in the land office at Fort Wayne, a relinquishment, in such form as the Register and Receiver of the said land office shall prescribe, of all his title and interest in and to the east half of the south-east quarter of section ten, in township twenty-two, within the said land district, entered by him through mistake, and, upon the execution of such release,- to apply the money paid on the same to the west half of the south-east quarter of section fifteen, township twenty-two, if the said quarter section remain unsold and subject to private entry; if not, then to apply the amount paid in by mistake to any other quarter section of land subject to private entry within said district, for which a patent shall issue.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-03">July 3, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLIX: for the relief of Horatio Gates Spofford.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1832-07-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Horatio Gates Spofford.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-03">July 3, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, in issuing letters patent in the usual form <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to issue for his alleged discoveries in mechanical philosophy.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">His specification to be kept secret.</p></sidenote>to Horatio Gates Spafford, a citizen of the United States, for his alleged discoveries in mechanical philosophy, carried into practical operation by appropriate machinery, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, upon application to him within one year after the passage of this act, to file in the confidential archives of his department, and there preserve in secret for the period of one year, the descriptions, specifications, and drawings, illustrating the discoveries and inventions aforesaid; and the patent which shall be thus issued, shall have the same force and effect <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.</p></sidenote>as if conformable in all respects to the provisions of the “Act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose.”</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-03">July 3, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLX: directing letters patent to be issued to Thomas Knowles, James Lang, and William Steel, respectively.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 502</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">directing letters patent to be issued to Thomas Knowles, James Lang, and William Steel, respectively.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-03">July 3, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That letters patent be issued, in the usual form, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to be issued to T. Knowles, J. Lang, and W. Steel, aliens, respectively.</p></sidenote>to Thomas Knowles, of Manchester, in the kingdom of Great Britain, for a machine for spinning cotton threads, called Knowles’s improvement; to James Lang, of Greenock, in Scotland, for an improvement in the machinery for spinning rope yarn and duck twines; and to William Steel, of Liverpool, in said kingdom, for an improvement on steam engines, called Steel’s atmospheric and re-acting steam engines; upon their compliance, respectively, with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require, on the part of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>aliens, a residence in the United States: <i>Provided,</i> That the said letters patent, and all the privileges thereby granted to the patentees, respectively, shall cease and determine, and become absolutely void, without resort to any legal process to repeal, annul, or cancel the same, in case of failure, severally, on their parts, for the space of two years
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 167, 168, 169. 183</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/503">503</page>
from the passing of this act, to introduce into public use in the United States, the said inventions or improvements; or in case the same, for any one period of six months after such introduction, shall not continue to be publicly used and applied in the United States; or in case proper models shall not, within the term last mentioned, be deposited in the Patent Office, corresponding with the specifications, to be filed by them, respectively.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-03">July 3, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXVII: for the relief of David Brooks.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 503</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of David Brooks.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-04">July 4, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the allowance required to be made to the said David Brooks by the act, entitled “An act for the relief of David<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to him, how to be computed.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 199.</p></sidenote> Brooks,” approved May the twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, shall commence and be computed from the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, instead of the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-04">July 4, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXVIII: for the relief of Samuel Dale.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 503</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Samuel Dale.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-04">July 4, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to audit and settle, on principles of equity<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled for supplies, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and justice, the accounts of Samuel Dale, for supplies of forage, rations, and other articles, and for transportation furnished by him to a detachment of the United States troops, militia, and rangers, in an expedition from Fort Dale against the hostile Indians in Alabama, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, excepting forage and rations furnished to the company of William F. Ware, part of that detachment, who has been paid for the same; and the amount found due said Dale to be paid to him by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-04">July 4, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXIX: for the relief of Aaron Snow.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 503</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Aaron Snow.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-04">July 4, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c., </i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim on account of certain certificates to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the claim of Aaron Snow, a revolutionary soldier, on account of three several certificates issued to and in the name of the said snow, by John Pierce, late Commissioner of Army Accounts, during the revolutionary war, namely : one numbered twenty-seven thousand and ninety-four, dated January first, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for forty-four dollars and sixty-six ninetieths; and. one numbered twenty-seven thousand three hundred and seventy-three, dated January twentieth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for eighty dollars; and one numbered thirty-one thousand three hundred and five, dated March first, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for eighty-six dollars and sixty ninetieths; which certificates appear by the books of the Register of the Treasury, to be outstanding and unpaid ; and that the sums found to be due on said certificates, with interest thereon, be paid to the said Aaron Snow, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated : <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Snow shall first execute<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> and deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond of indemnity, in double the amount of the sum to be paid, with such sufficient security as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-04">July 4, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXX: for the further relief of John H. Wendell, a captain in the revolutionary war.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 504</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/504">504</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 170, 171, 176, 177. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the further relief of John H. Wendell, a captain in the revolutionary war.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-04">July 4, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the benefits of the provisions of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53, extended to him.</p></sidenote> of the army of the revolution,” passed May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, be extended to John H. Wendell, a captain in the army of the revolution; and that he be paid and accounted with in the same manner as if he had already complied with the requisitions of the fourth section thereof; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, in paying and accounting <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> with the said John H. Wendell, any sums of money paid to him under the act passed the twenty-seventh day of May, eighteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 28, 1830, ch. 128.</p></sidenote> thirty, entitled “An act for the relief of John H. Wendell, a captain in the revolutionary war,” be first deducted; and any further payments under the said last mentioned act shall cease and be discontinued.</proviso></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-04">July 4, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXI: for the relief of William P. Gibbs, executor of Benjamin Gibbs, of Kentucky, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 504</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William P. Gibbs, executor of Benjamin Gibbs, of Kentucky, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-04">July 4, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed and required to pay to William <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of a final settlement certificate.</p></sidenote> P. Gibbs, executor of Benjamin Gibbs, of Kentucky, deceased, the sum of twenty-five dollars and sixty-two ninetieths, that being the true amount of a final settlement certificate held by said Gibbs, originally drawn in favor of one David Johnson, dated the twentieth of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four; together with interest at six per cent. on the said sum, from the first day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-three, up to the passage of this act; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-04">July 4, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVI: to extend the period to which the charter of the Provident Association of Clerks was limited.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 504</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to extend the period to which the charter of the Provident Association of Clerks was limited.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-09">July 9, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Act of Congress passed on the fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and nineteen, entitled “An act to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acts of Feb. 15, 1819, ch. 22, and March 3, 1825, ch. 97, continued in force.</p></sidenote> incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the Civil Department of the United States, in the District of Columbia,” and “An act amendatory of the act entitled ‘An act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the Civil Department of the Government of the United States, in the District of Columbia,’” approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, shall continue in force until Congress shall amend, alter, or annul the same.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-09">July 9, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVII: for the relief of Edward S. Meeder.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 504</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Edward S. Meeder.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-09">July 9, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and directed to pay to Edward S. Meeder, an invalid pensioner of the United <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrears of pension to be paid.</p></sidenote> States, an arrearage, at the rate of six dollars per month, from the date of his discharge from the army, to the seventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the time at which his pension has heretofore been allowed to commence; and that the pension of the said <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension increased.</p></sidenote> Edward S. Meeder be increased to the rate of eight dollars from and after the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-09">July 9, 1832</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVIII: granting a pension to William Scott.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 505</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>22</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/505">505</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 178, 179, 183, 185. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">granting a pension to William Scott.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-09">July 9, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> directed to place on the pension roll of the United States, the name of William Scott, of the county of Knox, and state of Tennessee; and that there be allowed to said Scott the sum of eight dollars per month, during his natural life; to commence on the fourth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-09">July 9, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXIX: for the relief of John Bryant and George W. Howard.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Bryant and George W. Howard.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-09">July 9, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the pension allowed to John Bryant, in consequence of a severe wound received in the battle of twenty-third December, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. Bryant’s pension to commence from the date of his discharge.</p></sidenote> one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, near New Orleans, shall commence from the time of his discharge from the service, and be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to G. W. Howard.</p></sidenote> and he hereby is, directed to cause payment to be made to George W. Howard, an invalid pensioner of the United States, of the difference between the amount of pension at five dollars thirty-three and a third cents per month, which he has actually received at the several agencies where it has been paid, and the amount to which he was entitled at eight dollars per month, from the time at which his pension for total disability commenced, to the time at which he was last reported to be totally disabled by the examining physicians, under the “Act regulating <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 81.</p></sidenote> the payments to invalid pensioners,” approved the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-09">July 9, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXIII: for the relief of Timothy Risley.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Timothy Risley.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-09">July 9, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to issue to Timothy Risley, two land warrants, one for one <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrants to issue to him, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> hundred acres, and the other for sixty acres, which are given in satisfaction of a warrant heretofore granted to Zachariah Sherwood, and by him assigned to said Risley, and which was by mistake of the officers of the General Land Office, located on a tract of land previously patented to another individual; and said Risley shall be and is hereby, authorized to surrender said warrants to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and to receive certificates or scrip for the same, at any time before the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three; which certificates or scrip shall be issued and signed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and countersigned by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and receivable in payment for the public lands, in conformity with the provisions of an act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 30, 1830, ch. 215.</p></sidenote> line and navy, and of the continental army during the revolutionary war.”</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-09">July 9, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXV: for the relief of Joseph Chamberlain.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Joseph Chamberlain.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-09">July 9, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to cause to be paid to Joseph Chamberlain, an invalid pensioner, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrears of pension allowed him.</p></sidenote> an arrearage, to be computed from the date of his discharge from the military service of the United States, to the time at which his pension was allowed to commence under the act, entitled “An act to revive and <page identifier="/us/stat/6/506">506</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 195. 1832.</centerRunningHead> continue in force an act, entitled ‘An act to provide for persons who <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 109.</p></sidenote> were disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war, and for other purposes,’” approved the fifteenth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and at the rate of pension corresponding with the degree of disability for which his name was inscribed on the list of invalid pensioners.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-09">July 9, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCV: for the relief of John Anderson, assignee of Jean B. Jerome and George McDougall.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 506</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-10</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Anderson, assignee of Jean B. Jerome and George McDougall.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-10">July 10, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Surveyor-General of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall, as soon as practicable, survey, or cause to be surveyed, a certain tract <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey of a certain tract of land directed.</p></sidenote> of land confirmed by the Board of Commissioners, appointed by virtue of an act of Congress, entitled “An act to revive the powers of the Commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to land in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 85.</p></sidenote> district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to lands at Green Bay, &amp;c.,” approved May the eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to George McDougall, as will more fully appear by reference to the fourth volume of the reports of said commissioners, made in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and confirmed by act of Congress of the second of January [seventeenth of April], one thousand <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 17, 1828, ch. 28.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and twenty-eight; and also, one other tract of land confirmed by the commissioners aforesaid, to Jean B. Jerome, as will more fully appear by reference to the fifth volume of the reports of said commissioners, made in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and confirmed as aforesaid, by act of Congress, of second January [seventeenth of April], one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; and shall return to the Register of the Land Office of the district wherein such lands lie, an accurate plat of such survey, exhibiting such portions of land lying within the exterior lines of the aforesaid claims as have been disposed of by the government; such (if any) as have been patented for the benefit of one or either of the aforesaid claimants, and those still belonging to the Government.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Register of the Land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate to issue for all such lands, &amp;c. upon which patents shall issue, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Office aforesaid shall forthwith issue to John Anderson, of Monroe, Michigan Territory, (assignee of Jean B. Jerome and George McDougall) his heirs or assigns, a patent certificate for all such lands, within the exterior lines of the tracts aforesaid, as now belong to the Government, upon which patents shall issue to the aforesaid John Anderson, his heirs, and assigns. And for the purpose of carrying into full effect <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land, not exceeding 840 acres.</p></sidenote> the recommendations of the commissioners aforesaid, the said John Anderson shall be entitled, and is hereby authorized, as soon as the return of the surveys aforesaid shall have been made to the Register’s office, to enter a quantity of land upon any of the United States’ lands which have been surveyed and offered for sale in the Territory of Michigan according to the legal subdivisions of the United States’ lands, which when added to the quantity which the Government either have patented, or may be able to patent to him, within the limits of the original claims, shall equal the entire quantity recommended by the commissioners aforesaid, not exceeding in the whole eight hundred and forty acres.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That, if in locating the aforesaid <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">If, in locating, &amp;c., he shall be entitled, &amp;c., the price of such remaining quantity may be applied, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> residuum according to the legal subdivisions of the United States’ lands, the said John Anderson shall be entitled to any number of acres less than the lowest subdivisions of the public lands, he shall then be entitled to apply the price of such remaining quantity in payment towards any other tract which he or his heirs or assigns, may afterwards choose to purchase of the Government.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-10">July 10, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVIII: for the relief of George E. Tingle.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 507</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-13</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/507">507</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 208, 209, 210, 211. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of George E. Tingle.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of eight hundred and eighty-three <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as clerk.</p></sidenote> dollars and twenty cents be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to George E. Tingle, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full satisfaction for services rendered by him as a clerk in the Executive office of Florida.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIX: for the relief of John Brickwood Taylor.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 507</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-13</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Brickwood Taylor.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specie value of certificate, with interest, to be paid.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Brickwood Taylor, the specie value of a certificate, issued by M. Hillegas, continental treasurer, numbered one thousand four hundred and fifty-two, with interest on the said specie value, at four per centum per annum, from the twelfth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven; which certificate was issued in the name of Stephen Ketchum, and of which the said John Brickwood Taylor is now owner: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said John Brickwood Taylor shall first execute and deliver to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond, in such sum and with such security, as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve, to indemnify the United States from and against the lawful claim of any other person or persons, for, or on account of, the said certificate.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCX: for the relief of Joseph Kamber.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 507</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-13</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Joseph Kamber.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the United States, at Washington City, be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scrip to be issued for the sum of $195.84, on his relinquishing, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> required (on Joseph Kamber’s relinquishing to the United States all his right and title to the north-west quarter of section number four, town-ship number seventeen, and range number three east, situated and being in the St. Stephen’s land district, Alabama, entered by the said Joseph Kamber, in the name of James B. May, by mistake) to issue scrip in favor of the said Joseph Kamber, for the sum of one hundred and ninety-five eighty-four hundredths dollars, receivable in any of the Land Offices of Alabama, in payment for any of the public lands that now is, or hereafter may be, subject to sale or entry in said state.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXI: for the relief of Joseph Elliott.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 507</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-13</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Joseph Elliott.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That all right, title and interest, which the United States possess in the reservation made to Joseph Elliott of lands within <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of U. S. in a certain reservation of land vested in him.</p></sidenote> the tract of country ceded to the United States by the treaty of the twentieth December, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, with the Cherokee nation of Indians, be, and the same is hereby, vested in the said Joseph Elliott: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That only six hundred and forty <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> acres, shall be granted by virtue of this act:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That the said Joseph Elliott with his family, shall remove to the Cherokee tribe west of the Mississippi river; and that the Government of the United States shall not be chargeable with the expense of their removal or transportation, or with any allowance of land to, or on account of the said Elliott, or his family, or for the support of either after their arrival in the country of said tribe:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That no conveyance <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> or deed, of the said lands, or any part thereof, shall be valid or effectual, until such conveyance, or deed, shall be submitted to one of the district attorneys of the districts of Alabama, for his approbation; <page identifier="/us/stat/6/508">508</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 212, 213, 214. 1832.</centerRunningHead> and if, after inquiry into the facts and circumstances attending the contract for the sale of said lands, he shall be satisfied that such contract is fair, and the consideration paid, or agreed to be paid therefor, is adequate, he shall endorse his approbation on such conveyance and deed so approved, and thereafter the same shall be deemed valid and effectual.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXII: for the relief of William Dickson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 508</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-13</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William Dickson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office is authorized and required to issue, upon application, to William <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioner of the General Land Office required to issue scrip to him on account of forfeitures.</p></sidenote> Dickson, his legal representatives, or assigns, scrip to the amount of five hundred and seventy-two dollars and eighty-four and a half cents; being the one-fourth part of the original purchase money paid to the Receiver of the Land Office at Saint Stephens, in Alabama, for the purchase of the north-east quarter of section numbered eight, in township numbered seventeen, of range numbered four, east; and of the south-east quarter of section numbered five, in township numbered seventeen, of range numbered four, east; and of the south-east quarter of section numbered eight, in township numbered seventeen, of range numbered four, east; and of the north-east quarter of section numbered eighteen, in township numbered seventeen, of range numbered four, east; all in the district of lands offered for sale at Saint Stephens; which said lands were forfeited, and have reverted to the United States; and of which said Dickson was the legal assignee from the original purchasers, at the time of said forfeiture; said scrip to be receivable in payment for the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scrip to be receivable in payment for certain lands.</p></sidenote> purchase of any lands which have been once offered for sale in Alabama, Mississippi, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, or Arkansas Territory.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXIII: for the relief of Walter Cockburn.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCXIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Walter Cockburn.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue patents to Walter Cockburn, for lots <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patents to issue.</p></sidenote> numbered twenty-nine, thirty-two, sixty-seven, and thirty-three, as designated in the plan of a town laid off at York Bluff, in the state of Alabama, and purchased by said Cockburn at the public sale of said four lots.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXIV: for the relief of Nathaniel A. Ware.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Nathaniel A. Ware.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Nathaniel A. Ware be, and hereby is, authorized to locate, on any of the unappropriated lands of the United <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate 2000 acres of land in Mississippi.</p></sidenote> States, in the state of Mississippi, subject to sale at private entry, two thousand acres of land, in lieu of the like quantity, or of two thousand three hundred and sixty-four arpens, granted to Alexander Moore, by virtue of a Spanish patent dated the twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and confirmed to James Moore, under whom the said Nathaniel A. Ware claims, by the Board of Commissioners west of Pearl river, on the fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, and sold by the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the location herein <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> authorized, shall conform to the divisions and subdivisions established by law:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That the said Nathaniel A. Ware shall <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> execute a deed, in such form as the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States shall approve, relinquishing and surrendering to the United States the land granted as aforesaid, to the said Alexander Moore.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXV: for the relief of the legal representatives of Peter, Catharine, and Charles Surget.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCXV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/509">509</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess.I. Ch. 215, 216, 217. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Peter, Catharine, and Charles Surget.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Peter, Catharine, and Charles Surget, that is to say, Francis Surget, Jacob Surget, Charlotte <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate 640 acres of land in Mississippi.</p></sidenote> C. Bingaman, James Surget, Catharine Plimore, and William Surget, the living heirs of Peter and Catharine Surget, and Charles Surget, deceased, in conjunction with the devisees of Susannah Stocker, who was also one of the heirs, but died, devising her real estate to Charlotte C. Bingaman, Catharine Plimore, James Surget, and Adam L. Bingaman, who, as such, are entitled to one undivided seventh part of said two grants of land to Peter and Charles Surget, be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate, on any of the unappropriated lands of the United States, in the state of Mississippi, subject to sale at private entry, six hundred and forty acres of land, in lieu of the like quantity granted to Peter Surget by virtue of a Spanish warrant or order of survey, dated November thirteenth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and confirmed to Catharine Surget (wife of said Peter) on the twenty-sixth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and sold by the United States.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the legal representatives of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Representatives of Charles Surget authorized to locate 500 arpens, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Charles Surget be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate on any of the unappropriated lands of the United States, in the state of Mississippi, subject to sale at private entry, five hundred arpens, in lieu of the like quantity granted to Charles Surget by virtue of a warrant or order of survey, dated December thirteenth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and confirmed by the Board of Commissioners west of Pearl river, on the twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and sold by the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the locations herein authorized, shall, in each case, conform to the divisions and subdivisions established by law.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXVI: for the relief of Jacob C. Jordan.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCXVI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Jacob C. Jordan.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office cause a patent to be issued to Jacob C. Jordan, for the north-east <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to issue.</p></sidenote> quarter of section twenty-seven, township eighteen, range two east, in the St. Stephen’s land district, in the state of Alabama, upon his surrendering the patent heretofore issued him for the south-west quarter in the above named section, township, and range.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXVII: confirming the claim of Maria Holliday to a tract of land in Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 509</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-13</dc:date>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">confirming the claim of Maria Holliday to a tract of land in Louisiana.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Maria Holliday be, and she is hereby, confirmed in her claim to a tract of land, now in her possession, lying between <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> the river Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain, and about sixteen miles above the city of New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, and having a front of twenty-four and a half arpens on the said river, and extending in depth to the said lake: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That such confirmation <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall only operate as a relinquishment of all right and title on the part of the United States to said land.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXVIII: for the relief of James W. Zachary.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 510</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-13</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/510">510</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess.I. Ch. 218, 219, 220, 226. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of James W. Zachary.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to release James W. Zachary, of the city of New <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgment released, and payment refunded.</p></sidenote> Orleans, from the effects of a judgment obtained against him at the suit of the United States, on the twelfth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, in the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana; and refund to him, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars and sixty-three cents, being the amount of said judgment.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXIX: for the relief of the representatives of Elias Earle, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 510</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-13</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the representatives of Elias Earle, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the representatives of Elias Earle, deceased, be, and they are hereby, released from a judgment in the Circuit Court <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from a judgment on a contract, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of the United States for the district of South Carolina, recovered by the United States against Elias Earle, executor of Elias Earle, deceased, who was one of the sureties of Adam Carruth, late of South Carolina, in a contract entered into by the said Adam Carruth with the Ordnance Department of the United States, for the manufacture and delivery of ten thousand stand of arms for the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> nothing in this act contained, shall be construed to release any other person or persons than the representatives of said Elias Earle, nor shall it be so construed as to release them from the costs of the said judgment.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXX: for the relief of John H. Harrison.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCXX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1832-07-13</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John H. Harrison.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John H. Harrison be, and he is hereby, released from a judgment recovered against him by the United States, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from a judgment as security, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> in the circuit court for the district of South Carolina, as one of the securities of Francis Adams, late of South Carolina, on a bond given by the said Francis Adams, as a collector of the internal revenue of the United States for the fifth collection district of South Carolina: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to release <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> any other person or persons than the said John H. Harrison, nor shall it be so construed as to release him from the payment of the costs of recovering said judgment.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-13">July 13, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXVI: for the discharge of sundry judgments against the former Marshall of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and for the relief of J. and W. Lippincott and Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the discharge of sundry judgments against the former Marshall of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and for the relief of J. and W. Lippincott and Company.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the Treasury to pay certain judgments against the late marshal of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the amounts now severally due upon certain judgments rendered in favour of several Insurance Companies of the city of New York against the late Marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, that is to say; upon a judgment rendered by the circuit court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, on the twenty-first of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favor of the Ocean Insurance Company, against John Conard, for thirty-one thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and fourteen cents; also, upon a judgment rendered in the same court on the twenty-second of May, eighteen <page identifier="/us/stat/6/511">511</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess.I. Ch. 235. 1832.</centerRunningHead> hundred and thirty, in favor of the Pacific Insurance Company, against the said John Conard, for forty-two thousand five hundred and ninety-one dollars and fifty-eight cents; also, upon a judgment rendered in the same court the twenty-second of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favor of the Neptune Insurance Company against the said John Conard, for eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty-five cents; also, upon a judgment rendered in the same court, on the twenty-second of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favor of the National Insurance Companies against the said John Conard, for sixteen thousand eight hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents; also, upon a judgment rendered in the same court on the twenty-second of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favor of the American Insurance Company, for twenty thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and one cent; also, upon a judgment in the same court rendered the twenty-fourth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favor of the Niagara Insurance Company, for sixteen thousand two hundred and one dollars and five cents, against the said Conard; also, upon a judgment rendered in the same court the tenth of November, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favour of the Merchant’s Fire Insurance Company, against the said John Conard, for twenty-five thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars and twenty-five cents; also, upon a judgment rendered in the same court, the tenth of November, eighteen hundred and thirty, in favour of the Atlantic Insurance Company, against the said John Conard, for twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-five cents; together with the interest and all the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest and legal costs allowed.</p></sidenote> legal costs which have accrued on the said judgments against the said Conard, either in the said circuit court or upon the affirmance of any of the said judgments in the Supreme Court of the United States.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims of Lippincott &amp; Co. to be adjusted and settled.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized to adjust and settle the claims of J. and W. Lippincott and Company, of Philadelphia, for damages sustained by them in consequence of the illegal seizure of teas made in the said city of Philadelphia, by the collector of that port, acting under the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no allowance <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall be made for any damages sustained by them other than the interest upon the amount of the property detained from them, and the difference in the value of said property at the time of the illegal seizure, and the time of its delivery to them on the substitution of other security.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXV: to remit a part of the duties on a cargo imported in the brig Liberator.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 511</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to remit a part of the duties on a cargo imported in the brig Liberator.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to remit the excess of duties paid upon certain foreign produce imported <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Excess of duties on certain merchandise remitted.</p></sidenote> into the United States in the brig Liberator, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, over the amount of duties which would have been paid on the same if imported in an American vessel, or to refund such excess, if actually paid, to the person or persons who have paid such excess, and to pay such amount out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLIV: for the relief of the officers and soldiers of Fort Delaware.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLIV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/512">512</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. SESS. I. Cir. 244, 249, 251. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the officers and soldiers of Fort Delaware.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the second auditor of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to ascertain the amount of property <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of property lost by fire, to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> lost by each officer and soldier in the conflagration which occurred at Fort Delaware, on the night of the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; and the amount so ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLIX: for the benefit of Saint Vincent’s Female Orphan Asylum of the city of Washington, under the direction of the “Sisters of Charity,” and of the Washington City Orphan Asylum, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the benefit of Saint Vincent’s Female Orphan Asylum of the city of Washington, under the direction of the “Sisters of Charity,” and of the Washington City Orphan Asylum, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the Public Buildings be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to select and value such <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of city lots to certain corporations.</p></sidenote> of the building lots and parts of lots, owned by the United States, in the city of Washington, as he shall think may be brought to market and sold to the greatest advantage, to the amount of twenty thousand dollars, which he shall divide and separate into two parcels of ten thousand dollars worth each, one of which, at his election, he shall convey to the “Washington City Orphan Asylum,” and the other to the “Saint Vincent’s Female Orphan Asylum of Washington, under the direction of the Sisters of Charity,” and to the successors of each forever.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the said lots and parts of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lots to be free from taxes for five years, unless, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> lots so to be selected and valued, shall be free from taxes for five years, unless sooner disposed of by the said Corporations, or either of them; and that so soon as the said Corporations, or either of them, shall dispose of any part of the property hereby granted, the part so disposed of shall be subject to taxation.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That each of the said Corporations <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of lots authorized.</p></sidenote> shall be authorized to sell and dispose of all or any part of the property hereby granted to it, for a term of years, or in fee simple, at such times and on such terms as it shall deem most advisable: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the interest of the money arising from the sale, lease, or <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> rent, of the aforesaid lot of ground or any part thereof, shall not be applied to any other object than to the purposes for which the before-mentioned Institution was established.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the sum of fifteen hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for certain improvements.</p></sidenote> dollars be appropriated for enclosing and improving the Public Reservation, marked number eight, on the plan of the city.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLI: for the relief of Bernard Leonard and Jacob Black.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Bernard Leonard and Jacob Black.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Bernard Leonard be, and he is hereby, confirmed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">B. Leonard’s land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> in his claim as assignee of Peter Young and David Durham, to two tracts of land, of six hundred and forty acres each, situated on the south side of Red river, and in the tract of country commonly called the Neutral Territory, and about thirty-five miles above the town of Natchitoches, to be located in such manner as to embrace the improvements made by Peter Young and David Durham, severally, before the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That Jacob Black, as assignee of Nathaniel <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, claim of N. Hickman.</p></sidenote> Hickman, and Isaiah Hickman, be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his claim to two tracts of land of six hundred and forty acres each, situated on the south side of Red river, within the aforesaid Territory, about thirty-six miles above the town of Natchitoches, to be located in such manner as to embrace the improvements made thereon by said Nathaniel and Isaiah Hickman, severally, previous to the twenty-second day <page identifier="/us/stat/6/513">513</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 252, 253, 254, 255, 256. 1832.</centerRunningHead> of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> this act shall be considered only as a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and not to prejudice the rights of third persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLII: for the relief of Lieutenant James L. Dawson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Lieutenant James L. Dawson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Lieutenant James L. Dawson, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for making a road, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> sum of one hundred dollars and eleven cents, the balance due to him by the United States “for surveying and making a road from Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson.”</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLIII: for the relief of David Kilbourn.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 513</citableAs>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of David Kilbourn.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand dollars be paid to David <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services in the late war.</p></sidenote> Kilbourn, of Oswego county, in the state of New York, for services performed by him during the late war between the United States and Great Britain.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLIV: for the relief of Silvia Posner.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 513</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Silvia Posner.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the third auditor of the treasury department be, and he is hereby authorized and directed, to adjust and settle the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for property destroyed to be settled.</p></sidenote> claim of Silvia Posner, for the value of a house, called Richmond Bath, and the adjoining out buildings, and allow her the value thereof; which buildings were burnt while occupied by the American troops during the late war; and the sum so found to be due, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLV: for the relief of Abiah Warren, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 513</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Abiah Warren, and others.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Abiah Warren, widow, and to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of moneys illegally demanded of E. T. Warren, deceased.</p></sidenote> Ann Warren and John Warren, children of Ebenezer T. Warren, formerly of Hallowell, in the state of Maine, deceased, in equal proportions, the principal sum of one hundred dollars, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and also, the further principal sum of three hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-three cents, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the twelfth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six; the said several sums having been illegally demanded and received by the United States of the said Ebenezer T. Warren, deceased, as one of the sureties of Daniel Evans, formerly a collector of the direct taxes and internal duties for the fourth collection district of Massachusetts.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLVI: for the relief of Don Carlos Dehault Delassus.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 513</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Don Carlos Dehault Delassus.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there shall be paid to Don Carlos Dehault Delassus, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for moneys taken at the capture of Baton Rouge.</p></sidenote> the sum of one thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars, being for moneys taken from him at the capture of Baton Rouge, in Louisiana, on the twenty-third day of September, eighteen hundred and ten.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLVII: for the relief of Heman Allen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 514</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/514">514</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 257, 258, 259. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Heman Allen.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be paid to Heman Allen, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him of fees as marshal.</p></sidenote> late Marshal of Vermont, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents, being the amount of commission as poundage fees, on certain executions in favor of the United States, served by him while Marshal aforesaid, which fees were charged in his account, and disallowed by the accounting officers of the treasury department.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLVIII: for the relief of Christopher Brooks.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCLVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Christopher Brooks.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of one hundred dollars be paid to Christopher Brooks, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for apprehending a mail robber.</p></sidenote> appropriated, for the apprehension and prosecution of a negro concerned in robbing the mail, at or near Doak’s stand, in the state of Mississippi, in the month of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLIX: for the relief of the personal representatives of Colonel John Laurens.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 514</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the personal representatives of Colonel John Laurens.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed, authorized and required, to settle the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote> account of the personal representatives of Col. John Laurens, late of the army of the United States, in the revolutionary war, and some time Minister Extraordinary to France, for and on account of the military and diplomatic services of the said Col. Laurens; and therein, that they, the said accounting officers, allow and credit to said personal representatives, the interest on the amount due to him, the said Laurens, by the books of the treasury, on the fifth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, for balance of his salary as Minister as aforesaid, up to the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one; and on two hundred and six dollars and fifty-four cents, being the balance due on the military account of the said Col. John Laurens, together with the interest from the first of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; all in the same manner as if indents of interest had been yearly issued to him or them therefor: and that they also credit the said personal representatives for the two several sums last aforesaid, in the same manner as if treasury certificates had, before the said thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, been issued therefor, bearing an interest of six per centum per annum; and that certificates of stocks be thereupon issued at the treasury to said personal representatives, for the several sums aforesaid, in the same manner and of the same tenor and date, as if the same had been, on said thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, subscribed to the loan of the United States, proposed by the act, entitled “An act making provision for the debt of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> United States,” passed August the fourth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; and that said stocks be redeemable thereafter, in the same manner as other stocks have been redeemed or were made redeemable by the provisions of said act, and by those of an act, entitled “An act in addition to an act, entitled ‘An act for the further support of public <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 28, 1796, ch. 16.</p></sidenote> credit and the redemption of the public debt,’” passed April twenty-eight, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and of all other acts <page identifier="/us/stat/6/515">515</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 260, 261, 262. 1832.</centerRunningHead> made or to be made, in aid thereof, and that all dividends thereupon, found due on said stocks, whether for interest or principal, be paid to said personal representatives, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLX: for the relief of Gates Hoit.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCLX</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Gates Hoit.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for secret services.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars to Gates Hoit, in full of all claims of said Gates Hoi on the United States for secret services rendered by him during the late war.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXI: for the relief of David E. Twiggs, Joseph M. Street, and Stephen W. Kearney.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of David E. Twiggs, Joseph M. Street, and Stephen W. Kearney.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That for defraying the expenses actually incurred by Major David E. Twiggs, to be ascertained by the accounting officers <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of D. E. Twiggs in defending suits, &amp;c., to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> of the treasury, in defending suits brought against him for certain acts done in performance of his official duties, and in obedience to orders from the President of the United States, the sum so found to have been incurred, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said David E. Twiggs shall not be allowed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> any travelling expenses, except those actually incurred on journeys performed for the sole purpose of attending to the defence of the said suits.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the sum of one thousand <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for discharge of a judgment against J. M. Street and S. W. Kearney.</p></sidenote> three hundred and seventy-four dollars seventy-eight and three-fourth cents, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for discharging, under the direction of the Secretary at War, a judgment rendered against Joseph M. Street, and Stephen W. Kearney, at the October term of the United States’ Circuit Court for the counties of Crawford and Loway, in the Michigan Territory, for and on account of a procedure in the discharge of their official duties.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXII: for the relief of certain invalid and other pensioners therein named.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of certain invalid and other pensioners therein named.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the invalid pension roll of the United States, the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain names to be placed on invalid pension roll, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> names of the following persons; whereupon, they, and each of them, shall be entitled to receive the pensions severally set against their names, respectively, during life, that is to say: Zebulon Wade at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Samuel Espie, at the rate of ten dollars per month, in lieu of the pension he now receives, from and after the fourth day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Asa Hoyt, at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Benjamin Groun, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent0 fontsize8">1834, ch. 127, § 2.</p></sidenote> July twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">William Gallop, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing December eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Bartholomew Delapierre, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, commencing December eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/516">516</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 263. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Daniel Stoddart, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Edgar Freeman, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, commencing on the fourteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</p></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name of John Miller to be re-inscribed on said roll.</p></sidenote> and he hereby is, directed to re-inscribe the name of John Miller on said pension roll, as on the third day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, at the rate of eight dollars per month from that time to the third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, when his name was inscribed thereon, and that the said John Miller be entitled to receive the same arrears of his pension.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War re-inscribe <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, John R. Rappleye.</p></sidenote> the name of John R. Rappleye on said roll, as on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, at the rate of eight dollars per month, until the third of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; and that thereupon he be entitled to receive, as arrears of his pension, the sum of four dollars per month during that time.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War re-inscribe <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, Robert Kane.</p></sidenote> the name of Robert Kane on the said pension roll, as of the date of November first, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, at the rate of seventeen dollars per month; and that, thereupon, he be entitled to receive, as arrears of his pension, the sum of nine dollars per month from that date up to the present time; and hereafter the said sum of seventeen dollars per month.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War place <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jane M. Lawrence, widow of Jonathan Lawrence, to receive half pay for five years.</p></sidenote> on the roll aforesaid the name of Jane Mary Lawrence, the widow of Jonathan Lawrence, an ensign in the service of the United States in the late war, who died of wounds received in said service, at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents per month, for and during the term of five years from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Jane Mary Lawrence <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall so long live and remain unmarried; but in the event of her death or intermarriage, then the remainder of said pension shall go to such child or children of the deceased as were under sixteen years of age at the time of his death, if any such there were.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. P. Preston to be allowed the amount which would have been due, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> authorized, upon the application of J. P. Preston, a Colonel in the late war, and upon his making proof of his right to be placed upon the invalid pension roll as an officer of the late war, to allow the said Preston the amount which would have been due him had he made his application at the time he received his wound.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War cause <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. Atwater to be placed on list of invalid pensioners.</p></sidenote> to be placed on the list of invalid pensioners the name of Russel Atwater of Saint Lawrence county, state of New York, and pay to him eight dollars per month from first January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, during his life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXIII: for the relief of John J. Jacob.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 516</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John J. Jacob.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay to John J. Jacob, out of any money in the treasury, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of his commutation of half pay as a lieutenant, with interest.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the amount of his commutation for half pay as a Lieutenant in the army of the United States, on the continental establishment, during the revolutionary war; with such interest thereon as that the principal and interest will amount to the sum to which the said John J. Jacob would have been entitled if a final settle-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/517">517</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 264, 265, 266, 267. 1832.</centerRunningHead>ment certificate had been issued for his said commutation, and the same had been by him subscribed to the loan created for funding the debt of the United States by the acts of one thousand seven hundred and ninety: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That any sum found due by him to the United States <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> be first deducted from the amount of said commutation.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXIV: for the relief of William Nelson, administrator of the estate of Andrew Nelson, deceased, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 517</citableAs>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William Nelson, administrator of the estate of Andrew Nelson, deceased, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to William Nelson, administrator of the estate of Andrew Nelson, deceased, out of any money in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of prize money to Wm. Nelson.</p></sidenote> the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars and forty-two cents, being his proportion of prize money, as a seaman in the naval service of the United States, under the command of Commodore McDonough, for the British squadron captured on Lake Champlain during the late war; the same not having been heretofore paid under the “Act to authorize the purchase of the vessels <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 89.</p></sidenote> captured on Lake Champlain,” approved the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Navy <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, to legal representatives of J. Coleman.</p></sidenote> pay to the legal representatives of John Coleman, deceased, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars, and forty-two cents, reported on the books of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury to the said John Coleman, for his share of prize money for the British vessels captured on lake Erie during the late war; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the proper accounting officers <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of transportation money to Jas. Scrivener.</p></sidenote> of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to pay to James Scrivener, late a seaman in the United States’ Navy, or his legal representatives, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents, in full of transportation money due him during the late war.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXV: for the relief of Pierre Leglize.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 517</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Pierre Leglize.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to refund to Pierre Leglize the sum of three <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moneys erroneously paid to be refunded.</p></sidenote> hundred and thirty-eight dollars, which he has erroneously paid the government for a tract of land, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXVI: for the relief of Rebecca Blodget, widow of Samuel Blodget, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 517</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Rebecca Blodget, widow of Samuel Blodget, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Rebecca Blodget, widow of Samuel Blodget, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to her in full of all claim for dower in the general post-office.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-six cents, in full satisfaction and final discharge of all claims of dower, in right of her said husband, against the United States, and of all damages therefor, from the day of her husband’s death, to the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, whether before or after formal demand made.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXVII: for the relief of Guy W. Smith.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 517</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Guy W. Smith.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Guy W. Smith, <page identifier="/us/stat/6/518">518</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 268, 269, 270, 271. 1832.</centerRunningHead> such sum as he shall prove, to the satisfaction of the said Secretary, he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled and paid for money stolen.</p></sidenote> did not recover of the public money stolen from him in March, eighteen hundred and thirty, on his way from Palestine, in the state of Illinois, to Louisville, in the state of Kentucky, at which last place he was directed to make his deposits; together with such reasonable reward and expenses as the said Guy W. Smith has paid for apprehending the thief.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXVIII: for the relief of the heirs of Thomas Davenport.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXVIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of Thomas Davenport.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle and adjust the account <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay as captain allowed, with interest.</p></sidenote> of the heirs of Thomas Davenport; and allow to them five years’ full pay for his services as a captain in the revolutionary war, with such interest thereon as the party would have been entitled to if a final settlement certificate had been issued for the amount of his commutation, and the same had been subscribed to the loan created by the act of one thousand seven hundred and ninety, providing for the funding of the debt of the United States; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXIX: for the relief of Thomas Holdup Stevens, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXIX</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Thomas Holdup Stevens, and others.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause the sum of two thousand dollars to be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">$2000 to be distributed to captors of a certain piratical Felucca.</p></sidenote> distributed, as prize money, to Captain Thomas Holdup Stevens, of the United States’ Navy, and the other captors of a piratical Felucca within the Colorados reef, in the West Indies, in April, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, which vessel was taken into the service of the United States; and that the said sum be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXX: for the relief of Samuel May.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Samuel May.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed by the enemy.</p></sidenote> to Samuel May, in full satisfaction for the destruction of two warehouses, the property of said May, by the British army, at Buffalo, in the state of New York, on the thirtieth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and, at the time of their destruction, in the military occupation of the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXI: for the relief of John Brunson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Brunson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department adjust the claim of John Brunson, for a house and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for property destroyed to be adjusted and paid.</p></sidenote> store destroyed by the enemy, in the village of Buffalo, during the late war, and pay to him, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such rateable proportion of the amount of his claim, when liquidated by the Third Auditor of the Treasury, as has been paid to claimants under the act approved third March, one thousand eight hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1825, ch. 66.</p></sidenote> and twenty-five “further to amend the act authorizing payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed, by the enemy, while in the mili-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/519">519</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 272, 273, 274. 1832.</centerRunningHead>tary service of the United States, and for other purposes; passed ninth April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen:” <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> proper accounting officer be satisfied that the title of the building so destroyed is in the said John Brunson.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXII: for the relief of William D. Gaines and William M. King.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 519</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William D. Gaines and William M. King.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That all the right, title, and interest, which now has, or might hereafter accrue, or revert to the United States, to a certain <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title of U. S. to certain reservations of land, relinquished in their favor.</p></sidenote> reservation of six hundred and forty acres of land in the county of Jackson, in the state of Alabama, granted to one Thomas Jones, the head of an Indian family, under stipulations in the treaties of one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the United States and the Cherokee nation east of the Mississippi, and which was heretofore sold and conveyed, by said Jones, to William D. Gaines, and part of which has, by him, been sold to, and is now in possession of, William M. King, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished to the said William D. Gaines and William M. King, respectively: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> be so construed as, in any manner, to affect any right of the wife or children of said Jones, in law or equity, which may exist in consequence of any fraud, or unfairness, which may have been practised in obtaining the conveyance from said Jones and his wife and children: nor shall the absence of said Jones, from said reservation, during his life, or at the time of his death, be held, in any manner, to affect the claim of himself or family to said reservation.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXIII: for the relief of John F. Girod, of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 519</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John F. Girod, of Louisiana.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and he hereby is, directed to issue to John F. Girod a patent <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued to him.</p></sidenote> for four fractional quarter sections of land in the parish of Ouachita, state of Louisiana, containing two hundred and ninety-two acres and eleven-hundredths, lying in township seventeen, range three east, section second, it being the same lately sold at the land sales at Ouachita, and purchased by said Girod, through his agent, Bernard Hemkin.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money improperly paid to be refunded.</p></sidenote> shall pay to said Girod, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and twenty-five dollars and eighty-eight and three-fourths cents, this being the amount improperly paid by Girod for said land; and that said Girod be exempted from all further liability to the Government, on account of any part of the purchase money of said land yet unpaid.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXIV: for the relief of William Wayne Wells, of the state of Indiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 519</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William Wayne Wells, of the state of Indiana.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That under the directions of the Secretary of War, there shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a certain section of land reserved to him, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> appropriated, to the said William Wayne Wells, of the state of Indiana, the sum of one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars, in full satisfaction of a section of land allowed and reserved to him by the treaty with the Miami tribe of Indians, dated sixth October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and which said section of land was afterwards reserved for the use of the Miami tribe of Indians, in the treaty made with them, and dated twenty-third October, one thousand <page identifier="/us/stat/6/520">520</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 275, 276, 277. 1832.</centerRunningHead> eight hundred and twenty-six: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, before such payment <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> is made, the said William Wayne Wells shall make and execute a good and sufficient deed and conveyance, relinquishing all the right, title, interest, and claim, which he now has, or ever had, to said section of land, and shall file the same with the Secretary of War.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXV: for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Edward Barry, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 520</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Edward Barry, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to the heirs and legal representatives of Edward Barry, late a sailing-master in the navy of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> United States, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-five cents, in full compensation for the property of the said Edward Barry, destroyed in the conflagration of the navy yard, at Washington, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXVI: for the relief of John Buhler.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 520</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Buhler.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there shall be, and hereby is, confirmed unto John Buhler, the tract of land lately occupied by Stephen Hackney, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> deceased, containing five hundred and twenty-two acres, bounded as follows: on the upper line, by lands the property of the heirs of John C. Faulkner; and on the lower line, by lands claimed by Joshua Alexander; and on the east, by lands confirmed by Congress to John Cooper: said lands situated on the east side of the Mississippi river; and that a patent shall be issued and granted to the said John Buhler, for the land above described, in the usual form: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the representatives <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> and assignees, or any, or either of them, shall not claim, and has not claimed, any other lands in right of settlement and cultivation; and that this act shall only operate as a relinquishment, on the part of the United States, of all their right and claim to the said land, and shall not interfere with, or affect the claim or claims of third persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXVII: for the relief of the heirs of Jeremiah Buckley, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 520</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of Jeremiah Buckley, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the heirs of Jeremiah Buckley be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to one hundred arpents of land, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> equal to eighty-five acres, situate on the Wabash river, about three miles above Vincennes, which was contracted and sold by a certain T. Dubois to the said Jeremiah Buckley, about the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six; and afterwards, viz.: on the eleventh of June, one thousand eight hundred and three, sold and conveyed by him to the United States, for the purpose of erecting a garrison thereon: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no other title than such as the United States have <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to the land mentioned shall be deemed to be conveyed or affected by this act.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for timber and sand.</p></sidenote> pay unto the heirs of the said Jeremiah Buckley, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and eighty dollars, in full compensation for the use made of the timber and sand, while they occupied the said land: <proviso><i>Provided further,</i> That <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the heirs aforesaid, relinquish under their hands and seals to the United States at the proper department, all the right, title, and claim that they now have, or ever had, for or on account of the said above described <page identifier="/us/stat/6/521">521</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 278, 279, 280. 1832.</centerRunningHead> tract of land, either against the said Dubois, his heirs or assigns, or the United States, and that a compliance with this proviso on the part of the said heirs, form a condition precedent to be complied with.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXVIII: for the relief of Gertrude Gates.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Gertrude Gates.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Gertrude Gates, the sum of twenty-seven <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of certain final settlement certificates, with interest, to be paid.</p></sidenote> dollars and fifty cents, being the amount of a final settlement certificate issued by William Barber, commissioner, numbered two thousand six hundred and sixty-two, with interest on the said sum at six per centum per annum, from the first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; which certificate was issued to Isaac Van Vrankin, and of which the said Gertrude Gates is now owner; also, the sum of five dollars and fifty-five cents, being the amount of another final settlement certificate issued by William Barber, commissioner, numbered two thousand three hundred and forty-five, with interest on the said sum at six per centum per annum, from the first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; which certificate was issued in the name of Jacob Clute, and of which the said Gertrude Gates is now owner: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Gertrude Gates shall first execute <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> and deliver to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, a bond, in such form and with such security as the said Comptroller shall direct and approve, to indemnify the United States from and against the lawful claim of any other person or persons, for or on account of the said certificates.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXIX: for the relief of William A. Tennille.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William A. Tennille.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury audit and adjust the claim of Colonel William A. Tennille, late Quartermaster-General <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be adjusted, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> in the service of the state of Georgia, as agent of the United States in receiving, paying, and disbursing moneys on their account, between the years one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and allow him five per centum on the money by him disbursed and accounted for, and allow the difference between that sum and the amount heretofore allowed to him on a judgment against him in favor of the United States, the allowance to be made as of the date of the judgment; the same being in full for his services, expenses of travelling, negotiating draughts, office rent, stationery, fuel and all other charges.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXX: granting to Middleton McKay, a section of land in lieu of the reservation given him by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCLXXX</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">granting to Middleton McKay, a section of land in lieu of the reservation given him by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be granted to Middleton McKay, of the state of Mississippi, six hundred and forty acres of land, including <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of land to him.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> his improvements: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Middleton McKay shall release to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may direct, all right or interest he may have in a reservation secured to him by the treaty made with the Choctaws at Dancing Rabbit Creek;</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Middleton McKay shall hold <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the said six hundred and forty acres hereby granted, (to be surveyed in such form as the original reservation in said treaty was required to be surveyed) subject to the conditions and restrictions imposed by the said treaty upon the original reservation.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXXI: for the relief of the sureties of George Brown, deceased, late collector of internal duties and direct tax for the first district in the state of Maryland.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXXI</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/522">522</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 281, 282, 283, 284. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the sureties of George Brown, deceased, late collector of internal duties and direct tax for the first district in the state of Maryland.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be authorized, and they are hereby directed, in the settlement of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sureties to be allowed commissions, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> amount of the claim of the United States against George Brown, late collector in the first district for the state of Maryland, to allow to his sureties the same commissions on the sums heretofore paid, or hereafter to be paid, by them, or either of them, as the said collector would have been entitled to if the money had been paid by said Brown, and regularly accounted for by him, under the several laws regulating the collection of the internal duties and direct tax.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXXII: for the relief of Robert C. Jennings, and of the executors of James Roddy, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Robert C. Jennings, and of the executors of James Roddy, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury settle and adjust the claims of Robert C. Jennings, surviving partner of James <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Roddy &amp; Co. (except so far as they may arise from an excise tax on whiskey or stills,) against the United States; or such as may be presented by the executors of James Roddy, deceased, (except as before excepted,) on the principles of justice and equity, and allow such further sum as is due, and such amount, as may be thus ascertained, to be applied on the debt due from the said Jennings and Roddy to the United States; and if it shall exceed such debt, without interest, the excess to be reported to the next session of Congress, together with the evidence on which the claims have been settled.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXXIII: for the relief of John and Benjamin Welles.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 522</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John and Benjamin Welles.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the district of Boston and Charlestown be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates of debenture to be issued to them.</p></sidenote> certificates of debenture to John and Benjamin Welles of Boston, for the amount of the drawback of duties on two cases of indigo, shipped at Boston, on or about the sixteenth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, on board the schooner Governor Carver, for Havre, in France: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said collector shall <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> be satisfied that all the requirements of the law have been complied with, except that of taking the oath, and giving the export bond, within twenty days from the time when said merchandise was exported.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXXIV: for the relief of Randall Allis, Timothy Twichell, and John Lee Williams.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 522</citableAs>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Randall Allis, Timothy Twichell, and John Lee Williams.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, required to pay to Randall Allis the sum of four hundred dollars, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain lands relinquished to United States.</p></sidenote> to Timothy Twichell the sum of four hundred dollars, and to John Lee Williams the sum of two hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for certain lands relinquished to the United States under a contract with H. M. Breckenridge as agent of the navy department.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXXV: for the relief of Benjamin Bullitt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 523</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/523">523</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 285, 286, 287, 288. 1832.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Benjamin Bullitt.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Benjamin Bullitt be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his claim to a tract of land of six hundred and forty acres <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> in his own right, and in a further claim as assignee of Toussaint Lafleur, to a tract of land of six hundred and forty acres of land, both situated on the south side of Red River, within the tract of country commonly called the Neutral Territory, and about twenty-four miles above the town of Natchitoches, to be located in such manner as to embrace the improvements made by the said Bullitt and Lafleur, respectively, before the twenty-second of February, eighteen hundred and nineteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall be considered only as a relinquishment <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of title on the part of the United States, and not to prejudice the rights of third persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXXVI: to amend an act, entitled “An act for the relief of George Johnston,” passed second March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 523</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-07-14</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to amend an act, entitled “An act for the relief of George Johnston,” passed second March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-07-14">July 14, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the act hereby amended be deemed and construed to apply to a judgment recovered by the United States of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further relief granted to George Johnston.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1831, ch. 77.</p></sidenote> America against George Johnston, as one of the sureties of Benjamin F. Bourne, late a purser in the United States navy, in the district court of the United States for the Eastern district of Louisiana; the judgment intended in the said act having been obtained in that court against the said George Johnston as surety as aforesaid, but through mistake not being so referred to.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-07-14">July 14, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXXVII: for the relief of Bartholomew Shaumburgh.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 523</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Bartholomew Shaumburgh.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Bartholomew Shaumburgh, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for moneys advanced to U. S. troops.</p></sidenote> of one thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-eight cents; being the amount of advances made by him for the pay of soldiers of the army of the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXXVIII: for the relief of Hartwell Vick of the State of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 523</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Hartwell Vick of the State of Mississippi.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to pay to Hartwell Vick, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money paid on account of certain land to be refunded to Hartwell Vick, with interest.</p></sidenote> of the state of Mississippi, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-five cents, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the twenty-third day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the sum aforesaid, having by him been paid on the day aforesaid, as the first instalment of the purchase money of fractional section number twenty, in township number sixteen, of range number four, east; which fractional section by a subsequent survey was found not to be the property of the United States, at the time of the entry.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That Jesse Bell of Wilkinson <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jesse Bell authorized to locate land.</p></sidenote> County, Mississippi, be, and he is hereby authorized to locate in tracts of not less than eighty acres, not exceeding one section of any of the unappropriated lands of the United States within the state of Mississippi, subject to entry at private sale at the time of such location, in lieu of fractional section number fifteen, in township two of range four west, <page identifier="/us/stat/6/524">524</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 289, 290, 291. 1832.</centerRunningHead> purchased on the seventh day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, by his father William Bell, deceased, through a mistake in the original plat of survey: for which land, when so located, a patent shall issue to the said Jesse Bell, in the manner prescribed by law for the issuing of patents in other cases, on transmitting to the General Land Office a certificate of the Register of the proper office of his having made such location: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Jesse Bell shall file in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the land office of the district where such land may lie, a relinquishment of all of his right, title, and interest, in and to the fractional section entered by mistake as aforesaid, in such form as shall be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXXIX: for the relief of John Peck.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Peck.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">1834, ch. 182.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to liquidate <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain final settlement certificates to be adjusted and paid, with interest.</p></sidenote> and adjust the following final settlement certificates, namely: number sixty-two thousand five hundred and sixty-seven, dated May first, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, state of Pennsylvania, signed by John Pierce, commissioner, for eighty dollars, payable to Elijah Goodenough, or bearer, with interest at six per cent. from the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three; number thirteen thousand eight hundred and thirteen, dated January first, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, state of New York, signed by John Pierce, commissioner, for fifty-eight twenty-nineteenths dollars, payable to David Dunton, or bearer, with interest at six per cent., from the <fillIn style="font-family:monospace">–––</fillIn> day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two; and number seventeen thousand nine hundred and eighty, dated January first, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, state of New York, signed by John Pierce, commissioner, for fifty-nine twenty-four-nineteenths dollars, payable to Hugh Paul, or bearer, with interest at six per cent., from the fourth of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three; and that there be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Peck, the holder of the said several certificates, the amount thereof, with interest at six per centum from the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, the date of the last payment of interest endorsed on the said several certificates.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXC: for the relief of Elizabeth Scott, only surviving child, and heir at law, of Captain William Blackwell, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXC</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Elizabeth Scott, only surviving child, and heir at law, of Captain William Blackwell, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, directed, and required to issue to Elizabeth Scott, a land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant to issue to her, as heir-at-law of W. Blackwell.</p></sidenote> warrant for three hundred acres of military bounty lands, as and for the land to which her father, Captain William Blackwell, was entitled, on account of his military services in the war of the revolution; and that the same may be located on any vacant or unlocated lands heretofore appropriated by Congress for that purpose.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXCI: for the relief of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are, directed, in adjusting and settling the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Col. Harrison’s heirs to be paid interest on his commutation.</p></sidenote> account of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer for the commutation granted them as children and heirs at law of the late Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, to allow and pay to them such sum, as interest, as <page identifier="/us/stat/6/525">525</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 292, 293, 294, 295, 296. 1832.</centerRunningHead> would have accrued on such commutation according to the regulations prescribed for funding and paying the domestic debt, had a certificate <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">See Act of May 29, 1830, ch, 159.</p></sidenote> for such commutation been issued at the close of the war, and been in due time subscribed to said fund, and certificates of stock for the same regularly issued therefor, and all dividends thereon were now remaining in the treasury unpaid, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXCII: for the relief of Augustine Taney.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCXCII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Augustine Taney.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain the value of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of buildings to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> buildings, the property of the wife of Augustine Taney before her intermarriage, which were destroyed by fire by the enemy during the late war, on Soller’s Point, near the city of Baltimore; and that the amount thereof, when so ascertained, be paid to the said Augustine Taney, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXCIII: for the relief of Henry Waller.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCXCIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Henry Waller.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain the value of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of buildings to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> buildings of Henry Waller, which were destroyed by fire by the enemy during the late war, on the eastern shore of Maryland; and that the amount thereof, when so ascertained, be paid to the said petitioner out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXCIV: for the relief of Harvey Brown.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 525</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Harvey Brown.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the said Harvey Brown, Assistant <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to quartermaster.</p></sidenote> Quartermaster in the army of the United States, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand and forty-one dollars and twenty cents.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXCV: for the relief of Alexander Oswald Brodie, of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 525</citableAs>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Alexander Oswald Brodie, of New York.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Collector for the port of New York, is hereby authorized and required to deduct from a bond given by Alexander <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deduction from amount of duties levied on certain books.</p></sidenote> Oswald Brodie, for duties on books imported in the month of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, in the brig Nancy, from Hamburg, such amount of duty as may have been levied on any Greek and Latin books and Polyglott Bibles, over and above four cents on each volume: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Brodie shall satisfy the collector <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> aforesaid, that all the books were printed before the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXCVI: for the relief of William Hoffman, a Canadian volunteer.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCXCVI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William Hoffman, a Canadian volunteer.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to William Hoffman, of the county of Erie, in the state of New York, a <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military bounty land warrant to issue.</p></sidenote> warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of bounty land, to which he was entitled under the act of the fifth of March, one thousand eight <page identifier="/us/stat/6/526">526</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 297, 298, 299. 1832.</centerRunningHead> hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act granting bounties in land and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.</p></sidenote> extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers,” in addition to one hundred and sixty acres heretofore received pursuant to said act; to be located in legal subdivisions, on any of the public lands of the United States in the Territory of Michigan, which have been offered at public sale, and are now subject to entry at private sale.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXCVII: for the relief of the widow and heirs of Pedro, alias Pierre Guedry.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 526</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the widow and heirs of Pedro, alias Pierre Guedry.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the widow and heirs of Pedro, alias Pierre Guedry, deceased, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed to widow and heirs of P. Guedry,</p></sidenote> a tract of land containing four and one half arpents in front, and forty arpents in depth, on the Mississippi river, at the distance of about four miles above the mouth of the Manchac, in the state of Louisiana; being a part of a tract granted to the said Pedro, alias Pierre Guedry, by the Baron de Carondelet, by letters patent, bearing date the seventh day of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-two.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That Francis Daigre be confirmed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent0 fontsize8">and to Francis Daigre.</p></sidenote> in his claim to the residue of the said tract of land; and that the said widow and heirs of the said Guedry, and the said Francis Daigre, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter their respective claims to the tract of land aforesaid, in the land office at Saint Helena court-house, in the state of Louisiana: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Francis <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> Daigre be required to exhibit to the Register and Receiver of the said land office, either a good legal or equitable title to the part of the said tract of land claimed by him:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That nothing in this <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> act contained shall be so construed as to affect the claim of any other person or persons to said land, or any part thereof, derived either from the United States or from any other source whatever.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXCVIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Nimrod Farrow and of Richard Harris.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 526</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-14</dc:date>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Nimrod Farrow and of Richard Harris.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury, the Second Comptroller, and Charles Gratiot, be, and they are hereby, authorized <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission to examine claims, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and directed to examine the claims of the legal representatives of Nimrod Farrow and Richard Harris, against the United States, arising from a contract to construct a fortification at Dauphin Island, on the principles of justice and equity; and they are empowered and directed to take further testimony on the part of the United States, if they shall think the same necessary to accomplish the ends of justice; and to prescribe rules for taking testimony on behalf of, and giving notice to, the parties respectively: and to call on the claimants for books and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testimony and award to be reported to Congress.</p></sidenote> papers relating to expenditures under said contract; and they are directed to report the testimony so taken, with their award, to the next session of Congress.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXCIX: for the relief of the heirs of Nathaniel Hillen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of Nathaniel Hillen.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the right of the heirs of Nathaniel Hillen, in and to a certain tract of land lying in the parish of East Baton Rouge, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> in the state of Louisiana, containing six hundred and forty acres, upon which Nathaniel Hillen resided in his life-time, and which has been since cultivated by Robert Hillen, for the use and benefit of said heirs, be recognised as valid, and confirmed to said heirs, in the same manner, and upon the same terms and conditions, as if their claim had been filed with the commissioners under the act of Congress passed the twenty-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/527">527</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 300, 302, 303. 1832.</centerRunningHead>fifth April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, chapter sixty-seven, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 25, 1812, ch. 67.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 99, sec. 3.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> section eight, and been confirmed by the act of one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, chapter five hundred and ten, section three: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall not be construed to extend further than a relinquishment on the part of the United States, to any claim in and to said tract of land:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That this act shall not be considered as interfering with the rights of other persons in and to said tract of land.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCC: for the relief of Mary Daws, Robert Bond, James Patridge, and John G. Smith.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCC</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCC.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Mary Daws, Robert Bond, James Patridge, and John G. Smith.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the said Mary Daws, Robert Bond, James Patridge and John G. Smith, who respectively, did cultivate and inhabit <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain persons, upon surrender of improvements, to be entitled to pre-emption rights, &amp;c.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 22, 1826, ch. 28.</p></sidenote> lands within the Territory of Florida, previous to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and would have been entitled to pre-emption rights therefor, under the provisions of an act of Congress of the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, entitled “An act giving the right of pre-emption, in the purchase of lands, to certain settlers in the states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Territory of Florida;” had not the lands by them so cultivated and inhabited, in manner aforesaid, fallen within the reservations made by the treaty with the Florida Indians on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, shall be and each of them, upon surrendering their respective improvements, are hereby entitled to a pre-emption right for a quarter section of land, in the district for the sale of lands, including the improvement, upon paying therefor, at the time of entry, one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to the Receiver of Public Moneys at the land office in said district, which pre-emption rights shall be located in the manner pointed out in the above recited act, and the act therein referred to.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-14">July 14, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCCII: for the relief of certain Invalid Pensioners.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 527</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-16</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of certain Invalid Pensioners.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-16">July 16, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the invalid pension roll of the United States, the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain names to be placed on invalid pension roll.</p></sidenote> names of the following persons; whereupon they, and each of them, shall be entitled to receive the pensions severally set against their names respectively, during life; that is to say:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Benjamin Calhoun, at the rate of four dollars per month; commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Peter Bradley, at the rate of six dollars per month; commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">John P. Reed, at the rate of six dollars per month; commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Anthony Murrey, at the rate of six dollars per month; commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-16">July 16, 1832</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCCIII: for the relief of Grieve Drummond.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 527</citableAs>
<dc:date>1832-07-16</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Grieve Drummond.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1832-07-16">July 16, 1832</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Grieve Drummond, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of a <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of pension granted by act of 3d March 1815, ch. 80, to be paid.</p></sidenote> pension granted to him by an act passed March third, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; which has been withheld in consequence of his omission to comply with the provisions of the act, passed March third, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1832-07-16">July 16, 1832</date>.
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<congress>22</congress>
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<dc:date>1833</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December,</i> 1832, <i>and ended on the second day of March,</i> 1833.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Jackson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">John C. Calhoun</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Stevenson</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: for the relief of the children of Charles Comb and Marguerite Laviolet, his wife.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 528</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-01-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the children of Charles Comb and Marguerite Laviolet, his wife.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-01-14">Jan. 14, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the children of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> Charles Comb and Marguerite Laviolet, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a tract of land of six hundred and forty acres, situated in the county of Attakapas, state of Louisiana, to be located in such manner as to embrace the improvements made by Louis Doze and Marguerite Laviolet, his wife, in their life-time: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> this act shall be considered only as a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and not to affect the rights of third persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-01-14">January 14, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of Eugene Borell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 528</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-01-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Eugene Borell.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-01-14">Jan. 14, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Eugene Borell be, and he is, confirmed in his claim to six hundred and forty acres of land, in virtue of actual <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> settlement and cultivation, before and ever since the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three; which tract of land is situated in the county of Attakapas, in the state of Louisiana, at a place called Sheepeek, and lying upon the west side of the Bayou “Cypre-mort,” it being the part of a twenty-four acre tract, fronting on said Bayou, by forty back, bounded northwardly by lands of the heirs of Joseph Sorell, eastwardly by the said Bayou “Cypre-mort,” southwardly by other lands of the heirs of said Joseph Sorell, and westwardly at the depth of forty arpents, by public lands: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> extend only to a relinquishment of the title of the United States, and shall not prejudice the rights of third persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-01-14">January 14, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VI: to change the names of William B. Finch and Elizabeth B. Finch, to that of William Compton Bolton, and Elizabeth Bolton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 528</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-01-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to change the names of William B. Finch and Elizabeth B. Finch, to that of William Compton Bolton, and Elizabeth Bolton.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-01-14">Jan. 14, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William Bolton Finch, a post captain in the Navy of the United States, and Elizabeth B. Finch, his sister, both of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Names to be changed.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, respectively author-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/528" renderingPosition="bottom">528</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 7, 8, 9, 10. 1833.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/529">529</page>ized from and after the passage of this act, to take and use the surname of Bolton; and the name of said William be hereafter William Compton Bolton, and the name of the said Elizabeth, hereafter be, Elizabeth Bolton; by which names, respectively, all acts and engagements done or made may be enforced, and have the same effect and operation in law, as if their names had originally been, William Compton Bolton, and Elizabeth Bolton.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-01-14">January 14, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Joseph Eaton, an assistant surgeon in the army of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 529</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-01-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Joseph Eaton, an assistant surgeon in the army of the United States.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-01-14">Jan. 14, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-one cents be paid to Joseph Eaton, an Assistant <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed for quarters.</p></sidenote> Surgeon in the army, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to reimburse him for expenditures made by him for quarters not furnished to him when he was on duty at Fort Preble, in the state of Maine, from the first of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, to twenty-second of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-01-14">January 14, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of Matthew Flournoy, and R. J. Ward of the state of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 529</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-01-28</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Matthew Flournoy, and R. J. Ward of the state of Mississippi.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-01-28">Jan. 28, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That section number eleven, in township number fourteen, and range eight, west, in the state of Mississippi, be, and the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of reservation, for schools.</p></sidenote> same is hereby, reserved from sale, and appropriated for the use of schools in the said township, in lieu of section number sixteen, in that township; and the section number eleven shall be taken and held in all respects, and for the same purposes, as section number sixteen would have been held and taken, if this act had not been passed: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of the Treasury shall first be satisfied, that the majority of the inhabitants of said township, desire said exchange.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the said sixteenth section shall be liable to be sold in the same manner as section number eleven would have been, if this act had not been passed.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-01-28">January 28, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. IX: for the relief of Archibald Gamble.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 529</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-01-28</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Archibald Gamble.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-01-28">Jan. 28, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the heirs or assigns of John B. Thibault, who are entitled to a New Madrid certificate, numbered three hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May change the location of a New Madrid certificate of land.</p></sidenote> and thirty-three, for four hundred and eighty acres, heretofore entered in township number forty-six, range six, east of the fifth principal meridian, be, and are hereby, authorized to enter four hundred and eighty acres of land on any of the public lands in the state of Missouri, the sale of which is authorized by law: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said heirs or <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> representatives of said John B. Thibault, so entitled as aforesaid, before making said location or entry, shall execute a release to the United States for all claim and right to the land upon which said certificate has been heretofore entered.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-01-28">January 28, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. X: for the relief of William B. Keene and John L. Martin, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William B. Keene and John L. Martin, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-01-28">Jan. 28, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William B. Keene and John L. Martin be, and they are hereby, authorized and permitted to complete their purchase <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to purchase school land.</p></sidenote> of lot number sixteen, in township number twenty-one, range <page identifier="/us/stat/6/530">530</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 11, 13, 14, 15. 1833</centerRunningHead> number thirteen, east, in the district north of Red river, in the state of Louisiana, in virtue of their right of pre-emption, according to the act of Congress of the twenty-ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1830, ch. 208.</p></sidenote> and thirty, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That it shall be the duty of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reservation of other land for schools.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be selected and reserved for the use of schools, within the said fractional township number twenty-one, in lieu of the aforesaid lot, a lot of land of equal extent and value, in the same township, or the next thereto adjoining.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-01-28">January 28, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of Peter McCormick.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Peter McCormick.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-01-28">Jan. 28, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Peter McCormick be confirmed in and to a tract of land containing six hundred and forty acres, lying in the district <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> of St. Genevieve, on the river Platin, to be surveyed so as to include the land within the limits of the original survey made for him by Thomas Maddin, on the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and six, and which was filed before the board of commissioners for said district, in one thousand eight hundred and six; and upon which said board of commissioners, on the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, confirmed said claim for four hundred and fifty arpens of land, in the same manner, and upon the same terms, as if his claim thereto had been confirmed by the board of commissioners, for six hundred and twenty-four arpens: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> this act shall only operate as a relinquishment on the part of the United States, to any claim they may have to the same; and that the same shall not interfere to or with the rights of other persons claiming title thereto.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-01-28">January 28, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of the heirs of Jean Baptiste Saucier.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-01-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of Jean Baptiste Saucier.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-01-30">Jan. 30, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the heirs of Jean Baptiste Saucier be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a tract of land of six hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> and forty acres, situated in the parish of Plaquemine, state of Louisiana, on both sides of the river Aux Chenes, to be located in such manner as to embrace the improvements made by the said J. B. Saucier, in his life-time: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall only be considered <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> as a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and not to prejudice the rights of third persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-01-30">January 30, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIV: for the relief of William A. Tennille, of Georgia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-01-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William A. Tennille, of Georgia.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-01-30">Jan. 30, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William A. Tennille, of Georgia, be placed on the roll of invalid pensioners, and be paid at the rate of eight dollars <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-01-30">January 30, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XV: for the relief of George Mayfield.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-01-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of George Mayfield.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-01-30">Jan. 30, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be, and is hereby, granted to George Mayfield, of the state of Tennessee, six hundred and forty acres of land, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Section of land granted to him under treaty of Fort Jackson.</p></sidenote> or to the amount of one section, to be selected by him in the tract of country within the state of Alabama, acquired of the Creek nation, at the treaty of fort Jackson, in tracts not less than one quarter section, <page identifier="/us/stat/6/531">531</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. 1833.</centerRunningHead> and entered in the proper land office in said state: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> Said land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> be subject to entry at private sale, and not settled upon, or occupied by any other person.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That, on the application of said <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to be issued.</p></sidenote> Mayfield, at the proper land office, and on payment of one dollar for each tract so entered, to the Register and Receiver, a final certificate shall be given for such tract, upon which a patent from the United States to said Mayfield, shall issue.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-01-30">January 30, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of Sylvester Havens.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-02-05</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Sylvester Havens.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-05">Feb. 5, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Sylvester Havens, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote> the sum of one hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents, together with any amount of interest computed thereon and paid since the twenty-third of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine; being the date of a note on interest, given by the said Havens to the United States, and on which the accounting officers of the treasury were directed, by a law passed at the late session, to give <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 22, 1832, ch. 54.</p></sidenote> a credit of one hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents, as at the date of said note; but which law has been defeated by the payment of the note before said law was passed.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-05">February 5, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: for the relief of Daniel Johnson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-02-05</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Daniel Johnson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-05">Feb. 5, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of one hundred and ninety-four dollars, be paid to Daniel Johnson, out of any moneys in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, as a compensation to him for that amount, which is equitably due to him by the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-05">February 5, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Andrew Moore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 531</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-02-05</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Andrew Moore.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-05">Feb. 5, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury adjust the claim of Andrew Moore, a mounted gunman of the Tennessee <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> volunteers, for a horse of the value of seventy dollars, lost in the military service of the United States, on the eighth of November, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, near Fort Montgomery, for the want of forage, on such principles as similar claims have been settled by him; and the amount so found due to him, the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to pay, out of any money not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-05">February 5, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XX: amendatory to an act, entitled “An act for the relief of Robert C. Jennings, and of the executors of James Roddy, deceased.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 531</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-02-05</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">amendatory to an act, entitled “An act for the relief of Robert C. Jennings, and of the executors of James Roddy, deceased.”</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-05">Feb. 5, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That further time is hereby allowed, until the first <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further time allowed for carrying into effect the act of July 14, 1832, ch. 282.</p></sidenote> Monday of December next, for carrying into effect an act, passed at the last session of Congress, “For the relief of Robert C. Jennings, and the executors of James Roddy, deceased.”</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-05">February 5, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXI: authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue patents to persons therein named.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 531</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-02-05</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue patents to persons therein named.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-05">Feb. 5, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and he is hereby, directed to issue patents, in fee simple, to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for land to issue to Wm. Hardridge.</p></sidenote> William Hardridge, or to his assignees or legal representatives, upon <page identifier="/us/stat/6/532">532</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 22, 24. 1833.</centerRunningHead> producing the certificates, for the south part of fractional section twenty-five, in township eight, of range twenty-nine, containing two hundred and twenty-six acres and ninety-seven hundredths of an acre; also, for the north fractional half, and the east part of the south fractional half of section thirty-one, in township eight, of range thirty, containing four hundred and thirteen acres and three hundredths of an acre, in the district of land sold at Sparta, Alabama; being the same lands reserved by him.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Commissioner aforesaid <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, to J. Hardridge.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, directed to issue patents to Joseph Hardridge, or to his assignees or legal representatives, upon the certificates being produced, for the north part of fractional section twenty-five, in township eight, of range twenty-nine, containing two hundred and twenty-six acres and ninety-seven hundredths of an acre; and, also, for the east part of fractional section six, in township seven, of range thirty, containing four hundred and thirteen acres and three hundredths of an acre, in the district of lands sold at Sparta, Alabama; being the same lands reserved by him.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-05">February 5, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of Joel Thomas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 532</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-02-05</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Joel Thomas.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-05">Feb. 5, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Joel Thomas, an inhabitant of the town of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> Pekin, in the Territory of Michigan, be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his claim to a certain lot of land of six hundred and forty acres, bounded and described as follows, viz: in front, on the north, by the river Rouge; on the west, by a tract of land purchased from the United States by Henry McGee; on the south, by lands belonging to the United States; and, on the east, by lands claimed by James Cisne; the same being in the township of Pekin, in the Detroit land district, having been occupied, originally, by John Reynolds, and subsequently, by the said Thomas, as assignee of Reynolds, from one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, to the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> This confirmation shall only amount to a relinquishment on <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the part of the United States, and shall not affect the rights of any third person;</proviso> And, <proviso><i>Provided also,</i> That if the tract of land hereby confirmed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to the above named Joel Thomas, or any part thereof, should be found to conflict with the location of an arsenal of the United States; selected under an act of Congress, passed on the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, then, and in that case, the said Joel Thomas be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate such part of said tract of land as may be found so to conflict with said arsenal, on any of the lands of the United States in the Territory of Michigan, according to legal subdivisions.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Surveyor-General, under <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey to be made.</p></sidenote> the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall cause the said tract of land to be surveyed, at the expense of the claimant; a plat of which shall be returned as in other cases; and a patent therefor shall be granted in the manner prescribed by law.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-05">February 5, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of the heirs of Nicholas Hart, deceased, and the heirs of John Grayson, deceased, and Jacob Bosworth.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of Nicholas Hart, deceased, and the heirs of John Grayson, deceased, and Jacob Bosworth.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-09">Feb. 9, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate land warrant to issue to N. Hart.</p></sidenote> a duplicate of warrant number four hundred and forty-three, issued to Nicholas Hart, a revolutionary soldier, on the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine, for one hundred acres of land: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing in this act contained, shall be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> so construed as to affect the interest of any bona fide assignee of said <page identifier="/us/stat/6/533">533</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 25, 26, 27. 1833.</centerRunningHead> original warrant, if the same shall be still in existence; in which event, the duplicate hereby authorized, shall be null and void, and no grant shall issue thereon.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War cause <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, to Wm. Grayson.</p></sidenote> to be issued a duplicate of warrant number one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine, for two hundred acres, issued to William Grayson, son, and the other heirs at law of John Grayson, a lieutenant in the South Carolina line, dated ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, under the same conditions and restrictions as are contained in the first section of this act.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War cause <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, to Jacob Bosworth.</p></sidenote> to be issued a duplicate of warrant number one thousand six hundred and twenty-five, for one hundred acres of land, issued to Jacob Bosworth on the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, in virtue of his services as a private of the Connecticut line, in the war of the Revolution, under the same conditions and restrictions as are contained in the first section of this act.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-09">February 9, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXV: for the relief of the administrator of the late Colonel John Thornton, deceased.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the administrator of the late Colonel John Thornton, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-09">Feb. 9, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury do settle, adjust, and pay over to his administrator, the account <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account for five years’ full pay as colonel to be adjusted and paid.</p></sidenote> of the late Colonel John Thornton, deceased, for five years’ full pay, in commutation of the half pay for life, promised by the resolves of Congress, to the officers of the continental line in the war of the revolution; together with such interest thereon as would now be due if a certificate for such commutation had been issued and subscribed under the principles of the funding act, and no payments made thereon; <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. And the said administrator shall pay to the widow of the said Thornton, one fourth part of the money payable under this act, and the remainder he shall pay over or distribute among the persons entitled thereto, according to the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-09">February 9, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: for the relief of James Brownlee.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of James Brownlee.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-09">Feb. 9, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay of an ensign allowed.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to James Brownlee, sole heir of Alexander Brownlee, an ensign in the army of the revolution, and slain in the battle of Guilford, the seven years’ half pay to which his widow was entitled by a resolve of Congress, passed August twenty-fourth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; together with such interest thereon as would now be due if a certificate for the said seven years’ half-pay had been issued and subscribed under the principles of the funding act, and no payments <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> made thereon.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-09">February 9, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Russell Hotchkiss and others, owners of the brig Stranger.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Russell Hotchkiss and others, owners of the brig Stranger.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-09">Feb. 9, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Russell Hotchkiss and son, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain tonnage duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> and Jehiel Forbes and son, owners of the brig Stranger, of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, the sum of ninety-seven dollars and fifty-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/534">534</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 28, 29, 35, 36. 1833.</centerRunningHead>five cents, to reimburse them for tonnage duties paid to the collector of said port in June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; and that the said sum be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-09">February 9, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of Gabriel Godfroy and Jean Baptiste Beaugraud.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Gabriel Godfroy and Jean Baptiste Beaugraud.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-09">Feb. 9, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Gabriel Godfroy and Jean Baptiste Beaugraud, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand and twenty dollars, the value of a barn, storehouse, and stable, belonging to them, and burnt at Frenchtown, on the river Raisin, in the territory of Michigan, by the British and Indians, in January, eighteen hundred and thirteen, by reason of their occupancy by the United States’ troops.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-09">February 9, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of Josiah Barker.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-02-09</dc:date>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Josiah Barker.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-09">Feb. 9, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Josiah Barker be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his title to a tract of land of one thousand and one superficial <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> arpens and three hundred toises, having a front of thirteen arpens and six toises, on the Mississippi, in the parish of East Baton Rouge, in the State of Louisiana, it being the same land granted by separate patents to Zachariah Norton and John Fitz Patrick, dated February fourteenth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, and signed by Estevan Miro, Governor General of Louisiana.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the said Josiah Barker be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Same as to double concession of part of the above tract.</p></sidenote> confirmed in his title to a tract of land, not exceeding the quantity of twelve hundred and eighty acres, by virtue of an order of survey for a double concession, granted by the Baron de Carondelet, on the twentieth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, in favor of widow Hindson, to be located adjacent to and back of the lower tract of eleven arpens front, confirmed in the first section of this act, and not to extend more than forty arpens in the rear of the said front tract: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this confirmation shall only amount to a relinquishment <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of title on the part of the United States, and not to prejudice the rights of third persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-09">February 9, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: for the relief of John D. Sloat.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-02-19</dc:date>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John D. Sloat.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-19">Feb. 19, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to settle the account <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credited with discounts on treasury notes.</p></sidenote> of John D. Sloat, a master commandant of the navy, by allowing him a credit for the sum of four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents; being the amount of certain discounts on treasury notes, which has heretofore been suspended in consequence of the vouchers, once furnished by the said John D. Sloat, being now mislaid or lost.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-19">February 19, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: for the relief of Crosby Arey.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Crosby Arey.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-19">Feb. 19, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the district of Penobscot, in Maine, is hereby authorized to pay to Crosby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> Arey, owner of a fishing schooner, called the Burr, of twenty-one tons burthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, <page identifier="/us/stat/6/535">535</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 37, 38, 44, 45. 1833.</centerRunningHead> to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive had she completed her fishing term; the said schooner having been cast away, after having been employed more than two months of the term required by law.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-19">February 19, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief of Enoch Wilhoet.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Enoch Wilhoet.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-19">Feb. 19, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Enoch Wilhoet be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relinquishment and entry of certain lands authorized.</p></sidenote> of the General Land Office shall prescribe, the west half of the south-west quarter of section number eight, in township number seven north, range number eleven west, in the district of lands offered for sale at Palestine, in the state of Illinois; and, upon such relinquishment being made as aforesaid, the said Wilhoet shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter any other half quarter section of land in the said district, which shall be liable to entry at private sale.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-19">February 19, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of William P. Zantzinger.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William P. Zantzinger.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-19">Feb. 19, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury credit on the account of William P. Zantzinger, as purser of the United States’ ship <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credited with loss on the sale of treasury notes, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Hornet, as of the date of said account, so as to stop accruing interest, the sum of three thousand three hundred and six dollars and forty-one cents, the amount of loss sustained by him on the sale of thirty-five thousand eight hundred dollars of treasury notes to pay the officers and crew of said ship.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-19">February 19, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of Sarah Carr, widow of Richard Carr, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-02-20</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Sarah Carr, widow of Richard Carr, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-20">Feb. 20, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper officers of the department of war be, and they are hereby, directed to issue to, and perfect for, Sarah <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrant and patent for military bounty land to be issued.</p></sidenote> Carr, widow of Richard Carr, deceased, late a private soldier of the twenty-fourth regiment of United States’ infantry, the warrant and patent to which the said Richard Carr was entitled for military bounty lands; there being no heir or heirs of the said Richard, living within the United States, to whom the same can issue.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-20">February 20, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLV: for the relief of Abraham Adams.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-02-20</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Abraham Adams.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-20">Feb. 20, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That it shall be lawful for Abraham Adams, of the state of Alabama, to surrender to the United States, at the land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate of land purchase to be surrendered.</p></sidenote> office at Cahawba, in said state, the certificate of purchase which he holds for the west half of the north-west quarter of section thirteen, township twelve, and range seventeen, in the said district of Cahawba, and which tract of land was entered and paid for by the said Adams, in May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by mistake, he, the said Adams, intending to have entered the corresponding tract, in township eleven, upon which he then and still resides.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the register and receiver <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> for the said district shall permit the said Abraham Adams to enter, upon the same terms on which the entry aforesaid was made, the west half of the north-west quarter of section thirteen, township eleven, range seventeen, and issue to him a certificate therefor, and apply the money paid under the former entry, to the payments of the land herein author-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/536">536</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 46, 47, 48, 49, 50. 1833.</centerRunningHead>ized to be entered, and in case said west half of the north-west quarter of section thirteen, township eleven, range seventeen, shall have been entered, the register, upon the surrender of the original certificate of purchase, shall issue to said Adams a certificate, or scrip, for the amount paid, which shall be received in payment of any other lands within said district, now subject to private entry.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-20">February 20, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of the widow of Joseph Knight.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 536</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-02-20</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the widow of Joseph Knight.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-20">Feb. 20, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of amount due J. Knight at the time of his decease.</p></sidenote> directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the widow of Joseph Knight, late a soldier in Captain Benjamin Pierce’s company, in the corps of artillery, the amount due to said Joseph at the time of his decease, by virtue of the certificate of John Gale, assistant surgeon of the corps of United States’ artillery, now on file at the war department.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-20">February 20, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVII: for the relief of Glover Broughton, of Marblehead, late owner of the fishing schooner Union; and, also, for the relief of the crew of said vessel.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 536</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-02-27</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Glover Broughton, of Marblehead, late owner of the fishing schooner Union; and, also, for the relief of the crew of said vessel.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-27">Feb. 27, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Collector of the port of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> Glover Broughton, and the officers and crew of the said schooner Union, which was lost at sea, to be distributed according to law, the same sum said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty, or drawback, if she had safely arrived in port, having complied with all the requirements of law necessary to secure such drawback or bounty for having been engaged four months or more in the cod fishery.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-27">February 27, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Josiah P. Creesy, and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 536</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-02-27</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Josiah P. Creesy, and others.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-27">Feb. 27, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the District of Marblehead, in Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> Josiah P. Creesy, and the heirs and representatives of the persons who composed the crew of the schooner Panther, of fifty-four eighty ninety-fifths tons burden, lost at sea, and not having been heard from since, such allowance or bounty, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive, had the said schooner completed her fishing term, and returned into port.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-27">February 27, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of John S. Devlin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 536</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-02-27</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John S. Devlin.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-27">Feb. 27, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to settle the accounts of John S. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account of J. S. Devlin, marine sergeant, to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Devlin, Quartermaster Sergeant in the United States’ marine corps, upon principles of equity and justice.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-27">February 27, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of Alexander Donelson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 536</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Alexander Donelson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-27">Feb. 27, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain the amount due to Alexander Donelson, assignee of David G. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for loss of a horse, &amp;c. to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> Howard, for the loss of a horse for the want of forage during the Seminole campaign, and for his horse equipments; on the same principles that the like cases have heretofore been decided by him; and the <page identifier="/us/stat/6/537">537</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 51, 52, 53. 1833.</centerRunningHead> amount thus ascertained, the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to pay to the said Alexander Donelson, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-27">February 27, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief [of] Riddle, Becktle, and Headington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 537</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-02-27</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief [of] Riddle, Becktle, and Headington.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-27">Feb. 27, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers pay unto Riddle, Becktle, Headington, and company, or to their legal representatives, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of damage and interest on a protested bill of exchange.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-eight cents, with interest from twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, in full of the damages and interest on a protested bill of exchange drawn by Bartholomew Shaumburg, a deputy quartermaster-general of the United States, in favor of the said Riddle, Becktle, and Headington, dated at New Orleans, on the twenty-ninth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, presented at the treasury department on the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and paid the fourth of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen; it being the interest and damages which accumulated on the said bill of exchange, from the twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, to the fourth of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-27">February 27, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LII: for the relief of the heirs of John Wilson, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 537</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of John Wilson, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-27">Feb. 27, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay, with interest, allowed.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to the heirs of John Wilson, deceased, a lieutenant in the army of the revolution, and slain in the battle of the Eutaw Springs, the seven years’ half pay allowed by the resolution of Congress, passed August the 24th, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, together with such interest thereon as would now be due if a certificate for said seven years’ half pay had been issued and subscribed under the provisions of the funding act, and no payment made thereon.<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-27">February 27, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of Archibald Watt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 537</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-02-27</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Archibald Watt.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-02-27">Feb. 27, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper officers of the Treasury do pay to Archibald Watt, the specie value of three treasury certificates, for <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specie value of certain certificates, with interest, to be paid.</p></sidenote> six hundred dollars each, issued to Andrew Bass, on the nineteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, payable to the said Bass, or bearer, and whereof the said Watt is holder; with such interest on the said specie value, as would have become due thereon had the same been subscribed to the loan created for funding the debts of the United States, by the acts of one thousand seven hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p> <p>Proviso.</p></sidenote> and ninety; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> He shall give a bond, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in an amount to be determined by said Secretary, conditioned that the said Archibald and his securities will refund the amount of money received under the provisions of this act, if any other person shall prove a legal title to the amount contained in said certificates, together with the interest on the sum so received.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-02-27">February 27, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: to authorize the county commissioners for the county of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, to enter a fractional quarter section of land for a seat of justice, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 538</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/538">538</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 81, 86, 88. 1833.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to authorize the county commissioners for the county of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, to enter a fractional quarter section of land for a seat of justice, and for other purposes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the commissioners for the county of Peoria, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners authorized, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> in the state of Illinois, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter with the Register and Receiver of the public lands at Springfield, in said state, (for the use of said county), the residue of the northeast fractional quarter of section number nine, in township number eight north, in range number eight east: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> that nothing in this <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> act shall be so construed as to interfere with the claim or claims of any other person or persons, to said fractional quarter section.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the heirs or legal representatives <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heirs, &amp;c. of J. Latham may relocate, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of J. Latham, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to withdraw and re-locate the claim which was illegally located on said fractional quarter section, upon any other quarter section of public land to which it may, by law, be applicable.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVI: granting certain city lots to the President and Directors of the Georgetown College in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">granting certain city lots to the President and Directors of the Georgetown College in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there shall be, and hereby are, granted to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lots to be selected, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the President and Directors of Georgetown College in the District of Columbia, lots in the city of Washington, to the amount, in value, of twenty-five thousand dollars, which said lots shall be selected and valued by the commissioner of the public buildings, when requested by the said president and directors; and when the said lots shall be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be sold, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> so selected and valued, the same shall be vested in the said corporation, in fee simple, to be by them held and disposed of in the following manner; that is to say: The said corporation, by proper and lawful act or acts, under their corporate seal, shall sell and dispose of the said lots, as soon as reasonably practicable, for the best price or prices they can obtain, and shall vest the proceeds of the same in some public stock, or in stock of some incorporated bank.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That, when the lots aforesaid <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Returns to be made by commissioner.</p></sidenote> shall be selected and valued as aforesaid, the said commissioner shall make return of the numbers and description thereof to the clerk of the circuit court of the county of Washington; to be by him recorded among the records of the land titles in the said county.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the proceeds of the sales <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> aforesaid, so to be vested, shall not be otherwise used by the said president and directors than as a capital, to be by them forever hereafter kept vested as aforesaid; and the dividends, or interest, thereupon accruing, shall, by them, be used and applied in the aid of the revenues of the said college, to the establishment and endowment of such professorships therein as now are, or hereafter shall be, established by said president and directors; and to and for no other purpose whatever.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVIII: to incorporate the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to incorporate the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Stephen Dubuisson, Lewis Carbery, Peter <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation created.</p></sidenote> O’Donoghue, Edward B. King, Enoch King, Charles King, Ignatius Clarke, Bernard Brien, A. H. Boucher, John R. May, and Joseph Brooks, and their successors in office, are hereby made, declared, and constituted, a corporation and body politic, in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, under the name style, and title, of the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That all and singular the lands, tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, privileges, goods, and chat-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/539">539</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 88. 1833.</centerRunningHead>tels, that may hereafter be given, granted, sold, devised, or bequeathed, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands, &amp;c., confirmed to the corporation.</p></sidenote> to the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum, be, and they are hereby, vested in, and confirmed to, the said corporation; and that they may purchase, take, receive, and enjoy any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, rights, or privileges, or any goods, chattels, or other effects, of what kind or nature soever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed, or devised unto them, or either of them, as Trustees of the said Free School and Asylum, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such grant, and to dispose of the same: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The clear annual income of property <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to be acquired by said corporation shall at no time exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the said corporation, by <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation may sue and be sued, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the name and style aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter, capable, in law and equity, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, within the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, in as effectual a manner as other persons or corporations can sue or be sued; and that they shall adopt and use a common seal, and the same to use, alter, or exchange, at pleasure; that they may appoint such officers as they shall deem <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> necessary and proper, to assign them their duties, and regulate their compensation, and to remove any or all of them, and appoint others, as often as they shall think fit; and the said corporation shall make such by-laws as may be useful for the government and support, and for <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">By-laws.</p></sidenote> the general accomplishment of the objects of the said Asylum, as herein after mentioned and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States, or the laws in force in the District of Columbia, for the time being, and the same to alter, amend, or abrogate, at pleasure.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That there shall be a meeting of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual meeting.</p></sidenote> the regular annual contributors, to the support of the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum, in the month of June, in each year, the hour and day and manner of giving notice for which to be regulated by the by-laws; at which meeting, by those who, from the by-laws, may be qualified to vote, nine female managers shall be elected, who <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election.</p></sidenote> shall appoint a President and Secretary, and may fill vacancies in their own board, until the next annual election; that their duties shall be regulated by the by-laws.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That, with the consent and approbation <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reception of children, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of the parent, guardian, or friends, who may have the care of any male or female child, or where a child may be destitute of any friend or protector, the same may be received into the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum, under such regulations as may be made by the by-laws, and there protected, instructed, and supported; and they shall not thereafter be withdrawn, or be at liberty themselves to withdraw, from the Free School and Asylum, without the consent or dismissal of the corporation aforesaid; until, if a male, he shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, or, if a female, the age of eighteen years; but, up to the ages aforesaid, respectively, they shall remain subject to the direction of the said corporation, unless they may, by the same, be exonerated from service previous to attaining those ages, respectively; and the said corporation shall have the power <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power to bind out.</p></sidenote> to bind any child under their care, for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of some useful trade, occupation, or profession, under such conditions as may be determined by the by-laws, a copy of which conditions shall be delivered to, and they shall be binding on, every person to whom any child may be so bound; that children may be received into the schools for daily attendance, whose parents or guardians <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p></sidenote> are, or may be, unable to pay for their instruction, or whose parents or guardians may contribute towards the support of the Free School and Asylum, under such regulations as may be made in the by-laws.</content></section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/540">540</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 98, 99, 100. 1833.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That any vacancy which, from <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacancies in the board of trustees.</p></sidenote> death, resignation, or otherwise, may happen in the board of trustees, shall be filled according to the mode to be prescribed in the by-laws; that they may hold such meetings as they shall think proper, and to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meetings, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> give form to their proceedings, may appoint such officers as they may deem necessary, and provide proper checks and responsibilities for the security of the property and funds of the corporation aforesaid; that they shall keep a journal of their proceedings, upon which the by-laws <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Journal of proceedings.</p></sidenote> shall be recorded; and that they shall make report at the annual meeting to be held in June, of the affairs and condition of the institution for the preceding year.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XCVIII: for the relief of John Bruce, administrator of Philip Bush, deceased.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Bruce, administrator of Philip Bush, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for certificate to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote> do settle the claim of John Bruce, administrator of Philip Bush, deceased, for a certain certificate, issued on the third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, to the said Philip Bush, in his life-time, by J. Brown, junior, for Archibald Steele, Deputy Quartermaster General, and payable on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, for thirty-two thousand eight hundred and forty-two dollars, and fifty-five ninetieths, in continental emission; and that the said settlement be made according to the rules of depreciation: and that the said claim be allowed and paid to the said John Bruce, as administrator of Philip Bush, deceased, under the principles of the funding system, in the same manner, and in same amount, as if the said Philip Bush had, on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, subscribed to the loan made <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> in payment of the debt of the United States; and that the sum, so ascertained, be paid to the said John Bruce, as administrator of Philip Bush, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XCIX: for the relief of John Thomas, and Peter Foster.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Thomas, and Peter Foster.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. Thomas allowed five years’ full pay as captain, with interest.</p></sidenote> do settle the account of John Thomas, and allow him five years’ full pay as a captain of infantry of the revolutionary army, in the Virginia line, on continental establishment, with such interest thereon, as would have been payable to the said John Thomas, if a certificate had been given him for the amount of said commutation, and the same had, by him, been subscribed to the funded debt of the United States <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> under the act of one thousand seven hundred and ninety.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the same accounting officers do settle the account of Peter Foster, a lieutenant of infantry of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Peter Foster allowed five years’ full pay as lieutenant, with interest.</p></sidenote> the revolutionary army, of the Virginia line, and allow him five years’ full pay as such lieutenant, with such interest thereon, as is directed in the foregoing section to be allowed to John Thomas; and that the said several sums of money and interest, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. C: for the relief of James Taylor, of Kentucky.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>C</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of James Taylor, of Kentucky.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of District Paymaster to be settled.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized to adjust and settle the accounts and claims of James Taylor, of Kentucky, late District Paymaster and Quartermaster-General, in the service of the United <page identifier="/us/stat/6/541">541</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 101, 102, 103, 104. 1833.</centerRunningHead> States in the late war with Great Britain, on principles of equity and justice; and that in settling said accounts, the said James Taylor be allowed such credits as he may prove himself to be entitled to by the best evidence which the nature of the case will admit of, and which it may be in his power to produce.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CI: for the relief of Peter Bargy, junior, Stephen Norton, and Hiram Wolverton.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Peter Bargy, junior, Stephen Norton, and Hiram Wolverton.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for labor, &amp;c. in constructing a dam.</p></sidenote> any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Peter Bargy, junior, Stephen Norton, and Hiram Wolverton, the sum of eight thousand four hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-two cents, on account of the money and labor paid and bestowed by them in endeavoring to construct a dam across a part of the Savannah river, in the state of Georgia, under and by virtue of a contract made with a Commissioner of the United States to remove obstructions in the mouth of said river, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 18, 1826, ch. 73.</p></sidenote> according to the act of May eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CII: for the relief of the legal representations of John Miller, deceased.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representations of John Miller, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, and allowance made.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized, to audit the accounts of John Miller, late clerk of the superior and district courts for the Territory of West Florida, upon the following principles, namely: they are to allow the legal representative of said Miller, a per diem allowance for attendance on the several courts, a reasonable compensation for office rent, fuel, and stationery, on the same terms as such allowances have hitherto been made to the clerks of the circuit and district courts of the several states and territories.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CIII: for the relief of Robert Eaton.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Robert Eaton.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty to be refunded.</p></sidenote> and required to refund to Robert Eaton, the sum of two hundred and twelve dollars, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the penalty of a bond recovered from him in consequence of his neglect to produce a certificate in six months, from the custom-house officer at Oswego, of two hundred barrels of salt, which were landed at Sandusky, in Ohio, and which had touched at fort Erie, in Upper Canada, on its transit.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CIV: for the relief of the heirs and representatives of John Campbell, late of the city of New York, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs and representatives of John Campbell, late of the city of New York, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for services, &amp;c. as forage master, &amp;c. to be settled.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to audit and adjust, upon principles of equity and justice, the claims and accounts of the heirs and representatives of John Campbell, late of the city of New York, deceased, a Foragemaster and an Assistant Deputy Quartermaster-General in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war, for his services, expenditures, pay, and rations, while in service as aforesaid, as Foragemaster and Assistant Deputy Quartermaster-General; and that the amount due, when ascertained as aforesaid, be paid to the heirs and representatives of the said John Campbell, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of Eleanor Courts, widow of Richard Henly Courts.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/542">542</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 105, 106, 107. 1833.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Eleanor Courts, widow of Richard Henly Courts.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid amount of claim for services of R. H. Courts as surgeon’s mate.</p></sidenote> pay to Eleanor Courts, widow and legal representative of Richard Henly Courts, a surgeon’s mate in the revolutionary army, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the account of the said Richard Henly Courts for twenty-two months’ service, and rations as such surgeon’s mate, together with such interest thereon as would now be due if a certificate for the amount of said account had been issued, and the same had been subscribed to the loan created by the act of one thousand seven hundred and ninety, providing for the funding <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> of the debt of the United States.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CVI: for the relief of Elizabeth Scott, assignee of Alexander Scott, junior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Elizabeth Scott, assignee of Alexander Scott, junior.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the petition and documents of Elizabeth <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account of A. Scott, jr., to be adjusted and paid.</p></sidenote> Scott, assignee of Alexander Scott, junior, deceased, be referred to the proper accounting officers of the treasury, and that the said officers are hereby authorized and directed to settle and adjust the account of Alexander Scott, junior, deceased, late inspector of the customs at Pensacola, according to the principles of equity and justice, and according to allowances made to inspectors in similar cases; and that the amount found due be paid to Elizabeth Scott, junior, in trust for the use of Elizabeth Scott, senior, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CVII: for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Isaac Ledyard, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Isaac Ledyard, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay as surgeon, with interest, allowed to heirs of Isaac Ledyard.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, directed and required to allow the heirs of Doctor Isaac Ledyard the five years’ full pay of a surgeon, being the commutation of half pay for life of said Ledyard, as assistant purveyor of the hospital department of the revolutionary army; together with the interest thereon which would now be due had a certificate for that amount been issued by the United States, and subscribed under the “Act making provision for the debt of the United States,” passed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> the fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the proper accounting officers <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Error in settlement of I. Ledyard’s account to be corrected.</p></sidenote> of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, directed to revise the settlement of the account of Doctor Isaac Ledyard, assistant deputy director of the hospital department in the revolutionary army, made by Benjamin Walker, commissioner of accounts of the hospital, clothing and marine departments of said army; and to allow to the heirs of said Doctor Isaac Ledyard the compensation fixed by the resolution <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to be allowed, and balance due to be paid.</p></sidenote> of Congress of February the sixth, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, as specie, according to the report of the said Benjamin Walker, made to Congress on the fifteenth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, which is of record in the report book kept by said Walker, and filed in the office of the First Auditor of the Treasury; and that, on said settlement, if any balance is found due from the United States, the same be paid with the interest now due, to the heirs of said Doctor Isaac Ledyard, as though a certificate had been regularly issued therefor at the time it was due, and the same had been subscribed to the loan created by the act of one thousand <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> seven hundred and ninety, providing for the funding of the debt of the <page identifier="/us/stat/6/543">543</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 108, 109. 1833.</centerRunningHead> United States, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: for the relief of the heirs of Colonel John Ely, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 543</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of Colonel John Ely, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be allowed to the legal heirs of Colonel <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sixty dollars per month, and interest, allowed to heirs of Col. J. Ely.</p></sidenote> John Ely, deceased, who was a Colonel in the Connecticut line of the army of the revolution, the sum of sixty dollars per month for his services, expenses, and travel, in discharging the duties of physician and surgeon to sick and wounded prisoners of the American army, dispersed on various parts of Long Island, from the ninth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, to the twenty-fifth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; and that the amount herein allowed be paid to the said heirs, together with such interest thereon as would now be due had a certificate therefor been issued on the said twenty-fifth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and said certificate been subscribed to the debt of the United States, and funded under the act of August the fourth, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and all dividends thereon were now outstanding and unpaid; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CIX: for the relief of certain Invalid Pensioners, therein named.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 543</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of certain Invalid Pensioners, therein named.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain names to be placed on invalid pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place on the invalid pension roll of the United States, the names of the following persons; whereupon they, and each of them, shall be entitled to receive the pensions severally set against their names, respectively, during life, that is to say:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Jesse Cunningham, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Abijah Fisk, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Oliver Herrick, at the rate of ten dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Thomas Philips, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Benjamin Dow, of the state of Maine, late a soldier in the fourth regiment of infantry, at the rate of eight dollars a month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Heard Bracket, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing January first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Joseph Linn, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Robert McCausland, at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">George Field, at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Moses Cremeens, of Galia county, Ohio, at the rate of six dollars per month, from January first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">William Ledman, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing on the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">John Taylor, as on the first day of January, one thousand eight hun-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/544">544</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 110, 111, 112, 113. 1833.</centerRunningHead>dred and sixteen, at the rate of eight dollars per month, up to the time when his name was inscribed on the invalid pension roll: to be paid to him as arrears of his pension.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Roswell Hunt, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, commencing January first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Martin Smith, as of the twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, at the rate of six dollars per month, until his name was inscribed on the pension roll aforesaid, namely, the eleventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; to be paid to him as arrears of his said pension.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Henry Clicke, at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing January first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Asher Huntington, from the time when discharged from service, at the rate of four dollars per month, until his name was inscribed on the pension roll, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; to be paid to him as arrears of his pension.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">William Ricketts, of Indiana, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.</p></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the several sums necessary <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> to carry into effect the provisions of this act, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CX: for the relief of Adam Caplinger.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 544</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Adam Caplinger.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Adam <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as artificer, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Caplinger, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and two dollars forty-three and three-fourth cents, for his services as artificer on a tour of militia duty, performed in eighteen hundred and twelve and eighteen hundred and thirteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXI: for the relief of Thomas Triplett.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 544</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Thomas Triplett.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed five years’ pay as captain, with interest.</p></sidenote> do settle the account of Thomas Triplett, (a captain of infantry in the revolutionary army), and allow him five years’ full pay as such captain, with such interest as would have become due thereon, had a certificate for the same been duly issued, and afterwards, in due time, subscribed to the funded debt of the United States; and that the same <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34</p></sidenote> be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXII: for the relief of Robert Kane.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 544</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Robert Kane.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Robert <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for equipments captured by the enemy.</p></sidenote> Kane, a mounted volunteer of the New York militia, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of sixty-five dollars, for equipments captured by the enemy at the Battle of the Beaver Dams, during the late war with Great Britain.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: for the relief of William Osborn.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William Osborn.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized to refund to William Osborn, the duties paid on sixty-five casks of claret wine, imported in the month of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirteen, and exported by him with a view to obtain the benefit of drawback, on the seventh day of <page identifier="/us/stat/6/545">545</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 114, 115, 116, 117. 1833.</centerRunningHead> April, in the same year: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The Secretary of the Treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall be satisfied that all the requirements of the law have been complied with, except those which make it necessary that an oath should be taken, and an export bond given previous to the clearance of the vessel in which the merchandise is exported, or within ten days after such clearance.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of George Hodge, deceased.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of George Hodge, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to the heirs and legal representatives <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> of George Hodge, late a boatswain in the navy of the United States, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighteen cents, in full compensation for the property of the said George Hodge, destroyed in the conflagration of the navy yard at Washington, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXV: for the relief of Major Abraham A. Massias.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Major Abraham A. Massias.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of certain judgments, &amp;c. to be paid.</p></sidenote> department settle and pay to Abraham A. Massias, the amount of a judgment, with interest, which Thomas Backhouse lately recovered against the securities of the said Abraham A. Massias; and, also, the amount of a judgment, with costs, which W. C. Clarke lately recovered against said Massias, or, if undischarged, to the person or persons entitled thereto; and all such fees as may have been paid by said Massias in defending the cases of W. C. Clarke and Thomas Backhouse, with such reasonable expenses for attending to said trial as may seem just and equitable.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That a sum not exceeding three <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of said expenses and damages.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of Archibald W. Hamilton.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Archibald W. Hamilton.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Archibald <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property purchased by him for the Quartermaster-General’s department.</p></sidenote> W. Hamilton, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and thirty-six dollars and forty-seven cents; being for property purchased for the Quartermaster-General’s Department while he was in the service of the United States, and which he has not been repaid.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: for the relief of Daniel Goodwin, executor of Benjamin Goodwin, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Daniel Goodwin, executor of Benjamin Goodwin, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account for the use of a house, &amp;c. to be adjusted and paid.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby authorized and required, to settle and adjust, upon principles of equity and justice, the account of Daniel Goodwin, executor of Benjamin Goodwin, deceased, for the use and occupation of a wharf, house, and other property, of the said Benjamin Goodwin, used and occupied during the revolutionary war, by the agent of the United States, from one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, up to which time his account was paid, to one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, for the purpose of building a seventy-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/546">546</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 118, 119, 120, 121. 1833.</centerRunningHead>four gun ship; and that the amount ascertained to be due, be paid to said executor, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: supplemental to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Alexander Claxton,” passed on the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">supplemental to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Alexander Claxton,” passed on the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 28, 1830, ch. 140.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further allowance for his expenses in the case of the ship James Mitchell.</p></sidenote> department be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to allow to Alexander Claxton, a captain in the navy of the United States, in the settlement of his account, for his reasonable expenses incurred in and about the prosecution of his claim for salvage against the English merchant ship the James Mitchell, in the superior court of the district of East Florida, in addition to the sum provided by the act to which this is a supplement, the further sum of six hundred and thirty-seven dollars; and that the amount be paid to the said Alexander Claxton, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIX: for the relief of Lieutenant George D. Ramsay, of the Army of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Lieutenant George D. Ramsay, of the Army of the United States.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the pay department be directed to refund <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain payments to be refunded.</p></sidenote> to Lieutenant George D. Ramsay, one hundred and twenty dollars and eighty-one cents; which sum appears to have been charged to said Ramsay’s account by the treasury department, and deducted out of his pay as lieutenant for an alleged omission of duty in turning over to the fifth regiment of infantry certain military convicts, with the papers and orders relating to the same.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of James Range, a soldier of the Revolution.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of James Range, a soldier of the Revolution.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land scrip to issue to him.</p></sidenote> Treasury to issue to James Range, upon his surrendering to the Commissioner of the General Land Office a duplicate of a warrant for one hundred acres, number six thousand three hundred and fifty-four, (the original of which being lost,) issued to him upon [the] twenty-first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, by the state of Virginia, for one hundred acres of land, due said Range, in consideration of three years’ services as a private in the continental line, land scrip at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, in the same form as though the original of said warrant was surrendered; which scrip shall be received in payment for any lands subject to private entry in either of the states of Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: for the relief of Joshua P. Frothingham, and the heirs of Thomas Hopping, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Joshua P. Frothingham, and the heirs of Thomas Hopping, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed in the revolutionary war.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, unto Joshua P. Frothingham, and the heirs of Thomas Hopping, deceased, heirs at law of Thomas Frothingham, late of Charlestown, in the county of Middlesex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, joiner, deceased, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, in full compensation for certain buildings owned and occupied by the said Thomas Frothingham, in Charlestown, and which were burnt in the month of January, seventeen hundred and seventy-six, by order of General Putnam, then commanding <page identifier="/us/stat/6/547">547</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 122, 123, 124. 1833.</centerRunningHead> a corps of the army of the United States, encamped at Cambridge, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts aforesaid.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: to authorize the issuing of a patent or patents to Samuel Hall.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to authorize the issuing of a patent or patents to Samuel Hall.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of State be and hereby is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to issue for an improved piston and valve for steam gas, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to cause a patent or patents to be issued to Samuel Hall, of Basford, in the county of Nottingham, in the kingdom of Great Britain, an alien, for his inventions or discoveries of an improved piston and valve for steam gas, and other engines; an improved method of lubricating the pistons, piston rods, and valves or cocks of such engines; and of condensing the steam and supplying water to the boilers of such steam engines as [are] wrought by a vacuum produced by condensation; on his complying with the requisitions of the laws relating to the granting of patents, excepting the requisitions of residence or citizenship.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the service of any notice <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service of process for repeal of patents, where to be made.</p></sidenote> or process for the repeal of any patent to be issued under this act, shall be of the same force and effect, if made upon the clerk of the district court in and for the southern district of New York, as if such notice of process had been served personally upon the said Samuel Hall; and the said District Court, and the Circuit Court of the second circuit, shall have jurisdiction of all proceedings for the repeal of such patent or patents, in the same manner as they would have jurisdiction if the said Samuel Hall resided in said district or circuit.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIII: for the relief of Farish Carter.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Farish Carter.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for salt purchased by him.</p></sidenote> he hereby is, directed to pay to Farish Carter, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars, being the difference between the amount paid him, and the current market price of five hundred bushels of salt furnished by the said Farish Carter, for the use of the United States’ troops at Fort Hawkins, in December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the proper accounting <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote> officers be, and they are hereby authorized and required to adjust and settle the various accounts of Farish Carter with the government, on just and equitable principles; and that the amount found due to him shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIV: for the relief of the mother of Fitz Henry Babbit, late a Lieutenant in the Navy of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 547</citableAs>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the mother of Fitz Henry Babbit, late a Lieutenant in the Navy of the United States.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That a pension of two hundred dollars per annum, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension allowed for five years.</p></sidenote> for the term of five years, to commence on the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, be allowed, and paid semi-annually, out of the navy pension fund, to Mary J. Babbit, the mother of Fitz Henry Babbit, late a lieutenant in the navy of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That in case of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> death of the said Mary J. Babbit, before the expiration of said term of five years, the said pension shall cease from and after the time of such death.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXV: for the relief of Algernon S. Thruston.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/548">548</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 125, 126, 127, 128, 129. 1833.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Algernon S. Thruston.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be credited with the difference between the amount allowed and the intrinsic value of doubloons.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized to credit the account of Algernon S. Thruston, late collector of the customs at Key West, with the sum of eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-five cents; being the difference between seven hundred and fifty Spanish doubloons, transferred principally to him by his predecessor, at sixteen dollars each, which was the current value of the same at that port, and the amount allowed, of eleven thousand one hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty-five cents, at the Bank of the United States, in Charleston, considered as the intrinsic value of the said doubloons.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVI: for the relief of Absalom Boles.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXXVI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Absalom Boles.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Absalom Boles, of the county of Marion, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to surrender certificate for land.</p></sidenote> and state of Alabama, be, and he is hereby authorized, to surrender to the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Huntsville, the certificate heretofore issued to him for the west half of the north-east quarter of section number one, township thirteen, range number fifteen west of the meridian of Huntsville, which was purchased by him through mistake; and the said Absalom Boles, on filing his relinquishment to all right and title thereto, shall be entitled to a certificate from the Register <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">New certificate to issue.</p></sidenote> and Receiver, stating the amount which has been by him so paid by mistake, which shall be received in payment for any land of the United States which may be liable to private entry, or which may hereafter be sold.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVII: for the relief of Samuel Goode.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Samuel Goode.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for expenses in transporting certain sick soldiers.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Samuel Goode, eighty dollars, it being the amount of money paid by him in transporting certain sick soldiers from Greenville, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVIII: for the relief of William Tharp.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William Tharp.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to William <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">William Tharp indemnified for endorsing draft of a public officer.</p></sidenote> Tharp, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred twenty dollars and eleven cents, the balance of a judgment recovered against him as endorser of a protested draft drawn by Lieutenant Reed, including interest and taxable cost.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIX: for the relief of Edward B. Babbit.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Edward B. Babbit.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit allowed.</p></sidenote> department be, and he hereby is, authorized and required, in the settlement of the accounts of Edward B. Babbit, a lieutenant in the navy of the United States, to allow him a credit for the sum of seven hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty cents, being an amount received from the purser by him while acting as commander of the frigate Guerriere, in January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, in the Pacific Ocean, under the former regulations of the naval ser-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/549">549</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 130, 131, 132, 133, 134. 1833.</centerRunningHead>vice beyond the amount to which he was entitled according to the regulations digested and published in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXX: for the relief of Joseph Gaston, of South Carolina.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Joseph Gaston, of South Carolina.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the name of Joseph Gaston, of Chester District, in the state of South Carolina, on the roll of invalid pensioners; and pay to him eight dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXI: for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers and seamen who were lost in the United States’ schooner, the Sylph.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers and seamen who were lost in the United States’ schooner, the Sylph.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the widows, if any such there be, and in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A sum equal to six months pay allowed.</p></sidenote> case there be no widow, the child or children, and if there be no child, then the parents or parent, and, if there be no parent, then the brothers and sisters, of the officers and seamen who were in the service of the United States, and lost in the schooner Sylph, shall be entitled to, and receive, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to six months’ pay of their respective deceased relatives aforesaid, in addition to the pay due to the said deceased on the fifteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, to which day the arrears of pay due the deceased shall be allowed and paid by the accounting officers of the navy department.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXII: for the relief of Raphael Paine, and Elias Arnold.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Raphael Paine, and Elias Arnold.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land scrip to issue to them.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized to issue to Ralfel, alias Raphael Paine and Elias Arnold, one hundred acres of land scrip, receivable in any of the land offices in the United States, for so many acres of land, which are or may be offered for sale at the minimum price in lieu of lot number thirty-nine, in the first quarter of the eighth township, and eleventh range, of the tract appropriated for satisfying warrants for military services, which was patented to said Paine and Arnold on the fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, but which is held by a prior grant.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIII: for the relief of Newton Berryman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Newton Berryman.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as clerk.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized and required to pay to Newton Berryman, the sum of sixty-six dollars, being for services rendered as a clerk employed in the navy department, from the fifth day of March to the sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIV: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Peter Wagnon, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 549</citableAs>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of John Peter Wagnon, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay as lieutenant allowed, with interest.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, required to settle and adjust the account of John Peter Wagnon, deceased, and to allow to his legal representatives five years’ full pay as a lieutenant in the army of the revolution, in commutation of the half-pay for life, promised by the resolves <page identifier="/us/stat/6/550">550</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 135, 136, 137. 1833.</centerRunningHead> of Congress to the officers of the continental line in the war of the revolution, together with such interest thereon as would now be due, if a certificate for such commutation had been issued and subscribed under the principles of the funding act, and no payments made thereon: to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXV: for the relief of Jared E. Groce, of the state of Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 550</citableAs>
<dc:date>1833-03-02</dc:date>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Jared E. Groce, of the state of Alabama.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That it shall be lawful for Jared E. Groce, of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to re-enter certain land.</p></sidenote> the state of Alabama, to re-enter, with the Register of the land office at St. Stephen’s, in the state aforesaid, fractional section numbered ten, in township numbered five, of range four, east; and the Register and Receiver of the land office aforesaid, are hereby required to pass to the credit of the said Jared E. Groce, upon his re-entry of the fractional section aforesaid, the amount of the purchase money of the south-west quarter of section numbered six, in township numbered seventeen, of range four, east: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Groce shall <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> surrender to the Register of the land office aforesaid, the patent which he now holds from the United States, for the quarter section above described, accompanied by such a release of his interest to the land therein designated, as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall direct:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided,</i> The said fractional section shall remain <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> unsold; and, if sold, said Groce may enter any other land in said district, subject to private sale, and be credited to said amount in like manner.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVI: for the relief of Thadeus Phelps and Company.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Thadeus Phelps and Company.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Benefit of drawback to be allowed.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized to allow to Thadeus Phelps and Company, of the city of New York, the benefit of drawback upon one hundred and sixty bales of cotton, imported from the island of Cuba, and exported by the said Phelps and Company, in August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, in the ship Commerce, to Liverpool, with a view to the benefit of drawback: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the Secretary <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury shall be satisfied that all the requirements of the law have been complied with, except those which relate to the time within which an oath should be taken and an export bond given:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided,</i> That the said Phelps and Company shall have first <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> paid or discharged all their bonds and other liabilities, to the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVII: for the relief of William Stewart.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William Stewart.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Excess of purchase money for land to be refunded.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, directed to repay to William Stewart, his heirs or legal representatives, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ninety-two dollars and sixty cents; the same being an excess of purchase money paid by the same William Stewart, on the north-east quarter of section thirty-six, in township ten, of range three, east, in the district of lands subject to sale at Cincinnati, in Ohio, at the rate of two dollars per acre, for forty-six acres and thirty-hundredths of an acre, over and above the true contents of the said quarter section, as reported by the Surveyor-General in the official plat of survey.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVIII: in aid of an act, entitled “An Act for the relief of James Barnett.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVIII</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/551">551</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 138, 139, 140, 141, 142. 1833.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">in aid of an act, entitled “An Act for the relief of James Barnett.”</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on commutation allowed him.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 28, 1830, ch. 119.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized and required to pay to James Barnett, such interest on his commutation, provided for in an “Act for the relief of said James Barnett,” as he would have been entitled to receive if said commutation had been subscribed to the loan provided for by the several acts of Congress establishing the funding system, and the interest and principal had been paid under the several provisions of the said acts; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIX: for the relief of Lieutenant Harvey Brown.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Lieutenant Harvey Brown.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of two hundred and fifty-one dollars <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment as a compensation for quarters not furnished.</p></sidenote> and twelve cents be paid to Lieutenant Harvey Brown, of the United States’ army, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as a compensation for quarters not furnished to him in St. Augustine, in east Florida, for sixteen months and twenty-three days.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXL: for the relief of Hugh Beard.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXL</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Hugh Beard.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Hugh Beard be permitted to enter, at any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land.</p></sidenote> of the land offices in the state of Indiana, seventy-four eighteen-hundredths acres of land, on any of the public lands in the state of Indiana, and now subject to sale by law: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Hugh Beard, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> before making said entry, shall execute and deliver to the Register of the land office at Indianapolis, a release to the United States of all claim and title to the same quantity of land entered by him on the twenty-fifth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and which was afterwards patented to him by the United States; it being the eastern half of the north-eastern quarter of section one, in township sixteen, and range four, east.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLI: for the relief of Jane Dauphin, administratrix of John Dauphin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Jane Dauphin, administratrix of John Dauphin.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Jane Dauphin, administratrix <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of a certain forfeiture to be refunded.</p></sidenote> of John Dauphin, late of Wilmington in the state of Delaware, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty-one cents, that being the amount received into the treasury from the forfeiture, not heretofore remitted, of a schooner called the Mary, and cargo, the property of said John Dauphin, which was recovered of James Jeffreys, surety of the said John Dauphin, and has been reimbursed by the said Jane Dauphin, his administratrix.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLII: for the relief of James Gibbon, and Sarah Price, widow of William Price, and Philip Slaughter.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1833-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of James Gibbon, and Sarah Price, widow of William Price, and Philip Slaughter.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. Gibbon allowed five years’ full pay as captain, with interest.</p></sidenote> be, and they hereby are, authorized and required to settle and adjust the account of James Gibbon, a captain of the army of the revolution, and allow to him five years’ full pay; which five years’ full <page identifier="/us/stat/6/552">552</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 3. 1833.</centerRunningHead> pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; with such interest thereon, as would have been payable to the said James Gibbon, if a certificate had been given him for the amount of said commutation, and the same had by him been subscribed to the funded debt of the United States, under the act of one thousand seven hundred and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> ninety; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the proper accounting <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sarah Price allowed five years’ full pay as widow of Lieut. Price, with interest.</p></sidenote> officers of the treasury department, do also settle and adjust the account of William Price, late a lieutenant in the Virginia line on continental establishment, and pay to his widow, Sarah Price, whatever sum of money would have accrued and been payable to him as interest and dividends thereon, had he the said Price received a certificate for the amount of five years’ full pay as a lieutenant of infantry, (according to the resolves of Congress, of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three), and had subscribed the said certificate to the public debt, in conformity with the provisions of the acts of Congress of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 5, 1790, ch. 30.</p></sidenote> fourth and fifth of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, which sum of money so found to be due as interest or dividends, and no more, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of Treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on commutation of half pay allowed P. Slaughter.</p></sidenote> be authorized and directed to pay to Philip Slaughter, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, interest upon the commutation of half pay heretofore allowed him.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<preface><firstPageHeading>RESOLUTION.</firstPageHeading></preface>
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<dc:title>Resolution No. 3: for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>3</docNumber>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No. 3. </docNumber></preface>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">Resolution </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10"><i>Be it resolved, &amp;c.,</i></resolvingClause> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the memorial of John S. Stiles, and the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Memorials to be referred to Third Auditor.</p></sidenote> memorial of the other owners of vessels, taken and sunk for the defence of Baltimore during the late war, with the papers and documents referred to the Committee on Claims of the House of Representatives in the cases aforesaid, be referred to the Third Auditor for his decision, under the act of May twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and thirty, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 214.</p></sidenote> “for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore;” which decision shall be subject to the supervision of the Secretary of the Navy.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1833-03-02">March 2, 1833</date>.
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<congress>23</congress>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<dc:date>1834</dc:date>
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December,</i> 1833, <i>and ended on the thirtieth day of June,</i> 1834.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Jackson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Martin Van Buren</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Hugh Lawson White</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 2d to the 16th day of December, 1833; <inline class="smallCaps">George Poindexter</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 28th day of June, 1834, to the close of the session; <inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Stevenson</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives, until the 2d day of June, 1834; and <inline class="smallCaps">John Bell</inline>, for the remainder of the session.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. II: for the relief of the heirs of Widow Robert Avart.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<dc:date>1834-01-24</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of Widow Robert Avart.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-01-24">Jan. 24, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for property destroyed to be adjusted and paid.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury settle the claim of the heirs of widow Robert Avart, for the destruction or damage done to the fences of the said widow Robert Avart, in the vicinity of New Orleans, by the troops of the United States, during the late war, on the same principles that have governed the accounting officers of the treasury in settling similar claims for like injuries in the same vicinity; and that the amount so found, be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any money not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-01-24">January 24, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. III: for the relief of George Chinn.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>III</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 553</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-01-24</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of George Chinn.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-01-24">Jan. 24, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury make such further allowance to George Chinn, for his rations as lieutenant on board <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for rations.</p></sidenote> of the revenue cutter Search, from the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, to the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, as will, with what has heretofore been paid to him, make an amount equal to what other lieutenants were entitled to, who were duly commissioned; and that the amount so found his due, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-01-24">January 24, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. IV: for the relief of George H. Jennings.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 553</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-02-05</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of George H. Jennings.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-02-05">Feb. 5, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to George <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services in arresting pirates.</p></sidenote> H. Jennings, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, two hundred and one dollars, for his services and loss of time in bringing to condign punishment two pirates, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-02-05">February 5, 1834</date>.
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/553" renderingPosition="bottom">553</page>
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<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of James H. Brewer.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-02-05</dc:date>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/554">554</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of James H. Brewer.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-02-05">Feb. 5, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to James H. Brewer, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services in arresting pirates.</p></sidenote> hundred and four dollars, for his service and loss of time in bringing to condign punishment two pirates, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-02-05">February 5, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of Russell Hunt, David Hunt, and Amos Hunt.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 554</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-02-05</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Russell Hunt, David Hunt, and Amos Hunt.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-02-05">Feb. 5, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment on account of certain anchors.</p></sidenote> hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-four cents to Russell Hunt, David Hunt, and Amos Hunt, for excess of weight of iron in certain anchors furnished by them for the use of the navy of the United States, under contract, above the limited weight specified therein.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-02-05">February 5, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Edward Willett.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 554</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-02-05</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Edward Willett.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-02-05">Feb. 5, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Edward Willett, if living, or to his legal representatives, if dead, out of any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of interest to E. Willett or his heirs.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, seventy dollars and fifty-five cents, being the interest on a bill drawn by B. Shambaugh on the Secretary of War, and presented for payment on the sixteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and due five days thereafter, and paid on the third of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> the said Edward Willett, if living, or his legal <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> representatives, shall produce satisfactory evidence to the said Secretary that he was part owner of said bill at the time payment was made; and that he paid interest on a moiety of said bill to A. Chambers.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-02-05">February 5, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of Richard Bagnall, executor of James Vaughan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 554</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-02-05</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Richard Bagnall, executor of James Vaughan.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-02-05">Feb. 5, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Richard Bagnall, executor of James B. Vaughan, out of any money not otherwise <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for brick.</p></sidenote> appropriated, two hundred and thirty dollars and ten cents, for seventy-six thousand seven hundred brick, purchased by the navy agent at Norfolk, on public account, in May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-02-05">February 5, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. IX: for the relief of John Hurtell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-02-05</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Hurtell.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-02-05">Feb. 5, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Hurtell be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter at the proper land office, a tract of two hundred and forty <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land.</p></sidenote> acres of land, being the south-west quarter and west half of the north-west quarter of section number thirty-six, in township twenty, range four east, in the land district of Saint Stephen’s, in the state of Alabama, being a part of the land designated under the law of the third day <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 61.</p></sidenote> of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, entitled, “An act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive:” <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said John <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> Hurtell, shall pay for the same, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/555">555</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 12, 13, 14, 17. 1834.</centerRunningHead>five cents per acre, and shall in other respects, conform to the regulations for the purchase of the public lands of the United States, that are subject to entry at private sale.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-02-05">February 5, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XII: to authorize Gazaway B. Lamar, to import an iron steamboat, in detached parts, with the necessary machinery, tools, and working utensils, therefore, into the United States, free from duty, and to provide for the remission of the same.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-02-26</dc:date>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to authorize Gazaway B. Lamar, to import an iron steamboat, in detached parts, with the necessary machinery, tools, and working utensils, therefore, into the United States, free from duty, and to provide for the remission of the same.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-02-26">Feb. 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That for the purpose of making an experiment of the aptitude of iron steamboats for the navigation of shoal waters, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iron steamboat may be imported free of duty.</p></sidenote> Gazaway B. Lamar, of the city of Savannah in the state of Georgia, be, and he is hereby, authorized to import an iron steamboat, in detached parts, with the necessary machinery, tools and working utensils for the same, into the United States, free from duty.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the collector of the port <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector to admit it.</p></sidenote> of Savannah be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to admit to entry, free of duty, the articles mentioned in the first section of this act, on the exhibition of the invoices and the oath of the said Gazaway B. Lamar, that the said articles are intended for the purposes herein before specified; or to cancel any bond or bonds which may be, or may have been, given by the said Gazaway B. Lamar, for the duties accruing thereon under the existing laws.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-02-26">February 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of Joseph M. Harper.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 555</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-02-26</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Joseph M. Harper.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-02-26">Feb. 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Joseph M. Harper the sum of forty-four <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to satisfy a judgment against him.</p></sidenote> dollars and twenty-five cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to indemnify said Joseph M. Harper for so much money paid by him to satisfy a judgment obtained against him by Joseph Wheat, in the courts of New Hampshire, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for the boarding and nursing of certain sick soldiers of the United States army, and to defray the expenses of defending such suit.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-02-26">February 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIV: for the relief of Benjamin Sherfey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 555</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-02-26</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Benjamin Sherfey.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-02-26">Feb. 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Benjamin Sherfey, ninety-six dollars, out of any money in the treasury not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of a military fine to be refunded.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, being for a military fine improperly assessed by a regimental court martial, and collected by the deputy marshal, and deposited by the marshal in the Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee, of which notice was given to the Treasurer of the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-02-26">February 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XVII: to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claims of the United States, against the late firm of Minturn and Champlin, and their securities.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 555</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-03-24</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claims of the United States, against the late firm of Minturn and Champlin, and their securities.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-03-24">March 24, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to compromise and finally settle with Benjamin <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compromise and settlement of all claims against them.</p></sidenote> G. Minturn, surviving partner of the late firm of Minturn and Champlin, all the claims of the United States upon the said firm and their securities, upon such terms as he may deem most conducive to the interest of the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-03-24">March 24, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: for the relief of the widow and heirs of Felix St. Vrain.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 556</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-03-24</dc:date>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/556">556</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 18, 19, 20, 21. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the widow and heirs of Felix St. Vrain.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-03-24">March 24, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be, and is hereby, granted to the widow and heirs of the late Felix St. Vrain, of Missouri, six hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A section of land granted.</p></sidenote> and forty acres of land, to be selected by them within the state of Missouri, either in an entire section, or in tracts not less than one quarter section, and entered in the proper Land Office in said state: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said land be subject to entry at private sale, and not settled upon or occupied by any other person.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That on the application of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate and patent to issue.</p></sidenote> said widow and heirs or their duly authorized agent, to the Register and Receiver of the proper Land Office, and on payment of one dollar for each tract so entered, a final certificate shall be given for the same, upon which, a patent from the United States to the said widow and heirs of Felix St. Vrain shall be issued.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-03-24">March 24, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of John Kimberlin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 556</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-03-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Kimberlin.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-03-24">March 24, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is authorized and required to pay to John Kimberlin of Indiana, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for provision and forage.</p></sidenote> the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being for provision and forage furnished to certain volunteers in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-03-24">March 24, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of George Staley.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of George Staley.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-03-24">March 24, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That George Staley be, and he is hereby authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish a certain tract of land, and enter another.</p></sidenote> of the General Land Office shall prescribe, the east half of the south-east quarter of section number twelve, in township number four, south, range number ten east, containing eighty acres, in the district of lands offered for sale at Shawneetown, in the state of Illinois; and upon such relinquishment being made as aforesaid, the said Staley shall be, and he is hereby authorized to enter in lieu thereof, any other half quarter section of land in said district, which shall be liable to entry at private sale, and which does not contain more than eighty acres.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of John Hone and Sons, of New York.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Hone and Sons, of New York.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-03-24">March 24, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is authorized to adjust and settle the claims of John Hone and Sons, of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to be adjusted for an illegal seizure of teas.</p></sidenote> New York, for damages sustained by them in consequence of the illegal seizure of teas, made in the city of New York, by the Collector of the port of Philadelphia, acting under the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no allowance shall be made for any damages <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> sustained by them, other than the interest upon the amount of the property detained from them, and the difference in the value of said property at the time of the illegal seizure and the time of its delivery to them on the substitution of other security:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> such allowance shall not exceed the sum of nine thousand six hundred and seven dollars, and fifteen cents.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-03-24">March 24, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of Noah Staley.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/557">557</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Noah Staley.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-03-24">March 24, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Noah Staley be, and he is hereby authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish a certain tract of land, and enter another.</p></sidenote> of the General Land Office shall prescribe, the south-east quarter, of the north-east quarter of section number twelve, township number four, south, range number ten, east, containing forty acres, in the district of lands offered for sale at Shawneetown, in the state of Illinois; and upon such relinquishment being made as aforesaid, the said Staley shall be, and he is hereby authorized to enter any other quarter of a quarter section of land in said district, in lieu thereof, which shall be liable to entry at private sale, and which does not contain more than forty acres.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: for the relief of Philip Hickey.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Philip Hickey.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-03-24">March 24, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain the value of the timber (as it was when taken) taken from a tract <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for timber.</p></sidenote> of land owned by Philip Hickey, after the seventeenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and ten, and before the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, by the troops of the United States, for the public works at Baton Rouge, and for fuel; and that the amount so ascertained be paid to the said Philip Hickey by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-03-24">March 24, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of Peleg Spencer.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-04-15</dc:date>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Peleg Spencer.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-04-15">April 15, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for horses, &amp;c. lost.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to Peleg Spencer, the sum of two hundred and fifty-three dollars, in satisfaction of his claim against the United States, for the loss of two horses, and the injury done to his wagon and harness while in the military service of the United States, on the frontier of Illinois, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-04-15">April 15, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXV: for the relief of John Haggerty and David Austin, of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Haggerty and David Austin, of New York.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-04-15">April 15, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is authorized to adjust and settle the claims of John Haggerty and David <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for illegal seizure of teas to be adjusted.</p></sidenote> Austin, of New York, for damages sustained by them in consequence of the illegal seizure of teas, made in the city of New York, by the collector of the port of Philadelphia, acting under the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no allowance shall be made <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> for any damages sustained by them other than the interest upon the amount of the property detained from them, in the difference in the value of said property at the time of the illegal seizure, and the time of its delivery to them, on the substitution of other security:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> also,</i> That such allowance shall not exceed the sum of eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty-one dollars and four cents.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-04-15">April 15, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: for the relief of John Bills.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Bills.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-04-15">April 15, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Bills, of the parish of East Baton Rouge, be, and he hereby is, confirmed in his title to two hundred and fifty-se-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/558">558</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 27, 28, 29, 30. 1834.</centerRunningHead>ven acres of land, situate and lying in the parish of East Baton Rouge, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> in the state of Louisiana, in township number seven, of range one, east, in the district of lands offered for sale in the parish of St. Helena, which tract of land is bounded on the north, by P. Hickey; on the west, by A. Grass; on the south, by Henry Thomas; and on the east, by William and Francis Thomas; upon his paying to the proper officer of the land office at St. Helena, the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That this act shall not be so construed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> as to interfere with any adverse claim to the land hereby authorized to be purchased, if any such there be.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-04-15">April 15, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Thomas Richardson.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Thomas Richardson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-04-15">April 15, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury liquidate the claim of Thomas Richardson, a sutler in the army <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for goods purchased by soldiers.</p></sidenote> of the United States, in one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, against such soldiers as had permission to purchase goods of him, where such soldiers are dead, and where a balance is due to them from the United States, and where the said Thomas Richardson has, or shall take out letters of administration on the estates of said soldiers; and allow to said Thomas Richardson the amount so due to him, with the interest, and allow to him the amount paid for taking out letters of administration on said estates, with the interest thereon.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> pay to said Thomas Richardson, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the amount so found to be due to him: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> more shall be paid on each account than is due to such soldier from the United States; and the amount so paid shall be charged to the individual account of said soldiers.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-04-15">April 15, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of Samuel Thompson.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Samuel Thompson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-04-15">April 15, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Samuel Thompson one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for blankets.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for that value of blankets furnished to different detachments of militia, after General Hall’s surrender, in the service of the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-04-15">April 15, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of Daniel Hazleton and William Palmer.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Daniel Hazleton and William Palmer.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-04-15">April 15, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for extra work on light-house.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twenty-five cents, to Daniel Hazleton and William Palmer, for extra expense incurred in copper-bolting the foundation of the light-house on Whale’s Back ledge, near Portsmouth, in the state of New Hampshire, under the direction of the superintendent, according to the terms of their contract.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-04-15">April 15, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of John Thompson.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-04-18</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Thompson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-04-18">April 18, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John Thompson, two thousand three hundred and eighty dollars, for materials <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for materials and labor.</p></sidenote> furnished for the erection of public works at Gosport navy yard, and for labor performed on said works, and for damages sustained by his <page identifier="/us/stat/6/559">559</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 31, 32, 33, 34. 1834.</centerRunningHead> having been prevented from completing the works according to his contract; said payment to be made out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-04-18">April 18, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXI: to authorize the issuing of a register to the brig American, of Savannah.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to authorize the issuing of a register to the brig American, of Savannah.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-01">May 1, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be issued, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register to the brig American, a French <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A register to issue to the brig American.</p></sidenote> vessel, which vessel was stranded on the coast of the United States, and purchased by James Taylor, of Savannah, Georgia, and by him repaired: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> It shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the Treasury, that the cost of the repairs made in the United States, after the purchase of the said vessel, by the present owner, exceeds three-fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-01">May 1, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: supplementary to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Garrigues Flaujac, of Louisiana,” approved on the twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">supplementary to an act entitled “An act for the relief of Garrigues Flaujac, of Louisiana,” approved on the twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-01">May 1, 1834</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">1826, ch. 116.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Garrigues Flaujac, of Louisiana, or his legal representatives, be, and he and they are hereby, authorized to locate <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate a tract of land.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 16.</p></sidenote> the tract of land of three thousand two hundred arpens, described in the act to which this is supplementary, upon any of the unappropriated public lands in the south-western district of lands south of Red river, in portions of not less than eight hundred superficial arpens, conforming, as nearly as practicable, to the lines of the public surveys: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That, in addition to the release heretofore executed, the said Flaujac shall further, within one year from the passage of this act, release to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may direct, all right, title, and claim to, or in any lands heretofore located, pursuant to the act of which this is a supplement:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further,</i> That the new location herein authorized, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall be made in one year from and after the passage of this act.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-01">May 1, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: for the relief of John L. Lobdell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John L. Lobdell.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-01">May 1, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John L. Lobdell be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his title to a tract of land containing seven hundred superficial <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> arpens, situated on the west bank of the Mississippi, in the parish of west Baton Rouge, opposite Brown’s island; it being the same tract of land granted to Stephen Watts, by the Spanish Government, on the twelfth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, by patent bearing that date, as the same was surveyed by Carlos Trudeau, at that time Surveyor-General of the province of Louisiana: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That this act shall be taken and construed only as a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and not to prejudice the rights of third persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-01">May 1, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of Whitford Gill.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Whitford Gill.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-01">May 1, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Whitford Gill, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a boat captured by the enemy.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifty dollars, the value of his boat, which was captured by <page identifier="/us/stat/6/560">560</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39. 1834.</centerRunningHead> the enemy while the same was in the service of the United States, in the month of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and transporting munitions of war on Lake Ontario.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-01">May 1, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: for the relief of the legal representative of James Morrison, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 560</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-05-01</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representative of James Morrison, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-01">May 1, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to settle a suit in favor of the United States against the legal representative <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit in favor of U. S. against them to be settled.</p></sidenote> of James Morrison, deceased, and the claim against the United States in favor of said representative, for interest on a liquidated demand, on the principles of justice and equity; and, on a compliance with his decision by the said representative, the said Secretary is authorized to discharge a suit against said representative, on a bond purporting to have been signed by said Morrison, as the surety of Ashton Garrett.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-01">May 1, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: for the relief of William S. Anderson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 560</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-05-01</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William S. Anderson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-01">May 1, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain the value of a horse lost by William S. Anderson for the want of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of a horse to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> forage while in the military service of the United States, during the late war; and that the Secretary of the Treasury pay to said Anderson the amount, when so ascertained, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-01">May 1, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief of Henry Oakes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 560</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-05-10</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Henry Oakes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-10">May 10, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Henry Oakes be, and he hereby is, released from the three several judgments recovered against him, by the United <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from three judgments against him.</p></sidenote> States, on the twenty-fifth day of August and the twenty-third day of November, eighteen hundred and nineteen, in the district court for the district of New Haven, as one of the sureties of Aaron N. Ogden, upon certain custom-house bonds given by said Ogden for goods imported into the said district in August and September, eighteen hundred and eighteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-10">May 10, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of John Webber.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 560</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-05-10</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Webber.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-10">May 10, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John Webber, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the further sum <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for extra labor in taking the census at Madawaska.</p></sidenote> of two hundred and eleven dollars and forty cents, for his additional expenses and loss of time in travelling the second time more than two hundred miles to take the fifth census, at Madawaska, in the state of Maine, he having failed to take said census on his first journey, from the refusal of the inhabitants to be enumerated; the sum so allowed, with what he has already received, being the highest amount allowed by law where the county or parish exceeds forty miles square, and where the number of the inhabitants does not exceed three thousand.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-10">May 10, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of Thomas Ap C. Jones.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 560</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-05-10</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Thomas Ap C. Jones.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-10">May 10, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to allow and pay to Thomas Ap C. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrears of pension to be paid.</p></sidenote> Jones, out of the navy pension fund, as arrears of pension to which he <page identifier="/us/stat/6/561">561</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 40, 42, 43. 1834.</centerRunningHead> is entitled on account of a permanent disability occasioned by a wound received by him in battle with the enemy during the last war with Great Britain, the sum of twenty dollars per month, from the eighteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, to the fifteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, deducting there- from any sum accruing between these dates, which may have been paid him on account of the pension allowed him by the commissioners of the navy pension fund, on the thirty-first July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-10">May 10, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XL: for the relief of John H. Maguire.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XL</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 561</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-05-10</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John H. Maguire.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-10">May 10, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John H. Maguire, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote> the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, for investment of the navy pension fund, to the amount of one hundred and forty thousand dollars, in different stocks, to the acceptance of the Board of Commissioners of the navy pension fund, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, being an allowance of one-fourth of one per centum on the amount so invested.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-10">May 10, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of Coleman Fisher.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 561</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-05-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Coleman Fisher.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-14">May 14, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Coleman Fisher, of the city of Philadelphia, or his agent duly authorized, shall be, and he hereby is, permitted and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May withdraw a land certificate, and locate other land.</p></sidenote> allowed to withdraw a New Madrid certificate, numbered three hundred and thirty-eight, issued by Frederick Bates, recorder of land titles for the Missouri Territory, dated sixteenth October, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and now on file in the office of the surveyor of public lands in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, for six hundred and forty acres; which said certificate had been located on six hundred and forty acres of land near the village of Carondelet, and the location made by Ashley and Brown, as the legal representatives of Benjamin Patterson, senior; and to locate, by virtue of the same, six hundred and forty acres of land on any other public lands of the United States, subject to entry; and, on presentation of a certificate therefor, from the Register of the proper land office to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent shall issue for the same, in due form, <proviso><i>Provided however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That, previous to withdrawing said certificate, the said Coleman Fisher, by himself, or his agent duly authorized, shall release to the United States all claim or right to the lands heretofore located by virtue of said certificate, and which release shall be returned, with the certificate aforesaid, to the General Land Office, before a patent shall issue for the land lastly so located.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-14">May 14, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: for the relief of Luther L. Smith.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 561</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-05-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Luther L. Smith.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-14">May 14, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That it shall be lawful for Luther L. Smith, of the parish of West Feliciana, in the state of Louisiana, at any time <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter and purchase a tract of land.</p></sidenote> within six months from and after the passage of this act, to enter and purchase at the land office at Helena court-house, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, a tract of land situated in said parish of West Feliciana, said to contain two hundred and seventy-nine arpens. French measure, it being the same that was conveyed by Nicholas de Semils, by order of the Intendant General of West Florida, as appears by his process verbal bearing date the fifth day of May, one <page identifier="/us/stat/6/562">562</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 44, 48, 49. 1834.</centerRunningHead> thousand eight hundred and ten, and numbered eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of Commissioners of Land Claims west of Pearl river and east of the Mississippi in book E, number one, folio one hundred and thirty-eight: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> It shall appear <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to the satisfaction of the Register and Receiver for the district aforesaid, that the said tract of land is a part of the public domain.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-14">May 14, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of John S. Fleming, administrator de bonis non of John Syme, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-05-23</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John S. Fleming, administrator de bonis non of John Syme, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-05-23">May 23, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper officer of the treasury do pay to John S. Fleming, administrator de bonis non of John Syme, deceased, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for flour furnished.</p></sidenote> late of the county of Hanover, in the state of Virginia, the sum of three thousand one hundred and four dollars and thirty cents, it being so much due for flour furnished the army of the revolution by the said John Syme, under a contract made with Philip Aylett, then a deputy commissary general of purchases, in the service of the United States; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-05-23">May 23, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Asa Hartfield, his assignee or legal representative.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-06-18</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Asa Hartfield, his assignee or legal representative.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-18">June 18, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Asa Hartfield, his assignee, or legal representative, be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender the patent granted <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May surrender a land patent, and locate other land.</p></sidenote> to said Asa Hartfield, bearing date the first day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty, for the north-east fractional quarter of section seven, and the north-west fractional quarter of section eight, north of the Arkansas river, in township seven south, in range five west, containing ninety-two acres and eighty-two hundredths of an acre; and to locate, in lieu of it, the north-east quarter of section seven, and the north-west quarter of section eight, on the south side of the Arkansas river. The said location having been made by the mistake of the Register of the Land Office at Little Rock, in the Territory of Arkansas.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-18">June 18, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of Martha Bailey and others.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Martha Bailey and others.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-18">June 18, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Martha Bailey, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of interest, &amp;c. to them.</p></sidenote> widow and administratrix of Theodorus Bailey, deceased; James Thorne, in behalf of himself and Elias Mather, his former partner; and Sarah Anderson, administratrix, and Henry James Anderson, administrator, of Elbert Anderson, deceased; the sum of four thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven and sixty-one hundredths dollars, being the amount of interest upon the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, part of a balance due from the United States to Elbert Anderson, on the twenty-sixth of October, eighteen hundred and fourteen, and then demanded by him from that time, until warrants were issued for the payment thereof; also, the further sum of nine thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty-six cents, being the amount of interest accruing from the deferred payment of warrants issued for balances due from the United States to the said Elbert Anderson, from the date of such warrants until the payment thereof; also, the further sum of two thousand and eighteen dollars and fifty cents, admitted to be due from <page identifier="/us/stat/6/563">563</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 50, 51, 52, 53. 1834.</centerRunningHead> the United States to the said Elbert Anderson, by a decision of the Second Comptroller, with interest on the sum last mentioned from the period of such decision, until paid.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-18">June 18, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. L: granting the right of pre-emption to John Yantis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>L</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 563</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-18</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">granting the right of pre-emption to John Yantis.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-18">June 18, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Yantis be, and he is hereby, entitled to a preference in becoming the purchaser, at private sale, of fractional <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pre-emption right granted to him.</p></sidenote> section number thirty, in township number fifty-one, north of the base line of range number twenty-five, west of the fifth principal meridian, containing twenty acres and fifty-one hundredths, at the minimum price of the public lands: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> said land shall not have been previously <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> sold by the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-18">June 18, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief of George K. Jackson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-06-18</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of George K. Jackson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-18">June 18, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That George K. Jackson, of Indiana, be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, the north fraction <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish a tract of land, and payments transferred, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of the north-west quarter of section four, in township twenty-three north of range seven west, in the district of lands offered for sale at Crawfordsville, Indiana, containing seventy-two acres and seven one-hundredths, which was entered through a mistake, and that the Receiver of public moneys at the land office aforesaid, place to the credit of said George K. Jackson, the amount by him paid for the above named tract of land, towards the payment of any tract which he may select within the Crawfordville land district, subject to private entry: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That no such application shall be made until he relinquishes his right to the above described tract of land to the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-18">June 18, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Rowe, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 563</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-18</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Rowe, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-18">June 18, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy pay to the legal representatives of Joseph Rowe, a boatswain’s mate, deceased, the sum <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for prize money.</p></sidenote> of one thousand four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and thirteen cents, for his share of prize money arising from the capture of the British fleet on Lake Champlain, during the late war, and reported to be due to him on the books of the treasury; to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-18">June 18, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Frances Barham, deceased, and her husband, Fielding Barham.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-06-18</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Frances Barham, deceased, and her husband, Fielding Barham.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-18">June 18, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That six hundred and forty acres of land, situated in the parish of East Feliciana, on Carr’s creek, in the state of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for 640 acres to issue.</p></sidenote> Louisiana, to be located so as to embrace the improvements of Frances and Fielding Barham, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed, as a donation to the heirs and legal representatives of the said Frances and Fielding Barham, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the United States is hereby required to issue a patent, in the usual form, for the same: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said heirs or representatives, or <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> any one else, shall not be entitled to but one settlement right upon the account of the settlement made by the said aforesaid Francis or Fielding, or both or either of them:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, further,</i> That the title, hereby<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/6/564">564</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 61, 62, 63, 64. 1834.</centerRunningHead> conveyed, shall not be construed, so as to prejudice the rights of third persons, or as any thing more than a quit-claim title on the part of the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-18">June 18, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of Francis Barnes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 564</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-19</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Francis Barnes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That in the settlement of the contract of Francis Barnes with the Board of Navy Commissioners, to supply whiskey for <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for difference in the price of whiskey, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the use of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the accounting officers of the treasury allow him the sum of seven hundred dollars, out of the amount charged him for the difference between the contract price and the sum paid by the navy agent at Baltimore, in the purchase of twenty thousand gallons of whiskey which said Barnes had failed to supply on a requisition under his contract.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of the heirs of Alexander Boyd, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 564</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-19</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of Alexander Boyd, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the heirs of Alexander Boyd, deceased, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to three hundred arpens <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claims confirmed.</p></sidenote> of land, situated on the left bank of the river Comite, in the state of Louisiana, to be located according to a plat of survey made of said land by Don Vincent Sebastian Pentardo, on the twenty-ninth of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and approved by the royal surveyor of the province, Carlos Trudeau, on the twentieth November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That nothing in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> this act contained shall, in any manner, affect the rights of third persons, or any claim derived from the United States, by purchase or donation.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of John Percival, Master Commandant in the United States Navy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 564</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-19</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Percival, Master Commandant in the United States Navy.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for moneys expended in the public service.</p></sidenote> hereby is, directed to pay to John Percival, master commandant in the United States navy, five hundred dollars, being the amount expended by said Percival while commanding the United States schooner Dolphin during a cruise in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, to the Mulgrave and other islands in the Pacific Ocean, to relieve a part of the crew of the whale ship Globe; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of Aaron Bellamy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 564</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-19</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Aaron Bellamy.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Aaron Bellamy, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a vessel lost in the public service.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars, the value of a vessel taken into the service of the United States during the late war, to transport a quantity of flour on Lake Champlain, without the knowledge or consent of the owner, and against the will and remonstrance of the master; but which will, if given at all, was by the threats and coercion of an officer in the service of the United States; the said vessel having been captured by the enemy while in said service.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXV: for the relief of the widow and children of George Ludlum, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/565">565</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 65,, 66, 67, 69. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the widow and children of George Ludlum, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a warrant to the widow and children <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A military bounty land warrant to issue to them.</p></sidenote> of George Ludlum, deceased, for the military bounty land of the said George, who, during the late war, enlisted as a private in the twenty-ninth United States infantry, for and during the war, and who continued in service until the close thereof.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for the relief of Lucy Loomis.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-06-19</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Lucy Loomis.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Lucy Loomis, widow of Jesse <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount which would have been due to J. Loomis, &amp;c., to be paid to his widow.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half pay allowed.</p></sidenote> Loomis, late a lieutenant in the militia service of the United States, and who died before the expiration of his term of service, by occasion of sickness contracted in that service, but was, by permission and advice of his attending physician, removed to his family before his death, the full amount to which she would have been entitled had he died in camp and before the expiration of his term of service.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXVII: for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Doctor John Berrien, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 565</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-19</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs or legal representatives of Doctor John Berrien, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, directed to revise the settlement <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be revised, and balance found due to be paid to his heirs, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of the account of Doctor John Berrien, commissary of the hospital department in the revolutionary army, made by Benjamin Walker, commissioner of accounts of the hospital, clothing, and marine departments of said army, and to allow to the heirs or legal representatives of said Doctor John Berrien the compensation fixed by the resolution of Congress of February six, seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, as specie, according to the report of said Benjamin Walker, made to Congress on the fifteenth of September, seventeen hundred and eighty-six, which is of record in the report-book kept by said Walker, and filed in the office of the First Auditor of the Treasury; and that, on said settlement, if any balance is found due from the United States, the same be paid, with the interest now due, to the heirs or legal representatives of the said Doctor John Berrien, as though a certificate had regularly issued therefor at the time it became due, and the same had been subscribed to the loan created by the act of seventeen hundred and ninety; <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-19">June 19, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIX: for the relief of Charles Burkham and others, employed as spies, on the frontier of Arkansas, in eighteen hundred and thirty.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-06-24</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Charles Burkham and others, employed as spies, on the frontier of Arkansas, in eighteen hundred and thirty.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-24">June 24, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to persons named for services as spies.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to Charles Burkham, Josiah F. Little, James E. Hopkins, and Henry Stout, the sum of one hundred and ninety-six dollars each; and to James B. Anderson, John Roberts, William McCowen, and Thomas Moore, the sum of one hundred and fifty-six dollars each; being in full satisfaction for their respective services as <page identifier="/us/stat/6/566">566</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 70, 73. 1834.</centerRunningHead> spies to the detachment of Arkansas militia, ordered into service by Colonel John Clark, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, on the frontier of the Territory of Arkansas.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-24">June 24, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXX: granting pensions to certain persons therein named.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-06-25</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">granting pensions to certain persons therein named.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-25">June 25, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the invalid pension roll of the United States, the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain names to be placed on invalid pension roll.</p></sidenote> names of the following persons; whereupon they, and each of them, shall be entitled to receive the pensions severally set against their names, respectively, during life; that is to say:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Joseph Webb, junior, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing January first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">John Kincaid, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing January first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">John Moody, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing March fourth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">David A. Ames, at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Robert Milligan, at four dollars a month, commencing January first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Jeremiah Keyes, at six dollars a month, commencing on the third December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Nehemiah Ward, at four dollars a month, commencing January first, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Abner Morrell, at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing January first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">John Couch, junior, an arrearage of pension at the rate of four dollars per month, from the nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, to the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Daniel Fuller, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Benjamin Burlingame, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twelfth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">William Tozier, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</p></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">John Allen to be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of John Allen, of the state of Maine, on the list of invalid pensioners, and to pay him a pension at the rate of four dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty, and to continue during his natural life; and that he also cause the name of Joseph Prescott, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, Joseph Prescott.</p></sidenote> of the state of Maine, to be placed on the invalid pension list, and that he pay him a pension at the rate of four dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That said sums be paid out of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-25">June 25, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXIII: for the relief of Peregrine Gardner.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 566</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-25</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Peregrine Gardner.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-25">June 25, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Peregrine Gardner the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, out of any money <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse, &amp;c. lost.</p></sidenote> in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the value of a horse, saddle and bridle, the said Gardner lost during the late war, <page identifier="/us/stat/6/567">567</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 75, 79. 1834.</centerRunningHead> when he was in the military service of the United States as a volunteer, by reason of his being wounded in battle at Black Rock, on the fifteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-25">June 25, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXV: for the relief of the town of Fayetteville, in the Territory of Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 567</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-26</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the town of Fayetteville, in the Territory of Arkansas.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<preamble>
<recital class="firstIndent-1 indent0 fontsize10">Whereas, the seat of justice of Washington county, in the Territory of Arkansas, was located and called Fayetteville prior to the public surveys <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> being made, and when the lands were surveyed, the said town fell on section number sixteen, which, by law, is reserved for the use of schools; and whereas the said town is situated on the south half of the north-east quarter, and the north half of the south-east quarter, of section number sixteen, in township number sixteen, north of range number thirty, west of the fifth principal meridian, Therefore,—</recital>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the trustee of the school lands in and for <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">School lands to be set apart in lieu of section 16.</p></sidenote> township number sixteen, north of range thirty, west of the fifth principal meridian in the Territory of Arkansas, be, and he is hereby, authorized to select and have set apart for the use of schools in said township, one entire section of any of the unimproved lands in said township in lieu of section number sixteen; and when the said trustee shall make his selection, he shall file the same in the office of the register of the Fayetteville land office, and the land so selected shall be reserved from sale, and set apart for the use of schools; and that section number sixteen, in said township, shall be subject to sale and entry as other public lands now are.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the south half of the northeast <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands granted in trust for the county.</p></sidenote> quarter, and the north half of the south-east quarter, of section number sixteen, in township number sixteen, north of range number thirty, west of the fifth principal meridian, in the Territory of Arkansas, be, and is hereby, granted to Lewis Evans, Larkin Newton, Samuel Vaughan and John Wooddy, commissioners of said county, in trust for the use of said county; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to issue a patent for the same; and that the said commissioners shall have power to lay off the said land into town lots, and sell and dispose of the same, and make good and sufficient titles to purchasers; and they shall appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the said lots to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds, how to be appropriated.</p></sidenote> the erection of a court-house and jail in the town of Fayetteville, for the use of said county.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXIX: for the relief of Asher Morgan and others.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 567</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-26</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Asher Morgan and others.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Asher Morgan and the heirs at law of Philip Fitzgerald, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to purchase <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land.</p></sidenote> quarter sections number twenty-three and twenty-four, in township twenty-one, and range thirteen east, in the district of lands north of the Red River, in the state of Louisiana, near Lake Providence, according to, and in pursuance of, the provisions of an act of Congress <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.</p></sidenote> passed the twenty-ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, giving the right of pre-emption to actual settlers in said district.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the register and receiver of said district be, and they are hereby, required to select two other quarter sections in said township, to be applied to the use and purposes to which said quarter sections have been heretofore assigned by them.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: for the relief of Jotham Lincoln, administrator of Samuel Burr Lincoln, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 568</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-26</dc:date>
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<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/568">568</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 80, 81, 82, 83, 84. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Jotham Lincoln, administrator of Samuel Burr Lincoln, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Jotham Lincoln, of Massachusetts, administrator of Samuel Burr Lincoln, deceased, out of any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain damages.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and eighty-six cents, which shall be in full satisfaction of all damages sustained in consequence of the failure, on the part of the Government, to designate, at the proper time, the sites for three light-houses and dwelling-houses to be erected at Cape Florida, Thompson’s Island, and Bush Island.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the relief of Joseph Guedry and others.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Joseph Guedry and others.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain sums paid by them for land to be refunded.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the following sums, to wit:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">To Joseph Guedry, of the state of Louisiana, fifty-nine dollars and seventy-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">To Edward Lambert, of the state of Louisiana, ninety-four dollars and fifty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">To Michael Leboeuf, of the state of Louisiana, sixty dollars and sixty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">To Jean Vavasseur, of the state of Louisiana, eighty dollars and seventeen <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.</p></sidenote> cents, being the purchase money paid by them to the land office at New Orleans, under the pre-emption law of twenty-ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, for several tracts of land of which they were already bona fide proprietors, under title derived from the former Government of Louisiana.</p></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of Richard Nance.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Richard Nance.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper officers be, and are hereby, authorized and required to correct a mistake in issuing a patent for the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A mistake in issuing a land patent to be corrected.</p></sidenote> north-west quarter section five, township eighteen, north of range four east, containing fifty-seven acres and ninety-two hundredths, in the district of lands offered for sale at Indianapolis, and issue a patent to Richard Nance for said land.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: for the relief of Pearson Freeman.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Pearson Freeman.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Pearson Freeman on <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him the sum of eighty dollars per annum during his natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: granting further relief to Joel Byington.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">granting further relief to Joel Byington.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any moneys therein not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for damages to his property.</p></sidenote> and forty-eight dollars and one cent to Joel Byington, of Chazy, in the state of New York, in full of his demand for damages done to his property by the occupation thereof by troops of the United States during the late war.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXV: for the relief of the owners of the schooner Three Sisters, of Saybrook.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 569</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-26</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/569">569</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 85, 86, 87. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the owners of the schooner Three Sisters, of Saybrook.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the district of Middletown, in the state of Connecticut, be, and is hereby, directed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.</p></sidenote> to pay to Amos Sheffield and others, the owners of the schooner Three Sisters, in the year one thousand eighteen hundred and thirty-one, such a sum of money as said vessel would have been entitled to for being engaged in the cod-fishery more than four months in that season, if she had complied with all the requirements of law; which said sum the said owners shall distribute according to the laws in such case provided, said vessel being of the burden of about thirty-nine tons.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVI: for the relief of Philip Bessom.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Philip Bessom.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be allowed and paid to Philip Bessom, of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts, the sum of two thousand <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for bringing seamen to the U.S.</p></sidenote> three hundred dollars, to indemnify him for the expense of bringing from Bayonne to the United States, forty-six American seamen, by direction of the American vice-consul or commercial agent at Bordeaux, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVII: for the relief of certain inhabitants of East Florida.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 569</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-26</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of certain inhabitants of East Florida.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of amount awarded under act of March 3, 1823, ch. 35.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the amount awarded by the judge of the superior court at St. Augustine, in the Territory of Florida, under the authority of the one hundred and sixty-first chapter of the acts of the seventeenth Congress, approved third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, for losses occasioned in East Florida, by the troops in the service of the United States, in the years one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, in all cases where the decision of the said judge shall be deemed, by the Secretary of the Treasury, to be just: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no award be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> paid, except in the case of those who, at the time of suffering the loss, were actual subjects of the Spanish Government:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That no award be paid for depredations committed in East Florida, previous to the entrance into that province of the agent or troops of the United States.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the judge of the superior <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge at St. Augustine to examine claims.</p></sidenote> court of St. Augustine be, and he hereby is, authorized to receive, examine, and adjudge, all cases of claims for losses occasioned by the troops aforesaid, in one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, not heretofore presented to the said judge, or in which the evidence was withheld, in consequence of the decision of the Secretary of the Treasury, that such claims were not provided for by the treaty of February twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the Governments of the United States and Spain: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That such claims be presented to the said <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> judge in the space of one year, from the passage of this act:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That the authority herein given shall be subject to the restrictions created by the privileges to the preceding section.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVIII: to amend an act passed on the twenty-ninth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, entitled “An act for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-06-26</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/570">570</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 88, 89, 90, 93. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to amend an act passed on the twenty-ninth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, entitled “An act for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore.”</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That to enable the Third Auditor of the Treasury to make a decision in the cases, or any part of them, referred to in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third Auditor to take further testimony to enable him to settle claims.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 214.</p></sidenote> act entitled “An act for the relief of sundry owners of vessels sunk for the defence of Baltimore,” passed May twenty-nine eighteen hundred and thirty, he be, and he is hereby, empowered to take such testimony in addition to the testimony already taken by the claimants, or any of them, or that has been otherwise obtained, as he shall deem to be important to a just decision of the matters confided to him by said act.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-26">June 26, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: for the relief of the heirs at law of Richard Livingston, a Canadian refugee, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 570</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-27</dc:date>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs at law of Richard Livingston, a Canadian refugee, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-27">June 27, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the provisions of the several acts of Congress <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions of acts for relief of refugees from Canada, extended to heirs of R. Livingston.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1798, ch. 26.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1801, ch. 5.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1803, ch. 35.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1804, ch. 23.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1810, ch. 15.</p></sidenote> in relation to refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the heirs at law of Richard Livingston, deceased, a lieutenant-colonel in the regiment commanded by Colonel James Livingston; and that the quantity of land which may be awarded by the officers of Government, designated in said several acts to settle and adjust similar claims, shall be located upon such lands belonging to the United States, which have been offered at public sale, and subject to entry at private sale.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-27">June 27, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XC: for the relief of the legal representatives of Christian Ish, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-06-27</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Christian Ish, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-27">June 27, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the legal representatives of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of a certain certificate.</p></sidenote> Christian Ish, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and ten ninetieths, together with such interest thereon as if a certificate for that amount had been funded under the act of August four, one thousand seven <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">1790, ch. 34.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety, in full satisfaction of a certain certificate issued by George Ross, deputy quartermaster-general, to the said Christian Ish, on the twenty-ninth day of February, seventeen hundred and eighty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-27">June 27, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCIII: for the relief of Baptiste Jeansonne and Joseph Pierre Petre.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 570</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-27</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Baptiste Jeansonne and Joseph Pierre Petre.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-27">June 27, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Baptiste Jeansonne and Joseph Pierre <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain payments to be refunded to them.</p></sidenote> Petre the sum of ninety-two dollars and fifty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of purchase money paid by said Jeansonne and Petre for fractional section, number fifty-four, in township five, south of range number three east, situate in the Opelousas land district, in the state of Louisiana; which said seventy-four acres of land, as it appears, originally belonged to, and were included within the limits of the surveys of said Jeansonne and Petre, who are the legal representatives of Petre Forest, Antoine Dupie, and Scholaste Roy.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-27">June 27, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: for the relief of the administrators of Michael Gratz.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/571">571</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 94, 107, 108, 109. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the administrators of Michael Gratz.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-27">June 27, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to adjust and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of two loan office certificates to be liquidated.</p></sidenote> liquidate the value of two certificates issued from the Loan Office of New Jersey, to Ogden and Curtis, the one numbered two thousand three hundred and forty-one, the other two thousand three hundred and fifty-three, both bearing date the twenty-ninth of March, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, and each for the sum of five hundred dollars; and also for another certificate, numbered one thousand three hundred and fifty-six, which issued from the Loan Office of Pennsylvania, to William Henderson, for one thousand dollars, dated January twelfth, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine; and that the value so adjusted of said three certificates, together with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law, to the administrators of Michael Gratz, deceased: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, before payment is made as aforesaid, the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said administrators shall give bond to the United States, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for refunding the amount to be paid on either of said certificates which may hereafter be presented for payment, or of all, if all should be so presented.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-27">June 27, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CVII: for the relief of William Weedon.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William Weedon.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William Weedon be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter any other quarter section of unappropriated land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land.</p></sidenote> within the Arkansas military district of bounty lands, instead of the north-east quarter of section twenty-two, of township five north, and range twelve west; for which a patent issued to said Weedon on the twenty-seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, but was not received by him until said quarter section was sold for the taxes due thereon: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> the said Weedon shall first <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> surrender said patent, and file his relinquishment of all claim to said quarter section in the General Land Office.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: for the relief of Elijah Lincoln.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CVIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Elijah Lincoln.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to Elijah Lincoln a military land warrant <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant to issue to him.</p></sidenote> for one hundred acres of land, for revolutionary services, in lieu of a warrant number one thousand and ninety-two, alleged to have been issued to Elijah Lincoln in the year one thousand eight hundred, and to have been lost.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CIX: for the relief of John Elie Tholozan and William Russell.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Elie Tholozan and William Russell.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the recorder of land titles in the state of Missouri, and the two commissioners appointed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims of J. E. Tholozan to be examined by recorder and commissioners.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 9, 1832, ch. 180.</p></sidenote> under the act of the ninth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri,” to examine the claim of John Elie Tholozan, to a tract of ten thousand arpens of land, situate on Black river, in the Territory of Arkansas, under a concession to Jacques Vincent, by the Baron de Carondelet, on the third day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, testimony of which claim is on record in the office <page identifier="/us/stat/6/572">572</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 110, 111, 112, 113. 1834.</centerRunningHead> of the recorder of land titles in the state of Missouri; and to report their opinion thereupon as to the justice of confirmation, to the next Congress. And in examining and determining upon the claim aforesaid, the said recorder and commissioners shall be governed by the directions prescribed to them in other cases by the provisions of the act aforesaid.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That it shall be the duty of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims of W. Russell to be examined.</p></sidenote> recorder and commissioners aforesaid to take testimony, examine, and report upon, in like manner, and under the same directions, as prescribed in the preceding section of this act, the several donation claims to land situated in the Territory of Arkansas, held by William Russell as part owner and assignee of other persons, the notice of which claims has heretofore been filed in the office of the recorder of land titles in the state of Missouri.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CX: for the relief of Frederick Raymer.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Frederick Raymer.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Frederick Raymer, of Dryden, in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services &amp;c. in the revolution.</p></sidenote> the county of Tompkins, and state of New York, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, in full satisfaction of his claim against the United States for services rendered and supplies furnished in the revolutionary war.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXI: for the relief of George Elliott.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of George Elliott.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and required to pay to George Elliott, a Cherokee Indian, the sum of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services in removal of Cherokees.</p></sidenote> three hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for his services and expenses in assisting the removal of emigrating Cherokees west of the Mississippi, and in coming to and returning from Washington city, on business with the Indian Department.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXII: for the relief of Terence Le Blanc.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Terence Le Blanc.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Terence Le Blanc, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for land sold by mistake.</p></sidenote> two hundred and forty-nine dollars and forty-three cents, being the purchase money of a tract of land of eighty acres and forty-six hundredths of an acre, sold by the United States at public sale, in November, eighteen hundred and thirty, at the Land Office at New Orleans, to John R. Grimes; and which, at the time of the sale, was not the property of the Government, but of the said Terence Le Blanc, to whom it had been previously confirmed.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Thompson, jr., late of Louisiana.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of John Thompson, jr., late of Louisiana.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the legal representatives of John Thompson, jr., out of any money in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services of John Thompson, jr. as clerk.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixteen cents, for the services of the said John Thompson, jr., as a clerk of a board of commissioners in Western Louisiana, from the thirtieth of January, one thousand eight <page identifier="/us/stat/6/573">573</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 114, 115, 116. 1834.</centerRunningHead> hundred and ten, to the thirtieth of December, one thousand eight hundred and ten, inclusive, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, that salary having been established by the acts of twenty-first of April, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1811, ch. 46.</p></sidenote> one thousand eight hundred and six, and third of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: for the relief of John Winslett.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Winslett.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of three hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid to John Winslett, out of any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a wagon, &amp;c. impressed.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for a wagon and two horses pressed into the service of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, by Richard H. Bell, late a Captain in the seventh regiment of the United States army.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXV: for the relief of the heirs of Arnold Henry Dohrman.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXV</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of Arnold Henry Dohrman.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<preamble>
<recital class="firstIndent-1 indent0 fontsize10">Whereas doubts exist as to the proper construction of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> the resolution of the Congress of the United States of America, of the first of October seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, passed for the benefit of Arnold Henry Dohrman; and whether, by virtue thereof, the said Dohrman was entitled to sections eight, eleven, twenty-six, and twenty-nine, of the township of land to be selected by him under said resolution, for the purpose of removing such doubts, and quieting the claims of the heirs at law of said Dohrman, and to effectuate the intentions of the Congress passing said resolution:</recital>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the heirs at law of Arnold Henry Dohrman <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to sections eight, eleven, twenty-six, and twenty-nine, in township number thirteen, range seven, in the Steubenville District, in the state of Ohio: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> this act shall only be construed to be a relinquishment of any claim by the United States in and to said sections, as reserved to them by the resolution of the first of October, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, and under the ordinance of seventeen hundred and eighty-five, to the heirs at law of said Arnold Henry Dohrman, and not to any other person whatever.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Walter Livingston, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Walter Livingston, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of Walter <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them in full satisfaction of their claim.</p></sidenote> Livingston, deceased, the sum of eighteen thousand two hundred and sixty dollars and forty-four cents, with interest thereon, from the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, to the date of this act, in full satisfaction of their claim upon the United States, under an award of referees, in favor of said Walter Livingston and others, dated at New York, the twenty-fifth day of October, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, and the contracts therein referred to: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That, before such payment, the legal representatives of the said Walter Livingston shall relinquish to the United States all further claim against them on account of said award, and the contracts on which said award was founded.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: for the relief of Benjamin Jacobs, of Samuel Bayard, surviving executor of John Bayard, deceased, and of the executors of Joseph Falconer, deceased.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/574">574</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 117, 118. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Benjamin Jacobs, of Samuel Bayard, surviving executor of John Bayard, deceased, and of the executors of Joseph Falconer, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-29">June 29, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account of B. Jacobs for loan office certificates to be settled.</p></sidenote> the account of Benjamin Jacobs for two loan office certificates, amounting to seven hundred dollars, issued from the loan office in Connecticut, in the name of the said Benjamin Jacobs, viz. number nine thousand five hundred and forty-one, dated twenty-first May, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, for two hundred dollars, and number six thousand one hundred and twenty-nine, dated April twenty-sixth, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, for five hundred dollars, and to ascertain the true specie value thereof; which certificates are alleged to have been lost, and appear by the books of the treasury to be outstanding and unpaid; and that the amount so ascertained, with interest thereon, be paid to the said Benjamin Jacobs, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the said Benjamin Jacobs executing and delivering to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond of indemnity, in double the amount of the sum to be paid, with sufficient security, to be approved by the said Comptroller.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the proper accounting <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of S. Bayard for loan office certificates to be settled.</p></sidenote> officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the claim of Samuel Bayard, surviving executor of John Bayard, deceased, for six certificates, issued on the twenty-second of February, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, in the name of the said John Bayard, viz., number one hundred and fifty-one, one hundred and fifty-two, one hundred and fifty-five, one hundred and fifty-six, one hundred and fifty-seven, one hundred and fifty-eight, for three hundred dollars each, amounting to one thousand eight hundred dollars, and to ascertain the true specie value thereof; which certificates are alleged to have been lost, and appear by the books of the treasury to be still unsatisfied; and that the amount so ascertained with interest thereon from the first day of January seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, be paid to the said Samuel Bayard, surviving executor as aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the execution and delivery of a bond of indemnity, from the said Samuel Bayard to the Comptroller of the Treasury, in double the amount of the sum to be paid, with sufficient security, to be approved of by the said Comptroller.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That there be paid to the executors <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest upon loan office certificates to be paid to executors of Joseph Falconer.</p></sidenote> of Joseph Falconer, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, interest upon two loan office certificates, number thirty-five, for one thousand dollars, of the value of four hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty-seven ninetieths, in specie, and number two thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven, for six hundred dollars, of the value of two hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty-eight ninetieths, in specie, to be computed from the first day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, until the payment of the principal of those certificates, as directed by the act for the relief of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 28, 1830, ch. 126.</p></sidenote> legal representatives of Joseph Falconer, approved twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: confirming the title of Samuel Vail in a certain tract of land in the parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">confirming the title of Samuel Vail in a certain tract of land in the parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Samuel Vail, of the parish of East Baton <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> Rouge, Louisiana, be confirmed in his title to two hundred and forty <page identifier="/us/stat/6/575">575</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 119, 120, 121. 1834.</centerRunningHead> superficial arpens of land in said parish, adjoining lands of John Seay, on the north, Philip Hicky, on the south, on the east by vacant land, and on the west by land of Antonio Grass and Armaud Duplantu, conveyed to Jesse Ratcliff in pursuance of a grant made by the Spanish Governor, Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, of the fourteenth February, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, and by sundry mesne conveyances, vested in the said Samuel Vail: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall be construed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> only as a release from the Government of the United States, and not to affect the titles of any third persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIX: for the relief of Marguerite Baron, widow of Jean Pierre Ledoux.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXIX</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Marguerite Baron, widow of Jean Pierre Ledoux.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Marguerite Baron, widow of Jean Pierre Ledoux, be, and she is hereby, confirmed in her title to a tract of land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title confirmed to a certain tract of land.</p></sidenote> of twenty arpens in front on the Mississippi, and forty arpens in depth, which tract is situated on the left bank of the Mississippi, in the parish of West Feliciana, in the state of Louisiana, at what is called “Isle aux Chats,” or Cats’ Island; this being the same tract of land which was granted by the Spanish Government to Jean Pierre Ledoux in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That Marguerite Baron, widow <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, to another tract.</p></sidenote> as aforesaid, be, and she hereby is, confirmed in her title to another tract of land of twenty arpens in front on the Mississippi, and five arpens in depth, which tract of land lies immediately adjoining the tract in the first section of this act named, and it being the same tract of land which was granted by the Spanish Government to Pierre or Lasty Ledoux, son of the said Marguerite Baron, on the eighteenth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall operate only as a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and shall not affect the rights of any third person.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of Asel Wilkinson.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Asel Wilkinson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as a pilot.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to Asel Wilkinson, the sum of seventy-five dollars, the amount of three months’ extra pay, to which the said Asel is entitled, under a resolution of Congress of January six, eighteen <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Resolution of Jan. 6, 1814.</p></sidenote> hundred and fourteen, for his services as a pilot on board of the squadron commanded by Captain Oliver H. Perry, in the battle on Lake Erie of the tenth of September, eighteen hundred and thirteen.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: for the relief of John Allen.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXXI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Allen.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Allen be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter at private sale with the register of the land office at Vincennes, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land at private sale.</p></sidenote> at any time within six months from the passage of this act, paying one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the tract of land on which he now lives, being location numbered two hundred and ninety-two, on the Vincennes donation tract, in township three north, and range seven west, in the land district aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the pre-emption <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized shall in nowise interfere with any existing right of others.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: for the relief of the representatives of Samuel Gibbs.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/576">576</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 122, 123. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the representatives of Samuel Gibbs.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to liquidate and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim on account of loan office certificates to be liquidated.</p></sidenote> adjust the value of two certificates issued in May, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, from the loan office of Pennsylvania, to Gilbert Palmer, one for three hundred dollars, numbered one hundred and thirty-eight, and the other for one thousand dollars, numbered two thousand three hundred and twenty-one, and that the value so adjusted, together with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum, be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law, to the legal representatives of Samuel Gibbs, deceased; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> before payment is made as aforesaid, the said legal representatives shall give bond, to be approved of by the Secretary of the Treasury, for refunding the amount of either of the said certificates which may hereafter be presented for payment, or of both should both be so presented.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Benjamin Bird and Grove Pomeroy.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Benjamin Bird and Grove Pomeroy.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to audit and settle the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of Benj. Bird on account of loan office certificates to be settled.</p></sidenote> claim of the legal representatives of Benjamin Bird, on account of eight loan office certificates, issued at the loan office of the state of Massachusetts, in favor of Pierre Gourrego, and dated the first day of April, seventeen hundred and seventy-eight; two of which were from the sum of two hundred dollars each, and numbered five thousand six hundred and eighty-one and five thousand six hundred and eighty-two; three for the sum of four hundred dollars each, and numbered four thousand one hundred and twenty-eight, four thousand one hundred and twenty-nine, and four thousand one hundred and thirty; and three for the sum of six hundred dollars each, and numbered four thousand and fourteen, four thousand and fifteen, and four thousand and sixteen; which certificates appear on the books of the treasury outstanding and unpaid. And also to audit and settle the claim of the legal representatives of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, claim of Grove Pomeroy for final settlement certificates.</p></sidenote> Grove Pomeroy, on account of four final settlement certificates, one numbered twelve thousand two hundred and thirty-two, for two dollars and thirty-nine cents; one numbered twelve thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, for seventy-five dollars and forty-nine cents; one numbered thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty-three, for eighty dollars; and one numbered thirteen thousand six hundred and ten, for eighty dollars, all dated the first day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-four; the three first bearing interest from the first day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-three, and the latter from the fourth day of November, seventeen hundred and eighty-three, and appearing outstanding and unpaid on the books of the treasury; and the sum found due, together with the interest thereon, at six per cent. per annum, be paid to the said representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the legal representatives of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said Bird and of said Pomeroy, respectively, shall first deliver to the Comptroller of the Treasury a bond in such sum and with such surety as he shall approve, to indemnify the United States against all lawful claims for or on account of said certificates.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIV: for the relief of Jeremiah Worsham.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/577">577</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 124, 127. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Jeremiah Worsham.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-28">June 28, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at St. Stephens, Alabama, be, and they are hereby, required to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate for payment on account of land to be issued.</p></sidenote> issue a certificate to Jeremiah Worsham, for the amount by him heretofore paid in said office for the north-west quarter section five, in township eight, of range three, west, in the district of lands offered for sale at said town of St. Stephens, upon which said Worsham obtained a certificate of further credit, but, by mistake, the west half of which was returned to the General Land Office relinquished, and the east half of said quarter section returned as fully paid for, and, accordingly, patented to said Worsham; which certificate shall be received in payment for any land hereafter sold in the said state of Alabama: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the said Jeremiah Worsham shall first surrender said patent, and file a relinquishment for the east half of said quarter section, in the said Land Office at St. Stephens; and if there be not evidence in said office of the issuance of said certificate of further credit, and of the amount which has been paid, the said Worsham shall also file satisfactory evidence in said Land Office, that the same did issue, allowing him the further credit authorized by law on said quarter section, and showing the amount which was paid thereon.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVII: granting pensions to certain persons therein named.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">granting pensions to certain persons therein named.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions to be paid to certain persons during their lives.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, to the following persons, the pensions herein granted to them respectively, commencing at the times set against their names severally, and to continue during their natural lives, to wit:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Simon Deloach, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Levi Strong, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">John O’Neil, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Benjamin Goodrich, at the rate of six dollars per month commencing on the first day of January eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">William Warren, at the rate of sixteen dollars per month, commencing on the twenty-second of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">George Lynch, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Eli Mitchel, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">John S. Workman, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the eleventh day of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine.</p></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War be,<sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">B. Grover to receive the pension granted to B. Groun.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 262.</p></sidenote>  and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Benjamin Grover, of Pownal, in the state of Vermont, the pension granted to Benjamin Groun by an act passed the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the same pension having been intended for said Benjamin Grover, to commence at the same time as by said act is provided.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLIV: granting pensions to certain persons therein named.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/578">578</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 154, 159, 169. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">granting pensions to certain persons therein named.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the several persons herein named, a <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions to be paid to certain persons.</p></sidenote> pension at the rate, and commencing at the time, set to each person’s name, respectively, and to continue during his natural life; to</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Francis Jacobs, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Bazlee Porter, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">William Hunt, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Alfred Baldwin, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty.</p></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the name of Hugh Lusk, be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hugh Lusk to be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> placed on the invalid pension roll, at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLIX: granting pensions to several persons therein named.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">granting pensions to several persons therein named.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions to be paid to persons named.</p></sidenote> to the several persons hereinafter named, the amount of pension to each one respectively set, commencing at the times severally named, and to continue each one during his natural life, to wit:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Manuel Cresy, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Joseph Trimble, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Levi Brown, at the rate of eight dollars and sixty-six cents per month, commencing on the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Martin Parker, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing January first, eighteen hundred and thirty.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">William Collins, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing January first, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Joseph Chamberlain, at the rate of seventeen dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 indent0 fontsize10">Francis Ducoing, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty.</p></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXIX: authorizing the payment of bounty on certain fishing vessels lost at sea.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIX</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">authorizing the payment of bounty on certain fishing vessels lost at sea.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Boston and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector of Boston and Charlestown, to pay to officers and crew of the Two Brothers, the bounty to which she would have been entitled.</p></sidenote> Charlestown be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the late owners and crew of the said Two Brothers, to be distributed according to law, the same sum of money that said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty or drawback, if she had in her last voyage, in which she was lost, complied with all the requirements of law necessary to secure such bounty; the said vessel being of the burden of one hundred and thirteen and twenty-nine ninety-fifths tons.</content></section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/579">579</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 172, 175, 176. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the collector of the port of Frenchman’s Bay be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to Daniel Kiff, the late owner, and to the crew of the fishing boat Juno, to be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The Collector of Frenchman’s Bay to pay to the owner and crew of the boat Juno, the bounty, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> distributed according to law, the same sum said vessel would have been entitled to, as a bounty or drawback, if she had not perished by the perils of the sea in her last voyage, and had arrived in port, having complied with all the requirements of law necessary to secure such bounty or drawback; the said boat being of the burden of fourteen and seventy-nine ninety-fifths tons.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the collector of the customs <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The Collector of Barnstable to pay the heirs of the owners and crew of the sch’r Emeline the bounty, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> for the district of Barnstable, state of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to the heirs at law, of the owners and crew of the schooner Emeline, which was lost at sea, together with the whole crew, before she had accomplished the time required by law to entitle her to the bounty or drawback she would have been entitled to have received, had she safely arrived in port, after having accomplished the full term required by law.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXII: to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to grant a right of way, in a certain case, in the city of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to grant a right of way, in a certain case, in the city of New York.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A right of way may be granted upon the lands purchased by the U. S. for the site of a custom house in New York.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized to grant unto the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, and their successors and assigns, a right of way and passage, over and upon the lands and premises, purchased by the United States for the site of a custom-house, in the port of New York, and upon such terms and conditions and with such reservations and restrictions as in his judgment the public interests may require for the purpose of carrying into effect the act entitled “An act making appropriations for a custom-house in the city of New York, and for other purposes,” passed the thirteenth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXV: for the relief of Henry Whitney.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Henry Whitney.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Henry <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as secretary, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Whitney, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents, for services rendered on board the Guerriere frigate, as acting secretary of the squadron, in the years eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and eighteen hundred and thirty, in the Pacific.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVI: to amend, an act entitled “An act for the relief of William Burris, of Mississippi,” approved February nineteen, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 579</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to amend, an act entitled “An act for the relief of William Burris, of Mississippi,” approved February nineteen, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William Burris be authorized to relinquish <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to relinquish a title to a tract of land, &amp;c.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 19, 1831, ch. 29.</p></sidenote> to the United States his title to the east half of the north-west quarter of section twenty-one, township three, range six east, instead of the east half of the south-west quarter of section twenty-one, township three, range six east, as authorized by the act to which this is an amendment.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVII: for the relief of Hannah Stone.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 580</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/580">580</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 177, 178, 179. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Hannah Stone.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on naval pension list.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 4, 1814, ch. 20.</p></sidenote> hereby, directed to place Hannah Stone, widow of John Stone, late of Kennebunk, in the state of Maine, on the list of naval pensions, in conformity with the act of March four, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, “giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States;” and that the said Hannah Stone be allowed and paid the same pension to which she would have been entitled, had the said John Stone been wounded or slain while serving in the line of his duty on board a private armed brig or vessel of the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVIII: confirming to Gilbert Hodges, his heirs or legal representatives, and to Henry Masters, his heirs or legal representatives, certain lands in the State of Missouri.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">confirming to Gilbert Hodges, his heirs or legal representatives, and to Henry Masters, his heirs or legal representatives, certain lands in the State of Missouri.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Gilbert Hodges, his heirs or assigns be, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">G. Hodges authorized to enter a tract of land.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 29, 1816, ch. 159.</p></sidenote> and are hereby authorized to enter six hundred and forty acres of land without payment on any lands of the United States according to sectional lines, in the state of Missouri, subject to sale by private entry in lieu of the like quantity of land confirmed to said Hodges by act of Congress of twenty-ninth April one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act for the confirmation of certain claims to lands in the western district of the state of Louisiana, and in the territory of Missouri,” but which has been lost by the interference of prior claims.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That Henry Masters, his heirs and legal representatives be, and are hereby authorized to enter six hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">H. Masters authorized to enter a tract of land.</p></sidenote> and forty acres of land without payment on any lands of the United States in the state of Missouri, subject to sale by private entry, in lieu of the like quantity confirmed to said Masters, by the act aforesaid, but which has been lost by the interference of a donation.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXIX: for the relief of Wolcott Chauncey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 580</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Wolcott Chauncey.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and loss on treasury notes allowed.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the account of Wolcott Chauncey, now a captain in the navy of the United States, on the principles of equity and justice; and to allow, in the settlement thereof, whatever loss may have been sustained by him from the sale of treasury notes received by him in the years one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and applied to the public service under the direction of the navy department: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the allowance so, as <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> aforesaid, made, shall not exceed the sum of seven hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty cents.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXX: for the relief of sundry citizens of the United States, who have lost property by the depredations of certain Indian tribes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 581</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/581">581</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 180, 181. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of sundry citizens of the United States, who have lost property by the depredations of certain Indian tribes.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<preamble>
<recital class="firstIndent-1 indent0 fontsize10">Whereas the claims of sundry citizens of the United States for Indian depredations committed by Indians, were by an act of Congress, passed the third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, referred to the Third Auditor of the Treasury for examination and adjustment; and as it fully appears from the report of that officer that he was not in possession of the necessary information by which to govern him in an equitable adjustment of said claims: Therefore</recital>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the claims above alluded to, which are contained in the report of the Third Auditor, made twenty-third February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and the claim of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The Secretary of War to examine and adjust the claims alluded to, and of J. Bogy, for depredations committed by the Choctaw Indians.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agreeably to the provisions of an act of March 30, 1802.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> Joseph Bogy, for depredations committed on his property by the Choctaw Indians, be, and the same is hereby, submitted to the Secretary of War for examination and final adjustment, who is hereby directed to be governed in his decisions by the provisions of the fourteenth section of the act of March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and two, entitled “An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers;” and by treaty stipulations with any of the Indian tribes mentioned, applicable to any of the cases: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no limitation of time for presenting claims under that act shall bar any of the claims herein mentioned:</proviso> <proviso><i>And, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further proviso.</p></sidenote> provided, further,</i> That if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War that any of the depredations aforesaid were committed by Indians who had been removed by the United States from their own country, and located within the limits of the then Territory of Missouri, upon lands to which the Indian title had been extinguished, and within the vicinity of said claimants; in all such cases, the depredations so committed shall be deemed sufficient to establish the claim of the individual or individuals sustaining such loss, for the value of property so plundered or destroyed.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War shall <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The claims established to be paid.</p></sidenote> cause to be paid to each individual whose claim shall be established under the provisions of this act, the amount thereof, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXI: for the relief of the legal representatives of James P. Hainesworth, deceased.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXXXI</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of James P. Hainesworth, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the heirs and legal representatives of James <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">May locate a tract of land, in lieu of another tract sold by U. S., &amp;c.</p></sidenote> P. Hainesworth, deceased, be, and they hereby are, authorized to locate, on any of the unappropriated lands of the United States in the state of Alabama subject to entry at public or private sale, one hundred and seventy-two acres, in lieu of the like quantity for which a pre-emption certificate was granted to the said James P. Hainesworth as the representative of Matthew Shaw, but which was forfeited for non-payment of the whole amount of the purchase money, and sold by the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the location herein authorized <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall conform to the divisions and subdivisions established by law.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That, in the payment for the land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit to be allowed for the sum paid, with interest.</p></sidenote> authorized to be located as aforesaid, the said heirs and legal representatives shall be allowed a credit for the principal sum paid by the <page identifier="/us/stat/6/582">582</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 182, 183, 184, 185. 1834.</centerRunningHead> said James P. Hainesworth, with interest thereon from the time of payment to the time of the location herein authorized; and, on final settlement with the Register and Receiver of the proper land office for said land, they shall be entitled to a patent for the same.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXII: for the relief of John Peck.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Peck.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of interest on final settlement certificates.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 289.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to pay to John Peck, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the interest which had accrued on three final settlement certificates set forth and described in the act of Congress for the relief of John Peck, approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, from the several periods at which interest had become due and payable thereon, to the first of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-eight.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXIII: for the relief of Horatio N. Crabb.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Horatio N. Crabb.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Horatio N. Crabb, a lieutenant of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain naval services.</p></sidenote> marine corps of the United States, be allowed and paid, out of the funds appropriated for the naval service, for services performed by him for the quartermaster’s department of the said corps, at the rate of fifteen dollars a month, from June twenty-five, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, to November four, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and from December nine, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, to November thirty, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, each of said days included.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXIV: for the relief of William B. Doliber and others, owners, and heirs of the crew of the schooner Mary and Hannah.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William B. Doliber and others, owners, and heirs of the crew of the schooner Mary and Hannah.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Marblehead, in <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> the state of Massachusetts, be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the widows of William B. Doliber, Thomas R. Woodfin, and Samuel Davis, and the mother and heir at law of Joseph Davis, all late of Marblehead, and owners of the schooner Mary and Hannah, and the heirs of others of the crew of said schooner, which was lost at sea, to be distributed according to law, the same sum or bounty the owners and crew of said vessel would have been entitled to receive if the said schooner had arrived safely in port, after completing her fishing term, and complied with the laws necessary to secure such bounty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXV: for the relief of Samuel D. Walker.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Samuel D. Walker.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of amount of drawback on tobacco.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized to pay to Samuel D. Walker, out of any money in <page identifier="/us/stat/6/583">583</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 186, 187, 188, 189, 190. 1834.</centerRunningHead> the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of sixty-three dollars and six cents, being the amount of drawback on forty seroons Spanish tobacco, exported per ship Guinare to Valparaiso, and payable to said Samuel D. Walker.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXVI: for the relief of John C. Naylor.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John C. Naylor.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as clerk.</p></sidenote> be audited and paid to John C. Naylor, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty cents, the amount due said Naylor for services rendered as clerk in the surveyor-general’s office south of the state of Tennessee, from the tenth June up to fifth November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXVII: for the relief of Française Suzone.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Française Suzone.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for wheat, &amp;c. taken for use of troops.</p></sidenote> Fraçaise Suzone two hundred and fourteen dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full for wheat, oats, and rails, taken by order of Colonel R. M. Johnson, in September, eighteen hundred and thirteen, at the river Raisin, for the necessary use of the corps under his command, on their march to Malden.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXVIII: for the relief of George Bowen.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of George Bowen.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster General be, and he hereby <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for transporting the mail.</p></sidenote> is, authorized to settle and pay to George Bowen of South Carolina, the sum of two hundred dollars, being a balance due him for the transportation of the mail on route number two hundred and eighteen, from January first, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, to December thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXIX: for the relief of Stephen Kingston.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Stephen Kingston.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the port of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of drawback on certain duties.</p></sidenote> Philadelphia be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Stephen Kingston, of Philadelphia, merchant, the drawback of duties on three bales of cinnamon, fifteen bales of muslims, and eleven hogsheads of loaf sugar, exported by said Kingston in the United States ship George Washington, Captain John Shaw commander, from the port of Philadelphia to the port of Algiers, in the month of July, eighteen hundred and one: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That proof of the landing of said merchandise out of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> United States shall be exhibited at the office of said collector.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXC: for the relief of Alexander J. Robison.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXC.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Alexander J. Robison.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for medical services among Creek Indians.</p></sidenote> is hereby, directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Alexander J. Robison the sum of sixteen hun-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/584">584</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 191, 192, 193, 194. 1834.</centerRunningHead>dred and sixty-six and two thirds dollars, in full for medical services rendered the Creek Indians west of the Mississippi, from the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCI: for the relief of William K. Paulling.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 584</citableAs>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William K. Paulling.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William K. Paulling, of Alabama, be, and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, authorized to enter the north-east quarter of section twenty-eight, in township eighteen, of range four, west of the meridian of the Huntsville land district, on paying therefor at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; said Paulling having been entitled to the right of pre-emption of said quarter section, under the act of twenty-ninth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, entitled “An act to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands:” <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said quarter section shall not have been sold before said Paulling shall apply and pay for the same.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCII: for the relief of William Enos, of Arkansas.</dc:title>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William Enos, of Arkansas.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the provisions of an act of Congress approved <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 22, 1826, ch. 147, extended to him.</p></sidenote> on the twenty-second day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled “An act authorizing certain soldiers of the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu thereof,” be, and the same are hereby, extended to William Enos, of Arkansas, a soldier of the late war; and that the first proviso of said act shall be considered inoperative in his case.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCIII: for the relief of Antoine Cruzat.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXCIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Antoine Cruzat.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there shall be, and hereby is confirmed <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Donation of land.</p></sidenote> unto Antoine Cruzat, as a donation, three arpens, nineteen perches, and sixty-nine feet in superfices, agreeably to the plat of survey made by Vincente Sebastian Pintado, on the nineteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and five; the same situated in the parish of East Baton Rouge, east of the fort about three hundred and twenty-five toises, in the state of Louisiana; and that a patent shall issue, and be granted by the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the United States, on the application of the said Antoine Cruzat, for the above-described tract of land: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Antoine Cruzat has not, and shall not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> claim any other lands in right of settlement and cultivation; and that this act shall operate only as a relinquishment, on the part of the United States, of all their right and claim to the said land, and shall not interfere with, or affect, the right or claim of other persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCIV: for the relief of William Haslett.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXCIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William Haslett.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Register and Receiver of the Land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certificate for $40 to issue to him.</p></sidenote> Office at Opelousas, in the state of Louisiana, be, and they are hereby, required to issue to William Haslett a certificate for forty dollars, which <page identifier="/us/stat/6/585">585</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 195, 196, 197, 198. 1834.</centerRunningHead> sum was paid by said Haslett to the receiver of public moneys in said land office, on the twentieth November, eighteen hundred and eighteen, but not credited to said Haslett on the books of said land office; which certificate shall be received in payment for any land which may be hereafter sold in said district.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCV: for the relief of Judith Thomas and Daniel Palmer.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Judith Thomas and Daniel Palmer.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ half-pay to be paid to Judith Thomas.</p><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of arrears of pension to D. Palmer.</p></sidenote> hereby, required to pay to Judith Thomas, widow of John Thomas, a soldier of the late war, the sum of two hundred and forty dollars, being the amount of five years’ half pay of the said soldier; and to Daniel Palmer an invalid pensioner, the sum of one hundred and nine dollars, being an arrearage of pension, at the rate of two dollars per month, from the twenty-ninth of September, eighteen hundred and fifteen, to May twelfth, eighteen hundred and twenty, at which last time his pension was raised to its present rate, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCVI: for the relief of Henry Sewall and Robert Sewall.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXCVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Henry Sewall and Robert Sewall.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, out of any money in the treasury not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, to pay to Henry Sewall and Robert Sewall, of St. Mary’s county, state of Maryland, the sum of ten thousand dollars; it being in consideration of property to them belonging, which was destroyed by the enemy in the late war between the United States and Great Britain, because of its occupancy by United States troops.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCVII: for the relief of John G. Reynolds.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXCVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John G. Reynolds.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John G. Reynolds, a lieutenant of the marine corps of the United States, be allowed and paid, out of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services in quartermaster’s department.</p></sidenote> funds appropriated for the naval service, for services performed by him for the quartermaster’s department of the said corps, at the rate of fifteen dollars a month, from August first, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, to April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Navy <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, as provost marshal.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be paid to the said Reynolds the usual allowances made by the department in case of extra duty, as provost marshal of general court martial, and for such time as he, the said Reynolds, shall be able to prove such service to have been actually performed.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCVIII: for the relief of Robert Reynolds.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXCVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Robert Reynolds.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of Robert Reynolds on the list of revolutionary <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> pensioners, and to pay him a pension at the rate of eight dollars a month, to commence and be computed from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCIX: for the benefit of the heirs at law of the representatives of William G. Christopher, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 686</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/586">586</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 199, 200, 201, 202. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the benefit of the heirs at law of the representatives of William G. Christopher, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the heirs at law of William G. Christopher, deceased, be confirmed in their title and claim to six hundred and forty <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> acres of land at Point Hazard, on Bell’s river, on the coast of East Florida; to be so located as to include the improvements occupied by their ancestor, the said William G. Christopher: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i><sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That this act shall be construed to extend only to a relinquishment of the title of the United States to the said land, and shall not operate to the prejudice of the claims of any other person or persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CC: for the relief of Jonathan Walton and John J. De Graff.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CC</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CC.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Jonathan Walton and John J. De Graff.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of Jonathan Walton and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Their accounts for transportation to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> John J. De Graff, formerly acting under the firm of Jonathan Walton and Company, as agents for transportation of seamen, ordnance, naval stores, and other munitions of war, and allow to them such sum as they shall prove they actually lost on the sale of treasury notes, when they received said treasury notes on account of current money previously advanced and paid by them out of their own individual funds for the United States during the last war with Great Britain for expenditures as agents as aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> They received said treasury notes, under <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> a contract or agreement, that they were to be reimbursed in par funds:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided,</i> said contract or agreement was not rescinded or waived <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> by the parties; and also such other sums as shall be satisfactorily proven to have been actually paid by the said Jonathan Walton and John J. De Graff, as interest until the principal was refunded on loans of money procured by said firm, and advanced by them solely for the use of the Government, on transactions during, and growing out of, the late war with Great Britain:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the amount so allowed and paid to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> them for the depreciation of treasury notes aforesaid, and interest on advances aforesaid, shall not in the whole exceed the sum of seventeen thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That said sum so allowed shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCI: for the relief of the legal representatives of James Brown.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 686</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of James Brown.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the legal representatives of James Brown the sum <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them.</p></sidenote> of four thousand one hundred and forty-nine dollars sixty-six and two-third cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCII: for the relief of the legal representative of Francis Nash.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 686</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representative of Francis Nash.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they hereby are, directed to ascertain and allow to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay as brigadier general allowed.</p></sidenote> the legal representative of Francis Nash, late a brigadier-general in the army of the revolution, the amount of seven years’ half pay, at a rate corresponding with the pay to which the said Nash was entitled at the time of his death; and that the said amount when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said representative out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIII: for the relief of Ephraim Whitaker.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 587</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/587">587</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 203, 204, 205, 206, 207. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Ephraim Whitaker.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay as a captain allowed.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Ephraim Whitaker, five years’ full pay as a captain in the revolutionary war; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of half pay for life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIV: for the relief of Moses Archer.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 587</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Moses Archer.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Moses Archer on the invalid pension roll, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on list of invalid pensioners.</p></sidenote> and to allow him a pension at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and to continue during his life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCV: for the relief of William A. Duer, John Duer, and Beverly Robinson, trustees of the estate of Sarah Alexander, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 587</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William A. Duer, John Duer, and Beverly Robinson, trustees of the estate of Sarah Alexander, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay the sum of eighteen thousand <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of a certain certificate issued to Lord Sterling.</p></sidenote> and fifty-one dollars, and eighty-one cents, out of any money in the treasury, to William A. Duer, John Duer, and Beverly Robinson, trustees of the estate of Sarah Alexander, deceased, who was the widow and devisee of Major-General Lord Sterling, in full satisfaction and discharge of a certificate issued to the said Major-General Lord Sterling by the state of New Jersey, for the three-fourths parts of the depreciation of his pay, bearing date the thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, and amounting to the sum of sixteen hundred and two pounds four shillings and six pence three farthings, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the first day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; which said certificate shall be surrendered by them to the Secretary of the Treasury on receiving the payment thereof.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVI: for the relief of Thomas Minor.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 587</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Thomas Minor.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ pay as a captain allowed.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to Thomas Minor, five years’ full pay for the services of the said Minor as a captain in the war of the revolution.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVII: for the relief of Andrew Armstrong.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 587</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Andrew Armstrong.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be authorized, and they are hereby required, to re-adjust the accounts <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be re-adjusted, and certain allowances made.</p></sidenote> of Andrew Armstrong, late navy agent at Lima, in Peru, and to allow him a commission of five per centum on moneys disbursed and stores distributed; the amount of damages paid by the said Andrew Armstrong on bills drawn by him on the Secretary of the Navy, and protested for non-payment; the sum of four thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents, paid for tobacco purchased of H. McCulloch; and delivered over to Philo White; and, also, the amount of three thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifteen cents, in <page identifier="/us/stat/6/588">588</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 208, 209, 210, 211. 1834.</centerRunningHead> lieu of all other charges and expenses of clerk hire, stationery, and office rent, and his expenses and compensation during the time he was in Lima, in consequence of the protest of his bills on the Secretary of the Navy, and on his return to the United States.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the balance found due to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> said Armstrong upon the re-adjustment of his account upon the principles herein directed, be paid to him out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVIII: for the relief of the administrator of Bolitha Laws, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 588</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the administrator of Bolitha Laws, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the legal representatives of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for masonry work at Old Point Comfort and the Rip Raps.</p></sidenote> Bolitha Laws, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight thousand and fifty-four dollars sixty cents, being the amount claimed by said Laws’ representatives from the United States for masonry work performed at Old Point Comfort, and the Rip Raps, under a contract entered into between said Laws and the agent of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIX: for the relief of John Bruce.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 588</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Bruce.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Bruce, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain damages.</p></sidenote> six thousand two hundred and forty dollars and sixty-three cents, on the report of General Charles Gratiot, for damages actually sustained by the said John Bruce, by the suspension of his contract to clear out the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, in payment made to his workmen, for their hire, and for damages, and for boarding them when out of employ, and for damages he sustained by the neglect on the part of the United States to furnish a sufficient number of superintendents to inspect the work to have been done.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCX: for the relief of the legal representatives of John M. Gregory.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 588</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of John M. Gregory.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay of a lieutenant allowed them.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of John M. Gregory, sole heir of John Gregory, who was a lieutenant in the army of the revolution, and slain in the service, the seven years’ half pay allowed to the widows or orphan children of such officers as should die in the service, by a resolve of Congress, passed August twenty-four, seventeen hundred and eighty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXI: for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of John Taylor, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 588</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of John Taylor, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a lieutenant allowed them.</p></sidenote> any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the heirs and legal representatives of John Taylor, deceased, five years’ full pay as a lieutenant of infantry in the revolutionary war, which five years’ full pay is the commutation of half pay for life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXII: for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of William Teas, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 689</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/589">589</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 212, 213, 214. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of William Teas, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a cornet allowed to them.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the heirs and legal representatives of William Teas, deceased, five years’ full pay as a cornet of horse in the revolutionary war, which five years’ full pay is the commutation of half pay for life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXIII: to renew the patent of Thomas Blanchard.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 689</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to renew the patent of Thomas Blanchard.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">1839, ch. 14.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be, and is hereby, granted unto Thomas Blanchard, a citizen of the United States, his heirs, assigns, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for a machine for turning irregular forms, extended for fourteen years.</p></sidenote> and legal representatives, for the term of fourteen years from the twelfth day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, the full and exclusive right and privilege of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, his invention of “a machine for turning or cutting irregular forms,” a description of which is given in a schedule or specification annexed to letters patent granted to the said Thomas Blanchard for the said invention, on the twelfth day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That all <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> rights and privileges heretofore sold or granted by said patentee, to make, construct, use, or vend the said invention, and not forfeited by the purchasers or grantees, shall enure to and be employed by such purchasers or grantees respectively, as fully and upon the same conditions, during the period hereby granted, as for the term that did exist when such sale or grant was made.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That any person who has, bona <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons who have constructed the same, &amp;c., may continue to use it.</p></sidenote> fide, erected or constructed any manufacture or machine for the purpose of putting said invention into use, in any of its modifications, after the expiration of the patent heretofore granted, or is now erecting or constructing any manufacture or machine for the purpose aforesaid, shall have and enjoy the right of using said invention in any such manufacture or machine now erected or constructed, or now being erected or constructed: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no person shall be entitled to the right <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> and privilege by this section granted, who has infringed the patent right and privilege heretofore granted, by actually using or vending said machine, before the expiration of said patent, without grant or license from said patentee, or his assignees, to use or vend the same.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXIV: for the relief of the legal representatives of George Hurlbut, deceased.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of George Hurlbut, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury do settle the account of Captain George Hurlbut, a captain of the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a captain allowed them.</p></sidenote> revolutionary army, in Colonel Sheldon’s regiment of dragoons, of the Connecticut line, and allow him five years’ full pay of a captain of dragoons, as a commutation for the half pay for life which, by the resolve of seventeen hundred and eighty, Congress engaged to pay to certain officers of the revolutionary army, who should serve to the end of the war.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the sum so found due be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> paid to the legal representatives of the said George Hurlbut out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXV: for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Torrey, deceased.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/590">590</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 215, 216, 217, 218. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Torrey, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury do settle the account of Joseph Torrey, a Major of the revolutionary <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a major allowed them.</p></sidenote> army, in Colonel Hazen’s regiment of the revolutionary army, and allow him five years’ full pay of a major, as a commutation for the half pay for life, which, by the resolve of October twenty-one, seventeen hundred and eighty, Congress engaged to pay to the officers of the revolutionary army, who should serve to the end of the war.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the sum so found due be paid <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> to the legal representatives of the said Joseph Torrey, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXVI: for the relief of Margaret Riker.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Margaret Riker.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to Margaret Riker, the widow <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay of a captain allowed her.</p></sidenote> of Abraham Riker, a captain in the army of the revolution, who died in service on the seventh day of May, seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, seven years’ half pay of a captain of the second regiment of New York, on continental establishment.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Lucy Bond, Hannah Douglass, Elizabeth Goodwin and Margaret Leitch.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Lucy Bond, Hannah Douglass, Elizabeth Goodwin and Margaret Leitch.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of the late <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay of certain officers, allowed to their widows or representatives.</p></sidenote> Lucy Bond, widow of the late William Bond, a colonel in the army of the revolution, who died in service on the thirty-first day of August, seventeen hundred and seventy-six; to the legal representatives of the late Hannah Douglass, widow of the late William Douglass, also a colonel in said army, who died in service on the twenty-seventh day of March, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven; to the legal representatives of the late Margaret Leitch, widow of the late Major Andrew Leitch, a major in the army of the revolution, who died in service the fifteenth of September, seventeen hundred and seventy-six, and to the legal representatives of Elizabeth Goodwin, widow of the late Nathaniel Goodwin, a Captain in the army of the revolution, who died in service on the first day of May seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, the seven years’ half pay of said officers, respectively, to which their widows and children were entitled by the resolution of Congress of the twenty-fourth of August seventeen hundred and eighty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXVIII: for the relief of Col. A. R. Woolley.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 590</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Col. A. R. Woolley.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents, out of any moneys in the treasury not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of arrearages.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid to Col. A. R. Woolley, late of the army of the United States, for his arrearages of pay and subsistence and emoluments, while held accountable for the public property with which he had been charged, and settling and closing his accounts for the same.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXIX: for the relief of William D. Acken.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 591</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/591">591</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 219, 220, 221, 222, 223. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William D. Acken.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury department cause to be paid, out of any money in the treasury not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him as timber agent.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighty-two dollars and twenty-seven cents, to William D. Acken, late agent for the preservation of timber on the public lands in Florida, in addition to the allowances already made by the Navy Department, and in full of all demands for contingent expenses on account of said agency.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Leonard Holly, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 591</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Leonard Holly, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue to the legal representatives of Leonard <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military bounty land warrant to issue to them.</p></sidenote> Holly, deceased, a warrant for the military bounty land of the deceased, who enlisted as a soldier, for five years, in the tenth regiment of the United States infantry, and served therein during the whole of the late war, shortly after the expiration of which he died.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the proper accounting officers <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of arrears.</p></sidenote> of the Department of War do pay to the legal representatives of the said Leonard Holly, deceased, all the arrears of bounty, pay, or clothing, which may appear to be due and owing to the deceased.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXI: for the relief of Amos W. Brown.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 591</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Amos W. Brown.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War, cause to be issued to Amos W. Brown, of the town of Potsdam, in the county of St. Lawrence, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrant for bounty land to issue to him.</p></sidenote> and state of New York, a warrant for three hundred and twenty acres of bounty land, to which he was entitled by an act to amend the act entitled “An act granting bounties in land, and extra pay, to certain Canadian volunteers,” passed the fifth of March, one thousand eight <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.</p></sidenote> hundred and sixteen; to be located in legal subdivisions, on any of the public lands of the United States which have been offered at public sale, and are now subject to entry at private sale.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXII: for the relief of Samuel A. Edmondson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 591</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Samuel A. Edmondson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War adjust the claim of Samuel A. Edmondson for conveying an order to Nashville from General <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be adjusted for services, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Gaines, soon after the massacre at Fort Mimms, in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, and make him such further allowance as he shall think the said Edmondson entitled to for his personal services; and for money expended by him, if any, and that sum, so allowed by the said Secretary of War, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXIII: for the relief of James Ord.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 591</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of James Ord.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be allowed to James Ord, for the services of himself and Son as an assistant clerk and messenger in the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed for his services, and those of his son, as clerk and messenger.</p></sidenote> office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, a compensation at the rate of eight hundred dollars per annum, from the fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty, to the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; and that the amount found due to the said James Ord, after <page identifier="/us/stat/6/592">592</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 224, 225, 226, 227. 1834.</centerRunningHead> deducting therefrom any sum or balance standing against him on the books of the treasury, be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXIV: for the relief of James Fife, a Creek Indian.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 592</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of James Fife, a Creek Indian.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be ascertained the fair value of one <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of a horse stolen to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> horse, stolen from James Fife, a Creek Indian, by white men, in the spring of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three; and that the said value, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said James Fife, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXV: for the relief of William Mann.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 592</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of William Mann.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be adjusted, and sum found due, paid.</p></sidenote> adjust and settle, upon the principles of equity, the accounts of William Mann, late deputy marshal of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia; and that the sum, if any, found due to him, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said William Mann shall prove to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that he is legally entitled to the claims contained in his accounts,—and the said accounting officers are to be restricted in making said settlement to such claims as the proper judge is authorized by law or usage to allow in other cases, and when made and certified by him, are properly chargeable on the treasury.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXVI: for the relief of John A. Webster, and for the legal representatives of John Coleman, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John A. Webster, and for the legal representatives of John Coleman, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of John A. Webster, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension granted to John A. Webster.</p></sidenote> late a sailing-master in the navy of the United States, on the navy pension list, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, payable from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Navy <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of prize money to representatives of J. Coleman.</p></sidenote> pay to the legal representatives of John Coleman deceased the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars and forty-two cents, reported on the books of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury to the said John Coleman, for his share of prize money for the British vessels captured on Lake Champlain, during the late war; to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXVII: granting to General Philemon Thomas, of Louisiana, a tract of land in consideration of the military services rendered by him in taking possession of that portion of West Florida included in the district of Baton Rouge.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">granting to General Philemon Thomas, of Louisiana, a tract of land in consideration of the military services rendered by him in taking possession of that portion of West Florida included in the district of Baton Rouge.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Major-General Philemon Thomas be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter, without payment, at the proper Land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land in Louisiana.</p></sidenote> Office, on any of the public lands within the state of Louisiana, the quantity of twelve hundred and eighty acres of land: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the same shall be located in tracts of not less than six hundred and forty acres, according to legal subdivisions.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXVIII: for the relief of John Shackford.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 593</citableAs>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/593">593</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 228, 229, 230, 231, 232. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Shackford.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to John Shackford, out of any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for rent of a storehouse occupied by U. S.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and forty-four dollars, in full, for his claim for rent of a store-house in the town of Galena, state of Illinois, owned by him, and used by the United States for the storage of lead, subsequent to the spring of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXIX: for the relief of Aaron Fitzgerald.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 593</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Aaron Fitzgerald.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place Aaron Fitzgerald on the pension list, at sixteen dollars <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> per month, to commence on the twelfth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and to continue during life, in lieu of the pension to which he is now entitled.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXX: for the relief of the legal representative of Philip Moore, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 593</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representative of Philip Moore, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain payments, erroneously made, to be refunded.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, to the legal representative of Philip Moore, deceased, late of the city of Baltimore, the sum of fourteen thousand dollars, which said sum was, by mistake and under a misapprehension of his liability, paid into the treasury of the United States by said Philip Moore, during his life-time, as surety for Stephen H. Moore, a collector of the revenue for the district of Maryland.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXI: for the relief of Samuel Armstrong Bailey.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 593</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Samuel Armstrong Bailey.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Samuel Armstrong Bailey of the state of Georgia, who is entitled in right of his wife, Rebecca Frances Bailey, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to surrender land warrant, and scrip for the same quantity to issue to him.</p></sidenote> who is heir at law of Edward Lloyd, deceased, to an unlocated military land warrant for two hundred acres of land granted in consideration of the military services of the said Edward Lloyd in the revolutionary war, be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender the said warrant to the Secretary of the Treasury, and on his filing a release with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, of all his right, title and interest in said warrant, which release shall be signed by the said Rebecca Frances Bailey, heir at law of the said Edward Lloyd deceased as aforesaid, then it shall be the duty of the said Secretary of the Treasury to issue to the said Samuel Armstrong Bailey, military land scrip, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, for the said quantity of two hundred acres in full satisfaction for the surrender of the warrant and release to be executed as aforesaid; which said scrip shall be receivable in payment of the public lands, in any land district of the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXII: for the relief of James Marsh.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 593</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of James Marsh.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to allow James Marsh, of Philadelphia, <page identifier="/us/stat/6/594">594</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 233, 234. 1834.</centerRunningHead> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the debenture <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Debenture on certain goods to be allowed.</p></sidenote> upon eight cases of merchandise, containing, as per invoice, three hundred and eighty-six pieces of printed calicoes, purchased by the said James Marsh from Cardwell, Potter, and Company, and were duly entered for the benefit of drawback, so soon as the said James Marsh shall produce satisfactory evidence to the treasury department that the said eight cases of merchandise were exported to Vera Cruz on board the schooner, Comet, Hutcheson, master, and there sold, certificates of which have been returned.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXIII: for the relief of the widow of Clement B. Penrose, and William C. H. Waddell.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 594</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the widow of Clement B. Penrose, and William C. H. Waddell.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account of C. B. Penrose to be adjusted, and allowance made.</p></sidenote> settle and adjust the accounts of Clement B. Penrose for his services as one of the land commissioners for the territory of Louisiana, and allow him at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine, to the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, deducting from said allowance, whatever sum or sums he may have received on account of his said services, performed within the time aforesaid; and which said allowance shall be paid to Anna Howard Penrose, widow of the said Clement B. Penrose, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to W. C. H. Waddell, being indemnity for damages, with interest, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to William C. H. Waddell, Marshal of the Southern District of New York, the sum of three thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollars, and thirty-eight cents, being the balance of a judgment recovered against said Waddell as Marshal aforesaid, in the circuit court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, in a suit brought against him to recover the value of a certain importation of brandy, seized by that officer on behalf of the United States, as the supposed property of William M. and J. Waddie, together with legal interest on the amount of said judgment from the time the same was paid by the said Marshal.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXIV: for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of John Rose, senior, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 594</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of John Rose, senior, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are, directed to cause to be ascertained the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of property destroyed to be ascertained.</p></sidenote> actual value of the property of John Rose, senior, late in the employ of the United States as a machinist, at the Navy Yard in Washington, but now deceased, which was destroyed by fire at the burning of the said navy yard in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; and certify the said value, when so ascertained, to the Secretary of the Treasury.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment therefor.</p></sidenote> be, and he hereby is, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the heirs or other legal representatives of the said John Rose, senior, deceased, the value of the said property so certified to him as directed in and by the first section of this act: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no greater sum than two thousand five hundred <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> dollars shall be paid by virtue of this act, whatever may be the certified value of the said property beyond that amount.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXV: for the relief of the widow and heirs of Captain William Royall, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 595</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/595">595</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 235, 236, 237, 238, 239. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the widow and heirs of Captain William Royall, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War shall cause to be paid to Anne Royall, the widow, and to the heirs of the late William Royall, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a captain to be allowed.</p></sidenote> five years’ full pay, as a captain from the state of Virginia, on the continental establishment during the revolutionary war, in lieu of half pay for the life of said William.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the said amount of five years’ <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">How to be apportioned.</p></sidenote> full pay shall be paid to the said widow and heirs, in such proportions as will conform to the laws of Virginia for the distribution of the personal estate of persons dying intestate; and that said payments be made out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXVI: to remunerate Stephen C. Phillips, for the support and transportation of shipwrecked American seamen.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to remunerate Stephen C. Phillips, for the support and transportation of shipwrecked American seamen.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of twenty-two hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-three cents be paid, out of money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for maintenance, &amp;c. of wrecked American seamen.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to Stephen C. Phillips, of Salem, in the state of Massachusetts, to indemnify him for the expense of maintaining at the Fejee islands, and of transporting from thence to Manilla, twenty-six American seamen, of the officers and crews of two American vessels which had been wrecked and lost at the said Fejee islands in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXVII: for the relief of James Noble.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of James Noble.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and settle <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to be audited and settled as lieutenant in the navy.</p></sidenote> the claims of James Noble, to pay as acting lieutenant, from the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty, to twenty-second of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and from first December, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to the fourteenth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, upon the same principles upon which like claims were settled previous to the date of the order of the Navy Department in relation to such claims, and bearing date the tenth March eighteen hundred and thirty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXVIII: for the relief of Jonathan M. Blaisdell.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCXXXVIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Jonathan M. Blaisdell.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, to Jonathan M. Blaisdell, out <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote> of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and sixty-eight dollars, being one moiety of a judgment recovered by mistake against him, by the United States, and the interest thereon.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXIX: for the relief of Peter Mills.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Peter Mills.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Peter Mills, assignee of Joshua Sprague, be, and he is hereby authorized to locate three hundred and twenty acres <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate land.</p></sidenote> of land in legal subdivisions, on any land of the United States, subject to entry at private sale, in satisfaction of an equal quantity of land, viz. <page identifier="/us/stat/6/596">596</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 240, 241, 242, 243. 1834.</centerRunningHead> half section number seven, township five, and range twenty-two, heretofore located by Joshua Sprague under an act of Congress approved the twenty-third day of April, eighteen hundred and twelve, and conveyed by said Sprague to said Peter Mills, which said half section was patented to one Robert Culbertson on a mill pre-emption right, and is now held adversely to said Mills under said patent. And the President of the United States is authorized to issue a patent to said Peter Mills on his producing a certificate of the Register of the Land Office within whose district such location may be made.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXL: for the relief of the representatives of Hugh McGennis, deceased.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the representatives of Hugh McGennis, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to John B. Orton, administrator of Hugh McGennis, deceased, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for work and materials.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and eighty-five dollars, forty-eight cents, for extra work done, and materials furnished by the said McGennis on the Cumberland road west of the town of Zanesville, in the state of Ohio.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLI: for the relief of the sureties of John H. Morton.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the sureties of John H. Morton.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sureties of John H. Morton, who are bound with him to the United States in two obligations, amounting, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from their obligations as sureties of J. H. Morton, collector of taxes.</p></sidenote> together, to the sum of six thousand two hundred and seventy-two dollars sixty cents, with interest thereon from the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, till paid, given for a general balance due from said John H. Morton, as collector of direct taxes and internal duties of the second collection district of Kentucky, as designated collector of taxes assessed upon other districts for property not owned, occupied, or superintended, by some person residing thereon, shall be, and they are hereby, released from all liability for said John H. Morton, except as to the sum of one thousand nine hundred and <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> twenty-eight dollars fifty-four cents, with interest thereon from the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, until paid; but the said John H. Morton, his heirs, executors, and administrators, shall, nevertheless, be held bound and liable to pay the whole amount, as expressed in said obligations.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLII: for the relief of Charles J. Hand.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Charles J. Hand.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for reclaiming horses lost.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to Charles J. Hand, of Indiana, the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars, for reclaiming fourteen horses lost in the Indian country in August, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, by the detachments of Indiana and Illinois militia under the commands of Colonel Russel and Colonel Moore; which service he was requested to perform by the Governor of Indiana.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLIII: for the relief of Hishe Homa, otherwise called Captain Red Pepper, an Indian of the Choctaw tribe.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Hishe Homa, otherwise called Captain Red Pepper, an Indian of the Choctaw tribe.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Hishe Homa, otherwise called Captain Red <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to 640 acres of land.</p></sidenote> Pepper, an Indian of the Choctaw tribe of Indians, be entitled, under <page identifier="/us/stat/6/597">597</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 244, 245, 246, 248. 1834.</centerRunningHead> and subject to the provisions and restrictions of the fourteenth article of the treaty made between the United States of America and the Choctaw Indians, at Dancing Rabbit Creek, on the fifteenth of September, eighteen hundred and thirty, to a reservation of a section of land containing six hundred and forty acres, to include his improvements at the time of making the treaty; and a half section to be located adjoining thereto for his son, aged over ten years.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the register and receiver of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">The same to be reserved from sale.</p></sidenote> the land office of the north-eastern district be required to lay down on the maps the claim of the said Hishe Homa, and reserve the same from sale.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLIV: for the relief of the heirs of Thomas Wallace, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of Thomas Wallace, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of Thomas <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a lieutenant to be allowed.</p></sidenote> Wallace, deceased, and allow to his heirs five years’ full pay, as a lieutenant in the eighth Virginia regiment on continental establishment; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid to the said heirs of Thomas Wallace, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLV: for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas H. Boyles, deceased.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas H. Boyles, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Thomas H. Boyles, late of Alabama, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate a tract of land, in lieu of &amp;c.</p></sidenote> to locate, on any of the lands of the United States in the state of Alabama which shall have been previously surveyed according to law, the quantity of twelve hundred and eighty acres of land, in lieu of a like quantity of land granted to the said Thomas H. Boyles, in his life-time, by an act of Congress passed on the twenty-seventh day of April, eighteen <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 111.</p></sidenote> hundred and sixteen; which said tract of land had, prior to the passage [of] said act, been reserved by treaty with the Creek Indians to one Lauchlin Durat, a warrior belonging to the said tribe of Indians: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the land hereby granted shall be located in tracts not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> less than six hundred and forty acres, according to legal subdivisions.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLVI: for the relief of George Read.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of George Read.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to George Read, late attorney <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him of an award and judgment.</p></sidenote> of the United States for the Delaware district, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and sixty-two dollars and ninety-eight cents, being in full for the amount of an award and judgment, with interest thereon, in the District Court of the United States in and for the said district, in favor of the said George Read.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLVIII: for the relief of John Kirkpatrick.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Kirkpatrick.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scrip to be issued for the sum of $80, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Office is hereby authorized and required to issue, upon application, to John Kirkpatrick, his legal representatives or assigns, scrip to the amount of eighty dollars, being so much of the original purchase money paid to <page identifier="/us/stat/6/598">598</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 249, 250, 251, 252. 1834.</centerRunningHead> the Receiver of the Land Office at Shawneetown, Illinois, for the purchase of the south-east quarter of section eighteen, township six, south of range one east, of the lands offered for sale at Shawneetown, which land was forfeited, and has reverted to the United States; said scrip to be receivable in payment for the purchase of the same or any other land which has been offered for sale in the state of Illinois.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLIX: for the relief of John Chandler and William Johnson.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCXLIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Chandler and William Johnson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General be authorized and directed to pay to John Chandler and William Johnson, sureties of J. <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of money collected from them as sureties.</p></sidenote> B. Griffin, formerly postmaster at Selma, in the state of Alabama, the sum of three hundred and ninety-seven dollars, collected from them.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCL: to authorize the heirs and legal representatives of James Latham, deceased, to withdraw and relocate a land warrant.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCL</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 598</citableAs>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to authorize the heirs and legal representatives of James Latham, deceased, to withdraw and relocate a land warrant.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the heirs and legal representatives of James Latham, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to withdraw the <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to withdraw a land warrant, and to relocate the same.</p></sidenote> land warrant or claim which was located on the north-east fractional quarter of section number nine, in township number eight north, in range east, in Peoria county, Illinois; and to relocate the same on any surveyed land which has not been reserved from sale in the state of Illinois; and which is subject to entry at private sale: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> that <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> it shall not be located on any land upon which an improvement has been made, without first obtaining the permission in writing of the person who may occupy any such improvement.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLI: for the relief of George Gordon, assignee and representative of the heirs of Matthew Ramey, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of George Gordon, assignee and representative of the heirs of Matthew Ramey, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That George Gordon, as assignee and representative of the heirs of Matthew Ramey deceased, be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> confirmed in his claim to a settlement right to a tract of six hundred and forty acres of land, situate on a branch of the river Desperes, ten or twelve miles west of St. Louis, and embraced in a tract of land which was surveyed for Matthew Ramey and to be located in such manner as to embrace the improvements made by the said George Gordon: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall be considered only as a relinquishment <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of the title on the part of the United States, and not prejudicial to the rights of third persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLII: for the relief of the heirs of James Bell, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the heirs of James Bell, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to settle the several accounts of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote> James Bell, deceased, late of Chambly, in the British province of Lower Canada, and who was superintendent of workmen and artificers in the service of the United States, at Chambly aforesaid, on equitable principles, for moneys advanced, services rendered, and for stores, materials, and supplies of various kinds furnished by him to troops of the United States, and for the construction and repairs of the fortifications at Chambly, the construction of vessels of war, and for wood for the garrison, including timber taken to Ticonderoga, and excluding the charge for the loss on continental money; said accounts commencing in Oc-<page identifier="/us/stat/6/599">599</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 253, 254, 255. 1834.</centerRunningHead>tober, seventeen hundred and seventy-five, and ending June fifteenth, seventeen hundred and seventy-six; and the amount that shall be found due shall be paid, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, to the heirs at law of said James Bell: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the sum to be <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> allowed said heirs, shall not exceed the sum of five thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and three cents.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLIII: for the relief of a part of the crew of the brig Sarah George.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 599</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of a part of the crew of the brig Sarah George.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to M. S. Gordon, late master of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to M. S. Gordon of money recovered from the Brazilian government.</p></sidenote> the brig Sarah George, or to his legal representatives, the sum [of] two thousand one hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-five cents, being the amount awarded by the Brazilian Government to the crew of the Sarah George for wages and interest, and remitted to the treasury of the United States, by W. H. D. C. Wright, of Rio de Janeiro, except the sum authorized to be paid by the second section of this act, the respective proportions of said first-mentioned sum having been paid to the crew of the said Sarah George, entitled thereto, by the said Morgan S. Gordon.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, to Jesse Powell.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized in like manner to pay to Jesse Powell, late second mate of the Sarah George, or to the legal representatives of his assignee of said claim, the sum of three hundred and seventy-six dollars and eight cents, being his exact proportion of money paid into the treasury of the United States, as mentioned in the first section of this act, in the case of M. S. Gordon.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLIV: for the relief of the legal representatives of Laurence Milligan, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 599</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Laurence Milligan, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Laurence Milligan, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate, within <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate land.</p></sidenote> twelve months after the passing of this act, under the direction of the Register and Receiver of the western district of Louisiana, on any unlocated lands in said district, a tract not exceeding eight hundred arpens; which said tract shall be granted to the representatives of the said Laurence Milligan in lieu of an equal quantity confirmed to him by a board of commissioners, under a certificate marked B, number nine hundred and seven, and subsequently sold by the United States; and that the proper officers of the Government be authorized and directed to issue a patent to the said representatives accordingly.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLV: for the relief of Benedict Alford and Robert Brush.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 599</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Benedict Alford and Robert Brush.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required to place the names of Benedict Alford and Robert Brush on the list of revolutionary <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on revolutionary pension list.</p></sidenote> pensioners, who shall be entitled to, and receive, pensions at the rates following: The said Benedict Alford at the rate of sixty dollars, and the said Robert Brush at the rate of forty dollars per annum, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during their natural lives.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLVI: for the relief of Francis and Judith Taylor.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 600</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/600">600</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 256, 257, 258, 259, 260. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Francis and Judith Taylor.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay of a lieutenant allowed to them.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to Francis and Judith Taylor, the latter being the child and sole representative of Henry Field, (formerly a lieutenant in the continental line of the revolutionary army, and who died while in the service,) a sum equal to the half pay of said Field as lieutenant for the term of seven years, in pursuance of the resolution of Congress of twenty-fourth of August, seventeen hundred and eighty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLVII: to refund the extra tonnage duty paid on the brig Liberator.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 600</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to refund the extra tonnage duty paid on the brig Liberator.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to refund the extra tonnage duty paid on a vessel called the Liberator, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra tonnage duty to be refunded.</p></sidenote> which vessel arrived in the United States in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and the amount of duty which would have been paid on the same vessel if she had been an American vessel, to the person or persons who have paid such excess; and to pay such amount out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLVIII: authorizing Edmund Brooke to remove to the District of Columbia, two slaves, owned by him prior to his removal from Virginia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 600</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">authorizing Edmund Brooke to remove to the District of Columbia, two slaves, owned by him prior to his removal from Virginia.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Edmund Brooke, of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, be authorized, and permission is hereby granted <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed to remove slaves into the District of Columbia.</p></sidenote> him, to bring from the state of Virginia, into the said District of Columbia, two negro slaves, namely, John and Alfred, the property of the said Brooke; and to have and to exercise the same rights of property, and of ownership, over the said slaves, as if they had been brought by the said Brooke into the said District at the time of his removal to the said District of Columbia, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. This act shall be in force from its passage.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLIX: for the relief of the Roman Catholic Church at St. Louis, Missouri.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 600</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the Roman Catholic Church at St. Louis, Missouri.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the duties on a set of five bells, with their necessary appendages of brass, iron, and wood, (being donations by individuals <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on certain bells, &amp;c. to be remitted.</p></sidenote> residing in Europe, to the Roman Catholic Church at St. Louis, Missouri,) imported from Havre, in France, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, into the port of New Orleans, by the Roman Catholic bishop of St. Louis, be, and the same are hereby, remitted; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to repay to the said bishop, or to his successor in office, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of such sum or sums of money as may have been paid for or on account of said duties.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLX: for the relief of John Emerson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 600</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Emerson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury, be, and they are hereby, required to settle and adjust the account <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be adjusted, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of John Emerson, and allow him five years’ full pay as a lieutenant of <page identifier="/us/stat/6/601">601</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 261, 262, 263, 264. 1834.</centerRunningHead> infantry of the revolutionary army in the Virginia line on continental establishment; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXI: to confirm the selection and survey of two sections of land to Francis Lafontain and son, and their assignees.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 601</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to confirm the selection and survey of two sections of land to Francis Lafontain and son, and their assignees.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the location and surveys of two sections of land on the west side of the Saint Mary’s river, made by the surveyor-general <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">A tract of land confirmed to them.</p></sidenote> of the public lands, prior to the seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, for Francis Lafontain and son, under a treaty made by Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass, and Benjamin Park, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Miami nation of Indians of the other part, entered into on the sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, and declared valid under the treaty aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided, always,</i> That this act shall not be so construed as to prejudice <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the claim of any other person or persons to said lands, or any part thereof, acquired prior to the date aforesaid.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXII: for the relief of Lieutenant Robert Willmott.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 601</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Lieutenant Robert Willmott.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to Robert Willmott, a lieutenant <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a lieutenant allowed to him.</p></sidenote> in the army of the United States in the revolutionary war, on the continental establishment, five years’ full pay, that being the commutation of the half pay for life promised by the resolves of Congress; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Enos Grannis, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 601</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Enos Grannis, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle and adjust the account of Enos <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Grannis, deceased, and to allow to his legal representatives five years’ full pay as a lieutenant of the army of the revolution, in commutation of the half pay for life promised by the resolves of Congress to the officers of the continental line who should continue in service to the close of the war, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXIV: for the relief of Alwater and Daggett and others, owners of the brig Hannah.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXIV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 601</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Alwater and Daggett and others, owners of the brig Hannah.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Atwater and Daggett, Samuel J. Clarke, and Elihu Sanford, owners of the brig Hannah, of <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain tonnage duty to be refunded.</p></sidenote> New Haven, in the state of Connecticut, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy-one dollars and fifty cents, to reimburse them for tonnage duties paid to the collector of said port, on the twenty-second June eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXV: for the relief of Ezekiel Foster and Company, of Eastport, state of Maine.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXV</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 602</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/602">602</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 265, 266, 267, 268. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Ezekiel Foster and Company, of Eastport, state of Maine.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Ezekiel Foster and Company, out of any <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain discriminating duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-one cents, being the amount paid by them for discriminating duties on the cargo of the British brig Superior; which vessel arrived and entered at the port of Eastport, district of Passamaquoddy, on the sixteenth September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, under the President’s proclamation of twenty-fourth August, of the same year; which discriminating duties were charged in consequence of a treasury circular, dated fourteenth September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, not known by the collector at the time the said brig Superior had been entered at the said port.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXVI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Buller Claiborne, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXVI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 602</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Buller Claiborne, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of Buller <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and pay of captain allowed.</p></sidenote> Claiborne, deceased, and allow to his legal representatives five years’ full pay as a captain in the service of the United States on continental establishment, which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life, to be paid to the legal representatives of the said Buller Claiborne, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Everard Meade, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXVII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 602</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Everard Meade, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of Everard <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and pay of a captain allowed.</p></sidenote> Meade, deceased, and to allow to his legal representatives five years’ full pay as a captain in the Virginia regiment on continental establishment, which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid to the said legal representatives of Everard Meade, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXVIII: for the relief of the owners of the schooner Admiral.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXVIII</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 602</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the owners of the schooner Admiral.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the district of Providence be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to Remington Arnold, junior, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> and Arnold Smith, owners of the schooner Admiral, of Pawtuxet, of the burden of fifty-six tons, and to the persons composing the crew of the same, during the fishing season of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive if the fishing agreement had been made in the terms required by law: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the other <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> requirements of the acts granting allowances to vessels concerned in the fisheries shall have been complied with.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXIX: for the relief of Ann Mortimer Barron.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXIX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 603</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/603">603</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 269, 270, 271, 272, 273. 1834.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of Ann Mortimer Barron.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to pay to Ann Mortimer Barron, <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay of a lieutenant allowed Ann M. Barron, as daughter and heir of William Barron.</p> <p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> only daughter and surviving heir of William Barron, an officer in the navy, killed in the service of the United States, during the revolutionary war, the aggregate amount of the half pay of a first lieutenant of a frigate, for seven years, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Ann Mortimer Barron, before the payment thereof, do exhibit such proof to the Secretary of the Treasury, as will satisfy him that she is the only daughter and heir of the said William Barron.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXX: to refund to certain owners of the schooner Joseph and Mary, the sum paid into the treasury by reason of the condemnation of said vessel.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXX</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 603</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">to refund to certain owners of the schooner Joseph and Mary, the sum paid into the treasury by reason of the condemnation of said vessel.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is authorized to refund to Charles Cramer, George Kaler, George <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain moneys to be refunded to Chas. Cramer and others.</p></sidenote> Creamer, Isaac G. Reed, and John Studley, part owners of the schooner Joseph and Mary, or to their legal representatives, according to their respective interests in said schooner, the sum of eight hundred and ninety-three dollars and one cent, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; which sum was paid into the treasury, in consequence of the forfeiture of the said schooner, and condemnation of the said vessel, in the District Court of the District of Massachusetts, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXI: for the relief of John Wilson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXI</docNumber>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 603</citableAs>
<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>23</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of John Wilson.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That to correct an error in the proceedings of the late Board of Commissioners appointed to examine and adjust private <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> land claims in Missouri, John Wilson be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his title to six hundred and twenty-two acres of land, situate in township number forty-two north, of range five east, of the fifth principal meridian, instead of six hundred and twenty-two arpens, adjudged to him by the Board of Commissioners aforesaid.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain James Craine.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CCLXXII</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1834-06-30</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain James Craine.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a captain allowed them.</p></sidenote> by law, to pay to Edwin C. Brown and Maria Brown, the latter being the only child and heir of Captain James Craine, deceased, the amount of five years’ full pay of a captain of infantry in the revolutionary army of the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXXIII: authorizing a sum of money to be distributed among the officers and crew of the late private armed brig General Armstrong.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle class="italic"><docTitle class="inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline">authorizing a sum of money to be distributed among the officers and crew of the late private armed brig General Armstrong.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.,</i></enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not <sidenote><p class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for prize money.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, as prize money, among the officers and crew of the late private armed brig General Armstrong, and the legal representatives of such as may be dead.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1834-06-30">June 30, 1834</date>.
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<congress>23</congress>
<session>2</session>
<dc:date>1834</dc:date>
<dc:date>1835</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of. Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December,</i> 1834, and ended on the third, day of March, 1835.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Jackson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Martin Van Buren</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">John Tyler</inline>, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the 3d day of March, 1835; <inline class="smallCaps">John Bell</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chapter I: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Mullowny.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>I</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>I.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of John Mullowny.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-01-08">Jan. 8, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to be made in the settlement of his accounts.</p></sidenote>
<section class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be authorized to allow, in the settlement of the accounts of John Mullowny, deceased, late Consul of the United States at the port of Tangier, in the Empire of Morocco, such charges for presents made by said consul, in the years eighteen hundred and twenty-seven and eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, as have been suspended for want of vouchers; also a pro rata allowance for presents from the date of the last accounts rendered by said consul until the time of his death, and a balance of the contingent expenses of the consulate, from July eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, to July eighteen hundred and thirty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-01-08">January 8, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter VIII: for the relief of the heirs of Evan Edwards.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 604</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-01-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Evan Edwards.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-01-27">Jan. 27, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A duplicate land warrant to issue to them.</p></sidenote>authorized to issue a duplicate warrant to the heirs at law of Major Evan Edwards, for four hundred acres of land, in lieu of warrant numbered twelve hundred and five, issued on the ninth of February, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, and which is alleged to have been lost.
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-01-27">January 27, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter IX: for the relief of Tuffs and Clark.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-01-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Tuffs and Clark.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-01-27">Jan. 27, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for sugars seized by U. S., &amp;c.</p></sidenote>authorized and directed to pay unto Tuffs and Clark, of New Orleans, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand and seventy-five dollars and three cents, beinrr the amount of a parcel of sugars seized at New Orleans, and paid into the United States treasury, but afterwards restored by the decision of the United States Supreme Court.
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/604" renderingPosition="bottom">604</page>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-01-27">January 27, 1835</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter X: for the relief of Francis Lasselle and others, Michigan volunteers.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 605</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-01-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 10, 11, 12, 13. 1835</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/605">605</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Francis Lasselle and others, Michigan volunteers.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-01-27">Jan. 27, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury audit and adjust the claims of Francis Lasselle, and of the other officers, non-commissioned<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims of volunteers to be audited, &amp;c.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 6, 1812, ch.21.</p></sidenote> officers, musicians and privates, who enrolled themselves as a part of a quota of fifty thousand volunteers, under the act of February sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and elected Hubert Lacroix, captain of said company, and to allow to the said Francis Lasselle, aud to the other officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates so enrolled, and who were in the service of the United States under said enrolment, such further sum as they arc entitled to, by extending to them the provisions of the act of February sixth, eighteen hundred and twelve, authorizing the President of the United States to accept the services of fifty thousand volunteers, so that said company be on the same footing of equality with the volunteers of Ohio.
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i> </enactingFormula>That the several sums, so found<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> due, be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the claimants, if living, or to their representatives if dead.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-01-27">January 27, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XI: for the relief of William P. Zantzinger, Purser in the Navy of the United States.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 605</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-01-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William P. Zantzinger, Purser in the Navy of the United States.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-01-27">Jan. 27, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department, be and they hereby are, authorized and required to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to him on account of loss on ship stores.</p></sidenote> allow to said Zantzinger, on settlement of his account, an additional credit of two thousand five hundred and seventy dollars and seventy-six cents, being the difference between the cost of certain purser’s stores left on the hands of said Zantzinger on the fourth of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, when he was suspended from duty on board the United States ship Natchez, and the net amount of sales of the same stores at Norfolk, after the arrival of said ship at that port.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-01-27">January 27, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XII: for the relief of Humphrey B. Gwathmey.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 605</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-01-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>16</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Humphrey B. Gwathmey.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-01-27">Jan. 27, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Baltimore be authorized and required to issue a certificate of debenture to Humphrey<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certificate of debenture to be issued.</p></sidenote> B. Gwathmey, of the firm of Roy and Gwathmey, for the amount of drawback of duties on one hundred and eighty-two bales of cotton, imported into the port of Baltimore on the twenty-fifth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the schooner Silas Wood, from Santa Martha, and shipped for exportation to Liverpool, in the following month of November, on board the British barque Grace.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-01-27">January 27, 1835</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XIII: for the relief of Robert Haile.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 605</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-01-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert Haile.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-01-27">Jan. 27, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized to issue to Robert Haile a land warrant for three hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> and twenty acres of land in lieu of warrant number sixteen, issued on the sixth March eighteen hundred and seven, in favor of Thomas F.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1807. ch. 32.</p></sidenote> Howard under the act of third March, eighteen hundred and seven, <page identifier="/us/stat/6/606">606</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 14, 15, 16, 18. 1835</centerRunningHead>entitled “An act making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clark and their companions,” which warrant was afterwards assigned to Robert Haile, and appears to have been lost.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-01-27">January 27, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XIV: for the relief of Samuel Bragdon, David Chase, and the crew of the schooner Halcyon.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 606</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-01-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Bragdon, David Chase, and the crew of the schooner Halcyon.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-01-27">Jan. 27, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs in Newburyport, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote>state of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to Samuel Bragdon, David Chase, and the officers and crew of the schooner Halcyon, which was lost at sea, to be distributed according to law, the same sum said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty or drawback if she had safely arrived in port; having complied with all the requirements of law necessary to receive such bounty or drawback for having been engaged four months or more in the cod-fishery.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-01-27">January 27, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XV: for the relief of Charles Gordon and the crew of the schooner two Sons.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 606</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-01-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles Gordon and the crew of the schooner two Sons.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-01-27">Jan. 27, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the district <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote>of Belfast, in the state of Maine, is hereby authorized to pay to Charles Gordon, owner of the fishing schooner Two Sons, of seventy-five tons burthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive had she completed her fishing term: the said schooner having been driven on shore in a gale, by which she was prevented from accomplishing the full term required by law to entitle her. to the bounty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-01-27">January 27, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XVI: for the relief of Samuel S. Lord and the owners and crew of the fishing schooner Mary and Sally of York, in the state of Maine.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-01-27</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel S. Lord and the owners and crew of the fishing schooner Mary and Sally of York, in the state of Maine.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-01-27">Jan. 27, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for the port of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote>York, in the state of Maine, is hereby authorized to pay to Samuel S. Lord, master, and the owners and crew of the fishing schooner Mary and Sally, to be distributed according to law, the same said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty or drawback, if she had been actually at sea during the whole time required by law to be entitled to said bounty, she having been lost before she had accomplished her full term required by law.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter XVIII: for the relief of Colonel John Eugene Leitensdorfer.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Colonel John Eugene Leitensdorfer.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-02-06">Feb. 6, 1835</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[Obsolete.]</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant to issue to him.</p></sidenote>directed to issue a land warrant to Colonel John Eugene Leitensdorfer, for three hundred and twenty acres; which warrant may be located with any register of the land offices in the state of Missouri, on any public land subject to entry at private sale, and the said location may be made in parcels, conformable to sectional subdivisions.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His account as an adjutant, &amp;c, to be allowed, with travelling expenses.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to settle the accounts of Colonel John Eugene Leitensdorfer, and to allow him the pay and emoluments of adjutant and inspector-general, with the rank of colonel of cavalry from the fifteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and four, to the fifteenth of July, eighteen hundred and five, being the time he served as such in the forces of the United States in Egypt, and <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 20, 38, 42, 51. 1835.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/607">607</page>on the coast of Africa, his transportation from Alexandria to Derne, being estimated at six hundred miles, deducting therefrom the sum of two hundred and eighty-eight dollars, heretofore paid him as captain of infantry for the same services; also to allow him three months’ extra pay for his travelling expenses from the place of his discharge at Derne, on the Barbary coast, to his place of residence: which said sums shall be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter XX: for the relief of Silas D. Fisher.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-02-13</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Silas D. Fisher.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-02-13">Feb. 13, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Silas D. Fisher, alias Silas Fisher, be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate a section of land.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, authorized to locate the reservation of one section of land granted to him by the second article of the supplement to the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, made and entered into on the twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, between the United States of America and the Mingoes, chiefs, captains, and warriors of the Choctaw tribe of Indians, on any of the unimproved and unoccupied lands within the limits of that tract of country ceded by the said Indians to the United States by the treaty aforesaid, on such terms and conditions, and under such rules and regulations, as may be prescribed by the proper department of the Government in similar cases arising under said treaty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-02-13">February 13, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXXVIII: to authorize the city council of St. Augustine to widen a, street in the town of St. Augustine.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the city council of St. Augustine to widen a, street in the town of St. Augustine.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the city council of St. Augustine, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street leading to the bridge over the St. Sebastian’s may be widened.</p></sidenote> Territory of Florida, be, and they are hereby, authorized to cause to be opened to a convenient width, for the passage of carriages, the street leading from the public square in said city, to the new bridge constructed by the United States over the St. Sebastian’s river, and now the main approach to the town of St. Augustine, and the United States hereby relinquish for that object so much of any public lot as may border upon said street, and may be indispensable to make it of convenient width; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> Such change, and widening said street, shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> not extend to the removal or injury of any building situated on ground belonging to the United States, and that the width of said street shall not exceed eighty feet.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XLII: granting to the borough of Michillimakinac, certain grounds for public purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting to the borough of Michillimakinac, certain grounds for public purposes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be, and there is hereby, granted to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A lot of eight acres granted for public purposes.</p></sidenote> the Corporation of the borough of Michillimakinac, for public purposes exclusively, a lot of ground, containing by estimation eight acres, heretofore used as a common, by the inhabitants of said borough, lying between a lot of land the property of Doctor David Mitchell, and another lot of land, the property of the heirs of Ezekiel Solomon, deceased.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LI: granting a pension to Larnard Swallow.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Larnard Swallow.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be and he hereby is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place on the pension roll of the United States the name of Larnard Swallow, of Fort Preble, in the state of Maine; and that there be allowed to said Larnard Swallow the sum of sixteen dollars a month <page identifier="/us/stat/6/608">608</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57. 1835</centerRunningHead>during his natural life, to commence on the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LII: granting a pension to John Bryant.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to John Bryant.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of John Bryant, of the county of Strafford’ in the state of New Hampshire, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay to him the sum of eight dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LIII: granting a pension to Solomon Case.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Solomon Case.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the pension roll of the United States the name of Solomon Case, of the town of Penfield, in the county of Monroe, and state of New York, and that there be allowed to the said Case the’sum of four dollars per month during his natural life, to commence on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LIV: granting a pension to Thomas Morton.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Thomas Morton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain names to be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Thomas Morton, of the county of Gibson, in the state of Tennessee, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him eight dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LV: for the relief of Timothy Jordan.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Timothy Jordan.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of Timothy Jordan, of the state of Maine, on the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him a pension at the rate of forty dollars per annum, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LVI: for the relief of Abraham E. Boutwell and David Pearson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Abraham E. Boutwell and David Pearson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain names to be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> 
<p class="inline fontsize10">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized, directed, and empowered to place the names of the following persons on the invalid pension roll of the United States, that is to say:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abraham E. Boutwell, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and that he pay him at that rate during his natural life; and David Pearson, at the rate of five dollars and thirty-three cents per month, commencing on the. first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and that he pay him at that rate during his natural life.</p>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LVII: for the relief of John Ashton.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Ashton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place the name of John Ashton, of Chatauque county, and state of New York, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay to him four dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LVIII: granting a pension to Justus Cobb.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64. 1833.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/609">609</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Justus Cobb.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of Justus Cobb, of the county of Addison, in the state of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> Vermont, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him six dollars per month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LIX: placing Captain Cole, a Seneca Indian chief, on the pension roll.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>placing Captain Cole, a Seneca Indian chief, on the pension roll.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be ordered to place<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the name of Captain Cole, a warrior of the Onondaga tribe of Indians, on the pension roll, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LX: for the relief of Daniel Page.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Page.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to be paid to him.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to pay to Daniel Page, a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, the sum of eight dollars per month, from the fourth day of September, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, to the fourteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXI: granting a pension to Joseph Mead.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Joseph Mead.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> required to place the name of Joseph Mead, of Rensselaer county, in the state of New York, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of twenty-two dollars and filly cents a month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXII: granting a pension to John Gerodelle.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to John Gerodelle.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to pay to John Gerodelle, late a soldier in the corps of artillery, a pension at the rate of six dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXIII: granting a pension to William Wilges.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to William Wilges.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> required to place the name of William Wilges, of Harford county, in the state of Maryland, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars a month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXIV: for the relief of Thomas Ball.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Ball.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">$4 per month allowance</p></sidenote> authorized, empowered, and directed to inscribe on the invalid pension roll of the United States, Thomas Ball, of Georgetown, in the District o Columbia, at the rate of four dollars per month commencing on the <page identifier="/us/stat/6/610">610</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 65, 66, 67, 68, 69. 1835.</centerRunningHead>fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and ending on the twenty-seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, in addition to the pension now received by him, and for arrears thereof.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXV: for the relief of Peter Triplett.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter Triplett.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 19.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of such sum as he would have beer entitled to, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of War be authorized to pay to Peter Triplett, of the state of Virginia, who is now a pensioner under the act entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” such sum of money as the said Triplett would have been entitled to receive had his name not been stricken from the roll of revolutionary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>pensioners after he was first placed thereon: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Secretary of War shall become satisfied, from proper testimony, that the said Triplett was in such indigent circumstances as to have been unable to support himself without the assistance of his country.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXVI: for the relief of John Moore.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Moore.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, empowered, and directed to inscribe the name of John Moore, who was disabled in the service of the United States, while a private in the volunteer militia of the state of New York, on the invalid pension roll of the United States, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence from the twelfth day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; which said sum of four dollars per month shall be paid to said John Moore for and during his natural life, at such times and in such manner as other pensioners of the United States are paid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXVII: granting a pension to Noah Miller, an invalid major of the militia.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Noah Miller, an invalid major of the militia.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> That the name of Noah Miller, a major in the militia of Massachusetts, during the last war, be placed upon the list of invalid pensioners, at the rate of twenty dollars a month, commencing the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXVIII: for the relief [of] Benjamin Holland.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief [of] Benjamin Holland.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Benjamin Holland on the invalid pension roll of the United States, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXIX: granting a pension to Isaac Eckright.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Isaac Eckright.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of Isaac Eckright, of the county of Indiana and state of Pennsylvania, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay to him four dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXX: for the relief of Joseph Gilbert.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75. 1835.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/611">611</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Gilbert.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized to pay to Joseph Gilbert, of the state of Virginia, who is now a pensioner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To receive $8 per month from March 4, 1819, &amp;c.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 18.</p></sidenote> under the act entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” at the rate of eight dollars per month from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, when his name was dropped from the roll, up to the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty; and that he also pay him the like sum per month from the said fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty, to the second day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty, when his pension was re-stored: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the Secretary of War be satisfied, from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 2, 1820, ch. 51.</p></sidenote> usual proof, that the said Gilbert was embraced by the provisions of the act of May one, eighteen hundred and twenty.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXI: for the relief of Joseph Swartwood.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Swartwood.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized, em-powered, and directed, and he is hereby authorized, empowered,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of arrears of pension.</p></sidenote> and directed to pay to Joseph Swartwood, now an invalid pensioner, at and after the rate of four dollars per month, from and after the time when, by reason of the loss of his certificate, his pay ceased, until the time when the pension of the said Swartwood began to be paid under his present certificate; that amount being due to him, the said Swartwood, as arrears of his pension, and not having been paid by reason of the loss of his said certificate.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXII: for the relief of Stephen Gatlin.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Stephen Gatlin.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Stephen Gatlin, of the county of Greene, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the state of Georgia, be placed on the roll of invalid pensioners, and be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXIII: granting a pension to Benjamin Leslie.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Benjamin Leslie.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Benjamin Leslie on the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXIV: granting a pension to Samuel Shelmerdine.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Samuel Shelmerdine.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name to be placed on pension roll, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> required to place the name of Samuel Shelmerdine, of the city and county of St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXV: for the relief of Simeon Meachum, of the state of New York.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 611</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Simeon Meachum, of the state of New York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War reinstate the name<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll</p></sidenote> of Simeon Meachum of the state of New York, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, as on the twelfth day of July, one thousand eight <page identifier="/us/stat/6/612">612</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 77, 78, 79, 80, 81. 1835.</centerRunningHead>hundred and twenty, and that he, the said Simeon Meachum, be paid, as arrears of his pension, at the rate of eight dollars a month from the day aforesaid, until the ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXVII: granting a pension to Isaac Janvier.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Isaac Janvier.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of Isaac Janvier of the county of Newcastle, and state of Delaware, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay him the sum of eight dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXVIII: granting a pension to Amasa A. Tifft.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Amasa A. Tifft.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on list of invalid pensioners.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of Amasa A. Tilft, of the county of Ontario, in the state of New York, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of tour dollars a month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXIX: the relief of John Cullins, a soldier of the revolutionary war.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>the relief of John Cullins, a soldier of the revolutionary war.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place the name of John Cullins, of the state of Ohio, on the invalid pension roll, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and to continue during his said Cuilins’s natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXX: for the relief of Job Barton.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Job Barton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension to be paid to him.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Job Barton, a soldier of the late war with the rank of sergeant, a pension at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the fourth day of March, in the year one thou-sand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and to continue during his natural life, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXI: granting pensions to William Baden and James Harrington.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting pensions to William Baden and James Harrington.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> 
<p class="inline fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain names to be placed on the invalid pension roll.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, directed to place on the invalid pension roll of the United States the names of the following persons, whereupon they and each of them shall be entitled to receive the pensions severally set against their names respectively, during life, that is to say:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">William Baden, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">James Harrington, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</p>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXII: for the relief of Lemuel Tanner, assignee of Pierre Dufresne.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 613</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 82, 83, 84, 85, 86. 1835.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/613">613</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Lemuel Tanner, assignee of Pierre Dufresne.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">  That Lemuel Tanner, assignee of Pierre Dufresne,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate a tract of land.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate, within twelve months after the passage of this act, under the direction of the Surveyor-General of Louisiana, on any unlocated lands in said state, a tract not exceeding six hundred and forty acres of land; which said tract shall be granted to the said Lemuel Tanner, in lieu of an equal quantity confirmed to him by the Register and Receiver, under a certificate number five hundred and eighty-eight; and that the proper officers of the Government be authorized and directed to issue a patent accordingly.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXIII: for the relief of John Dougherty, an Indian agent.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 613</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Dougherty, an Indian agent.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers be, and they<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account as Indian agent to be adjusted, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> hereby are, directed to adjust and settle the accounts of John Dougherty, as Indian agent, and to give him credit in such settlement for annuities paid by him to the chiefs and head men of the Indians, when he had been instructed to make the payments to the heads of families, and to the Indians individually.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXIV: for the relief of James Young.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Young.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Public Buildings be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lot in Washing-ton city to be conveyed to him.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby, required to convey, in fee simple, to James Young, or his assigns, lot number sixteen, square six hundred and eighty-six, in the city of Washington, upon the payment by said Young, or his assigns, for said Jot, at the rate of one cent per square foot; <proviso><i>Provided, however, </i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>That said Young, or his assigns, shall pay for said lot, at the rate aforesaid, within six months after the passage of this act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXV: for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Bailey E. Clarke.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of Bailey E. Clarke.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consideration money for certain lots to be reminded.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized and required to pay to the heirs and legal representatives of Bailey E. Clarke, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, two hundred dollars, which was paid into the treasury by William Bailey as the consideration money of lots numbers twenty and twenty-two, in square number five hundred and fourteen, sold to him by the commissioners of the city of Washington, the whole of which square had been previously sold and conveyed by the said commissioners to James Greenleaf; and which said lots were sold by the said Bailey to Joseph Combs, and by him to the said Bailey E. Clarke.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXVI: to extend the patent of Robert Eastman for a further period of seven years.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to extend the patent of Robert Eastman for a further period of seven years.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be, and hereby is, granted unto Robert<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for a circular saw clap-board machine, extended for seven years.</p></sidenote> Eastman, a citizen of the United States, his heirs, administrators, and assigns, for the term of seven years from the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, an invention called a “Circular Saw Clap-board Machine,” a description of which is given in a schedule annexed to letters patent <page identifier="/us/stat/6/614">614</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 87, 88, 89. 1835.</centerRunningHead>granted to the said Robert Eastman and Josiah Jaquith for the same, on the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXVII: for the relief of Richard T. Archer.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard T. Archer.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to purchase a tract of land.</p></sidenote>That Richard T. Archer, of the state of Mississippi, be, and he is hereby, authorized to become the purchaser of the south half of section thirty-three, of township twenty, of range two east, of lands in the north-western district of lands in the late Choctaw purchase, in the state of Mississippi, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the said half section of land having been illegally reserved from the location of the said Archer, under an assignment of a grant from the trustees of Jefferson college, in the said state, at the public sale of lands at Chocehuma, in the mouth of October, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXVIII: for the relief of William O’Neal and Robert Morrison.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 614</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William O’Neal and Robert Morrison.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to issue to William O’Neal.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be issued to William O’Neal, of the state of Indiana, a patent for the east half of the north-west quarter of section number thirty-one, of township number twenty-two north, of range number eleven east, in the Fort Wayne land district upon his relinquishing to the United States, the east half of the north-west quarter of section number thirty-one, of town-ship number twenty-two north, of range number ten east, in the land district aforesaid, which was entered through mistake.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two patents to issue to R. Morrison.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be issued to Robert Morrison, of die state of Indiana, patents for the north-east fourth of the south-east quarter of section twenty-one, in range two west, of township twenty north, and, also, for the south-east fourth of the north-east quarter of the same section, town-ship, and range, within the Crawfordsville land district, in the state of Indiana, upon his relinquishing to the United States the south-west fourth of the south-east quarter, and the south-east fourth of the south-west quarter of the same section, township, and range, which was entered through mistake.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXIX: to authorize Letters Patent to be issued to Francis B. Ogden.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 614</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize Letters Patent to be issued to Francis B. Ogden.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent for an engine for producing motive power to issue.</p></sidenote>That letters patent be issued, in the usual form, to Francis B. Ogden, a citizen of the United States, for “an engine for producing motive power, whereby a greater quantity of power is obtained by a given quantity of fuel than heretofore,” upon his com-plying with all the provisions of the several acts of Congress relative to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>the issuing of letters patent: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, instead of the oath required by law to be made by an inventor, it shall be sufficient for the said Francis B. Ogden to swear or affirm “that he does verily believe that he, in conjunction with one John Ericsson, a subject of the King <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of Sweden, is the true inventor of said engine:”</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also, </i>That he shall further swear or affirm “that the said John Ericsson hath made to him a bona fide assignment of all the right, title, and interest, of him, the said John, in and to the said invention in the United States of America.”</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Invention to be introduced into public use in two years.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the said letters patent, and all the privileges thereby granted to the said Francis B. Ogden, shall cease, determine, and become absolutely null and void, without resort <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 90, 91, 92. 1835.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/615">615</page>to legal process, to repeal, annul, or cancel the same, in case the said Francis B. Ogden or his assigns shall fail to introduce the said invention into public use in the United States, within two years from the passing of this act, or in case of his or their omission to continue such public use in the United States for the period of one entire year at any time after such introduction thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That no patent heretofore granted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent not to be invalidated by one granted in a foreign country.</p></sidenote> to the said Ogden and Ericsson, or to either of them, for said invention, in any foreign country, shall have the effect to invalidate the patent to be granted under and by virtue of this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XC: for the relief John Tice, assignee of William Pennington.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 615</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief John Tice, assignee of William Pennington.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Tice, assignee of William Pennington<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May select a quarter section of land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized to select any quarter section of land in the tract heretofore assigned for military bounties, in the state of Illinois, not otherwise appropriated, and containing no more than one hundred and sixty acres, in lieu of the south-east quarter of section twenty-eight, of township eight north, in range one west, which was on the seventeenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, patented to said Pennington in mistake. And on reporting the selection hereby authorized to the register of the proper land district, accompanied by a relinquishment to the United States of the title of said Tice, to said quarter section twenty-eight, a patent shall issue in the name of. said Tice, for the quarter section selected as aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCI: to authorize the sale of certain lands belonging to the University of Michigan.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 615</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the sale of certain lands belonging to the University of Michigan.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William Woodbridge, John Biddle, and the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees authorized to sell certain lands at public auction.</p></sidenote> Governor of the Territory of Michigan, trustees of the university of said Territory, be, and they are hereby, authorized to sell, at public auction, to the highest bidder, after sixty days’ previous notice of the time and place in three of the newspapers of said Territory, the following tracts of land belonging to said university, and lying near Toledo, on the Maumee river of Lake Erie, to wit: tracts number three and four, the south-west quarter of section number two, and the west half of section number three, in township number three within the “Twelve Mile Reservation,” at the foot of the rapids of the said Maumee river; and the said trustees are hereby authorized to make good and sufficient conveyance of said lands; and the product arising from the sale thereof shall be considered, and shall constitute a part of the general fund appropriated for the benefit of the university of Michigan.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCII: for the relief of George C. Seaton.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 615</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George C. Seaton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of arrears of pension</p></sidenote> is hereby, directed to pay out of any moneys in the treasury not other-wise appropriated, to George C. Seaton, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, the sum of two hundred and eighty-eight dollars, arrears of pension from the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, when his proof was completed, till the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, when his case was finally determined at the War Department, and his certificate of pension issued.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCIII: to authorize the Secretary of State to issue letters patent to James Jones.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 616</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/616">616</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98. 1835.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the Secretary of State to issue letters patent to James Jones.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letters patent to issue for certain improvements in the making of rovings, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to James Jones, for his invention of “certain improvements in the making of rovings, spinning and doubling of cotton, silk, flax, and other fibrous substances,” upon his complying with all the provisions of the existing laws, except so far as they require on the part of aliens a residence of two years in the United States.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter XCIV: for the relief of Thomas Buford.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Buford.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for advances to militia-men.</p></sidenote>That the sum of seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-five cents be paid to Thomas Buford, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to reimburse him for advances to that amount made by him to several American militia-men, to furnish themselves with provisions and clothes upon their way to their homes, after having been released from captivity by the enemy during the late war.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter XCV: for the relief of Henry Awkward.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Awkward.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote>That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Henry Awkward, of the city of Washington, the sum of four hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter XCVI: for the relief of the children of Dominick Lynch.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the children of Dominick Lynch.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain estate to be released and assigned to them.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, on behalf of the United States, to cause to be released and assigned to the children of Dominick Lynch the interest in the estate of his father, heretofore assigned by the said Dominick <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1831, ch. 62.</p></sidenote>for the use of the United States, upon obtaining the benefit of the act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States, passed the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 230.</p></sidenote>second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and the act in addition thereto, passed the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter XCVII: authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to Richard Butman the tonnage duly imposed on the schooner Brandywine.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to Richard Butman the tonnage duly imposed on the schooner Brandywine.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty on schr. Brandywine to be refunded.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to refund to Richard Butman, the owner of the schooner Brandywine, the tonnage duty imposed on said vessel on her arrival in the district of Middletown, in the state of Connecticut, which duty has been paid into the public treasury, the same vessel having been considered, through mistake, by the collector of the port, at the time of her entry, as a vessel not belonging to the United States.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter XCVIII: for the relief of William Haskell and others.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Haskell and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.</p></sidenote>That the collector of the customs for the port of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to William Haskell, owners, master, and crew, of the fishing schooner Friendship, to be distributed according to law, the same said vessel <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 99, 100, 101, 102. 1835.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/617">617</page>would have been entitled to receive as a bounty or drawback, if she had been actually at sea during the whole time required by law to en-title her to said bounty, she having been lost before she had accomplished the full term required by law.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter XCIX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Aaron Smith.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Aaron Smith.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> legal representatives of Aaron Smith, formerly of the village of Champlain, state of New York, the sum of eighty dollars, in full satisfaction of all loss and damage sustained by said Aaron Smith, by the destruction of his property while in the military service of the United States, by the troops of the United States, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter C: for the relief of Shubael Conant.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>C.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Shubael Conant.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Shubael<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote> Conant, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand and seventy-six dollars and twenty-four cents: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That he shall prove to the satisfaction of the said Secretary that he is the legal owner of the three accounts whose aggregate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> amount is the sum above mentioned, and which accompanied the said Shubael Conant’s petition; the said accounts being for forage purchased for a company of rangers in the service of the United States, in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen, under the command of Captain Audrain.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CI: for the relief of the representative of Thomas Clemmons.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the representative of Thomas Clemmons.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account for services as an artificer to be adjusted, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> audit and adjust the account of the representative of Thomas Clemmons, for his services as an artificer in the brigade of Kentucky mililia in the service of the United States, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, and allow him such reasonable compensation as he is entitled to as such representative for the services of said Thomas Clemmons as such artificer, and for expenses in removing the gunsmith tools of the said Thomas Clemmons from his residence, until they were transported at public expense, and for the expense of returning them again from the place the said Thomas Clemmons was discharged, to his residence, and for the use of said tools during the term he so had them in the public service.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the sums so found due be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> paid to said representative, out of any money in the treasury, by the Secretary of the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CII: for the relief of Theodore Owens.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Theodore Owens.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for taking census.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, required to pay to Theodore Owens, of Key West, Florida, the sum of three hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for additional compensation for taking the census in the southern district of Florida.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CIII: for the relief of John J. Avery.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/618">618</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II, Ch. 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108. 1835</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John J. Avery.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for injury to his property.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John J. Avery, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, two hundred dollars, for the use and occupation of his land, and the damage he sustained by the erection of military works thereon in eighteen hundred and fourteen, and for digging up and defacing it, and carrying the soil away.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CIV: for the relief of Riddle, Becktle, and Headington, and their representatives.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Riddle, Becktle, and Headington, and their representatives.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Riddle, Beck-tie, and Headington, and their representatives, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars and sixty-two cents, to carry into full effect the act passed for their relief at the last Congress.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CV: for the relief of Matthew C. Perry, a master commandant in the Navy of the United States.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Matthew C. Perry, a master commandant in the Navy of the United States.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for extra services, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Matthew C. Perry, master commandant in the navy of the United States, a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars, for extra services and expenses incurred by him, while commanding the United States sloop of war Concord, in obedience to orders, and, more particularly, in the reception, on board his ship, of Mehemet Ali, the Pacha of Egypt, and a numerous suite.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CVI: for the relief of E. R. Shubrick, of the United States Navy.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 618</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of E. R. Shubrick, of the United States Navy.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for extra services.</p></sidenote>That there be paid, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to E. R. Shubrick, a master commandant in the navy of the United States, the sum of one thousand three hundred dollars, being a reimbursement of extra and unavoidable expenses incurred by him while commanding the sloop of war Vincennes.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CVII: for the relief of Stephen Smith, and the heirs of Patrick Mc Rown and crew of the fishing schooner Rising States, of Bath Bay, in the state of Maine.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 618</citableAs>
<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Stephen Smith, and the heirs of Patrick Mc Rown and crew of the fishing schooner Rising States, of Bath Bay, in the state of Maine.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.</p></sidenote>That the collector of the customs for the district of Wiscasset, in the state of Maine, is hereby authorized to pay to Stephens Smith, and the heirs at law of Patrick McRown, and also the heirs of the crew, of the schooner Rising States, to be distributed according to law, the same said vessel, owners and crew would have been entitled to receive as a bounty or drawback, if she had been actually at sea during the whole time required by law to be entitled to said bounty; she. having been lost, together with her whole crew, before she had accomplished her full term required by law.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CVIII: for the relief of David Kincaid.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of David Kincaid.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote>That David Kincaid be confirmed in his title to five hundred arpens of land, situate in the forks of the river Chorette, <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 109, 110. 1835.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/619">619</page>district of St. Charles, being that lot of land claimed by the said David Kincaid, under a special permission to settle a concession from Charles Dehault Delassus, lieutenant-governor, &amp;,c., dated fourteenth January, eighteen hundred and three; and that a patent issue in the usual form for the same: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall only operate as a relinquishment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> on the part of the United States, of all their right and claim to the above-described lot of ground, and shall not be considered as interfering with the rights of third persons.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CIX: for the relief of Samuel Butler.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Butler.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for loss of wagon, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> be paid to Samuel Butler for the loss of a wagon, harness, and horse, at Buffalo, in the state of New York, by the enemy during the late war, while the same were in the service of the United States; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CX: for the relief of Mervin P. Mix.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1835-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mervin P. Mix.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy audit the claim<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for loss in disbursing treasury notes to be settled.</p></sidenote> of Mervin P. Mix, late a lieutenant in the navy of the United States, for loss incurred by him on disbursing treasury notes for the recruiting Service at New York, in the years one thousand eight hundred and four-teen, and one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and that he be authorized to credit said Mix any sum he may prove he has lost in said disbursement, not exceeding the sum of six hundred and fifty-one dollars, and seventy-nine cents: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the Secretary of the Navy,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> before he shall make said credit, shall find that the said loss arose from the sale of said notes, under the orders of Commodore Oliver H. Perry, under whose command said Mix was employed in the recruiting service.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1835-03-03">March 3, 1835</date>.
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<congress>24</congress>
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun anti held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of December,</i> 1835, <i>and ended on the fourth day of July,</i> 1836.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Jackson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Martin Van Buren</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">William R. King</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, July 1, 1836; <inline class="smallCaps">James K. Polk</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chapter II: to authorize the allowance of certain charges in the accounts of the American Consul at London.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>II</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>II.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the allowance of certain charges in the accounts of the American Consul at London.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-01-19">Jan. 19, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for clerk hire. &amp;c. to be continued.</p></sidenote> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and the same hereby are, authorized and directed in settling the accounts of the American consul at London, to continue the allowance for clerk hire, office rent, stationery, fuel, and other miscellaneous expenses from the first day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and until otherwise provided for by law, in like manner as the same have heretofore usually been allowed, in settling the accounts of the said consulate, and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-01-19">January 19, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter IV: for the relief of Jane Taylor and her children, the heirs of the late James Plunkett.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 620</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-02-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jane Taylor and her children, the heirs of the late James Plunkett.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-09">Feb. 9, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse, &amp;c. impressed.</p></sidenote>to pay Jane Taylor, for herself and children of James Plunkett, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, one hundred and fifty dollars, the value of a horse and accoutrements impressed into the military service of the United States, during the late war, to aid in transporting ordnance on the day of the engagement with the enemy at Bladensburg, and not restored, which was the property of James Plunkett, then the husband of the said Jane.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-09">February 9, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter VI: for the relief of the heirs of Guiseppe Franzoni, and the heirs of Francis Jaraella.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Guiseppe Franzoni, and the heirs of Francis Jaraella.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-09">Feb. 9, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to Virginia Franzoni as administratrix, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred dollars, to Virginia Franzoni, as administratrix of Guiseppe Franzoni, as an allowance to close a contract with him to return his family to Italy, their native country.</content>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/620" renderingPosition="bottom">620</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 8, 9, 10. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/621">621</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services of F. Jardella.</p></sidenote> pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand and fifty dollars, to Virginia Franzoni, as guardian of the children and heirs of Francis Jardella, being the amount due said Jardella for services on the Capitol, in executing the ornamental fine carving, and superintending the same, in addition to what he received in his life-time.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-09">February 9, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter VIII: for the relief of Doctor William Baker, of the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Doctor William Baker, of the District of Columbia.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of sixty dollars to Dr. William<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for surgical services.</p></sidenote> Baker, of the District of Columbia, for surgical services rendered by him to British prisoners of war, left at Washington, in August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter IX: for the relief of the legal representatives of William Findlay.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of William Findlay.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to member of Congress.</p></sidenote> representatives of William Findlay, two thousand and eight]’ dollars, the balance due the said Findlay as a member of the House of Representatives from the state of Pennsylvania to the fourteenth Congress.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter X: to authorize a settlement of the accounts of Marinus W. Gilbert, late an army sutler.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize a settlement of the accounts of Marinus W. Gilbert, late an army sutler.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to settle the claims of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sutler’s claim to be settled.</p></sidenote> Marinus W. Gilbert, whether in his own right, or in the right of Thomas Gilbert, a sutler in the army of the United States, for debts due to him from deceased and deserted non-commissioned officers and soldiers, and which have not heretofore been paid, upon the same principles of justice and equity as are extended to sutlers under the existing army regulations; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said accounting officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall, in said settlement, be the judges of the validity and equity of the claims of the said Marinus W. Gilbert, arising as aforesaid, in lieu of the certificates from a board of officers, as is the practice under existing army regulations.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the proper accounting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on certain payments allowed.</p></sidenote> officers of the treasury be authorized and required to allow to the said Marinus W. Gilbert, interest on money paid and advanced by him for letters of administration on the estates of deceased soldiers and non-commissioned officers: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no larger sum shall, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> any case, be awarded to said Marinus W. Gilbert on account of his claims against a deceased or deserted soldier or non-commissioned officer, either as principal or interest, than appears, from the muster and pay rolls, to have been actually and justly due to such non-commissioned officer and soldier, from the United States.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the sums awarded to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> said Marinus W. Gilbert, under this act, be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XI: for the relief of James Tilford.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/622">622</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Tilford.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury be, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be settled for property destroyed.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized to settle the claim of James Tilford on the United States, in his individual and representative character, in the same manner as if said claim had been presented, and remained, on the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, unsettled on the files of the office of Commissioner of Claims, established by virtue of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.</p></sidenote>act entitled “An act to authorize the payment of property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 110.</p></sidenote>States, and for other purposes/’ passed ninth April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and the act amendatory thereof, passed third March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That whatever sum of money shall be found to be due and owing from the United States to the said James Tilford, on the liquidation of his claims thereon, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XII: for the relief of Joseph Cooper.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Cooper.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement of certain moneys.</p></sidenote>any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Joseph Cooper, the sum of five hundred and ninety-five dollars and sixty-five cents; being the amount paid by him as interest on money due from the United States to him on a contract for supplying the emigrating Creek Indians with beef, but which money was not paid when demanded, because the agent making said contract had not made a report thereof to the War Department, but which was paid on the thirty-first of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XIII: for the relief of the heirs of Thomas F. Townsley.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Thomas F. Townsley.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for damages on certain drafts.</p></sidenote>heirs of Thomas F. Townsley, seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars eighty-one cents, for damages paid by the said Thomas F. Townsley, on drafts drawn by Lieutenant Graham, in favor of said Townsley, on George Gibson, Commissary General of Subsistence, which were pro-tested, and afterwards paid; said drafts were for supplies furnished at New Orleans, and necessary for the troops of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XIV: for the relief of Marinus W. Gilbert.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 622</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Marinus W. Gilbert.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Marinus <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of interest on money advanced by him.</p></sidenote>W. Gilbert, the sum of one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty cents, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, being interest on money advanced by him to pay off the troops in the service of the United States, on the twentieth of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen, and not repaid when demanded.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XV: for the relief of Richard Hardesty.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard Hardesty.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for mason work.</p></sidenote>any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars to Richard Hardesty, in <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 16, 17, 18, 19. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/623">623</page>full compensation for extra mason work done by him, in placing eight hundred and eleven feet of dowelled coping of heavy stone on the wails constructed by him on the Cumberland road, in pursuance of directions from the superintendent of said road, authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XVI: for the relief of David Bartlett.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of David Bartlett.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to David Bartlett, of the state of Rhode Island, the sum of twelve hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for money expended, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and thirty dollars and thirty-two cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being in full of the balance due for money paid and expended by him for the public service, as a captain in the army of the United States, during the late war.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XVII: for the relief of William Baker, of the State of New York.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 623</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Baker, of the State of New York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for damages to his property, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> to William Baker, the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty cents, being for the use and for damages done to the property of the said William Baker, at Sackett’s Harbor, by the troops of the United States, while in possession thereof, under a military order, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XVIII: for the relief of Daniel Whitney.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Whitney.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Daniel Whitney, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote> ninety-nine dollars, the amount of an account against the United States in favor of Lieutenant Burdine, for the transportation of his baggage from Washington to Galena, which account was transferred by said Lieutenant Burdine to said Daniel Whitney, and was lost with the trunk of Captain Russel, between Fredericktown in the State of Maryland, and the city of Washington, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-three, and has not been reclaimed or paid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XIX: for the relief of Andrew Dodge.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Andrew Dodge.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury settle and adjust the claim of Andrew Dodge, for expenses incurred during<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for expenses, &amp;c. in the late war, to be settled.</p></sidenote> the late war with Great Britain in marching the men under his command to join his regiment, and for the transportation of artillery and artillery apparatus, and for the use of his own and other horses necessarily hired or employed by him, and for their keeping, on such satisfactory evidence as the said Andrew Dodge shall be enabled to give, and the said Third Auditor prescribe.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> pay to the said Andrew Dodge, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, such sum as the said Third Auditor shall certify he has allowed on the claims aforesaid.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter XX: for the relief of Lieutenant Washington Seawell.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 624</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/624">624</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Lieutenant Washington Seawell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be credited with money lost.</p></sidenote>and directed to credit Lieutenant Washington Seawell, any sum of money he may prove to the satisfaction of said Secretary, he had in his possession that belonged to the United States, and which he lost, without his fault, by the explosion of the steamboat Lioness, on Red river, on the nineteenth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; not to exceed, in all, the sum of seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and seventy-eight cents.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXI: for the relief of Laurentius M. Eiler.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 624</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Laurentius M. Eiler.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for surveying to be adjusted and paid.</p></sidenote>hereby authorized to adjust and settle the claim of Laurentius M. Eiler, for surveys made in the Territory of Arkansas, under a written contract made with him by William McRee, surveyor of the land of the United States, in the States of Illinois and Missouri and said Territory, on the thirtieth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and to pay said Eiler, the balance found due him under the terms of said contract, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>not otherwise appropriated: <i>Prodded,</i> The Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that said Eiler, on his part, has performed his covenants in said contract.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter XXII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Willie Blount.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Willie Blount.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay the legal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for disbursing moneys for U.S. in the late war.</p></sidenote>representatives of Willie Blount, the sum of three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, found due to him for disbursing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the United States, during the late war, and for which he has not received any compensation, by balancing the accounts oi said Willie Blount on the books of the department, without interest; and the balance of said sum of three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, if any remains after balancing said accounts, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXIII: for the relief of Joseph Russ and Stephen J. Roach.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Russ and Stephen J. Roach.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Quartermaster-General settle the account <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts for constructing a road, to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>of Joseph Russ and Stephen J. Roach, for labor bestowed and money expended in repairing or constructing a road leading from Pensacola to Tallahassee, in Florida, under a contract made on the twenty-sixth of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, of which they are the holders, and to allow them therefor, such sum, so far as the labor be-stowed and the money expended were advantageously applied, taking as the data for making the allowance, the price to have been paid for making or repairing the entire road, on completing it according to the contract.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXIV: for the relief of David S. Campbell.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of David S. Campbell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for a rifle gun lost.</p></sidenote>is hereby, directed to pay to David S. Campbell, out of any money in <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 25, 26, 27, 28. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/625">625</page>the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty dollars, for a ride gun lost by him in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, in marching between Vincennes and Tippecanoe, in the militia service of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXV: for the relief of John Saunders and Perley Putnam.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Saunders and Perley Putnam.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to pay unto John Saunders and Perley Putnam four hundred and ninety<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of superintendents of public buildings.</p></sidenote> dollars and twenty-seven cents, in full satisfaction of their services as superintendents of the public buildings in Salem, Massachusetts, it being at the rate of two and a half per centum on the amount expended, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXVI: for the relief of Benjamin Franklin Stickney.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin Franklin Stickney.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to settle the accounts of Benjamin Franklin<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His accounts as Indian agent to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote> Stickney, late agent of Indian affairs at Fort Wayne, for all services of a military nature or character which shall appear to have been performed by the said Benjamin Franklin Stickney for the United States, between the twenty-second day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, and the tenth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen, and to allow him such compensation for the same as has heretofore been allowed to other agents of Indian affairs for similar services, and that the amount found to be due the said Benjamin Franklin Stickney, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no allowance shall be made under the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of this act, to the said Benjamin Franklin Stickney, for the performance of any of the ordinary duties of an agent of Indian affairs.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXVII: for the relief of John McDonell.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John McDonell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John McDonell, assignee of a claim of Pierre Le Blanc, out of any money in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for forage, fuel, &amp;c. necessarily taken.</p></sidenote> the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and eighty dollars and twenty-five cents, for forage, fuel, provisions, and other articles, necessarily taken and used by a corps of mounted Kentucky volunteers, under the command of Col. R. M. Johnson, the property of said Pierre Le Blanc, and which were taken by order of said Johnson, at the river Ecorces, on his march into Canada, in the fall of the year eighteen hundred and thirteen.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXVIII: for the relief of Jacob B. Gilbert.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 625</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jacob B. Gilbert.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Jacob B. Gilbert, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a house destroyed.</p></sidenote> the sum of six hundred dollars, being the value of a house destroyed by the enemy during the late war, on the Niagara frontier, which belonged to the said Jacob B. Gilbert, and at the time of its destruction, was used as a place of military deposit.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXIX: for the relief of the executor of Charles Wilkins.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 626</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/626">626</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 29, 30, 31, 32, 33. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the executor of Charles Wilkins.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of interest found due on his claim to be paid.</p></sidenote>to settle the claim of Benjamin W. Dudley, executor of Charles Wilkins, deceased, against the United States, for interest on a liquidated demand in favor of Jonathan Taylor, James Morrison and the said Charles Wilkins, who were lessees of the United States of the salt works, in the state of Illinois, upon the same principles that the interest upon the said demand was settled with the legal representatives of the said James <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 1, 1834, ch. 35.</p></sidenote>Morrison, deceased, pursuant to the act of Congress, approved the first of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and that the portion of said interest ascertained to be due to the said Benjamin W. Dudley, executor as aforesaid, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXX: for the relief of Henry Knowles, senior.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Knowles, senior.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse impressed.</p></sidenote>the value of a horse, the property of said Knowles, impressed into the service of the United States in the year eighteen hundred and four-teen, by order of Captain Humphreys of Virginia, to transport the baggage of his company to Baltimore, and not returned; and that the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the said Henry Knowles, senior, the value, when so ascertained, out of any money in the treasury not other-wise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXXI: for the relief of John Pollock.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Pollock.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a boat impressed.</p></sidenote>Pollock, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one hundred and forty-four dollars, as the assignee of a claim of Jonathan Lowe, for a boat impressed into the military service of the United States on the sixth of December, eighteen hundred and fourteen, to convey a corps of Kentucky militia to New Orleans; and as the assignee of a claim of John Daniel, for use of one ferry flat and services rendered by order of Major-General John Thomas, for the Kentucky detached militia, in December eighteen hundred and fourteen.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXXII: for the relief of Joel Sartain.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 626</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joel Sartain.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote>to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty-five dollars to Joel Sartain, the value of his horse lost in the military service of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXXIII: for the relief of the representatives of Thomas Beacham.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 626</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the representatives of Thomas Beacham.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for properly destroyed.</p></sidenote>legal representatives of Thomas Beacham, six hundred dollars, the value of a barn, the property of the late Captain Thomas Beacham, of the county of Northumberland, and state of Virginia, which was burnt <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 34, 35, 36, 37, 38. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/627">627</page>by the British in the late war, and that the value thereof be paid to the legal representatives of said Beacham, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXXIV: for the relief of Joshua Cullumber.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 627</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joshua Cullumber.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to pay to Joshua Cullumber one thousand dollars, the value of the schooner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a schooner impressed.</p></sidenote> Two Brothers, owned by him, and forcibly impressed into the service of the United States, by order of an officer, and destroyed by the British, in eighteen hundred and fourteen, in St. Leonard’s creek, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXXV: for the relief of Abner Stilson.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Abner Stilson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Abner Stilson, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for carrying an express, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of sixty dollars, for carrying an express from the settlers of Elkhart, in the state of Indiana, to Governor Noble, and for carrying his reply back to the said settlers, during the Indian disturbances, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXXVI: for the relief of Owen Rice, and others, representatives of Jacob Eyerly.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Owen Rice, and others, representatives of Jacob Eyerly.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Solicitor of the Treasury be authorized and directed to examine the claims of the representatives of Jacob<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to be examined, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Eyerly, and to allow, if he shall find them to be just, an amount which will balance the accounts of said Eyerly, as they were on the books of the treasury department, at the death of said Eyerly, in the year eighteen hundred.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXXVII: for the relief of Daniel Homans.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Homans.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to adjust the claim of Daniel Homans arising<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for damages under a contract to be settled.</p></sidenote> under a contract with him to build a marine hospital at Charleston in the State of South Carolina, in consequence of the delay occasioned by the difficulty of fixing a foundation on the lot first selected for that building; and the amount of damages of such delay, found to be justly due said Homans on the adjustment of said claim, is hereby directed to be paid him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXXVIII: to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the persons who were the proprietors of the stock of the late Fire Insurance Company of the town of Alexandria, on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain persons incorporated as a fire insurance company.</p></sidenote> the eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and the representatives and assigns of such of them as have since that time died, or transferred their interests, be, and the same are hereby incorporated and declared to be a body politic, under the name and style of the Fire Insurance Company of Alexandria.</content>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/628">628</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 39, 45. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">The property of the late company vested in them.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the property, real and personal, owned by the late Fire Insurance Company of Alexandria, be, and the same is hereby vested in the company newly created, subject, however, to all debts, contracts, and engagements of the former company.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 9, 1814, ch. 24, revived.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That an act of Congress, passed on the ninth day of March, eighteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An act to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company, in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia,” with the exception of the first, second, and tenth sections thereof, be, and the same is hereby revived and declared to be in full force as to the company hereby created, and that the company hereby created, shall have nil the powers and capacities which were granted to the former company by the said act; and shall be subject to the payment of all debts due, or contracted by the former company, and shall be chargeable with all their contracts.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election of officers, when held.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the election of president and directors as made by the stockholders of the former company on the first Monday in November last, be, and the same is hereby con-firmed: that the president and directors shall continue in office for one year from the first Monday in November last, and until others shall be chosen in their stead; and that all acts by them done within the provisions of the former charter shall be, and are hereby declared to be binding and obligatory on the company hereby created.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act to continue in force 18 years.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That this act shall continue in force, for the term of eighteen years, from and after the passing there-of, and until the end of the session of Congress then next following.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXXIX: for the relief of Stephen Crittenton.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-02-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Stephen Crittenton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-02-17">Feb. 17, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for ground conveyed to U. S.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be paid to Stephen Crittenton, of the city of Middletown, in the state of Connecticut, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, being the value of a piece of ground, situate in said city, which he caused to be conveyed to the United States, in part for a site on which the Secretary of the Treasury had decided that he would build a custom-house.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-02-17">February 17, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XLV: to authorize the conveyance of certain lands belonging to the University of Michigan.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 628</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-03-22</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the conveyance of certain lands belonging to the University of Michigan.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-03-22">March 22, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the trustees of the University of Michigan, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trustees may convey certain lands.</p></sidenote>be and they are hereby authorized, to convey to William Oliver, by a deed signed by the president, and countersigned by the secretary of said board of trustees, the following tracts of land, lying near Toledo, on the Miami of the Lake, to wit, tracts numbered three and four, and the south-west quarter of section number two, and the west half of section number three, in township number three, within the twelve mile reservation at the foot of the rapids of the said Miami river, pursuant to a contract entered into between the said trustees, and the said William Oliver, on the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days of October, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1835, ch. 91, repealed.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the act entitled An act to authorize the sale of certain lands belonging to the University of Michigan, approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: <i>Provided,</i> That the product arising <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 49, 51, 63, 64, 65. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/629">629</page>from the sale of said land, shall be considered, and shall constitute a part of the general fund appropriated for the University of Michigan.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-03-22">March 22, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XLIX: for the relief of Henry B. Tyler, executor of Colonel Richard Smith, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-04-09</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry B. Tyler, executor of Colonel Richard Smith, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-04-09">April 9, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pass to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit to be allowed.</p></sidenote> credit of Henry B. Tyler, executor of the last will and testament of Lieutenant Colonel Richard Smith, deceased, the sum of two thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-four cents, being the balance remaining unpaid to said Smith of the moneys accruing to him under the provisions of an act of Congress approved on the 14th day<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 223.</p></sidenote> of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act concerning certain officers of the marine corps,” and to pay the same out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-04-09">April 9, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LI: to extend the time for selling the land granted to the incorporated Kentucky asylum, for teaching the deaf and dumb.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-04-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to extend the time for selling the land granted to the incorporated Kentucky asylum, for teaching the deaf and dumb.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-04-11">April 11, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the further time of two years, from and after the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for selling land extended for two years.</p></sidenote> and the same is hereby allowed the trustees of the Centre college of Kentucky, who are also trustees of the Kentucky asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb, to sell the land granted to said trustees for the use and benefit of said asylum, by an act entitled “An act for the benefit of the incorporated Kentucky asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb,”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 5, 1826, ch. 24.</p></sidenote> approved the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-04-11">April 11, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXIII: for the relief of Benedict Alford, and Robert Brush.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-05-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benedict Alford, and Robert Brush.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required to place the names of Benedict Alford and Robert Brush on the list of revolutionary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> pensioners, who shall be entitled to and receive, pensions at the rates following: The said Benedict Alford at the rate of sixty dollars, and the said Robert Brush at the rate of forty dollars, per annum, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during their natural lives.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXIV: for the relief of Jesse Sykes.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-05-14</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jesse Sykes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Jesse Sykes, annually, for the term of his natural life, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of twenty dollars, to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXV: for the relief of Benjamin Bennet, Peter Cuthrie, George W. Bennet, James Calvin, John Fifer, and the heirs of Henry Sumpter, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 629</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-05-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin Bennet, Peter Cuthrie, George W. Bennet, James Calvin, John Fifer, and the heirs of Henry Sumpter, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Benjamin Bennet be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such manner and form<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Benj. Bennet authorized to relinquish certain land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe, the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of section number thirty, in <page identifier="/us/stat/6/630">630</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 65. 1836.</centerRunningHead>township number three south, of range number thirteen west, of the second principal meridian, in the district of lands offered for sale at Vincennes, in the state of Indiana; and upon such relinquishment having been made, as aforesaid, the said Benjamin Bennet is hereby authorized to enter in lieu of the lands so relinquished, any other quarter quarter section of any of the unsold public lands in said district subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">H. Sumpter’s representatives authorized to relinquish land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the legal representatives of Henry Sumpter, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in the manner and form prescribed in the first section of this act, the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of section number thirty, in township three south, of range number thirteen west, of the second principal meridian, in the district of lands offered for sale at Vincennes, in the state of Indiana; and upon such relinquishment having been made as aforesaid, the legal representatives of the said Henry Sumpter, deceased, are hereby authorized to enter, in lieu of the lands so relinquished, any other quarter quarter section of any of the unsold public lands in the said district subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">P. Guthrie authorized to relinquish land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That Peter Guthrie be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in the manner and form prescribed by the first section of this act, the south-east quarter of the south-east quarter of section number nineteen, in township number three south, of range number thirteen west, of the second principal meridian, in the district of lands offered for sale at Vincennes, in the state of Indiana; also, the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of section number twenty, in township number three south, of range number thirteen west, of the second principal meridian, in the said Vincennes land district; and upon such relinquishment having been made, as aforesaid, the said Peter Guthrie is hereby authorized to enter, in lieu of the lands so relinquished, any other two quarter quarter sections oi any of the unsold public lands in the said land district subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">G.W. Bennett may relinquish land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That George Washington Bennett be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in the manner and form prescribed in the first section of this act, the south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of section number twenty-eight, in township number three south, of range number thirteen west, of the principal meridian, in the district of lands offered for sale at Vincennes, in the state of Indiana; and upon such relinquishment having been made, as aforesaid, the said George Washington Bennett shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter, in lieu of the lands so relinquished, any other quarter quarter section of the unsold public lands in the said land district subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. Calvin may relinquish, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That James Calvin be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in the manner and form prescribed by the provisions of the first section of this act, the south-west quarter of the south quarter of section number eighteen, in township number three south, of range number thirteen west, of the second principal meridian, in the district of lands offered for sale at Vincennes, in the state of Indiana; and upon such relinquishment having been made as aforesaid, the said James Calvin is hereby authorized to enter, in lieu of the lands so relinquished, any other quarter quarter section of the public lands in the said land district, subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. Fifer may relinquish, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That John Fifer be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in the manner and form as prescribed by the provisions of the first section of this act, the east half of the south-east quarter of fractional section number eigh-<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 66, 67, 68. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/631">631</page>teen, in township number three south, of range thirteen west, of the second principal meridian, in the district of lands offered for sale at Vincennes, in the state of Indiana; and upon such relinquishment having been made, as aforesaid, the said John Fifer is hereby authorized to enter, in lieu of the land so relinquished, any other half quarter section of the public lands in the said land district, subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter LXVI: for the relief of Abiel Roads and others, owners, and the officers and crew, of the schooner Mary, of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Abiel Roads and others, owners, and the officers and crew, of the schooner Mary, of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> owners, master, and crew, of the schooner Mary, of Marblehead, of forty tons burden, which was lost going on a fishing voyage, on the fifteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the same said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty or drawback, if she had been actually at sea during the full time required by law to en-title her to said bounty.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter LXVII: for the relief of Reuben Colburn.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Reuben Colburn.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Collector at Bath, in the state of Maine, be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Reuben Colburn, captain of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certain fine to be refunded.</p></sidenote> the brig Billow, of Hallowell, fifty dollars, it being the amount of a fine paid by him to the Collector at New Orleans, for departing from Bath in said brig Billow, without a clearance, in October, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. It being in evidence that it was altogether a mistake and not with a design to defraud the revenue.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXVIII: granting pensions, and arrearages of pensions, to certain persons therein named.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting pensions, and arrearages of pensions, to certain persons therein named.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> 
<p class="inline fontsize10">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to pay to the several persons herein named, out of any money<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain persons to receive pensions.</p></sidenote> in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, pensions at the rate set to each person’s name, respectively, commencing at the time herein named, and to continue to each one during his natural life, viz:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To Enoch Blaisdell, of Dearborn county, Indiana, at the rate of seventeen dollars a month, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To Jared Buckingham, at the rate of five dollars, and one-third of a dollar per month, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To Beverly Roy, at the rate of seventeen dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To Parsons Smith, at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To Josiah H. Brown, at the rate of four dollars a month, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To Isaac Carter, late a captain in the thirty-fourth regiment of infantry, at the rate of twenty dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To James Calvin, of Johnson county, Indiana, at the rate of six dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/632">632</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 69, 70, 71, 72. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To James B. Folsom, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the 12th day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</p>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">E. Nicholas to receive a pension.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to Edward Nicholas, now an invalid pensioner, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, an arrearage of pension at the same rate per month now allowed to him, commencing at the time of his discharge from the army, upon the certificate of a surgeon of his disability, and continuing to the period when his name was placed on the roll of invalid pensioners.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Also, Origen Eaton.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That there be, and hereby is, granted to Origen Eaton, of Sullivan, in the county of Madison and state of New York, a pension at the rate of twenty-five dollars a month, in lieu of the pension now received by hint, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXIX: for the relief [of] Israel Ingalls.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief [of] Israel Ingalls.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>required to place the name of Israel Ingalls, of Hamilton county, Ohio, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners; and to pay him a pension, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, to commence, and be computed, from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXX: for the relief of Amy Wilson.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Amy Wilson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War pay to Amy Wilson, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of amount due on a pension certificate.</p></sidenote>widow of Valentine Wilson, the sum of eighty-nine dollars and forty-three cents, being the amount due on a pension certificate given in favor of the said Valentine Wilson at the War Office of the United States, on the eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and subsequently to his death, which took place on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXI: granting a pension to Colonel Gideon Morgan, of the State of Tennessee.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-05-14</dc:date>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Colonel Gideon Morgan, of the State of Tennessee.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 2, 1836, ch. 267, sec. 3.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Colonel Gideon Morgan, of the State of Tennessee, on the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of thirty dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXII: for the relief of Elizabeth Mays, mother of Wilson Mays, deceased, in the nasal service if the United States.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 632</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-05-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elizabeth Mays, mother of Wilson Mays, deceased, in the nasal service if the United States.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That a pension of one hundred and fourteen dollars <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to her.</p></sidenote>per annum, for the term of five years, from the third day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, be allowed and paid, in half-yearly payments, out of the Navy Pension fund, to Elizabeth Mays, the mother of Wilson Mays, late a carpenter’s mate in the Navy of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That such pension shall be deemed to continue only during the life and widowhood of said Elizabeth Mays.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXIII: for the relief of Joseph W. Wormstead of Marblehead, master and owner of the schooner Sally, and the crew of said vessel.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 633</citableAs>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 73, 74, 75, 78, 83. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/633">633</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph W. Wormstead of Marblehead, master and owner of the schooner Sally, and the crew of said vessel.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> Joseph W. Wormstead and the crew of the schooner Sally, which was lost at sea, to be distributed according to law, the same allowance or bounty as they would have been entitled to receive if the said vessel had arrived in port after having completed her fishing term, and complied’ with all the requirements of law necessary to secure such bounty.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXIV: for the relief of Peter Doxtator and Jacob Weaver.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter Doxtator and Jacob Weaver.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and required to place the names of Peter Doxtator and Jacob Weaver, on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> the list of revolutionary pensioners, and pay to each of them the sum of eighty dollars, per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during their natural lives.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXV: for the relief of Melancthon Taylor Woolsey.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Melancthon Taylor Woolsey.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be retained from the pay of Melancthon Taylor Woolsey, a captain in the navy of the United States, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">One-third of his pay to he retained, until, &amp;c.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1835, ch. 27.</p></sidenote> third part of the amount thereof, and no more, from the time of the passage of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, regulating the pay of the navy, until the amount of arrears due from said Woolsey to the United States shall be discharged; any act or part of an act to the contrary notwithstanding.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-05-14">May 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXVIII: for the relief of the representative of Robert Jouet, deceased.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the representative of Robert Jouet, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-20">May 20, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a lieutenant to be allowed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 2, 1836, ch. 274.</p></sidenote> do settle the claim of James W. Boulden, representative of Robert Jouet, deceased, a lieutenant of the Virginia line, on continental establishment, in the revolutionary army, and to allow him five years’ full pay of a lieutenant of infantry of the said line.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-05-20">May 20, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXIII: for the relief of Silas Fisher, a Choctaw Indian.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-05-28</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Silas Fisher, a Choctaw Indian.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-05-28">May 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the location of the reservation secured to Silas Fisher, by the second article of supplement to the treaty of Dancing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location of reservation confirmed.</p></sidenote> Rabbit creek, concluded with the Choctaw Indians, on the twenty-eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty, and recognised by the act of Congress, of the thirteenth of February, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 13, 1835, ch. 20.</p></sidenote> and thirty-five, which has been located on the north half of section fifteen, and the south half of section ten, township twenty-four, range eight west of the north-western district of the state of Mississippi, be, and the same is hereby confirmed, and a patent may issue, as in other cases, agreeably to said treaty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-05-28">May 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXIV: for the relief of Moses Bliss.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/634">634</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 84, 90, 91. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Moses Bliss.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-07">June 7, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him of certain fees as marshal.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be paid to Moses Bliss, late deputy marshal of the district of Vermont, out of any money remaining in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and forty dollars and fifty-six cents, being the amount of fees due him on certain process and executions in favor of the United States, which were served and executed by him while deputy marshal aforesaid; which fees were charged in his account, and disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-07">June 7, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XC: the relief of John Pierce and Daniel Van Voorhis.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-14</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>the relief of John Pierce and Daniel Van Voorhis.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-14">June 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for brass buts.</p></sidenote>money not otherwise appropriated, to John Pierce and Daniel Van Voorhis, sixty-six dollars and twenty-five cents, for thirty pairs of brass butts furnished at the navy yard, Brooklyn, of an extra quality, not enumerated in their contract.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-14">June 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCI: for the relief of Jesse Smith and others.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jesse Smith and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-14">June 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain accounts to be investigated and settled.</p></sidenote>to apply on the judgments and notes mentioned in schedules A and B, that accompany the report of N. S. Benton, the United States attorney for the northern district of New York, dated December third, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and addressed to the Solicitor of the Treasury, the official notes, due bills, drafts, or accountable receipts given by Thomas Tupper, late assistant deputy quartermaster-general, held and possessed by the persons against whom judgments have been recovered as mentioned in schedule A, and held and possessed by the persons mentioned in schedule A, and held and possessed by the persons mentioned in schedule B, against whom the United States hold notes given for property purchased at Sackett’s Harbor, provided said Secretary shall be satisfied that said notes, due bills, drafts, or accountable receipts, were given for work and labor done and performed in the erection of barracks at Sackett’s Harbor, or for materials furnished for that object, or for other expenditures in the Quartermaster’s Department, and re-main unpaid. And the said Secretary is authorized to investigate the consideration of said notes, due bills, drafts, or accountable receipts, so given by said Tupper, if he shall deem such investigation necessary to protect the United States against imposition and fraud, giving to the party interested reasonable notice of the time and place for taking testimony. If the sums found due to each person, respectively, be equal to, or greater than the judgment or judgments recovered against him without cost, then such judgment or judgments is to be discharged by said Secretary, in a case where said due bills were purchased after suit was commenced; and in such case the costs against the defendants shall be considered and taken, in settling said judgment, as a part there-of. And if the sum found due to any person mentioned in schedule B, on notes, due bills, drafts, or accountable receipts given by the said Tupper as aforesaid, be equal to, or greater than such indebtedness to the United States, then the said Secretary is directed to cancel the said debt to the United States, by applying thereto the sum so found due: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided,</i> That no such application shall be made in any case where the applicant purchased the due bills, drafts, notes, or accountable re-<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 92, 93, 94. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/635">635</page>ceipts, signed by said Tupper as aforesaid, after suit was commenced, until said applicant shall have paid the costs when suit is commenced. And in all instances where the United States have charged interest on the debt due to the United States, interest is to be computed on the claims of such person for a corresponding period.</proviso></content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the said Secretary be directed to make the like credit upon a judgment, or note, against a surety, as he shall make on a judgment, or note, against the proper principal.</content>
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<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the judgments recovered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments to remain uncollected for one year.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> remain uncollected for one year, to enable the claimants to obtain the benefit of this act, and that the suits be continued for that period, for the like purpose: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The sureties file their written consent to said indulgence with the Solicitor of the Treasury within one month after the approval of this act by the President.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-14">June 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCII: for the relief of Henry Darling.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Darling.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-14">June 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Henry Darling, of Bucksport,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of a moiety of a certain forfeiture.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents, being the moiety of a forfeiture on a license bond recovered from said Darling as a surety of John Phillips, and paid into the treasury of the Uni-ted States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-14">June 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCIII: for the relief of Joseph Gresham.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Gresham.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-14">June 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Joseph Gresham, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him of a certain forfeiture.</p></sidenote> one hundred and five dollars, being the forfeiture retained on a contract made between the United States and William Foushee, which was as-signed to John Head, the said John Head having drawn an order in favor of the said Joseph Gresham, covering the amount contained in this act: and when the aforesaid sum is paid, the proper accounting officers are directed to charge the same, to balance the account of the said John Head.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-14">June 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCIV: for the relief of the legal representative of Thomas Holiday, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-14</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representative of Thomas Holiday, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-14">June 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representative<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for money expended in the public service.</p></sidenote> of Thomas Haliday, deceased, the sum of sixty-two dollars and thirty-five cents, for that amount expended in the public service, under an order from the commandant of the marine corps in Washing-ton, in looking after public property stolen from the marine quarter-master in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, and while attending court, under a like order, on the trial of a person apprehended for secreting said property.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-14">June 14, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCV: for the relief of William Woodward and William Mitchell.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/636">636</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 95, 96, 101, 102, 103. 1836</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Woodward and William Mitchell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-14">June 14, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent fees to be refunded.</p></sidenote>any money not otherwise appropriated, thirty dollars to William Wood-ward and William Mitchell, being money paid for a patent which they do not wish should issue.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter XCVI: for the relief of Samuel W. Ruff.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel W. Ruff.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed pay of a surgeon, in lieu of pay of assistant surgeon, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the account of Samuel W. Ruff, a surgeon in the navy of the United States, and to allow him the pay and emoluments of a surgeon, in lieu of the pay and emoluments of an assistant surgeon, from the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, up to the time of his appointment as surgeon in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four; and that the amount due to the said Samuel W. Ruff, upon such settlement and allowance, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CI: for the relief of Albert Pawling, a colonel in the revolutionary war.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Albert Pawling, a colonel in the revolutionary war.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the benefits of the provisions of the act <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53, to be extended to. her.</p></sidenote>entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution,” passed May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, be extended to Albert Pawling, a colonel in the revolutionary war; and that he be paid and accounted with, in the same manner as if he had already complied with the requisitions of the fourth section thereof, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That in paying and accounting with the said Albert Pawling, any sums paid to him under the act of June seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act supplementary <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote>to the ‘act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution,’ ” be first deducted, and any further payments under the last mentioned act shall cease and be discontinued.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CII: for the relief of Elizabeth Robinson, daughter of Lieutenant Richard Wilde, deceased.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elizabeth Robinson, daughter of Lieutenant Richard Wilde, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to be made to her.</p></sidenote>not otherwise appropriated, to Elizabeth Robinson, daughter and only surviving heir of Richard Wilde, deceased, late a lieutenant in the army of the Revolution, the amount to which the said Wilde would have been entitled, had he applied for, and been allowed, a pension for total disability from the day of his resignation to the time of his death, from the twelfth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, to the first day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CIII: for the relief of Orris Gay.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Orris Gay.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Orris Gay on the list of invalid pension-<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 104, 105, 106, 107, 108. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/637">637</page>ers, and to cause him to be paid, as other pensioners on said list, at the rate of eight dollars per month, from and after the eleventh day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CIV: for the relief of the widow of Samuel Gibbs.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the widow of Samuel Gibbs.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to allow and pay to the widow of Samuel Gibbs, deceased, late<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to be made to her.</p></sidenote> a pensioner on the revolutionary invalid pension roll, the amount which would have become due to the said Samuel as an invalid pensioner, from the fifteenth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, to the time<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote> of his death, if he had not taken the benefit of any act of Congress which required him to relinquish such invalid pension as a condition of his being placed on the list of revolutionary pensioners.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CV: for the relief of the heirs of Richard Anderson.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Richard Anderson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to allow and pay to the widow, and if no widow to the children<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to be made to them.</p></sidenote> of Richard Anderson, deceased, late a pensioner on the revolutionary invalid pension roll, the amount of said Richard’s invalid pension, from the third day of March, in the year of our<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 15, 1826, ch. 53.</p></sidenote> Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, to the thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, during which time the said pension was withheld or discontinued, in consequence of the said Richard’s taking the benefit of the act entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the array of the Revolution,” passed May fifteen, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CVI: to increase the pension of Jacob Slough.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to increase the pension of Jacob Slough.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed toplace the name of Jacob Slough, late a captain in the army<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">$30 per month allowed him.</p></sidenote> of the United States, on the pension list, at the rate of thirty dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and to continue during his life, in lieu of the pension to which he is now entitled by law.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CVII: to increase the pension of Thomas Harrison.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to increase the pension of Thomas Harrison.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place the name of Thomas Harrison, late a major in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> army of the United States, on the pension list, at the rate of forty dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and to continue during his life, in lieu of the pension to which he is now entitled by law.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CVIII: for the relief if Carey Clark.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if Carey Clark.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to inscribe on the invalid pension roll the name of Carey Clark,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> late a lieutenant in the army of the United States, at the rate of eight dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence on the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty; and that from and after the <page identifier="/us/stat/6/638">638</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114. 1836.</centerRunningHead>said day he be entitled to receive that rate of pension, in addition to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 19.</p></sidenote>pension now allowed him as a private, under the act of the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CIX: granting an invalid petition to Daniel Stoddard.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting an invalid petition to Daniel Stoddard.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His pension to be increased.</p></sidenote>is, directed to place the name of Daniel Stoddard upon the list of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars a month from the eleventh day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in addition <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote>to the pension he now receives under the act of the seventh June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution.”</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CX: for the relief of Jonathan Elkins.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jonathan Elkins.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His pension to be increased.</p></sidenote>is, directed to allow and pay to Jonathan Elkins, now a pensioner on the revolutionary pension roll, at the rate of sixty dollars annually, a pension at the rate of eighty dollars a year in lieu thereof, during his natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, deducting therefrom the amount of pension he may have already received.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXI: for the relief of Stephen Bohannan.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Stephen Bohannan.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> to place the name of Stephen Bohannan, of Bristol, in New Hampshire, on the invalid pension list, and to pay him at the rate of four dollars a month, during his natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXII: for the relief of Gaius Hitchcock.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Gaius Hitchcock.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to enter the name of Gaius Hitchcock, on the roll of Revolutionary pensioners, and pay him a pension at the rate of twenty-eight dollars a year, during his natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXIII: for the relief of John A. Rodgers.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John A. Rodgers.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of John A. Rodgers on the invalid pension list, at the rate of fifteen dollars a month, to commence on the thirty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXIV: for the relief of Leslie Combs.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Leslie Combs.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Leslie Combs on the list of invalid pen-<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 122, 123, 124. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/639">639</page>sioners, at the rate of twenty dollars a month, and to pay him at that rate from the twenty-second day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-15">June 15, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXII: to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be issued to Albert J. Smith, and others, patents for certain reservations of land in Michigan Territory.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be issued to Albert J. Smith, and others, patents for certain reservations of land in Michigan Territory.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue, or cause to be issued, to Mctaw-ne-nee,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patents to issue to persons named.</p></sidenote> (or Albert J. Smith,) Messaw-wa-kut, (or Harriet M. Smith,) Anno-ket-o-qua, (or Louisa L. Smith,) and Non-dash-e-man, (or Maria G. Smith,) being children of Jacob Smith, deceased, formerly a trader among the Chippewa Indians, patents for one section of land each; also, one section of land conjointly, to the aforesaid Albert J. Smith, Harriet M. Smith, Louisa L. Smith, and Maria G. Smith, being the only surviving brother and sisters of Sa-gos-e-qua, (or Caroline Smith,) deceased, who was also one of the children of Jacob Smith, deceased, at or near the grand traverse of the Flint river, in the Territory of Michigan, which said sections of land were reserved to said children, by the third article of the treaty made and concluded at Saganaw, in the said Territory, between the United States of America, and the Chippewa nation of Indians, on the twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXIII: for the relief of Henry Stoddard.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Stoddard.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be issued to Henry Stoddard, assignee of Nicholas Smith, who is assignee<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A patent for 320 acres to he issued to him.</p></sidenote> of Francis Dochoquet, a patent for three hundred and twenty acres of land, in accordance to a grant of the chiefs of the Shawnee nation of Indians, in the late Wapaghkonetta reservation, in the state of Ohio; which tract of [and is situated on the north side of the Auglaise river at a place called Cotoseka, embracing parts of sections numbers thirty and thirty-one, in township five south, of range six east, according to the plat and survey thereof: <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless,</i> That the patent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> directed to be issued, as aforesaid, shall only operate as a relinquishment, on the part of the United States, and not against the rights of third persons.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXIV: for the relief of Benjamin F. Stone.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin F. Stone.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Bath, in the State of Maine, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for departing without a manifest, to be refunded.</p></sidenote> to Benjamin F. Stone, master of the brig Mary Averill, of Gardiner, in said State, the sum of fifty dollars, the amount of a fine paid by said Stone to the collector of New Orleans, for departing from said port of Bath, in said brig Mary Averill, in October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, without having on board a manifest of her cargo; it being in evidence, that this omission was altogether a mistake, and not the result of a design to defraud the revenue, or violate any law of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXV: for the relief of Francis R. Theobald.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/640">640</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 125, 126, 127, 128, 129. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Francis R. Theobald.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Bath, in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fine for departing without a clearance, to be refunded.</p></sidenote>State of Maine, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Francis R. Theobald, master of the brig Euphrates, of Gardner, in said State, the sum of fifty dollars, the amount of a fine paid by him to the collector of New Orleans, for departing from said port of Bath, in said brig Euphrates, in November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, without having on board a manifest of his cargo; it being in evidence that the omission was altogether a mistake, and not the result of any design to defraud the revenue, or violate any law of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXVI: for the relief of Jacob F. Walter.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jacob F. Walter.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Jacob <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent fees to be returned to him.</p></sidenote>F. Walter, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty dollars, which was deposited in the treasury for a patent for an improvement made on a machine for making brick. Said patent has not issued, and the said Walter has withdrawn his application, and re-quests the restoration of his deposite.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXVII: for the relief of James Wiltbank.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Wiltbank.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His account as chaplain to be audited and paid.</p></sidenote>be authorized and directed to audit and settle the account of the Rev. James Wiltbank, for services performed as acting chaplain of the navy, at the naval asylum and the navy yard at Philadelphia, and to allow him for the time he shall appear to have performed such services, the pay and emoluments of a chaplain in the navy of the United States; and that the amount found due to the said James Wiltbank, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXVIII: for the relief of James Caulfield.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Caulfield.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That James Caulfield be authorized to enter with <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land in Alabama.</p></sidenote>the proper land office in Alabama, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, so much land as is known to constitute the reservation of Peggy Bailey, a half breed Creek Indian woman, under the treaty of Fort Jackson; being that portion of section seven, in township five, range five, on the east of the Alabama river, and so much of the fraction seven of said township and range, on the west side of the Alabama river, as will make, in the whole, three hundred and twenty acres of land.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXIX: for the relief of Daniel Smith.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Smith.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A patent for a tract of land to issue to him.</p></sidenote>Office be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a patent to Daniel Smith, of Morgan county, Indiana, for the south-east quarter of section twenty, township thirteen north, range one west, in the district of lands offered for sale at Crawfordsville: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall not be construed to affect the rights of any third party.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Doctor Absalom Baird, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 641</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-06-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 130, 131, 132, 133. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/641">641</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Doctor Absalom Baird, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of Doctor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and allowance made.</p></sidenote> Absalom Baird, deceased, as a surgeon in the regiment of artificers of the army of the United States during the revolutionary war, and to allow his legal representatives compensation equal to five years’ full pay of a captain of infantry in the service of the United States, on continental establishment, without interest; which five years’ full pay is the commutation for his half pay for life, to be paid to the legal representatives of the said Absalom Baird out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXI: for the relief of the citizens of the reserved township in Monroe county, in the state of Indiana.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the citizens of the reserved township in Monroe county, in the state of Indiana.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the register and receiver of the land office at Indianapolis be, and they are hereby, authorized to select within said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land to be selected for use of schools.</p></sidenote> district out of any of the public lands, a quantity of land for the use of schools within the reserved township in Monroe county, equivalent in value, and in lieu of the sixteenth section in said township, which was granted by Congress to the state of Indiana for the use and benefit of a state college.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXII: for the relief of Benjamin and Nancy Merrill.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin and Nancy Merrill.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Benjamin Merrill and Nancy his wife, be, and they are hereby, authorized to sell the reservation of six hundred and forty acres of land taken by them under the treaties of one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to sell a reservation of land.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and seventeen and one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the United States and the Cherokee tribe of Indians, and being in the state of Alabama, upon the condition, that the contract for the sale of the same be examined and approved by the district attorney of the United States for the district of North Alabama; and upon the further condition, that they remove to the country assigned to the Cherokee Indians west of the Mississippi river, and that the expenses of such removal be defrayed by themselves.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That this act shall not be held or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title not guarantied.</p></sidenote> construed to guaranty the title which the said Benjamin and Nancy Merrill set up to the tract of land mentioned in the foregoing section.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXIII: for the relief of George Gott and others.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Gott and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Gloucester, in the state of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay George Gott,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.</p></sidenote> Jonathan Tarr, and crew of the fishing schooner May Flower, of thirty-two and twelve ninety-fifth tons burthen, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive had she completed her full term required; the said schooner having been driven on shore and lost eleven days before she had accomplished her full time required by law to entitle her to bounty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXIV: for the relief of Ebenezer Phillips and others.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/642">642</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 134, 135, 136, 137, 138. 1836</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ebenezer Phillips and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of customs for the district of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote>Marblehead and Lynn, in the state of Massachusetts, is authorized to pay to Ebenezer Phillips, and such others as may have been owners, and to the legal representatives of the late master and crew, of the fishing schooner Van Buren, belonging to the port of Lynn, in the aforesaid district, and supposed to have been lost at sea, the same sum of money, to be distributed according to law, which they would have been entitled to receive as a bounty or drawback, if the said vessel had returned in safety from her voyage, and accomplished the full term of service required by law.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXV: for the relief of Charles M. Frasier.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles M. Frasier.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of house destroyed to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote>directed to ascertain the value of a house destroyed by the British in eighteen hundred and fourteen, at St. Leonards, in the state of Maryland, while the same was in the military occupation of the United States, as a hospital, the property of said Charles M. Frasier, and that the amount so ascertained be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXVI: for the relief of Archibald Small.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Archibald Small.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Archibald Small be, and he is hereby, permitted <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed to enter a tract of land.</p></sidenote>and allowed to enter the west half of the south-east quarter of section number thirty-three, in township number thirteen, north of range five east, in the district of lands offered for sale at Indianopolis, in the state of Indiana, for which he shall be entitled to a patent, on his relinquishing to the United States the west half of the south-west quarter of section number thirty-three, in township number thirteen, north of range five east, in the district aforesaid, and which was entered by said Archibald Small through mistake, and not detected, by reason of the said Archibald Small not being able to read.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Nathaniel P. Tatum.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Nathaniel P. Tatum.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy ascertain the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">The Secretary of the Navy to examine and certify his account.</p></sidenote>damages, if any, the United States sustained, on the failure of Nathaniel P. Tatum to deliver the full quantity of white oak plank stocks at the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, according to his contract with the United States, dated the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine; and having deducted said damages, if any, from the ten per cent, reserved out of the price of the plank delivered, he is directed to certify what remains, if any deduction shall be made, and if not, then the entire amount of said ten per cent, to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is directed to pay said amount, so certified, to the legal representatives of the said Nathaniel P. Tatum, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXVIII: for the relief of George Bender.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Bender.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War settle and adjust the claim of George Bender, late a major in the army of the United States, <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 139, 140, 141, 142. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/643">643</page>and allow him the same pay and emolument that a major of engineers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish a tract of land, and enter another in lieu thereof.</p></sidenote> would have received, (if discharging the same duties,) for the time he was actually superintending the construction of the Delaware breakwater, under orders from the Quartermaster-General : and that the sum so found his due be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXIX: to revive and extend the provisions of an act passed on the twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act for the relief of the representatives of John Donelson, Stephen Heard, and others.”</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to revive and extend the provisions of an act passed on the twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act for the relief of the representatives of John Donelson, Stephen Heard, and others.”</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That an act entitled “An act for the relief of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 24, 1824, ch. 142, extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 19, 1832, ch. 81.</p></sidenote> the representatives of John Donelson, Stephen Heard, and others,” be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force for the term of twelve months from and after the passage of this act; and that the said representatives, in addition to the states of Alabama and Mississippi, be, ami they are hereby, authorized to enter said lands at any of the land offices in Louisiana or Arkansas.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXI: for the relief of David Browning.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of David Browning.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That David Browning be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish a tract of land, and enter another in lieu thereof.</p></sidenote> of the General Land Office shall prescribe, the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of section number twenty, and town-ship number forty-nine, north of the base line, range number two, east of the fifth principal meridian, in the district of lands now offered for sale at Palmyra, in the state of Missouri; and upon such relinquishment being made as aforesaid, the said Browning shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter any other quarter quarter section of laud in the said district, which shall be liable to entry at private sale.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-23">June 23, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLI: for the relief of James Robertson, of South Carolina.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Robertson, of South Carolina.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of additional duty on certain merchandise to be refunded.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, to James Robertson of Charleston, South Carolina, the additional duty imposed by the act of the third March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, on thirty bales of plains, ordered in October, in eighteen hundred and thirty-two, under the act of fourteenth July, of that year, and imported at the port of Charleston, in the months of June and August, eighteen hundred and thirty-three: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> satisfactory proof shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury, that the said plains were ordered previous to the passage of the act of the third<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 55.</p></sidenote> of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; and that said duties have not been returned in debentures on the exportation of said merchandise.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLII: for the relief of Samuel Hunt.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place the name of Samuel Hunt, of Oakham, in the county<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> of Worcester, in the state of Massachusetts, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay to him eight dollars per month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLIII: for the relief of John Pickard.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/644">644</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Pickard.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>required to place upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners, at the rate of forty dollars per annum, the name of John Pickard, of Livingston county, New York, and that said pension commence on the fourth day of March, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLIV: for the relief of Richard Martin.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard Martin.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>required to place upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners, the name of Richard Martin, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLV: for the relief of Peter Dimick, of the state of New York.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter Dimick, of the state of New York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War, be directed to place <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>the name of Peter Dimick, of the state of New York, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him twenty dollars per year, during his natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLVI: providing that John Smith be placed on the list of invalid pensioners.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>providing that John Smith be placed on the list of invalid pensioners.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place upon the list of invalid pensioners, John Smith, late a private in Captain James McDaniel’s company of the seventh rifle regiment of United States troops, at the rate of four dollars per month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLVII: for the relief of Peter Cook, a soldier in the last war.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter Cook, a soldier in the last war.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place upon the list of invalid pensioners, the name of Peter Cook, a soldier of the late war, at the rate of five dollars and thirty-three and a half cents per month, during his natural life, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLVIII: for the relief of Samuel Kincaid.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Kincaid.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>authorized and directed to place the name of Samuel Kincaid, on the list of invalid pensioners, at the rate of twelve dollars per month, in lieu of his pension of eight dollars per month, which he at present receives, to commence from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLIX: for the relief of George Elliot.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. S.I. Ch. 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/645">645</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Elliot.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place the name of George Elliot, on the roll of invalid pensioners,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> and pay to him six dollars a month during his natural life, commencing on the seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CL: for the relief of John Bennet.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Bennet.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place the name of John Bennet on the roll of invalid pensioners,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> and to pay him seventeen dollars a month during his natural life, commencing on the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLI: granting a pension to Samuel Cole.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Samuel Cole.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War he directed to place the name of Samuel Cole, now of Bradford county, Pennsylvania, on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the invalid pension roll, and that he be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLII: granting a pension to James Stevens.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to James Stevens.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll of the United States,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the name of James Stevens, of the county of Lincoln, and state of Maine, as an invalid pensioner; and that the said Stevens be allowed the sum of six dollars per month, to commence from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLIII: for the relief of James Mullings.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Mullings.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, required to place the name of James Mullings, of Charlotte, Virginia, on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the pension roll of revolutionary pensioners, at the rate of thirty dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLIV: for the relief if Stephen Talmage.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if Stephen Talmage.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed, to place Stephen Talmage, of the county of Suffolk, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> State of New York, on the pension roll of the United States, and that there be allowed to the said Talmage, the sum of thirty-six dollars and seventy-five cents, per annum, during his natural life, to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLV: granting a pension to John Collins.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/646">646</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 155, 156, 157, 155, 159. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to John Collins.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place on the revolutionary pension roll of the United States, the name of John Collins, of the State of Massachusetts, who shall be entitled to, and receive a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, from the fourth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLVI: for the relief of Francis F. Saint Cyr.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Francis F. Saint Cyr.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>required to place the name of Francis F. Saint Cyr, of the county of Saint Charles, in the State of Missouri, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars a month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLVII: for the relief of Luke Voorhise.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Luke Voorhise.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to him.</p></sidenote>authorized and directed to pay to Luke Voorhise, of the State of Ohio, a pension at the rate of eight dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and to continue during his natural life; to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLVIII: for the relief of William Bowman.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Bowman.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William Bowman, of the state of Indiana, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish a tract of land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States the north-east quarter of section twenty-one, and the west half of the south-west quarter of section twenty-two, both in township number thirteen north, of range two west, in the district of lands offered for sale at Crawfordsville, in the state of Indiana, which were entered through mistake, and that he be permitted to enter in lieu thereof, at the office aforesaid, the north-east quarter of section twenty-eight, and the south half of the north-west quarter of section twenty-seven, same township and range, provided the same be vacant; if not, then, and in that case, to enter a like quantity of any of the public lands within said district subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLIX: for the relief of Thomas Dixon and Company of New York.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Dixon and Company of New York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certain penalty remitted.</p></sidenote>and directed to remit the penalty incurred by Thomas Dixon and Company, of New York, on two invoices of woollens, imported by the ships Nestor and James Monroe, in the month of July, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, from Liverpool, for the want of consular certificates, which were subsequently furnished, and to pay the same out <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided, </i>That no greater amount shall be paid than was received into the treasury.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLX: for the relief of Robert McJimsey, surviving partner of the firm of Jackson and McJimsey.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 160, 161, 162, 163. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/647">647</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert McJimsey, surviving partner of the firm of Jackson and McJimsey.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback on sugar allowed.</p></sidenote> to Robert McJimsey, surviving partner of the firm of Jackson and McJimsey, of New York, the amount which may be found due the said firm for the drawback upon one hundred and fifty boxes of sugar exported at New York in the month of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, in the ship Elizabeth Frith, for Leghorn.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXI: for the relief of John Frasier and Company, of Charleston, South Carolina.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Frasier and Company, of Charleston, South Carolina.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of additional duty to be paid to them.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1833, ch. 55.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 227.</p></sidenote> appropriated, to John Frasier and Company, of Charleston, South Carolina, the additional duty imposed by the act of the third March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, on twenty bales of plains, ordered under the act of fourteenth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, by David Lamb, of Liverpool, and imported in the ship Lady Rowena, at the port of Charleston, in the month of August last: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> satisfactory proof shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury, that the said plains were ordered previous to the passage of the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and that said duties have not been returned in debentures on the exportation of said merchandise.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXII: for the relief of John F. Lewis.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John F. Lewis.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury refund to John F. Lewis, a sum equal to the increase of duty imposed by the act of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of increased duty to be paid to him.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 19, 1828, ch. 55.</p></sidenote> nineteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, en-titled “An act in alteration of the several acts imposing duties on imports,” on a quantity of matting imported from China, invoiced at two thousand two hundred and ten dollars, and entered at the custom-house in Philadelphia, on the first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the Secretary of the Treasury shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> not make the payment above directed until he shall have satisfactory proof that the duties have been actually paid, and have not been returned in debentures; that the order for the purchase of the said matting was given previously to the first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven; and that the said John F. Lewis had it not in his power to countermand the said order after the passage of the said act of the nineteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, further,</i> That satisfactory evidence be furnished<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to the Secretary of the Treasury, by the oath of the merchant, or otherwise, that the said John F. Lewis did not realize the ordinary profit on the said importation.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXIII: for the relief of Abraham Forbes, a spy in the late war.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Abraham Forbes, a spy in the late war.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Abraham Forbes be, and is hereby, allowed to enter three hundred and twenty acres of land, on any of the public<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter a tract of land.</p></sidenote> lands subject to entry at private sale, for services rendered by him as a Canadian volunteer.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXIV: granting a pension to Theophilus E. Beekman, late first lieutenant in the forty-first regiment of the United States infantry.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/648">648</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. S.I. C. 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Theophilus E. Beekman, late first lieutenant in the forty-first regiment of the United States infantry.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Theophilus E. Beekman, late first lieu-tenant in the forty-first regiment of the United States infantry, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay to him the sum of seventeen dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXV: for the relief of William Hewes.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Hewes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to William Hewes, annually, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To receive $20 per annum for life.</p></sidenote>for the term of his natural life, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty dollars, to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXVI: for the relief of Henry Keefer.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Keefer.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>the name of Henry Keefer, upon the list of invalid pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and pay him out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXVII: for the relief of Francis Bashford.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Francis Bashford.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>the name of Francis Bashford, upon the list of invalid pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, the payment to commence on the twelfth of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and pay him out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXVIII: for the relief of Bernard Pompilly.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Bernard Pompilly.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the name of Bernard Pompilly be placed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>upon the list of invalid pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXIX: for the relief of Elisha Lucas.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elisha Lucas.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>required to place the name of Elisha Lucas, of the state of Vermont, on the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him a pension, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXX: granting pensions to certain persons therein named.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting pensions to certain persons therein named.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, directed to place on the invalid pension roll of the United States, the <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 171, 172, 173, 174, 175. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/649">649</page>names of the following, whereupon they, and each of them, shall be entitled to receive the pensions severally set to their names, respectively, during life—that is to say: James Whitsit, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four; Jacob Stewart, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXI: for the relief of Thaddeus Tuttle.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thaddeus Tuttle.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required toplace the name of Thaddeus Tuttle upon the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXII: for the relief of James Steel.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Steel.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place James Steel on the list of revolutionary pensioners of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> the United States, at the rate of thirteen dollars and thirty-five cents per month, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That Elizabeth Steel, the wife of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension may be claimed by his wife.</p></sidenote> the said James Steel, be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to claim for and receive said pension, for and in behalf of the said Steel, on furnishing satisfactory proof of the identity and residence of the said James Steel and Elizabeth Steel.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXIII: for the relief of Davis Hunt.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Davis Hunt.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place upon the list of revolutionary pensioners, Davis Hunt,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> of New York; and that said Davis Hunt be paid at the rate of forty dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, anno Do-mini, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXIV: for the relief of Relief Harris.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Relief Harris.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there shall be paid out of the treasury of the United States, to Relief Harris, widow and administratrix of Oliver<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrears of pension to be paid to her.</p></sidenote> Harris, deceased, the sum of eight hundred and forty dollars, being the arrears of pension due to the said Oliver Harris, as a revolutionary soldier, from April seven, eighteen hundred and eighteen, up to August nine, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, at eight dollars per month; which said sum shall be paid the proper accounting officers of the treasury, out of any moneys therein, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXV: for the relief of James Taylor.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Taylor.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James Taylor, of Massachusetts, a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of pension to be paid to him.</p></sidenote> revolutionary soldier, a pension from the eighteenth day of March, one <page identifier="/us/stat/6/650">650</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps"></centerRunningHead>thousand eight hundred and thirty, at the rate of eight dollars a month, to the fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXVI: for the relief of John Dal.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Dal.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place John Dal, on the list of revolutionary pensioners of the United States, at the rate of twenty-three dollars and thirty-three cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to continue during his natural life.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXVII: granting a pension to William Lawrence, late a colonel in the army.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to William Lawrence, late a colonel in the army.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To receive a pension from the dale of his resignation.</p></sidenote>authorized and required to pay to William Lawrence, late a colonel in the army, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a pension at the rate of thirty dollars a month, to commence at the date of his resignation and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXVIII: granting a pension to Peter L. Allen.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Peter L. Allen.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Peter L. Allen on the invalid pension roll, and that he be paid at the rate of thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents and one-third per month, being the one-third of a captain’s pay, to commence on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXIX: for the relief of John Logan.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Logan.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>the name of John Logan, of Ohio, on tile roll of revolutionary pensioners; and that said Logan be paid the sum of thirty dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXX: for the relief of John Conkin.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Conkin.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place on the invalid pension roll John Conkin, to be paid out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, during life, at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXXI: for the relief of Thaddeus Potter, of the State of New York.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thaddeus Potter, of the State of New York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name oi I haddeus Potter, on the revolutionary pension roll, and allow him a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per year, to commence on the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXXII: for the relief of William Foxworthy.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. S. I. C. 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/651">651</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Foxworthy.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners, the name of William Foxworthy,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> of Kentucky, and that he be paid the sum of thirty dollars per annum, from the fourth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXXIII: for the relief of Ephraim F. Gilbert.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ephraim F. Gilbert.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized, empowered, and directed to place the name of Ephraim F.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> Gilbert, late a captain in the army of the United States, on the roll of invalid pensioners of the United States, at and after the rate of fifteen dollars per month, commencing on the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and to pay him from that time, at that rate, during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXXIV: for the relief of Godfrey Vought.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Godfrey Vought.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place Godfrey Vought, of the county of Bradford, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> state of Pennsylvania, on the pension roll of the United States, and that there be allowed to the said Godfrey Vought, the sum of seventy dollars per annum, during his natural life, to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXXV: for the relief of John Lent.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Lent.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place John Lent, of the county of Bradford, in the state of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> Pennsylvania, on the pension roll of the United States, and that there be allowed to the said John Lent, the sum of eighty dollars per annum, during his natural life, to commence on the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXXVI: for the relief of Patrick McEwen.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Patrick McEwen.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, required to pay to Patrick McEwen eleven hundred and twenty-nine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of pension to be paid to him.</p></sidenote> dollars and fourteen cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; the same being in full for pension due him, the said Patrick McEwen, a revolutionary pensioner of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXXVII: granting a pension to Charles Blake.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Charles Blake.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Charles Blake, of Northfield, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to him.</p></sidenote> state of Massachusetts, formerly a surgeon’s mate in the navy of the United States, a pension at the rate of fifteen dollars a month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and to continue during bis natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXXVIII: granting a pension ta Walter Dyer.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVIII</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/652">652</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. S. I. C. 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension ta Walter Dyer.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name to be reinstated on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to reinstate the name of Walter Dyer, on the invalid pension roll, and that he be paid at the rate of four dollars per month, from the time his pension was stopped to the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and from the last date at the rate of eight dollars per month, during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXXIX: for the relief of Jeremiah Goldsmith.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jeremiah Goldsmith.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Jeremiah Goldsmith of Massachusetts, upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of thirty dollars per annum, during his natural life, the said pension to commence on the fourth day of March, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXC: for the relief of Joseph Tuttle.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXC.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Tuttle.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>the name of Joseph Tuttle, of New York, on the revolutionary pension roll, and to pay him at the rate of forty dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCI: for the relief of Mathias Traverse.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mathias Traverse.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>required to place the name of Mathias Traverse, of Dorchester county, Maryland, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners; and to pay him a pension at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum, to commence and be computed from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCII: for the relief of Joseph Danforth.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Danforth.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>instructed to place the name of Joseph Danforth, of New Hampshire, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that he cause to be paid to said Danforth the sum of twenty dollars per annum during his natural life, to commence on the fourth day of March, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCIII: for the relief of Jacob Wallace.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jacob Wallace.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>instructed to place the name of Jacob Wallace, of New York, upon the pension roll of revolutionary soldiers: and that he cause to be paid to said Jacob Wallace the sum of twenty-five dollars per annum during his natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCIV: for the relief of Jonathan Dow.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. S. I. C. 194, 195, 190, 197, 198, 199. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/653">653</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jonathan Dow.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and directed to place the name of Jonathan Dow on the pension roll of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> United States, and that he pay the said Dow the sum of twenty dollars per annum, to commence the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCV: for the relief of James Scott, Richard Severson, and Lot Leonard, soldiers of the revolutionary war.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Scott, Richard Severson, and Lot Leonard, soldiers of the revolutionary war.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required to place the names of James Scott, of Sparta, in the state of New York, Richard<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> Severson, of the town of Preble, in the state of New York aforesaid, and Lot Leonard, of Green county, Pennsylvania, upon the pension roll, and pay each of them as follows, to wit: The said James Scott, twenty dollars a year; the said Richard Severson, thirty dollars a year; and the said Lot Leonard, forty dollars a year. The time of payment to commence on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCVI: for the relief of John Boone.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Boone.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, required to place John Boone, of Charles county, Maryland, upon the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> list of revolutionary pensioners, and cause to be paid to said John Boone the pension allowed to lieutenants in the line, for service for one year and five months, under the law of June seven, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote> and thirty-two; the said pension to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCVII: for the relief of John Herrick.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Herrick.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War pay to John Herrick, an invalid pensioner, an arrearage of pension at the rate of two dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrears of pension to be paid to him.</p></sidenote> per month, commencing at the time his name was placed on the list of invalid pensioners, and continuing to the time when his pension was increased to the sum of eight dollars per month; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCVIII: for the relief of Ann Evans.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ann Evans.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Ann Evans, widow of George Evans, late of the city of Washington, deceased, out of any money in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ half pay of a soldier allowed to her.</p></sidenote> the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to five years’ half pay of a private soldier in the army of the United States, the said George Evans having been injured while in the service of the navy department, of which injury he subsequently deceased.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCIX: granting a pension to Ebenezer Dewey.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Ebenezer Dewey.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Ebenezer Dewey, of Royalton,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> in the county of Windsor, and state of Vermont, on the roll of revolutionary pensions, and to pay him at the rate of forty dollars per <page identifier="/us/stat/6/654">654</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. S. I. Ch. 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205. 1836.</centerRunningHead>annum during his natural life, to commence on the fourth day of March, anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CC: granting pensions to Benjamin Parkhurst and Daniel Havens.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CC.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting pensions to Benjamin Parkhurst and Daniel Havens.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the names of Benjamin Parkhurst and Daniel Havens, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>both of Royalton, in the county of Windsor, and state of Vermont, upon the roll of revolutionary pensions, and to pay them each at the rate of forty dollars per annum, during their natural lives, to commence on the fourth day of March, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCI: granting a pension to Jonas Comins.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Jonas Comins.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>required to place the name of Jonas Comins, of Calais, in the county of Washington, and state of Vermont, upon the roll of revolutionary pensions, and to pay him at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, during his natural life, to commence on the fourth day of March, anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCII: for the relief of Isaac Ruland.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac Ruland.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>required to pay Isaac Ruland, of the state of Missouri, the sum of eight dollars per month, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCIII: the relief of Job Daniels.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>the relief of Job Daniels.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place Job Daniels, of the state of New Jersey, upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners of the United States, at the rate of forty-five dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCIV: for the relief of Daniel Trabue.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Trabue.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary for the War Department be, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>and he is hereby, directed to place Daniel Trabue, of the state of Kentucky, upon the roll of the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCV: for the relief of Benjamin Coit.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin Coit.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>required to place the name of Benjamin Coit on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that he be paid the sum of fifty-three dollars and thirty-three cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCVI: for the relief of Robert Smith.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. S. I. C. 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/655">655</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert Smith.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required toplace the name of Robert Smith, of Connecticut, on the list of revolutionary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> pensioners, and that he pay him forty dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCVII: granting a pension to John Daw.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to John Daw.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of John Daw, of Gilmonton, in the county<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> of Stafford, in the state of New Hampshire, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and pay to him twenty dollars per annum during his natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCVIII: granting a pension to Andrew Gray.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Andrew Gray.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Andrew Gray, of Sparta, in the county<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His pension to be increased.</p></sidenote> of Livingston, in the state of New York, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of eighty dollars per annum during his natural life, to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCIX: for the relief of George Fields.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Fields.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the pension granted by an act, approved March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to George Fields, be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to him.</p></sidenote> and the same is hereby, raised to the sum of ten dollars per month, the said Fields having been a captain in the service of the United States; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to pay said Fields the arrears of his pension, computed at that rate from the ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the day on which he was wounded, deducting from the sum now due to him, the amount he has already received; said sum to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCX: for the relief of Samuel M. Asbury.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel M. Asbury.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to pay out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to him.</p></sidenote> to Samuel M. Asbury, the sum of four dollars per month during his natural life, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXI: granting a pension to John Miles.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to John Miles.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to pay to John Miles, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to him.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, a pension at the rate of four dollars <page identifier="/us/stat/6/656">656</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. S. I. C. 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217. 1836.</centerRunningHead>a month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXII: for the relief of Josiah Curtis.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Josiah Curtis.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to pay unto <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>Josiah Curtis, of Clermont county, Ohio, a sum at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, during his natural life, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXIII: for the relief of William Pattie, of Virginia.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-28</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Pattie, of Virginia.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of William Pattie, of Fauquier county, of Virginia, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and pay him forty dollars per annum during the term of his natural life; to commence and take effect at and from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXIV: for the relief of John Scott.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Scott.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of John Scott, on the invalid pension roll of the United States, at the rate of eight dollars per month, from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and pay to said Scott, the said sum of eight dollars per month, during bis natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXV: for the relief of Travise Fritters.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Travise Fritters.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Travise Fritters, alias Fritter, on the in-valid pension roll of the United States, at the rate of eight dollars per month, from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and pay to said Fritters, the said sum of eight dollars per month during his natural life.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXVI: for the relief of Balaam Bowers, of Virginia.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Balaam Bowers, of Virginia.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>required to place upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners, Balaam Bowers, of Virginia, at the rate of sixty dollars per annum, the said pension to commence and take effect from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXVII: for the relief of Singleton Ketcham.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-28</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Singleton Ketcham.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>authorized and directed to place the name of Singleton Ketcham, on the invalid pension roll of the United States, and that he pay him at and after the rate of six dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXVIII: for the relief of Elizabeth Swain.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVIII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 218, 219, 220, 221, 222. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/657">657</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elizabeth Swain.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be paid to Elizabeth Swain, of Hawkins county,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of pension due Charles Swain, to be paid to her.</p></sidenote> Tennessee, widow of Charles Swain, a deceased soldier of the revolution, the amount which would have accrued to the said Charles as a pension, at the rate of forty-four dollars and sixty-seven cents a year, from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to July eleven, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, the time of his death, to be paid out of any moneys appropriated for the payment of revolutionary pensions.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXIX: for the relief of Peggy Abel, Sally Rolls, and Elijah Green.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peggy Abel, Sally Rolls, and Elijah Green.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Peggy Abel, Sally Rolls, and Elijah Green, in the state<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of pension to be paid to them.</p></sidenote> of Virginia, children and heirs at law of Elijah Green, late of said state, deceased, the sum of nine hundred and sixty dollars, it being the amount of ten years’ pension in arrear to the said Elijah Green, senior, in consequence of his name having been stricken from the pension roll by a decision of the Department of War, and afterwards restored by a reversal of said decision.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXX: granting a pension to Micajah Ricketts.</dc:title>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Micajah Ricketts on the invalid pension<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> roll, and that he be paid at the rate of four dollars per month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXI: for the relief of Henry Maggart.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Maggart.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of Henry Maggart, of Sullivan county, Tennessee, upon the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> list of invalid pensions, and to pay him eight dollars per month, from the first of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, during his natural life, out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXII: for the relief of Mary Lampkin.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mary Lampkin.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Mary Lampkin, the widow of John Lampkin, late of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of pension, &amp;c.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 18, 1818, ch. 19.</p></sidenote> Culpeper county, in the state of Virginia, deceased, and who was pensioned for revolutionary services, under the act of eighteenth March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, such sum of money as the said John Lampkin would have been entitled to receive had his name not been stricken from the roll of revolutionary pensioners after he was first placed thereon: <i>Provided,</i> That said Secretary of War shall become<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> satisfied, from proper testimony, that the said John Lampkin was in <page identifier="/us/stat/6/658">658</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. S. I. C. 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228. 1836.</centerRunningHead>such indigent circumstances as to have been justly entitled to a pension, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1820, ch. 53.</p></sidenote>agreeably to the provisions of the act of June [May] first, eighteen hundred and twenty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXIII: granting a pension to William Warden.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to William Warden.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to him.</p></sidenote>authorized and required to pay William Warden, a soldier of the thirteenth regiment, Kentucky militia, in the last war, a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and to continue during his natural life, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXIV: for the relief of George White.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George White.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to him.</p></sidenote>authorized and required to pay George White, a soldier in the company of Captain Staunton Sholes, in the last war, attached to the second regiment United States artillery, a pension at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and to continue during his natural life, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXV: for the relief of Daniel Cobb.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Cobb.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the name of Daniel Cobb, of the state of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be restored to pension roll.</p></sidenote>Maine, be restored to the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that he be paid at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, during his natural life; the said payment to commence from the time he was last paid his said pension.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXVI: granting a pension to Daniel Granger.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Daniel Granger.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Daniel Granger, of Saco, in the county of York, and state of Maine, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him twenty dollars per annum during his natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXVII: for the relief of Jonathan Flint.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jonathan Flint.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be replaced on pension roll.</p></sidenote>authorized and required, to reinstate the name of Jonathan Flint, on the revolutionary pension roll; and that he pay him such sum as he would have been entitled to receive had he not been stricken from the roll.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXVIII: for the relief of Ellen Ahern Schmuck.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ellen Ahern Schmuck.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid half the monthly pay of a captain, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>directed to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Ellen Ahern Schmuck, widow of Jacob Schmuck, late a captain of the United States artillery, half of the monthly pay to which the deceased was entitled at the of April, eighteen hundred and <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. S. I. Ch. 229, 237, 238, 239, 240. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/659">659</page>thirty-five, <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That in the event of her death or marriage before<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the expiration of said five years, the half pay for the remainder of the time shall go to the child of said Captain Schmuck.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXIX: for the relief of Alpheus Hutchins.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Alpheus Hutchins.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to pay to Alpheus Hutchins, of Coos county, state of New Hampshire, out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to him.</p></sidenote> any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four dollars per month, during his natural life; payment commencing on the first January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-06-28">June 28, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXXVII: for the relief of Joseph W. Green and the owners and crew of the fishing schooner Two Brothers, of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-01</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph W. Green and the owners and crew of the fishing schooner Two Brothers, of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Collector of the Customs for Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to Joseph<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> W. Green and the crew of the fishing schooner Two Brothers, to be distributed according to law, the same said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty or drawback if she had been actually at sea during the whole time required by law to be entitled to said bounty; she having been lost before she had accomplished her full term required by law.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXXVIII: for the relief of James Tucker and John Judge.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Tucker and John Judge.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there shall be paid to James Tucker and John Judge, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for the use of a certain patent.</p></sidenote> the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars; which sum so paid to them shall be in full consideration for the use of their patent in the construction of anchors for the navy of the United States, and in full of all claims of the said James Tucker and John Judge against the United States for the use of said patent from the time of granting the same until its find termination.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXXIX: for the relief of Andrew Hoover,of Indiana.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Andrew Hoover,of Indiana.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper officer of the treasury pay to Andrew Hoover, of Marion county, Indiana, ninety dollars in full, for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> a horse lost in the service of the United States, in June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, which horse was lost while in the use of John Steale as a mounted volunteer: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Hoover shall file<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> his bond with sufficient security to indemnify the United States against the claim of any other person or persons for said property.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXL: for the relief of James Alexander, and Ira Nash.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXL.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Alexander, and Ira Nash.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay out of any money in the treasury not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for Indian depredations.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, to James Alexander, the sum of four hundred and three dollars, and to Ira Nash, the sum of five hundred and seventy-five dollars; it being for losses they sustained by depredations committed upon their property by a band of Sac and Fox Indians, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLI: for the relief of the heirs of William Forbes, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/660">660</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 241, 242, 243, 244, 245. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of William Forbes, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to Gordon Forbes, John A. Parker, and Robert M. Forbes, (heirs at law of William Forbes, deceased,) two thousand one hundred dollars, for certain houses belonging to them, which were destroyed at Kinsale, in Virginia, by the enemy in the late war with Great Britain.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLII: for the relief of John Cowper.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Cowper.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for prosecuting certain claims.</p></sidenote>hereby, directed to pay to John Cowper, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents, for prosecuting the claims of Theodore Armstead, Moses Myers, and James Thorburn, before the commission under the Spanish treaty, commonly called the Florida treaty, which claims enured to the benefit of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLIII: for the relief of John S. Devlin.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John S. Devlin.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as clerk.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized to pay to John S. Devlin, quartermaster sergeant of the United States marine corps, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and ninety dollars, being in full for extra services rendered in the capacity of clerk.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLIV: authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to issue to David J. Talbot, a patent for a quarter section of land in Missouri.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 660</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to issue to David J. Talbot, a patent for a quarter section of land in Missouri.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to issue to him.</p></sidenote>be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to issue to David J. Talbot, of Missouri, a patent for the north-west quarter section of section twenty-five, township forty-six, north of the base line, and range five, west of die fifth principal meridian, in Missouri, in conformity with the entry heretofore made by the said David J. Talbot, as assignee of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Haile Talbot, in the land office of St. Louis, Missouri: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the said David J. Talbot, before the issuing of said patent, procure to be surrendered to the United States, at the General Land Office, to be cancelled, the patent for the same quarter section which, erroneously and by mistake, was issued to one Robert Wash, upon the New Madrid claim of one Peter Perron, and which the said Robert Wash is hereby authorized to surrender accordingly.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLV: for the relief of Scioto Evans.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Scioto Evans.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse, saddle, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>hereby, directed to pay to Scioto Evans, of Indiana, the sum of fifty-five dollars, for a horse, saddle, bridle, and blanket, furnished Robert Robertson, for the use of the United States, in an expedition against <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 246, 247, 250, 251. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/661">661</page>the hostile Indians in eighteen hundred and thirty-two: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said Evans shall file his bond, with sufficient security, to indemnify the United States against the claim of any other person or persons to the said property.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLVI: for the relief of Doctors J. E. B. Findly, and A. H. Deas.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 661</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-01</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Doctors J. E. B. Findly, and A. H. Deas.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for medical services.</p></sidenote> appropriated, to Doctor J. E. B. Findly, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, and a like sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to Doctor <i>A.</i> H. Deas, on account of medical services rendered by them to four companies of United States troops, on their passage from Charleston, South Carolina, to Old Point Comfort, in the state of Virginia.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLVII: for the relief of Joshua Pitcher.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joshua Pitcher.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow to Joshua Pitcher, the sum of one hundred dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to him as Indian agent.</p></sidenote> in the settlement of his accounts as Indian agent, in addition to three hundred dollars authorized by law to be paid to an interpreter.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCL: confirming to the legal representatives of Thomas F. Reddick, a tract if six hundred and forty acres of land.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 661</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-01</dc:date>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>confirming to the legal representatives of Thomas F. Reddick, a tract if six hundred and forty acres of land.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That all the right, title, claim and interest, that the United States have in and unto a certain tract or parcel of land,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right, &amp;c. of U. S. to a certain tract of land, relinquished to them.</p></sidenote> containing six hundred and forty acres, situate on the left bank of the Mississippi river, about eighteen miles above the mouth of the Desmoines river, in fractional township number sixty-six, north of the base line of range number five, west of the fifth principal meridian, in the territory recently attached to the Territory of Michigan, as will more fully appear on reference to the plat of survey, executed by Jenifer T. Sprigg, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished to the heirs of Thomas F. Reddick: <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless,</i> If said lands shall be taken by any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> older or better claim, not emanating from the United States, the government will not be in anywise responsible for any remuneration to said heirs:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That should said tract of land be included<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> in any reservation heretofore made under treaty with any Indian tribe, that the said heirs be, and they hereby are, authorized to locate the same quantity, in legal divisions or subdivisions, on any unappropriated land of the United States in said Territory subject to entry at private sale.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Michael Fenwick, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Michael Fenwick, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the legal representatives of Michael Fenwick, out of any money not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a house destroyed.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, the value of a dwelling-house occupied by the troops of the United States, during the late war with Great Britain, and destroyed by the enemy, when so occupied, and in consequence thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Third Auditor of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testimony to be taken respecting other losses, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Treasury decide on the testimony that the legal representatives of said Michael Fenwick may produce, as to the occupation of other buildings <page identifier="/us/stat/6/662">662</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 272, 273, 274, 275. 1836.</centerRunningHead>of the said Michael Fenwick, by the troops in the service of the United States during said war, by order of an officer, for military purposes, and as to the destruction of said buildings by the enemy when so occupied, and in consequence thereof, and as to the value of said buildings; and the sum awarded by said Third Auditor, the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to pay to said legal representatives out of any money not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-01">July 1, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXII: for the relief of John Howell.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Howell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Howell be, and he is hereby, confirmed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote>in his title to a tract of land, containing six hundred and forty acres, claimed by virtue of a settlement made thereon in the year one thousand eight hundred and two, situated on the river Dardenne, in the county of Saint Charles, state of Missouri, to be surveyed in a square, or as near as may be, so as to include his improvement: and in the event of there not being unappropriated public land adjoining his said settlement sufficient for the purpose, then the deficiency may be located upon any unappropriated land of the United States within the land district embracing said tract, subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXIII: for the relief of George Dawson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Dawson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His account for mason work to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized to settle upon principles of equity the accounts of George Dawson, late a contractor for mason work on the Cumberland road, and that the balance found due to him be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXIV: for the relief of Nancy Haggard, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 662</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nancy Haggard, and for other purposes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay of a captain of infantry allowed to Nancy Haggard.</p></sidenote>be, and they are hereby, required to pay to Nancy Haggard, only daughter and surviving heir of William Grymes, who was a captain in the Virginia line, on the continental establishment, during the revolutionary war, and who died in the service of the United States, during the said war, the aggregate amount of the half pay of a captain of infantry for seven years, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said Nancy Haggard, before the payment thereof, do exhibit such proof to the Secretary of the Treasury, as will satisfy him that she is the only daughter and heir of said William Grymes.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. Jouett’s representatives to be paid.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 20, 1836, ch. 78.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the sum of money allowed to the representative of Robert Jouett, deceased, by the act passed at the present session of Congress, entitled “An act for the relief of the representative of Robert Jouett, deceased,” be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXV: for the relief of the sureties of Nicholas Kern.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 662</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the sureties of Nicholas Kern.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sureties of Nicholas Kern, who are <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from liability as sureties, and suits to be discontinued.</p></sidenote>bound with him to the United States, in two bonds, one dated the thirteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and fourteen, and the other dated the seventeenth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixteen given by the said Nicholas Kern, as collector of direct taxes and inter-<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 276, 277, 278, 279. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/663">663</page>nal duties for the eighth collection district of Pennsylvania, and their legal representatives, are released from all liability for Nicholas Kern, as sureties in said bonds—the Commissioner of the Revenue and the Agent of the Treasury having extended the time of payment without the consent of the said sureties—and the Solicitor of the Treasury is hereby directed to discontinue the suits which have been brought against them severally on said bonds: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That said Nicholas Kern, his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> heirs, executors and administrators, shall nevertheless be held bound and liable to pay the whole amount that may [be] due by him as said collector.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXVI: for the relief of Nathaniel Platt.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 663</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nathaniel Platt.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Nathaniel Platt, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for rent, forage, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the sum of two hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty cents, in full compensation of his claim, for rent, forage, and provisions, furnished the troops under command of General Mooers, in eighteen hundred and fourteen, and for all damages done to the premises of the said Platt, in consequence of the occupancy thereof by the troops aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXVII: for the relief of the Lexington and Ohio Railroad Company.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 663</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXVII</docNumber>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the Lexington and Ohio Railroad Company.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to refund to the Lexington and Ohio Railroad Company,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on certain rail-road iron to be refunded.</p></sidenote> the sum of nineteen hundred and eighty-four dollars, paid by said company into the treasury of the United States, as duties on railroad iron imported into the United States, in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-two and eighteen hundred and thirty-three, for making of a rail-road from Lexington, in Kentucky, to the Ohio river, whenever it shall be made appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that said iron has been applied to the uses for which it was imported.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXVIII: for the relief of the heirs of James Moore.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 663</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of James Moore.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they hereby are, directed to ascertain and allow<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay of a brigadier-general allowed.</p></sidenote> to Mrs. Sarah Swan and Mrs. Mary Waters, the only surviving children of James Moore, late a brigadier-general in the army of the revolution, the amount of seven years’ half pay, at a rate corresponding with the pay to which the said Moore was entitled at the time of his death; and that the said amount, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Sarah Swan and Mary Waters, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXIX: for the relief of William P. Rathbone.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William P. Rathbone.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to settle the accounts of William P. Rathbone, late<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His accounts as paymaster and contractor to be settled.</p></sidenote> a district paymaster in the army of the United States; and also his accounts as an army contractor, under his contracts of the first of November, eighteen hundred and sixteen, and of the fifth of November, eighteen hundred and seventeen, upon principles of justice and equity; and <page identifier="/us/stat/6/664">664</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 280, 281. 1836.</centerRunningHead>that the balance, if any, which may be found due to the said William P. Rathbone, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXX: for the relief of Henry Newman, and others.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 664</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Newman, and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the irregular numeration of the fractional <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erroneous numbers of certain sections of land to be corrected.</p></sidenote>sections west of the Tombeckbe river, of township number four, in range number two east, marked on the official maps or plats returned by the Surveyor-General as being numbers thirty-five, thirty-six, and thirty-seven, be corrected on the maps in the office of the Surveyor-General, and on those returned by him to the Genera] Land Office, and to the land office for the district of St. Stephen’s, so that the number five shall stand thereon instead of the number thirty-five, the number six instead of the number thirty-six, and the number seven instead of the number thirty-seven.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents issued to Wm. Crawford and to Henry Newman to be corrected.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the letter patent issued on the fifteenth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, granting to William Crawford, assignee of Ann Dunham, the fractional section then designated on the said maps by the number thirty-five, and the patent issued on the first day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, granting to Henry Newman the fractional section then designated on the same maps by the number thirty-six; and also the patent issued on the first day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, granting to William Crawford the fractional section then designated on the same maps as number thirty-seven, all lying in the township number four, of range number two, east, aforesaid, be, and all, each of them, equally legal and valid, as if the same fractional sections had been designated on said maps by their regular numbers, when said patents were issued; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the register of the land office at St. Stephen’s, are hereby directed to note the foregoing correction in the proper places on the books, maps, and records of their respective offices, referring to this act by its date; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby also directed to certify, accordingly, the correction affecting each of the said patents, in this respect, upon the back thereof, when presented, with special reference to this act, by which it is authorized.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXXI: for the relief of the legal representatives of David Caldwell, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of David Caldwell, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to settle the account of the legal representatives of David Caldwell, deceased, late clerk of the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, for fees and allowances certified by the said court to be due to the said Caldwell, for official services to the United States, and to pay or cause to be paid to them, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars thirty-eight cents, with interest thereon, after the rate of six per centum per annum, from the twenty-fifth day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty, till paid.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXXII: for the relief of Gabriel W. Denton, and others.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 282, 283, 284. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/665">665</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Gabriel W. Denton, and others.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Gabriel W. Denton, and his sureties, namely, H. W. and S. Hills, C. Adams, jr., G. W. Huntington, and John Barstow,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharged from the payment of a certain joint and several promissory note.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, acquitted and discharged of and from a certain joint and several promissory note, executed by them to William W. Mann, for the sum of thirty-two thousand seven hundred and six dollars and thirty cents; which said note bears date New York, July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, is payable twelve months after date, at the city of Augusta, in the state of Georgia, and was given in consideration of five several judgments rendered in August eighteen hundred and nineteen, by the District Court of the United States for the District of Georgia, in favor of the United States, against Joshua E. White and others, of whom said Denton was one, and which said note, though made payable to William W. Mann, is really and in truth for the use and benefit of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That nothing in this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> act contained shall be held to discharge the other parties against whom said judgments were rendered, or to prevent the enforcement thereof against them, their heirs or representatives.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXXIII: providing for the further payment of a pension to Mary J. Babbit.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>providing for the further payment of a pension to Mary J. Babbit.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the provisions of a law approved the second day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, granting a pension to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 124, extended.</p></sidenote> Mary J. Babbit, be further extended for the time of five years from the twenty-ninth day of November last, provided she lives so long, otherwise, during her life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXXIV: for the relief of William B. Stokes, Richard C. Stockton, Lucias W. Stockton, and Daniel Moore.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William B. Stokes, Richard C. Stockton, Lucias W. Stockton, and Daniel Moore.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Solicitor of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the claims of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for extra services as mail contractors to be settled.</p></sidenote> William B. Stokes and Richard C. Stockton, of Maryland, and Lucius W. Stockton and Daniel Moore, of Pennsylvania, for extra services performed by them as contractors for carrying the mail under and by virtue of certain contracts therefor by them alleged to have been made and entered into with them by William T. Barry, late Postmaster General of the United States, and for this purpose, to inquire into and determine the equity of the claims of them or any of them for or on account of any contract or additional contract with the said Postmaster General on which their pay may have been suspended by the present Postmaster General, and to make them such allowances therefor as, upon a full examination of all the evidence, may seem right, according to the principles of equity; and that the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, directed to credit such mail contractors with whatever sum or sums of money, if any, the said Solicitor shall so decide to be due to them for and on account of any such service or contract; and the Solicitor is hereby authorized to take testimony, if he shall judge it to be necessary to do so; and that he report to Congress at its next session, the law and the facts upon which his decision has been founded: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said Solicitor is not authorized to make any allowance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> for any suspension, or withholding of money by the present Postmaster General, for allowances, or overpayments, made by his predecessor, on route number thirteen hundred and seventy-one, from Philadelphia to Baltimore, for carrying the mail in steamboats, when it was not so <page identifier="/us/stat/6/666">666</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 285, 286, 287, 288. 1836.</centerRunningHead>carried by said Stockton and Stokes, but by the steamboat company. Nor for any suspension or withholding of money as aforesaid, for allowances or overpayments made as aforesaid, for carrying an express mail from Baltimore to York, or Lancaster.</proviso> Nor for any suspension or withholding of money, as aforesaid, for allowances or overpayments made as aforesaid, on route number thirteen hundred and ninety-one, from Westminster to McConnellstown as described in the improved bid. Nor for any suspension or withholding of money as aforesaid for allowances or overpayments made as aforesaid on the route from Baltimore to Wheeling for running a certain daily line between Hagerstown and Wheeling, from the first of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to the first of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, when the line referred to only run tri-weekly. Nor for any suspension or withholding of money as aforesaid for allowances or overpayments made, as aforesaid, on the route from Baltimore to Washington, under the con-tract of eighteen hundred and twenty-seven: but nothing in this proviso shall prejudice any application they may make hereafter in reference to these routes, if they shall think it proper to make such application. <ref class="footnoteRef" idref="fn010666">(<i>a</i>)</ref><footnote id="fn010666"><num>(<i>a</i>)</num> See Kendall v. The United States, 12 Peters, 544; Kendall <i>against</i> Stokes and others, 3 Howard, 87.</footnote></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXXV: for the relief of the widow of Peter Smith.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the widow of Peter Smith.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of P. Smith’s pension to be paid to her.</p></sidenote>directed to pay to the widow of Peter Smith, of Walpole in the state of Massachusetts, the amount of pension which would have accrued to her husband, if he had been placed on the pension roll, at the rate of twenty dollars a year, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to the time of his death.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXXVI: for the relief of Larned Swallow.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Larned Swallow.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>the name of Larned Swallow on the invalid pension list, and cause him to be paid at the rate of twenty-four dollars a month, during life, to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in lieu of the pension to which he is now entitled by law.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXXVII: for the relief of Ephraim Page.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ephraim Page.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Ephraim Page, a soldier in the late war, upon the list of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars a month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXXVIII: for the relief of Parker Chase.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Parker Chase.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Parker Chase, an officer of the late war, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and allow and pay to him a pension at <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 289, 291, 292. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/667">667</page>the rate of nine dollars and seventy-five cents a month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXXIX: for the relief of John Randolph Clay and others.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Randolph Clay and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury do pay to John Randolph Clay, the sum of three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to J. R. Clay.</p></sidenote> three hundred eighty-one dollars and forty-one cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That there be paid to Thomas P.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfit and salary to be paid to T. P. Barton.</p></sidenote> Barton, an outfit and salary as Charge d’Affaires at the court of France, to commence on the twenty-eighth of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, deducting therefrom any sums which may have been, or may be paid to him as Secretary of Legation for the same period.</content>
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<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Fifth Auditor of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit allowed to T. L. L. Brent.</p></sidenote> Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pass to the credit of Thomas L. L. Brent, in the settlement of his accounts, the sum of two thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars, being the amount suspended on account of payments made by him for translations and copying papers, in relation to claims on account of spoliations.</content>
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<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That there be paid to George F.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to G. F. Brown.</p></sidenote> Brown, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars, seventy-four and two-third cents, in full settlement of his accounts as Consular Agent of the United. States at Algiers.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXCI: for the relief of John S. Stiles.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John S. Stiles.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John S. Stiles, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for bread delivered.</p></sidenote> and forty dollars, being the amount to which he was entitled for delivery of bread per requisition for Mahon, in the winter of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, over the amount he received.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXCII: to provide for the issuing a land patent to Thomas B. Clarke.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to provide for the issuing a land patent to Thomas B. Clarke.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be issued to Thomas<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued.</p></sidenote> B. Clarke, assignee of David Thompson, who was assignee of James Cisni, a patent for a tract of land containing about one hundred and thirty-four acres, tying on the river Rouge, in the Territory of Michigan, and confirmed to said Cisni by the Commissioners of Private Land Claims in said Territory; the patent to be issued conformably to a patent certificate issued by the register of the land office at Detroit, on the 2d day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, except that it shall not include that part of said claim lying north of the “Chicago road.”</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXCIII: additional tn the act for the relief of James L. Cathcart.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/668">668</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 293, 294, 295, 296. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>additional tn the act for the relief of James L. Cathcart.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid out of any money in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him in full of all claims.</p></sidenote>treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James L. Cathcart, the sum of fifteen hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXCIV: for the relief of Antonio Segura, and others.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Antonio Segura, and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That each of the following persons be, and they <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate a tract of land.</p></sidenote>are hereby, authorized to locate a quarter section of land out of any unappropriated lands, subject to private entry, within the southwestern district of Louisiana, south of Red river, to wit: the widow of Francisco Segura, Antonio Romero, Louis Segura, Eloy Segura, Rafael Segura, St. Jago Segura, Nicholas Goudran, the widow Viator, and Matildo Segura, wife of Juan Miguel: <proviso><i>Prodded,</i> That in making said location they shall conform to the lines of the public surveys. And it <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue to each of the above-named persons, or their legal representatives, a patent for said lands, as soon as they shall have located the same.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXCV: for the relief of A. and J. Dennistoun and Company, of New Orleans.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 668</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of A. and J. Dennistoun and Company, of New Orleans.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper officers of tire treasury pay to A. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of certain debenture certificates to be refunded.</p></sidenote>and J. Dennistoun and Company, of New Orleans, the sum of fourteen hundred seventeen dollars and four cents, being the amount of certain debenture certificates which were refunded because the said Dennistoun and Company failed to procure the certificates required by law that certain goods were landed in Havana.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXCVI: for the relief of the heirs, or their legal representatives, of William Conway, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 668</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs, or their legal representatives, of William Conway, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the heirs of William Conway, deceased, or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate two tracts of land.</p></sidenote>their legal representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate, within twelve months from the passage of this act, on any unappropriated public lands ill the state of Louisiana, one thousand and seventy acres thereof, in a body in contiguous tracts according to the legal subdivisions of the public surveys; and that they are further authorized to locate, on any of the public lands in said state subject to entry, the quantity of two thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine acres, under the same limitations; and that the proper officers of the Government of the United States be authorized and directed to issue a patent or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>patents accordingly: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the said heirs of William Conway, or their legal representatives, within one year after the passage of this act, and previous to making the locations authorized by it, shall execute a release, in favor of the United States, of the land originally included in three grants from the Government of Spain, and confirmed by the commissioners for investigating land titles in the district west of Pearl river, by the reports numbered forty-eight, forty-nine, and fifty.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXCVII: for the relief of Henry H. Hall.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 297, 298, 299, 300. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/669">669</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry H. Hall.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to issue scrip to the amount of one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scrip for $100 to be issued.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars, to and in favor of Henry H. Hail, in lieu of that amount of scrip by him paid into the land office at Springfield, Illinois for eighty acres of land; which said land was afterwards sold by the United States to James J. Mosely, by virtue of a preemption right thereto. Said scrip, when so issued, shall be receivable in payment for any lands within the state of Illinois, which are subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXCVIII: for the relief of the owners, officers, and crews of the private armed vessels Neptune and fox.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 669</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the owners, officers, and crews of the private armed vessels Neptune and fox.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to the owners, officers, and crews of the private armed vessels Neptune and Fox, or their legal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for prisoners captured by them.</p></sidenote> representatives, by the proper officers of the treasury, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five dollars for each of sixty-nine prisoners captured by said Neptune and Fox on the St. Lawrence river, on the nineteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and delivered to the authorized agent of the United States at Sackett’s Harbor.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXCIX: for the relief of Joshua Hatch and others, interested in a fishing vessel which was lost at sea.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 669</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joshua Hatch and others, interested in a fishing vessel which was lost at sea.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Boston and Charlestown be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to Joshua Hatch and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.</p></sidenote> to the heirs at law or legal representatives of the officers and crew of the schooner Joseph, late of Boston, lost on a fishing voyage, such a sum as said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty, if she had regularly completed her fishing season; she being of the burden of fifty-nine tons twenty-seven one hundredths of a ton; which sum shall be distributed in the same manner and proportions as the law would have distributed the bounty if said vessel had completed her fishing season.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCC: for the relief of the legal representative of Nathaniel Canada.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 669</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCC.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representative of Nathaniel Canada.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to ascertain the actual damage sustained<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of damages to be ascertained.</p></sidenote> by Nathaniel Canada from the burning of his toll-house and bridge, across Niantic river, in the state of Connecticut, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, by the British, while said toll-house and bridge were occupied by the troops of the United States.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the amount, when so ascertained,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> be paid to the legal representative of the said Nathaniel Canada, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCI: for the relief of Nancy Leamaster, widow of James Leamaster.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 670</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/670">670</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 301, 302, 303, 304. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nancy Leamaster, widow of James Leamaster.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for provisions and forage.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Nancy Leamaster, widow of James Leamaster, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one hundred dollars, for provisions and forage taken from the farm of James Leamaster, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve, by mounted volunteers in the service of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCII: for the relief of Noah Brown and the legal representatives of Adam Brown.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 670</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Noah Brown and the legal representatives of Adam Brown.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for losses sustained by the sale of treasury notes.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Noah Brown and the legal representatives of Adam Brown, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand and thirty dollars, being the amount of losses sustained by Adam and Noah Brown upon the sale of treasury notes made by them in the years eighteen hundred and fourteen and eighteen hundred and fifteen, under an agreement with the commissioners for building the steam-frigate Fulton the first.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCIII: for the relief of Ebenezer Spaulding.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 670</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ebenezer Spaulding.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent fees to be returned to him.</p></sidenote>hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Ebenezer Spaulding, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, thirty dollars, the sum paid by him into the treasury for a patent, which patent has never been issued.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCIV: for the relief of the executors of James O’Harra, late of Pittsburg, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 670</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the executors of James O’Harra, late of Pittsburg, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the register of the land office at Kaskaskia <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claims to be confirmed.</p></sidenote>be required to issue certificates of confirmation on the several claims to land confirmed to the said James O’Harra by the Governor of the Indiana Territory, upon those claims whereon such certificates have not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>heretofore been issued: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the whole amount of such certificates shall not be for more than six thousand six hundred acres of land.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be located in Illinois.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That said certificates may be located upon land subject to private entry in any land office in Illinois, established for the sale of the public land agreeably to the provisions of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 61.</p></sidenote>the act entitled “An act confirming certain claims to land in the Illinois Territory, and providing for their location and patents shall be issued therefor, agreeably to the said act.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executors may assign certificates.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the executors of said James O’Harra are hereby authorized to locate or assign said certificates, as they may deem most beneficial, to the heirs and representatives of said O’Harra.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCV: for the relief of the legal representatives and sureties of James Brobson.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 671</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCV</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 305, 306, 307, 308, 309. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/671">671</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives and sureties of James Brobson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Solicitor of the Treasury be authorized to settle the accounts of James Brobson, late marshal of the Delaware<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and allowance made, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> district, and allow such credits as shall be satisfactorily proven to be due in equity and justice; and if the sum so allowed shall be equal to the debt due from said Brobson, the suit now pending against his sure-ties shall be dismissed at the cost of said sureties; but if less than the debt be allowed, whatever that sum is, shall be credited on said debt.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCVI: for the relief of Joseph Bogy.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Bogy.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War shall cause to be paid to Joseph Bogy, of the state of Missouri, six thousand dollars, out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property carried away by Choctaws.</p></sidenote> any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full satisfaction for his merchandise and property seized, taken, and carried away or destroyed by the Choctaw Indians, in the then territory of Louisiana, in the year eighteen hundred and seven.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury to be reimbursed from annuity due to them.</p></sidenote> cause the treasury of the United States to be reimbursed said sum of money, by ordering the person whose duty it may be to pay the annuity due or to become due, to the Choctaw Indians, to retain and deduct the same out of said annuity.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Hazlet, and Jemima Monro, surviving children of the late Colonel John Hazlet, of the state of Delaware, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 671</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Hazlet, and Jemima Monro, surviving children of the late Colonel John Hazlet, of the state of Delaware, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers ascertain what will be the amount of seven years’ half pay due to the children of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of seven years hall pay to be ascertained.</p></sidenote> said Colonel John Hazlet, deceased.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That said accounting officers do<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them.</p></sidenote> pay whatever sum maybe so found to be due to the legal representatives of Joseph Hazlet and of Jemima Monro, the two surviving children of the said Colonel John Hazlet, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCVIII: for the relief of John Cummins.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 671</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Cummins.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to repay to John Cummins, his heirs or legal representatives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for land to be refunded.</p></sidenote> out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred dollars ami twenty cents, the same being the amount paid by him on the seventeenth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, for the entry of the west half of the south-west quarter of section twenty-one, township nine, of range ten, in the district of lands subject to sale at Zanesville, in Ohio, which entry was adjudged void, and the same half quarter granted to one William C. Bay.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCIX: for the relief of Isaac Means and others, late owners of the schooner Elizabeth.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 671</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac Means and others, late owners of the schooner Elizabeth.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper officers of the treasury pay to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them.</p></sidenote> said Means and others, late owners of the schooner Elizabeth, which <page identifier="/us/stat/6/672">672</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 310, 311, 312. 1836.</centerRunningHead>was condemned and sold by a decree of the district court for the district of Massachusetts, at a term thereof held at Boston in September, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of three hundred dollars and twenty-one cents, being that portion of the avails of the sale which was paid into the treasury of the United States; it appearing that the condemnation of said vessel was without fault on the part of said owners.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Richardson and Samuel Stout, and for the relief of Lieutenant John Rudd.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 672</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Richardson and Samuel Stout, and for the relief of Lieutenant John Rudd.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to representatives of H. Richardson.</p></sidenote>authorized to pay to the legal representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased, out of the navy pension fund, the sum of two hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty cents, it being the amount due to the said representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased, a marine on board the United States sloop of war Wasp, under the act of Congress of the sixth <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 20, 1816, ch. 65.</p></sidenote>of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, and passed to the navy pension fund in consequence of not being claimed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> 
<p class="inline fontsize10">That the following sums of money heretofore appropriated and carried to the surplus fund be, and the same are hereby, directed to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; to wit:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of prize money to John Rudd.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 269.</p></sidenote>To Lieutenant John Rudd, for his proportion of prize money in virtue of the act entitled “An act for the relief of Thomas Holdup Stevens, and others,” approved the fourteenth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, forty dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of prize money to representatives of S. Stout.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 119.</p></sidenote>To the legal representatives of Samuel Stout, deceased, for his proportion of prize money in virtue of the act entitled “An act providing for the distribution of one hundred thousand dollars among the captors of the Algerine vessels captured and restored to the Dey of Algiers,” approved twenty-seventh April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, twenty dollars and eighty-five cents.</p>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXI: for the relief of Seaborn Jones and Joel Crawford.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 672</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Seaborn Jones and Joel Crawford.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> That, at the next term of the district court of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A judgment against them as securities to be opened.</p></sidenote>United States for the district of Georgia, Seaborn Jones and Joel Crawford be permitted to open a judgment lately obtained against them in said court as the securities of Thomas F. Green, late postmaster at Milledgeville, Georgia, at the suit of the Postmaster-General of the United States. And that the said Seaborn Jones and Joel Crawford be permitted to make the same defence to said suit that they might or could have made had said judgment not have been rendered.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXII: for the relief of Don Carlos Dehault Delassus.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 672</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Don Carlos Dehault Delassus.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Don Carlos Dehault Delassus, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on a certain sum to be allowed to him.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 256.</p></sidenote>out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, interest at the rate of six per centum per annum on the sum of one thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars, that being the amount allowed him under the act of the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two. for his relief, on account of moneys taken from him at the capture of Baton Rouge, in Louisiana, on the twenty-third day of September, <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 313, 314, 315, 316, 317. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/673">673</page>eighteen hundred and ten; the said interest to be allowed from the said twenty-third day of September, eighteen hundred and ten, to the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXIII: for the relief of the trustees of common schools in township eight, range eleven east, in the state of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 673</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CCCXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the trustees of common schools in township eight, range eleven east, in the state of Mississippi.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the trustees of common schools in township eight, range eleven east, in the state of Mississippi, be authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate a tract of land.</p></sidenote> locate, for the use of schools in said township, one section of six hundred and forty acres of land, by sectional lines, of any of the public lands in the state of Mississippi, subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXIV: to confirm the title of the heirs of M. de la Carera to a tract of land.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 673</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to confirm the title of the heirs of M. de la Carera to a tract of land.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That a gratuitous grant of seven hundred and ninety-eight arpens of land, situated on the Escambia river, in West<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of land confirmed.</p></sidenote> Florida, made by the Intendant, General Morales, on the fifth of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine, to Milan de la Carera, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed to the heirs or legal representatives of said Carera: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this confirmation shall only operate as a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> relinquishment of the title of the United States.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXV: for the relief of John La Tourette.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John La Tourette.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay John La Tourette, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount overpaid by him to be refunded.</p></sidenote> treasury, one hundred and twenty dollars, which sum was overpaid by said La Tourette on the purchase of a tract of land in the state of Indiana, being the north-west quarter of section twenty-nine, township thirteen, range twelve east.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXVI: for the relief of David McCord.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of David McCord.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be authorized and required to credit the accounts of David McCord,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be credited with money lost.</p></sidenote> late receiver of public money for the Cahaba land district, in the state of Alabama, with the sum of seven thousand three hundred dollars, which was lost by the burning of the steamboat Florida, while in the possession of Alexander Pope, who was taking it to Mobile, to be deposited in the Branch Bank of the United States, according to directions given him by the Secretary of the Treasury.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXVII: for the relief of Charles I. Catlett.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles I. Catlett.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of loss by capture of tobacco. &amp;c., to be credited to him.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 10.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 110.</p></sidenote> settle, upon the principles of the acts of Congress of the ninth April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, and third of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, the claim of Charles 1. Catlett for tobacco which belonged to him at Magruder’s warehouse, Cedarpoint warehouse, and Nottingham warehouse, all in the state of Maryland; and was lost, captured, or destroyed, by the British or American troops during the <page identifier="/us/stat/6/674">674</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 318, 319, 320, 321. 1836.</centerRunningHead>last war between the United States and Great Britain; which said allowance shall be carried to the credit of the said Charles I. Catlett on the books of the treasury.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXVIII: for the relief of Martin Prindle.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Martin Prindle.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse and sleigh lost.</p></sidenote>hereby is, directed to pay to Martin Prindle, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, being the value of a horse and sleigh lost while in the service of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXIX: for the relief of the legal, representatives of the late Theodore W. Maurice.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal, representatives of the late Theodore W. Maurice.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>hereby is, authorized to settle the accounts of the late Theodore W. Maurice, upon the principles of equity and justice; and that any balance which may be found due, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXX: for the relief of Henry Wainwright.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Wainwright.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be refunded to Henry Wainright, of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of duties overpaid on lead to be refunded.</p></sidenote>Boston, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirteen hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-eight cents, being the amount of an over-payment made by him, on the importation of certain quantities of lead, in March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXI: addition to the act for the relief of the legal representatives of George Hurlbut, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 674</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCXXI</docNumber>
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<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>addition to the act for the relief of the legal representatives of George Hurlbut, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> 
<p class="inline fontsize10">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount payable on settlement certificates to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote>ascertain the amount that would have been payable on four final settlement certificates, issued on the twelfth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, in the name of George Hurlbut, and afterwards recalled and cancelled, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Number thirty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-six, for one thousand dollars; number thirty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-seven, for one thousand dollars; number thirty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-eight, for nine hundred and fifty dollars; number thirty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-nine, for fifty dollars; (making together three thousand dollars,) if the said certificates had not been recalled and cancelled, but had been subscribed to the debt <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 31.</p></sidenote>of the United States, under the act of August fourth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety; and that, after deducting from the amount so ascertained, the sum paid to the legal representatives of said George <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 214.</p></sidenote>Hurlbut, under the act of June thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four for their relief, the balance be paid to the said legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</p>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXII: for the relief of James F. Sothoron.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCXXII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 322, 323, 324, 325. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/675">675</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James F. Sothoron.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain the amount of loss<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of properly destroyed to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> sustained by James F. Sothoron, on account of the damage to, and the destruction of the buildings upon his farms in St. Mary’s county, in the state of Maryland, by the enemy, during the late war, in consequence of the military occupation of the said buildings by troops in the service of the United States; and that the amount thereof when so ascertained, be paid to the said James F. Sothoron, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXIII: for the relief of John M. Gamble.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John M. Gamble.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be paid to John M. Gamble,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of rations furnished by him to be paid.</p></sidenote> out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, twenty-five cents for each ration furnished by him to seventeen seamen and four marines, together with six prisoners of war, under his command, when left by Commodore Porter in charge of prizes in the Pacific ocean, during the years eighteen hundred and thirteen, and eighteen hundred and fourteen.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXIV: for the relief of Ike legal representatives of Nathaniel Shaver, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ike legal representatives of Nathaniel Shaver, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Nathaniel Shaver, deceased, to whom a certificate was issued by the recorder of land titles<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locale a tract of land.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 17, 1815, ch. 45.</p></sidenote> at St. Louis, Missouri, pursuant to the act entitled “An act for the relief of the inhabitants of the late county of New Madrid, in the Missouri Territory, who suffered by earthquakes,” approved the seventeenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen, for four hundred arpens, or three hundred and forty acres and twenty-eight one-hundredths of an acre of land, and whose location of said tract has been found deficient by the quantity of one hundred and fifty acres and forty-three one-hundredths of an acre, lie, and they hereby are, authorized to locate one quarter section on any of the public lands of the United States within the state of Missouri unappropriated and subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXV: to refund the duties paid upon the importation of certain bells.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to refund the duties paid upon the importation of certain bells.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to refund to the Rector, Churchwardens, and Vestrymen,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on certain bells, &amp;c. to be refunded.</p></sidenote> of Christ Church, in the city of Philadelphia, the amount of duties which they have paid on the importation of two bells belonging to the said church, one whereof was heretofore exported by the said church from the port of Philadelphia to England, and the other has been cast in England, to supply the place of a broken bell of the said church, also exported as aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXVI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Thornton Taylor, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 676</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 326, 327, 328, 329, 330. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Thornton Taylor, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and allowance made for pay as ensign.</p></sidenote>be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of Thornton Taylor, deceased, and allow to his legal representatives five years’ full pay as an ensign in the Virginia line, on continental establishment, without interest; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid to the said legal representatives of Thorn-ton Taylor, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXVII: for the relief of Josette Beaubien and her children.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Josette Beaubien and her children.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Josette Beaubien be, and she hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed to relinquish certain lands, and enter another tract.</p></sidenote>permitted, under such instructions as may be given by the Secretary of the Treasury, for herself and her children, to relinquish to the United States all the right, title, interest, claim, and demand that she and her children have, or ever had, to two sections of land reserved to her and them in, and by virtue of, a treaty made at Tippecanoe, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, between the United States and the Pottawatamie tribe of Indians; and that, in lieu thereof, she be permitted to locate, for herself and her said children, twelve hundred and eighty acres of land, in legal subdivisions, upon any of the public lands subject to private entry, situate and lying within the bounds of the lands to which the Indian title was extinguished by virtue of said treaty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXVIII: for the relief of James Sutherland and Rebecca his wife, formerly Rebecca Parkerson.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Sutherland and Rebecca his wife, formerly Rebecca Parkerson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers shall ascertain <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay of a lieutenant to be allowed.</p></sidenote>the amount due to the said Rebecca, the only child of James Parkerson, who was a lieutenant in the continental line during the revolutionary war, and who died in the service, for the seven years’ half pay of a lieutenant, promised by a resolution of the Congress of the United States, and when ascertained, that they pay said sum to the said James Sutherland and Rebecca his wife, in full compensation for said seven years’ half pay, as promised by said resolution.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the sum found to be due be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXIX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain David Hopkins.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain David Hopkins.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers ascertain the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a captain allowed.</p></sidenote>amount of five years’ full pay of a captain serving to the end of the revolutionary war on continental establishment, and pay the same, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of the late Captain David Hopkins, in full satisfaction of the commutation money promised by a resolution of the Congress of the United States,</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXX: for the relief of Duncan L. Clinch.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCXXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Duncan L. Clinch.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Duncan L. Clinch and John H. McIntosh, assignees of George J. F. Clarke, be authorized to enter, at the mini-<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 331, 332, 333. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/677">677</page>mum price for which the public lands are sold, a tract of land in East<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land.</p></sidenote> Florida, containing three thousand acres, in Cones’ or Moody hammock, south of Mizzell’s lagoon, west of the river St. John, upon which they have made their settlements under a grant from Don Jose Coppinger, governor of that province, dated sixth of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen; and a survey made by Don Andres Burgevin, bearing date the twelfth day of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, in lieu of the same quantity of land confirmed to them in another place by the decree of the Supreme Court, at January term, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in the case of George J. F. Clarke against the United States, upon their filing in the office of the register of public lands for the district of East Florida, a relinquishment of all their right, title, claim, and demand, in and to the land last mentioned.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXXI: for the relief of Hiram A. Hunter.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Hiram A. Hunter.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Hiram A. Hunter, late orderly sergeant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> of Captain Robert F. Crittenden’s Company of volunteers, the sum of seventy dollars, being the value of a horse lost by him in the service of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXXII: for the relief of Elijah Simmons.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCCXXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elijah Simmons.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Elijah Simmons be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate six hundred and forty acres of the public lands of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locale a tract of land.</p></sidenote> United States within the state of Alabama, subject to entry at private sale, in lieu of eight hundred arpens situated on the east side of the Alabama river, in what is commonly called the fork, near the Tensaw river, and to which he was entitled by the laws of Spain, on which he had settled, had cultivated and inhabited in seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, and which has been sold by the United States as public lands: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said location be made in conformity with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the legal divisions and subdivisions of public lands, and in quantities not less than one hundred and sixty acres; and on the execution, by the said Elijah Simmons, of a good and sufficient release to the United States of all his right, title, and interest to the said lands as aforesaid, to be filed in the proper land office, patents shall be issued to him for the quantity of one section, as above mentioned.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXXIII: for the relief of Samuel Smith, Lynn MacGhee, and Semoice, friendly Creek Indians.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 677</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Smith, Lynn MacGhee, and Semoice, friendly Creek Indians.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Samuel Smith, Lynn MacGhee, and Semoice, friendly Creek Indians, who were entitled, under the treaty with the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1837, ch. 29.</p></sidenote> Creek nation of Indians, ratified on the sixteenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen, to reservations of six hundred and forty acres of land each, including their improvements, which lands have been sold by the United States, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, without payment, with the register and receiver of the land office for the land district in which the same may lie, in Alabama, one entire section each of land subject to entry at private sale; to be held by them on the same terms and conditions as the reservations given by said treaty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXXIV: for the relief of Susan Marlow.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/678">678</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 334, 335, 336. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Susan Marlow.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Susan Marlow, only surviving child of James <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1837, ch. 23.</p></sidenote>Marlow, a Creek Indian, who lost his life at the destruction of Fort Minims, be, and she is hereby, authorized to enter with the proper land officers for the district, without payment, one entire section of any of the public lands of the United States within the state of Alabama, subject to entry at private sale; to be held by her upon the same terms and conditions as reservations allowed to the friendly Creek Indians by the treaty of Fort Jackson.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXXV: for the relief of Joseph Hertick.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Hertick.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a boat impressed.</p></sidenote>hereby is directed to pay to Joseph Hertick, of the state of Missouri, the sum of one hundred and forty dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; the same being the value of a boat, belonging to said Hertick, that was pressed into the service of the United States, and lost in the year eighteen hundred and twelve.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXXVI: to extend two patents of James Barron.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to extend two patents of James Barron.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be, and hereby is, granted to James <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for making corks extended for 14 years.</p></sidenote>Barron, his heirs, administrators, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the fourteenth day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-three, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, his improvement in the apparatus or machinery for manufacturing bottle corks, a description of which is given in a schedule annexed to letters patent granted to the said James Barron on the thirteenth day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and nineteen.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for a pump extended for 14 years.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That there be, and hereby is, granted to the said James Barron, his heirs, administrators, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the twentieth day of February, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-three, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, his improvement in the pump for air or water, a description of which is given in a schedule annexed to letters patent granted to the said James Barron for the same, on the twentieth day of February, anno <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Domini eighteen hundred and nineteen: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That all rights and privileges heretofore sold or granted by said patentee, to make, construct, use, or vend the said improvements, or either of them, and not forfeited by the purchasers or grantees, shall enure to, and be employed by, such purchasers or grantees, respectively, as fully, and upon the same conditions, during the periods thereby granted, as for the term which did exist when such sale or grant was made.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons who hove constructed, &amp;c., may use the same.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That any person who has bona fide erected or constructed any manufacture or machine, for the purpose of putting said improvements, or either of them, into use, after the expiration of said patents heretofore granted, or is now erecting or constructing any manufacture or machine for the purpose aforesaid, shall have and enjoy the right of using such improvement or improvements now erected or constructed, or now being erected or constructed.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXXVII: for the relief of Walter Loomis and Abel Gay.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 337, 338, 339, 340, 341. 1836.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/679">679</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Walter Loomis and Abel Gay.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to settle, upon principles of equity, the accounts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts as contractors, &amp;c. to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote> of Walter Loomis and Abel Gay, so far as they are original contractors for the making of the Cumberland road, and to pay any balance that may be found due, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said balance shall not exceed forty-one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> dollars and seventy-one cents.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXXVIII: confirming the title of Joseph Sorin, alias Larochelle, and those claiming under him, to a tract of land in Missouri.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>confirming the title of Joseph Sorin, alias Larochelle, and those claiming under him, to a tract of land in Missouri.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the title of Joseph Sorin, alias Larochelle, and those claiming under him, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> to a tract of land, two arpents in front by forty arpents in depth, situated in the second line of concessions or grants adjacent to the city of St. Louis, at a place called the “Cul de Sac,” bounded on the front by the west line of the forty arpents lots, and adjoining at its western boundary and depth to the “Royal Domain;” on the north adjoining to the land of Madame Camp: and on the south to that of M. Yosti: <proviso><i>Provided,</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That this confirmation shall only operate as a relinquishment on the part of the United States to all claim in and to the said land; but shall not affect the right of any other person or persons, if such there be, having a just claim to the said land.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXXXIX: to provide for the settlement of the claim of Mary O. Sullivan.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to provide for the settlement of the claim of Mary O. Sullivan.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the claim of Mary O’Sullivan,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for loss by detention of vessel, to be paid.</p></sidenote> widow and executrix of John O’Sullivan, deceased, to be examined by the proper accounting officers of the treasury; and that there be allowed and paid to the said Mary O’Sullivan, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of actual loss which may be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury to have been sustained by the said John O’Sullivan, in consequence of the act of the late John M. Forbes, commercial and political agent of the United States of America at Buenos Ayres, in detaining the vessel of the said O’Sullivan, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and causing her to be sent to the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXL: for the relief of Robert Abbott, and the other heirs of James Abbott, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 679</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert Abbott, and the other heirs of James Abbott, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be granted to Robert Abbott and the other heirs of James Abbott, deceased, one section of land, containing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A section of land granted to them.</p></sidenote> six hundred and forty acres, to be located in the Territory of Michigan, on any of the lands belonging to the United States subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXLI: for the relief of James Thomas.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Thomas.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to <page identifier="/us/stat/6/680">680</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 342, 343, 344. 1836</centerRunningHead><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account as contractor to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>adjust and settle the accounts between the United States and James Thomas, upon principles of equity and justice; and that, in the settlement of his accounts as contractor, the said accounting officers be required to recognise the judicial decision of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, as settling the true construction of the contract, and the relative rights of the parties under the same; and if, upon such settlement, there shall appear to be a balance due to the said James Thomas, that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXLII: for the relief of John Alman and George Woolsey.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 680</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Alman and George Woolsey.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Alman, of the county of Pike and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. Alman authorized to relinquish a tract of land, and to enter another.</p></sidenote>state of Indiana, be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States in such manner and form as have been or may hereafter be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the north half of the north-west quarter of section number three, in town-ship number three south, of range eight west, of the second principal meridian, in the district of lands sold at Vincennes, Indiana; and upon such relinquishment having been made as aforesaid, the said John Alman is hereby authorized to enter, in lieu of the lands so relinquished, the north half of the north-west quarter of section two, township three south, range eight west.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">G. Woolsey authorized to relinquish, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That George Woolsey, of the county and state aforesaid, be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in manner and form aforesaid, the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section number thirty-three, in township number two south, of range eight west, of the second principal meridian, in the district of lands sold at Vincennes, in the state of Indiana; and upon such relinquishment as aforesaid having been made, the said George Woolsey is hereby authorized to enter, in lieu of the lands so relinquished, the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section thirty-four, township two south, range eight west.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXLIII: for the relief of Tobias Crum.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Tobias Crum.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Tobias Crum, of the state of Indiana, be, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to relinquish a tract of land, and to enter another.</p></sidenote>and he is hereby, permitted and allowed to enter the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter of section number twenty, in township five north, of range six east, in the Jeffersonville land district, in the state of Indiana, for which he shall be entitled to a patent on his relinquishing to the United States the north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of section number twenty, in township five north, of range six east, in said district, which lot he entered through mistake.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXLIV: for the relief of William Pollard’s heirs.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Pollard’s heirs.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there shall be, and hereby is, confirmed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to a lot of ground in Mobile confirmed to them.</p></sidenote>unto the heirs of William Pollard, deceased, a certain lot of ground, situated in the city of Mobile, and bounded as follows, to wit: on the north, by what was formerly known as John Forbes and company’s canal; on the west by Water street: on the south, by the King’s wharf; and on the east, by the channel of the river; and that a patent shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>issue in the usual form for the same: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That this act shall only <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 345, 346, 347, 348. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/681">681</page>operate as a relinquishment, on the part of the United States, of all their right and claim to the above described lot of ground, and shall not interfere with or affect the claim or claims of third persons.</proviso><ref class="footnoteRef" idref="fn010681">(<i>a</i>)</ref><footnote id="fn010681"><num>(<i>a</i>)</num> See the case of Pollard against Kibbe, 14 Peters, 353.</footnote></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXLV: for the relief of James Bradford, of Louisiana.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Bradford, of Louisiana.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That James Bradford, of Louisiana, shall be, and he hereby is, confirmed in his right to four hundred and twenty-seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confirmed in his right to a tract of land.</p></sidenote> arpens of land, situated in the parish of West Feliciana, in the state of Louisiana, fronting on the Mississippi river, three quarters of a mile below the mouth of Bayou Sarah, bounded on the upper side by lands granted to William Williams; below by those of Augustin Allain; and back by those of the aforesaid Williams and others; and the register of the land office in the proper district, on a presentation of the survey and Spanish patent for the said tract, shall cause an entry thereof to be made, and grant him a certificate therefor, whereupon a patent shall issue for the same in due form: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That this act shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> operate only as a relinquishment, on the part of the United States, of their right and claim to the said tract of land, but shall not interfere with the claim or claims of other persons.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXLVI: for the relief of Coleman A. Collier.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Coleman A. Collier.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place the name of Coleman A. Collier on the roll of invalid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> pensioners, and pay him ten dollars a month during his natural life, commencing on the seventh day of December, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXLVII: for the relief Jean Baptiste Janis, senior, of Missouri.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-02</dc:date>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief Jean Baptiste Janis, senior, of Missouri.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place the name of Jean Baptiste Janis, senior, of Missouri,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> on the roll of officers and soldiers under the act entitled “An act supplementary to ‘the Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution,’ approved the seventh June, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote> and thirty-two,” and to cause him to be paid in the same manner as the persons already inscribed on said roll, at the rate of ten dollars per month, from and after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXLVIII: amendatory of the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the Civil Department of the Government of the United States in the District of Columbia.”</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>amendatory of the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the Civil Department of the Government of the United States in the District of Columbia.”</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1819, ch. 23.</p></sidenote> That from and after the passage of this act, the President and Board of Officers of the Provident Association of Clerks<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May invest their funds in state or other stocks.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized to invest the funds of said Association, in the stocks of any of the states, or in any other stocks that the President and Board of Officers may judge advisable from time to time.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCXLIX: for the relief of the representatives of Jacob Shoemaker, deceased.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/682">682</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 349, 350, 351, 358. 1836</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCXLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the representatives of Jacob Shoemaker, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be refunded to Mercy Shoemaker, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on sugar refunded.</p></sidenote>widow, for herself and the children of Jacob Shoemaker, deceased, the duties paid on one hundred and two hogsheads and four barrels of sugar exported by said Jacob Shoemaker, from the port of Philadelphia to . Bordeaux, in France, in the month of August, eighteen hundred and five, in the ship Thomas, Captain Jones; the drawback of which duties was withheld because the oath was not taken, and the export bond signed, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>within ten days required by law: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, before said payment be made, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that said sugar was actually landed without the United States.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCL: for the relief of John H. Holland.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John H. Holland.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment on account of Africans placed in his charge.</p></sidenote>H. Holland, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, thirteen hundred and seventy-one dollars and forty-seven cents, for his expense and charges incurred in the care, clothing, and subsistence of a number of Africans placed in his charge, as marshal of the eastern district of Louisiana, under the laws of the United States relative to the slave trade.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2">[<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. ]</num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testimony to be received respecting certain charges.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Navy take and receive further testimony relative to so much of the account of said John H. Holland, as is embraced in the charges of Dr. James S. McFarlan for professional services and medicine, and allow a reasonable and just amount for the services actually rendered by said McFarlan, and medicine furnished said Africans; and that he report said amount so allowed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is directed to pay said amount so certified, to the said John II. Holland, out of any money not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCLI: for the relief of James Baldridge.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Baldridge.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That James Baldridge be, and he is hereby, confirmed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote>in his title to a tract of land containing six hundred and forty acres, situated on the river Dardenne, in the county of Saint Charles, state of Missouri, claimed by virtue of a settlement made thereon in the year eighteen hundred and two, to be surveyed in a square, or, as near as may be, so as to include his improvement; and in the event of there not being sufficient public land adjoining said improvement upon which to make such survey, then, and in that case, the deficiency may be located upon any unappropriated public land in the district embracing said settlement, in legal subdivisions, subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-02">July 2, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCLVIII: confirming claims to land in the State of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 682</citableAs>
<dc:date>1836-07-04</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>confirming claims to land in the State of Louisiana.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-04">July 4, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the decisions in favor of land claimants <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Decisions of the Register confirmed, with certain exceptions.</p></sidenote>made by the register and receiver of the land office in New Orleans, under date the first of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, by virtue of an act entitled “An act for the final adjustment of claims to land in the State of Louisiana,” which have been laid before Congress at the present session by the Secretary of the Treasury, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, with the exception of the claims of Nar-<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 365, 366, 367. 1836.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/683">683</page>cisse Carmouche, Julie Alexandrie, and Martin Major, Nicholas Bara, and Francis Menard, saving and reserving, however, to all adverse claimants, the right to assert the validity of their claims in a court of justice.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-04">July 4, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCLXV: for the relief of Frederick C. De Krafft.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-04</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCLXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Frederick C. De Krafft.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-04">July 4, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and settle the account of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His account as surveyor of the city of Washington to be settled.</p></sidenote> Frederick C. De Kraft, United States surveyor of the city of Washington from June first, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, to the period of his appointment as surveyor of the said city, under an act of the corporation thereof, passed August the thirteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and that he be allowed the same annual rate of compensation as was allowed to his immediate predecessor in office; together with such allowance for office rent and other contingencies as had been usual and customary, or as shall to the accounting officers seem just and proper; and that, after deducting from the amount such sums as may have been paid him by the Commissioner of Public Buildings, for services rendered in his official capacity, the balance, if any, be paid to the said Frederick C. De Kraft, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-04">July 4, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCLXVI: granting a pension to General Eleazer W. Ripley.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCCLXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to General Eleazer W. Ripley.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-04">July 4, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Eleazer W. Ripley on the invalid pension<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> list of the United States, and to pay him a pension at the rate of thirty dollars per month, from and after the first day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, during his life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-04">July 4, 1836</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCCLXVII: to authorize the corporation of Georgetown to close certain streets in said town.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1836-07-04</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the corporation of Georgetown to close certain streets in said town.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1836-07-04">July 4, 1836</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the corporation of Georgetown, in the District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portions of certain public streets may be sold.</p></sidenote> of Columbia, be, and is hereby, authorized to sell, in fee simple, or otherwise dispose of, and convey, all that portion of Fayette street, and Lingan street, in said town, lying south of the canal: <proviso><i>Provided, </i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>That nothing herein contained shall affect the right of any individual.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1836-07-04">July 4, 1836</date>.
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<congress>24</congress>
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<dc:date>1836</dc:date>
<dc:date>1837</dc:date>
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fifth day of December,</i> 1836, <i>and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1837.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Andrew Jackson</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Martin Van Buren</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">William R. King</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, January 28, 1837; <inline class="smallCaps">James K. Polk</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
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<dc:title>Chapter VII: for the relief of Robert P. Letcher and Thomas P. Moore.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert P. Letcher and Thomas P. Moore.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-01-31">Jan. 31, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid out of any money in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for pay and traveling expenses.</p></sidenote>treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Robert P. Letcher, the sum of one thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars, and to Thomas P. Moore, the like sum of one thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars, the same being at the rate of eight dollars per day from the second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, to the twelfth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, both inclusive, being the period occupied by the House of Representatives of the United States of the twenty-third Congress, in deciding the contest for a seat in the said House, as the Representative for the fifth Congressional district of the state of Kentucky, which seat was claimed by each of said parties; and that the allowance for travelling, as fixed by law for a member of Congress, be, and the same is hereby, granted and allowed to the said Robert P. Letcher, and to the said Thomas P. Moore, for coming to, and returning from, the seat of Government to their residences, respectively, upon the most usual and accustomed route of travel; the amount of which allowance shall be ascertained by the accounting officers, and paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter VIII: for the relief of Norman Holt.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1837-01-31</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Norman Holt.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-01-31">Jan. 31, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Norman Holt, of Owen county, in the state <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to a tract of land on surrendering, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>of Indiana, shall be entitled to enter one quarter-quarter section of land on any of the unsold lands in the Vincennes land district in said state subject to entry at private sale, on his first surrendering to the United States, at the said office, the south-west quarter of the south-east quarter of section number twenty-five, in township twelve north, and range five west; and that the money paid by said Holt for the entry of said tract, shall be applied to the payment of such other tract or quarter-quarter section, as the said Holt may enter in said district.</content>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/684" renderingPosition="bottom">684</page>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-01-31">January 31, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter X: for the relief of Andrew Knox.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1837-02-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 10, 11, 24. 1837.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/685">685</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Andrew Knox.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-02-03">Feb. 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Andrew Knox, of Washington county, in the state of Mississippi, be, and he is hereby, authorized and permitted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May purchase a section of land in Choctaw district.</p></sidenote> to purchase, upon the payment of the minimum price to the receiver of the proper land district, section sixteen, in township fourteen, range nine west, in the Choctaw district, in said state, the purchase of which section heretofore was prevented by the illegal numbering of the sections in said township.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That it shall be the duty of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A section to be reserved for public schools.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be selected and reserved for the use of schools within the said township, numbered fourteen, in lieu of the aforesaid section, a section [of ]land in equal extent in said Choctaw land district.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-02-03">February 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XI: for the relief of John E. Wool.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1837-02-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John E. Wool.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-02-09">Feb. 9, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That so much of the thirteenth section of the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, entitled “An act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part of act of June 30, 1834, ch. 162, dispensed with, so far as regards him, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> provide for the organization of the Department of Indian Affairs,” as prescribes “that all merchandise required by any Indian treaty for the Indians payable after making of such treaty, shall be purchased under the direction of the Secretary of War, upon proposals to be received to be based on notices previously to be given,” be dispensed with so far as it may affect the purchases made by Brigadier General J. E. Wool under the eighteenth article of the treaty with the Cherokee Indians of December twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, prior to the second day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and that the sums expended by him previous to that date be passed to his credit in the settlement of his accounts, and the drafts drawn by him on the Department of War on account thereof, be paid without reference to the said provisions of the said act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-02-09">February 9, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXIV: to incorporate the Howard Institution of the city of Washington.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to incorporate the Howard Institution of the city of Washington.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-02">March 2, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William W. Seaton, Archibald Henderson, Mathew St. Clair Clarke, William A. Bradley, John Coyle, George<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain persons incorporated as the Howard Institution.</p></sidenote> Gilliss, N. B. Van Zandt, Richmond Johnson, John Nourse, Michael Nourse, B. F. Rittenhouse, Lewis II. Machen, Rezin Orme, Peter W. Gallaudet, Jacob Gideon, George Stettinius, William C. Orme, John P. Ingle, William Brent, John G. Whitwell, John Shackford, C. T, Coote, Thomas Blagden, Griffith Coombe, William Speiden, William Doughty, Marmaduke Dove, and G. D. Hanson, and all other persons who have contributed to the fund of the Howard Institution of the city of Washington, each in a subscription of an annual sum of at least one dollar, ami all who may hereafter contribute to the said funds in a like annual subscription of a sum not less than one dollar, shall be, and are hereby, made, constituted, and declared, to be a corporation and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance forever under the name, style, and title, of the Howard Institution of the city of Washington.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That all and singular the lands,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May hold property.</p></sidenote> tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, privileges, goods, and chattels, that may hereafter be given, granted, sold, devised, or bequeathed to the said Howard Institution, be, and they are hereby, vested in and confirmed to the said corporation; and that they may purchase, take, <page identifier="/us/stat/6/686">686</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 24. 1337.</centerRunningHead>receive, and enjoy, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, rights, or privileges, or any goods, chattels, or other effects of what kind or nature soever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed, or devised, unto the said institution, or unto any trustee for the use of the said institution, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such grant, and to dispose of the same for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>benefit of said corporation: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The amount of property held by said institution shall, at no lime, exceed the amount of twenty thousand dollars.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capable to sue and be sued, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the said corporation, by the name and style aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter, capable, in law and equity, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, in as effectual manner as other persons or corporations can sue or be sued.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">The present officers continued.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That such persons as shall be officers of the said Howard Institution at the time of the passing of this act, shall be continued to be such until the first Tuesday in October next, on which day such of the persons hereby incorporated as shall then, or within a year preceding that day, contribute one dollar to the support of the said institution, and be or become a subscriber of one dollar or more per annum towards the same, and shall assemble at the house now belonging to the said institution at such hour as shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election of officers.</p></sidenote>directed by the board, shall proceed to elect a president, a first and second vice-president, a treasurer and secretary, and twenty-four managers, four from each ward of the city of Washington, for the term of one year, who shall constitute the board of managers of the said Howard Institution of the city of Washington; and in like manner, on the first Tuesday of October in each year thereafter, the like officers shall be elected for the same term of one year, at such hour and place as shall have been previously designated by the board of managers, of which time and place at least two days’ notice shall be given by publication in some newspaper printed in the city of Washington; and if, from any cause, an election shall not be held on the day of the month herein appointed, then an election may be held on any other day, of which the like notice shall be given, and those persons in office shall so continue until their successors shall be elected; and at all such elections, every contributor of not less than one dollar, in the manner as aforementioned, shall be entitled to one vote; but those who contribute, by a yearly subscription, a larger sum, shall be entitled to a greater number of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacancies.</p></sidenote>votes, to be regulated by the by-laws of the board; and any vacancies which may occur in the board by resignation, death, removal, or otherwise, shall be supplied by the board of managers in such manner as the by-laws of the board may direct.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Object of the corporation.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the object of the said Howard Institution of the city of Washington, shall be to afford relief to the indigent females of the city of Washington, by providing work for those who may desire it, and by procuring for them fuel and other necessaries of life on the most reasonable terms, and to adopt such other means as may be found expedient for bettering the condition of the poor of the said city.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All business to be transacted by the board of managers.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That all the business of said corporation hereby created shall be transacted by the board of managers, except the election of the said board, as hereinbefore provided for; the number of the board to form a quorum to transact the business of the said corporation, to be regulated by the by-laws of said institution. At all meetings thereof the President, if present, shall preside; and if he be absent, then one of the Vice-presidents, if either of them be present, and if neither of these shall be present at any meeting of the board, then <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 26. 1837.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/687">687</page>the members present shall appoint one of their number as president pro tempore.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the board of managers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of the board of managers.</p></sidenote> shall have power to adopt and use a common seal, as the seal of this corporation, and to alter and exchange the same at their pleasure. They shall have power to adopt all by-laws which they may think necessary for the management of the concerns of the institution, and which shall not be inconsistent with the laws of the United States, or .the laws in the District of Columbia for the time being. They shall appoint such officers, agents, and servants, as may be necessary to carry on the business of the institution, and regulate the compensation to be paid to them for their services; and they may dismiss any of them at their pleasure, and appoint others in their stead, as often as they shall think fit. They shall keep a journal of their proceedings, in which shall be recorded every by-law which may be adopted. They shall adopt such checks and regulations as may appear necessary for the security of the funds and property of the institution; and shall annually make a report of the affairs and condition of the institution for the preceding year.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That it shall be lawful for Congress,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act may be altered, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> at any time hereafter, to alter, amend, modify, or repeal this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-02">March 2, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXVI: to organize the several Fire Companies in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 687</citableAs>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to organize the several Fire Companies in the District of Columbia.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-02">March 2, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"> That, from and after the passage of this act, the fire companies of Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria, in the district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers, &amp;c. of certain fire companies.</p></sidenote> of Columbia, and those which may hereafter be formed in either of the said cities, shall, when so formed, severally have power to frame their own constitution, and adopt by-laws for their own regulation, and to elect their own officers, who, and the members of the several companies, shall be exempt from the performance of military duty in time of peace, so long as they shall continue active members thereof; and the certificate of the several presidents of the said companies, attested by the secretary, shall be sufficient evidence of membership: <proviso><i>Provided, </i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>That no company now formed, or hereafter to be formed, as aforesaid, shall have the benefit of this act, until it shall first obtain a fire apparatus of the value of at least five hundred dollars:</proviso> <proviso><i>And, provided,</i> A company<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> possessing an apparatus of the value of five hundred dollars, shall not exempt more than seventy-five; and a company possessing an apparatus of the value of one thousand dollars and upwards, shall not exempt more than one hundred.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the corporate authorities in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination of fire apparatus, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> each of the said cities shall, annually, appoint an inspector, whose duty it shall be to examine the condition of the fire apparatus belonging to each fire company at least once in every month, and to report its state to a fire department, to be composed of the presidents of the respective fire companies in each of the said cities, who are hereby constituted a fire department for that purpose, which shall sit monthly, at the townhouse in the city to which they belong. And if the said inspector shall report that the fire apparatus of any one of the said fire companies is so defective or out of repair as to be of less value than five hundred dollars, or unfit for service, and the company or companies whose apparatus shall be thus reported to be so depreciated in value or out of repair, shall permit the same to continue so for one calendar month, the said company or companies shall thereupon forfeit all the rights, privileges, and immunities, granted by this act; and it shall be the duty of the said inspector to communicate this fact to the adjutant of the regiment of the city in which such company or companies may belong.</content>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/688">688</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 26. 1837.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obedience may be enforced by fine, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That each of the said fire companies shall have power to enforce obedience to its constitution and by-laws by fine and forfeiture; and to collect all such fines by warrant, to be issued by a justice of the peace in the city where such company belong, in the name of the said company; and the certificate of the president of such company, that the person so fined has been fined for disobedience to the constitution or by-laws (as the case may be) of fire company in city, attested by the secretary of the said company, shall be sufficient evidence for the magistrate to issue his warrant, and, after having the party before him, to enter up judgment, and issue execution <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>thereon: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> Proof of such fine shall be made by the record thereof produced before the justice, and proved by the secretary; and, if either of the said companies shall expel any member thereof, he, the said member so expelled, shall thereupon forfeit all the rights, privileges, and immunities, granted by this act; and it shall be the duty of the secretary of the company from which the said member shall be so expelled, immediately to inform the captain of the militia company within whose limits the said member shall reside, that he has been so expelled; and the said expelled member shall thereupon be enrolled in the said militia company, and compelled to perform military duty, if otherwise liable to do military duty.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money collected.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That all and every sum and sums of money collected under the authority of this act, shall be paid over by the officer or other person collecting the same, to the treasurer of the company, in the name of which the warrant shall have been issued, or money collected; and upon such officer or other person failing so to pay over the same, the said treasurer may recover the same by warrant or suit, in his own name, for the use of the said fire company, in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shall provide funds for the relief of certain members.</p></sidenote>same manner us private debts are now recovered by law. And each and every of the said fire companies now existing, or which may hereafter be formed, as aforesaid, shall, each for itself, provide a fund for the re-lief of such member or members of such company, who shall or may receive any corporeal hurt or injury, or contract any disease at, or in consequence of, any fire, and be unable to provide medical aid, or whose family or families may be dependent upon his or their daily labor for support, and for the relief of the family or families of any member or members of such fire company, who shall or may be killed at, or die in consequence of, any injury received, or disease contracted at, or in con-sequence of, any fire, and whose family or families may have been dependent upon his or their daily labor for support; and the treasurer of the said company shall, after having paid ail the expenses which the said company shall have lawfully incurred, pay over to the said fund the residue of al] fines collected under the authority of this act.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">This act not to interfere with the right of the corporate authorities, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere with the right of the corporate authorities of the several cities aforesaid “to provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires;” and it is hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of the several acts of incorporation of the several cities aforesaid, to give to the corporate authorities thereof full power and lawful authority to make all necessary provisions for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; for the preservation of order and protection of property at any fire; for the removal from any fire of suspicions persons, and those who are disobedient to the regulations of the said several corporations; for the punishment, by fine and imprisonment, of such person or persons as, being present at, refuse to assist, and obey the commands of the proper officer, in extinguishing any fire; for the removal of such property as may be necessary to he removed; to prevent and arrest the progress of any fires; and to aid, protect, and obtain obedience to the <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 27, 23, 29, 47. 1837.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/689">689</page>officers in command of the several fire companies, and to protect the members thereof while in the discharge of their duty at any fire.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-02">March 2, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXVII: for the relief of Catharine Myott.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 689</citableAs>
<dc:date>1837-03-02</dc:date>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Catharine Myott.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-02">March 2, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper officers be, and they are hereby, authorized to cause the east half of section fourteen, in township forty-four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A half section of land to be set apart for her.</p></sidenote> north, range one east, third principal meridian, in the state of Illinois, to be set apart and designated for Catharine Myott, as part of the reservation to which she is entitled under the provision of the treaty made at Prairie du Chien on the first day of August, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-02">March 2, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXVIII: confirming the claim of the heirs of Michael Dragon to certain tracts of land therein mentioned.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>confirming the claim of the heirs of Michael Dragon to certain tracts of land therein mentioned.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-02">March 2, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the claims of Andria Demetry, or the heirs of Michael Dragon, deceased, to three several tracts of land situate on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> the bay of Saint Louis, in the state of Louisiana, the titles to which were derived from the Spanish government of that country, and containing together five thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight arpens, be, and the same hereby are, confirmed, in conformity with the report made by the Register and Receiver of the land district of St. Stephen’s, acting as commissioners under the third section of the act approved the second March, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, entitled “An act confirming<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1829, ch. 40.</p></sidenote> the report of the Register and Receiver of the land office for the district of St. Stephen’s, in the state of Alabama, and for other purposes,” dated the sixteenth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-four: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> This confirmation does not interfere with any title or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> right, if such exist, to any part of the said land, acquired by any individual or individuals under the laws of the United States.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-02">March 2, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXIX: to amend an act approved the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for the relief of Samuel Smith, Linn McGhee, and Semoice, Creek Indians; and, also, an act passed the second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for the relief of Susan Marlow.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to amend an act approved the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for the relief of Samuel Smith, Linn McGhee, and Semoice, Creek Indians; and, also, an act passed the second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for the relief of Susan Marlow.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-02">March 2, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1836, ch. 333.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1836, ch. 334.</p></sidenote> That so much of the acts for the relief of Samuel Smith, Lion McGhee, Semoice, and Susan Marlow, as restrict them to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">So much of acts as restricts them to one section, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the entry of one entire section of land, be, and the same is hereby re-pealed; and the said Samuel Smith, Linn McGhee, Semoice, and Susan Marlow, are hereby authorized to enter, without payment, and by legal subdivisions, a quantity of land not exceeding six hundred and forty acres each, which is subject to entry at private sale.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-02">March 2, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XLVII: for the relief of Abigail Appleton.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Abigail Appleton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the pension heretofore granted, by law, to Abigail Appleton, the widow of Daniel Appleton, pursuant to the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension renewed and continued for five years.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 16, 1818, ch. 65.</p></sidenote> of the act entitled “An act in addition to an act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the United States,” and the act to which the same is an addition, subject to the conditions and limitations therein contained, be, and the same is hereby, renewed and continued for an additional <page identifier="/us/stat/6/690">690</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 48, 50, 53, 54, 55. 1837.</centerRunningHead>term of five years, to commence from the third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, subject to the conditions and limitations aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XLVIII: for the relief of John Jeffers.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Jeffers.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Jeffers be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May surrender land certificate, and receive another therefor.</p></sidenote> to surrender the certificate which heretofore issued from the land office at Huntsville, Alabama, to John Sharp, and which was assigned to said Jeffers by Dixon Stanbach, as administrator of Stephen Heard, for the north-west quarter of section twenty-eight, township six, range two, west of the basis meridian of said land district; and upon such surrender of said certificate, and filing his relinquishment in said land office, the said John Jeffers shall be entitled to a certificate from the Register and Receiver of said land office for the amount which has been paid on said lands, which shall be received in said office in payment for any lands subject to entry in that land district.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LIII: granting a pension to William C. Beard, late a captain in the United States army.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 690</citableAs>
<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to William C. Beard, late a captain in the United States army.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of William C. Beard, late a captain in the United States army, on the invalid pension roll, at the rate of seventeen dollars per month, to commence on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LIII: for the relief of Findley Kellock.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Findley Kellock.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>Findley Kellock, of the state of Maine, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and to cause to be paid to the said Kellock, during his natural life, the sum of twenty-nine dollars per annum, the payment thereof to commence on the fourth day of March, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.”</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LIV: for the relief of Alexander Gibson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Alexander Gibson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause the name of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be replaced on pension roll.</p></sidenote>Alexander Gibson, of Kentucky, to be restored to the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that he be paid all arrears due him for his pension, since he was last paid, and that he be paid for and during his natural life a pension at the rate of eighty dollars per annum.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LV: for the relief of David Kilbourn.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of David Kilbourn.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote>hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money not otherwise appropriated to David Kilbourn, of the county of Oswego in the state of New York, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars for loss of property he sustained in consequence of services rendered by him to the United States on the northern frontier during the late war with Great Britain.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LVI: for the relief of Ebenezer Breed.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 691</citableAs>
<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 56, 57. 1837.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/691">691</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ebenezer Breed.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Ebenezer Breed, merchant, out of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of duties on wine destroyed while in custody of the customs.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the amount of duties paid on twenty-one thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven gallons of wine, imported in the brig Gazelle, on the first day of August in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, into the port of Boston and Charlestown, which wine was destroyed by fire while in the custody of the customs: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> be furnished with satisfactory proof that said goods were so destroyed by fire, and were not insured.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LVII: to amend the charter of the Potomac Fire Insurance Company of Georgetown.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 691</citableAs>
<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to amend the charter of the Potomac Fire Insurance Company of Georgetown.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the name and style of the said company shall hereafter be the “Potomac Insurance Company of Georgetown;”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shall have power to make insurance on vessels, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and in addition to the powers, privileges, and immunities granted to the said company in and by their original act of incorporation, the said company shall have full power and authority to make insurance on vessels, merchandise, freights, and all other interests in or touching property at sea, or going to sea, and on all kinds of marine risks whatsoever; to make insurance on lives, to grant annuities, to receive endowments, to contract for reversionary payments, and to pass all such by-laws as may be necessary to carry these and their other powers into effect, not contrary to the laws of the United States, and from time to time to alter or repeal the same; and to make, execute, and perfect such and so many contracts, bargains, agreements, and other instruments, as shall or may be necessary, and as the nature of the case shall or may require.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That it shall and may be lawful<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May open books and take subscriptions of stock, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> for the said company, at such time and so often as a majority of the stockholders may agree and so order, to open book-s and take subscriptions of stock, until the original contemplated capital stock of said company shall be filled.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the president and directors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">President and directors may take security on real estate, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of said company may, at their discretion, take security on real estate of at least double the value of the amount to be secured, in lieu of endorsed notes, for the unpaid part of capital stock; and it shall be lawful for the stockholders to pay up ten dollars per share on any and every share of stock held by him, her, or them, in cash, not oftener than once a year, commencing with the first of July, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and be entitled to dividend thereon as on other cash stock: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The said payments are made fully six months before<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the declaration of such dividend.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the foregoing enactments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">When to be in force, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> shall be in force and binding on the said company and others, as soon as a written acceptance thereof, adopted by a majority of the stockholders of said company, shall be authentically certified, and filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Washington: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the change<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> in the name of the said company, hereby authorized, shall not affect any proceedings instituted, or liabilities incurred, before the passage of this act, by or against the said Potomac Fire Insurance Company.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LVIII: for the relief of Henry Lee.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 692</citableAs>
<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/692">692</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 58, 59, 60, 61. 1837.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Lee.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit to be allowed to John Ricaud.</p></sidenote>department be, and they are hereby, directed and required to admit and pass to the credit of John Ricaud, the sum of two thousand dollars heretofore suspended front his credit, in the settlement of the said John Ricaud’s account, as paymaster to the thirty-sixth regiment of United States infantry, commanded at a separate post, by Colonel William Carberry.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry Lee released from a judgment as surety of John Ricaud.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That Henry Lee be, and he is hereby, released and fully exonerated from the force and effect of a judgment obtained against him in the district court of the United States, at Richmond, Virginia, as surety of the aforesaid John Ricaud, late paymaster of the thirty-sixth regiment of United States infantry.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act when to be in force.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That this act shall commence and be in force from and after the passage thereof.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LIX: for the relief of William Christy.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Christy.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount due him to be ascertained, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>the amount due to William Christy, as military storekeeper, one year, in the north-western army, under an appointment of General Harrison; and when so ascertained, that he report the same to the Solicitor of the Treasury, who is directed to cause the same to be credited on the principal of a judgment, recovered in favor of the United States against said Christy, in the district court of Louisiana, at the December term of said court in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrangement to be made with him for payment of judgment.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to make an arrangement with the said William Christy, for the payment of the balance of the principal of said judgment and costs, at any time within five years, by instalments which being paid, according to the stipulations of the parties, the said Secretary is authorized to discharge said judgment.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LX: for the relief of James Brown and John Brown, half breeds, of the Cherokee nation of Indians.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Brown and John Brown, half breeds, of the Cherokee nation of Indians.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for improvements surrendered by them.</p></sidenote>hereby, directed to pay to James Brown the sum of six hundred and forty-seven dollars, and to John Brown the further sum of three hundred and thirty dollars; making, in the aggregate, the sum of nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as full compensation for the improvements surrendered by the said James Brown and John Brown, under the provisions of the treaty of eighteen hundred and nineteen, between the United States and said nation of Indians.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXI: for the relief of F. A. Parker.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of F. A. Parker.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Captain <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for certain expenses incurred.</p></sidenote>F. A. Parker, of the United States navy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred dollars, for actual expenses incurred by him while commanding the Fairfield sloop of war, in the Mediterranean, during the year eighteen hundred <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 62, 63 ,64, 65, 66. 1837.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/693">693</page>and twenty-eight, in carrying out Mr, Edward Weyer, bearer of despatches to the commander of the squadron in the Mediterranean sea, by order of the Secretary of the Navy of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXII: for the relief of Green Pryor and the heirs of Peter Pryor.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 693</citableAs>
<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Green Pryor and the heirs of Peter Pryor.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the President of the United States cause to be issued to Green Pryor and the heirs of Peter Pryor, a patent for fractional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued.</p></sidenote> section number two, of township fourteen, range five east, in the Washington land district, in the state of Mississippi, it being the same entered by Isham Arthur, on the sixteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixteen, and by him transferred to Green and Peter Pryor.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Isaac Williams, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 693</citableAs>
<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Isaac Williams, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Isaac Williams, deceased, of the county of Wilkinson, in the state of Mississippi, be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to re-enter certain land.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, authorized to re-enter, at any time within six months after the passage of this act, so much of fractional sections numbers thirty-nine and forty-one, in township number one, of range number one west, in the district of lands subject to sale at Washington, in said state, as remains unsold, and that the sums of money heretofore paid by Isaac Bush and Isaac Williams, or either of them, on said fractional sections, be passed to the credit of the said representatives, in part payment for the said fractional sections.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXIV: for the relief of Charles W. Pickering.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 693</citableAs>
<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles W. Pickering.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury be authorized to adjust and settle the account of Charles W. Pickering,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed difference between pay of a lieutenant and midshipman.</p></sidenote> a midshipman in the navy of the United States, and to allow him the difference between the pay and emoluments of a lieutenant over that of a midshipman, for the period during which he performed the duties of a lieutenant on board the United States ship Falmouth, by order of her commander, Francis II. Gregory, in the Pacific Ocean, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three; and the amount so found due to him shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXV: for the relief of Jerah Fenner.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 693</citableAs>
<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jerah Fenner.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Jerah Fenner, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, his pay as a soldier<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as a soldier.</p></sidenote> in the service of the United States, from the thirtieth of June eighteen hundred and fourteen, to the eighteenth of October, eighteen hundred and fourteen, inclusive.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXVI: for the relief of H. and D. Cotheal, of New York.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 693</citableAs>
<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of H. and D. Cotheal, of New York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the port of New York be and he is hereby, authorized to permit II. and D. Cotheal of New York,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of drawback on playing cards.</p></sidenote> to export, with the benefit of drawback, certain cases or packages of <page identifier="/us/stat/6/694">694</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 67, 68, 69. 1837.</centerRunningHead>Spanish playing cards, imported by them into that port, upon their com-plying with the forms and regulations required by existing laws relating to the exportation of merchandise with the benefit of drawback.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXVII: for the relief of Peter Harmony, of New York.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter Harmony, of New York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the port of New York be, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of drawback on playing cards.</p></sidenote>and he is hereby, authorized to permit Peter Harmony, of New York, to export, with the benefit of drawback, certain cases or packages of Spanish playing cards, imported by him into that port, upon his com-plying with the forms and requisitions required by existing laws relating to the exportation of merchandise with the benefit of drawback.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXVIII: for the relief of James Keytes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Keytes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued, in lieu of a certain other patent.</p></sidenote>issued to James Keytes, assignee of William Ashly, who is assignee of Grant Weed, a patent for a quarter section of land, to be located on any of the public lands in the state of Missouri, subject to private entry; which is in lieu of a quarter section which was patented to said Grant Weed, by the United States, on the eleventh day of May, eighteen hundred and nineteen, described as being the north-east quarter of section eleven, in township number fifty-four north, of range twenty south, and which patent appears to have been altered by the Commissioner of the General Land Office on the third day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, by inserting range twenty-one instead of range twenty, so as <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>to make the patent correspond with the record in said office: <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless,</i> That no such location shall be made, or patent issue, until the said Keytes shall file a relinquishment with the register of the land office at Franklin, in the state of Missouri, for die above named quarter section, in range twenty-one aforesaid.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXIX: to incorporate the President and Directors of the Firemen’s Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 694</citableAs>
<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to incorporate the President and Directors of the Firemen’s Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown in the District of Columbia.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That French S. Evans and Edmund Hanly, of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain persons incorporated.</p></sidenote>the Union; Charles L. Coltman and James H. Smoot, of the Franklin; John Purely and John H. Goddard, of the Perseverance; Charles K. Gardner and John Lynch, of the Columbia; Marmaduke Dove and William Speiden, of the Navy Yard; George Shoemaker and John H. King, of the Western Star, and Nathaniel Harden and William J. Gozler, of the Vigilant, fire companies, and the subscribers to the stock of the association, and their successors, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of “The President and Directors of the Firemen’s Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown;” and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in all courts of law or equity, or elsewhere; and to make and use one common seal, and the same to alter or renew at their pleasure, and generally to do and perform all things relative to the objects of this institution, which now is or shall be lawful for any individual or body politic or corporate to do.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capital stock.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the capital stock of this company shall consist of a sum not exceeding two hundred thousand <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 69. 1837.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/695">695</page>dollars, divided into ten thousand shares, at twenty dollars each. Two dollars shall be paid on each share at the time of subscribing; four months after such subscription and payment, a further instalment of two dollars shall be paid on each share of stock; and notes payable on demand, with security to be approved of by the president and directors for the time being, shall be given for the remaining sixteen dollars. The said notes shall be renewed whenever the directors may consider it proper; and any stockholder neglecting or refusing to renew his note, or neglecting or refusing to pay an instalment when required by the directors, shall forfeit all his interest in this company, and be held liable for his proportion of any loss which may have occurred previous to such neglect or refusal.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That, should any forfeiture occur,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remission of forfeitures.</p></sidenote> it may be remitted by a majority of the whole board of directors present at the meeting at which the motion for such remission shall be made, upon the payment, by the person incurring a forfeiture, of the principal of said instalment, and the interest thereon up to the time of such payment; as also of his proportion of such loss as may have occurred previous to such forfeiture.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the president and directors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Call for the remaining part of shares.</p></sidenote> shall not call on the stockholders for any part of the remaining sixteen dollars per share, secured to be paid as above mentioned, unless the exigencies of the company shall require it, and then only in such proportions as the said stockholders are severally interested, taking care, always, to give sixty days’ notice thereof, in the papers in the cities of Washington and Georgetown.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That so soon as five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Company may transact business, when.</p></sidenote> shares are subscribed for and paid, or secured to be paid, the company shall be competent to transact all kinds of business for which it is established.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That each fire company in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Each fire company may subscribe, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> city of Washington and Georgetown shall be entitled to subscribe by itself, for its own use, in its corporate capacity, or by means of trustees, for the use of said company; or the members of a company may, in their individual capacity, for the use of themselves or the company or companies to which they belong, subscribe for an amount of stock, not to exceed, in the whole, one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight shares for each company. Each company shall open books of subscription<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Each company to open books of subscription.</p></sidenote> for the same, on the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and shall deliver the said books and the money paid on the subscription, to the board of directors, so soon as they shall be appointed and prepared to receive the same.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That if any fire company, together<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">When a company shall not subscribe for its full number of shares, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> with its members, shall not subscribe for the number of one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight shares allotted to them, within the space of three years from the time the books may be opened for subscription, the residue of shares between the amount of their subscription and the said one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight shares, may be subscribed for and taken by the other fire companies, or the members there-of, in equal portions to each company, or in such manner as the directors may determine.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That no person, other than a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Members of fire companies only entitled to hold stock.</p></sidenote> member of a fire company, shall be entitled to purchase or hold any part of the capital or joint stock of this company; and the share or shares of a stockholder ceasing to be a member of a fire company, shall be purchased at their actual value, by the company to which the said stockholder belonged; or by the members thereof, for their own use, or for the benefit of the said company; or by the hoard of directors of this association, and may be disposed of by them for its benefit. Upon the <page identifier="/us/stat/6/696">696</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 69. 1837.</centerRunningHead><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shares of stockholders ceasing to be members, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>decease of a stockholder his share or shares shall become extinct, his stock notes shall be cancelled, and the actual value of such share or shares, at the time of his decease, together with all profits due thereon to him, shall be paid within six months after such extinction, to his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns. And the directors shall have power to create and dispose of shares equal to the number so extinguished by the death of the said stockholder.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfers of stock.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That transfers of stock may be made by any stockholder to the company, or to a member or members of the fire company to which he or they may belong, or to any other fire company, or any member or members thereof; but no transfer shall be valid which is made to any other than a member or members of a fire company.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Members entitled to insurance at a discount, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That every member of any of the companies belonging to the association, shall be entitled to effect insurances at a discount of eight per cent, less than other persons, upon producing to the satisfaction of the directors a certificate of his right of membership; and all the companies associated, or who may hereafter associate under this act, within the cities of Washington and George-town, shall be entitled to an equal participation in all the benefits and advantages of the institution, in proportion to the amount of stock held by such company.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">President and board of directors.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the affairs of this company shall be managed by a president and a board of directors, (to be elected as follows,) all of whom shall be stockholders; who, previous to entering on the duties of their respective offices, shall take the following oath or affirmation: “I, A B, do swear [or affirm, as the case may be] that I will faithfully, diligently, impartially, and honestly fulfil the duties of my office of <fillIn style="font-family:monospace">________</fillIn> to the best of my knowledge and ability.” <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number of directors.</p></sidenote>Each fire company holding, together with the members thereof, one hundred shares of stock, and not more than five hundred, shall be entitled to elect one director. Any fire company holding, together with the members thereof, more than five hundred shares, shall be entitled to elect two directors. Any company, together with the members composing it, holding less than one hundred and seventy-five shares of stock, shall not be entitled to the election of a director; and should it so happen that the number of shares of stock possessed by any one company, together with the members composing it, shall become less than one hundred and seventy-five, then, and in that case, the said company shall not be entitled to the election of a director, until the amount of shares held thereby be increased to the said number of one hundred and seventy-five.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No director of any oilier fire insurance company eligible.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That no director of any other fire insurance company shall be allowed to be a director of this; and should any director of this company be elected a director of any other fire insurance company, his acceptance of that appointment shall, ipso facto, disqualify him from continuing a director of this company, and the company from which such director shall have been delegated shall proceed to fill up the vacancy as is hereinafter provided.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election of directors.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the respective companies composing this association, who may be entitled to the election of one or more directors, shall hold separate meetings for the first election of directors, within two weeks after the aforesaid amount of five thousand shares of stock shall be subscribed for: and on the first Monday in January in each and every year thereafter, and choose by ballot, from among their members, the number of directors to which they are entitled; and each stockholder shall have one vote for each share of stock not exceeding five shares; one vote for every five shares over five, and not exceeding fifty shares; one vote for every ten shares exceeding fifty <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 69. 1837.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/697">697</page>shares; but no person or body corporate shall have, in any instance, more than twenty votes. The directors so chosen shall serve until the first Monday in January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and until others shall be chosen, and no longer. At their first meeting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Choice of president, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> after every election, they shall choose by ballot, a president, either from among their own body, or from amongst the other stockholders; and in case of the death or disqualification of the president, the directors shall fill up the vacancy by ballot. The said directors shall produce (before they enter on the duties herein assigned to them) a certificate signed by the president and secretary of the respective fire companies, of the appointment of such person as director. In case of a director being chosen president, the place of such director for the remainder of the year shall be filled up by the company from which such director was delegated, from among the stockholders of the fire company to which the director so elected belonged.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That in case of the death, resignation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In case of death, &amp;c. of a director.</p></sidenote> or disqualification of a director, the place of such director, for the remainder of the year, shall be filled up by the company from which such director was delegated, from the fire company by whom he was elected.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the president and directors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insurance only to be made in Washington county, D. C.</p></sidenote> shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to make all kinds of insurance against fire, within the limits of the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia only, and generally to transact and perform all business relative to the objects aforesaid. And, also, to invest the capital and funds of the company, from time to time, in the public funds of the United States, or in any other stocks, and to dispose of the money and property of the company in such manner (not being contrary to law) as to them shall appear most advantageous to the company.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the president and directors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dividends.</p></sidenote> shall declare dividends of the profits of the corporation, or so much thereof as to them shall appear advisable; and in case of any loss or losses, whereby the capital stock of the company shall be lessened, no subsequent dividend shall be made until a sum equal to such diminution, and arising from the profits of the company, shall have been added to the capital.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the said president and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fund for the benefit of injured members.</p></sidenote> directors shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to retain and set apart out of the profits of the said company, from time to time, as they may think necessary, a portion of said profits, to constitute a fund for the special benefit of such members of the several fire companies belonging to this association as may become injured or disabled in the discharge of their duties at any fire.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That every house insured by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for houses destroyed.</p></sidenote> this company that is destroyed by means of fire, from the first floor up-wards, shall be deemed as demolished; and it shall be lawful for the directors, in such case, to order the money insured thereon to be paid within three months after the notice given of the loss aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That in case of a partial destruction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Valuation of loss in case of a partial destruction.</p></sidenote> by fire, the loss shall be determined by assessors appointed as follows: the person whose property is insured shall have the privilege of selecting one disinterested person, the board of directors of this association shall select another; should these two persons disagree in their valuation of a loss, they shall select another disinterested person, and their award shall be final.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the president and directors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of officers.</p></sidenote> shall have power and authority to appoint a secretary, and such other clerks and officers under them as shall be necessary for transacting the business of said institution, and may allow them, together with the <page identifier="/us/stat/6/698">698</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 69. 1837.</centerRunningHead><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By-laws, &amp;c. may be made.</p></sidenote>president, such salary as they shall judge reasonable; to ordain and establish such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, as shall appear to them necessary for regulating and conducting the concerns of said institution, not being contrary to or inconsistent with this act, or the constitution and laws of the United States; they shall keep full, fair, and correct entries of their transactions, which shall be at all times open to the inspection of the stockholders; they shall also have power to hire or purchase a suitable building or buildings in the city of Washington or Georgetown, for the purpose of transacting the affairs of the institution, and generally to conduct the entire business thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No stockholder answerable in his person, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That no stockholder or member of this said company shall be answerable in his person, or individual property, for any contract or agreement of said company, or for any losses, deficiencies, or failures of the capital stock of this company, except in the case of a director by his vote declaring an improper dividend, but the whole of the said capital stock, together with all property, rights, and credits belonging thereunto, and nothing more, shall at any time be answerable for the demands against said company.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="22"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of stock.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the stock of this institution may be assigned and transferred on the books of the company in person or by power of attorney only; but no stockholder indebted to the company shall be permitted to make a transfer, or receive a dividend, until such debt is paid, or secured to the satisfaction of the president and board of directors.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="23"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 23. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meetings of stockholders.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the president and directors may call a general meeting of the stockholders for any purpose relative to the affairs of the institution, giving at least two weeks’ notice thereof in the newspapers of Washington and Georgetown: and any number of stockholders, not less than one hundred, who, together, shall be proprietors of twelve hundred shares, may, at. any time, apply to the president and directors to call a general meeting of the stockholders for any purpose relative to the affairs of the institution; and if the president and directors refuse to call such meeting, the said number of stockholders, proprietors of not less than twelve hundred shares, shall have power to call a general meeting of the stockholders, giving at least two weeks’ notice in the said newspapers printed in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, specifying in such notice the object of the meeting.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="24"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 24. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In case of the annual election of directors not taking place on the day fixed, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That should it so happen, from any cause whatsoever, that the annual election of directors should not take place in any year, on the day hereinbefore mentioned for that purpose, this corporation shall not, for that reason, be dissolved, but such election may be lawfully held on such convenient day thereafter as may for that purpose be fixed on by the president and directors, they causing ten days’ public notice thereof to be given in one or more of the newspapers printed in the cities of Washington and Georgetown.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="25"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 25. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reduction of stock notes.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That the president and directors shall have power to appropriate such portions of the profits accruing to the company, to the reduction of the stock notes of the stockholders, as the board of directors shall, from time to time, deem advisable.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="26"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 26. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act to continue until 1st June, 1858.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That this act shall continue and be in force until the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="27"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 27. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May be altered, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i></enactingFormula> That it shall be lawful for Congress, at any time hereafter, to alter, amend, or repeal this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76. 1837.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/699">699</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to place the name of Doctor John P. Briggs on the navy pension list.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to place upon the list of invalid pensioners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> of the navy pension fund, at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month, to be paid out of said fund, John P. Briggs, late an acting surgeon on board of the ship Saratoga, who was wounded by a splinter in the action with the British fleet on Lake Champlain, on the eleventh of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen; to commence on the first of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content>
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXI: for the relief of George Frazar, and others.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Frazar, and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the district of Plymouth, in Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to George<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> Frazar and others, late owners, and to the surviving heirs of the late crew, of the schooner Quero, of Duxbury, of sixty-one and thirty-six ninety-fifths tons burthen, which was lost on a fishing voyage in eighteen hundred and thirty-three, together with her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive, had the said schooner completed her fishing term and returned into port.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXII: for the relief of Philip F. Voorhees.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Philip F. Voorhees.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Philip F. Voorhees, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain expenses.</p></sidenote> the sum of six hundred dollars, in full for expenses incurred by him while commanding the ship John Adams, in the Mediterranean, during the years eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and eighteen hundred and thirty-two, in conveying our consuls to and from their consulates, and the Tripolitan Ambassador from Malta to Tripoli, by orders from Commodores Biddle and Patterson.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXIII: granting an increase of pension to Empson Hamilton.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting an increase of pension to Empson Hamilton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Empson Hamilton, an in-valid pensioner, an increase of pension of one dollar per month, to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to be increased.</p></sidenote> paid out of the privateer pension fund, and to commence from the time that he was placed upon the list of pensioners, payable out of said fund.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXIV: for the relief of George F. Strother.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George F. Strother.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to settle the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His accounts as receiver, &amp;c. to be settled.</p></sidenote> accounts of George F. Strother, late receiver of public moneys at St. Louis, Missouri, according to the principles of justice and equity.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXVI: for the relief of John P. Becker.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1837-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John P. Becker.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of John P. Becker on the pension roll of the <page identifier="/us/stat/6/700">700</page><centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 2, 3, 4. 1837.</centerRunningHead>United States, and that he pay the said Becker the sum of twenty dollars per annum, to commence the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue for and during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.
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<preface><firstPageHeading class="centered">RESOLUTION.</firstPageHeading></preface>
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<dc:title>No. 2: granting a pension to Susan Decatur, widow of the late Stephen Decatur.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>No. 2. </docNumber>
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<docTitle class="inline italic">Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">granting a pension to Susan Decatur, widow of the late Stephen Decatur.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Be it Resolved, &amp;c.,</resolvingClause> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Mrs. Susan Decatur, widow of the late Commodore <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension for five years to be paid to her.</p></sidenote>Stephen Decatur, be paid from the navy pension fund, a pension for five years, commencing from the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in conformity with the provisions of the act concerning <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 134.</p></sidenote>naval pensions and the navy pension fund, passed thirtieth June eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and that she be allowed from said fund the arrearages of the half-pa, of a post captain, from the death of Commodore Decatur to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, together with the pension hereby allowed her, and that the arrearage of said pension be vested in the Secretary of the Treasury in trust for the use of the said Susan Decatur: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said pension shall cease on the death or marriage of the said Susan Decatur.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>No. 3: to authorize a settlement of the accounts of Orange H. Dibble.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>No. 3. </docNumber>
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<docTitle class="inline italic">Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">to authorize a settlement of the accounts of Orange H. Dibble.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Be it Resolved, &amp;c.,</resolvingClause> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the claims of Orange H. Dibble for labor, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for labor, materials, &amp;c., to be examined, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>materials, and all other expenses incurred, and losses sustained by him in making preparations to execute his contract for the construction of the bridge across the Potomac, and which have not heretofore been settled and paid, be examined and ascertained by the Secretary of the Treasury, as nearly as the same can be done, and be laid before Congress at its next session for examination. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to apply, in part payment of the same to him, the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for said purpose <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 155.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>by the act of the thirtieth of June eighteen hundred and thirty-four: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the Secretary of the Treasury is not authorized to make any allowance to the said O. H. Dibble for the purchase of stone or stone quarries, nor any further sum for his personal services.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>No. 4: authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to correct a clerical error in the award of the Commissioners under the treaty with France of eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>No. 4. </docNumber>
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<docTitle class="inline italic">Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to correct a clerical error in the award of the Commissioners under the treaty with France of eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Be it Resolved, &amp;c.,</resolvingClause> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In the case of the claim of the Union Bank of Maryland.</p></sidenote>hereby is authorized and directed, in making payment of the two last instalments to the claimants under the treaty with France of July four, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to correct a clerical mistake which occurred in the award of the Commissioners in the case of the claim of the Union Bank of Maryland; by which mistake the sum of ten thousand dollars awarded to said bank, has gone to the use of all the other claimants; and that he correct such mistake by making the proper alteration in the proportion to be paid to the several claimants in the said two last instalments, so that all the claimants shall obtain their just proportion of the whole indemnity and no more.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-03-03">March 3, 1837</date>.</action>
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<congress>25</congress>
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<congress>25</congress>
<session>1</session>
<dc:date>1837</dc:date>
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of September,</i> 1837, <i>and ended on the sixteenth day of October,</i> 1837.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Martin Van Buren</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Richard M. Johnson</inline>, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">James K. Polk</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chapter VI: for the relief of D. P. Madison.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/701" renderingPosition="bottom">701</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of D. P. Madison.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1837-10-14">Oct. 14, 1837</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i>,</enactingFormula> That the President of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed to publish in foreign countries, the debates of the convention, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and requested to cause to be executed, a grant and re-conveyance to Mrs. D. P. Madison, her executors, administrators, and assigns, of the right to publish in foreign countries, for her own benefit, the manuscript debates of the Convention which formed the Constitution of this Government, as well as the nett avails of any such publication which may have been ordered by her: <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That she shall not be allowed to withdraw from the possession of the Government either of the copies of said debates which accompanied her conveyance.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1837-10-14">October 14, 1837</date>.
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<congress>25</congress>
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<dc:date>1837</dc:date>
<dc:date>1838</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of December,</i> 1837, <i>and ended on the ninth day of July,</i> 1838.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Martin Van Buren</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Richard M. Johnson</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">William R. King</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the second day of July; <inline class="smallCaps">James K. Polk</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chapter VI: to authorize the Commissioner of the Patent Office to issue a patent to James Smith.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-02-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/702" renderingPosition="bottom">702</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the Commissioner of the Patent Office to issue a patent to James Smith.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-02-02">Feb. 2, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to issue for a self-acting mule.</p></sidenote> That the Commissioner of the Patent Office be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue, on application therefor at any time within six months from the passage of this act, a patent to James Smith, a British subject, being of the county of Perth, in Scotland, for his invention of certain improvements in the self-acting mule for spinning cotton and other fibrous materials, for which said Smith took out letters patent in England, sealed the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, notwithstanding the lapse of more than six months since the publication of the said letters patent; the said Commissioner being governed in all other respects, in issuing such patent, by the provisions of the existing general laws relating to the granting and issuing of patents for new inventions and discoveries. And said patentee and his assigns shall have and possess the same rights by virtue of such patent, if any shall be granted, as he would have and possess if the said original letters patent <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>had not been issued and published, and no other: <proviso><i>Provided, however, </i>That such patent shall be limited to the time for which said original <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>letters patent were granted:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> That the same shall not interfere with, or affect the rights of any person, acquired by purchasing, constructing, or using said invention, prior to the granting of the patent herein authorized.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-02-02">February 2, 1838</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter VII: for the relief of the administrators of Edward W. Duval.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-02-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the administrators of Edward W. Duval.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-02-15">Feb. 15, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be credited with amount expended on an Indian reservation taken from him.</p></sidenote>hereby is, authorized and required to admit to the credit, on the books of the treasury, of Edward W. Duval, in the settlement of his account, the sum of one thousand four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents, in consideration, in full, for that amount expended by him on an Indian reservation purchased by him from the government, in or about the year eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and subsequently, that is, in April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, taken from the said Duval <centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 8, 9, 10, 11. 1838.</centerRunningHead><page identifier="/us/stat/6/703">703</page>by the government; and after deducting from the aforesaid amount, which is to be credited to the said Duval, as on the twenty-sixth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of one thousand eighty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents, the amount of a judgment obtained against the said Duval in the United States court in Pennsylvania, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, pay over the balance of three hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-seven cents, to the administrators of E. W. Duval; and thereupon the said administrators shall stand fully discharged from the further force and effect of the aforesaid judgment against them.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-02-15">February 15, 1838</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter VIII: to amend the act entitled “An act for the relief of James Steel,” approved twenty-eighth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 703</citableAs>
<dc:date>1838-02-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to amend the act entitled “An act for the relief of James Steel,” approved twenty-eighth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-02-15">Feb. 15, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 28, 1836, ch. 172.</p></sidenote> That Elizabeth Steel, daughter of James Steel, be, and she is hereby, authorized and empowered to claim and receive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">E. Steel to receive the pension granted to her father.</p></sidenote> for, and in behalf of, him, the said James Steel, the pension granted to him by the act to which this is an amendment, on furnishing satisfactory proof of the identity and residence of the said James Steel and Elizabeth his daughter.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-02-15">February 15, 1838</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter IX: for the relief of Jesse E. Dow.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jesse E. Dow.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-02-22">Feb. 22, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Jesse E. Dow, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of a moiety of the proceeds of a criminal prosecution.</p></sidenote> dollars, being one moiety of the money paid to the United States, by reason of criminal proceedings against A. Baker, alias William A. Chelsey, in the United States district court in the district of Massachusetts, on the complaint and prosecution of the said Jesse E. Dow, for violating the act of April thirtieth, seventeen hundred and ninety, entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 30, 1790, ch. 9.</p></sidenote> act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States.”</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-02-22">February 22, 1838</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter X: for the relief of John B. Perkins.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John B. Perkins.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-02-22">Feb. 22, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John B. Perkins ninety-five dollars compensation for a horse lost for want of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> forage, on the fourth of May, eighteen hundred and eighteen, while engaged in the service of the United States, in the Seminole campaign, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-02-22">February 22, 1838</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XI: for the relief of the legal representatives of John McCarty, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of John McCarty, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-02-22">Feb. 22, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula class="inline"><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c.</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the legal representatives of John McCarty, deceased, out of any money in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a house destroyed.</p></sidenote> the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one thousand dollars, in full payment for his house, burnt by the enemy, at Farnham, Virginia, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, in consequence of said house having been occupied as a place of deposite for military stores and am-munition during the late war.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-02-22">February 22, 1838</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XVI: to amend and extend the charter of the Franklin Insurance Company.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/704">704</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 16, 17, 18, 19. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to amend and extend the charter of the Franklin Insurance Company.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-02">March 2, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the president and directors of said company<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investment of surplus funds.</p></sidenote> be authorized to invest the surplus funds of said company in such funds and securities as may to them from time to time appear expedient.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the president and directors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deeds of trust or mortgages may be taken.</p></sidenote> of said company may take deeds of trust and mortgages of real property, of an appraised value, of at least double the amount to be secured, in lieu of the endorsed notes required to be given by the stockholders for the unpaid part of the capital stock.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the act entitled “An act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 9, 1818, ch. 44, continued for 30 years.</p></sidenote> incorporate a Fire Insurance Company in the city of Washington,” approved on the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, as hereby amended, shall continue in force for and during the term of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>twenty years from and after the ninth day of April next: <proviso><i>Provided, always</i>, that Congress may, at any time during the said term that it <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>shall see fit, amend or repeal the same:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the holders of a majority of the stock in the said company shall sign a paper signifying their acceptance of this supplementary act, and have the same recorded in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, before the first day of July next.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of Albion T. Crow.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Albion T. Crow.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-02">March 2, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Albion T. Crow,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> out of any money not otherwise appropriated, three hundred and fifteen dollars twenty cents, the value of a stable occupied by the mounted Illinois volunteers while in the military service of the United States, in July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, by order of Colonel Strode, and accidentally burnt while in said occupation, and in consequence thereof.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-03-02">March 2, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: for the relief of Robert Dickey, of New York.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert Dickey, of New York.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-02">March 2, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of amount of debenture on certain wine.</p></sidenote> and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Robert Dickey, of New York, the amount of the debenture on fifty casks of claret wine, exported from the port of New York on board the brig Generous Friends, Gardner, master, to Cuba, in February, eighteen hundred and seven, for which a certificate was not issued, in consequence of an omission to sign the export bond <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>within ten days, as prescribed by the then existing law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that the other provisions of the debenture law have been complied with.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Joseph Hall.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Hall.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-02">March 2, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Joseph Hall,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent fees to be refunded.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, thirty dollars, that sum having been paid into the treasury by the said Joseph Hall, for a patent for a water-wheel, which on examination was found to have been patented to others, and not taken out by him.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-03-02">March 2, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of Benjamin Mooers.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/705">705</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin Mooers.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Benjamin Mooers, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, sixty-one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for hay, corn, &amp;.c., taken.</p></sidenote> dollars, for hay, corn, potatoes, and rails, necessarily taken by the troops in eighteen hundred and thirteen; and for buckwheat necessarily destroyed by encamping on the ground of the said Mooers.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of Eli Horton.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Eli Horton.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Eli Horton, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent fee to be refunded.</p></sidenote> thirty dollars, being the amount he paid into the treasury for a patent which he has not taken out and abandons his intention to do so.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of John M. Oliver.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John M. Oliver.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to cause a credit to be given to John<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit allowed him.</p></sidenote> M. Oliver, on the books of the treasury, for the sum of nine hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-nine cents, in satisfaction of that amount now to his debit on the said books, for an alleged deficiency of work done and executed by the said John M. Oliver on a section of the Cumberland road.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And he it further enacted</i>, That the Solicitor of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit against him to be discontinued.</p></sidenote> be, and he. is hereby, instructed to discontinue the suit instituted and now depending against the aforesaid John M. Oliver, to recover from him the aforesaid sum of nine hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-nine cents.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: for the relief of Frances Gardiner.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Frances Gardiner.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War ascertain what property of the late Captain Gardiner was in the military occupation of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to ascertain what property of the late Capt. Gardiner was occupied by U.S., &amp;c.</p></sidenote> United Slates at Fort Brook, and destroyed in consequence of such occupation, and its value; also, if not destroyed, the damage the same sustained; also, what was destroyed by order of an officer, for military purposes, and its value; also, what was detained by order of an officer, and prohibited from being removed, and was destroyed in consequence thereof, and its value; and the respective sums so found due shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Frances Gardiner.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of Thomas J. Lawler and Smith M. Miles.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas J. Lawler and Smith M. Miles.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Thomas J. Lawler, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">T. J. Lawler to be paid for maintaining negroes. under acts of April 20, 1818. ch 91, and March 3, 1819, ch. 101.</p></sidenote> four hundred and ninety-one dollars and seventy-three cents, for maintaining four negroes from the fourteenth of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, which were delivered to him and kept in confinement under the acts of April twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen, prohibiting the slave trade; and for maintaining Martin Lee one hundred and two days, under a charge of
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/706">706</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
robbing the mail, who was turned out of the prison in the western district of Louisiana, from its being abandoned on account of the cholera.</content></section>
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<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to S. M. Miles for medical services.</p></sidenote> pay to Smith M. Miles, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, ninety-one dollars and fifty cents, for attending on the negroes mentioned in the preceding section, as a physician, during their sickness, when so confined, and furnishing them medicine.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXV: for the relief of Presley N. O’ Bannon.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Presley N. O’ Bannon.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> any unappropriated money, to Presley N. O’Bannon, eighty-six dollars, the value of a horse furnished by him to Landy Summer, a mounted Kentucky volunteer under the command of Governor Shelby, in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, in the expedition into Canada, which horse died or was lost by reason of his rider being dismounted and separated from said horse.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: for the relief of Allen R. Moore.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Allen R. Moore.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for use of his store, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>unappropriated money, to Allen R. Moore, twenty-eight dollars, in full for the use of his store in the village of Champlain, in the state of New York, by the troops of the United States, as barracks, in March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and for damage done to said store during such occupancy.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Edward Burgess.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Edward Burgess.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain expenses incurred.</p></sidenote>Edward Burgess, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, thirty dollars, for expenses incurred and paid by him as a captain of a company of New York militia in the service of the United States during the late war, for quarters, fuel, and maintaining the teamster and team employed in transporting the baggage of said company, when on the march from Marcellus to Smith’s mills, a distance of one hundred and forty miles.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of Abraham Lansing.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Abraham Lansing.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be examined, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> examine the account of Abraham Lansing for services performed as assistant in the naval recruiting service at Boston, and for services as master’s mate at the same station; and, if the said Lansing performed said services, the same shall be paid, as is allowed for like services, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, notwithstanding the certificate of Commodore Bainbridge to said account was not given before his decease.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of Sarah Murphy.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sarah Murphy.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Sarah<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for cleansing Arch street prison.</p></sidenote> Murphy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, eighty dollars, for services performed in whitewashing and cleansing the Arch street prison, in Philadelphia, in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen, after the same had been used and occupied by the United States
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 30, 35, 36, 37, 38. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
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as a hospital and as a depot for the British prisoners, and as barracks for a company under the command of Captain Patterson.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of John Krepps.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Krepps.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-07">March 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">>That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized, and he is hereby required, to cause a credit to be entered in favor of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit to be allowed him, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> John Krepps on the books of the treasury, for the sum of two thousand and forty-nine dollars and fifteen cents, erroneously charged to John Krepps for an alleged deficiency to that amount of work done by him as contractor on the Cumberland road, under Josias Thompson, superintendent; and if suit has been instituted by the United States, to recover from John Krepps the aforesaid sum ascertained to have been erroneously charged to him on the books of the treasury, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the same to be dismissed, and to release the said John Krepps from the effects thereof.</content></section>
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<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That this act shall be in force<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act when to be in force.</p></sidenote> from the passage thereof.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: for the relief of Benjamin II. Mackall.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin II. Mackall.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-19">March 19, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the legal representatives of Benjamin II. Mackall, formerly of Calvert county, Maryland, two hundred and ten dollars, the amount claimed by his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a house destroyed.</p></sidenote> heirs for a certain house or out-house destroyed by the British about the first of August eighteen hundred and fourteen, which house was in the military occupation of the United States at the time of its destruction, and destroyed in consequence of such occupation.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-03-19">March 19, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: for the relief of James Baker.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Baker.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-19">March 19, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to James Baker, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, two hundred dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a wagon, horse, &amp;c., lost.</p></sidenote> the appraised value of a wagon and a horse and two sets of harness, taken into the military service of the United States in the Black Hawk war, and lost or destroyed in said service, without any fault on the part of the owner.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-03-19">March 19, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief of Jonathan Davis.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jonathan Davis.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-19">March 19, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Jonathan<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for horses, &amp;.c., taken by U.S.</p></sidenote> Davis, two hundred and forty-five dollars, in full compensation for three horses and one cow, the property of said Davis, taken near Fort Erie, in August, eighteen hundred and thirteen, by direction of an officer of the United States troops, for die benefit of the friendly Indians.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of Robert Peebles and John Graham.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert Peebles and John Graham.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-19">March 19, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay Robert Peebles and John Graham, out of any money not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of amount duo to them as army contractors.</p></sidenote> one thousand and ten dollars and fifty-seven cents, which sum was incorrectly debited on their account, and deducted from money due them as army contractors, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of Philip Riviere and his legal representatives.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/708">708</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 39, 40, 41, 42. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Philip Riviere and his legal representatives.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-28">March 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the claim and title of Philip Riviere and his legal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> representatives to a tract of land containing about four hundred and fifty arpens, French measure, situated in the county of St. Louis, state of Missouri, formerly granted to said Philip Riviere and his heirs, by the Spanish Government, by concession, bearing date the fourteenth of October, eighteen hundred, and located and surveyed by virtue of and under said concession, on the thirtieth of November, eighteen hundred, as appears by said survey, duly recorded in the office of the Surveyor-General at St. Louis, in the “Register d’Arpentagc A,” page thirty-nine, be, and are hereby, confirmed to said Philip Riviere and his <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>legal representatives: <i>Provided</i>, That this confirmation does not interfere with any right or title arising under any grant, concession, or survey, made by the authority of the former Spanish or French Governments in Upper Louisiana, and heretofore confirmed by Congress, or with any right or title to said land, or any part thereof, acquired by any individual or individuals by entry and purchase, in the land office of the United States, or which the United States may have acquired by purchase under any sale held in pursuance of any order of court, or decree in chancery; and that a resurvey be made of the land hereby confirmed, subject to the above proviso, under the order and direction of the Surveyor-General of the United States, at St. Louis, and at the expense of the said Philip Riviere, or his legal representatives.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XL: for the relief of Hannah Budlong.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-03-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XL</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Hannah Budlong.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-28">March 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Hannah Budlong, formerly the widow of Elias Hyde, out of any money not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of five years’ half pay to widow of E. Hyde.</p></sidenote> appropriated, two hundred and forty dollars, being the amount of half pay for a militiaman or volunteer in the military service of the United States for five years; Elias Hyde, then the husband of said Hannah, having voluntarily joined a company of riflemen in the military service of the United States, on the twenty-second of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for the defence of Ogdensburg, and having been shot by the enemy when in the performance of his duty, of which wound he died on the seventeenth of March thereafter.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-03-28">March 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLI: for the relief of Samuel Sanderson.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Sanderson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-28">March 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Samuel Sanderson, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for taking Africans from a Spanish vessel.</p></sidenote>three thousand and twenty-five dollars, in full compensation for all the costs, services, and charges of taking one hundred and twenty-one Africans from the Spanish brig Guerrero, on the Florida reef, and delivering them to the collector at Key West, in the month of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of Daniel Davis.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Davis.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-28">March 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Daniel Davis, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, fifty-five dollars, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a mare lost.</p></sidenote>the value of a mare he lost when in the military service of the United States, by reason of his being dismounted and separated from her, by order of bis commanding company officer.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: for the relief of James J. Pattison.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 43 ,44, 45, 47. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James J. Pattison.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-28">March 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James J. Pattison,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> the sum of four thousand two hundred dollars, for his house and property on the Patuxent, in Calvert county, Maryland, destroyed by the British troops in June one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas W. Bacot, late of Charleston, South Carolina, deceased.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas W. Bacot, late of Charleston, South Carolina, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-28">March 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for moneys expended in erecting a post-office.</p></sidenote> and ninety-six dollars and fifty-six cents, to the legal representatives of Thomas W. Bacot, late of Charleston, South Carolina, deceased, in full compensation for moneys paid and expended by said deceased, in erecting and completing a post-office in the custom-house in said city of Charleston; said custom-house and post-office being the property of the United States.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLV: for the relief of the heirs of Joseph Nibert, deceased.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Joseph Nibert, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-03-28">March 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That certain lots of land, numbered nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one, in township number twenty, range number thirteen east, containing four hundred and eighty-eight acres and sixty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to patent certain land.</p></sidenote> hundredths, in the district north of Red river, in the state of Louisiana, which has been heretofore sold, and paid for by Job Bass, deceased, be, and the same is hereby, authorized to be patented to the heirs and legal representatives of Joseph Nibert, deceased, assignee of said Job Bass, in the same manner as other lands granted to purchasers from the United States, upon condition that the Secretary of the Treasury shall first cause to be surveyed in said district, for the use and benefit of schools in said township, lands equal in value to the above described tracts of land sold to the said Job Bass, deceased.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVII: to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to correct a mistake in relation to the payment of money into the treasury awarded to Fortesque Whittle, surviving partner of the firm of Conway and Fortesque Whittle, under the late treaty of indemnity with France.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to correct a mistake in relation to the payment of money into the treasury awarded to Fortesque Whittle, surviving partner of the firm of Conway and Fortesque Whittle, under the late treaty of indemnity with France.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-04">April 4, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to correct any mistake which may have<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Any mistakes which may have occurred, to be corrected.</p></sidenote> occurred in the payment into the treasury, to the credit of the United States, of the first, second, third and fourth instalments of money due to Fortesque Whittle, surviving partner of Conway and Fortesque Whittle, by the award of the commissioners appointed to carry into effect the convention with France of the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the said instalments having been considered as the private property of the said Fortesque Whittle, and paid into the treasury to satisfy debts due from the said Fortesque Whittle individually to the United States, whereas the said moneys were the property of the late firm of Conway and Fortesque Whittle, and as such were first liable for the payment of the debts of the said firm: And the said Secretary is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount mistakenly paid to be refunded, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized to pay out of the treasury to the person or persons, legally entitled to receive the same, the sum of eleven thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars and fifteen cents, that being the amount
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/710">710</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 48, 49, 50. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
so received upon the said instalments and mistakenly paid into the treasury; and in case the said amount, or any part thereof, has been credited upon the books of the department, to be endorsed or otherwise applied upon, the bonds of the said Fortesque Whittle, due to the United States, then the said Secretary is hereby further authorized and directed to recharge the said amount to the said Fortesque Whittle, or otherwise to cancel the credit given to him for such payment.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Michael Cased.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Michael Cased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-04">April 4, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Michael Cassel, of Laporte county, in the state of Indiana,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May surrender a land certificate, and enter other land.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender the certificate issued to him from the land office at Laporte, in said state., for lots numbered one and two, or the east part of section thirty-five, township thirty-seven north, of range one west, which was entered by him through mistake; and, on filing his relinquishment to all right and title thereto, the said Michael Cassel is hereby authorized to enter in said land office at Laporte an equal quantity of any of the public land remaining unoccupied and subject to private entry in the Laporte land district, with that for which he has paid and shall relinquish, and be entitled to a certificate for the same.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of William Eadus.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Eadus.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-06">April 6, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any unappropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a house burnt by the enemy.</p></sidenote> money, to William Eadus, two thousand dollars, in full, for his house burnt by the British at Sodus, New York, in June, eighteen hundred and thirteen.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of Isaac Wellborn, junior, and William Well-born.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac Wellborn, junior, and William Well-born.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-06">April 6, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there shall be, and is hereby, relinquished to Isaac Wellborn,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right, &amp;c. of U.S. to a certain reservation of land, relinquished to them.</p></sidenote> jr., and William Wellborn, their heirs and assigns, all the right, title, and interest which may have accrued or reverted, or might hereafter accrue or revert, to the United States, to a certain reservation of six hundred and forty acres of land, made to a certain Thomas Harrison, the head of an Indian family of the Cherokee tribe, under treaties made between said tribe and the Government of the United States, on the eighth of July, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and the twenty-seventh of February, eighteen hundred and nineteen, which tract of land is situated in Jackson county, Alabama, and bounded as follows: Beginning at two post oaks and a red oak; thence west three hundred and twenty poles to a stake near the top of a steep rocky mountain; thence south three hundred and twenty poles to a white oak and red oak on the top of a ridge; thence east three hundred and twenty poles to a stake; a Spanish oak, chinquepin oak, mulberry, and two hickories, marked as pointers; thence north three hundred and twenty <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>poles to the beginning: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair or lessen the right or title of any individual claiming under the said Thomas Harrison, and who may not have fairly or legally transferred his or her interest in the said tract of land.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief of Samuel Milligan.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 51, 52, 53, 58. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Milligan.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-06">April 6, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the District of Champlain, in the state of New York, be, and he is hereby, directed to permit Samuel<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback on certain merchandise allowed to him.</p></sidenote> Milligan, of Montreal, to export, with the benefit of drawback, certain merchandise imported by him into the district aforesaid from the Province of Lower Canada, upon his complying with the forms and regulations required by existing laws relating to the exportation of merchandise with the benefit of drawback.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LII: for the relief of William U. Taylor, administrator of Jonathan Taylor, deceased.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William U. Taylor, administrator of Jonathan Taylor, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-06">April 6, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to settle the claim of William Rufus Taylor, administrator<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for interest on a liquidated demand to be Bellied.</p></sidenote> of Jonathan Taylor, deceased, for interest on a liquidated demand in favor of the said Jonathan Taylor, and James Morrison, and Charles Wilkins, who were lessees of the United States, of the salt works in the state of Illinois, upon the same principles that the interest of the said demand was settled with the legal representatives of James Morrison, deceased, pursuant to the act of Congress approved the first<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 1, 1834, ch. 35.</p></sidenote> of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four; and that the proportion of interest ascertained to be due to the said William Rufus Taylor, administrator as aforesaid, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of Doctor David H. Maxwell.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Doctor David H. Maxwell.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-06">April 6, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury settle the claim of Doctor David H. Maxwell<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for medical services to be settled.</p></sidenote> for services performed by him as physician and surgeon for a company of mounted rangers, under the command of Captain Williamson Dunn, and other companies of rangers, volunteer militia, and United States’ infantry, from the thirteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirteen, until the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and fourteen, inclusive; and also his claim for medicines, furnished at his own cost, for said companies; also, any damages he may have sustained, by injury to his surgical instruments, when in said service; and allow him the same pay and emoluments he would have been entitled to had he been regularly commissioned a surgeon’s mate; deducting from the amount to be settled and ascertained, the pay he has heretofore received as a private mounted ranger; as also the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars repaid him by the officers and men of said Captain Dunn’s company.</content></section>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the money so found to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> his due, be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-06">April 6, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: for the benefit of the Levy Court of Calvert county, in the State of Maryland.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
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<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the benefit of the Levy Court of Calvert county, in the State of Maryland.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sec. Troas. to pay in satisfaction for the destruction of the court-house of Calvert co. Md. by the British—</p></sidenote> and required to pay, to any one duly authorized by the levy court of Calvert county, in the state of Maryland, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand dollars, in full satisfaction for the destruction of the court-house of said county by the enemy during the late war with Great Britain, while the same was in the military occupancy of the United States, and in consequence thereof destroyed by fire.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of John Wilson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/712">712</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Wilson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer pay, out of any unappropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to inspector general for services.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury, to John Wilson, such pay and emoluments as he is entitled to for twenty-eight days’ service as inspector-general of division in the Missouri militia, then in the service of the United States, which service was performed by said Wilson between the twenty-second of July and the twenty-second of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of H. W. Russel.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of H. W. Russel.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to H. W. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for forage purchased.</p></sidenote>Russel, late acting assistant quartermaster at Tallassee, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, one thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-eight cents, for forage purchased by him at Tallassee, and issued for the benefit of the military service, between the fourth of May and the thirtieth of June, 1836.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of James L. Kenner.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James L. Kenner.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse.</p></sidenote>any money not otherwise appropriated, to James L. Kenner, late a private in Captain Hargrave’s company of South Carolina mounted volunteers, in the service of the United States, in Florida, the value of a horse, of which lie was owner, and had in said service; but which horse, by the order of Brigadier-General Eustis, was turned over to the quartermaster at Tampa Bay, in April, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; which value shall be ascertained when said Kenner shall produce to the accounting officers of the treasury the original appraisal, or the affidavits of the appraisers as to the value they adjudged said horse to be.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of Freeman Brady.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Freeman Brady.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Freeman Brady,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for work done on Cumberland road.</p></sidenote> out of any money not otherwise appropriated, eighty-two dollars and seventeen cents, money due for work done on the Cumberland road east of the Ohio.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of James Callan.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Callan.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to James Callan<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as draughtsman.</p></sidenote> out of any money not otherwise appropriated, for his services as draughtsman in the General Land Office for the month of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, such compensation as he received for the same services in the month of June following.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXV: for the relief of Ann W. Johnston.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ann W. Johnston.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Ann W. Johnston<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse killed.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one hundred and fifty dollars, the value of a horse killed in an engagement with the enemy, during the late war, at St. David’s in Upper Canada, the property of her late husband, a lieutenant in a company of light dragoons in the service of the United States.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for Ike relief of D. W. Haley.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 713</citableAs>
<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 66, 67, 68, 69, 70. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/713">713</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for Ike relief of D. W. Haley.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General of the United States issue his warrant for four hundred dollars in favor of D. W. Haley, for apprehending, and surrendering for trial, two slaves charged with having<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for arresting mail robbers.</p></sidenote> robbed the United States mail, in eighteen hundred and twenty-seven; one of whom was convicted before the district court of the United States in Mississippi, and sentenced to hard labor, and the other broke jail before trial, and escaped; and the Treasurer of the United States is directed, on the presentation of said warrant, to pay said sum of four hundred dollars, out of the moneys paid into the treasury for the service of the Post Office Department.</content></section>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the Postmaster General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His reasonable expenses to be ascertained arid paid.</p></sidenote> ascertain the reasonable expenses the said D. W. Haley paid in apprehending and delivering said slaves to jail for trial, and that be issue his warrant for said sum, in favor of D. W. Haley; and the Treasurer of the United States is directed, on the presentation of a warrant, to pay the sum so found, out of the moneys paid into the treasury for the service of the Post Office Department.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXVII: for the relief of Hugh McDonald.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Hugh McDonald.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay Hugh McDonald, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse taken Tor public use.</p></sidenote> one hundred dollars, for a horse taken from him by Lieutenant Pennell, of the United States navy, to go express from Baltimore to St. Leonard’s creek, on public business relative to the flotilla under the command of Commodore Barney; which horse, from ill usage and starvation, died.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of Melancthon T. Woolsey.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Melancthon T. Woolsey.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the Navy Department settle the accounts of Melancthon T. Woolsey, on the principle<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> of justice and equity, subject to the supervision of the Secretary of the Navy.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIX: for the relief of Thomas Tyner, and others.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Tyner, and others.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War pay to Thomas Tyner, Harry Pierson, John Walker, Morris Pierson, and Nathaniel Teal, the money withheld from them for work actually done on the Cumberland<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for work on Cumberland road.</p></sidenote> road in Indiana, under a contract made for grading a section of said road, on the twenty-ninth of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, they not having forfeited said contract by their own act; the said money to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXX: for the relief of Alexander G. Morgan.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Alexander G. Morgan.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury settle the claim of Alexander G. Morgan, tor military services performed as first lieutenant in a company of Illinois mounted volunteers, in the Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for military services to be settled.</p></sidenote> campaign, in eighteen hundred and thirty-two, from the thirteenth to tire twenty-sixth of June, inclusive, and as extra aid-de-camp to General Brady, from the twenty-seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, inclusive, to the termination of his service, and to allow him the same pay and emolument he would have been entitled to if his appointments in said offices had been regular.</content></section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/714">714</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 71, 72, 73, 74. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the money so found his due<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXI: for the relief of Jonathan Eliot.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jonathan Eliot.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for hay, grain, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>any unappropriated money, to Jonathan Eliot, the sum of four hundred and forty-four dollars and forty cents, in full, for hay, grain, and other articles furnished by him to the American troops under General Hampton, in Canada, in the month of October, eighteen hundred and thirteen.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXII: for the relief of the heirs of Nathan, Peter, and William Mams, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
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<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Nathan, Peter, and William Mams, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued duplicates<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicates of certain bounty land warrants to be issued, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of the following military bounty land warrants, to wit: Bounty land warrant number three hundred and seventy-one, for three hundred acres, issued on the fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight, hundred and seven, to John Adams, one moiety, and to Elizabeth, Ann, Sarah, and Levin Adams, deceased, the remaining moiety, they being the legal heirs of Nathan Adams, deceased, who was a captain in the Delaware line; also warrant number three hundred and seventy-two, for four hundred and fifty acres, issued at the same date, to the same parties, and in the same proportions as those named in warrant number three hundred and seventy-one, they being the legal heirs of Peter Adams, deceased, who was a lieutenant-colonel in the Maryland line; also, warrant number three hundred and seventy-three, for two hundred acres, issued on the same date, to the same parties, and in the same proportions as those in warrants numbered three hundred and seventy-one, and three hundred and seventy-two, they being the legal heirs of William Adams, deceased, who was a lieutenant in the Maryland line; which said warrants have been lost to the said heirs, or to their legal representative or representatives; and the said duplicates shall be located and proceeded upon in the same manner as if they were the original warrants, and the said original warrants are hereby declared void.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXIII: for the relief of Joseph Deshields.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Deshields.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of a certain forfeiture to be refunded.</p></sidenote> and directed to pay to Joseph Deshields, of the state of Virginia, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty dollars, being the amount of a forfeiture incurred by the said Joseph Deshields, and by him paid to the collector for the district of Norfolk, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXIV: for the relief of Thomas Cushing.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Cushing.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the district of Boston<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.</p></sidenote> and Charlestown, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Thomas Cushing, who was, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, owner of the fishing schooner “Germantown, of Boston,” of forty and six ninety-fifths tons burden, such sum as said vessel would have been entitled to for being engaged in the cod fishery more than four months in that season, if the same had returned into the port oi Boston, instead of the port of Ellsworth; which said sum the owner shall distribute according to law.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXV: for the relief of Winthrop Sears and others.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 75, 76, 77, 78. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/715">715</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Winthrop Sears and others.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector at the port of Barnstable, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> the state of Massachusetts, be authorized and directed to pay to Winthrop Sears, and the late owners, officers, and crew of the fishing schooner “Laban,” of eighty-seven and fourteen ninety-fifth tons burden, which sailed from Yarmouth, in said state, on the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, on a fishing voyage to the Grand Banks, and which was stranded on Sable Island about the sixth day of June of the same year, by which said schooner and all the salt on board were lost, the same she would be entitled to receive by law, as a bounty or drawback, for having been employed five months in the cod fisheries, and using foreign salt on which the duties had been paid; which said sum shall be distributed as the law respecting bounties provides.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: for the relief of James McMahan.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James McMahan.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to James McMahon three hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifteen cents, out<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for expenses in prosecuting C. B. Rouse.</p></sidenote> of any money not otherwise appropriated, in full payment of his advances for costs and expenses of several suits arising out of the arrest and prosecution of Charles B. Rouse, formerly a postmaster at Mayville, New</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXVII: for the relief of Elias Johns.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elias Johns.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Elias Johns seventy-five dollars, the value of a mare lost by him for want of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a mare lost.</p></sidenote> forage, in eighteen hundred and fifteen, while engaged in the service of the United States, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of Philip Marshal, and the legal representatives of John Marshal.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
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<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Philip Marshal, and the legal representatives of John Marshal.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury make such further allowance to Philip Marshal for his rations as lieutenant on board<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to P. Marshal for his rations as lieutenant, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of a revenue cutter at the Baltimore station, from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, until the twenty-fifth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, as will, with what has heretofore been paid to him, make an amount equal to what other lieutenants were entitled who were duly commissioned.</content></section>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further allowance to representatives of J. Marshal.</p></sidenote> make such further allowance to the legal representatives of John Marshal, for the rations of the said John Marshal, as lieutenant on board of a revenue cutter at the Baltimore station, from the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, to the twenty-fifth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, as will, with what has heretofore been paid to the said John Marshal, make an amount equal to what other lieutenants were entitled, who were duly commissioned.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That each of said sums be paid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> out of any money not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXIX: for the relief of Curtis Grubb.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/716">716</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 79, 80, 81, 83, 86. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Curtis Grubb.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Curtis Grubb,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for occupation of his farm, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> out of any money not otherwise appropriated, five hundred dollars, for the use and occupation of the farm at Gray’s Ferry, on the Schuylkill, during the late war, for military purposes, and for the crops and fences destroyed, and for the expense of levelling a redoubt constructed thereon.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: for the relief of Christopher Clark.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Christopher Clark.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War liquidate the claims of Christopher Clark,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for provisions furnished, &amp;c</p></sidenote> now presented against the United States, for provisions furnished recruits and troops in the service of the United States during the late war, and for money expended in hiring boats, and for other purposes necessary for the public service; and that the amount so found due be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: to extend the time for selling the land granted to the Kentucky asylum for leaching the deaf and dumb.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-04-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to extend the time for selling the land granted to the Kentucky asylum for leaching the deaf and dumb.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-04-20">April 20, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the further time of two years, from and after the fifth day<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further time allowed for the sale of lands.</p></sidenote> of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, be, and the same is hereby allowed the trustees of the Kentucky asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb, to sell the land heretofore granted by Congress to said institution.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIII: directing the Post master-General to settle the claim, of Hard and Longstreet.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 716</citableAs>
<dc:date>1838-05-21</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>directing the Post master-General to settle the claim, of Hard and Longstreet.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-05-21">May 21, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General is hereby directed to settle<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts for mail transportation to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> with Benjamin F. Hard and Gilbert Longstreet for carrying the mail over the direct route from Charleston, in South Carolina, to Augusta in Georgia, from the second November, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, to the thirty-first December eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and to allow them therefor what they are entitled to receive, upon principles of equity and justice, and the amount so found due shall be paid out of the revenue of the Post-Office department.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVI: for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Thomas Carter deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-05-25</dc:date>
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<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Doctor Thomas Carter deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-05-25">May 25, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That in addition to the half pay allowed and paid to the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further allowance to them.</p></sidenote>heirs of Doctor Thomas Carter, deceased, surgeon in the Virginia state line of the continental army, in the revolutionary war, under the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 5, 1832, ch. 173.</p></sidenote>act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, there be allowed and paid to the said heirs, the sum of two hundred and four dollars, the amount of half pay from the ninth of February, seventeen hundred and eighty-three, to the third of September, in the same year, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVII: for the relief of James Withered.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-05-25</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 87, 89, 90, 94. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/717">717</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Withered.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-05-25">May 25, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury do settle the account of James Witherell, and allow him five years’ full<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and allowance made.</p></sidenote> pay as an ensign of infantry of the revolutionary army, in the Massachusetts line on continental establishment, and that the said sum of money be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: granting a pension to David Gilmore.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-05-31</dc:date>
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<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to David Gilmore.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-05-31">May 31, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War place the name of David Gilmore on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and pay him a pension<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> at the rate of twenty dollars a year, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, during his life.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-05-31">May 31, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XC: authorizing the commissioner of the Patent Office to issue patents to Angier March Perkins and to John Howard Kyan.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 717</citableAs>
<dc:date>1838-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing the commissioner of the Patent Office to issue patents to Angier March Perkins and to John Howard Kyan.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-05-31">May 31, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the Patent Office be, and he is hereby, authorized, on application at any time within six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to issue, on application within six months, for certain inventions.</p></sidenote> months from the passage of this act, to issue a patent to Angier March Perkins, for his invention of an improved method of warming buildings and heating and evaporating fluids, for which said Perkins took out letters patent in England, on the thirtieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; and also to John Howard Kyan, for his invention of an improved method of preserving vegetable substances from decay, for which letters patent were granted in England to said Kyan, on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, notwithstanding the lapse of more than six months from the publication of the aforesaid letters patent respectively; the said Commissioner being governed, in all other respects, in considering such applications and issuing said patents, by the provisions of the existing general laws relating to granting and issuing patents for new inventions and discoveries; and the said patents so granted shall confer the same rights and privileges as are conferred by patents granted under the general law aforesaid, and no other, excepting as herein mentioned; <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the said patents shall be limited respectively<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to the term of fourteen years from the time of the publication of said original letters patent:</proviso> <i>And provided, also</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the same shall not be construed to deprive any person of the right to use, or vend to others to be used, the mechanism or apparatus invented and employed in the practice o; use of the said improved methods respectively, which may have been made, constructed or purchased for the purpose or purposes aforesaid, prior to the passage of this act.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XCIV: for the relief of William Tharp.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Tharp.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-07">June 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and required to examine the claim of William Tharp to the reimbursement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for reimbursement of a certain fee to be examined, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of a fee, alleged by the said Tharp to have been paid by him to an attorney to defend a suit against him, instituted about the year eighteen hundred and eight, in the superior court at New Orleans, to recover from him, (the said Tharp,) as endorser, the amount of a draft for eleven hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety-two cents, drawn by Lieutenant James Reed on the Secretary of War, and protested;
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/718">718</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 95, 102, 103, 104. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
and whatever sum the Secretary shall ascertain to have been so paid, he shall cause to be paid to William Tharp out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-07">June 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XCV: for the relief of John P. Austin and Edward N. Taller.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John P. Austin and Edward N. Taller.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-07">June 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War shall examine the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for damages to be examined.</p></sidenote>claim of John P. Austin and Edward N. Tailer, acting under the firm of Austin and Tailer, for damages which they allege they sustained in the execution of a contract entered into by them, in eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for the delivery of a quantity of stone in the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina; that he procure such further testimony as to him may appear necessary; that he adjust and settle said claim, allowing them such sum as may be justly their due: and that he certify such sum as he shall so find to be due to the Secretary of the Treasury.</content></section>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> pay, out of any unappropriated money, to John P. Austin and Edward N. Tailer, such sum as the Secretary of War may certify to him, as is provided in the first section of this act, to be due to said Austin and Tailer.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. CII: for the relief of Robert Key worth.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-12</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert Key worth.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for making swords.</p></sidenote> is, authorized to pay to Robert Keyworth, of the District of Columbia, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety-two cents, in full satisfaction of his claim for making six swords, under a contract with General Alexander Macomb, executed the ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, authorized by resolution of Congress, passed the thirteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and for all extra work, materials found, and machinery employed, in making the same; upon condition that said Robert Key worth deliver to the Secretary of War, for the time being, the sword originally made under said contract, but which was not approved, and which the said Secretary is authorized and directed to cause to be sold at auction, giving reasonable notice thereof, for the benefit of the United States.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CIII: for the relief of John Spitfalhom.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-12</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Spitfalhom.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and allowance made for pay as ensign.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, required to settle and adjust the account of John Spitfathom, and allow him five years’ full pay as an ensign of infantry of the revolutionary army in the Virginia line, without interest; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CIV: for the relief of the heirs of William Cogswell.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-12</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of William Cogswell.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of William<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a captain allowed.</p></sidenote> Coggswell, now deceased, who was a hospital surgeon of the army, during the war of the revolution, and to allow to the heirs at law of the said William Coggswell, five years’ full pay as a captain in the army of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 105, 106, 107, 108, 109. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/719">719</page>
the revolution; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of the half pay for life, to which said William Coggswell was entitled under the resolution of the Continental Congress, of the twenty-second march, seventeen hundred and eighty-three; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant William Russwurm, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-12</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant William Russwurm, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of William Russwurm,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ Full pay of a lieutenant to be allowed.</p></sidenote> deceased, and allow to his heirs five years’ full pay as a lieutenant in the North Carolina line, on continental establishment; which five years’ full pay, is the commutation of his half pay for life, to be paid to the heirs of the said William Russwurm, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CVI: for the relief of Motes Van Campen.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-12</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Motes Van Campen.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury do settle the account of Moses Van Campen, and allow him five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a lieutenant to be allowed.</p></sidenote> years’ full pay as a lieutenant of infantry in the Pennsylvania line on continental establishment; and that the said five years’ full pay be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CVII: for the relief of Captain Samuel Warren.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-12</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVII</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Captain Samuel Warren.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they hereby are, directed to settle the account<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a captain allowed.</p></sidenote> of Samuel Warren, of South Carolina, and to allow him five years’ full pay, as a captain in the army of the Revolution; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; and that such sum as may be found due, be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Morfit, deceased.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Morfit, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to settle the account<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a lieutenant allowed.</p></sidenote> of Henry Morfit, deceased, and allow to his legal representatives five years’ full pay as a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania line on continental establishment, without interest; which five years’ full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life; to be paid to the said legal representatives of Henry Morfit, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CIX: for the relief of Moses Merrill, and the fishermen of the schooner fortune.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-12</dc:date>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Moses Merrill, and the fishermen of the schooner fortune.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of customs for the district of Newburyport, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, be, and hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> is, authorized and directed to pay to Moses Merrill, the agent of the schooner Fortune, of ninety-one tons and thirty-two ninety-fifths of a ton burden, upon his showing sufficient authority from each person
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/720">720</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 111, 112, 113, 120. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
interested, such a sum of money as said vessel would have been entitled to if she had been engaged in the cod-fisheries for the term of four months or more; to be distributed, five-eighths to the fishermen, and three-eighths to the owners, as the law provides; said schooner having been accidentally lost while engaged in that business during the fishing season of eighteen hundred and thirty-five.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXI: for the relief of the heirs of Major Peter Helphenstcin, deceased.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXI</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Major Peter Helphenstcin, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay of a major allowed.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to pay to the heirs of Peter Helphenstein, deceased, who was a major in the Virginia continental line of the army of the Revolution, and died in the service of the United States, the aggregate amount of seven years’ half pay of a major of infantry, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-12">June 12, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Duval, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-13</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXII</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Duval, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-13">June 13, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a captain allowed.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, required to pay to the legal representatives of Daniel Duval, deceased, who was a captain in the Virginia line, on the continental establishment, during the Revolutionary war, the aggregate amount of five years’ full pay of the said decedent, as a captain of sappers and miners in said service without interest: which five years’ full pay is the commutation for the half pay for life of said decedent, and is to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-13">June 13, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Patrick McGibbony.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-13</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Patrick McGibbony.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-13">June 13, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ full pay of a lieutenant allowed.</p></sidenote> shall adjust and settle the account of Patrick McGibbony, deceased, late of the state of North Carolina, allowing him five years’ full pay as a lieutenant in the continental service during the revolutionary war; and pay the amount thereof to his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full satisfaction of his half pay for life.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-13">June 13, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of Ann S. Heileman.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-22</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ann S. Heileman.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-22">June 22, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed half the monthly pay of a major for five years.</p></sidenote>directed to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Ann S. Heileman, the widow of Julius F. Heileman, late a major in the second regiment of the United States artillery, half the monthly pay to which her husband was entitled at the time of his death, during the term of five years from the twenty-seventh day of June <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>eighteen hundred and thirty-six: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That, in the event of her death or marriage before the expiration of said five years, the half pay aforesaid, for the remainder of the time, shall go to the children of said Major Heileman.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-22">June 22, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: for the relief of Jehu Hollinsworth.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 121, 122, 123. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/721">721</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jehu Hollinsworth.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Jehu Hollinsworth, of Blount county, Alabama, be, and he hereby is, authorized to surrender the certificate of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May surrender land certificate, and receive another therefor.</p></sidenote> purchase or patent which heretofore issued to him from the land office at Huntsville, in said state, for the south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of section number two, of township eleven, in range three east, which was entered by said Hollinsworth by mistake; and upon such surrender of said certificate, or relinquishment filed, of said patent, if one has issued, with the register of said land office, the said Jehu Hollinsworth shall be entitled to a certificate from the said register for the amount paid fur said land entered by mistake; which certificate shall be receivable in payment at said office for any other land in that district subject to entry: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said tract of land so entered shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> have been sold and transferred, or shall not be subject to be disposed of by execution for the payment of the debts of the said Hollinsworth.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: for the relief of William James Aarons.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William James Aarons.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William James Aarons, of Blount county, Alabama, be, and he hereby is, authorized to surrender the certificates<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May surrender land certificate, and receive another therefor.</p></sidenote> which heretofore issued to him from the land office at Huntsville, in said state, for the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter, and the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section thirty-two, in township ten, range four east of the basis meridian of said land district, which were purchased by him through mistake; and upon such surrender of said certificates, or, if patents shall have issued for said tracts of land, then upon the surrender of such patents, and filing his relinquishment thereof before the register of said land office, the said William James Aarons shall be entitled to a certificate from said register for the amount paid for said tracts of land so entered by mistake” which shall be received in payment for any other land in said district subject to private entry: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said tract of land so entered shall not have<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> been sold and transferred, or shall not be subject to be disposed of by execution for the payment of the debts of the said Aarons.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIII: for the relief of William Walker.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Walker.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William Walker, of Jackson county, Alabama, be, and he hereby is, authorized to surrender the certificate which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May surrender land certificate, and receive another therefor.</p></sidenote> heretofore issued to him from the land office at Huntsville, in said state, for the west half of the south-east quarter of section thirty-three, in township four, and range five east of the basis meridian of said fund district, which was purchased and paid for by him through mistake and upon such surrender of said certificate, or, if a patent shall have issued for said tract of land, upon the surrender of his patent, and filing his relinquishment in said land office, the said William Walker shall be entitled to a certificate from the register and receiver of said land office for the amount which was so paid by mistake; which shall be received in payment for any other tract in said land district which may be subject to private entry; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said tract of land so entered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall not have been sold and transferred, or shall not be subject to be disposed of by execution for the payment of the debts of the said Walker.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIV: for the relief of Joel Chandler.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/722">722</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 124, 125, 126, 127. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joel Chandler.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Joel Chandler is hereby authorized to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May surrender land certificate, and receive another therefor.</p></sidenote>surrender and return to the United States, before the register of the land office at Huntsville, Alabama, a patent which issued to him for the east half of the south-east quarter of section twenty-four, in township twelve, of range four east, which said Chandler paid for by mistake at said land office. And upon such surrender and return, by said Joel Chandler, his heirs or assigns, a certificate shall be issued by the said register for the amount paid on said land in favor of said Chandler, his heirs or assigns; which shall be received in payment for any other tract of land <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>subject to private entry in that land district: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said tract of land so entered shall not have been sold and transferred, or shall not be subject to be disposed of by execution for the payment of the debts of the said Chandler.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXV: for the relief of James A. Williams.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James A. Williams.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That James A. Williams, of Blount county, Alabama,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May surrender land certificate, and receive another therefor.</p></sidenote> be, and he hereby is, authorized to surrender the certificate which heretofore issued to him from the land office at Huntsville, in said state, for the east half of the north-west quarter of section twenty-one, in township eleven, of range two, west of the basis meridian of said land district, which was entered and paid for by him through mistake; and upon such surrender of said certificate, or, if a patent shall have issued for said land, upon surrendering the same, and filing his relinquishment in said land office, the said James A. Williams shall be entitled to a certificate from the register of said land office for the amount which was paid thereon; which shall be received in payment for any other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>land in said land district, subject to private entry: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said tract of land so entered shall not have been sold and transferred, or shall not be subject to be disposed of by execution for the payment of the debts of the said Williams.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVI: for the relief of Mraham Woodall.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mraham Woodall.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Abraham Woodall, of St. Clair county, Alabama,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">land certificate, and receive another therefor.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender the certificate which heretofore issued to him, for the north-east quarter of the north east quarter of section eighteen, township fourteen, range one east of the basis meridian of the Huntsville land district in said state, which was purchased and paid for by him through mistake; and upon such surrender by him of said certificate, or, if a patent shall have issued therefor, upon the surrender of such patent, and filing his relinquishment in said land office, the said Abraham Woodall shall be entitled to a certificate for the amount paid for said land, from the officers in said land office; which shall be received in payment for any land which may be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>subject to private entry in said land district: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said tract of land so entered shall not have been sold and transferred, or shall not be subject to be disposed of by execution for the payment of the debts of the said Woodall.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVII: granting a pension to Niel NcNiel.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Niel NcNiel.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to place the name of Niel McNiel, of the county
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 128, 129, 130, 131, 132. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
of Herkimer, in the state of New York, upon the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him the sum of thirty-one dollars and ninety-seven cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVIII: for the relief of Amos Thompson.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Amos Thompson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Amos Thompson, of Mansfield,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> in the state of Connecticut, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him the sum of twenty dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIX: for the relief of Solomon Ketcham.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Solomon Ketcham.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of .War cause the name of Solomon Ketcham to be restored to the roll of revolutionary pensioners,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be restored to pension roll, and receive arrears due him.</p></sidenote> and that he be paid all arrears due him for his pension since he was last paid , and that he be paid, for and during his natural life, pension at the rate of twenty-four dollars per annum.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXX: for the relief of Anna West, of the State of Massachusetts.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXXX</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Anna West, of the State of Massachusetts.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Anna West, of Beverly, in the county of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> Essex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the pension roll, and to allow her a pension of twenty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents per year, during life, to commence on the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; the same to be paid to her guardian, Josiah West, or any other person legally authorized to receive it, for her use.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXI: granting a pension to Frederick Hill.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Frederick Hill.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Frederick Hill, of the county of Bedford,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> in the state of Pennsylvania, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay to him at the rate of thirty-six dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXII: for the relief of Christopher Dennison.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Christopher Dennison.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners, Christopher Dennison, of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> Vermont, and to pay him the sum of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per annum during his natural life; the said payment to commence on the fourth day of March, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIII: for the relief of Josiah Clark.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/724">724</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Josiah Clark.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> required to place the name of Josiah Clark on the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, to commence and be computed from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIV: granting a pension to Thomas West, of Jilabania.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXXXIV</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Thomas West, of Jilabania.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required to place the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>name of Thomas West, of Limestone county, Alabama, upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners of the United States, and pay him forty dollars per annum during his natural life; to commence and take effect on the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said Thomas does not already receive a pension from the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXV: granting a pension to Bradley True Jipson.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Bradley True Jipson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll. 1339, ch. 5.</p></sidenote>Bradley True Jipson on the pension roil, at the rate of six dollars per month during his natural life; to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVI: for the relief of Daniel Rardon.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVI</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Rardon.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to be increased.</p></sidenote>authorized and required to pay to Daniel Rardon, pensioner, an increase of pension, at the rate of two dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVII: granting a pension to Seth Whitney, of Delaware county, New York.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVII</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Seth Whitney, of Delaware county, New York.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required to place <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>the name of Seth Whitney, of the town of Delhi, in the county of Delaware and state of New York, upon the roll of revolutionary pensions, and pay him twenty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents per annum during life, to commence and take effect from and after the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVIII: granting a pension to Catharine Rollins, otherwise called Catharine Mosely.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Catharine Rollins, otherwise called Catharine Mosely.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Catharine Rollins, otherwise called Catharine Mosely, of the county of Herkimer, in the state of New York, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay her at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, during her natural life, to commence on the fourth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIX: for the relief if Primus Hall, alias Trask.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXXXIX</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/725">725</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if Primus Hall, alias Trask.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause the name of Primus Hall, alias Trask, of Massachusetts, a free coloured man, to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> placed on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that he be paid at the rate of sixty dollars per annum during his natural life; the first payment to commence on the fourth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXL: for the relief of James McFarland.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James McFarland.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to James McFarland, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, an arrearage of pension at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of arrears of pension.</p></sidenote> the rate now received by him; to commence the first of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, and to terminate at the time he was placed on the pension roll.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLI: granting a pension to Robert Casey.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Robert Casey.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Robert Casey, of St. Lawrence<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> county, in the state of New York, on the roll of invalid pensioners of the United States; and that he pay him, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, at the rate of eight dollars per month, during his natural life, to commence from and after the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLII: for the relief of Eli Eastman.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Eli Eastman.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to pay to Eli Eastman, of Vermont, the sum of sixty-seven dollars per annum,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to him.</p></sidenote> during his natural life, as a pension for his services as a revolutionary soldier; the said payment to commence on the fourth day of September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-four, at which time the pension previously granted to said Eastman, as a revolutionary soldier, was suspended.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLIII: for the relief if Leonard Loomis.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if Leonard Loomis.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War lie directed to place the name of Leonard Loomis on the list of invalid pensioners; and that there be paid to said Loomis a pension at the rate of six dollars a month,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> commencing on the first day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLIV: to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of Raphael Paine and Elias Arnold,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of Raphael Paine and Elias Arnold,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 132.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized to issue the scrip in said act named to the said Paine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land scrip to issue in lieu of, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and Arnold, or their assignee, in lieu of lot thirty-three, instead of lot thirty-nine, as therein mentioned.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLV: for the relief of J. A. Fleming.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/726">726</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 145, 146, 149, 151, 152. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of J. A. Fleming.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to issue to him.</p></sidenote> cause a patent to be issued to J. A. Fleming for the west half of the south-west quarter and the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section ten, in township six, range four east, in the St. Stephen’s land district, in Alabama, according to duplicate receipts issued to him by the receiver of public moneys of said land district.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVI: for the relief of James Barrett.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Barrett.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That James Barrett be, and he is hereby, entitled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of preemption granted to him.</p></sidenote> to a preference in becoming the purchaser, at private sale, of the east half of the south-west quarter of section seven, the east half of the south-east quarter of section six, and the east half of the north-west quarter of section eighteen, all in township eleven north, in range eleven east, within the limits of the Batesville district, in Arkansas, on the same terms and conditions as are provided by law for the other public lands in the said district at private sale; and on the presentation of the receiver of public moneys in said district for the purchase money thereof, to the Secretary of the Treasury, the said James Barrett shall be entitled to patents from the United States.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLIX: directing the Commissioner of the. General Land Office to ascertain the quantity of land covered by grants made to Anthony Shane and to Louis Godfroy, in section sixteen, township four south, range two east, in Lima district, Ohio, and its value.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 726</citableAs>
<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>directing the Commissioner of the. General Land Office to ascertain the quantity of land covered by grants made to Anthony Shane and to Louis Godfroy, in section sixteen, township four south, range two east, in Lima district, Ohio, and its value.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quantity and value of grants to A. Shane, and L. Godfroy, to be reported to Congress.</p></sidenote> ascertain the quantity of land contained in section sixteen, township four south, range two east in Lima district, Ohio, and the quantity covered by each grant made by the United States to Anthony Shane and to Louis Godfroy, in said section; and that he cause the land so granted to be appraised by two judicious and disinterested freeholders, under oath, without regard to the improvements made thereon; and that he make report of the proceedings here directed to Congress as soon as the same shall be had.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLI: for the benefit of Charles Coffin.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the benefit of Charles Coffin.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be replaced on pension roll.</p></sidenote> to place the name of Charles Coffin, of the state of Maine, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, as a pensioner, at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum; pension to commence from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven; and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLII: for the relief of Simeon Smith of the state of New Hampshire.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-06-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLII</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Simeon Smith of the state of New Hampshire.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be and he is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>
directed to place the name of Simeon Smith, of the state of New Hampshire, on the revolutionary pension roll, and to allow him a pension of twenty dollars per annum during life, and to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-06-28">June 28, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLV: for the relief of Jacob Brown, confirming his purchases of certain land in Arkansas.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 727</citableAs>
<dc:date>1838-07-05</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLV</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 155, 156, 195, 196, 197. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/727">727</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jacob Brown, confirming his purchases of certain land in Arkansas.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-05">July 5, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the entries of the following described tracts or parcels of land permitted to be made by the registers and receivers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land entries confirmed, and patents to issue.</p></sidenote> of the Little Rock and Helena land districts, under the belief that said tracts of land had been proclaimed and offered at public sale, and under circumstances which satisfied said officers that said tracts of land were in market, and legally liable to be so entered, to wit: The east fractional half of the south-east quarter of section thirty-six; the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of section thirty-six; the north-east quarter of section thirty-six; the west half of the south-east quarter of section thirty-six; the south-east quarter of section twenty-five, and the north-east quarter of section twenty-five, of fractional township ten, south of range one west, in the state of Arkansas, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed; and patents shall issue to the purchasers as in other cases, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLVI: for the relief of Richard Cravat, Hardy Perry, and Beley Cheney.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard Cravat, Hardy Perry, and Beley Cheney.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-05">July 5, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Register and Receiver of the Land<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land certificates to issue.</p></sidenote> Office at St. Stephens, Alabama, be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to issue to Richard Cravat, Hardy Perry and Beley Cheney, each, a certificate for the quantity of land to which said individuals were, respectively, found to be entitled under the provisions of “An act for the relief of John McGrew, Richard Cravat, Hardy Perry,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 8, 1820, ch. 74.</p></sidenote> and Beley Cheney,” approved on the eighth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty; the land to which said Cravat, Perry, and Cheney were entitled having been sold by the United States, according to the several reports of said register and receiver, dated September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; and said certificates shall authorize the said Richard Cravat, Hardy Perry, and Beley Cheney, respectively, to enter a like quantity of public land, subject to private entry,in any land office in the said state of Alabama, free from charge.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCV: for the relief of Isaac Gale.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac Gale.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Isaac Gale on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States; and that the said Isaac Gale be entitled to receive a pension, at the rate of six dollars a month, from the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCVI: for the relief of Miller Francis.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Miller Francis.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War he directed to place<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the name of Miller Francis, of Nashville, in the state of Tennessee, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay him at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, to commence from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord 1837, during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCVII: for the relief of Benjamin B. Dowd.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin B. Dowd.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary, of War be, and hereby is, directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll</p></sidenote> to place the name of Benjamin B. Dowd, of Connecticut, upon the pension roll, and pay him the sum of six dollars per month during life; commencing the first day of January, 1838.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCVIII: for the relief of Oliver Dorsett.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCVIII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 198, 199, 200, 201. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Oliver Dorsett.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> to place the name of Oliver Dorsett on the roll of invalid pensioners, and to cause him to be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month; to commence on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCIX: for the relief of Moses Eldred.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Moses Eldred.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to be increased.</p></sidenote> directed to pay to Moses Eldred, an invalid pensioner, the sum of two dollars and sixty-six cents per month, (in addition to what he now receives,) to commence on the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and to continue during his life, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CC: for the relief of M. Gelston, executor of David Gelston.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of M. Gelston, executor of David Gelston.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury credit, on the account<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be credited with amount of judgment against David Gelston.</p></sidenote> of David Gelston, the amount of a judgment recovered against him in die state of New York, in favor of Charles Baldwin, as of the time said judgment was so recovered; the same being for a debt incurred by the said David Gelston, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in defending the suit of Gould Hoit, for seizing his vessel called the American Eagle: arid that the said Secretary further credit on said account such reasonable sum as the said David Gelston may have paid, or have been liable to pay, in consetpience of defending said suit in favor of said Baldwin, by order of the Secretary of the Treasury.</content></section>
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<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Costs paid by D. Gelston to be allowed, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> allow to said executor, on the account of said David Gelston, such costs as the said David Gelston paid in prosecuting a suit in favor of the United States against Henry K. Toler; and the costs so credited being deducted from the money collected of said Toler, or from any debt assigned by him to the United States, the proportion of the balance of said money, so collected, (subject only to reasonable costs and charges for collection,) whether the same has been paid into the Treasury, or is in the hands of the attorney who received it, which by law belongs to the estate of said David Gelston, shall be credited by said Secretary on the account of said Gelston, as of the time the costs were paid, and as of the time the money was so collected of said Toler, or on any debt assigned by him.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCI: for the relief of Daniel T. Patterson.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel T. Patterson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the. Treasury pay to Captain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain expenses.</p></sidenote> Daniel T. Patterson, of the navy of the United States, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, three thousand three hundred and ninety-one dollars, for extraordinary expenses incurred when he commanded the United States’ squadron in the Mediterranean, in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-two, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and eighteen hundred and thirty-five, in receiving and entertaining on board of his ship the head officers of the governments of the countries where the presence of said squadron was required for the general protection of the commercial interests of his government, and for his extraordinary expenses in visiting the courts of those governments.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCII: for the relief of Gratia Ray.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 202, 203, 204, 205, 206. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/729">729</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Gratia Ray.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That a pension of two hundred and sixteen dollars, for the term oi five years, from the sixth day of January, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to her.</p></sidenote> [year] one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, be allowed, and paid in half-yearly payments, out of the navy pension fund, to Gratia Ray, widow of William Ray, late a quartermaster in the navy of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That such pension shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> deemed to continue only during the life and widowhood of the said Gratia Ray.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIII: for the relief of William A. Whitehead.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William A. Whitehead.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury credit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be credited with expenses for light-house at Cape Florida.</p></sidenote> fifty dollars on the account of William A. Whitehead, collector of the customs at Key West, and superintendent of light-houses within his district, he having necessarily expended that sum in reestablishing a light in the light-house at Cape Florida, in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, after the said house was abandoned by the keeper on account of Indian hostilities.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIV: for the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Campbell.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Campbell.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of seven years’ half pay of n lieutenant-colonel.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, required to pay to the heirs of Richard Campbell, a lieutenant-colonel in the Virginia continental line of the army of the revolution, killed in the service of the United States at the battle of the Eutaw Springs, the aggregate amount of seven years’ half pay of a lieutenant-colonel of infantry, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>.</proviso> That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> amount paid the widow of said Campbell by the state of Virginia on account of the said half pay, being three years three months and twenty-five days, be first deducted, and no interest allowed.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCV: for the relief of the representatives of Colonel Anthony Walton White.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the representatives of Colonel Anthony Walton White.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of specie value of continental money advanced by A. White.</p></sidenote> paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law, to the representatives of Anthony White, late a colonel of the first regiment of light dragoons, of the Virginia continental line of the army of the revolution, the sum of three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, being the specie value, at the rate of forty for one, of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, continental currency, advanced by Colonel White, on the fourth day of July, seventeen hundred and eighty, for the use of his regiment.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVI: for the relief of the children and heirs of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Irwin, deceased.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the children and heirs of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Irwin, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed seven years’ half pay of a lieutenant-colonel.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the surviving children of Henry Irwin, deceased, formerly lieutenant-colonel of the fifth North Carolina regiment on continental establishment, and who was mortally wounded at the battle of Germantown, and died in the service of the United States, and to the legal representatives of the deceased children of the said Henry
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 207, 208, 209, 210/211. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
Irwin, deceased, the seven years’ half pay allowed by the resolution of Congress, passed August twenty-fourth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Doctor William Johonnot, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Doctor William Johonnot, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed five years’ full pay of a hospital surgeon.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby directed and required to allow the legal representatives of Doctor William Johonnot the five years’ full pay of a hospital surgeon, being the commutation of half pay for life of said Johonnot, as assistant apothecary of the hospital department of the revolutionary army; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVIII: to for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Charles Snead, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Charles Snead, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed five years’ half pay of a captain.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, required to adjust and settle the account of the late Captain Charles Snead, of the Virginia line on continental establishment, and allow his legal representatives five years’ full pay of a captain of infantry, in commutation of half pay for life, promised by the resolutions of Congress, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIX: for the relief of the heirs at law of Joshua Fanning, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CCIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs at law of Joshua Fanning, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed seven years’ half pay of a first lieutenant of a frigate.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, required to pay to the heirs at law of Joshua Fanning, an officer in the navy, killed in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war, the aggregate amount of . the half pay of a first lieutenant of a frigate, for seven years, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Fisher, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CCX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Fisher, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and allowance made.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, authorized and required to settle the account of the legal representatives of Henry Fisher, late of Delaware, deceased, and to allow and pay them the sum of one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars and eleven cents; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXI: for the relief of Mary A. Patrick.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mary A. Patrick.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and allowance made.</p></sidenote> and they hereby are, required to settle the account of Captain Matthew Alexander Patrick, late captain first regiment United States artillery, and to allow to Mary A. Patrick, his widow, the pay and emoluments of a captain, from the eleventh of August, eighteen hundred and thirty, to the fourth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to be paid to the said Mary A. Patrick, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXIII: in favor of Lewis Hatch.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CCXIII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 213, 214, 215, 216, 217. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/731">731</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>in favor of Lewis Hatch.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Lewis Hatch, of the state of New York,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> on the roll of revolutionary pensions, and to pay him twenty dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXIV: for the relief if Crawford Johnson.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if Crawford Johnson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary for the Department of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a duplicate military bounty land warrant to Crawford Johnson, a soldier of the North<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A duplicate military bounty land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> Carolina line of the army of the Revolution, for one hundred acres of land, numbered one thousand two hundred and eighty-four, the original warrant having been lost or mislaid: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That’ the said Crawford<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> Johnson shall first give bond, with approved security, to indemnify the United States in case it shall hereafter appear that the original warrant has been sold or disposed of by him.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXV: for the relief of the legal representatives of William Hooker Smith, deceased.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of William Hooker Smith, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of William<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed five years’ full pay of a captain.</p></sidenote> Hooker Smith, deceased, heretofore an acting surgeon in the army of the United States during the War of the Revolution, and to allow to his legal representatives five years’ full pay of a captain, the same to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXVI: for the relief of the. legal representatives of John B. Ashe, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the. legal representatives of John B. Ashe, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to allow and pay to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed commutation of half pay for life.</p></sidenote> the legal representative or representatives of the late John Baptiste Ashe, the commutation of half pay for life of said Ashe, as lieutenant-colonel in the line of the continental army during the war of the revolution; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXVII: for the relief of the children and heirs at law of John Chilton, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the children and heirs at law of John Chilton, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed and required to pay to the children<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five years’ half pay of a captain of in, fantry allowed to them.</p></sidenote> and heirs at law of John Chilton, deceased, who was a captain in the Virginia line on continental establishment, during the war of the Revolution, and who was slain in the battle at Brandywine, in September, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, the aggregate amount of the half pay of a captain of infantry for seven years, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXVIII: for the relief of the administrator of Wharton Quarles, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/732">732</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the administrator of Wharton Quarles, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of balance of a judgment for revolutionary services.</p></sidenote> be authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the administrator of Wharton Quarles, deceased, late a lieutenant in the second Virginia state regiment in the revolutionary war, the sum of three hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, the balance of a judgment obtained by the administrator of said Wharton Quarles in the courts of the state of Virginia, for half pay for revolutionary services; which said judgment was assumed by the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1832, ch. 173.</p></sidenote>States, by the act of the fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXIX: for the relief of James H. Brailford.</dc:title>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to place the name of James H. Bradford, of the state of Massachusetts, on the roll of invalid pensioners; who shall be entitled to receive a pension at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXX: for the relief of Joseph Prescott.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Prescott.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed five years’ full pay of a surgeon.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, required to adjust and settle the account of Doctor Joseph Prescott, late a surgeon of the army of the United States on continental establishment, and allow him five years’ full pay of a surgeon of the army, in commutation of the half pay for life promised by the resolutions of Congress; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXI: for the relief of John McClellan.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John McClellan.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of John McClellan, of the state of Maine, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of forty dollars per annum during his natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXII: granting a pension to Johan Jost Dietz, of New York.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Johan Jost Dietz, of New York.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the name of Johan Jost Dietz, of Albany county, New York, on the pension roll, and pay him forty dollars per annum, for and during his natural life-time, the same to commence and take effect at and from the time his name was dropped from the pension roll.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXIII: for the relief of James Boyd.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Boyd.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> and directed to place the name of James Boyd, of Monroe county, state of Virginia, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners of the
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United States, and pay to him the sum of forty dollars per annum, the same to be computed from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXIV: for the relief of Sarah Pemberton.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sarah Pemberton.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be paid to Sarah Pemberton, the widow of John Pemberton, a soldier of the Revolution<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to her.</p></sidenote> in the Delaware regiment, the sum of eighty dollars per annum during the continuance of her widowhood: the first payment of which sum shall commence on the fourth day of March, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXV: for the relief of Joseph Salmonds.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Salmonds.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Joseph Salmonds, of Charlotte comity<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be pieced on pension roll.</p></sidenote> in the state of Virginia, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and that he’ be allowed a pension at the rate of six dollars per month, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXVI: for the relief of William Collins.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Collins.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place the name of William Collins on the list of invalid pensioners,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> and that the said Collins receive a pension at the rate of eight dollars a mouth, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXVII: for the relief of Letitia Crane.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Letitia Crane.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and be is hereby, authorized to place the name of Letitia Crane, on the roll of revolutionary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the pension her deceased husband would have been entitled to, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> pensioners, and pay her the full pension to which her deceased husband would be entitled for his services as a lieutenant in the army of the Revolution, to commence and be computed from the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXVIII: for the relief of Nicholas Verplast.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nicholas Verplast.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Nicholas Verplast <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>on the navy pension list, at the rate of six dollars per month, payable from the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXIX: for the relief of Samuel Potter and James Cassidey, of Wilmington, North Carolina.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Potter and James Cassidey, of Wilmington, North Carolina.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there shall be issued, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the barque<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A register to issue for the barque Calypso.</p></sidenote> called the Calypso, built in England, but now owned by Samuel Potter and James Cassidey, citizens of the United States, and lying at the port of Wil-
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 230, 231, 232, 233. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
mington, North Carolina, unseaworthy, whenever the said Potter and Cassidey shall furnish the Secretary of the Treasury with satisfactory proof that the said barque has been repaired in the United States, and that the cost oi repairing her by her present owners exceeds three-fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXX: to refund, to the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company certain duties paid upon railroad iron.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to refund, to the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company certain duties paid upon railroad iron.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on two importations of spikes to be refunded.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to refund to the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, for the use of the said company, the duties paid by the said company, upon two several importations of spikes, to be used in the construction of their railroad, the one made into the port of Savannah, Georgia, on the twenty-first day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and the other into the same port, on the eighteenth day of May, of the same year, the whole amount of duties paid and to be refunded upon both importations being three thousand three hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>sixty-one dollars and forty-two cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That, before any repayment of the said duties shall be made, the said company shall furnish proof, to the satisfaction of the said Secretary’, that their orders upon England for the said spikes were made and transmitted before the passage of the act of the first day of July, eighteen hundred and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 233.</p></sidenote>thirty-six, entitled “An act explanatory of the act entitled ‘An act to release from duty iron prepared for, and actually laid on, railways and inclined planes,’ ” that it was out of the power of the said company, after the passage of the said act, to countermand their orders for the said spikes, and that the said spikes have been actually used in the construction of the railways or inclined planes for which they were ordered and imported.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXI: for the relief of Henry Barton.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Barton.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required to place the name<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension rail.</p></sidenote> of Henry Barton on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay him at the rate of two dollars and sixty-six cents per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, in addition to the pension he now receives.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXII: to authorize the Commissioner of Pensions tn cause the unpaid pension of Captain Robert Laird, of the stale of Georgia, to be paid to his executor.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the Commissioner of Pensions tn cause the unpaid pension of Captain Robert Laird, of the stale of Georgia, to be paid to his executor.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Pensions be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount due R. Laird at the time of his death to be paid.</p></sidenote> authorized to cause to he paid over to the executor of Captain Robert Laird, deceased, for the use and benefit of the legatees to whom the same was bequeathed, late of Clark county, in the state of Georgia, the amount which was due him, the said Captain Robert Laird, at the time of his death, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXIII: for the settlement of the accounts of Richard Harrison, late consular agent of the United Slates in Spain.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the settlement of the accounts of Richard Harrison, late consular agent of the United Slates in Spain.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and settle
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234, 235, 236. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
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according to the resolutions of Congress of the third of June, seventeen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled according to resolutions of June 3, 1784; and interest on money advanced to be paid, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> hundred and eighty-four, for the settlement of public accounts, the accounts of Richard Harrison, formerly consular agent of the United States at Cadiz, in Spain, and to allow him the interest on the money advanced, under agreement with the minister of the United States in Spain, for the relief of destitute and distressed American seamen, and for their passages to the United States, from the time the advances respectively were made, to the time at which the said advances were reimbursed; and for the expenses of employing an interpreter and clerk in the service of the United States, the sum of one thousand dollars per year for the time he acted as agent, viz; from seventeen hundred and eighty to seventeen hundred and eighty-five; and the sum found due shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXIV: for the relief of Charles Vattier.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles Vattier.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Charles Vatticr, of Cincinnati, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the state of Ohio, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and that he be entitled to receive the sum of eight dollars per month, during his natural life, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXV: to authorize the payment of the seven years’ half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of John McClelland, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXV</docNumber>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the payment of the seven years’ half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of John McClelland, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven years’ half pay of a first lieutenant of infantry, allowed.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, the full amount of seven years’ half pay of a first lieutenant of infantry in the army of the revolution, to such person or persons as may be entitled to the same under the resolution of Congress of the twenty-fourth of August, seventeen hundred and eighty, on account of the services of John McClelland, late a first lieutenant in the army of the revolution, who died in the service.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXVI: for the relief of the heirs of Deborah Gannett, a soldier of the revolution, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Deborah Gannett, a soldier of the revolution, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury he, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them as an equivalent for a pension.</p></sidenote> appropriated, to the heirs of Deborah Gannett, a revolutionary soldier, and late the wife of Benjamin Gannett, of Sharon in the state of Massachusetts, now deceased, the sum of four hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, being an equivalent for a full pension of eighty dollars per annum, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to the decease of Benjamin Gannett in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, as granted in certain cases to the widows of revolutionary soldiers by the act passed the fourth day of July, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 362.</p></sidenote> hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act granting half pay to widows or orphans where their husbands or fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States in certain cases, and for other purposes.”</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXVII: to authorize William Delesdernier to draw the arrearages of pension due the late Lewis F. Delesdernier at the time of his death.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/736">736</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize William Delesdernier to draw the arrearages of pension due the late Lewis F. Delesdernier at the time of his death.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Pensions be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to draw arrears of pension due L. F. Delesdernier.</p></sidenote> authorized to cause to be paid over to William Delesdernier, of Calais, in the county of Washington, in the state of Maine, as the late guardian of Lewis F. Delesdernier, late of said Calais, deceased, the amount which was due him, the said Lewis F. Delesdernier, at the time of his death, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXVIII: for the benefit of the widow of Noah Chittendon.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the benefit of the widow of Noah Chittendon.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to her.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to the widow of Noah Chittendon, the sum of ninety-six dollars.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXIX: for the benefit, of Tandy and Walker.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the benefit, of Tandy and Walker.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> to place the name of Tandy Walker on the list of invalid pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXL: granting a pension to Coffin Sanborn.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Coffin Sanborn.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> to place the name of Coffin Sanborn on the invalid pension-roll, and pay him at the rate of six dollars and sixty-six cents per month; to commence on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and to continue during Ids natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLI: granting a pension to Phebe Champe, of Franklin county, Ohio.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Phebe Champe, of Franklin county, Ohio.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War he, and he hereby is, directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> to place the name of Phebe Champe, widow of Sergeant John Champe, deceased, on the list of revolutionary pensioners, and pay her, during her natural life, one hundred and twenty dollars annually; the same to commence and take effect at and from the fourth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLII: granting a pension to Sarah Barney, widow of Samuel Barney, late if Connecticut.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Sarah Barney, widow of Samuel Barney, late if Connecticut.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required to place the name of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> Sarah Barney, widow of Samuel Barney, late of New Haven, Connecticut, deceased, on the pension roll, and pay her forty dollars per annum, during her natural life-time, the payment thereof to commence and take effect on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLIII: granting a pension to John M. Jewell.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/737">737</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to John M. Jewell.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of John M, Jewel], of Windsor, Vermont,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of four dollars per month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLIV: granting a pension to Daniel H. Crockett.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Daniel H. Crockett.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Daniel H. Crockett,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> of Oxford county, in the state of Maine, upon the list of invalid pensioners; and that there shall be paid him, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, at the rate of six dollars per month; to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLV: granting a pension to Thomas Frazer.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Thomas Frazer, of the county of Oxford,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> state of Maine, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay to him the sum of two dollars and sixty cents per month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLVI: granting a pension to James M. Edwards.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to James M. Edwards.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of James M. Edwards, of Henderson county,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> Kentucky, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of six dollars per month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLVII: granting a pension to James Sayre.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to James Sayre.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War place the name of James Sayre, of Southampton, in the state of New York, on the roll of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 128.</p></sidenote> revolutionary pensioners, under the act of the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; and that he pay to him the pension to which a corporal is entitled under the said act for six months service in the war of the revolution; such pension to commence from the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLVIII: granting a pension to Benjamin Durfee.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Benjamin Durfee.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required to place the name of Benjamin Durfee, of Fall river, Massachusetts, on the roll<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> of revolutionary pensioners; and pay him the sum of thirty dollars per annum during life; to commence and take effect from the day upon which his former pension was suspended; the same to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXLIX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Timothy Feely, deceased, late a lieutenant in the army of Ute revolution.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 249, 250, 251, 252, 253. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Timothy Feely, deceased, late a lieutenant in the army of Ute revolution.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed five years’ full pay of a lieutenant.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, required to adjust and settle the account of Timothy Feely, late a lieutenant of the Virginia continental line of the army of the revolution, and, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to his legal representatives the amount of five years’ full pay of a lieutenant of infantry.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCL: for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Williams, deceased.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Williams, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed five years’ full pay of a captain.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, required to adjust and settle the accounts of Captain Daniel Williams, late of the North Carolina line on continental establishment, and allow his legal representatives five years’ full pay as a captain of infantry, being the commutation of half pay for life promised by the resolutions of Congress, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLI: for the relief of the heirs of William B. Bunting.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of William B. Bunting.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury, out<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed seven years’ half pay of a lieutenant.</p></sidenote> of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, pay the full amount of seven years’ half pay of a lieutenant of infantry in the army of the revolution, to such person or persons as may be entitled to the same under the resolution of Congress of the twenty-fourth of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, on account of the services of William B. Bunting, late a lieutenant in the army of the revolution, and who died while in the service.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Sawney York, deceased.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Sawney York, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War pay to the legal <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount due S. York at the time of his death to be paid to them.</p></sidenote>representatives of Sawney York, late a pensioner of the United States now deceased, the sum of one hundred and eighty-four dollars being the amount due the said York at the time of his death, at the rate of eight dollars per month.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLIII: to authorize the payment of the seven years’ half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of Thomas H. Boyles, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the payment of the seven years’ half pay due on account of the revolutionary services of Thomas H. Boyles, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of seven years’ half pay of a major.</p></sidenote>treasury, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, pay the full amount of seven years’ half pay of a major of infantry in the army of the revolution, to such person or persons as may be entitled to the same, under the resolution of Congress of the twenty-fourth of August, seventeen hundred and eighty, on account of the services of Thomas H. Boyles, late a major in the army of the revolution who died in the service.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLIV: for the relief of Henry Chatter.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 254, 255, 256. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Chatter.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required to place the name of Henry Challer, of New York, on the roll of invalid pensioners,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to be increased.</p></sidenote> and pay him at the rate of eight dollars per month; to commence from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, in addition to the pension now received by the said Challer.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLV: to authorize Charles Day, James II. Butts, William W. Frye, George Whitman, Laurent Millandon, and Gassaway B. Lamar to import free of duties iron steamboats suited to the navigation of rivers.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize Charles Day, James II. Butts, William W. Frye, George Whitman, Laurent Millandon, and Gassaway B. Lamar to import free of duties iron steamboats suited to the navigation of rivers.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Charles Day, William W. Frye, George<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain persons authorized to import materials for an iron steamboat, free of duty.</p></sidenote> Whitman of the state of Alabama, Laurent Millandon of New Orleans, and James R. Butts be, and each of them are hereby, authorized to import, free of duty, the materials ready prepared for an iron boat, to be employed as a steamboat, with the tools and implements necessary to construct and put together the same, and to make them complete, so far as any tools or implements peculiar to this service or the navigation and repair of such boats are necessary; but this act shall not be so construed as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam engines not included.</p></sidenote> to authorize the importation of steam engines.</content></section>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That Gassaway B. Lamar, of Savannah,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">G. B. Lamar allowed to import, free of duty, iron materials, &amp;c.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> in the state of Georgia, be allowed to import free of duty, iron materials for the construction of two iron steamboats: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said iron shall be imported within one year from the passage of this act.</proviso></content>
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<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the duty for the payment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on iron imported by the Iron Steamboat Co. of Georgia, remitted.</p></sidenote> of which, bonds have been given by the Iron Steamboat Company of Georgia, on iron imported by said Company for the construction of an iron steamboat, be, and the same is hereby remitted, but this act shall not be so construed as to extend to steam engines, whole or in part.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLVI: to refund certain duties upon railroad iron, paid by the New York and Harlaem Railroad Company.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to refund certain duties upon railroad iron, paid by the New York and Harlaem Railroad Company.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the president of the New York and Harlaem <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on railroad iron to be refunded.</p></sidenote>Railroad Company, for the use of the said Company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred and five dollars and sixty-three cents, that being the sum paid by the said company, to the collector of the port of New York, as the duty upon six hundred and ninety-two bars or rails of iron, imported by them for the use of their railroad, on the thirteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and, in consequence of unforeseen and unanticipated obstacles to the construction of the said road, not actually laid down thereupon until after the thirteenth day of August, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 250.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and thirty-six, so as to entitle them to an exemption from duty under the act of the fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLVII: to remit or refund duties to the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Company, upon certain importations of iron made by them for the use of their railroad.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/740">740</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 257, 258. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to remit or refund duties to the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Company, upon certain importations of iron made by them for the use of their railroad.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That it shall be, and is hereby made, the duty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emitted to benefits of act of July 14, 1832, ch. 250, as to certain importations made since the passage of act of July 1, 1836, ch. 233.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Treasury to extend to the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Company all the benefits of the act of the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act to release from duty iron prepared for and actually laid on railways and inclined planes,” as to any importations of fastenings for the rails upon the road of the said company, made since the passage of the act of the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, explanatory of the act last above mentioned: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said company shall first prove, to the satisfaction of the said Secretary, that the orders for the importation of the said iron, so imported for fastenings, were given prior to the passage of the said act of the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, that the same had been sent out of the country before the passage of the said act; that they could not be countermanded without detriment and loss to the said company; and that the said company shall further comply with all the provisions, requisitions, and conditions of the said act of the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLVIII: to refund to the New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Railroad Company certain duties paid by them upon iron imported for the construction of their railroad.</dc:title>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to refund to the New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Railroad Company certain duties paid by them upon iron imported for the construction of their railroad.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on two imporatations of spikes, &amp;c., to be refunded.</p></sidenote> hereby is, directed to refund to the New Castle and Frenchtown Turn-pike and Railroad Company the duties paid by them to the collector of the customs for the port of Wilmington, in the state of Delaware, upon two several importations of spikes, clamps, and bolts, or other fastenings for the rails upon the railroad of the said company, the one made on the twelfth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in the ship Kutuzoff, and the other on the twenty seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the ship Isaac Hicks, the duties to be refunded amounting, upon both importations, to the sum of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>two thousand and three dollars and eighty-three cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said company shall first prove to the satisfaction of the said Secretary, that the said duties were properly chargeable to and paid by the said company, and were not covered by their contract with their agents, A.</proviso> and G. Ralston and Company, for the purchase and importation of the said iron; that the amount of money above named was paid upon spikes, clamps, and bolts, or other fastenings, for the rails upon the road of the said company; that the orders for the said spikes, clamps, and bolts, or other fastenings, were given and transmitted beyond their reach before the passage, of the act of the first of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in relation to railroad iron; that it was not in the power of the said company, after <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 1, 1836, ch. 233.</p></sidenote>the passage of the said last mentioned act, to countermand their said orders without detriment and loss to the company; and that the spikes, clamps, and bolts, or other fastenings, upon which the duties are to be refunded by virtue of this act, have been actually used in the construction of their railroad.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLIX: to revise, with amendments, “Act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia.”</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 259. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to revise, with amendments, “Act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia.”</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Frederick May, AI. D., Alexander McWilliams, Henry Hunt, AI. D., N. P. Causin, M. D., William Jones, Richmond<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">F. May and others incorporated as the Medical Society of the District of Columbia.</p></sidenote> Johnson, Thomas Sewall, M. D., George W. May, M. D., Nicholas AV. Worthington, M. D., James Reily, M.D., James S. Gunnel, Al. D., Harvey Lindsley, M. D., James C. Hall, M. D., Thomas Miller, AI. D., James Borrows, Al. D., Alexander McD. Davis, M.D., Benjamin King, M. D., Noble Young, M. D., H. F. Condict, AI. D., AV. B. Magruder, Al. D., Perry Warfield, AI. D., J. B. Blake, AI. D., and such other persons as they may, from time to time, elect, and their successors, are hereby declared to be a community, corporation, and body politic, for ever, or until Congress shall by law, direct this charter to cease and determine, by and under the name and title of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia; and by and under the same name and title they shall be able and capable in law to purchase, take, have, and enjoy, to them and their successors, in fee or for lease, estate or estates, any land, tenements, rents, annuities, chattels, bank stock, registered debts, or other public securities within the District, by the gift, bargain, sale, demise, or of any person, or persons, bodies politic, or corporate, capable to make the same, and the same, at their pleasure, to alien, sell, transfer, or lease, and apply, to such purposes as they may adjudge most conducive to the promoting and disseminating medical and surgical knowledge, and for no other purpose whatever: <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the said society or body politic shall not at any one time, hold or possess property real, personal, or mixed, exceeding in total value the sum of six thousand dollars per annum.</proviso></content></section>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the members of the said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stated meetings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> society above designated shall hold in the city of Washington two stated meetings in every year, viz: on the first Monday in January and July; the officers of the society to consist of a President, two Vice-Presidents, one Corresponding Secretary, one Recording Secretary, one Treasurer, and one Librarian, who shall be appointed on the first Monday in July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and on the annual meeting in January for ever thereafter, and who shall hold their offices for one year, and until others are chosen in their stead, (not less than seven members being present at such meeting;) and the society may make a common seal, and may elect into their body such medical and chirurgical practitioners, within the District of Columbia, as they may deem qualified to become members of the society; it being understood, that the officers of the society now elected are to remain in office until the next election after the passage of this act.</content>
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<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That it shall and may be lawful<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Society may elect a board of examiners, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> for the said medical society, or any number of them attending, (not less than seven,) to elect by ballot five persons, residents of the District of Columbia, whose duty it shall be to grant licenses to such medical and chirurgical gentlemen as they may, upon a full examination, judge qualified to practise the medical and chirurgical arts, or as may produce a diploma from some respectable medical college or society, each person so obtaining a certificate to pay a sum not exceeding ten dollars, to be fixed on, or ascertained, by the society.</content>
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<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That any three of the examiners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admission of persons to practice.</p></sidenote> shall constitute a board for examining such candidates as may apply, and shall subscribe their names to each certificate by them granted, which certificate shall also be countersigned by the President of the society, and have the seal of the society affixed thereto by the Secretary, upon paying into the hands of the Treasurer the sum of money to be
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/742">742</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 259. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
ascertained as above by the Society; and any one of the said examiners <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>may grant a license to practise, until a board, in conformity to this act, can be held: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall authorize the said corporation in any wise, to regulate the practice of medical or chirurgical attendance on such persons as may need those services, nor to establish or fix a tariff of charges or fees for medical attendance or advice, or to interfere, in any way, with charges or fees for medical attendance or advice.</proviso></content>
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<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That after the appointment of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons not allowed to practise, &amp;c., without a license or diploma.</p></sidenote> aforesaid medical board, no person, not heretofore a practitioner of medicine or surgery within the District of Columbia, shall be allowed to practise within, the said district, in either of said branches, without first having obtained a license, testified as by this law directed, or the production of a diploma from a respectable medical college or board of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>examiners established by law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the professors in such college, or the examiners in such hoard, be men regularly instructed in medicine and surgery, and the collateral branches of medical education, anatomy, chemistry, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each offence, to be recovered in the county court, where he may reside, by bill of presentment and indictment; one-half for the use of the society, and the other for that of the informer.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That every person who, upon application,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New members to pay not exceeding 810 on admission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of the society.</p></sidenote> shall be elected a member of the medical society, shall pay a sum not exceeding ten dollars, to be ascertained by the society.</content>
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<num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the medical society be, and they are hereby, empowered, from time to time, to make such by-laws, rules and regulations, as they may find requisite; which by-laws, rules and regulations, shall, in their application and operation, be exclusively confined to said society, as a society or body corporate, and not to its members individually, when not acting in a corporate character; to break, or alter their common seal; to fix the times and places for the meetings of the board of examiners, filling up vacancies in the medical board, and to do and perform such other things as may be requisite for carrying this act into execution, and which may not be repugnant to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>the constitution and laws of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, always</i>, That it shall and may be lawful for any person resident as aforesaid, and not prohibited as aforesaid, when specially sent for, to come into any part of this district and administer or prescribe medicine, or perform any operation for the relief of such, to whose assistance he may be sent for:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote></proviso> <i>And provided, also</i>, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to prevent any person, living within or without said district, from administering medicine, or performing any surgical operation, with the consent of the person or the attendants of the person to whom such medicine is administered, or upon whom such surgical operation is performed, without fee or reward, nor to prevent the giving advice or assistance in any way to the sick, or afflicted, upon charity and kindness, nor to prevent the receipt of reward for the same, if voluntarily tendered or made, nor to extend to midwifery by females; and any person, so administering medicine, or performing any surgical operation, not authorized to practise physic and surgery agreeably to the provisions of this act, shall be prohibited from collecting any fee or reward <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>for the same, by any process at law. <proviso><i>And be it further provided</i>, That no person shall be admitted to an examination, until he shall produce satisfactory evidence that he has studied physic and surgery three years, including one full course of medical lectures as usually taught at medical schools, or four years without such a course of lectures.</proviso></content>
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<num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That Congress may, at any time,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congress may alter or annul this act.</p></sidenote> alter, amend, or annul, this act of incorporation of said society at pleasure.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLX: for the relief of H. Quertier and Albert, of New Orleans.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 743</citableAs>
<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 260, 261, 262, 263. Res. 3. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/743">743</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of H. Quertier and Albert, of New Orleans.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That A. Quertier and Albert, of New Orleans,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback allowed on playing cards.</p></sidenote> are hereby authorized to export, with the benefit of drawback, a package of Spanish playing cards, which was imported into that port in November last, in the ship Alexander Toussin, from Havre, and now remaining in the public stores: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all the regulations relating to the exportation of merchandise, with the benefit of drawback, shall be complied with.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXI: for the relief of Richard Frisby.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 743</citableAs>
<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard Frisby.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any unappropriated money, to Richard Frisby, two thousand dollars, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> full, for property destroyed at Farlie, so called, in Kent county, Maryland, by the British forces, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, when in the military service of the United States, and in consequence thereof.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXII: for the relief of John H. Peterson, executor of the last will and testament of John H. Peterson, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 743</citableAs>
<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John H. Peterson, executor of the last will and testament of John H. Peterson, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of salary due J. H. Peterson at the time of his death.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to John A. Peterson, executor of the last will and testament of John H. Peterson, deceased, the sum of two thousand one hundred and eight dollars and thirty cents, being the amount of salary due the said John II. Peterson at the time of his death as surveyor of the district of Petersburg, in Virginia.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCLXIII: for the relief of Aaron Pucker.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1838-07-07</dc:date>
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<longTitle><docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Aaron Pucker.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Aaron Tucker, of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> state of Maine, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and that he be allowed a pension of eight dollars a month, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-07-07">July 7, 1838</date>.</action>
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<firstPageHeading class="centered">RESOLUTIONS.</firstPageHeading>
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<dc:title>Resolution: for the relief of Vespasian Ellis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1838-05-18</dc:date>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 743</citableAs>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No. 3. </docNumber>
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<docTitle class="inline italic">Resolution</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Vespasian Ellis.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1838-05-18">May 18, 1838</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<recital class="indent1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas Vespasian Ellis and Henry A. Wise, on the eighteenth of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, deposited in the Treasury of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> the United States the sum of four thousand dollars in gold, in compliance with the second section of the act making further provision for the sale of the public lands, approved twenty-fourth of April, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 24, 1820, ch. 49.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty, and received from the Treasurer of the United States forty receipts or certificates, of one hundred dollars each, dated eighteenth of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and numbered from forty to seventy-nine inclusive; and whereas, the said Henry A. Wise, on the thirteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/744">744</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 3. 1838.</centerRunningHead>
seven, assigned and conveyed his title and interest in and to said receipts or certificates for valuable consideration to said Ellis, supposing the same to be assignable; and whereas, the said section of the act aforesaid is so construed by the treasury department that the said receipts or certificates are not available to said Ellis under said assignment.</recital>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it therefore resolved, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<p class="inline">That the several receivers of the land<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receivers of the land offices to receive the said receipts, &amp;c. in payment for lands.</p></sidenote> offices be authorized and required to receive the said receipts or certificates from the said Vespasian Ellis, in payment for any lands which said Ellis may locate, and which are liable to private entry, or from the assignee or assignees of said Ellis when endorsed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office as hereinafter directed, for any such lands they may locate, in the same manner as though said receipts or certificates had been originally assignable.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>And be it further resolved</i>, That the Commissioner of the General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioner of the General Land Office to endorse said receipts, &amp;c. as receivable.</p></sidenote> Land Office be directed to endorse upon the said receipts or certificates that the same are receivable as aforesaid, from said Vespasian Ellis, or from his assignee or assignees.</p>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1838-05-18">May 18, 1838</date>.
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered"><inline class="smallCaps">of the</inline></p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<i>Passed at the third session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December</i>, 1833, <i>and ended on the third day of March</i>, 1839.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Martin Van Buren, President</inline>; <inline class="smallCaps">Richard M. Johnson</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">William R. King</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the twenty-sixth day of February; <inline class="smallCaps">James K. Polk</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE III.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. V: for the relief of Bradbury T. Jipson.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Bradbury T. Jipson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-01-25">Jan. 25, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension certificate granted by act of June 28, 1838, ch. 135, to be corrected.</p></sidenote> of War be authorized and directed to issue the pension certificate for a pension granted by act approved June twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to Bradley T. Jipson, to Bradbury T. Jipson for whom said pension was intended by said act.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-01-25">January 25, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. VI: to remit or refund to the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company, the duties upon certain railroad iron.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to remit or refund to the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company, the duties upon certain railroad iron.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That it shall be, and is hereby made, the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, to extend to the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, or to the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company, incorporated by the state of Pennsylvania, the Wilmington<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on certain railroad iron to be refunded.</p></sidenote> and Susquehanna Railroad Company, incorporated by the states of Delaware and Maryland, and the Baltimore and Port Deposite Railroad Company, incorporated by the state of Maryland, of which said three last named railroad companies the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company, first abovenamed, is composed, all the benefits of the act of the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 250.</p></sidenote> release from duty iron prepared for, and actually laid on, railways and inclined planes,” as to any importations of spikes, pins, or other fastenings for the rails upon the road of the said last named company, made since the passage of the act of the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, explanatory of the act last above mentioned: <i>Provided</i>, That the said company shall first prove, to the satisfaction of the said Secretary, that the orders for the purchase and importation of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the said spikes, pins, or other fastenings, were given prior to the passage of the said act of the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; that the said orders had been sent out of the country before the passage of the said act; that they could not be countermanded without detriment and loss to the said company; and that the said com-<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July I, 1836, ch. 233.</p></sidenote>
<page renderingPosition="bottom" identifier="/us/stat/6/745">745</page>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/746">746</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 7, 8, 9. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
pany shall further comply with all the provisions, requisitions, and conditions of the said act of the fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Jechonias Bigot and Benjamin Lecraft, sureties of James Manney, late collector of the customs for the district of Beaufort, in the state of North Carolina.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jechonias Bigot and Benjamin Lecraft, sureties of James Manney, late collector of the customs for the district of Beaufort, in the state of North Carolina.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceedings against sureties of J. Manney, late collector, &amp;c., to be suspended.</p></sidenote> is hereby directed to suspend all further proceedings to collect from Jechonias Pigot and Benjamin Lecraft sureties of James Manney, late collector of the customs for the district of Beaufort, in the state of North Carolina, any portion of the balance of one thousand and forty-four dollars and twelve cents, stated to be due from them to the United States, on the twenty-eighth day of January now last past, upon a judgment or judgments rendered against them as such sureties, and that he discharge the said sureties from all further liability under the said judgments, it appearing that the said sureties have paid and satisfied the balance due from them, as stated by the Comptroller of the Treasury, on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, together with the interest upon that balance; but that in consequence of an error in the statement of the Comptroller before mentioned, a further balance is now claimed of the sum above stated, after the said sureties have permitted the property of their principal, placed in their hands for their indemnity, to go from them in payment of other debts of the said Manney, they having retained a sum sufficient to discharge their whole liability as stated by the said Comptroller on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, aforesaid.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of William East.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William East.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to William East,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for horse-shoes.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty-six dollars, for one hundred and twelve pairs of horseshoes furnished Captain Hodge’s command of mounted volunteer gunmen, in General Coffee’s brigade of Tennessee volunteers, in the month of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. IX: for the relief of the heirs of John Brahan, late receiver of public moneys at Huntsville, Alabama.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 746</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of John Brahan, late receiver of public moneys at Huntsville, Alabama.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the accounts of the said John Brahan, late a receiver of public moneys at Huntsville, in the state of Alabama, so as to release his estate from the payment of interest, on account of the debt which the said John Brahan owed to the Government of the United States as receiver aforesaid, and such part as may have been secured to be paid by others, shall be relinquished by the said Secretary, with the securities therefor, to the heirs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of said Brahan: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the refunding from the treasury, to the estate or the heirs of said John Brahan, of any amount which may heretofore have been received or collected by the United States on account of the said debt or interest thereon.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. X: for the relief if the owners of the British brig Despatch.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 747</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 10, 11, 12, 13. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/747">747</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if the owners of the British brig Despatch.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to ascertain the amount of tonnage, light-money, duties, and charges of all kinds paid on the brig Despatch and her cargo, at the port of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain tonnage dulies to be refunded.</p></sidenote> Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where said vessel was entered on the twenty-second day of September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty-two, over and above the duties, tonnage, light-money, et cetera, charged to, and paid by, American vessels from the island of Tobago at that time, and to pay the same over, when so ascertained, to Aaron Baldwin, of Boston, the consignee of said vessel and cargo.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of Jean B. Valle.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jean B. Valle.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Jean B. Valle, assignee of Elizabeth Petchaka, be, and he hereby is, authorized to locate one half section of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to loonie a tract of land.</p></sidenote> land, in legal subdivisions, upon any of the public lands subject to private entry within the state of Missouri, in lieu of the like quantity of land granted to the said Elizabeth Petchaka, by the seventh article of the treaty between the United States and the Delaware nation of Indians, made and concluded on the third day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XII: to remunerate the captors of the privateer Lydia.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to remunerate the captors of the privateer Lydia.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for capturing a privateer.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to David Robinson, Ebenezer Robinson, James Robinson, and John Robinson, or to their or either of their heirs or assigns, the sum of one thousand dollars, as a remuneration for the capture of the privateer Lydia, at Robinson’s island, in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of Thomas Sumpter.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Sumpter.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to close the account of Thomas Sumpter, late Minister<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be closed, and allowance made.</p></sidenote> Plenipotentiary of the United States at Brazil, by placing to his credit the sum of six thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and fifty cents; which said sum was paid to him by order of James Monroe, late President of the United States, towards the expenses which he had incurred, in consequence of the omission of the Government to appoint a Secretary of Legation, during the period of eight years nine months and twenty-four days, for the mission on which he was employed; and which sum was charged against him on the books of the treasury, without the corresponding credit; and also by placing to his credit the sum of five thousand six hundred and twenty-nine dollars and sixty-nine cents, which is to be in full of all expenses incurred by him as aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless</i>, That before this act shall have any effect,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the said Thomas Sumpter shall first execute and deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury, in due form of law, a release to the United States, discharging them from all liability for any claims which he may now have against them for performing consular duties, or duties as agent for prisoners, or on any other account whatsoever.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XIV: to amend, and carry into effect, the intention of an act entitled “An act to renew the patent of Thomas Blanchard, approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 14, 15. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to amend, and carry into effect, the intention of an act entitled “An act to renew the patent of Thomas Blanchard, approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the rights secured to Thomas Blanchard, a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for a machine for turning irregular forms, &amp;c., extended for 14 years.</p></sidenote> citizen of the United States, by letters patent granted on the sixth of September, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and afterwards on a corrected specification, on the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 213.</p></sidenote>twentieth day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty, be granted to the said Blanchard, his heirs and assigns, for the further term of fourteen years from the twentieth of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, said invention so secured being described in said last mentioned letters as an engine for turning or cutting irregular forms out of wood, iron, brass or other material which can be cut by ordinary tools: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all rights and privileges heretofore sold or granted by said patentee, to make, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>construct, use, or vend the said invention, and not forfeited by the purchasers or grantees, shall inure to and be enjoyed by such purchasers or grantees respectively, as fully and upon the same conditions, during the period hereby granted, as for the term that did exist when such sale or grant was made.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That any person who had, bona fide,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons who may have constructed, &amp;c., may use the same.</p></sidenote> erected or constructed any manufacture or machine for the purpose of putting said invention into use, in any of its modifications, or was so erecting or constructing any manufacture or machine for the purpose aforesaid, between the period of the expiration of the patent heretofore granted and the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, shall have and enjoy the right of using said invention in any such manufacture or machine erected or erecting as aforesaid, in all respects as though this act had not passed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>That no person shall be entitled to the right and privilege by this section granted, who has infringed the patent right and privilege heretofore granted, by actually using or vending said machine, before the expiration of said patent, without grant or license from said patentee, or his assignees, to use and vend the same.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XV: for the relief of John Newton.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Newton.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Newton, late a private in Egerton’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May surrender title to certain land, and enter other land.</p></sidenote> company of the eleventh regiment of infantry, be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender his title to the north-west quarter of section twenty-four, of township three north, of range two west in the military bounty district, in the state of Illinois; and upon making such surrender of title to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, said John Newton is hereby authorized to enter, without payment, one quarter section of any of the public lands subject to entry at private sale,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> in the state of Illinois: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said John Newton shall avail himself of the benefits intended to be granted by this act within two years<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> from the passage thereof:</proviso> <i>And provided, also</i>, That such entry shall not be made on lands on which any settlement or improvement has been or shall be made at the time of the application to make such entry, where the settler or settlers, or person or persons, making such improvements, shall, at such time, be entitled to the right of preemption to such land under the existing laws of Congress.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XVI: for the relief of Erastus Fairbanks and Thaddeus Fairbanks.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 749</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-02-06</dc:date>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. S. III. Ch. 16, 17, 18, 19, 21. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Erastus Fairbanks and Thaddeus Fairbanks.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Erastus Fairbanks and Thaddeus Fairbanks, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">An over-payment by them to be refunded.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of one hundred and five dollars, being the amount of an over-payment made by them into the treasury, for the reissue at the patent office of seven patents.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of Elisha Town.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elisha Town.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to Elisha Town, out of any money in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">An over-payment by him to be refunded.</p></sidenote>treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty dollars, being the amount of an over-payment, made by him into the treasury, for a patent for his improved crane stove.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: for the relief of Sarah Angel, and the other heirs at law of Benjamin King, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 749</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sarah Angel, and the other heirs at law of Benjamin King, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to cause to be issued to Sarah Angel, and the other heirs at law of Benjamin King, deceased, who was a corporal in the Rhode<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> Island line during the revolutionary war, a duplicate of the warrant which was issued in their favor on the eighteenth of December, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and numbered eight hundred and thirty-one, for one hundred acres of land; the original of which has been lost, and is hereby revoked.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XIX: to confirm the sale of certain reservations.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to confirm the sale of certain reservations.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-06">Feb. 6, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sale of the following reserve, under the provisions of the second article of the treaty with the Pottawatamies<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land sale confirmed.</p></sidenote> of the Prairie of twentieth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to wit: “five sections for Shawwasnas-see, to include Little Rock village,” be, and the same hereby is, confirmed to Cyrus Taber, and Allen Hamilton and Hiram Todd, the purchasers from the said reservee: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no such sale or conveyance of said lands, or any part<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> thereof, shall be valid or effectual until every such conveyance or” deed shall be submitted to the President of the United States for his approbation:</proviso> and if, after inquiry into the facts and circumstances attending the contracts for the sale of any of the said lands as aforesaid, he shall be satisfied that such contracts were fair, and that the consideration paid or secured to be paid therefor is adequate, he shall endorse his approval on each conveyance and deed so approved, and thereafter the same shall be deemed valid and effectual.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-06">February 6, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of Henry Wilson, confirming purchases of certain land in Arkansas.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 749</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-02-12</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Wilson, confirming purchases of certain land in Arkansas.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-12">Feb. 12, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the entries of the following described tracts or parcels of land permitted to be made by the register of the land office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land entries confirmed.</p></sidenote> at Helena, on the twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, under the belief that the said tracts of land had been proclaimed and offered at public sale, and under circumstances 3»2
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/750">750</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 22, 23. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
that satisfied the land officers that the said tracts of land were in market and legally liable to be so entered; viz: the east fractional part of the south-west quarter of fractional section one; the north-east, north-west, and south-east fractional quarters, and the east half of the south-west quarter of fractional section twelve; and the north-west, south-west, and south-east fractional quarters of fractional section thirteen, all in township ten south, of range one west, in the state of Arkansas, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, and patents shall issue to the purchaser as in other cases, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-12">February 12, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXII: for the relief of William B. Ferguson anti sureties.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 750</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-02-13</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William B. Ferguson anti sureties.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-13">Feb. 13, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General pay out of the post<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of a judgment and costs against special agent, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> office fund for mail depredations and special agents, four hundred and fifty dollars, the amount of a judgment and costs in the superior court of law in Guilford county, North Carolina, obtained at the Spring term, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, of said court, by John A. Mebane, against William B. Ferguson, and for which judgment and costs J. J. M. Lindsay and William Adams are liable as bail of said Ferguson, who was special and confidential agent for the Post Office Department, and in consequence of his acts as such, said judgment and costs were recovered against him.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-13">February 13, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: for the relief of Dr. John Campbell While, of Baltimore, in the state of Maryland.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 750</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-02-13</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Dr. John Campbell While, of Baltimore, in the state of Maryland.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-13">Feb. 13, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<recital class="indent0 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas, the said John Campbell White hath by his petition set forth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> that, on the twelfth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three, he did, in the district court of the United States in and for the district of Maryland, declare his intention to become a citizen of the United States, pursuant to the act of Congress in such case made and provided; and that afterwards, to wit: on the third day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four, he proved before the said court that he was residing within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States from the month of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and had continued to reside within the same to that time; and making the proof and declarations required by law, he was, by the judgment of the said court, admitted to become a citizen of the United States, pursuant to the act of Congress in such case made and provided; and that, by the misprision or mistake of the said clerk, the surname of the said petitioner is omitted in the record of the said naturalization, and the said record is made in the name of John Campbell, and that the said district court aforesaid have declined to order the record to be amended, because the application for that purpose came too late; and whereas, it is right and just that the misprision or mistake of the clerk in the entry of the said record should be corrected, in a case where no injustice can be done to any other person by such amendment; therefore.</recital>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the district court of the United States in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Record of the naturalization of J. C. White to be corrected, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and for the district of Maryland, be, and it is hereby, authorized to cause the record of the naturalization of John Campbell White, made in the name of John Campbell, on the third day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four, to be amended according to the truth of the fact, notwithstanding the lapse of time; and for that purpose to receive either written or parole evidence to prove the identity of the said John Campbell White and John Campbell named
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 29, 32, 34, 38. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
in the said record, and record the same; and that the said record when so amended, shall have the same force and effect as if no misprision or mistake had been made by the clerk of the said court in recording the name of the said John Campbell White.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-13">February 13, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of the securities of Elias T. Langham, late surveyor of public lands for the states of Missouri and Illinois.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 751</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-02-16</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the securities of Elias T. Langham, late surveyor of public lands for the states of Missouri and Illinois.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-16">Feb. 16, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawfull for Richard Graham ÿnd John O’Fallon and others, securities of Elias T. Langham, late<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawfill for securities of E.T. Langham to settle his accounts, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> surveyor of public lands for the states of Missouri and Illinois, to settle the accounts of the said Elias T. Langham before the proper accounting officers of the treasury department; and the said officers shall be, and they hereby are, authorized to adjust with the securities of said Langham the amount to be paid on the surety bond according to equity and justice, and upon such evidence as they may be able to produce which will satisfy such officers as to the credits which ought to be allowed; and that in the mean time, without releasing said securities, the suit against them be suspended: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, They immediately commence<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the settlement of said accounts, and continue the settlement thereof, until the same may be completed, without any unnecessary or unreasonable delay.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Glascock, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-02-26</dc:date>
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<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas Glascock, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-26">Feb. 26, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to the legal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them.</p></sidenote> representatives of Thomas Glascock, the sum of one hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, (that sum appearing to be due said Glascock, by the return of unexpended balances made by John Hopkins, army agent of the United States for the state of Virginia, on the eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-four,) out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-02-26">February 26, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: supplemental to the “Act granting certain city lots to the corporation of the Columbian College for the purposes therein mentioned,” approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-02-28</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>supplemental to the “Act granting certain city lots to the corporation of the Columbian College for the purposes therein mentioned,” approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-02-28">Feb. 28, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 248.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the corporation of the Columbian College be, and hereby is, authorized to sell so many of the city lots, granted to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to sell so many city lots as will raise 87000.</p></sidenote> said corporation by the act to which this is supplemental, as shall be sufficient to raise the sum of seven thousand dollars, and to apply the proceeds of such sale to the payment of debts due from said corporation, any thing in the act to which this is supplemental to the contrary notwithstanding.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of Messrs. Smith anti Town.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Messrs. Smith anti Town.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the district of New York is authorized to allow and pay the drawback on twenty-one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drawback on sugar to be allowed and paid.</p></sidenote> hundred and eight bags of sugar, exported by Messrs. Smith and Town, on the eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, in the Prussian brig Die Oder, from New York to Antwerp, notwithstanding the omission of the inspector’s return, as required by law.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of William W. Stevenson and Joseph Henderson.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/752">752</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 39, 40, 41. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William W. Stevenson and Joseph Henderson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That in lieu and full consideration of seventy-six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In lieu of certain land to which W. W. Stevenson had established his right of preemption, authorized to enter, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> acres, part of the south-west quarter of section two, township one north, and range twelve west, in the territory of Arkansas, to which the said’ William W. Stevenson had established his right of preemption, but which was embraced in the location of a thousand-acre tract granted by Congress for the erection of a court-house and jail at Little Rock, in said territory, the said Stevenson is hereby authorized to enter at the proper land office, a quarter section of any of the unappropriated and unimproved land in said territory; and upon making such entry, a patent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1832, ch, 129.</p></sidenote> shall issue as in other cases, conveying to the said Stevenson a fee simple title to the same.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That in lieu and in full consideration<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In lieu of certain land to which J. Henderson had established his right of preemption, authorized to enter, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of the southwest quarter of section one, in township one north, in range twelve west, (south of the Arkansas river,) in the territory of Arkansas, to which Joseph Henderson had established his right of preemption, but which was enclosed in the location of a thousand-acre tract granted by Congress for the erection of a court-house and jail at Little Rock, in said territory, the said Henderson, his heirs or assigns, is hereby authorized to enter at the proper land office a quarter section of any of the unappropriated and unimproved land in said territory; and upon making such entry, a patent shall issue as in other cases, conveying to said Henderson, his heirs or assigns, a fee-simple title to the same.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XL: for the relief of Robert Murray.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XL</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert Murray.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Robert Murray be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish certain land, and enter another tract.</p></sidenote> to relinquish to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner of the Genera] Land Office shall prescribe, the north-west quarter of the north-west quarter of section thirty-two, township fifty-five north, range twenty-nine west, of the fifth principal meridian, in the district of lands now offered for sale at Lexington, in the state of Missouri; and, upon such relinquishment being made as aforesaid, the said Murray shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter any other quarter quarter section of unappropriated land in said district which shall be liable to entry at private sale.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLI: for the relief of John Wiley and Jefferson Greer.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Wiley and Jefferson Greer.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<recital class="indent0 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas it appears that John Wiley and Jefferson Greer, of the county<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> of Calloway and state of Missouri, purchased, each of them, from the Government of the United States, at the land office at St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, a half-quarter section of land, for which each got a certificate from the receiver of public lands at said office; the said Wiley purchasing his in April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the said Greer purchasing his in August, eighteen hundred and thirty-one; and whereas it further appears that the said Wiley and Greer, after having improved and cultivated the said lands purchased as aforesaid for three and four years, purchased of the Government lands which the Government had previously sold to others; therefore, for the relief of said Wiley and Greer,</recital>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Wiley and Jefferson Greer, of the county of Calloway and state of Missouri, or the legal representatives
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 42, 43, 44, 45. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/753">753</page>
of each, be allowed to enter, without further payment, the quantity of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land,without payment.</p></sidenote> three hundred and twenty acres each, of any of the unappropriated public lands of the United States that have been offered for sale, as a full compensation for the loss of the improvements which each had made upon lands which each had purchased of the Government, but which said lands so purchased by them had been previously disposed of by the Government to other individuals.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of John Whitsitt.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Whitsitt.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Whitsitt be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter at private sale, at the minimum price of the public lands, the north-east quarter of section four, in township fifty north of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land at private sale.</p></sidenote> the base line, of range twenty-five west of the filth principal meridian; and that such sum as has heretofore been paid on said quarter section, and forfeited, be deducted from the amount of purchase money.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: for the relief of James Middleton Tuttle, of Arkansas.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Middleton Tuttle, of Arkansas.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That as soon as James Middleton Tuttle shall file in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office a relinquishment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Upon filing n relinquishment of certain land, patent shall issue for a certain other tract.</p></sidenote> of all his right, title, claim, and interest in and to the south halt of the south-east quarter of section number six, in township number sixteen north, of range number thirty west of the fifth principal meridian, to the United States of America, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue a patent to the said James Middleton Tuttle for the south half of the south-west quarter of section number five, in township number sixteen north, of range number thirty west of the fifth principal meridian, situate in the district of lands subject to sale at Fayetteville, Arkansas territory.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIV: for the relief of Levi Chadwick.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIV</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Levi Chadwick.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to Levi Chadwick, a private in the New Jersey line in the revolutionary war, a duplicate of military bounty land warrant number seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate military bounty land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> and sixteen, for one hundred acres of land, which issued to Levi Chadwick, alias Shadwick, the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and which has been lost; and the said Levi Chadwick shall have the said duplicate located and proceeded upon in the same manner as it it were an original warrant; and the said original warrant is hereby declared null and void.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLV: to authorize the issuing of a register to Anthony C. Menegbetty for the sloop Sarah.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 753</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the issuing of a register to Anthony C. Menegbetty for the sloop Sarah.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be issued, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the sloop called the Sarah,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A register for the sloop Sarah to be issued.</p></sidenote> built in Sierra Leone, but now owned by Anthony C. Menegbetty, a citizen of the United States, and lying at the port of Wilmington, North Carolina, unseaworthy, whenever the said Anthony C. Mencghetty shall furnish the Secretary of the Treasury with satisfactory proof that the said sloop has been repaired in the United States, and that the cost of repairing her by her present owner exceeds three-fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of Dennis Tramell.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVI</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/754">754</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 46, 47, 48, 49, 50. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Dennis Tramell.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Dennis Tramell on the pension list, under the act of June seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum; and to pay him at that rate, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVII: authorizing the settlement of the accounts of the heirs of Captain Jesse Copeland.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing the settlement of the accounts of the heirs of Captain Jesse Copeland.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers be authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> to adjust and settle, according to the principles of justice and equity, the claims of the heirs of Jesse Copeland, late a captain in the army of the United States; and if any balance shall be found due to said heirs from the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay the same to them out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Jesse E. Dow.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jesse E. Dow.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Jesse E. Dow, out of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for bearing dispatches from the Mediterranean, &amp;c..</p></sidenote> money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, for his time and expenses in bearing despatches from Commodore Elliott, commanding the United States’ naval squadron in the Mediterranean, and from Mr. Kavanagh, our charge d’affaires in Portugal, to the Navy and State Departments of the United States.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Treasurer of the United States pay to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of amount paid by him to satisfy a judgment against him.</p></sidenote> Nathaniel Mitchel) the sum of two thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-one cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, out of the fund appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department; being the amount paid by said Mitchell to satisfy a judgment recovered against him in the supreme judicial court of Maine, on the first Tuesday of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in favor of William Merriam, for acts done by said Mitchell under orders from the Postmaster-General, in arresting the said Merriam on a charge for violating the post office laws of the United States.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of Tilford Taylor.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Tilford Taylor.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Tilford Taylor be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Upon relinquishing a certain tract of land, authorized to enter another tract.</p></sidenote> to relinquish to the United States the east half of the south-west quarter of section two, in township forty-seven, and range five west, in the district of lands now offered for sale at Saint Louis, in the state of Missouri; and, upon such relinquishment being made, the said Taylor shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter any other Ind (quarter section of unappropriated land in said district, which shall be liable to entry at private sale.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Charles S. Walsh.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 51, 52, 53, 54, 55. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Charles S. Walsh.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury do allow and pay to the legal representatives of Charles S. Walsh,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed the difference between the pay of a secretary of legation, and that of a charge.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money, in addition to the pay of secretary of legation, sufficient to make up to said Charles S. Walsh the salary of chargé d’affaires at the Court of Spain, from the twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to the ninth day of December, of the same year.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LII: for the relief of Nathaniel H. Hooe.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nathaniel H. Hooe.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That all the interest and claim of the United States to the south-east quarter of section seventeen, township twenty-four,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest of U. S. in a certain tract of land relinquished to him.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> range three west, in the Tuscaloosa land district, in Alabama, and for which a certificate of purchase from the said land office, numbered twelve thousand three hundred and twenty-five, was issued to said Nathaniel H. Hooe, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this act shall be so construed to prejudice the claim of any other individual, either by preemption or otherwise to said described tract of land:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That, if the money paid into the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> land office as the price of said laud at the time the entry was made, has been refunded to said Nathaniel H.</proviso> Hooe, to entitle him to the benefit of this act, lie shall repay the original amount so refunded into the said land office.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of John E. .Alexander.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John E. .Alexander.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services in pursuing and arresting counterfeiters.</p></sidenote> E. Alexander, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriaated, the sum of one hundred and seventy dollars, for thirty-four days’ services, by direction of the Secretary of State, in pursuing after and arresting persons engaged in counterfeiting the coin of the United States, and bills, and putting them in circulation.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of John Randolph Clay.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Randolph Clay.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be allowed to John Randolph Clay, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed the difference between the pay of a charge and that of a secretary of legation.</p></sidenote> the settlement of his accounts, the difference between the compensation of a chargé d’affaires and that of a secretary of legation, for the time he acted in the former capacity in Russia, viz: from the twenty-fifth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, to the twenty-ninth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of William Colt and William Donaldson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Colt and William Donaldson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General issue his warrant on the Treasury of the United States, registered and countersigned as provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for arresting and prosecuting mail robbers.</p></sidenote> by law, for the payment to William Colt and to William Donoldson, out of the moneys paid into the treasury for the services of the Post Office Department, for the sum of six hundred and ninety-seven dollars, being for their expenses and for their services in pursuing after, arresting, and prosecuting William Kromer and Abraham Kromer for robbing the mail, and who were convicted of said offence.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LVI: authorizing a grant of bounty land to the heirs of Bennett Shurley.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/756">756</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 56, 57, 58, 59, 60. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing a grant of bounty land to the heirs of Bennett Shurley.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to issue to the heirs of Bennett Shurley, deceased, who was a private in the Maryland continental line of the army in the war of the revolution, a duplicate of land warrant number eleven thousand seven hundred and six, for one hundred acres, dated eleventh March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LVII: for the relief of Samuel Dickerson.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Dickerson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Samuel Dickerson, of Sangamon county,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Upon relinquishing certain land, authorized to enter another tract.</p></sidenote> Illinois, be, and he hereby is, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct, the east half of the north-west quarter of section eighteen, township sixteen north, range one west; and upon his making such relinquishment, he shall be authorized to enter with the register and receiver of the land office at Springfield, Illinois, the same quantity of any of the unappropriated land, in said land district, which shall be subject to sale at private entry.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: for the relief of the Louisville Savings Institution.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the Louisville Savings Institution.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury revise the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">The interest charged on certain public money to be deducted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 23, 1836, ch. 115.</p></sidenote> account of interest charged against said institution, under the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and deduct therefrom such amount as has been charged on public money deposited in said institution, while under actual orders to be transferred elsewhere.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of Daniel Malone.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Malone.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That on Daniel Malone surrendering to the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Upon surrendering his right to certain land, may enter a like quantity.</p></sidenote> States all his right of the west half of the north-east quarter of section number thirty-five, in township number four south, range three west, in the Kaskaskia land district, in the state of Illinois, the register is hereby authorized and required to permit the said Malone to enter in said district the same quantity of land so surrendered as above stated, out of any lands not otherwise disposed of, and subject to private entry.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief if [the] legal representatives of Nathan Sage.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if [the] legal representatives of Nathan Sage.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized to pay to the legal representatives of Nathan Sage, late of Oswego, in the state of New York, and late collector of the customs of the United States, from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same proportional part of any sum of money that has actually been paid into the treasury in satisfaction of a judgment recovered by the United States on the complaint of said Sage against Eliakim Barney, for a violation of the revenue laws of the United States, as the said Sage, or his legal representatives, would have been entitled to receive had the whole amount of said judgment been paid; first deducting from the sum paid into the treasury aforesaid, and excluding from the division contemplated by this act, the full amount of costs awarded to the United States by said judgment: said judgment being the same
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that was recovered in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-four, in the court of the United States for the northern district of the state of New York.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of Thomas McClelland and James Smith.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas McClelland and James Smith.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Thomas McClelland and James Smith,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sureties of S. Smith, receiver of public moneys, released from their liabilities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> sureties of the late Samuel Smith, receiver of public moneys at Saint Stephen’s, in an official bond, bearing date the fifth day of August, eighteen hundred and twelve, be, and they are hereby, released from their said liabilities: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this act contained shall be held to discharge the estate of the said Samuel Smith from the payment of any balance which may be due the United States for moneys received by him while receiver as aforesaid.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of Archibald R. S. Hunter.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Archibald R. S. Hunter.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Archibald R. S. Hunter the sum of twenty-five dollars, for forage taken for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for forage taken for public service.</p></sidenote> the use of a troop of volunteer militia, who were in the service of the United States during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, while said troop were without the rations of forage allowed by law.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of Hiner Stigermire.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Hiner Stigermire.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Hiner Stigermire be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Upon relinquishing certain land, may enter another tract.</p></sidenote> of the General Land Office shall prescribe, the south-east quarter of the south-west quarter of section thirty-one, township forty-five north, in range one east of the fifth principal meridian, in the district of lands now offered for sale at Saint Louis, in the state of Missouri; and upon such relinquishment being made as aforesaid, the said Stigermire shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter the south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of section thirty-one, township forty-five north, in range one east, being the same which the said Stigermire originally intended to enter, as set forth in his petition: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the same is still subject to entry.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of Joseph M. Hernandez.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph M. Hernandez.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to examine and adjust all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for corn, cattle. &amp;c. to be examined.</p></sidenote> claims of Joseph M. Hernandez which have arisen since the commencement of the late hostilities with the Seminole Indians in Florida, and allow him for all corn taken and put into pits by order of an officer in the service of the United States, deducting from the same any sum he may have realized from a sale of a part thereof in a damaged state by order of General Eustis, and for all corn, at his plantation that was used by troops in the military service, and for all cattle killed and for forage taken by order of an officer, and for cane taken for forage by the troops, the value of the cane to be fixed at what it was worth as an article of forage, and for property impressed into the military service of the United States by order of an officer, where the same was never regained by him, deducting any sum which may appear to have been paid for the use of the same while in the service aforesaid; likewise for any claim for the 30
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/758">758</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 65, 66, 67. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
use of any property so impressed while in said service where he may appear to have regained the same, and to have received no compensation for the use thereof.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That, in adjusting such claims,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Evidence, how receivable.</p></sidenote> said accounting officers shall be governed by such rules, with regard to the species and degree of evidence to be adduced in proof of the fact of taking or impressing the property, the value thereof or compensation for the use of the same, and the use, removal, or destruction of the buildings, and the manner in which such evidence shall be taken and authenticated, as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, with the assent of the President of the United States; that whenever a difference of opinion shall arise between the accounting officers as to the extent of the allowance to be made on any claim under this act, the case shall be referred to the Secretary of War, whose decision shall be conclusive.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><content class="inline"><i>And he it further enacted</i>, That the claims allowed under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> this act be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXV: for the relief of Frederick Frey and Company.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Frederick Frey and Company.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of drawback on playing cards.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Frederick Frey and Company, of the city of New Orleans, the drawback of duties on two thousand two hundred and twenty packs of Spanish playing cards, imported by said Frey and Company from Hamburg, into the city of New Orleans, and exported by them to Mexico, on board the schooner Pearl, in November, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>eighteen hundred and thirty-five: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, satisfactory proof be furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury that the law relative to drawbacks has been complied with.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for the relief of John Davlin.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Davlin.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1813, ch. 162.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On surrendering a patent for certain land, may enter another tract.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Davlin, of Arkansas, or his legal representative, be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender a patent to the United States, issued to him for three hundred and twenty acres of land, covering the south-west quarter of section thirty-five, and the south-east quarter of section thirty-four, in township two south, in range sixteen west of the fifth principal meridian, of which he is the rightful owner; and, when the said Davlin, or his representative, shall surrender the said patent, and reconvey the aforesaid quarter section to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall designate, it shall be lawful for the said Davlin, or his legal representative, to enter, in lieu of the land by this act authorized to be surrendered, three hundred and twenty acres of any of the unappropriated lands subject to private entry, in the state of Arkansas: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>selection is made within two years from the passage of this act.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXVII: for the relief of certain heirs and legal representatives of James Wilson, late of [the] town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of certain heirs and legal representatives of James Wilson, late of [the] town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the lien of the United States, derived from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lien on a certain lot in Alexandria, released to proprietors of said lot.</p></sidenote> a deed of trust executed by J. C. Wilson upon a certain lot of ground lying in the city of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, on which stood a house, consumed by fire in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, which lien was given by James C. the son of the said
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 68, 69, 96, 97. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/759">759</page>
James Wilson, be, and the same is hereby, released to the legal proprietors of the said lot, on condition that they, or some one of them, shall pay to the treasurer of the United States, for the use thereof, such sum of money as the Secretary of the Treasury, for the time being, shall consider equivalent to the one-third part of the value of the said property, after the consumption of the buildings formerly erected, and prior to the construction of the new buildings now standing thereon: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said James C.</proviso> Wilson, by whom the said deed of trust or mortgage was executed, shall in no event be entitled to or enjoy, by force of this law, any advantage, right, or privilege, to which he would not have been entitled if it had not been passed.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas T. Triplett.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
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<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas T. Triplett.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be paid to the legal representatives<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for valuing Indian improvements.</p></sidenote> of Thomas T. Triplett, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eleven hundred and thirty-seven dollars, for his services for valuing Creek Indian improvements, and for enrolling Creek Indians, under the Creek treaty of eighteen hundred and twenty-six, deducting therefrom the amount in which the said Triplett stands indebted to the government on the books of the treasury.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIX: for the relief of John H. Peaxe.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John H. Peaxe.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to John II. Pease, of Nantucket,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him of one-half of a certain forfeiture.</p></sidenote> Massachusetts, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five dollars; being one-half the amount of a forfeiture incurred by him as master of. a coasting vessel between said Nantucket and New Bedford, in the month of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, which has been paid into the treasury.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XCVI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Michael Fenwick, deceased.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Michael Fenwick, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the legal representatives of Michael Fenwick, deceased, the sum of seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full satisfaction for buildings (other than the dwelling-house) destroyed by the enemy, on the estate of the said deceased, during the late war with Great Britain, in consequence of the occupation of the said buildings by the troops of the United States.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XCVII: for the settlement of the accounts of Edmund Roberts, late diplomatic agent of the United. Stales to Cochin China, Muscat and Siam.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the settlement of the accounts of Edmund Roberts, late diplomatic agent of the United. Stales to Cochin China, Muscat and Siam.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be authorized to allow to the legal representatives of the late Edmund<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed the salary of a chargé, without the outfit.</p></sidenote> Roberts the salary of a chargé d’affaires, without the outfit, during the time he was employed as diplomatic agent of the United States, under his appointment of January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 98, 99, 100, 101. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
two, deducting the per diem allowance already paid, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, which shall be in full of all demands.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XCVIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of William Tudor, junior.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of William Tudor, junior.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be allowed and paid, out of any moneys<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed compensation for diplomatic services in Peru.</p></sidenote> in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of William Tudor, junior, compensation for his services as informal diplomatic agent of the United States in Peru, from the twenty-seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, to the tenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, at the same rate per annum as was allowed and paid to said William Tudor, junior, for like services at a subsequent period.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XCIX: for the relief of William S. Colquhoun.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William S. Colquhoun.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services in department of Commissary General of supplies.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to pay to William S. Colquhoun, six hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; the same being in full discharge of all that is due to the said William S. Colquhoun, for all the services rendered by him in the department of the Commissary General of supplies, from the tenth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, to the twenty-seventh day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. C: for the relief of certain officers of the Florida militia.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of certain officers of the Florida militia.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause the officers and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain officers, &amp;c. of the Florida militia, to be paid.</p></sidenote> non-commissioned officers of the second regiment of the second brigade of Florida militia, ordered into the service of the United States by General J. M. Hernandez, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, to be paid according to their respective ranks, for the time they were in the service, deducting such payments as may heretofore have been made to any of them on account of services rendered at that time or under the order by which they were originally called out.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CI: for the relief of Peter Bargy, junior.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter Bargy, junior.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Peter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for loss sustained in performance of a certain contract.</p></sidenote> Bargy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand six hundred forty-five dollars and four cents, for the loss sustained by him in the necessary performance of his contract, made with the Government in August, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for Macadamizing a large portion of the Pennsylvania avenue, in the city of Washington; which loss was not occasioned by any neglect on the part of said contractor, but by events beyond his control.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the said Bargy shall not receive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not to receive any benefit from this act until, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> any benefit from this act, until he shall have furnished evidence to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and filed the same in the treasury department, that the respective laborers whom he employed in his service under his contract with the Government, shall have received compensation for their labor; or until he shall have filed with
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 102, 103, 104, 105. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/761">761</page>
the Secretary of the Treasury a satisfactory bond that the balances (if any) justly due to such laborers, shall be fully satisfied by the said Bargy.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CII: for the relief of Sarah Windham, widow of the late Joshua Lamb, a soldier of the revolution.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 761</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sarah Windham, widow of the late Joshua Lamb, a soldier of the revolution.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Sarah Windham, of Annapolis,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> state of Maryland, on the list of pensioners of the United States, and pay her the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum, from the fourth March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to be continued during her natural life.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CIII: granting a pension to Michael McCray.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Michael McCray.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Michael McCray, of the county of Venango,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> state of Pennsylvania, on the roll of invalid pensions, and pay to him the sum of two dollars and sixty-six cents per month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CIV: for the relief of the legal representatives of Adam Smith.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Adam Smith.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be paid to the legal representatives of Adam Smith, surviving partner of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for etona prepared for the Cumberland road.</p></sidenote>Smith and Hussey, six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for stone prepared by them (the said Smith and Hussey) for the Cumberland road west of Zanesville, in the state of Ohio.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the Chief Engineer be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Said stone to be sold for use of U.S.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, required to cause the stone so as aforesaid prepared by the said Smith and Hussey, on the twelfth mile of the said road west of Zanesville, as well as that which has been broken up and ready for use, as that which was put upon the said road to be broken, to be. taken charge of by the superintendent of the said road, or other person to be by him appointed, and sold for the use of the United States.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of the late Hubert Farmer, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of the late Hubert Farmer, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the heirs and legal representatives of the late Robert Farmer, deceased, be, and they hereby are, confirmed in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title con-finned.</p></sidenote>their title to a certain tract, of land, commonly called the Island; bounded on the north, by the Bayou Chatague; on the south, by the Bayou Marmott; on the east, by the river Mobile; and on the west, by the said bayou, situate about a mile above or north of the city of Mobile, in the state of Alabama, and containing about four hundred acres, more or less; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized to issue a patent to said heirs, agreeably to their petition: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That this act shall be deemed and taken only as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> relinquishment on the part of the United States of all their right, title, claim, and interest to the said tract of land.</proviso> <i>And provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/762">762</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 106, 107, 108, 109. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
That this relinquishment shall not extent to more than four hundred acres of land, nor shall the same in any manner interfere with the prior legal or equitable rights of others.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CVI: for the relief of James Moore.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 762</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Moore.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That James Moore, of the county of Bibb, in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May surrender land certificate, and receive another therefor.</p></sidenote>state of Alabama, be, and he hereby is, authorized to surrender the certificate which issued to him from the land office at Tuscaloosa, in the said state, on the tenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of section three, in township number twenty-three, of range twelve east, in the said district, which was purchased and paid for by him through mistake; and, upon the surrender of said certificate, or, if a patent shall have issued for the said tract of laud, upon the surrender of his patent, and filing his relinquishment in said land office, the said James Moore shall be entitled to a certificate from the register and receiver of said land office for the amount which was so paid by mistake; which shall be received in payment for any other tract of land in said land district which may be subject to private entry.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CVII: for the relief of Menzies Gilespie, late a soldier of the United States army.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Menzies Gilespie, late a soldier of the United States army.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Menzies Gilespie, by his attorney, Robert<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to relinquish all right to U. S. in a certain warrant, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Clark, is authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, all the right, interest, and title of the said Menzies Gilespie to warrant number two thousand four hundred and eighty-three, issued thirteenth February, eighteen hundred and fifteen, for bounty land, in consideration of services rendered in the late war; and when so surrendered, the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall issue a duplicate warrant in lieu of the said warrant heretofore issued; which warrant shall be receivable in payment of lands at any land office of the United States.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: for the relief of Nicholas Phelan, heir at law of John Phelan, deceased.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nicholas Phelan, heir at law of John Phelan, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> Nicholas Phelan, heir at law of John Phelan, deceased, late of the city of Baltimore, a warrant for two hundred acres of land, for the service of said John Phelan, as a lieutenant or captain in the war of the Revolution.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CIX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Major Tarlton Woodson.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Major Tarlton Woodson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote> Ire, and they are hereby, authorized and required to settle and adjust the account of the legal representatives of Major Tarlton Woodson, and to pay the balance of the account of said Woodson which was found due on the tenth of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CX: for the relief of the heirs of Crocker Sampson, deceased.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 110, 111, 112, 113, 114. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Crocker Sampson, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate land warrant to be issued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> duplicate of warrant number one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, issued to Crocker Sampson, a lieutenant in the Massachusetts line of the army of the Revolution, for two hundred acres of land: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to affect the interest of any bona fide assignee of said original warrant, if the same shall be still in existence; in which event, the duplicate hereby authorized shall be null and void.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXI: for the relief of Parish Carter, and the heirs of Charles Williamson, deceased.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Parish Carter, and the heirs of Charles Williamson, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Parish Carter be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to enter six quarter sections of land on any unreserved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">F. Carter empowered to enter land.</p></sidenote> and unappropriated land in Florida, in lieu of so many quarter sections for which he had paid the United States, and held certificates from the receiver; and that Seaton Grantland, administrator of Charles<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">S. Grantland empowered to enter land.</p></sidenote> Williamson, be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to enter one half-quarter section of land in the name and for the use of the heirs of the said Charles Williamson, on any unreserved and unappropriated land in Florida, and one other half-quarter section on any land of the United States which has been offered for sale, in lieu of that much land for which the said Williamson had paid the United States, and held certificates from the receiver; and that patents do issue free of purchase to the said Farish Carter and the heirs of the said Williamson, respectively, for the land so entered.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXII: for the relief of E. H. Williams, administrator of the estate of Doctor Hazel W. Crouch.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of E. H. Williams, administrator of the estate of Doctor Hazel W. Crouch.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War ascertain the time that Doctor Hazel W. Crouch attended on the sick at Fort Moultrie<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for medical attendance, doc.</p></sidenote> and at the Charleston depot, under a contract made on behalf of the United States by Major Pool, of the army; and that he allow therefor the sum due under said contract, and for such medicine as was furnished by Doctor Crouch.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> pay the amount so allowed out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: for the relief of Nathaniel Plumb.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nathaniel Plumb.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and required to cause to be issued to Nathaniel Plumb, or his legal representatives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bounty land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> a bounty land warrant for one hundred acres of land, to which he is entitled for services rendered during the Revolutionary war.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: granting a pension to Susannah Rowe, widow of John Rowe, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Susannah Rowe, widow of John Rowe, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to place the name of Susannah Rowe, widow of John Rowe, deceased, of the state of Virginia, on the pension roll;
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/764">764</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 115, 116, 117. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
and that there be paid to her sixty dollars per annum during her natural life; commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXV: to provide for the settlement of the claims of Walter Jones against the United States.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to provide for the settlement of the claims of Walter Jones against the United States.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That all further proceedings in a certain judgment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceedings in a certain judgment against him to be suspended, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> for the United States of America, against Walter Jones, rendered at May term, eighteen hundred and thirty, in the circuit court of the District of Columbia for the county of Washington, be suspended; and that the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to adjust and settle the accounts and claims between the United States and the said Walter Jones upon principles of equity and justice; and if, upon such settlement, it shall appear that the United States are indebted to the said Jones in a sum over and above the amount of said judgment, it shall be the duty of the district attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia to enter said judgment satisfied; and the balance due to said Jones shall be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That said settlement shall be made within twelve months from the date thereof.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of James L, Stokes, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James L, Stokes, and for other purposes.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That James L. Stokes is hereby permitted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permitted to complete his entry and purchase of certain land.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 12, 1814, ch. 52.</p></sidenote> to complete his entry and purchase a quarter section of land, situate in the land district north of Red river, in the state of Louisiana, it being the north-east quarter section of section number sixteen, township eleven, range eight east; by virtue of the act of Congress of the twelfth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled “An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the state of Lousiana and Territory of Missouri any other law to the contrary notwithstanding.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That it shall be the duty of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register and receiver to select other lands in lieu, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> register of the land office and receiver of public moneys in the district aforesaid, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to select and reserve, for the use of schools in the aforesaid township, other lands, of the same extent and quality within the same or the next adjoining township, in lieu of the quarter section which the said James L. Stokes is hereby permitted to purchase, and which embraces his improvements: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said Stokes shall first obtain and file with the register of the,land office of the district the assent thereto of the commissioners of schools of the parish in which the lands lie, and of a majority of the tree white male inhabitants of the township over twenty-one years of age.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: for the relief of the widow of Thomas Kibbey.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXVII</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the widow of Thomas Kibbey.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be allowed and paid to the widow of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widow of T. Kibbey to be paid the sum to which he would have been entitled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Thomas Kibbey, deceased, late a private in the marine corps, and who died by reason of a disability received in the line of his duty, the sum to which he would have been entitled as a full pensioner, from the first day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, to the first day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, had he been on the pension list during that time.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: for the relief of Joseph Pierce and others.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 118, 119, 120, 121, 122. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/765">765</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Pierce and others.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of ninety-three dollars and eighteen cents, with interest thereon from the first day of September, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money paid for certain laud to be refunded.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and seventeen, until the passage of this act, be paid to Joseph Pierce, Mary Pierce, Jeremiah II. Pierce, David Z. Pierce, James Steele, Horatio G. Phillips, Elnathan Carey, and Daniel Hubble, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; which sum was paid by the said Joseph Pierce and company for seventy-six acres and eighty-five hundredths of land lying within the reserve of twelve miles square at the foot of the rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie, in the state oi Ohio, and the title to which tract was confirmed to Samuel Ewing by an act of Congress dated seventh of May, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 7, 1822, ch. 109.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and twenty-two; and that the said Joseph Pierce and company be, and they are hereby, exempted from all further payments for said lands.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIX: granting a pension to Harvey Reynolds.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Harvey Reynolds.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Harvey Reynolds, of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> state of Vermont, on the list of invalid pensioners, and to pay him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four dollars per month; to commence from the 1st of January, eighteen [hundred] and thirty-four, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the benefit of Eliphalet Spofford.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the benefit of Eliphalet Spofford.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Eliphalet Spaftbrd on the list of invalid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> pensioners, at the rate of four dollars a month; to commence the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: for the relief of Rosaline Prudhomme.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Rosaline Prudhomme.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Rosaline Prudhomme, widow of the late Jean Baptiste Prudhomme, of the county of Natchitoches, in the state<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> of Louisiana, is hereby confirmed in her claim to a tract of land situated in the aforesaid county, on or near the bayou La Deesa, containing six hundred and forty superficial acres, being section six, in township number twelve, north of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and range number eleven, west of the basis meridian; on which said Rosaline resides: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, This confirmation shall only operate as a relinquishment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to said Rosaline Prudhomme of such rights as the United States may have to said tract of land, and shall not in any manner affect the rights of third persons to the same; nor shall this confirmation give any right or claim upon the United States for indemnification, in case the whole or any part of said land shall be lost.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: for the relief of Isaac Miller.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac Miller.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Isaac Miller, of Union county, Illinois, be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May surrender laud certificate, and receive another therefor.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may require, cer-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/766">766</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 123, 124, 125, 126. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
tificate number five hundred and twenty, for the south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of section twenty-two, in township eleven south of range three west, in the district of lands subject to entry at Kaskaskia, Illinois; and upon such relinquishment being made, as aforesaid, the said Isaac Miller shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter any other forty acres in the Kaskaskia land district, in the state of Illinois.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIII: for the relief of Doctor J. M. Foltz.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Doctor J. M. Foltz.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the same pay be allowed, from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be allowed the pay of die former surgeon, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to the ninth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to J. M. Foltz, that was allowed to surgeon at the headquarters of the United States marine corps who was relieved by him by order of the honorable the Secretary of the Navy.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIV: for the relief of Frederick Richmond.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Frederick Richmond.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for his pay and subsistence as a lieutenant, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> required to pay to Frederick Richmond out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of ninety-eight dollars and forty cents, for his pay and subsistence as a lieutenant in Captain McClure’s company, in Colonel Dubois’s regiment of New York militia, intermediate the twenty-second day of October, eighteen hundred and twelve, and the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirteen, he having been wounded and taken a prisoner at the battle of Queenstown, in eighteen hundred and twelve.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXV: for the relief of the heirs of William Graham, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of William Graham, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the [Secretary of the] Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued.</p></sidenote> authorized to cause a patent to be issued to the heirs and legal representatives of William Graham, deceased, for a certain lot or quarter section of land, situated on lake Providence, in the state of Louisiana, being lot number sixteen, in township twenty-one, of range twelve east; the said William Graham, deceased, having heretofore paid to the receiver of public moneys for the district of lands north of Red river, the full amount for the above described quarter section of land, the administrators of the public schools and the citizens of the township having given their assent thereto.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury cause<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other land to be selected for use of schools.</p></sidenote> to be selected in the same district a section of land for the use of schools in lieu of section numbered sixteen, in the first section of this act above mentioned.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVI: for the relief of Philip Catner.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Philip Catner.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Philip Catner be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to relinquish certain land, and enter another tract.</p></sidenote> the United States, in such form as the Commissioner or the General Land Office may prescribe, the north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of section number twenty-one, in township number eleven south, of range number three west, in the district of land offered for sale at Kaskaskia, Illinois; and upon such relinquishment being made, as aforesaid, the said Philip Catner shall be, and he is
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 127, 128, 129, 130. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/767">767</page>
hereby, authorized to enter any other quarter-quarter section, containing not more than forty acres, in the district of lands subject to sale at Kaskaskia, in the state of Illinois, subject to private entry.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVII: for the relief of Francis Mallaby.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Francis Mallaby.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Francis Mallaby, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for quarters not furnished.</p></sidenote> three hundred and ninety-two dollars, for quarters to which he was entitled as sailing-master at the United States navy yard at Brooklyn, from the twenty-seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, to the thirty-first, day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty, inclusive; but which quarters were not furnished him, nor were there at any part of that time any quarters that could have been assigned to him, as certified by Commodore Chauncey, then commander of the yard.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVIII: for the relief of Peter Samuel Jaccard.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter Samuel Jaccard.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Peter Samuel Jaccard, grantee of eighty acres of land in section thirty-one, in township thirteen south, range<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to relinquish and enter land.</p></sidenote> two east, be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe, the certificate to the above described eighty acres of land; and upon such relinquishment being made, as aforesaid, the said Peter Samuel Jaccard shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter any other half-quarter section of land in the land .district of Shawneetown, Illinois.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIX: for the relief of John Plane.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Plane.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Patents be, and he is hereby, empowered to issue to John Blanc, a native of France, but now<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A new patent to issue for a machine called a “Marsh Drainer.”</p></sidenote> a citizen of the United States, a new patent for a machine, the invention of said Blanc, called a “Marsh Drainer,” (said Blanc having obtained a patent therefor on the second day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-six, which patent was destroyed by fire on the eighth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,) in the same manner and under the same regulations as provided by law had said patent been destroyed prior to the fifteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXX: for the relief of Paul Poissot.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Paul Poissot.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the register of the land office at Natchitoches, in the state of Louisiana, grant to Paul Poissot a certificate for a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certificate for land to be granted.</p></sidenote> quarter section of land, according to the proper and legal subdivisions, to embrace the settlement made by François Masseppe, on the sixteenth section, in the parish of Natchitoches, situated on the south-west bank of Red river, about twenty-three miles above the town of Natchitoches, and bounded above by the lands occupied by Jean Eloi Rachal, and below by the lands occupied by Baptist Landreaux, upon his paying to the register of the land office at Natchitoches the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and producing the certificate therefor from the receiver of public moneys at Opelousas.</content></section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/768">768</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 131, 132, 133, 134. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it. further enacted</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other land to be selected for use of schools.</p></sidenote> cause to be selected one quarter section of land, of one hundred and sixty acres, in lieu of the quarter section in the first section of this act named, out of any of the public lands, to be located in the land district in which the first named quarter section is situated, for the use of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>schools in said township: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The school commissioners for the parish in which said land is situated, and a majority of the free white male inhabitants of the township, over twenty-one years of age, shall consent to such change.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXI: for the relief of Return B. Brown.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Return B. Brown.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the War <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>Department be, and they are hereby, authorized to inquire into and settle the claims of Return B. Brown, late a captain in the army, and, upon proof, to allow him such credit as may be equitable and just, notwithstanding the judgment which the United States have recovered against him; and that such sums as may thus [be] found due to him shall be applied to the amount thereof in satisfaction of said judgment</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXII: for the relief of Herman Harris, of the city of New York.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Herman Harris, of the city of New York.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him of one-half of a certain forfeiture.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to pay to Herman Harris, of the state of New York, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five dollars; being one half the amount of a forfeiture incurred by the said Herman Harris, and by him paid to the deputy collector at Pensacola, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, which sum has been paid into the treasury of the United States.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIII: to confirm the claim of Charles Morgan, in right of Simon Porche, to a tract of land.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to confirm the claim of Charles Morgan, in right of Simon Porche, to a tract of land.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the claim of Charles Morgan, as the representative<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> of Simon Porche, to a tract of land on the bayou Grosse Tete, containing, according to a survey thereof, made in August, eighteen hundred and six, nine hundred and sixty-nine acres and seventy-four-hundredths of an acre, under an order of survey in favor of said Porche, given by Governor Miro, on the seventeenth November, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed; and, upon the presentation of a duly certified plat of the survey to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent shall be issued on the same to the said Morgan or his legal representatives.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIV: for the relief of Zebulon Sheets.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Zebulon Sheets.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Zebidon Sheets, or his legal representatives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Upon surrendering certain land, may enter, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> be, and are hereby, authorized, upon surrendering to the United States, free of encumbrance, forty-seven acres and two-hundredths of an acre of land, entered by the said Sheets at the land office at Crawfordsville, state of Indiana, in section six, township twenty-six, range four west, to enter the same amount anywhere in said state, upon any lands of the United States subject to private entry and unoccupied.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXV: for the relief of John and Samuel Rowe, heirs and legal representatives of Ludwick Rowe, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXV</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 135, 136, 137, 138, 139. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/769">769</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John and Samuel Rowe, heirs and legal representatives of Ludwick Rowe, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to issue duplicate warrant number four hundred and four, for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> one hundred acres of land, issued the fourth of April, eighteen hundred and eight, in the names of John Rowe and Samuel Rowe, legal heirs and representatives of Ludwick Rowe, who was a private in the Pennsylvania line in the revolution; the original warrant having been lost.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVI: for the relief of James Cooper.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Cooper.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue a duplicate warrant to James Cooper, for one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate military bounty land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> acres of military bounty land, in lieu of land warrant number twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty-six, issued prior to the year one thousand eight hundred, to the said James Cooper, a private of “Lee’s legion,” and of the New Jersey quota of continental troops in the revolutionary army, and which said land warrant is alleged to have been lost.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVII: for the relief of the representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of two hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty cents be, and the same is hereby, directed to be paid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for wages and prize money.</p></sidenote> to the legal representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the proportion due to them for wages and prize money, in virtue of the act entitled “An act respecting the late officers and crew of the sloop of war Wasp,” approved the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 20, 1816, ch. 65.</p></sidenote> sixteen, and which money shall be paid and distributed according to the provisions of the said act.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVIII: for the relief of Milley Yales.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Milley Yales.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to cause to be located to Milley Yates, a Choctaw woman, wife<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain land to be located to her.</p></sidenote> of Allen Yates, two sections of land, on any of the public lands within the country acquired by the treaty concluded with the Choctaw Indians at Dancing Rabbit creek, on the twenty-seventh of September, eighteen hundred and thirty, not previously located to any Choctaw reservee, nor subject to any preemption claim, in one or more tracts, not less in any case than one quarter section: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The said Milley Yates shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> release to the United States the two sections heretofore located in her name, by Colonel George W.</proviso> Martin, and since disposed of at public sale at St. Stephens.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That when such location shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to a grant of said land.</p></sidenote> have been made and confirmed, the said Milley Yates shall be entitled to a grant for the same from the United States.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIX: for the relief of Isaac Conly.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac Conly.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Isaac Conly, of Tennessee, upon the pen
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/770">770</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
sion roll, and pay him the sum of six dollars per month during life; commencing on the first day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXL: for the relief of Daniel Ward and George Ficklin.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXL</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Ward and George Ficklin.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the United States district attorney for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain proceedings against them to be relinquished.</p></sidenote>eastern district of Virginia, or other officer whose duty it may be to superintend the collection of a certain judgment recovered by the United States against John Morrison, and other sureties of George Wheeler and Caleb Morrison, be authorized and required finally to relinquish all proceedings for enforcing the supposed lien created by the said judgment against the lands and tenements of the said John Morrison, purchased by Daniel Ward and Joseph Ficklin.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLI: for the relief of Richard Hendley.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard Hendley.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for accommodations to post-office guard.</p></sidenote>and directed to pay to Richard Hendley, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, ninety-three dollars, as compensation for furnishing a room, fire, and candles to the guards round the old post office thirty-one days.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLII: for the relief of Abel A. Pasko and others.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Abel A. Pasko and others.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That so much of the judgment taken in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from part of a certain judgment.</p></sidenote>northern district court of New York, in favor of the Post Office Department, against Orson Crane, Abel A. Pasko, and Wickham, as
includes the penalty and the damages, and interest thereon, be, and the same is hereby, remitted and released.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLIII: for the relief if John Proton and Company.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if John Proton and Company.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement with them, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>and directed to settle with John Brown and Company, and pay to them such sum of money as they in justice and equity ought to receive for carrying the New Orleans mail from the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, to Fredericktown, in the state of Maryland, from the twenty-third day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to the seventh day of July next following.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLIV: for the relief of Enoch Matson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Enoch Matson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Enoch Matson be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to transfer location of land warrant.</p></sidenote> to withdraw his location of warrant number one hundred and fifty-five, for six hundred and forty-acres, and to locate the same upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States, in the state of Missouri, now liable to entry at private sale.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXV: for the relief of John L. Allen.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John L. Allen.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be indemnified for an official act.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized to pay to John L. Allen, of Lowndes county and state of Mississippi, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise ap-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/771">771</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 146, 147, 148, 149. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
propriated, the sum of nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents, being for the indemnification of the said Allen for an official act.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVI: for the relief of William Grozer.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Grozer.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to pay to William Grozer, late<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him of such portion of proceeds of schr. Warwick, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> master of the schooner Warwick, such portion of the proceeds of the cargo of said schooner as he may show himself entitled to as owner thereof, not exceeding five-eighths of the same, which was seized and forfeited to the United States for a supposed violation of the revenue laws, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> payment do not exceed the amount actually paid into the treasury as the property of said Grozer; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVII: for the relief of James Selby.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Selby.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to James Selby, of the county of Philadelphia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of discriminating duties paid by him upon the schooner Sea Flower, between the time of his having purchased said vessel in the island of Cuba, and her having obtained a new register, not exceeding the sum of eight hundred and forty-five dollars and twenty-two cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> schooner Sea Flower was an American vessel, owned by an American citizen, when she was sold to James Selby, and that he, at the time he purchased the said vessel at the port of Havana, was also an American citizen, and that the said disability was incurred without wilful negligence or intention of fraud.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVIII: for the relief of Winslow Lewis.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Winslow Lewis.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Winslow Lewis, out of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for rebuilding light-house at Caps Florida.</p></sidenote> sum appropriated for rebuilding the light-house at Cape Florida, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty-eight cents, for his expenses actually incurred in chartering a vessel, employing hands, &amp;c. for the purpose of rebuilding the light-house at Cape Florida; which he was prevented from doing by the hostility of the Seminole Indians, and the suggestion of the superintending agent of the Government.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLIX: for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 771</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Benjamin Hewitt, of Saint Mary’s county, in the state of Maryland, or his legal representatives, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a slave lost.</p></sidenote> sum of two hundred and eighty dollars, out of the fund (if so much there be unapplied) which was allotted by the British Government, under the first article of the treaty of Ghent, and the subsequent convention to carry the same into effect, which he was prevented from recovering before the Board of Commissioners because his proof was mislaid in the Department of State; that being the price of a slave, the property of the said Hewitt (estimated at the average value established for the pay-
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 150, 151, 152, 153. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
ment of slaves by the said board which sat under the said convention,) who was conveyed from the United States on board the British fleet, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, and not recovered by the said Hewitt.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CL: for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CL.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be examined, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> authorized to examine and decide upon the claim of Benjamin Hewitt, agreeably to the provisions of the resolution of the tenth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, empowering the Secretary of the Navy to settle certain contracts and relinquish certain forfeitures, and to extend to him the full benefit of said resolution, if he finds and adjudges his case to be within the principle thereof.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLI: for the relief of Spencer C. Gist.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 772</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Spencer C. Gist.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed for services as an acting lieutenant.</p></sidenote> be authorized to settle and adjust the account of Spencer C. Gist, a midshipman in the navy of the United States, for his services as an acting lieutenant on board the frigate Guerriere, Captain Thompson, in the Pacific ocean, from the tenth of March eighteen hundred and thirty, to the twenty-eighth December eighteen hundred and thirty-one; and to allow him the extra pay and emoluments to which he may be entitled, over and above the amount already received by him as midshipman and acting sailing-master of said ship; and the amount so found due to the [said] Spencer C. Gist shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLII: for the relief of the widow and other heirs at law of Alexander Hamilton, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 772</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the widow and other heirs at law of Alexander Hamilton, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A bounty land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> to Elizabeth Hamilton widow, and the other heirs at law of Alexander Hamilton, who was a lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary army, a bounty land warrant for four hundred and fifty acres of land, in lieu of a warrant for a like quantity issued in the name of said widow and heirs the thirtieth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and numbered six hundred and twenty-two; and which said last-mentioned warrant never has been surrendered to the General Land Office for the purpose of being satisfied, but is represented to have been lost or mislaid.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Warner.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 772</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Warner.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Daniel Warner,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land, free of cost.</p></sidenote> deceased, late a private in Captain Peters’s company of the twenty-seventh regiment of infantry of the army of the United States, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter free of cost, one quarter section of one hundred and sixty acres, of any of the public lands subject to sale at private entry, and that a patent issue to them for the same; which quarter section shall be taken for and in full consideration of the land bounty to which, by the act of one thousand eight hundred and twelve, the said Daniel Warner would be entitled to if living.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLIV: for the relief of the heirs if Francis Jarvis, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 773</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 154, 155, 156, 157. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/773">773</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs if Francis Jarvis, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the Land Office be, and he is hereby, directed to issue to the heirs of Francis Jarvis, deceased,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land scrip to be issued.</p></sidenote> a scrip certificate for one hundred acres, in consequence of military land warrant number six thousand three hundred and forty-five being located upon lands previously entered, and which could not be holden by said heirs.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLV: for the relief of Stephen P. IP. Douglass.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Stephen P. IP. Douglass.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That on application of Stephen P. W. Douglass, a citizen of the state of New York, for a patent for a machine denominated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part of the oath required in obtaining a patent may be dispensed with.</p></sidenote> a “maintaining power,” of which said machine said Douglass claims to be the inventor, assisted by one Hazard Knowles, the Commissioner of patents be, and he is hereby, empowered to dispense with that clause of the oath or affirmation required by law of said Douglass “that he does verily believe that he is the original and first inventor of said machine,” for which he solicits a patent; he, the said Douglass first causing to be recorded in the said Patent Office a deed, duly executed by said Hazard Knowles, bearing date the eighteenth day of January anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, by which deed the said Hazard Knowles did give, grant and convey all his right, title and interest to said Douglass, which he the said Hazard Knowles had, or might acquire to said invention.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLVI: for the relief of Isaac Lilley.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac Lilley.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him of amount which accrued to U. S. by a certain forfeiture.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1817, ch. 22.</p></sidenote> appropriated, to Isaac Lilley, of the state of Maine, the sum of four hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents; that being the amount which accrued to the United States from the forfeiture of the brigantine Planter, the property of the said Isaac Lilley, which was incurred by a violation of “An act making reservation of certain public lands to supply timber for naval purposes,” without wilful negligence or any intention of fraud on the part of the said Lilley or of the master of said vessel.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLVII: to authorize the trustees of the township if Oxford, in the county if Butler and state of Ohio, to enter a section of land in lieu if section sixteen, in said township, for the use if schools.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the trustees of the township if Oxford, in the county if Butler and state of Ohio, to enter a section of land in lieu if section sixteen, in said township, for the use if schools.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the trustees of the township of Oxford, in the county of Butler and state of Ohio, be, and they are hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a section of land, in lieu of, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> to enter a quantity, equal to one full section, in legal subdivisions of not less than quarter sections, of any of the public lands in the state of Ohio, in lieu of section sixteen in said township, which has been located under a grant to the use of the Miami university, pursuant to an act of Congress passed on the third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three; and the Commissioner of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 21.</p></sidenote> the General Land Office is directed, upon receiving the proper evidence of said entry, to issue a patent or patents therefor: <i>Provided, however</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the inhabitants of said township shall, before making such entry, at a legal meeting called for that purpose, agree to accept thereof, in
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 158, 159, 160, 161, 162. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
lieu of said section sixteen, for the use of schools in said township: <i>And<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> provided, further</i>, That the said entry shall not include town lots or lands to which there shall be an existing right of preemption at the time of such entry; and that the same be made within two years from the passing of this act.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the land so entered and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Said land to be subjected to the same uses, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>patented in lieu of said section sixteen, shall be subjected to the same uses, under the same management, and liable to the same disposition, in all respects, as section sixteen in said township granted for the use of schools would by law have been.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLVIII: for the relief of Solomon Prewett.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Solomon Prewett.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be restored to pension roll.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to replace the name of Solomon Prewett, of Kentucky, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners of the United States, and to pay him the sum of eighty dollars per annum, from the time when he was last paid prior to his being stricken from the roll, and to be continued to him during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLIX: granting a pension to William Ford, of the State of Virginia.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CLIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to William Ford, of the State of Virginia.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to cause the name of William Ford, of the state of Virginia, to be placed upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners; and that there be paid to him twenty dollars per annum during his natural life; commencing at the time when his former pension was withheld.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLX: granting a pension to Frances Jones, widow of John Jones, of the State of Virginia.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Frances Jones, widow of John Jones, of the State of Virginia.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to cause the name of Frances Jones, widow of John Jones, late of the county of Kanawha, in the state of Virginia, to be placed on the pension roll; and that there be paid to her forty dollars per annum during her natural life; commencing at the time of the last payment made to her late husband, John Jones.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXI: for the relief of David Rollins.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of David Rollins.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> to place the name of David Rollins on the invalid pension list, and pay him at the rate of six dollars per month; to commence from the first of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXII: for the relief of Weight Hurlbert.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Weight Hurlbert.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> to place the name of Weight Hurlbert on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United Slates; and that said Weight Hurlbert be entitled to receive a pension at the rate of six dollars a month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXIII: granting a pension to the widow of John March, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 163, 164, 165, 166, 167. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/775">775</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to the widow of John March, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid out of the navy pension fund, to the widow of John March, deceased, an ordinary seaman of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to her.</p></sidenote> United States ship Adams, who received an injury while in the line of his duty, a pension equal to half that to which he would have been entitled, provided the proof required by the regulations of the Navy Department had been produced; to commence on the twenty-second day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and to end on the day of his death.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXIV: granting a pension to Mary Uptegraff, of Butler county, Pennsylvania.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Mary Uptegraff, of Butler county, Pennsylvania.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of Mary Uptegraff, widow of Isaac Uptegrafl’ deceased, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> late a pensioner of the United States, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and pay the same amount of pension per annum which her said husband received in his life-time; the same to commence and take effect at and from the first of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXV: granting a pension to John Clark.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to John Clark.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of John Clark on the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>invalid pension roll, and that he be paid at the rate of six dollars per month, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXVI: for the relief of Henry Grady, of Macon county, North Carolina.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CLXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Grady, of Macon county, North Carolina.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Henry Grady, of Macon county, North Carolina, five hundred and six dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for corn delivered.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, it being for six hundred and fifty bushels of corn delivered by him at Fort Butler, in the Cherokee nation, for the use of the United States troops, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXVII: for the relief of Chauncey Calhoon.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 775</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Chauncey Calhoon.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1842, ch. 55.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to be audited and settled.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 14, 1836, ch. 91.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to audit and settle the claim of Chauncey Calhoon for three hundred and five dollars and fifty-three cents, upon the principles adopted in the act of Congress approved fourteenth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act for the relief of Jesse Smith and others;” the said claim being for a due bill of that amount given by Thomas Tupper, late assistant deputy quartermaster-general, to said Calhoon, for a balance due him for work and materials furnished for the Madison barracks at Sackett’s Harbor, in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXVIII: for the relief of Thomas M. Burland.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVIII</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/776">776</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 168, 169, 170, 171. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas M. Burland.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Thomas M. Burland be, and is hereby, confirmed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land purchase confirmed.</p></sidenote> in his purchase of fractional lot number one, of section twenty-eight, in township number seventeen north, range thirteen east, entered and paid for by him at the land office at Monroe, in the district for the sale of lands north of Red River, in Louisiana, containing one hundred and forty-six acres and fifty-eight hundredths of an acre, and that a patent be issued to him for the same.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the register of the land office at Monroe,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other land to be reserved for use of schools.</p></sidenote> in the district aforesaid, shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, designate in some other place, and reserve for the use of schools in the aforesaid township, a fractional section, or quarter section, or lot, as nearly equal as may be in quantity and value to that hereby confirmed to said Burland, and notify the school administrators of the parish in which said township may be, of such designation and reservation as soon as it shall be made.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXIX: for the relief of A. J. Picket and George W. Gayle.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CLXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of A. J. Picket and George W. Gayle.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War allow to A. J. Picket<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed certain pay and emoluments.</p></sidenote> and to George W. Gayle, as aidsde-camp to C. C. Clay, late Governor of Alabama, the pay and emoluments to which their rank entitles them, for their services one month, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in obtaining, organizing, mustering, and marching volunteers of the militia of Alabama to suppress Indian hostilities; and that the amount so allowed, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXX: for the relief of Isaac D. Saunders.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac D. Saunders.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A bounty land certificate to be issued.</p></sidenote> Isaac D. Saunders, as assignee of Edward Bevin, a bounty land certificate for one hundred and sixty acres of land; to be located on some part of the public lands set apart for that purpose.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXI: for the relief of Samuel Mussey and Thomas James, of the county of Crawford, in the state of Missouri.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 776</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Mussey and Thomas James, of the county of Crawford, in the state of Missouri.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Samuel Mussey and Thomas James, of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land as tenants in common.</p></sidenote> county of Crawford, in the state of Missouri, be, and hereby are, authorized to enter, at the proper land office, as tenants in common or joint partnercy, such lands in township thirty-eight, of the ranges five and six, west of the fifth principal meridian, as they may desire, at the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>minimum price: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the selection of lands shall be confined to the aforesaid township thirty-eight, of the ranges five and six west of the principal meridian, in the county of Crawford, in the state of Missouri; and this act shall not be construed so as to permit the aforesaid Mussey or James to select, or purchase, or occupy, any lands in said township that may now be in the possession of any actual settler, or under improvement.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXII: for the relief of the legal representatives of James Maxwell, of Pennsylvania.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 777</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 172, 173, 174, 175. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/777">777</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of James Maxwell, of Pennsylvania.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bounty land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> the legal representatives of James Maxwell, of Pennsylvania, for his services during the war of the revolution, a bounty land warrant for one hundred acres of land.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXIII: for the relief of Abraham Stipp.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 777</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Abraham Stipp.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue scrip to Abraham Stipp, of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land scrip to be issued.</p></sidenote> Vermillion county, in the state of Indiana, and in his name, on the authority of a warrant (number four thousand six hundred and thirty-three) granted by the state of Virginia to Charles Fierer, for two thousand acres of military bounty land, or for so much thereof as may remain unsatisfied, in conformity with the provisions contained in the second section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the civil<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1835, ch. 30.</p></sidenote> and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five,’’ approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-five; the said Abraham Stipp first having filed a bond, with sufficient security, in a penalty at least double the amount of the scrip so to be issued, conditioned to reimburse to the United States the amount of such scrip in case any other person shall hereafter claim and establish a right to said warrant. The said scrip shall be executed in the form prescribed by the act entitled “An act for the relief of certain officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 30, 1830, ch. 215.</p></sidenote> and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army during the revolutionary war,” approved May thirty, eighteen hundred and thirty. It shall be assignable, as in said act is provided, and available for the purposes in that act mentioned, or in the acts amendatory or supplemental thereto.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXIV: for the relief of Captain John Vannettin and his Company, for their services, during the late war.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 777</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Captain John Vannettin and his Company, for their services, during the late war.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Paymaster-General of the United States pay to Captain John Vannettin, and to each of the commissioned officers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of officers, &amp;c. of Ohio militia.</p></sidenote> non-commissioned officers and privates, the amount to which each is entitled for a tour of duty in the service of the United States as Ohio draughted militia, commencing on the eleventh of May, and ending on the twenty-fifth of May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, both days inclusive.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That two hundred and sixty-three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> dollars and twenty-two cents be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the first section of this act; payment to be made to the legal representatives where the person who performed the service has or shall decease without receiving the amount due to him.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXV: for the relief of Joseph R. Folsom and the owners and crew of the schooner Galaxy, of Bucksport, in the state of Maine.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 777</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CLXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph R. Folsom and the owners and crew of the schooner Galaxy, of Bucksport, in the state of Maine.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> of Penobscot, in the state of Maine, is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Joseph R. Folsom, the owners, master, and crew of the fishing
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/778">778</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 176, 177, 178. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
schooner Galaxy, of Bucksport, to be distributed according to law, the same said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty, or drawback, if she had been actually at sea during the whole time required by law to be entitled to said bounty, she having been lost before she had accomplished her full term required by law.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVI: for the relief of Joseph Safford and other heirs at law of Joseph Sufford, late of the New Hampshire line in the revolutionary war, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 778</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Safford and other heirs at law of Joseph Sufford, late of the New Hampshire line in the revolutionary war, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That a duplicate warrant for two hundred acres of land be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A duplicate land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> issued by the proper officer to Joseph Safford and other heirs of Joseph Safford, late a lieutenant in the New Hampshire line in the revolutionary war, deceased, in lieu of warrant number one thousand six hundred and eighty-three, which heretofore issued to the same persons, and which has been, as they allege, lost by time or accident.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVII: for the relief of George Rowe.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Rowe.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That George Rowe, a resident of the parish of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate a tract of land.</p></sidenote> Ouachita, in the state of Louisiana, is hereby authorized to locate, within twelve months after the passage of this act, under the direction of the Surveyor-General of Louisiana, on any unlocated lands in the district for the sale of lands south of Red river, in the aforesaid state, a tract not exceeding four hundred superficial arpens; which said tract and privilege is granted to the said George Rowe, in lieu of an equal quantity confirmed to him by the register and receiver in the aforesaid land district, under certificate number three hundred and eighty-two; and the proper officers of the Government are hereby authorized and required to issue a patent for said quantity of land as soon after the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>location aforesaid and return thereof as it can be done: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said George Rowe, or his legal assignee or representative, shall, at the time of making such location, execute a deed in due form of law, relinquishing and conveying to the United States all the right or title which he the said George Rowe, his heirs, assigns, or other legal representatives, has or ever had to the tract of land on the Bayou Bœuft’, in lieu of which this right of locating an equal quantity elsewhere is granted:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote></proviso> <i>And also provided</i>, That said George Rowe, in making the aforesaid location, shall conform to the legal subdivisions in surveying the public lands, and be limited to land of equal quality with that in lieu of which this grant is authorized.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVIII: for the relief of Jarius Loomis and heirs of James Basset.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 778</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CLXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jarius Loomis and heirs of James Basset.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the sum of five thousand four hundred and sixty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for prize money.</p></sidenote> dollars shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; which sum shall be distributed as prize money, by the Secretary of the Navy, among the officers and crews, their, or either of their heirs, or legal representatives, of the gunboats numbered one hundred and forty-nine and one hundred and fifty-four, who, in attempting to pass up the river Appalachicola, with a convoy of provisions and stores, in the month of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, were attacked by a fort situated on said river, and occupied by a number of fugitive negroes and Indians; and who, in resisting said attack, blew up and destroyed said fort, with the greatest part of those by whom it was occupied.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXIX: for the relief of certain settlers, living on what is called the Salt Lick reservation, in the western district of Tennessee.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 779</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 179, 180, 181, 182. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/779">779</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of certain settlers, living on what is called the Salt Lick reservation, in the western district of Tennessee.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the state of Tennessee be, and she is hereby, authorized to issue grants, and perfect titles, to the vacant and unappropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tennessee authorized to issue grams, &amp;c. of vacant land in the western district.</p></sidenote> land in the western district of Tennessee, which lies within a tract of land of four miles square upon both sides of Sandy river, commonly called the Salt Lick reservation, and which is described in the fourth article of the treaty of Old Town, concluded on the nineteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, between the United States and the Chickasaw nation of Indians: <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That in issuing said grants, and perfecting said titles, the same shall be done in conformity to those rules, regulations, and restrictions which were heretofore prescribed by the Tennessee Legislature, for locating, entering, and satisfying land warrants, and extinguishing the North Carolina claims in said western district:</proviso> <i>And provided, also</i>, That all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> those persons, their heirs, or legal representatives, who were seated down and in the actual possession and cultivation of any piece or parcel of land within said reservation, at or before eighteen hundred and thirty, shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits in entering and obtaining grants for their respective parcels of land, which have been extended from time to time by the laws of Tennessee to occupant settlers in the other parts of said district, without the limits of the reservation aforesaid: <i>And provided, furthermore</i>, That in procuring warrants, locating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> and entering said occupant claims, making their divisional lines, ascertaining their respective quantities, and settling their boundaries, they shall he governed by the laws of Tennessee, in relation to other occupant claims in said district, in all respects whatever.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXX: for the relief of Ashbel Mason.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 779</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ashbel Mason.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and required to cause to be issued to Ashbel Mason, or his legal representatives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A bounty land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> a bounty land warrant for one hundred acres of land, to which he is entitled for his services during the revolutionary war.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXI: for the relief of Lewis B. Willis, formerly acting deputy surveyor for the district of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 779</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Lewis B. Willis, formerly acting deputy surveyor for the district of Mississippi.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of the accounts of the several<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charge for services as acting deputy surveyor to be allowed.</p></sidenote> surveyors of the customs for the district of Mississippi, respectively, the charge for the services of Lewis B. Willis, as acting deputy surveyor, at the rate of four hundred dollars per year from the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to the third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, during which period the said Willis performed the duty of acting deputy surveyor.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXII: for the relief of William C. Hazard, of Rhode Island.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 779</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William C. Hazard, of Rhode Island.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for William C. Hazard, the only child and heir at law of Ezekiel Hazard, a soldier in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May relinquish bounty land, and receive half the monthly pay, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>the army of the United States during the late war, who died in service, to relinquish the bounty land to which the said Ezekiel Hazard, had he survived the war, would have been entitled, and in lieu thereof,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/780">780</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 183, 184, 185. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
to receive half the monthly pay to which the said Ezekiel Hazard was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years, in the same manner as the guardian of the said William C. Hazard <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 55, sec. 2.</p></sidenote>might have done under the provisions of the second section of the act of Congress of the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, had such guardian existed; and the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the notice of the surrender of the land warrant, is hereby authorized and required to give the requisite orders for the payment of the said half gay to the said William C. Hazard, in the same manner as the said act of the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, authorized and required to be given to the guardian of any minor child or children of a deceased soldier, who died in the service of the United States, upon relinquishment of the bounty land warrant, under the provisions of the aforesaid act.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXIII: for the relief of John Borey, of Arkansas.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 780</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Borey, of Arkansas.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the register and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent certificate. to be surrendered to him, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>receiver of the land office at Little Rock, in the state of Arkansas, to surrender to John Borey, or his legal representative, the patent certificate (number two hundred and seventy-eight) which was issued to said John Borey, for the east half of fractional section twenty-three, in township one, south, and in range eleven west; and that said register and receiver be authorized to consider said land as other public land, and that the said John Borey, or his legal representative, be authorized to locate, in any land office in Arkansas, three hundred and twenty acres of any of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>public land, conformably to legal subdivisions: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The same be subject to private entry.</proviso> And for the land thus located, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>it shall be the duty of the proper register and receiver to issue a patent certificate, and for the President to issue a patent therefor: <proviso><i>Provided, further</i>, That in case the title to the lands for which his patent certificate was taken have become vested in him, he shall reconvey the same to the Government, and produce to the Secretary of the Treasury satisfactory evidence that said lands so reconveyed are free from encumbrance.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXIV: for the relief of William Washington Bigham.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 780</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Washington Bigham.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William Washington Bigham, or his legal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land, in lieu of land entered by mistake.</p></sidenote> representatives, are hereby authorized to enter, free of cost, forty acres of any land subject to sale at private entry, and unoccupied except by him or themselves, within the district of lands directed to be sold at Huntsville, in the state of Alabama, in lieu of the north-west fourth of the north-east fourth of section number thirty-six, in township seven, of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>range number nine (west,) entered by mistake: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That a reconveyance of the aforesaid tract Of land, unencumbered, be first made to the United States, and deposited with the register of the land office at Huntsville, Alabama.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXV: for the relief of Polly Lemon.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 780</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Polly Lemon.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Polly Lemon, or her legal representatives or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate certain land, in lieu of land taken by U.S.</p></sidenote>assigns, are hereby authorized to locate, on any unappropriated public land in the north-western district for the sale of lands in the state of Louisiana, six hundred and forty acres, in lieu of the same quantity of land taken from her by the United States for public purposes, near Fort
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 186, 187, 188, 189. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/781">781</page>
Jesup, in the state of Louisiana; and the register of the land office at Natchitoches is authorized and required Io have said location made, and issue a certificate of such location, so that a patent may issue for the same: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Said location shall be made within twelve months<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> from the passage of this act, conforming to the legal surveys.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That, at the time of making such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deed of release to U. S. to be produced.</p></sidenote> location or entry, the said Polly Lemon, her legal representatives or assigns, shall produce to the aforesaid register, and deposit in his office, a deed of release, conveying to the United States all the right, title, interest, fee, or claim (unencumbered,) that she or they may claim to have in and to the tract of land claimed by them, near Fort Jesup, in lieu of which the land granted by this act is given.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXVI: for the relief of John Dixon.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 781</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVI</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Dixon.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Dixon, late a private in the tenth regiment of infantry of the United States, and who was discharged from <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to bounty land and three months’ extra pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Dec. 14, 1811, ch. 10.</p></sidenote>service the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, for disability, be, and he hereby is, entitled to receive the bounty land and three months’ extra pay allowed to a private by the act of Congress approved the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, entitled “An act for completing the existing military establishment.”</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXVII: for the relief of Aaron Stout.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 781</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Aaron Stout.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Aaron Stout, or his legal representatives, be, and are hereby authorized to enter, and obtain a patent for three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter and obtain a patent for land free of cost.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty acres of land, free of cost, in any part of the state of Indiana, upon any of the lands of the United States subject to private entry; being bounty land due him for services in the last war, but which he has not received, in consequence of the loss of his certificate and discharge.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXVIII: for the relief of the children and heirs of Sebastain Sroufe, late of Ohio, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 781</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CLXXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the children and heirs of Sebastain Sroufe, late of Ohio, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Allen Alexander and James Alexander, children and heirs of Carnes Alexander, deceased, and Abert Sroufe<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote> and George Sroufe and Susanna Sroufe, children and heirs at law of Sebastian Sroufe, late of Putnam county, in the state of Ohio, deceased, be, and they hereby are, authorized, within six months after the passage of this act, to enter with the register and receiver of the land office at Lima, in said state, the west fraction of the south-west quarter of section twenty-one, in township one north, of range five east, lying in the Lima land district of Ohio, on their first paying to the receiver of said land office two dollars and fifty cents per acre for said tract of land.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXIX: for the relief of John McCarroll, junior.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>CLXXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John McCarroll, junior.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be issued to John McCarroll, junior, land scrip on a Virginia military land warrant, number two thousand four hundred and twenty-nine, which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land scrip to be issued.</p></sidenote> issued to James Wilder, for one hundred acres of land, on the ninth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, upon said
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/782">782</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 190, 191, 192, 193. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
John McCarroll, junior, giving bond and satisfactory security to refund the value thereof, should the heirs or other claimants under said James Wilder show a better claim thereto than said John McCarroll.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXC: for the relief of Zebulon Baxter.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXC.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Zebulon Baxter.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A bounty land warrant to be issued, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>directed to issue a land warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of bounty land to Zebulon Baxter, a Canadian volunteer; which shall be in full compensation of bounty lands for all the services by him rendered in the service of the United States in the late war with Great Britain, to be located on any of the unappropriated lands which have been offered for sale and are subject to private entry in the Territory of Wisconsin. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay to said Zebulon Baxter, the sum of twenty-four dollars, in full for three months’ extra pay, given by the acts of eighteen hundred and sixteen, and eighteen hundred and seventeen, to that class of soldiers in certain cases.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCI: for the relief of Thomas Sinnard.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Sinnard.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for extra work on the Cumberland road.</p></sidenote>authorized to pay to Thomas Sinnard, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and seventy dollars and twenty cents, for extra work done on the Cumberland road in grading on section number one E, of Indianapolis, in the state of Indiana; and, also, for iron work in the following bridges, to wit: White Lick, Black’s bridge, Mad creek, and Hancock creek and bayou.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCII: for the relief of William Clark.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Clark.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> directed to issue a land warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land to William Clark, a Canadian volunteer, to be located on any of the unappropriated lands which have been offered for sale, and are subject to private entry in the Territory of Wisconsin: and also, that the Secretary of the Treasury do pay to said William Clark, the sum of twenty-four dollars, for three months extra pay, all which shall be in full compensation for the services of said Clark in the late war with Great Britain.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCIII: for the relief of Margaret Kingsbury.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Margaret Kingsbury.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Margaret Kingsbury, widow of Oliver Kings-bury,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land, free of cost.</p></sidenote> deceased, late corporal of Captain Larkin’s company of the twenty-second regiment of infantry, who enlisted on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for the term of five years, and who was killed on the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and fourteen, in the battle of Bridgewater, be, and she is hereby, authorized to enter free of cost, one quarter section of one hundred and sixty acres, of any of the public lands subject to sale at private entry, and that a patent issue to her for the same; which tract shall be taken for, and in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Jan. 11, 1812, ch. 14.</p></sidenote>full consideration of, the land bounty to which, by the act of One thousand eight hundred and twelve, he, the said Oliver Kingsbury, would be entitled to if living.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCIV: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Dawson, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 783</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIV</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 194, 195, 196. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/783">783</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of John Dawson, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the legal representatives of John Dawson, deceased, or their assignees, are hereby authorized to locate, on any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locale a tract of land, in lieu of a tract taken from them.</p></sidenote> public land in the north-western district for the sale of lands in the state of Louisiana, the quantity of six hundred and forty acres, in lieu of the same quantity which has been taken from them, and appropriated to public purposes; which location shall be made in the office of the register of the said district at Natchitoches, who shall issue a proper certificate of said entry and location to the said legal representatives, on the presentment of which to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent for the same shall issue for said land, in the manner directed by law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said entry or location shall be made within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> twelve months after the passage of this act, and shall conform to the legal surveys.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And he it further enacted</i>, That, at the time of making the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A deed of release to U. S. to be produced.</p></sidenote> aforesaid entry or location, the said legal representatives of John Dawson, deceased, or their legal assignee or assignees, shall produce to the aforesaid register of the land office at Natchitoches and deposite in his office a deed of release and quitclaim to the United States, made in due form of law, of all their right, title, and claim to the same quantity of land, near Fort Jesup, in Louisiana, in lieu of which the land now granted is given.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCV: for the relief of David Ballentine.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCV</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of David Ballentine.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to he issued to David Ballentine, of Ohio, assignee of Patrick Duffy, a certificate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate of forfeited land scrip to be issued to him.</p></sidenote> of forfeited land scrip for one hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents, it being the amount paid by said Patrick Duffy to the receiver of public moneys at the land office at Zanesville, in the year eighteen hundred and seven, as the first instalment for a quarter section of land, and which subsequently reverted to the United States for non-payment, and was sold to another purchaser.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCVI: for the relief of J. Eloi Rachal.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXCVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of J. Eloi Rachal.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the register of the land office at Natchitoches, in the state of Louisiana, grant to J. Eloi Rachal a certificate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land certificate lobe granted to him.</p></sidenote> for the quarter of section number sixteen, of township number
eleven, of range number nine, situate on the right or south-west bank of Red river, about twenty-three miles above Natchitoches, the same being land to which he claims the right of preemption, upon his producing the receiver’s receipt for the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for each acre in said quarter section contained.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other land to he selected for use of schools.</p></sidenote> cause to be selected one quarter section of land, in the same district, for the use of schools, in lieu of the quarter section named in the first section of this bill: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the school commissioners for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the parish in which said land is situated, and a majority of the free white male inhabitants of the township, over twenty-one years of age, shall consent to such change.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCVII: for the relief of James H. Grant, Moses TV. Simpson, and Preston Going.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 784</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXCVII</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/784">784</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 197, 198, 199, 200. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James H. Grant, Moses TV. Simpson, and Preston Going.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the same amount as was paid to other privates, under act of March 1, 1837, ch. 17.</p></sidenote> directed to pay James H. Grant, Moses W. Simpson, and Preston Going, the same amount that was paid to other privates in Captain Ayers Maupin’s company of volunteers, under an act of Congress passed the first day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, concerning volunteers raised in the summer of eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCVIII: for the relief of Henry Stoker, William G. Belknap, and Benjamin Walker.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXCVIII</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Stoker, William G. Belknap, and Benjamin Walker.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Henry Stoker, or his legal representatives<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate a tract of land.</p></sidenote> or assigns, and William G. Belknap and Benjamin Walker, or their legal representatives or assigns, of the parish of Natchitoches, in the state of Louisiana, are hereby authorized to locate, on any unappropriated public land in the north-western district for the sale of lands in the state of Louisiana, as follows: Henry Stoker, or his legal representatives or assigns, six hundred and forty acres, and Belknap and Walker, or their legal representatives or assigns, six hundred and forty acres, in lieu of the same quantities of land taken by the United States for public purposes, near Fort Jesup, in the state of Louisiana: and the register of the land office at Natchitoches is authorized and required to have said locations made, and issue certificates of such locations, so that patents <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>may issue for the same: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Said locations shall be made within twelve months from the passage of this act, conforming to the legal surveys.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That at the time of making such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deeds of conveyance to U.S. to be deposited, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> locations or entries, the said Henry Stoker, and the said Belknap and Walker, or their legal representatives or assigns, shall produce to the aforesaid register, and deposite in his office, their several deeds conveying to the United States an unencumbered title that they or any of them may claim to have in and to any tract or tracts of land claimed by them, or either of them, near Fort Jesup, in lieu of which the land granted by this act is given.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXCIX: for the relief of Griffith Coombe and John P. Ingle, trustees of the house in the city of Washington commonly called “the brick capitol.”</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Griffith Coombe and John P. Ingle, trustees of the house in the city of Washington commonly called “the brick capitol.”</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Griffith Coombe and John P. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for rent of apartments in “the brick capitol.”</p></sidenote>Ingle, trustees of the house in the city of Washington called “the brick capitol,” the sum of one thousand and nineteen dollars and forty-three cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full satisfaction for the rent of certain apartments in said house, contracted for by the Secretary of State for the use of the commissioners under the treaty with Naples.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CC: for the relief of had Kelly and Datus Kelly.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of had Kelly and Datus Kelly.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Irad Kelly and to Datus <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for stone delivered.</p></sidenote>Kelly, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for thirty-four pieces of stone delivered at the wharf at the river.Roque, in Michigan, for the arsenal at Dearbornville: their value to be ascertained by the price agreed upon by the parties to the
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 201, 202, 203. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
contract; to be paid for each foot of stone delivered, and the quantity of feet to be ascertained by the best evidence that can be produced; the. person having deceased who was to have measured said pieces.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCI: for the relief of the representatives of Ann Levacher De Van Brun.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the representatives of Ann Levacher De Van Brun.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the account<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed seven years’ half pay of a lieutenant</p></sidenote> of Ann Levacher De Van Brun, and to allow her seven years’ half pay, to which she is entitled on account of the services of her husband, John Levacher De Van Brun, deceased, who was a lieutenant in the revolutionary war, in the Maryland continental line, and died before the close of the war; and that the sum found to be due be paid out of any motley in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the representatives of Ann Levacher De Van Brun.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCII: for the relief of Polly Lining, executrix of the last will and testament of Charles Lining, deceased, who in his life-time, and at the time of his death, was executor of the last will and testament of Edward Blake, deceased.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Polly Lining, executrix of the last will and testament of Charles Lining, deceased, who in his life-time, and at the time of his death, was executor of the last will and testament of Edward Blake, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That no proceedings shall be had against Polly Lining, executrix of the last will and testament of Charles Lining, deceased,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No proceedings to be had on a judgment against her.</p></sidenote> who in his life-time, and at the time of his death, was executor of the last will and testament of Edward Blake, deceased, to enforce, by execution or otherwise, a judgment recovered by the United States against her, in the district court of the United States, at Charleston, South Carolina, in July, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIII: for the relief of the heirs and assignees of Peter Alba, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs and assignees of Peter Alba, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the title of the heirs of Peter Alba, late of Pensacola, in the territory of Florida, deceased, or of such person or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> persons as by assignment from said Peter Alba may have claims thereto, to fifteen lots of land in the suburbs of the town of Pensacola, in the territory of Florida, designated as follows, viz: numbers thirty, eighty-seven, three hundred and five, three hundred and twenty-one, three hundred and forty-two, three hundred and forty-three, three hundred and forty-four, three hundred and forty-five, three hundred and forty-six, three hundred and forty-seven, three hundred and twenty-seven, three hundred and thirty-five, three hundred and thirty-six, three hundred and thirty-seven, and three hundred and twenty-eight; all which were purchased by the said Peter Alba of the Spanish government, in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, respectively, to the heirs of the said Peter Alba, or to his assignee or assignees, to whom he may have conveyed the same, or any part of said lots, in his life-time, according to the right which the said heirs, or assignee or assignees, may have thereto under the said Peter Alba: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this confirmation shall only extend to the relinquishment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of any title which the United States may have to said lots.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIV: for the relief of George Innes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/786">786</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 204, 205, 206, 207. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Innes.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as deputy inspector.</p></sidenote> authorized to pay to George Innes, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty cents, being in full for his compensation for services rendered by him as deputy inspector of the revenue in the port of New York, from July, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, to August, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, both inclusive.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCV: for the relief of Henry L. Riviere.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 786</citableAs>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry L. Riviere.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Henry L. Reviere, of West Florida, be, and he is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote> authorized to enter, at a minimum price, one quarter section of land, or a fraction equal to one quarter, as near as may be, in fractional section twenty-three, in township four, range fourteen, south and west, and lot number five, in section number fourteen in same township, including the settlement of the said Reviere; to be bounded by sectional and fractional lines according to Government surveys; to which preemption the said Henry L. Reviere was entitled by inhabitation and cultivation, under the act passed June twenty-nine, [nineteen,]<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1834, ch. 54.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and thirty-four; which was reserved erroneously from entry at the time, and before the expiration of the act.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVI: for the relief of Henry Lynch.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Lynch.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest of the U. S. in estate of his father, to be released.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized, on behalf of the United States, to cause to be released and assigned to the children of Henry Lynch, the interest in the estate of his father heretofore assigned by the said Henry, one of the sureties of his brother, Dominick Lynch, for the use of the United <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1831, ch. 62.</p></sidenote>States, upon obtaining the benefit of the act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States, passed the second of March, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14, 1832, ch. 230.</p></sidenote>eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and the act in addition thereto, passed the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVII: for the relief of Solomon Sturges, assignee of Resin Frazier.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 786</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Solomon Sturges, assignee of Resin Frazier.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Solomon Sturges be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land, in lieu of, &amp;c</p></sidenote> to enter one half-quarter section of land of any of the lands of the United States in the Zanesville land district, in the state of Ohio, subject to sale in private entry, in lieu of the east half of the north-west quarter of section nine, township four, range five, of the military land in the Zanesville land district, which was entered and paid for to the United States on the thirtieth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, by one Rezin Frazier, who afterwards assigned the same and his interest<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> therein to the said Solomon Sturges: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said Sturges shall relinquish to the United States all his right and claim in and to the land so entered by said Frazier and assigned to him, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCVIII: for the relief of Ezekiel Jones.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/787">787</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ezekiel Jones.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to allow to Ezekiel Jones, for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed compensation as commander of revenue cutter Washington.</p></sidenote> his services as commander of the revenue cutter “Washington,” while acting in conjunction with the navy of the United States in eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the same amount of pay as a lieutenant in the navy would be entitled to receive for like services, deducting therefrom the sum which he has already received therefor.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCIX: for the relief of Samuel McComb.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 787</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel McComb.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury allow to Samuel McComb, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed for services in superintending erection of a branch mint.</p></sidenote> the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, from the period of his appointment as commissioner to superintend the erection of a Branch Mint, at Charlotte, North Carolina, in May, eighteen hundred thirty-five, till the completion of the same in eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, when his accounts were presented for settlement, in full compensation for his services as commissioner or otherwise.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCX: for the relief of Cornelius Taylor.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Cornelius Taylor.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized to settle the claim of Cornelius Taylor, for extraordinary expense<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for carrying the mail to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote> incurred in carrying the mail between St. Augustine and Jacksonville, and St. Augustine and San Pablo, caused by the war with the Indians; ‘and that he pay the said Taylor such amount as he is equitably entitled to, out of the funds of the Department; which amount is hereby appropriated for that object.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXI: for the relief of Joseph Jackson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Jackson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be audited and settled the claim of Joseph Jackson, for a horse lost in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> service of the United States, in Florida, for want of forage, upon the principles stated in the report of the Committee of Claims accompanying this bill.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXII: for the relief of Sibel Barnes.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sibel Barnes.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Sibel Barnes, of Ohio, widow of Thol mas<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to her.</p></sidenote> Barnes, late of Middletown, Connecticut, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a pension, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, during her natural life, to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXIII: for the relief of Thomas Todd.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Todd.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and he is hereby, directed to issue a patent granting in fee<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to issue to him.</p></sidenote> simple to Thomas Todd, late a soldier in Captain Harris company of light dragoons, who enlisted for a period of during the war of eighteen
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 214, 215, 216. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
hundred and twelve with Great Britain, or to his heirs, as the case may be, one quarter section of land, in conformity with such rules and regulations as have been prescribed for the issuing of patents for bounty lands due to the soldiers of said war.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXIV: for the relief of William Moor, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Moor, and for other purposes.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William Moor, of the county of Bibb, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wm. Moor authorized: to surrender land certificate, and receive scrip therefor.</p></sidenote> state of Alabama, be, and he hereby is, authorized to surrender the certificate which issued to him from the land office at Tuscaloosa, on the seventeenth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, for the south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of section number three, township number twenty-three, and range thirteen east, which was purchased by him, and paid for, through mistake; and that he receive scrip for the amount by him so paid, which shall be received in payment for any other tract of land in the said land district which may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> subject to private entry: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said William Moor file in said land office his relinquishment to said tract of land.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That Thomas Nichols, of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">T. Nichols authorized to surrender land certificate, &amp;c</p></sidenote> county of Jefferson, in the state of Alabama, be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender the certificate which issued to him from the land office at Tuscaloosa, for the south-west quarter of the south-east quarter of section thirty, of township sixteen, and range five west, which was purchased and paid for by him through mistake; and that he receive scrip for the amount by him so paid, which shall be received in payment for any other tract of land in said land district, subject to private entry; and if a patent shall have issued to said Nicholas for said tract of land, he shall surrender said patent, and file a relinquishment of his title thereto, before said scrip shall issue.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXV: to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be issued to Michael Ambrister, assignee of Us-se-yoholo, a Creek Indian, a patent for a certain reservation of land in the Stale of Alabama.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 788</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be issued to Michael Ambrister, assignee of Us-se-yoholo, a Creek Indian, a patent for a certain reservation of land in the Stale of Alabama.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the claim and title of Michael Ambrister to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> the south half of section fourteen, in township nineteen, of range four east, in the Coosa land district, purchased by him of Usse-yoholo, alias Toney, the head of a Creek Indian family, who was entitled to the same under the provisions of the treaty between the United States and the Creek tribe of Indians, concluded on the twenty-fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXVI: for the relief of Stephen Marsters.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 788</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Stephen Marsters.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount paid for certain find to be refunded.</p></sidenote> directed to refund to Stephen Marsters, of the state of Indiana, the amount paid to the receiver of public money at the Laporte land office, in the state of Indiana, on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, for the south-east quarter of section thirty-one, in township thirty-one north, of range two east; which sum is hereby directed to be refunded to said Stephen Marsters Upon his surrendering to the Secretary of the Treasury the duplicate certificate issued to him for said quarter section by the receiver aforesaid.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXVII: for the relief of Dudley Walker.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 217, 218, 219, 220, 221. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/789">789</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Dudley Walker.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to Dudley Walker, a purser in the navy, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for advances made to certain seamen.</p></sidenote> one hundred and fifty-eight dollars, and fifty-two cents, for advances made by him under authority of his commanding officer, to seamen who afterwards deserted front the United Stales sloop of war St. Louis.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXVIII: for the relief of Thomae Cushing.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomae Cushing.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow and cause to be paid to Thomas Cushing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.</p></sidenote> as managing owner of the fishing schooner Commerce, of Boston, and to the crew thereof, to be divided and distributed to and among them as the law in such cases provides, the bounty allowed to vessels engaged in the cod-fishery, the said schooner being of the burden of sixty-five tons, and employed four months and fourteen days in such fishery, actually at sea, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and having taken five hundred and fifteen quintals of fish in that time: to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXIX: for the relief of Patrick Green.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 789</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXIX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Patrick Green.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Patrick Green, who was wounded on the night of the eighth of July, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, whilst <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment Tor protecting the mail.</p></sidenote>protecting and defending the mail between Baltimore and Havre de Grace, be, and he is hereby, allowed the sum of one thousand dollars; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXX: for the relief of John Balch, junior.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 789</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Balch, junior.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for cables, &amp;c sold by marshal.</p></sidenote> appropriated, to John Balch, junior, the sum of three hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-five cents, being a compensation for two cable chains and two anchors, sold by the marshal for the district of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under a decree of the district court of said district, on or about the twenty-eighth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXI: providing for paying three companies of militia in the State of Indiana, called into the service of the United States.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 789</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>providing for paying three companies of militia in the State of Indiana, called into the service of the United States.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid, on the requisition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">$1578 89 to be paid on requisition of Sec. War, for paying three companies of Indiana militia called into service It. S. by Col. Ewing, 25th Sept. 1833, on requisition of A. C. Pepper, Indian agent.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of War, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty-nine cents, for paying three companies of Indiana militia, called into the service of the United States, by Colonel Ewing, on the twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, on the requisition of A. C. Pepper, Indian agent at Logansport, for the protection of certain Indians assembled to receive their annuities, and other persons, necessarily employed relative to said annuities; it being for the services of said militia, and for necessary expenses incurred by them incident to said service.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXII: for the relief of William Marcus, of Arkansas.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 790</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXII</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/790">790</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 222, 223, 224, 225, 227. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Marcus, of Arkansas.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William Marcus be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land.</p></sidenote> to enter one quarter section of land, by legal subdivisions, of any of the vacant unappropriated and unoccupied public lands in the state of Arkansas, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, in the proper land office.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXIII: for the relief of John Dougherty, of Wisconsin.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 790</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Dougherty, of Wisconsin.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That John Dougherty, of the Territory of Wisconsin,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote> be, and is hereby, authorized to enter at the land office at Mineral Point, in the Territory aforesaid, by paying the minimum price for the same, section number twelve, of township number two, in range number three east, in the district of land subject to sale at Mineral Point; the said section being the same that was granted to his wife Mary, the daughter of Kee-no-kee, by stipulations embraced in the treaty entered into by and between the United States and the Winnebago tribe of Indians, at Prairie du Chien, August first, eighteen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>hundred and twenty-nine: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the certificate of the said John Dougherty, and the patent to be issued thereon, shall recite the provisions of this act, as the authority, by virtue of which his said entries have been made, and also show that such entries were made in right of his wife; and if the said John Dougherty shall abandon, or in any other manner separate from his said wife Mary, during her life-time, then ail the right, title, and interest in and to said section, and every part thereof, shall vest in said Mary, and inure to the sole benefit of herself and her children.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXIV: for the relief of William Traverse.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 790</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Traverse.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to William<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for cattle killed for public use.</p></sidenote> Traverse, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars, for ten head of cattle killed, the property of said Traverse, in the month of February or March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, by order of Major Mark A. Cooper, or with his knowledge and approbation, for the subsistence of a battalion of Georgia volunteers under his command, in the service of the United States, then deficient in provisions, near the Saint John’s, in the Territory of Florida.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXV: for the relief of Andrew Rembert.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 790</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Andrew Rembert.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed pay and emoluments as first sergeant, &amp;c</p></sidenote> allow to Andrew Rembert his pay and emoluments as first sergeant of Captain Brodnax’s company of mounted volunteers, engaged in the late Creek war, from the twenty-sixth day of April to the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the same manner as if his name had remained on the payroll of said company as first sergeant during that interval; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXVII: for the relief of Etienne (Stephen) La Lande, of Alabama.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 790</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Etienne (Stephen) La Lande, of Alabama.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Etienne (Stephen) La Lande, of Alabama, be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> and he hereby is, confirmed in his title to eight hundred arpens of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 228, 230, 231. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/791">791</page>
land, (on which he now resides,) situate in the county of Mobile and state of Alabama, on the west side of Dog river, having twenty arpens in front on said river, with forty arpens in depth; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby required to issue a patent to the said Etienne (Stephen) La Lande for the said tract of land: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That this confirmation shall amount only to a relinquishment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> on the part of the United States of all their right and title to the said land, and shall not interfere with, or extinguish, any elder or better right, if any there be, to the same.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXVIII: for the relief of Robert M. Roberts or his legal assignees.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 791</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert M. Roberts or his legal assignees.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Robert M. Roberts, his legal representatives<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to purchase certain and at $1.25 per acre.</p></sidenote> or assignees, are hereby authorized to purchase of the Register and Receiver of the land office at Monroe, in the state of Louisiana in the district for the sale of lands north of Red river, lot number sixteen, in township number twenty-two north, range number twelve east, in said district, containing one hundred and fifty-six and twenty-seven hundredths acres, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and upon the production of the receipt of the aforesaid receiver for the money, together with the assent in writing of the school commissioners of the parish of Carroll, in said state, and of a majority of the white male inhabitants of the township over twenty-one years of age to the making of said purchase and filing the same in the office of the Register, that officer shall issue a certificate for the same; upon the production of which at the General Land office, the said Robert M. Roberts, or his legal assignees, shall be entitled to receive a patent for said land in the same manner as if purchased under the preemption laws.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the aforesaid Register<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other land to be selected For use of schools.</p></sidenote> and Receiver, under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, shall select and set apart an equal quantity of land of equal value, in the same township, if the same can be found, if not, in some other place in said land district, for the use of schools in the aforesaid township.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXX: for the relief of Charles Rockwell.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 791</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles Rockwell.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed the pay of a regular chaplain in the navy.</p></sidenote> under the superintendence of the Secretary of the Navy, be, and they are hereby, required to allow to the Reverend Charles Rockwell, who performed the duties of chaplain on board the United States frigate Potomac, from the eighteenth day of October to the thirtieth of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and from the seventh of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to the ninth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, the same pay to which a regular chaplain in the navy would be entitled therefor, deducting from the first-named period one ration per diem, and from the last period the full amount which has been paid him for his services during that time as captain’s clerk.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXI: for the relief of John Jones and Charles Souder and Robinson Carr and. Company.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 791</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Jones and Charles Souder and Robinson Carr and. Company.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for expenses in unloading stone at tho Pea patch.</p></sidenote> any money not otherwise appropriated, to John Jones and Charles Souder, one hundred and eight dollars fifteen cents, and to Robinson Carr
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/792">792</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 232, 233, 234, 235, 236. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
and Company, one hundred and nineteen dollars twenty cents, for expenses incurred by them, respectively, in unloading stone at Peapatch Island, which was to have been incurred by the United States.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXII: for the relief of Jamison and Williamson.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 792</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jamison and Williamson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> authorized to settle the account of Jamison and Williamson, and pay them such sum, out of the funds of the post office department, as in equity and justice they ought to receive for the increased quantity of mail matter thrown upon their mail route in consequence of hostilities with the Creek Indians; and the sum so ascertained to be due is hereby appropriated for the object aforesaid.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXIII: for the relief of the widow or legal representatives of John Tilden.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 792</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the widow or legal representatives of John Tilden.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the limitation contained in the third section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation in 3d section of act of April 20, 1816, ch. 65, of two years for presentment of claims, extended, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of the act entitled “An act respecting the late officers and crew of the sloop of war Wasp,” approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixteen, of two years, for the presentment of claims under and in virtue thereof, so far forth as the same may relate to, or operate upon, the widow or representatives of John Tilden, or of the crew of said sloop of war Wasp, be, and the same hereby is, suspended, and extended for the term of two years from and after the passage of this act; and within that time the claim of said widow or representatives of said John Tilden, by virtue of said act, may be presented, and in all respects proceeded with as though no such limitation had been passed; and the sum which may thereupon be allowed, shall be paid out of the navy pension fund.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXIV: for the relief of the assignees of Jacob Clements, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 792</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXIV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the assignees of Jacob Clements, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for demurrage.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to pay to the assignees of Jacob Clements, deceased, late owner of the brig Cumberland and schooner Active Trader, the sum of four thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars, for demurrage on those vessels at the port of Laguira, in the year eighteen hundred and twelve: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the assignees of the said Jacob Clements, deceased, shall release the United States from all claims whatsoever on account of said vessels.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXV: for the relief of Susan Gratiot, administratrix, and Charles II. Gratiot, administrator, of Henry Gratiot, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Susan Gratiot, administratrix, and Charles II. Gratiot, administrator, of Henry Gratiot, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for extra services, Ac., of Henry Gratiot</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Susan Gratiot, administratrix, and Charles II. Gratiot, administrator, of Henry Gratiot, deceased, the sum of fourteen hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy cents, for extra services of the said Henry Gratiot while sub-agent of the Winnebago Indians, and for money paid by him to effect his redemption from Indian captivity.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXVI: for the relief of John L. McCarty.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John L. McCarty.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury allow<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him of certain fees.</p></sidenote> to John L. McCarty one hundred and sixty dollars for that amount of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 237, 238, 239, 240. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/793">793</page>
fees charged by Charles Lewis, as attorney, in prosecuting, under an order from the Secretary of War, before the year eighteen hundred and twenty-four, four suits, to decide the validity of entries in the Cherokee country under the laws of Tennessee: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the original account and assignment be presented; and it shall be proven to the satisfaction of said officers that said account has not been paid by any disbursing officer of the Government, and that said McCarty is the purchaser of said claim, and holds the same as assignee.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That, on making said allowance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Dunscomb Bradford, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Dunscomb Bradford, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper officers of the treasury be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed the salary of a consul and agent of claims, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> they are hereby, required to allow and pay to the legal representatives of said Bradford, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the salary of consul and agent of claims of the United States at Paris, from the ninth of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to the twenty-third of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, at the rate per annum established by law.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXVIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of the late Doctor James H. Cheears.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 793</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of the late Doctor James H. Cheears.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed the compensation of an assistant surgeon in the army.</p></sidenote> the legal representatives of Doctor James H. Cheears, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the compensation of assistant surgeon in the army of the United States, from the ninth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to the twenty-second of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, the said Doctor Cheears having discharged the duties of that office in General Armstrong’s brigade of mounted Tennessee volunteers, in their campaign in Florida.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXXXIX: for the relief of Jesse Seymour, or his representatives, and in alteration of an act entitled “An act respecting the late officers and crew of the sloop of war Wasp,” approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jesse Seymour, or his representatives, and in alteration of an act entitled “An act respecting the late officers and crew of the sloop of war Wasp,” approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the limitation contained in the third section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation contained in 3d section of act of April 20, 1816, ch. 65, extended, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of said act, of two years, for the presentment of claims under and in virtue thereof, so far forth as the same may relate to, or operate upon, Jesse Seymour, one of the crew of said sloop of war Wasp, or his representatives, be, and the same hereby is, suspended and extended for the term of two years from and after the passage of this act; and within that time the claim of said Seymour or his representatives, by virtue of said act, may be presented, and in all respects proceeded with as though no such limitation had been passed; and the sum which may thereupon be allowed shall be paid out of the navy pension fund.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CCXL: for the relief of Woodburne Potter.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 793</citableAs>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXL</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXL.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Woodburne Potter.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War adjust the claim of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for services as clerk to be adjusted, &amp;c</p></sidenote> Woodburne Potter for services as a clerk to General Gaines from the sixth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to September eight, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and allow to him therefor such reasonable compensation as he is entitled to, not however to exceed
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/794">794</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Res. 5, 6, 7, 8. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
the amount heretofore certified by General Gaines and paid by the disbursing officer, but disallowed by the accounting officers, and charged to the account of General Gaines, under the one hundred and fourth paragraph of the regulations of the quartermaster’s department; that said allowance be carried to the credit of General Gaines on his account, if said debit shall stand against him; but if that shall have been paid by Woodburne Potter, then the amount so allowed shall be paid to said Potter out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>No. 5: for the relief of Abraham Wright, of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 794</citableAs>
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<docTitle class="inline italic">Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Abraham Wright, of New York.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it resolved,  c</i>.,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate land warrant to be issued, dec.</p></sidenote> to Abraham Wright, of Washington county, New York, as assignee of Ezra St. John, jr., who was assignee of Theodore Treat, a duplicate land warrant, number four hundred and eighty-six, the original having issued the twenty-second of February, eighteen hundred and ten, to said Ezra St. John, jr., assignee of Theodore Treat; and the said duplicate shall be located and proceeded upon in the same manner as if [it] were the original warrant; and said original warrant is hereby declared void.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>No. 6: for the relief of the heirs at law of Captain Frederick M. Bell, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 794</citableAs>
<docNumber>6</docNumber>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No. 6. </docNumber></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="inline italic">Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs at law of Captain Frederick M. Bell, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it resolved,  c</i>.,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate bounty land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote>to Mary Shepherd and the other heirs at law (if any such there be) of Captain Frederick M. Bell, deceased, for services in the war of the revolution, a duplicate bounty land warrant for three hundred acres of land, in lieu of one for the like quantity, issued the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, numbered seven hundred and thirty-eight, and which is represented to have been lost to the said heirs; and the said duplicate shall be located and proceeded upon in the same manner as if it were the original warrant; and the said original warrant is hereby declared void.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>No. 7: for the relief of the heirs of Charles Brown, deceased.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1839-03-02</dc:date>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 794</citableAs>
<docNumber>7</docNumber>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No. 7. </docNumber></preface>
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<docTitle class="inline italic">Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of the heirs of Charles Brown, deceased.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-02">March 2, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it resolved,  c</i>.,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicate bounty land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> a duplicate of bounty land warrant number two thousand one hundred and thirty-seven, for two hundred acres, issued the twenty-fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to Susan C. Brown, Sarah C. Brown, Charles T. Brown, Anna E. Brown, William T. Brown, E. Boudinot Brown, Sarah B. Keith, wife of John A. Keith, and Eliza Hopkins, surviving daughter of Susan Hopkins, they being the legal heirs of Charles Brown, deceased, who was a lieutenant in the South Carolina line; which said warrant has been lost to the said heirs; and the said duplicate shall be located and proceeded upon in the same manner as if it were the original warrant; and the said original warrant is hereby declared void.</content></section>
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<dc:title>No. 8: authorizing the opening of an alley, and the execution of certain deeds, in the city of Washington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 794</citableAs>
<docNumber>8</docNumber>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No. 8. </docNumber></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="inline italic">Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">authorizing the opening of an alley, and the execution of certain deeds, in the city of Washington.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it resolved,  c</i>.,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the alley in the west end of square B, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certain alley in Washington</p></sidenote> the city of Washington, as now laid open by the proprietors of lots
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Res. 10. 1839.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/795">795</page>
numbered fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">adopted as a public alley, in lieu of,  c.</p></sidenote> twenty-one, in said square, be adopted as a public alley in lieu of the one originally laid out in the west end of said square, by commissioners appointed by the Corporation of Washington, under an act of Congress entitled “An act to authorize and empower the Corporation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 7, 1822, ch. 96.</p></sidenote> of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, to drain the low grounds on and near the public reservations, and to improve and ornament certain parts of such reservations,” approved on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three [seventh of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two]; and that the Mayor of the city of Washington be authorized to execute deeds to the proprietors of the aforesaid lots, respectively, according to the division thereof now made by them.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>No. 10: for the relief of Edward Beatty, of Missouri.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1839-03-03</dc:date>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 795</citableAs>
<docNumber>10</docNumber>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No. 10. </docNumber></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="inline italic">Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="italic inline">for the relief of Edward Beatty, of Missouri.</officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1839-03-03">March 3, 1839</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<recital class="indent1 firstIndent1 fontsize10">Whereas Edward Beatty, of the county of Marion, in the state of Missouri,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> some time in the month of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, emigrated to Missouri for the purpose of entering public lands; that, in consequence of the representations of others, he converted about nine hundred dollars in specie into certificates of deposit; that, after he had purchased the certificates at an advance of three per cent., he applied to the land office in Palmyra to enter land, when he was informed by the officers that the certificates could not be accepted, as none but the individual who made the deposit of money in the treasury could enter land with them. In consequence of this condition of the affair, the petitioner has lain out of the use of the money for a year and upwards, and has no prospect of getting it back for some years to come, unless he be aided by Congress. Be it, therefore,</recital>
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<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the said Edward Beatty be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to. enter, with certain certificates, land liable to private entry, at £1.25 per acre.</p></sidenote> authorized to enter land at any of the land offices in the state of Missouri, which is now liable to private entry, with the said certificates of deposit, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the said Beatty shall satisfy the register of the land office at which he may apply for the purpose of entering land, that the assignments on the same are genuine, and that he is legally entitled to the same.</proviso></content></section>
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered"><inline class="smallCaps">of the</inline></p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December</i>, 1839, <i>and ended on the twenty-first day of July</i>, 1840.</enrolledDateline>
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<inline class="smallCaps">Martin Van Buren</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Richard M. Johnson</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; <inline class="smallCaps">Robert M. T. Hunter</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Alvarez Fish and the legal representatives of Thomas P. Bskridge.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Alvarez Fish and the legal representatives of Thomas P. Bskridge.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-04-10">April 10, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8">Moneys paid by them for lands not subject to private entry, to be refunded, with interest.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to the legal representatives of Thomas P. Eskridge, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars, with six per cent, interest thereon, as follows, to wit: On one thousand dollars thereof from the twenty-first day of June eighteen hundred and thirty-three; on four hundred from the fourteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and on eight hundred from the tenth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, until the passage of this act. And that the said Secretary in like manner, pay to the said Alvarez Fisk, the sum of two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars and forty-five cents, with six per cent, interest thereon, as follows, to wit: On one thousand dollars from the twenty-first day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; on one hundred and fifty dollars from the nineteenth of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; on two hundred dollars and forty-five cents from the eighth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; and on eight hundred dollars from the tenth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, until the passage of this act; said several sums being for moneys by the said Eskridge and Fisk paid to the United States, for land, by them respectively entered in township eight north, of range eight east, in the Batesville and Helena districts, in the Territory of Arkansas, and which entries are void, by reason of said lands not being subject to private entry.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. VIII: for the relief of John H. Jacocks.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John H. Jacocks.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-04-10">April 10, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to John H. Jacocks, out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as inspector of the customs.</p></sidenote> any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and thirty dollars, for services rendered as inspector of the customs at the port of New Haven, in the state of Connecticut, from the first of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, to the fifteenth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-04-10">April 10, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. IX: for the relief of Sullen Stephens.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/797">797</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sullen Stephens.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-04-27">April 27, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That all the right, title, and interest which might accrue or revert to the United States to a certain tract of land in Jackson<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right, &amp;c. of U.S. to a certain tract, relinquished to him, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> county, Alabama, reserved to Sutten Stephens under a treaty made and concluded between the United States and the Cherokee tribe of Indians, on the eighth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished, and vested in the said Sutten Stephens and his heirs: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no conveyance or deed of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said tract of land shall be valid or effectual, until such conveyance or deed shall be submitted to one of the district attorneys of Alabama for his approbation; and if, after inquiry into the facts and circumstances attending the contract for the sale of said land, or any part thereof, he shall be satisfied that said contract is fair, and that the consideration paid or agreed to be paid therefor is adequate, he shall endorse his approbation on such deed or conveyance so approved, and thereafter the same shall be deemed valid and effectual.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. X: for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of John Grimball, senior, deceased.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs and legal representatives of John Grimball, senior, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the heirs and legal representatives of John Grimball, senior, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate land.</p></sidenote> two hundred and twenty-three and one-fourth acres, or one and a half quarter sections of land, not exceeding that quantity in the Opelousas land district, in the state of Louisiana, upon any unreserved and unappropriated land in said district.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of James Brewer, of Ohio.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-05-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Brewer, of Ohio.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James Brewer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for land to be refunded, with interest.</p></sidenote> of Tuscarawas county, Ohio, or to his legal representatives, one hundred dollars, being the amount by him paid to the United States on the thirtieth day of January, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, with interest from that date, at the land office in Zanesville, Ohio, for the west half of the south-west quarter of section number fourteen, in township number eight, range number three, in the Zanesville land district, and for which said land the United States cannot make the said James Brewer a title.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XII: to authorize James Alexander to relinquish certain land, and to locate other land in lieu thereof.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize James Alexander to relinquish certain land, and to locate other land in lieu thereof.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That James Alexander be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States the east half of the south-east<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to relinquish certain land, end enter another tract.</p></sidenote> quarter of section number three, in township number nine north, in range fourteen west of the second principal meridian, in the Palestine land district, state of Illinois; and that he be permitted to enter, in lieu thereof, a like quantity of land within the limits of said district subject to private entry.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XIII: for the relief of Nathan Levy.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-05-02</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nathan Levy.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Nathan Levy, American consul at the island of St. Thomas, out of any money
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
not otherwise appropriated, three hundred and seventy-eight dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him of a sum illegally received, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> which sum he received of the master of the brig Falcon, of Boston, Massachusetts, and which he paid, one-third into the treasury of the United States, and the other two-thirds to the seamen composing the crew of said brig; said Levy having been compelled, by judgment of law, to pay back said sum to the owners of said brig, it having been illegally received and paid over by him as aforesaid.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XIV: for the relief of Robert Milnor and John Thompson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-05-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert Milnor and John Thompson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for extra services as gaugers.</p></sidenote> directed to pay to Robert Milnor and John Thompson the sum of two thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-three cents, being the amount of fees equitably due to said Milnor and Thompson for extra service rendered by them as gaugers at the port of Philadelphia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 359.</p></sidenote> after the passage of the act of the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, reducing the duties on wines, in regauging certain wines then in custom stores at said port, and coming within the provisions of said act; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XV: for the relief of George Willis.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-05-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Willis.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and required<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for loss of a pilot boat.</p></sidenote> to pay to George Willis the sum of eighty dollars, for the loss of a pilot-boat while, piloting a revenue cutter over Ocracoke bar, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XVI: for the relief of Meigs D. Benjamin and Company.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-05-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Meigs D. Benjamin and Company.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be allowed and paid, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties on leather gloves to be refunded.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, to Meigs D. Benjamin and Company, of the city of New York, two hundred dollars and forty-six cents, for duties paid by them on ten cases of leather gloves imported by them in the month of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XVII: for the relief of Gamaliel E. Smith.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-05-02</dc:date>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Gamaliel E. Smith.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for labor and materials.</p></sidenote> authorized to pay to Gamaliel E. Smith, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred dollars, in full for labor performed under a contract made with the United States in the summer of eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, to build a light-house and dwelling-house on Mount Desert Rock, and for materials furnished by him, and used by his successor under said contract, to construct said building.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XVIII: for the relief of Thomas W. Taylor.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 798</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-05-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas W. Taylor.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and be hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to pay to Thomas W. Taylor, out of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 19, 20, 21, 24. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
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any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and ten dollars, being the appraised value of a horse belonging, to said Taylor, taken into the service of the United States in May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of Richard Booker and others.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-05-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard Booker and others.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War settle the claim for clothing of Richard Booker, and those composing the company under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for clothing to be settled.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 6, 1812, ch. 21.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 6, 1812, ch. 138.</p></sidenote> his command, called the Richmond Washington Volunteers, whose services were tendered and accepted, under the acts of February six and July six, eighteen hundred and twelve, said company having been called into the service on the sixth of June, eighteen hundred and thirteen, in which it remained until discharged on the thirty-first of December, eighteen hundred and thirteen; and that he allow said company so much as is due, under said acts for clothing, and that the allowance so made to each member be paid to him, or, if dead, to his legal representative, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-02">May 2, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XX: relative to the iron steamboat “The New Jersey,” formerly called the Robert N. Stockton.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-05-08</dc:date>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>relative to the iron steamboat “The New Jersey,” formerly called the Robert N. Stockton.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-08">May 8, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<recital class="indent0 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas the said steamer was built in England for the purpose of introducing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> a new improvement in this country in the navigation of canals and in the construction of tow-boats, and to serve as a model, and was navigated across the Atlantic at great hazard and expense: And whereas it is represented that a boat of the same model, and propelled in the same manner, could not have been built in the United States at the time she was constructed: And whereas the said steamer cannot be used in the United States for the purpose for which she was designed, without being enrolled and licensed according to the laws of the United States; therefore,</recital>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That it shall and may be lawful for the collector<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawful for collector of any port in U.S., on application, to enrol and license the iron steamer.</p></sidenote> of any port in the United States, on the application of the owner or owners of the said iron steamer, to enrol and license the same, in the same manner and upon the same terms as if she had been built within the United States.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-08">May 8, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of John T. Addoms, executor of John Addoms.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 799</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John T. Addoms, executor of John Addoms.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-08">May 8, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the legal representatives of John Addoms, one hundred dollars, out of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for damages to his property.</p></sidenote> money not otherwise appropriated, for damages done in breaking the ground and building forts on his farm at Plattsburg, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, according to an appraisal made by persons selected on the part of the United States and the claimant, and approved by Colonel Smith, then commanding that post.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-08">May 8, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of William Wickham.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-05-08</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Wickham.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-08">May 8, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William Wickham, of Sodus, in the state of New York, his heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Empowered to improve, &amp;c a certain fishery.</p></sidenote> to enjoy and improve the fishery established by him at Great Sodus Point on the shore of land conveyed to the United States by said Wick-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/800">800</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 28, 29. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
ham for a site for a light-house, and to establish any other fishery on the shore of said lot, on the following condition, to wit: that the said Wickham and those who may hold under him shall not disturb the keeper of the light-house and his successors, in the free, full, and exclusive enjoyment by him and his successors, of the fishery established by said keeper, nor interfere with or interrupt the enjoyment of the lot aforesaid by the United States and any keeper that may have charge of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>light-house: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, and the said Wickham and those who claim under him, if there is not, and cannot conveniently be provided, a way of ingress and egress to and from his said fishery, shall, from time to time, have a path assigned to him across the premises by the keeper, which he and they may enjoy, if they keep off the fences and do no unnecessary damage to the lot, nor interfere with the enjoyment of the same beyond the necessary right of way.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-08">May 8, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: to confirm the title to a certain trad of land in the county if Mobile, in the state of Alabama.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 800</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-05-27</dc:date>
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<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to confirm the title to a certain trad of land in the county if Mobile, in the state of Alabama.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-27">May 27, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the claim of William E. Kennedy, filed <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote>before William Crawford, commissioner, for the confirmation of the title to a piece of land claimed under Benjamin Dubroca, for eight hundred arpens, by virtue of a Spanish permit, dated the second of February, one thousand eight hundred and three, lying in the county of Mobile, and state of Alabama, and which claim is numbered one hundred and three, in the report numbered six, of said William Crawford, commissioner, and which claim was placed by said commissioner in the list of claims which “ought not to be confirmed,” be recognized as a valid <sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-27">May 27, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>claim, and that the same be confirmed, and stand in the same situation precisely as if the said claim had not been reported upon unfavorably, but, on the contrary, had been reported as a claim which ought to be confirmed, and as if said claim had been placed by said commissioner on the list of those which ought to be confirmed, whereby the said claim would have stood confirmed by the act of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100.</p></sidenote>Congress of the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled “An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the district east of the island of New Orleans;” and the said title is hereby confirmed accordingly for said land, for which a patent shall issue according to such survey thereof, as shall be approved by the Surveyor-General <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of the United Stales for the state of Alabama: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That this act shall be so construed as to operate as a relinquishment of the title of the United States only.</proviso></content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-27">May 27, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief if John H. Sheppard, administrator of Abiel Wood.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 800</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-05-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if John H. Sheppard, administrator of Abiel Wood.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-27">May 27, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the attorney of the United States for the district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Satisfaction of a certain judgment against him to be entered.</p></sidenote> of Maine be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter satisfaction of a judgment rendered in the first circuit court of the United States, in and for the district of Maine, to the use of the United States, in the name of Abraham F. Howe and Benjamin Howard, against John H. Sheppard, administrator of Abiel Wood, on a judgment recovered by the said Howe and Howard against Abiel Wood in January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, in the Boston court of common pleas, in the state of Massachusetts, and assigned to the United States by the said Howe, with the assent and authority of the said Howard, on the twenty-second of September, eighteen hundred and thirty.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-27">May 27, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of Joseph Cochran.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 801</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-05-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 30, 31, 33, 38. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/801">801</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Cochran.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-27">May 27, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Joseph Cochran be, and he is hereby, entitled to a preference in becoming the purchaser, according to the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to a preference in purchasing, according to act of July 9, 1832, ch. 180.</p></sidenote> of the third section of the act entitled “An act for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri,” approved ninth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, of a certain tract of land, lying in the Palmyra district, Missouri, (for which proof of his right has heretofore been made by him to the land officers of said district, and his claim rejected by them on account of the conveyance to him by Albert Tison, the Spanish claimant, bearing date subsequent to the ninth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two,) in the same manner, and under the same restrictions, as to quantity and location, as he would have been entitled to, had said conveyance been made preceding the date of said act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the entry hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall be made within one year from the date of this act:</proviso> <i>And provided, further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> 1 hat this act shall be considered only as a relinquishment of the rights of the United States, and not to prejudice the rights of third persons.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-27">May 27, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXI: for the relief of A. G. S. Wight.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 801</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-05-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of A. G. S. Wight.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-27">May 27, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the payment of two hundred and fifty-six dollars and sixty-three cents, together with the interest thereon, part of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part of a judgment against him to be released, on payment of balance, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> a judgment which was obtained December fourth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, for the sum of five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and twenty-seven cents principal, and eighty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents interest, against A. G. S. Wight’ as surety of Samuel Smoker, late postmaster at Galena, Illinois, be released, and shall not be collected, upon payment of the balance of said judgment, interest, and costs of suit.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-27">May 27, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: for the relief of James L. Cochran.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-06-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James L. Cochran.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-06-01">June 1, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That James L. Cochran, of the state of Arkansas, be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter any vacant, unappropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land, in lieu of that on which he now resides.</p></sidenote> and unoccupied quarter section of land in the Batesville land district, in the state of Arkansas, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, in lieu of the land he now resides on, it being part of the sixteenth section of township eighteen, range thirteen west, in the county of Izard, of said state.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-06-01">June 1, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of General Duncan L. Clinch.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 801</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-06-19</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of General Duncan L. Clinch.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-06-19">June 19, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to adjust all claims of General Duncan L. Clinch for the corn<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for corn and sugar cane consumed, to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and sugar cane consumed or destroyed by the troops of the United States commanded by General Call, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, during the period said troops were in possession of his plantation; and that the amount, when ascertained, shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XL: to continue the corporate existence of certain Banks in the District of Columbia, for certain purposes.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 40, 45, 46, 55, 56. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap. </dc:type> <docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to continue the corporate existence of certain Banks in the District of Columbia, for certain purposes.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-03">July 3, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the provisions, restrictions, and enactments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 25, 1838, ch. 88, extended to them.</p></sidenote> of the Act of Congress of the twenty-fifth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled “An act to extend the charter of the Union Bank of Georgetown in the District of Columbia,” be, and the same are hereby, extended to the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Georgetown, the Bank of the Metropolis, the Bank of Washington, the Patriotic Bank of Washington, the Bank of the Potomac, and the Farmers Bank of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Alexandria: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That whenever in the original act the first of July eighteen hundred and thirty-eight occurs it shall be so construed as to mean the fourth of July eighteen hundred and forty; and whenever the first of July eighteen hundred and forty-two occurs it shall be construed to mean the fourth of July eighteen hundred and forty-four.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLV: to refund a fine imposed on the late Matthew Lyon, under the sedition law, to his legal heirs and representatives.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to refund a fine imposed on the late Matthew Lyon, under the sedition law, to his legal heirs and representatives.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-04">July 4, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certain fine, with interest, to be refunded.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the legal heirs and representatives of Matthew Lyon, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand and sixty dollars and ninety-six cents, with interest thereon from the ninth day of February, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, to the passing of this act.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVI: for the relief of John W. Monette.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John W. Monette.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-04">July 4, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the President of the United States cause<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued.</p></sidenote> patents to be issued to John Wesley Monette, for lots numbered one, three, and four, in townships sixteen, of range twelve, east, in the district north of Red River, in the state of Louisiana, said lands having been duly entered and paid for by said John Wesley Monette.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-04">July 4, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of Ichabod Beardsley, of New York.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ichabod Beardsley, of New York.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote> and required to place the name of Ichabod Beardsley on the roll of Revolutionary Pensioners, under the act of Congress passed the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and that he pay to the said Ichabod Beardsley, the pension of a private for the service of eighteen months under said law, from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LVI: for the relief of Elizabeth Davidson, widow of John Davidson.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elizabeth Davidson, widow of John Davidson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> to place the name of Elizabeth Davidson on the revolutionary pension roll, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum during her life, to commence on the tenth day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, the day of the death of her husband.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LVII: granting a pension to Israel Parsons.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/803">803</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Israel Parsons.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War place the name of Israel Parsons, of the town of Granville, in the county of Hampden and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote> state of Massachusetts, on the pension roll, under the act of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; and that he pay to him, as such pensioner, the sum of thirty dollars per annum, from the fourth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, during his natural life, without deducting or retaining any part of such pension money on account of the receipt of any former pension by the said Parsons.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: granting a pension to Phillip Hartman, of Virginia.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Phillip Hartman, of Virginia.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required to place the name of Phillip Hartman, of Rockingham county, Virginia, on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> roll of revolutionary pensioners, and pay him the sum of forty dollars per annum, commencing at the time that his name was stricken from the pension list.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of Medad Cook.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Medad Cook.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place Medad Cook, of Jefferson county, in the state of New York, on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> pension-list, and to pay him at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of Lyman Bristol.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Lyman Bristol.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to place Lyman Bristol, of the county of Columbia, state of New York,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> on the pension list, and to pay him a pension of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of James Franeher.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Franeher.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners the name of James Franeher,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> of Tennessee; and that he cause him to be paid at the rate of forty dollars per annum during his natural life; the said payment to commence on the fourth day of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of Seneca Rider.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Seneca Rider.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote></longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of Seneca Rider, of Jefferson county, New York,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> on the list of United States pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of six dollars per month from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight; and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chapter LXIII: for the relief of William Bowman.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/804">804</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Bowman.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>required to place the name of William Bowman, of Missouri, upon the roll of invalid pensioners; and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars per month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXIV: for the relief of Jacob Becker.</dc:title>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jacob Becker.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be restored to pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to restore the name of Jacob Becker, of the state of New York, to the roll of revolutionary pensioners of that state; and to allow him thirty dollars per annum during his life, from the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the time payment of the former allowance was suspended.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXV: for the relief of Peter W. Short, of Woodstock, Ulster county, New York.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter W. Short, of Woodstock, Ulster county, New York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be replaced on pension roll.</p></sidenote>authorized and directed to restore the name of Peter W. Short to the invalid pension roll of the United States, and to pay him at the rate of two dollars and sixty-six cents per month, from the time his pension was suspended, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXVI: for the relief of Daniel W. Going.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel W. Going.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>directed to place Daniel W. Going on the pension roll, and to pay him the sum of four dollars per month, during his natural life, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to commence from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXVII: for the relief of Erastus Pierson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Erastus Pierson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>the name of Erastus Pierson, of Essex county, New Jersey, upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that he cause to be paid to him, the said Pierson, during his natural life, the sum of sixty dollars per annum, to commence on the fourth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXVIII: for the relief of Gideon Sheldon.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Gideon Sheldon.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote>directed to place the name of Gideon Sheldon, of the county of Rutland, state of Vermont, on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States; and that said Sheldon be entitled to receive a pension at the rate of eight dollars a month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, during his natural life, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXIX: for the relief of Jared Winslow.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 805</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/805">805</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jared Winslow.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place upon the roll of invalid pensioners, the name of Jared <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>Winslow, of China, in the county of Genesee and state of New York, and pay him at the rate of eight dollars a month; commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXX: for the relief of Peter A. Myers.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 805</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter A. Myers.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Peter A. Myers on the roll of invalid pensioners, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll</p></sidenote>and pay him the sum of four dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXI: granting a pension to Chauncey Rice.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 805</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Chauncey Rice.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required to place the name of Chauncey Rice, of Northampton county, Pennsylvania, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>on the pension-roll, and pay him eighty dollars per annum during life; to commence and be computed from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one; to be paid out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXII: for the relief of Sylvester Tiffany.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 805</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sylvester Tiffany.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of Sylvester Tiffany, of Genesee county and state of New <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>York, upon the roil of invalid pensioners, and pay to him, from the first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, eight dollars per month, during his natural life, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXIII: for the relief of William Andrews, of the slate of New York.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 805</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Andrews, of the slate of New York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of William Andrews, of the state of New <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>York, on the pension roll, and to pay him sixty dollars per annum during life, instead of the pension now allowed him, and to commence at the time his pension was reduced.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXIV: for the relief of Peter Warner, of Indiana.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 805</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter Warner, of Indiana.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Peter Warner of Indiana, be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter with the register of the Winnamac land office, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote>in that state, the south-east quarter of section one, in township thirty-two north, of range five east, of the public land in the said land district, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXV: for the relief of the sureties and heirs and representatives of Melancton W. Bostwick, deceased, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 806</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/806">806</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 75, 76, 77. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the sureties and heirs and representatives of Melancton W. Bostwick, deceased, and for other purposes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond given by M. W. Bostwick to be cancelled.</p></sidenote>he hereby is, authorized and required to cancel and annul a bond given by Melancton W. Bostwick, John Taylor, Chauncey Belding, Caleb Holmes, and Samuel Belding, bearing date the sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars; conditioned for the faithful conduct of Melancton W. Bostwick, a purser in the navy of the United States, who perished in the brig Epervier.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount due A. R. Thompson to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the Secretary of War ascertain what amount the late Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander It. Thompson might have received for extra services under any rule, regulation, or practice, of the department, existing at the time the service was rendered; also, the value of any horse or horses of his that may have been lost in, or turned over to, the public service; and the expense incurred in the transportation of the baggage, effects, and remains of the said late Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson from Tampa Bay to New York; and the respective sums so found due, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mary W. Thompson.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXVI: for the relief of Oliver Welch.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 806</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Oliver Welch.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Oliver Welch, of the county of Talladega, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to correct a mistake in the purchase of certain land.</p></sidenote>and state of Alabama, be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender the certificate which issued to him from the land office at Mardisville, in said state, on the twenty-fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, for the north-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section nine, in township twenty, of range four east, in the Coosa land district; which was purchased and paid for by him through mistake; and upon such surrender of said certificate, or, if a patent shall have issued for said tract of land, upon the surrender of his patent, and filing his relinquishment in said office, the said Oliver Welch shall be entitled to a certificate from the register and receiver of the said land office for the amount which was so paid by mistake; which shall be received in payment for any other tract of land in said land district which maybe subject to private entry.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXVII: for the relief of Thomas Latham, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 806</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Latham, and for other purposes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas Latham be, and he is hereby, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">T. Latham released from a judgment against him as surety of Lewis Leroy.</p></sidenote>released from a judgment rendered against him by the United States, in the district court of the United States for the district of Pamlico, in the district of North Carolina, as surety of Lewis Leroy, on a bond to the United States to secure the payment of the sum of three hundred and sixty-one dollars and seven and a half cents, the amount of duties on a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>cargo imported by said Lewis: <i>Prodded, however,</i> That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to release any other person or persons than the. said Thomas Latham; nor shall it be so construed as to release him from the payment of the costs of rendering said judgment.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to P. Starritt of a balance due on corn.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to pay to Preston Starritt, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and ninety-four dollars and thirty-five cents, in full for the balance due him for corn furnished the United States in the year eighteen hun-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 78, 79, 80, 81. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/807">807</page>
dred and thirty-seven, under a contract made between said Starritt and Lieutenant A. Montgomery, acting assistant quartermaster in the United States army.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXVIII: confirming the claim of Augustine Lacoste to a certain trad of land therein named.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 807</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>confirming the claim of Augustine Lacoste to a certain trad of land therein named.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the claim of Augustine Lacoste, number eleven, certificate number eight, report number five, as shown by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim continued.</p></sidenote>records of the land office of St. Stephens, Alabama, to a certain tract of land situate on Bon Secour’s river, in the county of Baldwin, state of Alabama, containing, as shown by a survey thereof, made second January, eighteen hundred and thirty, and approved third December, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, by James II. Weakley, surveyor of the United States lands in Alabama, six hundred and thirty-eight and forty hundredths acres, be, and the same is hereby confirmed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the Commissioner <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to be issued.</p></sidenote>of the General Land Office cause to be issued to the above-named Augustine Lacoste a patent for the aforesaid tract of land, known as section thirty-nine, township number eight, range number four, east.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXIX: for the relief of Gilbert A. Smith and Nathan Stark.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 807</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Gilbert A. Smith and Nathan Stark.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of customs for the district of New London, in Connecticut, is hereby authorized to pay to Gilbert A. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.</p></sidenote>Smith and Nathan Stark, owners of the fishing schooner, called the Lilly, of forty-six and eighty-hundredths tons burthen, and to the persons composing her crew, or their legal representatives, the bounty allowed to her by law, to be distributed according to law; said schooner having completed the full term of three and one-half months in the cod-fisheries, during the season prescribed by law; and having been fitted out with the stores and complement of ten men by law required.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXX: for the relief of Ebenezer Lobdell.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 807</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ebenezer Lobdell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Ebenezer Lobdell, out of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for extra labor in removing obstructions from Kennebec river.</p></sidenote>any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand and seventy-five dollars and thirty-nine cents, for extra labor in clearing out certain obstructions in the river Kennebec, not within the terms of a contract executed by him and Peter Grant, the agent of the United States, on the thirtieth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXXI: for the relief of John W. Faunce and Oliver Perrin.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 807</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John W. Faunce and Oliver Perrin.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Patents be, and he hereby is, authorized to issue a patent to John W. Faunce and Oliver <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to be issued.</p></sidenote>Perrin, on their specification filed in the Patent Office on the first day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, on their paying the sum of thirty dollars and depositing a model and drawing according to the existing laws: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That, on examination, the Commissioner shall <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>be satisfied that the said Faunce and Perrin were the original inventors of the machine described in their said specification.</proviso></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXXII: for the relief of John L. Bowman, and Enoch J. Noyes.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 808</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/808">808</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 82, 83, 84. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John L. Bowman, and Enoch J. Noyes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote>district of Passamaquoddy, in Maine, is hereby authorized to pay to John L. Bowman, and Enoch J. Noyes, owners of the fishing schooner called the George, of Eastport, in said district, of sixty-eight and thirty-eight ninety-fifths tons burthen, and to the persons composing her late crew, or their legal representatives, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive if she had completed her fishing term; the said schooner having been totally lost in a gale, after having been employed more than two and a half months of the term required by law.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXXIII: for the relief of Pierre Molaison, the widow of Pierre Richoux, Alexander Comeau, Alice L. Foley, widow of John Foley, and François Marlin, of the state of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 808</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Pierre Molaison, the widow of Pierre Richoux, Alexander Comeau, Alice L. Foley, widow of John Foley, and François Marlin, of the state of Louisiana.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the claim of Pierre Molaison to a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim of P. .Molaison confirmed.</p></sidenote>tract of land ol one arpen and a half front, more or less, with forty arpens in depth, situate on the left bank of the bayou Lafourche, about three miles below the town of Thibodauxville, be, and the same is hereby confirmed.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of P. Richoux confirmed.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the claim of the widow, Pierre Richoux, to a tract of land of one arpen and a half front, more or less, with forty arpens in depth, situate on the left bank of the bayou Lafourche, about three miles below the town of Thibodauxville, and bounded on the lower side by the land of Pierre Molaison, described in the first section of this act, be, and the same is hereby confirmed.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of A. Comeau confirmed.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the claim of Alexander Comeau, to a tract of land of four arpens front, with forty arpens in depth, situate on the left bank of the bayou Lafourche, about four leagues and a half from the Mississippi, and designated as fractional section number fifty-eight, in township thirteen, range fourteen east, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of A. L. Foley confirmed.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the claim of Alice L. Foley, widow of John Foley, to a tract of land in the parish of Assumption, on the left bank of the canal leading to Lake Verrit, and containing ten arpens front by forty arpens in depth, designated as sections numbers one hundred and forty and one hundred and eighty, of townships numbers fourteen and fourteen, in range numbers thirteen and fourteen east, be, and the same is hereby confirmed.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of F. Martin confirmed.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the claim of François Martin to a tract of land in the parish of Assumption, on the right bank of the canal, to Lake Verrit, containing one hundred and forty and sixty-three <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>hundredths acres, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That none of the confirmations contained in this act shall amount to any thing more than a relinquishment of claim on the part of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXXIV: for the relief of certain settlers on the salt-lick reservation in the western district of Tennessee.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 808</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of certain settlers on the salt-lick reservation in the western district of Tennessee.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1839, ch.19, extended.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “An act for the relief of certain settlers living on what is called the salt-lick reservation in the western district of Tennessee,” approved
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/809">809</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 85, 86. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the first day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXXV: for the relief of the widow and heirs-at-law of the late Lewis Grant Davidson, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 809</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the widow and heirs-at-law of the late Lewis Grant Davidson, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of Eliza Davidson, the widow of Lewis Grant Davidson, late of Georgetown, in the District of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">E. Davidson to make out and return a Hat of the real estate her husband died seised of, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>Columbia, deceased, and guardian of the infant heirs of the said Lewis to make out and return to the orphans’ court of Washington county, in the said District, a full and complete list of all the real estate of which the said Lewis Grant Davidson died seized, lying and being in Washington county aforesaid, distinguishing on the said list such of the said real estate as is unimproved and unproductive, and such as is improved and productive; and it shall and may be lawful, and the said Eliza Davidson is hereby authorized, from time to time, to bargain and sell that part of the said estate which is unimproved and unproductive, or any portion thereof, on such terms as to her may seem most for the interest of the said infant heirs; and, immediately after any such sale, the said Eliza shall report the same, and the terms thereof, to the judge of the orphans’ court aforesaid; and the same having been approved and ratified by the said judge, and the purchase-money having been paid, and not otherwise, the said Eliza Davidson is further authorized and empowered, by a deed of bargain and sale, to convey the premises by her sold to the purchaser or purchasers thereof in fee simple.</content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the judge of the orphans’ <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Her dower and commission.</p></sidenote>court aforesaid shall have authority to allot and apportion to the said Eliza, out of the proceeds of such sales, an equivalent, or satisfaction in money, for her right of dower in the said premises sold and conveyed by her; and, also, a commission, not exceeding five per centum, on the proceeds of such sales; and to pass all such orders and decrees relative to the disposal and investment of such proceeds by the said Eliza, as to him shall seem proper for the preservation and improvement of the estate of the said infant heirs.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the register of the orphans’ <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register of the orphans' court to lake an account, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>court shall take and state an account of such sales as may be reported, and of such orders as may be made in the premises, under the direction of the said judge; and shall be paid therefor such fees as by law he is allowed to charge and receive in the settlement of other guardian accounts.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That, as the said infant heirs-at-law <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portion due to heirs, how to be paid.</p></sidenote>of the said Lewis Grant Davidson arrive at lawful age, it shall be the duty of the said Eliza Davidson to account with them for the proceeds of the said real estate by her sold by virtue of this act, and to pay over to each of them the balance or portion severally due to them on such account; and, on her failing so to do, her bond, as guardian of the said infant heirs, may be put in suit, and the said balance or portion severally due the said heirs may be recovered thereon.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXXVI: for the relief of Thomas Bennett.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 809</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Bennett.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas Bennett, of the state of New York, be placed on the pension roll at the rate of thirty dollars per annum <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>during his natural life; to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXXVII: granting a section of land for the use of schools in St. Clair county, state of Illinois.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 810</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>1</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/810">810</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 87, 88, 89, 90, 91. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a section of land for the use of schools in St. Clair county, state of Illinois.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That one section of the public lands subject to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Another section to be located in lieu of the 16th.</p></sidenote>private entry and sale in the state of Illinois, be located for the use and benefit of schools for the inhabitants of township one north, range ten west of the third principal meridian, in said state, in lieu of the sixteenth section, which has been appropriated by the Government for the use of private claims.</content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By whom to be located.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That any person appointed by the county commissioners’ court of the county of St. Clair, in the state of Illinois, be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate the said section named in this act for the purposes above-named.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXXVIII: for the relief of Captain John Downes.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 810</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Captain John Downes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid an amount with which ho stands Charged twice.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized and directed to allow to Captain John Downes, in the settlement of his account, the sum of seven hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty cents with which he stands charged twice in his account at the treasury department, and cause the said sum of seven hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty cents to be paid to the said Captain John Downes out of any money remaining in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXXIX: allowing further time to the Trustees of Centre College to dispose of the land heretofore granted to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, in the slate of Kentucky.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 810</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>1</congress>
<session>1</session>
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</meta>
<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>allowing further time to the Trustees of Centre College to dispose of the land heretofore granted to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, in the slate of Kentucky.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the further time of two years, from and after <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further time for the sale of lands allowed.</p></sidenote>the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty, be, and the same is hereby, allowed to the trustees of Centre College, at Danville, in the state oi Kentucky, to dispose of the lands heretofore granted to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, in said state of Kentucky.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XC: granting two townships of land for the use of a University in the Territory of Iowa.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 810</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>1</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting two townships of land for the use of a University in the Territory of Iowa.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land granted for a university in Iowa when it becomes a state, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized to set apart and reserve from sale, out of any of the public lands within the Territory of Iowa, to which the Indian title has been or may be extinguished, and not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land, not exceeding two entire townships, for the use and support of a university within the said Territory when it becomes a state, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever’ to be located in tracts of not less than an entire section, corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XCI: for the relief of the legal representatives of William Williams, senior, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 810</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>1</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of William Williams, senior, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Campbell, James Campbell, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to relinquish and eater load.</p></sidenote>Hamilton C. Campbell, and Mary Williams, be, and they are hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe, the south-west quarter
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 92, 93, 94, 95. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/811">811</page>
of section fifteen, of township ten north, range four east, in the tract appropriated (by the acts appropriating and granting land to the late Army of the United States, passed on and since the sixth day of May, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 6, 1812, ch. 77.</p></sidenote>eighteen hundred and twelve) for military bounties in the Territory of Arkansas; and upon such relinquishment being made as aforesaid, and upon satisfactory proof being also made to the said Commissioner that the said John Campbell, James Campbell, Hamilton C. Campbell, and Mary Williams, are the only legal representatives of the said William Williams, deceased, the said John Campbell, James Campbell, Hamilton C. Campbell, and Mary Williams, shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter any other quarter section of land, in the state of Arkansas, which shall be liable to entry at private sale.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XCII: granting a pension to the heirs of Leonard Smith.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 811</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>1</congress>
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</meta>
<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to the heirs of Leonard Smith.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be paid to the heirs of Leonard Smith, late of the county of Orange, in the state <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed the pay of a lieutenant, under act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote>of New York, the pay allowed to a lieutenant in the army of the revolution, for six months’ service, under the act of Congress passed the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; said pay commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and ending on the death of the said Leonard Smith.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XCIII: for the relief of Cornelius Tiers.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 811</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>1</congress>
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</meta>
<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Cornelius Tiers.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Cornelius Tiers, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a certain loss sustained.</p></sidenote>one thousand two hundred dollars; the amount of loss by him sustained in delaying to give him orders to make blocks, &amp;c. for a ship of the line, frigate, and sloop of war, contrary to his contract with the United States.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XCIV: for the relief of Mary Perkins.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 811</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>1</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mary Perkins.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Mary Perkins, of the county of Williams, in the state of Ohio, be, and she is hereby, authorized to enter, within <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote>twelve months after the passage of this act, with the register and receiver of the land office at Lima, in said state, the following tract of land, to wit: the west fraction of the south-east quarter of section numbered twenty-one, in township numbered one, north of range five east, in the Lima land district, Ohio, she paying therefor, as other purchasers’ the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XCV: for the relief of William Marbury, of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 811</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>1</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Marbury, of Louisiana.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
That William Marbury, of the state of Louisiana, be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter, without payment, at the land <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land, in lieu of land sold by U.S.</p></sidenote>office at St. Helena, a section of six hundred and forty acres of land, in township seven, range three east, in the land district of St. Helena’ in the state of Louisiana, in lieu of and as a full equivalent for the same quantity of land to which he had a private claim, which was confirmed, under a certificate numbered seven hundred and sixteen, in October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, and which tract of land was then required, by an order of survey from the land office at St. Helena, to be run out and allotted to him in the parish of St. Tammany, in the same land district, but which was not surveyed or allotted
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/812">812</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 96, 97. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
in pursuance of said order, and was returned as public land; the most <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>valuable part of which has since been sold by the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That before a patent shall issue for the land, the entry of which is authorized by the provisions of this act, the said Marbury shall relinquish to the United States, in such manner as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may direct, all his interest to the land originally confirmed, which should have been run out and allotted to him in the parish of St. Tammany.</proviso></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XCVI: for the relief of the children of Stephen Johnston, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 812</citableAs>
<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVI</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the children of Stephen Johnston, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That upon the President being satisfied that the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land certificate to issue.</p></sidenote> claim of the children of Stephen Johnston, named in the treaty made with the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians, near the mouth of the Mississinnewa, upon the Wabash, in the state of Indiana, on the sixteenth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, to a certain hall-section of land, in and by said treaty granted to them, the children of said Stephen Johnston, has been, or may have been, relinquished to the United States; or that the same never has been selected for, and accepted by them, he, the said President, is requested to cause the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue to the children of the said Stephen Johnston, by their names Stephen Johnston, and Elizabeth Johnston, or to their heirs a certificate, receivable in payment at any land office in the United States, for any half-section of land, not subject to pre-emption.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">This act to continue in force, how long.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That this act shall continue in force and have effect until the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and no longer.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCVII: for the relief of Boggs and Thompson, Robert and Thomas Hutchinson, and others.</dc:title>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Boggs and Thompson, Robert and Thomas Hutchinson, and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the collector of the port of New York or the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain draw-backs. not paid because of an omission io take the oaths, &amp;.c., to be paid.</p></sidenote>collector of the port of Philadelphia, as the case may be, be, and they are hereby, respectively required to pay to the persons hereinafter mentioned, or their representatives, the drawback of duties on the importations of the goods and merchandise hereinafter mentioned, which said drawbacks were not paid when the same became due, because of the omission on the part of the exporters to take the oath and give the bond within ten days then limited by law, for taking oaths and giving bonds <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>in cases of exportations for benefit of drawback: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said collectors, respectively, shall be satisfied that the said goods were bona fide shipped for debenture, and actually landed in a foreign port, and that the omission to take the oath and give the bond aforesaid, was inadvertent or in consequence of misapprehension, viz:</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To Boggs and Thompson, of New York, on one hundred boxes of claret wine, exported from New York to Port an Prince, on board the schooner Genera) Andrew Jackson, Ashby, master, and on eighty boxes of claret wine exported from New York to Aux Gayes on board the schooner Favorite, Scoyen, master.
To Cotheal and Hoff, of New York, on eight pipes of gin, and one hundred and fifty gin cases, exported to the West Indies on board the schooner Sally, Dominick, master.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To Robert and Thomas Hutchinson, of New York, on twenty-one bales of cotton yarns, exported from New York to the Port of Greenock, on board the ship Annisquam, Watkinsou, master.</p>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 99. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
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<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To James Grant Forbes and Ralph B. Forbes, of New York, on sundry hogsheads, barrels, and seroons of merchandise, consisting of cocoa, coffee, sugar, gum, sarsaparilla, gum gnyacum, seeds and bark, exported to Nantz, on board the ship Brutus, Pendergrast, master, and on nine bales cotton, exported to West Indies on board the brig Sussex, Lee, master.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To Joseph Simmons, of Philadelphia, on two hundred bags of coffee, exported on board the ship Golden Age, Nye, master, from Philadelphia to Hamburg.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To Jacob Ritter, Jr., of Philadelphia, on sixty-four canisters of sugar, exported on board the ship Fair American, from Philadelphia to Amsterdam.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To John Laval, of Philadelphia, on two cases of jewelry, exported on board the brig Molly, Lee, master, from Philadelphia to St. Pierre, in Martinique.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To Gray and Taylor, and Samuel Tagert, of Philadelphia, on one hundred and one chests of Congo tea, exported on board the ship Temperance, Captain Burrough, from Philadelphia to Hamburg.</p>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCIX: for the relief of Chaatelain and Ponvert, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Chaatelain and Ponvert, and for other purposes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-21">July 21, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the collector of the port of New York is hereby authorized to deduct from the amount of a bond given by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties charged on goods destroyed by fire to be deducted from a bond.</p></sidenote>Chastelaiu and Ponvert, for duties on merchandize imported in the schooner General Jackson, Hawes, master, from Neuvitas, in the island of Cuba, such duties as may have been charged on that portion of said merchandize, which was not landed in the United States, having been destroyed by fire in the harbor of New York, upon their producing proof, to the collector of New York, of the destruction of said merchandize.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content class="inline"><p class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the following sums to pay <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations for—</p></sidenote>the balances of accounts for which no appropriations now exist, and which have been passed upon and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Government, or are now before them for audit, and for the payment of which, appropriations are recommended by the heads of the proper departments, be, and the same are hereby appropriated, viz:</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For an award made by the proper accounting officers of the treasury <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation by certain steamboats.</p></sidenote>in favor of the owners of the Steamboats Stasca and Dayton, for service rendered under an agreement with Major Charles Thomas, Quarter-master, for the transportation oi supplies, laborers and other things, for the use of the works at Fort Smith, Arkansas, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For payment of a balance due for supplies furnished to the Creek <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, &amp;c. to the Creek Indians.</p></sidenote>Indians, and medical services rendered to those Indians, after the commencement of the disturbances in the Creek country, and before and during the removal of the said Indians west of the Mississippi, which accounts were incurred tinder the direction of the proper officers or agents of the Government, seven thousand seven hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-four cents.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For the payment of the expenses of a division of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of lands of Brothertown Ind’s.</p></sidenote><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 83.</p></sidenote>lands of the Brotnertown Indians among the members of the tribe, in obedience to tie act of Congress of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled “An act for the relief of the Brothertown Indians in the Territory of Wisconsin” the duties having been performed and the accounts presented, one thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For the payment of an account of Henry Lucas and A. P. King, of
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/814">814</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 99. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">H. Lucas and A. P. King, for teams and wagons.</p></sidenote>the state of Alabama, for the loss and injury sustained by them by the impressment of their teams and wagons into the service of the United Stales by D. H. Baldwin, Quartermaster-General of the Florida militia, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, a sum not to exceed six thousand and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hart and Bosworth, for arms and ammunition.</p></sidenote>For the payment of an account of Hart and Bosworth, merchants of Irwinton, Alabama, and of John Hart, merchant of the same place, for stores, arms, and ammunitions, taken for the use of the troops in the service of the United States, by the order of General William Irwin, commandant of the fifth division of the Alabama militia, during the Creek campaign of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, a sum not to exceed two thousand three hundred and eleven dollars and ninety cents.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. H. Craddack.</p></sidenote>For the payment of an account of John H. Craddack, of Alabama, for property of his destroyed by the order of Colonel J. T. Lane, an officer in the service of the United States, in the month of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the sum of one hundred and sixty-four dollars and sixty-three cents.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. Mitchell and B. F. Fox.</p></sidenote>For the payment of a balance due to John Mitchell and Benjamin F. Fox, contractors for the erection of the Branch Mint at New Orleans, as admitted by and recommended from, the accounting officers of the treasury, a sum not to exceed eight thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveys.</p></sidenote>For the payment of balances due for military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, and north of the state of Missouri, made under the direction of the War Department, and the accounts for which are now before the proper accounting officers for settlement, a sum not <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">C. Gordon, for making maps.</p></sidenote>to exceed sixteen thousand dollars. For the payment of Charles Gordon agreeably to the certificate of the Committee on Public lands for services rendered by him in making maps, twenty-one hundred dollars.</p>
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</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A. Davezac, Chargé d’Affaires at the Hague.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That there be paid to Auguste Davezac, late Charge d’Affitires of the United States at the Hague, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eight cents, it being the balance due to him, as acting Chargé d’Affitires, between the twenty-fourth day of May and the fifteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, after deducting therefrom the pay of Secretary of Legation during that period, which he has already received.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">W. D. Jones, for diplomatic services at Mexico.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the sum of eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars and ninety-five cents be, and the same .is hereby, appropriated, ont of any unappropriated money in the treasury, to William D. Jones, in full for diplomatic services rendered to the United States at the Government of Mexico, from the twenty-eighth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">N. Niles allowed the outfit, &amp;c. nf a Charge d’Affaires, after deducting, Sc..</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That there be paid to Nathaniel Niles, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same outfit, salary, and allowances, as though he had been regularly commissioned as a Chargé d’Affiiires to Sardinia, from the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, until the eighteenth of June eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, that being the termination of his special mission to Sardinia, during which period he negotiated the subsisting treaty between the United States and the King of Sardinia, deducting therefrom the amount of the salary and contingent expenses which he has already received during the same period, as special agent to Austria and Sardinia.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to M. St. Clair .Clarke and P. Force for the Documentary History.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, in part payment for the expense incurred by Matthew St. Clair Clarke, and Peter Force, and for work done by them in publishing the second and third volumes of 
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 99. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/815">815</page>
the Documentary History of the American Revolution, and for collecting materials for publishing said history:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the sum <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>hereby appropriated shall not be considered as giving any sanction whatever, by Congress, to any contract alleged to have been entered into between the said Clarke and Force, and Edward Livingston, the late Secretary of State, under the act of March second eighteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1833, ch. 73.</p></sidenote>and thirty-three, providing for the publication of said history:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, further,</i> That the sum hereby appropriated shall not be regarded by Clarke and Force as any encouragement given to them for proceeding either in the collection of further materials, or in any way for continuing said history—but the sum so appropriated is made upon the expectation that Congress will, at its next session, resume the consideration of this subject, with a view to putting an end to any further publication of said history at the expense of the United States, agreeable to a joint resolution which has been adopted by Congress at its present session.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the third section of the act <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of July seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled “An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby revived and continued in force for the year eighteen hundred and forty, and until otherwise directed by law.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 8. </num><content class="inline"><p class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the following sums be, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations for repairs. tec. of die Capitol.</p></sidenote>the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the use and repair of the public buildings; viz:</proviso></p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For repairing two cupolas, on the north wing of the Capitol, three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For removing two cupola sashes over the principal stairway and vestibule leading to the hall of the House of Representatives, three hundred and ninety-two dollars.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For preparing panels of the rotunda with curtains for the reception of the paintings, five hundred and forty-two dollars.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For repairing chimney stacks of the Capitol, two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">For cost of preparing suitable foundation for supporting the Colossal Statue of Washington, in the centre of the rotunda of the Capitol, two thousand dollars.</p>
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</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 9. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the Commissioner of Public <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioner of public buildings to report to Congress, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>Buildings, make to Congress, annually, at the commencement of the year, a report of the manner in which all appropriations for the public buildings and grounds have been applied.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 10. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That all the estimates of the public <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estimates.&amp;c. to be submitted to the committee thereon.</p></sidenote>buildings and grounds, shall hereafter be submitted by the Commissioner of Public Buildings to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds to be examined and approved by them, before they are reported to the House.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 11. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That it shah be the duty of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties of commiss’r of public buildings.</p></sidenote>Commissioner of Public Buildings to form all the contracts’ and to disburse all the moneys for materials furnished or labor performed, for the public buildings, and that he shall receive for all his services the same compensation, as is allowed by law, to the Commissioners of Patents.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 12. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the sum of one thousand <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses of certain Alabama volunteers.</p></sidenote>one hundred and twenty-six dollars and fifty-seven cents, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated to defray the expenses of calling into service Captain Snodgrass’s company of Alabama volunteers to serve as a guard Act of July 1, 1838. ch. 169, Sec. 3, revived.
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/816">816</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 100. Res. 2. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
 in accompanying a party of emigrating Cherokees from Bellante to Waterloo, in the state of Alabama.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 13. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation to enable P. M. Gen. to comply with resolutions of 23d June 1840.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the sum of fifteen hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Postmaster-General to comply with the resolutions of the House of Representatives passed twenty-third of June eighteen hundred and forty, which were reported on the twenty-fifth of May by the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-21">July 21, 1840</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter C: for the relief of Hyacinth Lassel.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Hyacinth Lassel.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-21">July 21, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1844, ch. 152-A certificate authorizing him to enter certain land, to issue.</p></sidenote>Office shall issue to Hyacinth Lassel (named in the schedule of grants annexed to the treaty made with the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians, on the seventeenth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, near the mouth of the Mississinniwa, upon the Wabash, in the state of Indiana) a certificate under the seal of said land office, authorizing him, the said Hyacinth Lassel, to locate five hundred and sixty acres of land in one tract, at any land office in the state of Indiana; he, the said Lassel, paying the minimum price fixed for such lands, for eighteen acres and forty-six hundredths of an acre, part and parcel of said tract of five hundred and sixty acres.</content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Such certificate to be receivable for land.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That such certificate of the Commissioner of the General Land Office aforesaid, shall be receivable, from the said Hyacinth Lassel, at any land office in said state of Indiana, at any time prior to the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, or from the heirs or assigns of the said Hyacinth Lassel, in payment, according to the provisions of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>first section of this act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however,</i> That the entry and location hereby authorized, shall not be made on any lands within the limits of the grant made to the state of Indiana for the Wabash and Erie Canal; nor on the alternate sections reserved to the United States in said grant; nor on any lands selected by the state of Indiana for the purposes of said Canal.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-21">July 21, 1840</date>.
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<dc:title>No. 2: for the relief of Masterion and Smith, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">Joint Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Masterion and Smith, and for other purposes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-05-16">May 16, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<recital class="indent1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote>Whereas, the contractors for furnishing the marble, and building the same in the erection of the new building now erecting for the use of the General Post Office Department, are unable to complete the said work within the time specified in their contract, owing to causes not now within their control, and</recital>
<recital class="indent1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas the public interest will be promoted by an extension of the time for the fulfilment of the contract by the contractors; therefore,</recital>
<resolvingClause class="smallCaps inline"><i>Be it resolved, &amp;c</i>.,</resolvingClause>
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<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the contractors aforesaid have the time for <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain contracts extended, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote>completing their contracts extended until the first day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-one; and that all other contractors for materials, or work for said Post Office building, have a proportional extension of time if the Postmaster-General shall deem it expedient or necessary; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided,</i> That all contractors be liable to all penalties, restrictions and reservations provided for, and covenanted to be made and kept in their present contracts, except as to time, anything in this resolution to the contrary notwithstanding.</proviso>
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</section>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 6. 1840.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/817">817</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further resolved,</i> That all the duties imposed upon, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties imposed on the President by act of March 3, 1839, ch. 87, to be performed by P. M. Gen.</p></sidenote>or required to be performed by the President, in the act of Congress approved third March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled “An act providing for the erection of a fire-proof building for the use of the General Post Office Department,” shall, hereafter, be performed by the Postmaster-General.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-05-16">May 16, 1840</date>.
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<dc:title>No. 6: authorizing an examination and payment of the claims of the stone-cutters and other workmen upon the public buildings.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
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<dc:date>1840-07-20</dc:date>
<docNumber>6</docNumber>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No 6. </docNumber></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">A Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing an examination and payment of the claims of the stone-cutters and other workmen upon the public buildings.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="smallCaps inline"><i>Be it resolved, &amp;c</i>.,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the commissioners appointed by the President of the United States to superintend the prosecution of the work in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination of claims of certain workmen, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote>the construction of the new Treasury building, and the Patent Office building, be, and they are hereby authorized to examine the claims of the stone-cutters and other workmen to indemnity for the loss of their time during the suspension of the work upon said buildings, by order of the superintendent of public buildings, in consequence of the want of the necessary means to carry on the said work; and that the said commissioners allow to such of said workmen, respectively, as were suspended from labor, under the assurance, that, upon an appropriation being made for the continuation of said work, their labor would again be required by the Government, and who, intermediately, had no opportunity of obtaining employment in the city of Washington, such reasonable indemnity for loss of wages for labor, during the suspension of the work, as, under the circumstances of their respective cases, justice and equity may require, not exceeding, however, in any case, the average rate of the earnings of said workmen in the employment of the Government for a like preceding period of time.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1840-07-20">July 20, 1840</date>.
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<congress>26</congress>
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<dc:date>1841</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of December, 1840, and ended on the third day of March,</i> 1841.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Martin Van Buren</inline>, President, <inline class="smallCaps">Richard M. Johnson</inline>, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate, <inline class="smallCaps">Robert M. T, Hunter</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chapter IV: making temporary provision for lunatics in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1841-02-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IV</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>making temporary provision for lunatics in the District of Columbia.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-02-02">February 2, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8">Certain lunatics to be sent to the lunatic asylum in Baltimore, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the marshal for the District of Columbia be, and he is hereby, authorized to send to the lunatic asylum, in Baltimore, all such lunatic persons, who are paupers, as are now confined in the jails of Washington and Alexandria counties, and all such as may hereafter be committed as lunatics, by order of the circuit or criminal courts, they being paupers of the said District of Columbia, and their support being legally chargeable thereto; and that he pay the expenses of their removal, and of their maintenance in said asylum, and be allowed for the same in the settlement of his accounts <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>at the Treasury of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> Said expenses shall not exceed, in the whole, the sum of three thousand dollars per annum.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation of this act.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That this act shall continue in force until the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and no longer.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-02-02">February 2, 1841</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter VIII: for the relief of Gurdon S. Hubbard, Robert A. Kinzie, and others.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 818</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Gurdon S. Hubbard, Robert A. Kinzie, and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-02-18">February 18, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the reversionary interest of the United States <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversionary interest of U. S. in certain reservations, relinquished to persons hereinafter named.</p></sidenote>in and to the following Indian reservations, under the treaty with the Pottawatomies of the Prairie and Kankakee, made at Camp Tippecanoe, on the twentieth day of October, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same hereby is, relinquished to the persons hereinafter named, respectively, that is to say:</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To Thomas Durham and John Blackstone, according to their several shares as purchased of Jacques Jonveau, the section reserved by said treaty to said Jacques Jonveau;</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To Noel Vasseur, six hundred and forty acres of the reservation to Me-she-ke-ton-o, reference being had to the deed of said reservee to said Vasseur for location and more particular description thereof;</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To Gurdon S. Hubbard, E. K. Hubbard, H. G. Hubbard, and Noel</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/818" renderingPosition="bottom">818</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 9, 10. 1841.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/819">819</page>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">Vasseur, the remaining one section of the reservation to said Me-she-ke-ton-o;</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To Noel Vasseur, the one section reserved to Francis Le Vice;</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To Gurdon S. Hubbard and Richard J. Hamilton, the reservation to Joseph Lefrainboise and Therese, his wife;</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To Robert A. Kinzie and Richard J. Hamilton, the reservation of one section to Archange Peltier;</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">To Richard J. Hamilton, the reservation of one section to Min-e-maung.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10">It being understood, and this relinquishment is made upon the condition, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions on which the relinquishment is made.</p></sidenote>that the several persons herein named as grantees have purchased of the several reservees, by authentic and regular deeds, their respective rights in and to the said reservations: <proviso><i>And provided, further,</i> That no sale or conveyance of said reservations by the said reservees shall be deemed regular, nor shall this act have effect, until the President of the United States shall have approved such conveyance, and endorsed his approval thereon.</proviso></p></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-02-18">February 18, 1841</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter IX: supplementary to an act entitled “An act to encourage the introduction, and promote the cultivation of tropical plants,” approved seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 819</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>supplementary to an act entitled “An act to encourage the introduction, and promote the cultivation of tropical plants,” approved seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-02-18">February 18, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<preamble>
<recital class="indent1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas, under the provisions of the act, to which this is a supplement, Doctor Henry Perrine made, in the manner thereby required, the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 188.</p></sidenote>location therein authorized; and while engaged in the necessary measures to carry into effect the objects contemplated by the said act, was murdered by the Seminole Indians: and whereas Mrs. Ann F. Perrine, the widow of the said Doctor Perrine, is anxious to continue the undertaking thus commenced by her late husband, but is prevented from so doing by the continuance of the Indian war in Florida: therefore,</recital>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Mrs. Ann F. Perrine, the widow of the said Henry Perrine, and Sarah Ann Perrine, Hester M. S. Perrine, and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widow and children of Dr. Perrine entitled to the rights, &amp;.c. vested in him, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>Henry E. Perrine, his surviving children, are herebv declared to be entitled to all the rights and privileges vested in and granted to the said Doctor Henry Perrine, by the act to which this is a supplement, and that the time limited by the said act in which every section of said grant should be occupied to prevent the forfeiture of the same to the United States, be, and the same is hereby, extended to eight years from and after the time when the present Indian war in Florida shall cease and determine.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-02-18">February 18, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter X: for the relief of Mary Tucker.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 819</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mary Tucker.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-02-27">February 27, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the west half of section fifteen, in township <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1843, ch. 16.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain land to be reserved for the use of schools, in lieu of other land.</p></sidenote>six south, of range two east, in the Territory of Arkansas, be, and the same is hereby, reserved from sale, and appropriated for the use of schools in said township, in lieu of the south-west fractional quarter and the south-east fractional quarter of section sixteen, in that town-ship; and the east half of section number fifteen, in township number six south, of range two east, shall be taken and held, in all respects, and for the same purposes, as the aforesaid fractional quarters of section number sixteen would have been held and taken if this act had not been passed, the majority of the citizens of said township having agreed to the same.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/820">820</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 14, 15, 16, 17. 1841.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mary Tucker, the occupant, authorized to enter said land.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That Mary Tucker, the occupant upon said fractional quarter sections, be, and is hereby, authorized to enter the same within six months from the passage of this act, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, in the proper land office.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-02-27">February 27, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XIV: for the relief of Lieutenant John E. Bispham.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 820</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Lieutenant John E. Bispham.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Lieutenant John E. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the sum awarded to him as one of the captors of a piratical felucca.</p></sidenote>Bispham, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-nine dollars and sixteen cents, the amount awarded to him by Congress, as one of the captors of a piratical felucca, taken in the West Indies, in eighteen hundred and twenty-three, and transferred to the treasury by reason of his non-claim within the time limited by law.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XV: for the relief of Jean Baptiste Comeau.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 820</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jean Baptiste Comeau.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Jean Baptiste Comeau, of the parish of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land, in lieu of, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>Lafayette, in the state of Louisiana, be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter, without payment therefor, two hundred and ten acres of land, upon any of the public lands which have been surveyed, and are subject to sale by private entry in the said state, in lieu of a like quantity of land confirmed to him upon the report of the commissioners of land claims for the western district of Louisiana, of the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and which was subsequently sold by the United States to a certain Jean E. Lefebvre, under the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 12, 1614, ch.52.</p></sidenote>provisions of the act of the twelfth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled “An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>state of Louisiana and territory of Missouri <proviso><i>Provided,</i> The location of the land, the entry of which is here authorized, shall, as near as can be, conform to the legal divisions and subdivisions of the surveys of the public lands, and if the quantity located shall exceed two hundred and ten acres, the residue shall be paid for at the minimum price of public lands; and upon a return of the usual certificate to the General Land Office of the United States, a patent shall issue, as in other cases of land sold by the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XVI: for the relief of John Carter.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 820</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Carter.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Carter, of Georgetown, in the District <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to bring a slave into the District of Columbia.</p></sidenote>of Columbia, be, and he is hereby, authorized to bring into the District of Columbia, from the state of Alabama, his slave man William, and the said slave to hold in the said district, in the same manner as if the said man William had been always resident in the said district; any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XVII: granting a pension to Hannah Leighton.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1841-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Hannah Leighton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War place the name of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>Hannah Leighton on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and pay her a pension at the rate of eighty dollars a year, from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, during her life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XVIII: for the relief of William Jones.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1841-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 18, 19, 20, 22. 1841.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/821">821</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Jones.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the register and receiver of the land office at Huntsville, in the state of Alabama, be, and they are hereby, required <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>to issue a certificate to William Jones, of Lawrence county, in said state, for the amount received in said land office for the south-west quarter of section twenty-two, in township five, of range three west, and the additional amount of the interest which has accrued thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum: <proviso><i>Provided,</i> said Jones shall file in <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certificate or amount paid or certain land, vith interest, to be issued.</p></sidenote>said land office a relinquishment of all right, title, and interest, in said quarter section, to the Government of the United States; and the said certificate shall be received in payment of any of the public lands which may be thereafter sold in the said state of Alabama:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also,</i> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>That it shall be satisfactorily shown to said register and receiver, that said quarter section was selected by the state of Alabama, under the act of Congress granting four hundred thousand acres of relinquished <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1828, ch. 15.</p></sidenote>land to said state, for the improvement of the navigation of the Tennessee and other rivers, before the sale thereof at said United States land office.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XIX: for the relief of Charles M. Keller and Henry Stone.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1841-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles M. Keller and Henry Stone.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Charles M. Keller and Henry Stone, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for properly destroyed.</p></sidenote>the sum of two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents, for property destroyed by fire while in the public service.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XX: for the relief of William P. Rathbone.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 821</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>26</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William P. Rathbone.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to settle the accounts of William P. Rathbone, late <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His accounts as paymaster and collector to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>a district paymaster in the army of the United States; and also his accounts as army contractor, under his contracts of the first of November, eighteen hundred and sixteen, and of the fifth of November, eighteen hundred and seventeen, (giving proper consideration to the report of referees made in a cause commenced in the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York, by the United States of America, against the said William P. Rathbone and his sureties, and bearing date on the seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, without considering it as conclusive,) and that the balance, if any, which may be found due to the said William P. Rathbone, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXII: for the relief of Joab Seely.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 821</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>26</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joab Seely.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to refund and pay to Joab Seely, the sum of twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent fees to be refunded.</p></sidenote> dollars, being the amount of an overpayment made by him into the treasury of the United States for a patent for a new invention.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXIII: granting a pension to Lemuel White.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 822</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>26</congress>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/822">822</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 23, 27, 28. 1841.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Lemuel White.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War place the name of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>Lemuel White on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and pay him a pension at the rate of twenty dollars a year, from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, during his life.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-02">March 2, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXVII: for the relief of Avery, Saltmarsh, and Company.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 822</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>26</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Avery, Saltmarsh, and Company.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-03">March 3, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed by the Creek Indians.</p></sidenote>is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Avery, Saltmarsh, and Company, the contractors for carrying the mail on the route from Columbus, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama, the sum of nine thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine dollars, it being for property employed by them in transportation of the mail captured and destroyed by the Creek Indians in Alay, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-03">March 3, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXVIII: for the relief of the heirs of Miguel Eslava.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 822</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>26</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Miguel Eslava.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-03">March 3, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the decision of the register and receiver of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Decision of the register, &amp;c. respecting a land claim, confirmed.</p></sidenote>the land office for the district of St. Stephen’s, in the state of Alabama, as contained in their report bearing date the third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, confirming a claim of the heirs of Miguel Eslava, deceased, (being claim number three in report <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1829, ch. 40.</p></sidenote>number two,) and made in pursuance of the act of Congress, approved the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, entitled “ An act confirming the reports of the register and receiver for the district of St. Stephen’s, in the state of Alabama, and for other <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, confirmed; <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the confirmation provided to be made by this act shall amount only to a relinquishment, for ever, on the part of the United States, of all right <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>and title whatever to the land so confirmed or granted:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, also,</i> That the survey and location hereafter to be made of said claims, which are hereby confirmed, shall be made in conformity with the original Spanish title-papers, unless the surveys of said claims be found variant from the grants, according to the usages of the Spanish Government; in which case, the grants are to govern.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">After the location, patents shall issue, &amp;c.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That after the proper location of the claims hereby confirmed, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue patents for the same, containing a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> reservation of the rights of all third persons:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the said patents shall be construed to convey to the claimants all such legal and equitable rights only, as may exist under the laws of nations, or under the constitution and laws of the United States, or treaties applicable to <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to be issued to J. Hunt and A. H, Gazzam.</p></sidenote>the said grants, under and by virtue of the said Spanish grants. And it shall be also the duty of the Commissioner of the Gentyal Land Office, forthwith to issue patents to Jonathan Hunt and Audley H. Gazzam, for all such portion of said lands, for which they now hold receipts issued by the receiver of the land office at St. Stephen’s, in the state of Alabama; which patents shall contain an exception and reservation of all the rights of the said Spanish grantees, their heirs or assigns, under the titles <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>claimed by them under the Spanish Government:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided,</i> That the patents issued to the said Hunt and Gazzam shall be construed to convey to them all such rights only, as are not inconsistent with the legal or equitable rights of the said Spanish grantees, their heirs or assigns, 
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29, 30, 31, 32. 1841.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/823">823</page>
under the laws of nations, or under the constitution and laws of the United States, or treaties applicable to said grants, under and by virtue of the Spanish grants hereby confirmed.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-03">March 3, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXIX: for the relief of Joseph Bogy.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 823</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>26</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Bogy.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-03">March 3, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Joseph Bogy, to whom was confirmed a concession of three hundred and twenty arpens of land in Arkansas, by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate a tract of land.</p></sidenote>mistake for eight hundred arpens, be, and he is hereby, empowered to locate four hundred and eighty arpens of land on any land subject to sale at private entry, in the state of Arkansas.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-03">March 3, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXX: to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to refund the duties collected on the French ship Alexandre.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 823</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>26</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to refund the duties collected on the French ship Alexandre.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-03">March 3, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to refund, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote>appropriated, such amount of duty as may have been collected at the port of Newport, upon the French ship Alexandre, and her cargo, brought into the United States by mutineers. The vessel being bound, at the time the mutiny occurred, to the port of Bordeaux, in France, and no part of the cargo having been consumed in the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-03">March 3, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXXI: respecting the heirs of Agness Dundas.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 823</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>respecting the heirs of Agness Dundas.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-03-03">March 3, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from and after the passing of this act, whatever interest in law or equity the United States may have to the houses, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest of the U. S. in certain houses and lota in Alexandria, released.</p></sidenote>and lot on which said houses stand, being on the north side of King street, between Pitt and Royal streets, in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, with all the back buildings and warehouses, to Hooff’s alley, and in and to the mesne profits arising from the same, shall be, and the same is hereby, released to Nancy M. Keene, Sophia Peyton, Eliza Dundas, John Dundas, Thomas Dundas, William H. Dundas, and Henry T. Dundas, claiming to be the lawful heirs of Agness Dundas,deceased, late of the District of Columbia.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-03">March 3, 1841</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXXII: to incorporate the Washington City Benevolent Society.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 823</citableAs>
<dc:date>1841-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to incorporate the Washington City Benevolent Society.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from and after the passage of this act, all those persons who are, or shall hereafter become, members of “the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incorporation.</p></sidenote>Washington City Benevolent Society,” of the city of Washington, District of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, made a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of “the Washington City Benevolent Society,” and shall so continue until the third day of March, one thousand <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of incorporation.</p></sidenote>eight hundred and sixty, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and by that name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in courts of record and in any other place whatsoever; and by that name may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">The usual rights, Ac. of a body corporate, grouted.</p></sidenote>make, have, and use, a common seal, and the same may break, alter, and renew at pleasure; and shall have power to ordain, establish, and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, as shall seem necessary and convenient for the government of said corporation, not being contrary to the laws and Constitution of the United States; and generally to do and execute all acts necessary or proper for the objects of said corporation, subject to the limitations and provisions of this act.</content></section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/824">824</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 39. 1841.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investment of moneys.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That the monthly contributions, and all other moneys received on account of the society, may, from time to time, be invested in the public stocks of the United States, in loans to individuals, or in stocks of any incorporated banking institution or corporation; and the moneys so invested, or that may be deposited, shall be drawn out of the bank or place of deposit only on the order of the Treasurer, countersigned by the Secretary, and approved by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>President:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, nevertheless,</i> That the said society or body politic shall not, at any one time, hold or possess property, real, personal, or mixed, exceeding in total value the sum of twenty thousand dollars.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation not to have banking privileges, &amp;c.</p></sidenote><content class="inline"><proviso><i>And be it further enacted,</i> That it shall not be lawful for the said corporation to deal or trade in the manner of a bank, nor issue any note in the nature of a bank note, nor transact any other kind of business, or deal in any other manner or thing than is expressly authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote>by the second section of this act; and any officer or officers who shall have assented to any such dealing or trade, shall, on conviction thereof, in the proper court, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, one half to the use of the poor of the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and the other half to the use of the person who may <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>prosecute for the same:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, always,</i> That congress may, at any time, amend, alter, or annul this act.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chapter XXXIX: to authorize the enrolment or register of the schooner Amistad.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1841-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the enrolment or register of the schooner Amistad.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Spanish schooner Amistad, lately sold <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schr. Amistad may be registered or enrolled.</p></sidenote>at New London, by the marshal, in pursuance of an order of the district court of the United States for the district of Connecticut, may be registered, or enrolled, the same as if said schooner had been built within the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-03-03">March 3, 1841</date>.
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the thirty- first day of May, 1841, and ended on the eleventh day of September</i>, 1841.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">John Tyler</inline>, President of the United States; <inline class="smallCaps">Samuel L. Southard</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">John White</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chapter II: for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, widow of the late President of the United States.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>II</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, widow of the late President of the United States.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-06-30">June 30, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Mrs. Harrison.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Harrison, widow of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States, or, in the event of her death before payment, then to the legal representatives of the said William Henry Harrison, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided, always</i>, That any sum of money which shall have been paid to the personal representatives of the said William Henry Harrison since his death, on account of his salary as President of the United States, shall be deducted from the said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-06-30">June 30, 1841</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter VI: to revive and continue in force for ten years an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria,”</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1841-08-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to revive and continue in force for ten years an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria,”</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1841-08-09">August 9, 1841</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria,” approved April thirteenth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 13, 1818, revived and continued for ten years.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and eighteen, be, and the same is hereby, revived, and shall continue in force for the term of ten years from and after the passage of this act; and all the rights, privileges, and powers granted by the said act to the Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria,” and the corporate existence of the said society, are hereby revived and continued in full force for the term of ten years from and after the passage of this act: <i>Provided, however</i>, It shall and may be lawful for the trustees of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said Corporation, at any time before the expiration of the said ten years, to dissolve the same; to sell and convey the estate, real and personal, which has been or may hereafter be, vested in said corporation; and to make such disposition of the proceeds, after paying all just debts of said corporation, as they may deem proper.</content></section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/825" renderingPosition="bottom">825</page>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1841-08-09">August 9, 1841</date>.
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<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS</p>
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<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed, at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December, 1841, and ended on the thirty first day of August</i>, 1842.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">John Tyler</inline>, President of the United States; <inline class="smallCaps">Samuel L. Southard</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">John White</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE II.</session>
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<dc:title>Chapter IX: for the relief of Samuel Crapin.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Crapin.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> be directed to place the name of Samuel Crapin on the pension roll, and pay him a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, during his natural life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter X: for the relief of Huldah Tucker.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Huldah Tucker.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to place the name of Huldah Tucker, widow of Zephaniah Tucker, a soldier of the revolution, on the roll of pensioners of the United States, and pay to her the sum of eighty dollars per annum, to be computed from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during her natural life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XI: granting a pension to Margaret Jamison.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Margaret Jamison.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Margaret Jamison, widow of Samuel Jamison, deceased, of the state of Pennsylvania, on the revolutionary pension roll, under the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for four months’ service of her late husband as a sergeant and two months as a lieutenant.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XII: granting a pension to David Waller.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to David Waller.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to cause the name of David Waller to be placed upon the re-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/826" renderingPosition="bottom">826</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/827">827</page>
volutionary pension roll of the United States, and to pay him a pension, at the rate of sixty dollars per annum, from the fourth day of March eighteen hundred and thirty-one, during his natural life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XIII: for the relief of Margaret Barnes, widow of Elijah Barnes.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Margaret Barnes, widow of Elijah Barnes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause the name of Margaret Barnes, widow of Elijah Barnes, a soldier of the revolution,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll. Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 362.</p></sidenote> to be entered on the pension roll, in conformity to the act of Congress of July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and pay her at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, as is required in other cases by the provisions of the aforesaid act.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XIV: for the relief of Joseph Bassett.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Bassett.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Joseph Bassett on the pension list, under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 362.</p></sidenote> the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, and to pay him at that rate from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, during his natural life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XV: granting a pension to William Band.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-03-19</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to William Band.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of William Rand, of Deer-field,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> in the state of New Hampshire, on the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per annum during his natural life, to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-03-19">March 19, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XVI: for the relief of James Smith, of Arkansas.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 827</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-04-14</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Smith, of Arkansas.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-04-14">April 14, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James Smith, of the state of Arkansas, be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter without payment, in lieu of one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land, in lieu of land sold him by mistake.</p></sidenote> fractional quarter and two half quarters of land, which the register and receiver of the land office at Little Rock sold to him through mistake, and upon which he made valuable improvements, but which lands were subsequently sold and patented by the United States to James Brown, three hundred and twenty acres of the unappropriated and unimproved lands of the United States in the Helena land district, in the state of Arkansas.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-04-14">April 14, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XVII: for the relief of James H. Relfe.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-04-14</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James H. Relfe.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-04-14">April 14, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and settle<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His account for certain expenses to be settled.</p></sidenote> the account of James H. Relfe, United States marshal for the district of Missouri, for the expenses incurred by him in the execution of the order of the twentieth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, from the War Department, by which the marshal of said district was directed to remove certain intruders from the military reservation at Fort Leaven-worth, Missouri; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/828">828</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 18, 19, 27, 28. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
to pay to the said Relfe the amount which shall be found due him for such expenses, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, not exceeding in amount two hundred dollars.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-04-14">April 14, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XVIII: for the relief of John 8. Billings.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 828</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-04-14</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John 8. Billings.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-04-14">April 14, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the pension allowed to John S. Billings, an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to be increased.</p></sidenote> invalid pensioner, be increased to eight dollars per month, from the last day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-04-14">April 14, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XIX: to extend the time for selling the lands granted to the incorporated, Kentucky Asylum fur teaching the Deaf and Dumb.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 828</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-04-14</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to extend the time for selling the lands granted to the incorporated, Kentucky Asylum fur teaching the Deaf and Dumb.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-04-14">April 14, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the further time of five years, from and after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further time allowed for the sale of lands.</p></sidenote> the time heretofore allowed, be, and the same is hereby, allowed and permitted the trustees of the Centre College of Kentucky, who are also trustees of the Kentucky Asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb, to sell the lands heretofore granted said trustees, for the use and benefit of said Asylum,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> by any act of Congress heretofore passed: <proviso><i>Prodded</i>, That if that portion of the said township of land which has been located in the state of Arkansas be not sold within two years from the fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-two, the same shall revert to the United States, and be subject to be disposed of by the President of the United States as other public lands, any act of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-04-14">April 14, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXVII: for the relief if Clark Woodrooff.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 828</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-05-10</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if Clark Woodrooff.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-05-10">May 10, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That upon the surrender to the Secretary of the Treasury of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Upon the surrender of certain receipts for purchase money, dec., the amount so paid to be returned.</p></sidenote> United States, by Clark Woodrooff, or his legal representatives, of the original certificates and receipts granted to him by the land office in the St. Helena district, west of Pearl river, in the state of Louisiana, for the purchase money of certain lands entered at said office by the said Clark Woodrooff, on the tenth and twenty-third days of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, in order that the same may be cancelled, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to the said Clark Woodrooff, or his legal representatives, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount originally paid by the said Clark Woodrooff upon the original certificates and receipts which he is hereby required to surrender, and upon which patents have been refused.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-05-10">May 10, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXVIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Aaron Pail, deceased, late consul at L’Orient.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 828</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-05-10</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Aaron Pail, deceased, late consul at L’Orient.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-05-10">May 10, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote> department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to revise, adjust, and settle the accounts of Aaron Vail, late consul of the United States at L’Orient, upon the principles of equity and justice: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That in no event the amount allowed to said Vail shall exceed the balance now claimed by the Government against him.</proviso></content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-05-10">May 10, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXXIII: granting a pension to Benjamin Franklin.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 829</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-06-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/829">829</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Benjamin Franklin.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-01">June 1, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Benjamin Franklin, who received an injury while serving as an ordinary seaman on board of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension allowed him.</p></sidenote> United States frigate President, in the Mediterranean, in the year eighteen hundred and one, and while in the line of his duty, a pension of six dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and continuing during his natural life; to be paid out of the naval pension fund, or, in case of the failure thereof, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-01">June 1, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXXIV: for the relief of James Kiser and Barnett Foley, of Missouri.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 829</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-06-04</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Kiser and Barnett Foley, of Missouri.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-04">June 4, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James Kiser and Barnett Foley, of Missouri, or their legal representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote> enter at the land office, at St. Louis, Missouri, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents, per acre, the west half of the north-east quarter of section twenty-six, township thirty-nine, range seven, lying in said district; and upon such entry, and the payment of the purchase money, a patent shall issue, as in other cases: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Said entry be made,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> and the purchase money paid, within six months from the date of this act:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, further</i>, That said land has not been sold by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> United States before the passage of this act.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-04">June 4, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXXV: for the relief of the Plumb Island Bridge and Turn-pike Company.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 829</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-06-04</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the Plumb Island Bridge and Turn-pike Company.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-04">June 4, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to the Plumb Island Bridge and Turnpike Company, of Newburyport, in the state of Massachusetts,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a bridge destroyed.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight thousand dollars, for the destruction of a bridge, occasioned by the construction of a breakwater by the United States.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-04">June 4, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXXVI: for the relief of Caleb Eddy.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 829</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-06-04</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Caleb Eddy.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-04">June 4, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Caleb Eddy, of Warren, in the state of Rhode Island, out of any money in the treasury not other-wise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of draw-back of certain duties.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of two hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty-seven cents, for the amount of drawback of duties on thirty-nine bags of coffee, shipped at the port of Boston in the vessel called the Rasselas, in the month of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-04">June 4, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXXVII: for the relief of Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M, Telfair, daughters and heirs of Israel Pearce.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 829</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-06-04</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M, Telfair, daughters and heirs of Israel Pearce.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-04">June 4, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is authorized, and he is hereby required, to issue to Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M. Telfair,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven military bounty land warrants to be issued.</p></sidenote> jointly, seven United States military land bounty warrants, of one hundred acres each, which appear to be due to the following named individuals, for their services as private soldiers in a Rhode Island regiment, in the war of the revolution, and their right to which they, each and all
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/830">830</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 41. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
of them, assigned, in April, seventeen hundred and eighty-four, to Israel Pearce, father of the aforesaid Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M. Telfair, namely: Robert Allen, Marks Barrons, Casar Finch, Ichabod Howard, Joseph Wheeler, Hugh McDugal, and Jabez Remington, who each and all appear to be entitled to land bounty, but who assigned their right, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>as aforesaid, to Israel Pearce: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The said Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M. Telfair shall, on the delivery to them of the land warrants aforesaid, execute and lodge with the Secretary of War their joint bond, with approved security, to indemnify the United States against the legal claim of all other persons to the said warrants.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-04">June 4, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XLI: to incorporate Washington’s Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society of the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 830</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-06-13</dc:date>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to incorporate Washington’s Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society of the District of Columbia.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-13">June 13, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James L. Edwards, Thomas Sewall, An-thony<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incorporation.</p></sidenote> Preston, Michael Nourse, Thomas L. Smith, Joseph W. Hand, John P. Ingle, Peter Force, William Morton, Thomas F. Hunt, Franklin Knight, Leonidas Coyle, and Peter W. Gallaudet, trustees for said school and asylum, and their successors in office as trustees, are hereby made, declared, and constituted a corporation and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance forever under the name, style, and title, of Washington’s Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society of the District of Columbia.</content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That all and singular the lands,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May hold properly.</p></sidenote> tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, privileges, goods, and chattels, that may have heretofore been given, granted, sold, devised, or be-queathed, to the said Washington’s Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society, be, and they are hereby, vested in and con-firmed to the said corporation; and that the said corporation may purchase, take, receive, and enjoy, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, rights, and privileges, or any goods, chattels, or other effects of what kind or nature soever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed, or devised unto it, or to the said trustees, or either of them, as trustees of the said school and asylum, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such grant, and to dispose<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of the same for the benefit of the said society:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the clear amount of annual income of property to be acquired by said corporation shall at no time exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the said corporation, by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May sue and be sued, fee.</p></sidenote> name and style aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter, capable, in law and equity, to sue and be sued, to plead and to be impleaded, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, in as effectual a manner as other persons or corporations can sue and be sued; and that they shall adopt and use a common seal, and the same use, alter, or exchange, at plea-sure; that they may appoint such officers as they shall deem necessary and proper; assign them their duties and regulate their compensation, and remove any and all of them, and appoint others, as often as they shall think fit.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By-laws.</p></sidenote> And the said corporation shall make such by-laws as may be useful for the government and support, and for the general accomplishment of the objects of the said asylum and school, and not in-consistent with the laws of the United States, or the laws in force in the District of Columbia, for the time being; and the same to alter, amend, and abrogate, at pleasure; but all by-laws adopted by said corporation shall, before they have any force or effect, be submitted to and receive <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>the approval of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, also.</i> That no part of the funds of said corporation shall be appropriated to pay the trustees of said society, except the teachers and
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 42. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/831">831</page>
instructors of the children, any compensation for their services, but such services shall in all cases be gratuitous.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That there shall be a meeting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual meeting for the ap-pointment of officers, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote> of the trustees of the Washington’s Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society, in each year, the manner of giving notice for which, and the time and place for said meeting, to be regulated by the by-laws; at which meeting the said trustees may fill all vacancies in their own board, and appoint their officers for the ensuing year, whose duties shall be regulated by the by-laws of the society. Vacancies in the board may also be filled at such other meetings of the trustees as may be necessary, and under such regulations as may in their by-laws be prescribed.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That, with the consent and appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions upon which male children may he received.</p></sidenote> of the parent, or guardian, or other competent authority having charge of any male child, the same may be received into the said Wash-ington’s Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum, under such regulations as may be made by the by-laws, and there protected, instructed, and supported; and he shall not thereafter be withdrawn or be at liberty himself to withdraw from the said asylum, without the con-sent or dismissal of the corporation aforesaid, until he shall have attain-ed the age of twenty-one years; but up to the age aforesaid, he shall remain subject to the direction of the said corporation, unless be may, by the same, be exonerated from service previous to attaining the age aforesaid; and the said corporation shall have the power, with the con-sent of the parent or guardian of any child under their care, to bind any such child, for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of some useful trade, occupation, or profession, under such conditions as may be determined by the by-laws; a copy of which conditions shall be delivered to, and they shall be binding on every person to whom any child may be so bound:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That every such orphan, whilst he shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> remain subject to the direction of the said corporation, or during the period of his service, if bound out as an apprentice as aforesaid, shall be entitled to the benefit and protection of all the laws of the District relating to apprentices.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the said corporation shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Journal to be kept, and annual report made.</p></sidenote> keep a journal of all its proceedings, in which the by-laws shall be recorded; and shall make report, at the annual meeting as aforesaid, of the affairs and condition of the said school and asylum for the preceding year.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 7. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That it may be lawful for Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act may be altered, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> hereafter to alter, amend, modify, or repeal, the foregoing act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-13">June 13, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XLII: to authorize the issuing of a register far the brig Gulnare.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 831</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-06-13</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the issuing of a register far the brig Gulnare.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-13">June 13, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be issued, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the brig Gulnare, formerly a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A register to be issued.</p></sidenote> British vessel, now lying in the port of New York, which was seized in Boston, by George Barclay and Schuyler Livingston of the city and state of New York, citizens of the United States, for a debt due to them from the then owner of said brig, and sold by the sheriff, under a decree of the Court of Massachusetts, and by authority of the laws of that state, to the said Barclay and Livingston, and by them purchased in order to secure in part the debt due to them from the said owner, and which vessel has been by them repaired: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, It shall be proved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that the cost of the repairs of said vessel, made in the United States, by the said Barclay and Livingston, her present owners, after the purchase of her by
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/832">832</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 43, 44, 45, 46. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
them, shall be equal to, or exceed three-fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage and materials in the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-13">June 13, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XLIII: for the relief of George Nix.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-06-22</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Nix.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-22">June 22, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That upon the surrender to the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Upon the surrender of his patent for a certain tract of land, to receive another, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote> Treasury to be cancelled, by George Nix, or his legal representatives, of his patent for the south-west quarter of section number nineteen, township number twenty-two, range number eleven, in the district of lands subject to sale at Cahawba, in the state of Alabama, a patent shall issue to the said George Nix, or his legal representatives, for the south-west quarter of section number twenty-two, township number nineteen, range number<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> eleven, in the district and state aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said last mentioned tract of land shall not, previous to such surrender,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> have been sold by the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also</i>, That said tract of land, so authorized to be surrendered, shall not have been sold by the said George Nix, or his legal representatives, previous to such surrender.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-22">June 22, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XLIV: for the relief of Francis G. McCauly.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-06-22</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Francis G. McCauly.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-22">June 22, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Francis<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to hint of amount found due.</p></sidenote> G. McCauly, a purser in the navy of the United States, the sum of seven hundred and forty-two dollars and nine cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; that being the amount found to be his due, on settlement of his accounts with the treasury department, in July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-22">June 22, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XLV: for the relief of Charles H. Atherton.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 832</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-06-22</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLV</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles H. Atherton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-22">June 22, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount paid for land to which the U. S. could not give him a title, to be refunded.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to Charles H. Atherton, or to his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not other-wise appropriated, the sum of two thousand three hundred thirty-three dollars and eighty-six cents, it being for money paid by the said Atherton for public land entered by him in the St. Helena land district, in Louisiana, to which the United States are unable to give him a title, or to correctly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> locate the same: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said Charles II. Atherton, or his legal representatives, shall first surrender to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be cancelled, the original certificates for said land, or shall relinquish to the United States all interest in the same, in such form as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-22">June 22, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XLVI: authorizing the county commissioners of Lake county, Illinois, to enter a quarter section of land for a scat of justice in said county.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 832</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-06-22</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing the county commissioners of Lake county, Illinois, to enter a quarter section of land for a scat of justice in said county.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-22">June 22, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That upon proof being made to the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter a tract of land, in lieu of the one formerly selected for a seal of justice.</p></sidenote> the Treasury of the payment of the minimum price per acre by the county of Lake, in the state of Illinois, to the United States, for the south-east quarter of section twenty-one, in township forty-five north, of range twelve, east of the third principal meridian, upon which the county seat of said county is located, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to cause a patent for said land to be issued to said county, in lieu, and in full satisfaction of the claim of said county to
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 48, 49, 51. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/833">833</page>
enter one quarter section of land in virtue of the act of the twenty-sixth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 169.</p></sidenote> May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act granting to the counties or parishes of each State and Territory of the United States in which the public lands are situated the right of preemption to quarter sections of land for seats of justice within the same:” <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said county shall relinquish in such form as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, all claim whatever to the north-east quarter of section twenty-one, township forty-four, range eleven east, lying in said county, and which tract was first selected by said county for the use of the county seat for said county, in virtue of the provisions of the act aforesaid.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-22">June 22, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XLVIII: for the relief if Jesse Carpenter.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 833</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-06-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if Jesse Carpenter.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-27">June 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the receiver of public moneys in the land office at Montgomery, Alabama, be, and he is hereby, required to re-fund<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase money for land to be refunded.</p></sidenote> to Jesse Carpenter, of Russell county, in said state, the purchase money heretofore paid by Joshua Threadgill, for the west half of the south-east quarter of section thirty-four, in township seventeen, of range twenty-seven, in the district of lands subject to sale at the aforesaid land office: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Said Carpenter shall first produce the certificate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of purchase, issued to said Threadgill, together with satisfactory proof that he, the said Carpenter, holds the same by fair, legal, or equitable transfer from said Threadgill; and shall also surrender said certificate to be cancelled.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-27">June 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XLIX: for the relief of Jacob Pennell and others, owners of the Eliza, of Brunswick.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 833</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-06-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jacob Pennell and others, owners of the Eliza, of Brunswick.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-06-27">June 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to refund to Jacob Pennell, Jordan Woodward, Richard<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain tonnage duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> T. Dunlap, Robert P. Dunlap, and Isaac Denning, American citizens, and owners of the American vessel Eliza, of Brunswick, the sum of thirty-eight dollars, which-was incorrectly demanded and received by the collector at Saco, in the state of Maine, as foreign tonnage duly on said Eliza, of Brunswick.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-06-27">June 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LI: for the relief of the heirs of Daniel Pettibone, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-06</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Daniel Pettibone, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-06">July 6, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to the heirs or legal representatives of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a circular bullet-mould.</p></sidenote> Daniel Pettibone, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, as a full consideration for the use of the “ circular bullet-mould ” invented by the said Pettibone, in the military service, and for the advantages resulting therefrom to the Government of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> sum of five thousand dollars be cotisidered in full of all claims against the United States, and a full acquittance therefor be given by the said legal representatives:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the representatives of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said Daniel Pettibone shall first transfer and convey to the United States all their right, interest, and title, in and to the said circular bullet-mould, and that the said sum of five thousand dollars shall be in full of all claims against the United States for the use of the same.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-06">July 6, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LII: for the relief of Obed P. Lacey.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/834">834</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 52, 53, 54. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Obed P. Lacey.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<preamble>
<recital class="indent1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas, it is provided, by the third article of the treaty of September<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, with the Pottawatomies, that “ a section of land shall be granted to Madeline Bertrand, wife of Joseph Bertrand,” to be located under the direction of the President of the United States; and in accordance with said provisions, the locating agent, appointed by the United States, did, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, locate her reservation upon section twelve, township thirty, range seven east; and the said Made-line and her husband Joseph Bertrand, did, on the fifteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, by deed, convey said tract to Obed P. Lacey; and whereas the said Lacey had been previously informed by the war department that said location had been made and would be approved: and whereas three of the four quarters of said section were, on the twelfth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, sold at the public land sales, in consequence of which, the location was removed, and subsequently laid on fractional section twenty-six, township seven south, range seventeen west, in the state of Michigan; and whereas it appears, from the conveyance above recited, that the said Madeline and her husband, Joseph, for an adequate consideration, transferred all their right, title, and interest, to said reservation: therefore,</recital>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the deed described in the above preamble<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">The deed described in the preamble Io be deemed a full relinquishment, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> shall be deemed a full relinquishment, on the part of Madeline Bertrand, of all her claim to land under the treaty with the Pottawatomies of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.</content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That so soon as the said Obed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Upon O. P. Lacey relinquishing his claim, a patent shall issue to him fur certain land.</p></sidenote> P. Lacey shall execute, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, a full relinquishment of all claim he may have, tinder the deed aforesaid, as assignee of Madeline Bertrand and Joseph Bertrand, to section twelve, township thirty, range seven east, the President of the United States shall cause a patent to be issued to him, the said Obed P. Lacey, for fractional section twenty-six, township seven south, range seventeen west, which was located, and the location thereof approved, to the said Madeline, as a full satisfaction for the aforesaid relinquishment, on the part of said Obed P. Lacey, and of the claim of said Madeline Bertrand, under the treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LIII: granting a pension to Sarah Decker, widow of Samuel Decker, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Sarah Decker, widow of Samuel Decker, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Sarah Decker, widow of Samuel Decker, deceased, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and pay her a pension at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during her life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LIV: for the relief of Esther Parrott.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Esther Parrott.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> authorized to place the name of Esther Parrott, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay her the sum of eighty dollars a year, for the term of five years, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LV: to amend the act entitled “An act for the relief of Chauncey Calhoun” passed March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 835</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/835">835</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to amend the act entitled “An act for the relief of Chauncey Calhoun” passed March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the.Secretary of the Treasury pay to Chauncey Calhoun, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount which shall be found due.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 167.</p></sidenote> the sum which shall be found due him, upon auditing and settling his account, according to the provisions of an act entitled “ An act for the relief of Chauncey Calhoun,” passed the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LVI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Colonel William Piatt.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 835</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Colonel William Piatt.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the legal representatives of Colonel William<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him in full for services as quartermaster-general.</p></sidenote> Piatt, late quartermaster-general of the United States army, the sum of fifteen hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-eight and a half cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full of the balance due him for his services as quartermaster-general, from the first day of May to the twentieth day of December, eighteen hundred and fifteen, and the amount paid by him for the hire of a clerk for the same period.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LVII: in favor of Ellen Turney.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 835</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>in favor of Ellen Turney.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War place the name of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> Ellen Turney, of Fairfield, Connecticut, on the roll of revolutionary pensions, and pay her a pension of at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars a year, for and during the term of five years from the fourth day of Alarch, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LVIII: for the relief of Iluldah Farlow.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 835</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Iluldah Farlow.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War place the name of Huldah Farlow, of Newtown, Connecticut, on the roll of revolutionary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> pensioners, and pay her a pension, at the rate of eighty dollars a year, for and during the term of five years from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LIX: for the relief of Peter Shy, an Onondaga Indian.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 835</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter Shy, an Onondaga Indian.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Peter Sky, an Onondaga Indian chief,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> of the state of New York, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay him at the rate of seventy-two dollars per annum, to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LX: for the relief of Lieutenant John L. Kline.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 835</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Lieutenant John L. Kline.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain expenses.</p></sidenote> to Lieutenant John L. Kline, the sum of five hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty-seven cents; that being the amount paid
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/836">836</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 61, 62, 63, 65. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
by him in satisfaction of a judgment rendered on the thirtieth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, in the circuit court in the county of Bradley, in the state of Tennessee, in favor of Thomas Osborn, executor of Sherwood Osborn, deceased, against said Kline; which said sum includes fifty dollars paid by said Kline, to his attorney for defending said cause; which recovery was for the removal of said Osborn from the possession of the property of Mrs. McNair, one of the Cherokee nation, in the Cherokee country, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, under the order of his superior officer, in execution of the sixteenth article of the treaty with the Cherokee nation, concluded in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five; and, also, the further sum of sixty dollars in remuneration of the expenses incurred by said John L. Kline, in attending to said suit at three terms of the circuit court afore-said, from the county of Granger, Tennessee, a distance of one hundred miles.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXI: for the relief of Clarissa Turney.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Clarissa Turney.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and required<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 362.</p></sidenote> to place Clarissa Turney on the roll of revolutionary pensions, under the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-six, allowing pensions to certain widows; and that she be paid at the rate of eighty dollars a year during her life, or remaining a widow, to commence on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Josiah Blakely, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 836</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Josiah Blakely, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued.</p></sidenote> Office be, and he is hereby, required to issue a patent to the legal representatives, and those claiming under them, of Josiah Blakely, deceased, for twelve hundred and eighty acres of land on Blakely’s island, as surveyed by John James, deputy surveyor, and in accordance with certificate number sixty-four, of the register and receiver of St. Stephen’s, Alabama, dated the twenty-fifth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXIII: for the relief of Burnell Burdsall.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Burnell Burdsall.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fayrrtent for arrears of pension.</p></sidenote> required and authorized to pay to Burnett Burdsall the sum of three hundred and forty-five dollars, for arrears of pension from the fifteenth of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, to the twentieth of January, eighteen hundred and thirty, at the rate of eight dollars per month, out of any money not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-09">July 9, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXV: granting a right of preemption to certain lots in the town if Perrysburg, in the state of Ohio.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 836</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a right of preemption to certain lots in the town if Perrysburg, in the state of Ohio.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That each purchaser, his or her heirs or assigns,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchasers of certain lots at tax sales may enter the same.</p></sidenote> of any lot or lots in the town of Perrysburg, in the state of Ohio, at any sale for taxes thereon assessed by the laws of the state, the title to which has not been divested from the United States in any other manner than under color of such tax sale, shall have the right to enter the same at any time within one year from the passage of this act, at the land office in the district within which said town is situated, at the price for which
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 70, 71, 72, 73. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/837">837</page>
the same was or were struck off at the public sale of lots in said town, held at the town of Wooster, in July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, with interest from that date; and on making such entry,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to issue, when.</p></sidenote> and paying for such lot or lots, as aforesaid, patents shall issue for the same, in the manner they are issued for other land sold by the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be construed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to affect or prejudice the rights of third persons to any such lot or lots, or to hold the United States to any warranty of title purporting to be conveyed by said patents.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXX: for the relief of James Morrow and Jonathan Tipton.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXX</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Morrow and Jonathan Tipton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to James Morrow and Jonathan Tipton, out of any money in the treasury not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them as an indemnity for a certain judgment, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, the sum of eleven hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty-seven cents, with interest thereon from the twenty-sixth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, until the passage of this act, as indemnity for the recovery of damages and costs had against them for a supposed trespass committed while acting, as they have alleged, under the order of the commanding general, in the military service of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the same shall not be paid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> until the Secretary of War shall have made examination, and reports to the Secretary of the Treasury that, in his opinion, the said Morrow and Tipton incurred said liability while acting in obedience to a military duty imposed on them while in the public service, and that, in his opinion, they have a just and equitable claim to indemnity from the Government.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXI: for the relief of Henry J. Defrees and Stephen Jenny.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 837</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry J. Defrees and Stephen Jenny.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Henry J. Defrees and Stephen Jenny, the only surviving sureties in a bond executed by them, together with sun-dry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from a bond executed by them.</p></sidenote> other persons, in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, on be-half of John B. Fanning, then a purser in the United States navy, and to secure the faithful performance of his duty as such, be, and they are hereby, released and discharged from said bond.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXII: for the relief of Joshua Atwood, junior.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 837</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joshua Atwood, junior.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Barnstable, in Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to Joshua Atwood, jr., and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> the other owners, officers, and crew of the schooner Abelitto, of seventy-one and twenty ninety-fifths tons burden, which was lost at sea, to be distributed according to law, the same sum they would have been en-titled to receive, as bounty or drawback, if the said schooner had completed her fishing term, and returned to port.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXIII: for the relief of Joseph J. Martin.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 837</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph J. Martin.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, requested to place the name of Joseph J. Martin, of the state of Tennessee,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first of July, one thou-sand eight hundred and forty-one.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXIV: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 838</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/838">838</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 74, 75, 76, 77, 78. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To he paid his distributive share of a judgment recovered by U.S.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not other-wise appropriated, to the legal representatives of John Barnes, deceased, late a collector of customs for the district of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, two thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents, in full for his distributive share of a judgment recovered by the United States against Robert Beverly, Josias M. Speake, and Robert Ober, on a bond executed by them to the United States, bearing date the fourteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and eight, in the penal sum of eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars, conditioned that the same should be void, if a vessel called the “Acteor” should not proceed to a foreign port, &amp;c.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXV: for the relief of Jabez L. and Asa White, of the state of Connecticut.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 838</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jabez L. and Asa White, of the state of Connecticut.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Jabez L. White and Asa White be, and they<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from all claims on account of certain proposals for carrying the mail.</p></sidenote> are hereby, released and discharged from all claims and liabilities on account of their proposals, made to the Postmaster-General in the month of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, for conveying the mail on post routes numbered four hundred and thirty-five and four hundred and thirty-six, from Hartford to New London, in the state of Connecticut; said proposals having been made under a misapprehension as to the character of the service required to be performed.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXVI: for the relief of Sarah Besly, widow of William Besly, deceased, and, previous thereto, widow of Doctor Henry Adams.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 838</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sarah Besly, widow of William Besly, deceased, and, previous thereto, widow of Doctor Henry Adams.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Sarah Besly, widow of William Besly, and,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed the benefit of the act of 7th July 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote> previous thereto, of Doctor Henry Adams, a surgeon in the army of the revolution, be placed on the pension roll, and that she be allowed the benefit of the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, in the same manner, form, and extent, as if she had never married the second time, and had been the widow of said Doctor Henry Adams on the passage of said act.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXVII: for the relief of Betsey Breeland.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 838</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Betsey Breeland.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to place the name of Betsey Vreeland, of the county of Essex, state of New Jersey, widow of Daniel Vreeland, a soldier of the revolutionary war, on the list of pensioners of the United States, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, for the term of five years, to be computed from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXVIII: for the relief of George Mayfield.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 838</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Mayfield.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> the name of George Mayfield, of Tennessee, on the list of invalid pensioners, and pay him at the rate of six dollars per month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter LXXIX: for the relief of George Mayfield.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 839</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 79, 80, 81. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/839">839</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Mayfield.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in lieu of the six hundred and forty acres of land intended.to be granted to George Mayfield by an act of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1843, ch. 43.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other land granted in lieu of that intended to be granted by act of 30th January 1833, ch. 15.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> approved thirtieth January, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, there be granted to said Mayfield six hundred and forty acres of any lands of the United States not otherwise appropriated or disposed of, to be selected and entered at the proper land office, by said Mayfield or his attorney, within one year from the passage of this act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in making such selection, the said Mayfield shall be confined to lands the sale of which at the time thereof is authorized by law.</proviso></content></section>
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXX: for the relief of Henry Welk.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Welk.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Henry Wells, of the state of New York, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay him four dollars per month, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXI: to incorporate the German Benevolent Society of the city of Washington.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to incorporate the German Benevolent Society of the city of Washington.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from and after the passage of this act, all those persons who are, or shall hereafter become, members of the “ Ger-man<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">German Benevolent Society incorporated.</p></sidenote> Benevolent Society” of the city of Washington, District of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, made a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of “ the German Benevolent Society,” and shall so”continue until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and by that name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May sue and be sued, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote> answered, defend and be defended, in courts of record, and in any other place whatsoever; and by that name may make, have, and use, a common seal, and the same may break, alter, and renew, at pleasure; and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By-laws.</p></sidenote>shall have power to ordain, establish, and put in execution, such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, as shall seem necessary and convenient for the government of said corporation, not being contrary to the laws and Constitution of the United States; and generally to do and execute all acts necessary or proper for the objects of said corporation, subject to the limitations and provisions of this act.</content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the monthly contributions,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investment of moneys.</p></sidenote> and all other moneys received on account of the society, may, from time to time, be invested in the public stocks of the United States, in loans to individuals, or in stocks of any incorporated banking institution or corporation; and the moneys so invested, or that may be deposited, shall be drawn out of the bank or place of deposite only on the order of the treasurer, countersigned by the secretary and approved by the president:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>,</proviso> nevertheless, That the said society or body politic<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall not, at any one time, hold or possess property, real, personal, or mixed, exceeding in total value the sum of twenty thousand dollars; and provided that the annual interest on the capital of the company, or the whole or atty part of the capital, may from time to time be applied to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Funds applicable, how.</p></sidenote> aid and succor the poor and destitute of the society, or to such other charitable objects as the company may select.</content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That it shall not be lawful for the said corporation to deal or trade in the manner of a bank, nor issue any
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/840">840</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 83, 84, 85, 86. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
note in the nature of a bank note, nor transact any other kind of business,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not to trade in i he manner of a bank, &amp;c.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for so doing.</p></sidenote> or deal in any other manner or thing than is expressly authorized by the second section of this act; and any officer or officers who shall have assented to any such dealing or trade, shall, on conviction thereof in the proper court, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, one half to the use of the poor of the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and the other half to the use of the person who may prosecute <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>for the same:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, always</i>, That Congress may, at any time, amend, alter, or annul this act.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXIII: for the relief of Daniel Chase.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Chase.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Daniel Chase on the invalid pension roll, and that he be entitled to receive at the rate of five dollars and thirty- four cents per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXIV: for the relief of John Randall and Charles York.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Randall and Charles York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Randall and Charles York be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from certain judgments against them as sureties, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> they are hereby, released from judgments obtained against them by the United States, in October, eighteen hundred and forty, as sureties of Silas Holmes, deceased, late collector of direct taxes and internal revenue for the nineteenth collection district of the state of New York, said Randall and York having paid already the costs of recovering said judgments:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to release any other person or persons than said Randall and York.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXV: for the relief of James Williams.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Williams.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To he discharged from a certain judgment.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized to compromise and finally discharge James Williams from a judgment had against him in the circuit court of the United Slates for the District of Columbia, as one of the sureties of Henry Ashton, late marshal of said District, on his securing the payment of one sixth part of the principal of said judgment, on such time as the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>said Secretary, in his discretion, shall see fit to grant: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this act contained shall be held to discharge the other sureties of the said Henry Ashton from their liability, or to prevent the enforcement thereof against them, or either of their heirs or representatives:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote></proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, The Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to compromise and settle with the other sureties, or their representatives, on such terms as to him shall seem just and equitable.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXVI: for the relief of Thomas Collins.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Collins.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Thomas Collins, of the state of Tennessee, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, as a pensioner, at the rate of ninety-six dollars per annum; the pension to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXVII: for the relief of Samuel B. Hugo.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 87, 88, 89, 90, 91. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/841">841</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel B. Hugo.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Samuel B. Hugo on the invalid pension roll; and that he be entitled to receive at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXVIII: for the relief of John E. Alexander.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John E. Alexander.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of balance due for services in arresting counterfeiters.</p></sidenote> E. Alexander, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and forty-six dollars, being the balance still due him for thirty-four days’ services, by direction of the Secretary of State, in pursuing after and arresting persons engaged in counterfeiting the coin of the United States, and bills, and putting them in circulation.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter LXXXIX: for the relief of Daniel Homans.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Homans.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of a balance for building marine hospital.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to Daniel Homans two hundred dollars, being a balance due to him on his contract for building a marine hospital at Charleston, South Carolina, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XC: for the relief of Isaac Fessenden.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac Fessenden.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of a certain fine.</p></sidenote> and hereby is, authorized to pay to Isaac Fessenden fifty dollars, the amount of a fine imposed upon and paid by him in October, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as master of the schooner Pearl, by the collector of the customs at Pensacola, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCI: to authorize the President of the United States to issue to the heirs of John Campbell a patent for the remainder of private land claim number twenty, at Prairie du Chien, in the Territory of Wiskonsan.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 841</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the President of the United States to issue to the heirs of John Campbell a patent for the remainder of private land claim number twenty, at Prairie du Chien, in the Territory of Wiskonsan.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized to issue to the heirs of John Campbell a patent for a piece of land lying at Prairie du Chien, in the Territory of Wiskonsan, and included within the following boundaries, to wit: beginning at the south-east corner of a tract of land patented to the heirs of John Campbell aforesaid, on the twelfth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and running thence due east one hundred and seventy-three chains and fifty links; thence, north, twenty-seven chains and twelve links; thence, west, to the north-east corner of the tract patented, as aforesaid, to the heirs of John Campbell; thence, along the east boundary of the said tract, to the place of beginning, containing about four hundred and seventy-one acres, and being the balance of private land claim number twenty, to which the aforesaid heirs of John Campbell were entitled, under the provisions of the act of Con-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/842">842</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 92, 93, 94, 95. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
gress, approved on the twenty-first day of February, one thousand eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 21, 1823, ch. 10.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty-three, entitled “An act to revive and continue-in force certain acts for the adjustment of land claims in the Territory of Wiskonsan.”</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCII: to grant to Van Buren county, Missouri, the tract of land on which the seal of justice of said county has been located.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to grant to Van Buren county, Missouri, the tract of land on which the seal of justice of said county has been located.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be, and hereby is, granted to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land granted in lien of that allowed by law.</p></sidenote> county of Van Buren, in the state of Missouri, the tract of land where-on the town of Harrisonville is situated, in said county, containing one hundred and sixty acres, according to the survey of Achilles Easby, county surveyor, for the seat of justice for said county, instead of the quarter section allowed by law for the same purpose; the justice of said county entering said tract in the proper land office, and paying for the same the minimum price, as in other cases.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chapter XCIII: for the relief of William Markham.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Markham.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to refund and pay to William Mark-ham, of Bath county, in the state of Kentucky, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, being the amount paid by the said William Markham towards the discharge of a bond or recognizance, in which he was one of the sureties for one Josiah Reed, who was indicted for felony in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, which said bond or recognizance was remitted by the President of the United States: <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certain sum to be refunded.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That, before the repayment of said money, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that the costs of the suit against said sureties, on said bond or recognizance, have been paid.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCIV: for the relief of William Harper.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Harper.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is authorized, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> hereby required, to place William Harper, of Anderson district, South Carolina, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and allow him a pension for seven months and five days’ service as a private soldier in the war of the revolution, to be paid to him, together with the arrears of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1828. ch. 53.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote>pension from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, as other pensioners are paid, under the act of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, allowing pensions to the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCV: for the relief of Sarah Moore, of the state of Maryland.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sarah Moore, of the state of Maryland.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to place upon the pension roll the name of Sarah Moore, of the city of Baltimore, in the state of Maryland, widow of the late Nicholas Ruxton Moore, a captain of cavalry in the army of the revolution; and that there be allowed to the said Sarah Moore five years full pay of a captain, to be paid according to the provisions of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote>act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain widows.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCVII: to relinquish to William Waller the interest of the United Slates in a certain tract of land therein named.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 97, 98, 99, 100. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/843">843</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to relinquish to William Waller the interest of the United Slates in a certain tract of land therein named.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the interest which the United States now<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest of the U. S. in certain lands relinquished to him.</p></sidenote> has, or may hereafter have, in and to a certain tract of land, known as fractional section seventeen, township five, and range four east, lying on the left bank of the Alabama river, containing five hundred and fifty acres, more or less, and a small part of said fractional section, lying on the right bank of said river, containing, as supposed, two acres, more or less, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished, and vested in William Waller and his heirs; the said William Waller having paid for said land the sum of fifteen hundred dollars; and Arthur Sizemore, who was authorized by an act of Congress, approved the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, to sell said land, provided “ he removed with his family west of the Mississippi,” having been prevented by death from complying with said act of Congress.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCVIII: for the relief of Ingoldshy W. Crawford and Samuel Phillips.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 843</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCVIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ingoldshy W. Crawford and Samuel Phillips.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to be examined and settled.</p></sidenote> are hereby authorized and directed to examine and settle, upon the principles of equity and justice, the claims of Ingoldsby W. Crawford, late collector of the customs for the district of New London, and of Samuel Phillips, late collector of the customs for the district of Newburyport, for services rendered and actual expenses incurred by them in superintending the erection of a custom-house and public store in their districts, respectively; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sums found due to the aforesaid officers, respectively, on said settlement: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum paid to each shall not exceed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the amount claimed by him to be due for his said services and expenses in his accounts rendered to the treasury department, nor shall the sum paid exceed one thousand dollars to each.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XCIX: for the relief of Josiah Holmes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Josiah Holmes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of customs for the district of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.</p></sidenote> New Bedford, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and hereby is, required to pay to Josiah Holmes, agent and principal owner of the sloop Lydia, of Rochester, in said district, of seventy-five and fifty-seven ninety-fifths tons burden, or to his legal representatives, such sum as said vessel would be entitled to receive as bounty for having been engaged more than four months in the cod-fisheries, during the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-nine; said bounty having been refused by the collector of said district, on the ground that the agreement between Holmes and the fishermen, although in all respects faithfully executed, had not, by inadvertence or mistake, been endorsed or countersigned by said Holmes; which sum shall be distributed according to law.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter C: for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>C.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Treasurer of the United States pay to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1842, ch. 197.</p></sidenote> Nathaniel Mitchell the sum of nine hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/844">844</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 101, 102, 103, 104. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
out of the fund appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him for amour expended in a certain suit.</p></sidenote> being the amount paid by said Mitchell in defending a suit brought against him by William Merriam, for acts done by said Mitchell under orders from the Postmaster-General, in arresting the said Merriam on a charge for violating the Post Office laws of the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CI: for the relief of Archibald McCallum.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Archibald McCallum.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for properly destroyed.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Archibald McCallum, of Rouse’s Point, New York, the sum of nine hundred and thirty dollars, in full for his claim for damages for the destruction of his house, wood shed, and carriage house, by fire, on the twenty-fifth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, while in the occupation of the troops of the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CII: for the relief of John P. Campbell.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CII</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John P. Campbell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit to be allowed him, on his producing a certain receipt.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized to credit John P. Campbell, receiver of public moneys at Springfield, Missouri, with the sum of two hundred dollars, upon his producing to the accounting officer of the treasury department, a treasurer’s receipt numbered four hundred and seventy-six, dated twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, acknowledging to have received two hundred dollars of Winslow Robinson, under the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 24, 1820, ch. 51, sec. 2.</p></sidenote> of the second section of the act approved twenty-fourth April, eighteen hundred and twenty, which receipt was assigned by said Robinson to Hugh Boyd and by him paid to the said John P. Campbell as such receiver, for public lands.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CIII: for the relief of George M. Bedinger, of the state of Kentucky.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George M. Bedinger, of the state of Kentucky.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> required to place the name of George M. Bedinger on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and pay him a pension for five months’ service as a sergeant, and fifteen months’ service as a private, according to the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote> of the act of the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; said pension to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CIV: to authorize the county commissioners of Linn county, in the Territory if Iowa, to enter, by legal subdivisions, a quarter section of land, upon which the county seat has been located.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 844</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the county commissioners of Linn county, in the Territory if Iowa, to enter, by legal subdivisions, a quarter section of land, upon which the county seat has been located.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the county commissioners of the county of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote> Linn, in the Territory of Iowa, be, and they are hereby, authorized within one year next after the date of this act, to make entry, at the proper land office, at the minimum price, of the west half of the north-west quarter of section numbered six, in township numbered eighty- three north, of range numbered six west; and the east half of the north-east quarter of section numbered one, in township numbered eighty- three north, of range numbered seven west; making one hundred and sixty acres, more or less, or a quarter section of land, upon which the town of Marion, the county-seat of said county, is located, in full satisfaction of the claim of said county, under the provisions of the act en-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 105. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/845">845</page>
titled, “An act granting to the counties or parishes of State and Territory<sidenote>Act of May 26, 1624, ch. 169.</sidenote> of the United States, in which the public lands are situated, the right of preemption to quarter sections of land, for seats of justice, within the same,” approved twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty-four: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said lands, or any part there-of, shall not have been [sold] by the United States prior to the date of this act.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CV: to incorporate a society in the District of Columbia by the name of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 845</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to incorporate a society in the District of Columbia by the name of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Peter Force, Francis Markoe, jr., Garrett<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Institute incorporated.</p></sidenote> R. Barry, William J. Stone, Daniel Webster, Walter Forward, John C. Spencer, Abel P. Upshur, Charles A. Wickliffe, Hugh S. Legare, John Q. Adams, William C. Preston, John J. Abort, John G. Totten, Aaron O. Dayton, Lewis Warrington, and all others now members of the society in the District of Columbia, known by the name of “ The National Institution for the Promotion of Science,” and their successors and associates, duly elected in the manner provided for in their constitution, hereinafter mentioned, as it now exists, or as it may he hereafter altered and amended by the society herein and hereby incorporated, shall be, and they are hereby, incorporated, constituted, and declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name of “ The National Institute for the Promotion of Science.”</content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That all and singular the goods,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property vested in it.</p></sidenote> chattels, property and effects, heretofore given, granted, devised or bequeathed to the said society, or to any person or persons, or that may have been purchased for its use, or which are or may be held in trust for it, shall be, and the same are hereby, vested in and confirmed to the said corporation hereby created; and the said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to take or receive any sum or sums of money, or any goods, chattels, property, or effects of any kind or nature what-soever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, devised or be-queathed to the said corporation, or in trust for the said corporation, by any person or persons, body politic or corporate, capable of making such gift, bequest, or devise:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, always</i>, That such money,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> goods, chattels, property, or effects, be laid out or disposed of, for the use or benefit of the said corporation, according to the intention of the donors or devisors.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That all obligations, agreements,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obligations, Sue. heretofore entered into, obligatory.</p></sidenote> and contracts, heretofore entered into, by or with the said society, or any of its duly authorized agents, shall be as valid and obligatory upon the respective parties, and upon the corporation hereby created, as if the said society had been incorporated and existed as a corporation at the time and times of entering into such obligations, agreements, and con-tracts. And the said corporation shall be liable, to all persons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liable for goods, &amp;c. specially deposited.</p></sidenote> and bodies politic and corporate, for all goods, chattels, and effects, hereto-fore specially deposited with the said society for safe-keeping or exhibition, or which may be hereafter so deposited with the said corporation, according to the terms of the deposite. And all the property of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Properly of the corporation, at its dissolution, to belong to U. S.</p></sidenote> said corporation, at the time of the expiration or dissolution of its charter, shall belong to and devolve upon the United States; and the President of the United States for the time being shall appoint a person or persons to take possession of, and keep and preserve the same, unless and until Congress shall otherwise dispose of the same.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 4. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the constitution<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constitution.</p></sidenote> heretofore adopted by the said society, and as it now exists, and as it may here-after, from time to time, be altered and amended in the manner therein
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/846">846</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 110. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
provided for, shall be valid and binding upon the members of the said corporation.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 5. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the corporation hereby created<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power to sue and be sued, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote> shall have power to sue and be sued in its corporate name; and to appear, prosecute, and defend, to final judgment and execution, in all courts in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; to have and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew, at will; to elect, according to their said constitution and by-laws, as the same may from time to time exist, all such officers as they may deem necessary and proper, and ascertain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By-laws.</p></sidenote> their duties and compensation; to make, from time to time, by-laws and regulations (not inconsistent with the laws of the United States in force in the District of Columbia) for their government, and for the due and orderly conducting of their affairs, and the management of their property, and to enforce the same by penalties not exceeding twenty dollars for any one offence, to be recovered before a justice of the peace, in the same manner as other small debts are <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>recovered:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That it shall not be lawful for the said corporation to deal or trade in the manner of a bank, nor to issue any note in the nature of a bank note.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 6. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That this charter shall continue<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charter limited, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> in force for the period of twenty years from the date of this act, and no longer, unless Congress shall by law prolong its existence; but its expiration or dissolution shall not abate any suit then pending by or against the said corporation; and three years thereafter shall be allowed, in which it may wind up its affairs, and in which its corporate name may be used for the recovery of all debts due to or by the said corporation:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote></proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That Congress may at any time alter, repeal, or modify this act of incorporation.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CX: granting to the county of Johnson, in the territory of Iowa, the right of pre-emption to a trad of land for a seat of justice for said county, and repealing the second section of an act approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled “An act making a donation of land to the territory of Iowa, for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon.”</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CX</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
 <docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting to the county of Johnson, in the territory of Iowa, the right of pre-emption to a trad of land for a seat of justice for said county, and repealing the second section of an act approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled “An act making a donation of land to the territory of Iowa, for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon.”</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1839, ch. 77.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the right of pre-emption, at the minimum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of pre-emption granted to him.</p></sidenote> price for which the public lands are sold, is hereby granted to the county of Johnson, in the territory of Iowa, for the fractional north-west quarter, east of the river, of section number fifteen, in township seventy- nine, of range six, west of the principal meridian, as reported to the land offices at Dubuque, in said territory, containing one hundred and seventeen acres and sixty-four one hundredths of an acre, more or less, on the same terms<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 169.</p></sidenote> and conditions expressed in the act of the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act granting to the counties and parishes of each state and territory of the United States, in which the public lands are situated, the right of pre-emption to quarter sections of land for seats of justice within the same;” which said right of pre-emption is in lieu of that to the quarter section heretofore located by the commissioners of said county, which is relinquished.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And he it further enacted</i>, That so much of the second section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part of act of March 3, 1839, ch.77, repealed.</p></sidenote> of an act entitled “An act making a donation of land to the territory of Iowa, for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon,” approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, as directed the contiguous sections to the section to be selected under said act, for the purpose aforesaid, to be reserved from sale or entry until the further action of Congress thereon, be, and the same is hereby, repealed:</proviso> <proviso><i>Pro</i>-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 111, 112, 113. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/847">847</page>
<i>tided</i>, That the right of pre-emption shall not accrue to any person or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> persons who now are or may hereafter settle on said lands under any existing pre-emption law.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXI: for the benefit of the county of Holt, in the state of Missouri.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 847</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the benefit of the county of Holt, in the state of Missouri.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper authorities of the county of Holt, in the state of Missouri, be, and they hereby are, authorized to make<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May enter certain lands, in full satisfaction of claim of said county, under act of 26111 May 1824, ch. 169.</p></sidenote> entry, at the proper land office, within one year next after the date of this act, at the minimum price, of the west half of the south-west quarter of section numbered twenty-six, and the east half of the south-east quartet of section numbered twenty-seven, in township numbered sixty, and range numbered thirty-eight, situated in the said county of Holt’, making one hundred and sixty acres, upon which the seat of justice of said county is located, in full satisfaction of the claim of said county under the provisions of the act, entitled, “An act granting to the counties or parishes of each state and territory of the United States in which the public lands are situated the right of pre-emption to quarter sections of land for seats of justice within the same,” approved twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That said lands shall not have been sold by the United States prior to the date of this act.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXII: to confirm the sale of a certain school section in the state of Illinois, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 847</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXII</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to confirm the sale of a certain school section in the state of Illinois, and for other purposes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sale heretofore made of section number sixteen, in township number thirty-nine, north of range fourteen, east<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land sale confirmed.</p></sidenote> of the third principal meridian, in the state of Illinois, by and under the authority of said state, with the assent of the inhabitants of the congressional township, in which said section is situate, be, and the same is hereby confirmed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this act shall be construed as only<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> giving the assent of the United States to said sale, and to the patents issued by the state of Illinois to the purchasers of the same, so far as the United States are concerned in the matter.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXIII: authorizing a patent to be issued to Bartholomew Pellerin, his heirs or assigns.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 847</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing a patent to be issued to Bartholomew Pellerin, his heirs or assigns.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue a patent to Bartholomew<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued.</p></sidenote> Pellerin, or to his heirs and assigns, in right of widow Masmer or Asmard, for his claim to a tract of land situate at the bay of St. Louis, in the state of Mississippi, containing seventeen thousand and eighty-four superficial arpens, according to a survey of the same approved by Vincente Sebastien Pintado, on the thirtieth of January, eighteen hundred and ten, the same having been confirmed by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the same shall only operate as a relinquishment of the right of the United States, and shall not affect the right of third persons.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXIV: for the relief of John P. Converse and Henry J. Hees.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 848</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/848">848</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 114, 115, 116, 117, 118. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John P. Converse and Henry J. Hees.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General issue his warrant on the Treasury of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them.</p></sidenote>the United States, registered and countersigned as provided by law, for the payment of John P. Converse and Henry J. Rees, out of the moneys paid into the treasury for the service of the Post Office Department, for the sum of six hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-three cents, the interest on two drafts, (including the expense of a protest, of one dollar and seventy-five cents,) under date of March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and accepted by the then treasurer of the Post Office Department, by direction of the Postmaster-Genera), at sixty and one hundred and twenty days; which drafts were negotiated at the Metropolis Bank, and not accounted for by the said department.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXV: for the relief of Benjamin F. Hard.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin F. Hard.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote> hereby, directed to pay Benjamin F. Hard the sum of one thousand three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXVI: for the relief of Sylvester Phelps and the heirs or legal representatives of Charles Landon, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sylvester Phelps and the heirs or legal representatives of Charles Landon, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a house destroyed.</p></sidenote> any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Sylvester Phelps and to the heirs or legal representatives of Charles Landon, the sum of two thousand one hundred dollars, the value of a house situate in South Hero, Vermont, and destroyed by fire in consequence of its occupation by United States’ troops during the late war with Great Britain.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXVII: for the relief of Edwin H. Childers, administrator of John P. Hickman.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Edwin H. Childers, administrator of John P. Hickman.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account as a paymaster to be settled.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized to audit and settle the accounts of John P. Hickman, deceased, late a paymaster in the Tennessee volunteers engaged in the service of the United States; and to credit the estate of said Hickman for all moneys which shall appear, upon satisfactory proof, to have been actually expended by said Hickman, for the use and benefit of the United States, for any purpose authorized by law.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXVIII: to authorize the Shenandoah Bridge Company, at Harper’s Ferry, to erect a Bridge on the land of the United States at the town of Harper’s Ferry.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 848</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the Shenandoah Bridge Company, at Harper’s Ferry, to erect a Bridge on the land of the United States at the town of Harper’s Ferry.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Shenandoah Bridge Company, at Harper’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to erect the bridge and make a rood.</p></sidenote> Ferry, be and they are hereby authorized to erect a bridge across the river Shenandoah, on the lands belonging to the United States, at or near the town of Harper’s Ferry, and to connect the same by a sufficient road or passway through the said lands, with the road on the east side<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso; in doing so not to interfere with the rights of others.</p></sidenote> of said river and the main street of the said town: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, that, in the construction of said bridge, and the said road or passway to and from it, the said company shall not, in virtue of this act, inter-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 119, 124, 125. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/849">849</page>
fere with the rights and privileges of any individuals or existing corporations:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso: location to be approved by the Secretary of War.</p></sidenote></proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also</i>, That the location of the said bridge upon the public lands aforesaid shall be submitted to and approved by the Secretary of War, prior to the erection thereof:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also</i>, That all agents, servants, and property in the service of or belonging<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso: agents, &amp;c., of the V. S. to pass free of toll.</p></sidenote> to the United States, shall pass and be transported free of toll.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That on the said terms and conditions the said Shenandoah Bridge Company shall be, and they are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May erect a toll house adjacent to the bridge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> hereby, empowered to erect a toll-house adjacent to the said bridge on the lands aforesaid of the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That, should the said bridge never be constructed, or, having been constructed, shall be abandoned by said company, the rights vested therein by this act shall cease and determine.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXIX: for the relief of John A. Rockwell.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 849</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John A. Rockwell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to be issued to him for certain land.</p></sidenote> he hereby is, authorized to issue a patent to John A. Rockwell, or his legal representatives, for the south-east quarter of section number fourteen, in township number thirty-three, north of range one, east of the third principal meridian, in the district of lands formerly subject to sale at the land office at Galena, in the state of Illinois: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the said John A. Rockwell, or his legal representatives, shall satisfactorily appear to the Secretary of the Treasury to have been the legal assignee of Richard Long, of the certificate of purchase of said lands, or shall prove to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that he holds a conveyance for the same, executed to him by the said Richard Long before his right of pre-emption to the said lands had been set aside by the proper department, on account of a defect in the proof of cultivation.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-01">August 1, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXIV: explanatory of an act entitled “ An act for the relief of Clark Woodrooff,” passed May tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-two.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 849</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-04</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>explanatory of an act entitled “ An act for the relief of Clark Woodrooff,” passed May tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-two.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-04">August 4, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the. Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 10, 1842, ch. 27.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance of amount paid for lands, to whom to be refunded.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized to refund the balance of the amount paid for lands purchased from the United States, at the land office of the St. Helena district, in the state of Louisiana, on the tenth and twenty-third days of February, of the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the name of Clark Woodrooff, either to said Woodrooff, or to any other person or persons jointly interested with him in said purchase, or to his or their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, on his or their complying with the conditions of said act.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-04">August 4, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXV: for the relief of David M. Hughes, Charles Shipman, and John Henderson.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 849</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of David M. Hughes, Charles Shipman, and John Henderson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-09">August 9, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of damages committed by Indians to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized and directed to make an inquiry into, and cause an estimate to be made of, the damage incurred by David N. Hughes, Charles Shipman, and John Henderson, by reason of injuries committed by a party of emigrating Creek Indians, under the command of an officer of the United States, on lands owned by them at Pass Christien, in the county of Hancock, and state of Mississippi, known as the Livingston claim, in the summer of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven; and pay the amount thereof, when ascertained, to the said David M. Hughes, Charles Shipman, and John Henderson, or their legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and said Secretary shall cause said estimate to be made only for all trees taken 107
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/850">850</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 131, 132, 133, 134. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
by said Indians for their necessary use, at the intrinsic value of the same on the spot and at the time they were so taken, and by said Indians.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-09">August 9, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXI: for the relief of Daniel B. Bush.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 850</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel B. Bush.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Daniel B. Bush, grantee under John Smith,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to relinquish and enter land.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe, the south-west quarter of section thirty-five, of township thirteen south, in range two west, in the tract appropriated by acts of Congress granting land to the late army of the United States; which tract of land appears to be but a small fraction, not conforming to the law under which it was granted; and upon such relinquishment being made as aforesaid, the said Daniel B. Bush shall be, and he is hereby authorized to enter any other quarter section in the land district in which said fraction is situated in the state of Illinois, which shall be liable to entry at private sale, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>and not in the occupancy of any actual settler: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The said Daniel B. Bush, shall prove to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that he is the bona fide purchaser of the land specified in the patent, and that he holds the same for said fractional quarter section granted to John Smith, father and heir at law of Edward Smith, deceased.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXII: for the relief of Alexander Hammett.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 850</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Alexander Hammett.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officer of the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to settle the accounts of Alexander Hammett, consul of the United States at Naples, under the direction of the Secretary of State, and that he allow to the said Hammett a compensation at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, for such time as it shall appear that Le was engaged as an informal agent of claims in behalf of citizens of the United States, and that this allowance, in full satisfaction of all claims of the said Hammett against the United States, be paid him out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXIII: for the relief of George H. Walker.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 850</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George H. Walker.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That George H. Walker be, and he hereby is, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote> to enter, at the land office in the district in which it lies, the north-east quarter of section thirty-two, in township seven north, of range twenty-two east, in the Milwaukie land district, Wiskonsan Territory, at the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, he having entitled himself to a pre-emption right thereto, under the act of the twenty-second<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 22, 1838, ch. 119.</p></sidenote> of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, by inhabitancy and cultivation, but said land having been reserved to the United States, as part of one of the “ even sections ” mentioned in the first section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 18, 1838, ch. 114, sec. 1.</p></sidenote> of the act of June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, granting a quantity of land to the Territory of Wiskonsan, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of Lake Michigan with those of Rock river.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXIV: for the relief of Rees B. Ward.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 850</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV</docNumber>
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<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Rees B. Ward.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That upon the surrender, by Rees B. Ward, his heirs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized, on surrendering certain land, to enter another tract</p></sidenote> or legal representatives, to be cancelled, to the Secretary of the Treasury, of the certificate, or the patent, if the same shall have been issued, for the north-west quarter of the north-west quarter of section numbered twenty-three, in township numbered nine, north of range numbered twenty-six west, in the. district of land subject to sale at
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 135, 136, 137. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/851">851</page>
Johnson court-house, in the state of Arkansas, entered by the said Rees B. Ward by mistake, lie or they shall be authorized to enter in lieu thereof, a like quantity of public land subject to private entry in said district, and not in the occupancy of any bona fide settler: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That said land so entered by the said Rees B. Ward by mistake shall not previous to such surrender have been sold to a bona fide purchaser.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXV: for the relief of William Wynn.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Wynn.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That William Wynn, of Lafayette county, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed a pre-emptive right in the entry of certain land.</p></sidenote> state of Arkansas, be permitted a pre-emptive right of entry at private sale, on payment in cash of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, in the proper land office of the district where the lands are situate, of any portion, or all of the lands contained in the several sections and fractional sections, designated as sections eighteen, nineteen, twenty, seventeen, eight, nine, ten, seven, three, four, twenty-one, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-three, thirty-four, of township sixteen south, range twenty-six west, and sections seventeen, twenty, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, nineteen, thirty, of township fifteen south, range twenty-five west, situate in the state of Arkansas; said entries to be made under the following rides and limitations, viz; that said entries be made within two years from the date of this act; and that they be not made so as to interfere with any improved land, claimed by others than himself, or by pre-emption right or claim of title; and if less than all of said lands liable to entry shall be taken up by said Wynn, no less subdivision shall be so entered than by the entire section or fractional section, or of all the lands subject to sale in any such section where part may have been otherwise disposed of.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXVI: for the relief of the inhabitants of the reserved township in Gibson county, in the state of Indiana.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the inhabitants of the reserved township in Gibson county, in the state of Indiana.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A section of land for the use of schools to be selected.</p></sidenote> is, authorized to select one section, in not less than quarter sections, of any surveyed and unappropriated lands in the state of Indiana, not subject to any right of pre-emption, for the use of schools within the reserved township in Gibson county, in the state of Indiana, in lieu of the sixteenth section in said township, which was granted by Congress to the state of Indiana, for the uses and benefit of a state college: which said section, when so selected, shall be forever held, or disposed of, under the laws in force, by the inhabitants of said reserved township, for the use and purposes for which section sixteen is in other cases held or disposed of, and for no other use or purpose whatever.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXVII: for the relief of Zachariak Jettison.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVII</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Zachariak Jettison.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise, appropriated, to Zachariah Jellison, three hundred and forty dollars and thirteen cents; being the amount of duty levied by act of March 2, 1833, on three hundred and fifty bales of leaf tobacco, being<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1333, ch. 62.</p></sidenote> part of four hundred bales imported from the island of Cuba into the district of Boston, on the 22d and 24th days of December, 1832 in the brig General Mercer and brig Lubec, and deposited in the custom-house stores agreeably to the provisions of the act of the 14th July,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 14 1832, ch. 227.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> 1832: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That satisfactory proof shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury that said duties were paid, and not returned in debentures on the exportation of said tobacco, and that the same was
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/852">852</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 138, 139, 140, 141. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
deposited in the custom-house stores, and was under the control of the proper officer of the customs, on the 3d day of March, 1833, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of 14th July, 1832.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXVIII: to authorize Chapman Levy to purchase as a pre-emptor a certain quarter section of land now occupied by him, at the minimum price per acre.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 852</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize Chapman Levy to purchase as a pre-emptor a certain quarter section of land now occupied by him, at the minimum price per acre.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That Chapman Levy be, and he is hereby, authorized <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to make the purchase within six months.</p></sidenote>at any time within six months from the date of this act, to purchase as a pre-einptor at the proper laud office, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the south-east quarter of section twenty-three of township fourteen range five east, in the district of lands subject to sale at Columbus in the state of Mississippi: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Said lands shall not, before the date of this act, have been sold by the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXXXIX: for the relief of John C. Reynolds, late disbursing agent of the Indian Department.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIX</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John C. Reynolds, late disbursing agent of the Indian Department.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of a certain sum of money stolen from him.</p></sidenote> directed to pay to John C. Reynolds, late disbursing agent of the Indian department, the sum of eleven hundred and twenty-one dollars and three cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, it being for that sum stolen from him while in discharge of his duties as disbursing agent, at Fort Crawford, in the month of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, it having been satisfactorily proved that the loss was not occasioned by any negligence or want of proper care and attention on the part of said Reynolds.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXL: for the relief of Marston G. Clark.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXL.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Marston G. Clark.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts tube settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> hereby is directed to settle the account of Marston G. Clark, late agent of the Kanzas Indians, upon principles of justice and equity, and to allow him in such settlement for any losses he sustained on account of the purchase, transportation, and sale of flour and pork purchased by him to be used at the Kanzas agency in supporting said Indians while assembled to receive their annuities, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four; and which flour and pork the said Marston G. Clark was prevented from using at said agency, and was compelled to transport and sell at a loss, in consequence of his charge of the Kanzas Indians ceasing, by their being placed under another agency by the United States before the time for the payment of their annuities in the year aforesaid; and upon such accounting, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the said Marston G. Clark, or his legal representatives, the amount that may be found due to him, upon the principles<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the amount shall not exceed the sum of three hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLI: for the relief of the heirs of Francis Newman.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLI</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Francis Newman.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His accounts as a collector of taxes to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized and directed to settle and adjust the accounts of Francis Newman, late collector of internal revenue and direct taxes for the sixth collection district of Maryland, so as to release his estate from the payment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of interest on account of the debt which the said Newman owed to the United States as collector aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall authorize the refunding to said estate any
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 142, 143, 144, 145. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/853">853</page>
amount which may heretofore have been received or collected of said Newman or his legal representatives,on account of said debt or interest thereon.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLII: for the relief of William Osteen, of Illinois.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Osteen, of Illinois.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That William Osteen, of the county of Franklin<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to surrender land certificate, and to enter other land.</p></sidenote> in the state of Illinois, be, and he is hereby, authorized, within six months from the date of this act, to surrender to the Secretary of the Treasury to be cancelled, the certificate of the land offices at Shawneetown, in said state, for the north half of the southeast quarter of section number twenty-nine, in township number seven south, range number two east, lying in the Shawneetown land district, in the state aforesaid; which was entered by said William Osteen by mistake, and in lieu thereof, he is hereby authorized to enter the like quantity of land in legal subdivisions, elsewhere in said land district: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The same<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> be subject to private entry, and not subject to the right of pre-emption.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLIII: for the relief of J. K. Tefft, administrator of Francis Didier Petit de Fillers, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of J. K. Tefft, administrator of Francis Didier Petit de Fillers, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That J. K. Tefft, administrator of Francis Didier Petit de Villers, late of Savannah, in the state of Georgia, deceased, be, and he is hereby, released from all and all manner of interest, claim, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from all claim of U. S. founded on a certain judgment.</p></sidenote> demand of the United States, founded on a judgment obtained by the said United States against the said Francis Didier Petit de Villers in his life-time, and one Paul Dupont, for the sum of eight hundred and sixty dollars with interest and costs, which said judgment was obtained and is now of record in the district court of the United States for the district of Georgia, and that the attorney for the United States, for the said district, be, and he is hereby, directed and required to enter satisfaction on the same.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLIV: for the relief of Beckford C. Mathews.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Beckford C. Mathews.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A duplicate land warrant to issue to him.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, authorized to cause to be issued to Beckford C. Mathews, vendee and heir at law of Daniel Mathews, a soldier of the New Hampshire line of the war of the revolution, a duplicate of land warrant number one thousand one hundred and thirty-eight, for one hundred acres of land; which land warrant was issued to said Daniel Mathews in his lifetime, and lost without having been located.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLV: for the relief of Richard Higgins.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 853</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLV</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard Higgins.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be lawful for Richard Higgins, or his legal representatives, to prove his pre-emption right, at the proper<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May prove his pre-emption right to certain land, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> land office, to the north-west fractional section, number twenty, in township number four, north of range number eight east, containing one hundred and forty-seven acres and sixty-five hundreths of an acre, situ-ate in the county of Crittenden, in the state of Arkansas, and upon such proof, to the satisfaction of the proper land officers, and the payment of the minimum price, per acre, for the land, a patent shall issue to the said Richard Higgins, or his legal representatives, for the same: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Said proof and payment shall be made within one year from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the date of this act:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also</i>, That said Richard Higgins shall prove to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that he is the bona fide vendee of the claim of John J. Bowie under a grant from the Spanish authorities to the same.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLVI: for the relief of Thomas M. Isett.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/854">854</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 146, 147, 148, 149. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas M. Isett.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas M. Isett, or his legal representatives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized, on surrendering a certain certificate, to enter land.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter at any of the land offices in the Territory of Iowa, eighty acres of any of the public lands in said Territory, subject to private entry at the time, in consideration that said Thomas M. Isett shall first surrender to the proper department, to be cancelled, the receipt of the receiver of the land office at Burlington, in said Territory, for the purchase of the east half of the south-west quarter of section number twenty, in township number seventy-seven, north of range number two west, containing eighty acres, entered by <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Leander Judson: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said Thomas M. Isett, shall satisfactorily appear to the Secretary of the Treasury to be the holder of said certificate of purchase, by transfer, from said Leander Judson.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLVII: for the relief of Gregoire Sarpy, or his legal representatives.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 854</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVII</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Gregoire Sarpy, or his legal representatives.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the proper officers of the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to be issued for a tract of land.</p></sidenote> to issue a patent to Gregoire Sarpy, or his legal representatives, for seven thousand and fifty-six arpens, containing six thousand and two acres and fifty hundredths of an acre of land, pursuant to patent certificate number one thousand and thirty-three, dated September thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and to the survey thereof numbered one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three, certified by the surveyor of Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas, at St. Louis, on the thirteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLVIII: authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to audit and settle the accounts between the United States and David Gelston, formerly collector if the port of New York.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 854</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to audit and settle the accounts between the United States and David Gelston, formerly collector if the port of New York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, dec.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized and directed to audit and to settle, upon principles of justice and equity, the accounts of David Gelston, who is now deceased, and who was the collector of the port of New York, from Anno Domini eighteen hundred and one, to the year eighteen hundred and twenty, when he resigned his office; and if the said Secretary shall, upon said settlement, find any balance due from the United States to the estate of the said David Gelston, he shall allow the same to the legal representatives of the said David Gelston towards the payment of the balance now standing on the books of the treasury department against him: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the sum allowed shall not exceed, in any event, the sum of thirty-six thousand one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and forty cents; that being now the sum supposed to be due to the Government from the estate of the said David Gelston.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXLIX: for the relief of Thankful Reynolds.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 854</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIX</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thankful Reynolds.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> to place the name of Thankful Reynolds, widow of Daniel Reynolds, deceased, and late a pensioner of the United States, upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and allow and pay to her a pension of eighty dollars per annum, for and during the term of five years from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CL: for the relief of Valerian Allain.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 855</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CL</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 150, 151, 152, 153. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/855">855</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CL.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Valerian Allain.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the land, designated by certificates seventeen,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land designated by certain certificates, confirmed to him.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 12, 1814, ch. 52.</p></sidenote> eighteen, and nineteen, entered in pursuance of an act of Congress, approved twelfth April, eighteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the state of Louisiana, and Territory of Alabama [Missouri],” entered, as appears by the certificate of the register of the land office for the eastern district of Louisiana, on the fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, by Valerian Allain, George Dolandes, and Robert Boyd, one hundred and sixty acres each, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, paid at the time of the entry (and the said Valerian Allain having purchased of George Dolandes and Robert Boyd the land designated in certificates numbers seventeen and nineteen, which said land, by a survey subsequent to said entries, was found to be located partly on sections sixteen mid seventeen, in township seven, south of range twelve east,) be, and the same are hereby, confirmed to the said Valerian Allain; and the Commissioner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to issue therefor.</p></sidenote> of the General Land Office is hereby authorized to issue to the said Valerian Allain patents therefor.</content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the proper authorities of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other land may be entered in lieu of that confirmed to V. Allain.</p></sidenote> state of Louisiana, for township seven of range twelve east, in the eastern district of Louisiana, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, other land, in lieu of the land by this act confirmed to Valerian Allain.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 3. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That this act shall not be construed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act not to interfere with any rights, $c.</p></sidenote> so as to interfere with any rights, except those which appertain to the United States and Valerian Allain.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLI: in favor of Mary Snow.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 855</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>in favor of Mary Snow.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Mary Snow, widow of Jonas Snow, of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> state of New York, on the revolutionary pension roll, at the rate of sixty dollars per annum, during her natural life; to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLII: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Scott.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 855</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of John Scott.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That fifteen hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for damages to property by emigrating Indians.</p></sidenote> appropriated, in full payment to the legal representatives of John Scott, deceased, for damages sustained by him in wood, timber, fences and houses, on his premises in the neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama, in consequence of the occupation of the same by a large body of emigrating Creek Indians, while in charge of United States troops in the months of January, February, and March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, under the superintendence of Captain John Page, and by orders of General Thomas S. Jesup.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLIII: for the relief of Mary Prettyman.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mary Prettyman.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be paid, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to her.</p></sidenote> not otherwise, appropriated, the sum of two hundred and forty-seven dollars, to Mary Prettyman, widow of Thomas G. Prettyman, deceased,
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/856">856</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 154, 155, 156, 157. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
who was a sergeant in Captain Aisquith’s company, third brigade of Maryland militia, in the service of the United States, and who died of disabilities incurred in said service during the last war with Great Britain.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLIV: for the relief of Jubal B. Hancock.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 856</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jubal B. Hancock.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Jubal B. Hancock be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land, in lieu of, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> authorized, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to enter at the proper land office, in legal sub-divisions, fourteen hundred and forty acres of any of the public lands of the United States, within the state of Mississippi, in lieu of a like quantity of land to which he and his three children, William M. Han-cock, Mary M. Hancock, and Caroline D. Hancock, became entitled under the fourteenth article of the treaty of Dancing-rabbit creek, concluded with the Choctaw nation of Indians, on the twenty-seventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, which was improperly located for them by George W. Martin, the locating agent of the United States, and of which they have been deprived by the decision of the Secretary of War.</content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That it shall be the duty of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents lo be issued.</p></sidenote> Commissioner of the General Land Office, on receiving certificates of said entry, to cause patents to be issued to Jubal B. Hancock, for six hundred and forty acres; to William M. Hancock, for three hundred and twenty acres; to Mary M. Hancock, for three hundred and twenty acres; and to Caroline D. Hancock, for one hundred and sixty acres: in conformity with the provisions of said treaty.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLV: for the relief of Eli Wheat and Stephen White.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 856</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Eli Wheat and Stephen White.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That so much of a judgment which was obtained<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">So much of a certain judgment, &amp;c., released as against them.</p></sidenote> by the United States, in the district court of the United States for the Kentucky district, at the May term, one thousand eight hundred and forty, for the sum of five hundred and sixteen dollars sixty-four cents, against James W. Carter, late postmaster at Columbia, Kentucky, and the said Eli Wheat and Stephen <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>White, his sureties, as is in the nature of penalty, be, and the same is hereby, released as against said Wheat and White: <proviso><i>Prodded</i>, That the balance of said judgment, if not already paid, shall, with the interest thereon from the date of said judgment, be paid within sixty days after the passage of this act.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLVI: for the relief of John Johnston.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVI</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Johnston.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the amount of a certain judgment against Trim, with interest.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized to pay to John Johnston, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty-two cents; being the amount received from the said Johnston upon a judgment against him in favor of the United States, together with the interest thereof from the time of such payment.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLVII: for the relief of John B. Pierce.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John B. Pierce.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid, out of any moneys in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be paid to him.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John B. Pierce, of Salem, Massachusetts, for himself, as owner, and for the master and crew of the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 158, 159, 160, 161. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/857">857</page>
schooner John George, to be distributed according to the decree of the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts, in the case of John B. Pierce and others versus brig Rob Roy, in November, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, the sum of seven hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents, being three-fifths of the amount of duties collected on the cargo of the Rob Roy, saved by the John George, after a total abandonment at sea.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLVIII: for the relief of Henry Gee.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Gee.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Henry Gee, of Florida, be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate, on any of the unappropriated public lands within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land in lieu of that of which he was deprived.</p></sidenote> the territory of Florida, the same number of acres of land which was contained in the north-east quarter of fractional section twenty-three, in township one, of range eight, north and west, of which he was deprived by the entry of Michael Lott, made at the land office at Tallahassee, on the twentieth August, eighteen hundred and forty, and the certificate of which is numbered eight thousand three hundred and ninety-eight.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLIX: for the relief of Benjamin C. Roberta.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 857</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIX</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin C. Roberta.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay to the personal representative of Benjamin P. Roberts,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for house-room and fuel furnished British prisoners, See.</p></sidenote> deceased, the sum of fifty-two dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; that being the amount due said estate for house room and fuel, furnished by said Roberts to certain British prisoners and their guard during the year eighteen hundred and fifteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLX: for the relief of James Seaburn.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLX</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Seaburn.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to refund and pay over to James Sea-burn<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Excess of duty paid on a cargo of salt, to be refunded.</p></sidenote> the sum of ninety-five dollars and twenty-six cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, it being the amount of excess of impost duty demanded of him, and paid by the said James Seaburn, on a cargo of salt imported into the port of Wilmington, North Carolina, from Turks Island, on the eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> be first satisfied that the said sum was demanded of the said James Seaburn, and paid by him without the authority of law.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXI: for the settlement of the accounts of Silas Deane.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 857</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXI</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the settlement of the accounts of Silas Deane.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and settle the ac-counts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain accounts to be Bellied.</p></sidenote> of Silas Deane arising under a contract with the committee of secrecy of Congress, dated the nineteenth of February, seventeen hundred and seventy-six, and under his appointments as commercial and political agent, and afterwards as commissioner in France: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That the commission of five per cent, specified in said contract, be allowed on the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, only; and that on all purchases or supplies furnished by Mr. Deane beyond that sum, a commission of two and a half per centum, and no more, be allowed; and further, that no commissions be allowed on any purchases or sup-plies made or contracted for by him, subsequent to the twenty-eighth
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/858">858</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 162, 163, 164. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
day of December, seventeen hundred and seventy-six, the day on which he commenced the discharge of his duties as an ambassador:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the sum of ten thousand five hundred dollars, ordered to be paid said Deane for his attendance on Congress, by a resolution of that body of the twenty-sixth of August, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, be allowed as payable in paper money, and not in specie; and the sum found due shall be paid to the heirs at law of the said Deane, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:</proviso> <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said sum shall not exceed the sum found due to the said Silas Deane by a report of the Treasury Department to the Senate made in pursuance of a resolution of the twenty-sixth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXII: for the relief of George W. Paschal.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 858</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George W. Paschal.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That George W. Paschal be, and hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnified for loss incurred by an official act.</p></sidenote> allowed the sum of two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents, to indemnify him in full for responsibilities and losses incurred by him, in consequence of the discharge of an official act in the destruction of a quantity of whiskey intended for the Cherokee Indians, and owned by Robert Kirkham, pursuant to an order of General John E. Wool, his commanding officer; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay the same out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXIII: for the relief of Robert Miller.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert Miller.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of penalty of certain debenture bonds to be refunded.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized and required to refund to Robert Miller, of Charleston, in the state of South Carolina, the amount of the penalty of two debenture bonds, executed by him and James Macbeth, running to the United States, dated March seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, which amount he has paid to the United States: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said Miller shall prove to the satisfaction of the said Secretary, by competent evidence, that the merchandise named in said bonds was reexported from the United States, and not relanded therein within the period required by law to entitle them to the benefits of debenture.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXIV: for the relief of Thomas Haskins and Ralph Haskins.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 858</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Haskins and Ralph Haskins.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Solicitor of the Treasury of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from the obligation of a certain bond, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote> States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to release Thomas Haskins and Ralph Haskins from the obligation of a bond executed by them to the United States, April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, conditioned for the payment of seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-four dollars forty-nine cents; and from all further demands upon them growing out of their indebtedness to the United States, as principals or sureties, on certain bonds for payment of duties, which bonds were secured by a deed of trust conveying lands of the said Thomas and Ralph to the United States, bearing date December twenty-six, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>eighteen hundred and seventeen, the said Thomas and Ralph having paid to the United States the principal of said bonds: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said Thomas and Ralph shall first release the United States and all persons holding the said lands under a quit claim from the United States from all claims against them for any liability by reason of the trustship or agency of the United States in respect to said lands or any part thereof from any person whatever.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXV: for the relief of Hezekiah L. Thistle.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 859</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 165, 166, 167. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/859">859</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Hezekiah L. Thistle.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Hezekiah L. Thistle, the sum of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse killed and used as food.</p></sidenote> seventy-five dollars, in compensation for a horse owned by him, which was killed and used as food, by the troops of the United States, on their march through Florida, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay the same out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXVI: for the relief of Sebastian Butcher, and the heirs and legal representatives of Bartholomew Butcher, Michael Butcher and Peter Bloom.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 859</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVI</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sebastian Butcher, and the heirs and legal representatives of Bartholomew Butcher, Michael Butcher and Peter Bloom.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Sebastian Butcher, and the heirs and legal representatives of Bartholomew Butcher, Michael Butcher, and Peter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain land confirmed to them.</p></sidenote> Bloom, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in and to two tracts of land in the state of Missouri, to wit: One tract of four hundred arpens, about six miles from Mine a la Motte, the plat of which is in the land office at Jackson; and another tract of twelve hundred arpens, situated on the waters of Grand or Big River, a plat of which to be produced by them; the claims of the persons aforesaid to these tracts of land having been recommended for confirmation by the commissioners appointed under the “Act for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri,”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 9, 1832, ch. 180.</p></sidenote> approved the ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in their report dated the twenty-seventh of November, one thou-sand eight hundred and thirty-three: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this confirmation <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>shall only operate as a relinquishment on the part of the United States to the said tracts of land, and is not intended to affect or interfere with the rights of other persons claiming title thereto; but in the case of the existence of other legal title to said tracts of land, or to any part thereof derived from the United States, by pre-emption or other right, then the said Sebastian Butcher, and the heirs and legal representatives of Bartholomew Butcher, Michael Butcher, and Peter Bloom, be, and they hereby are, authorized to locate a quantity of land equal to that which may have been so taken up from out said claims by virtue of pre-emp-tion or other rights derived from the United States, in legal divisions and subdivisions, not less than half sections, on any of the unlocated lands of the United States in the state of Missouri, now subject to entry at private sale: for which the proper officer of the Government is hereby authorized and directed to issue patents, on the production of a certificate of the register of the land office within whose district such location may be made.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Richard T. Ranks, of the state of Arkansas.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 859</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Richard T. Ranks, of the state of Arkansas.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers be, and they hereby are, directed to pay to Richard T. Banks, of the state of Arkansas,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for losses sustained in consequence of a contract.</p></sidenote> the sum of three thousand two hundred and six dollars and nine cents, to remunerate him for the actual losses he sustained in consequence of three contracts he made with the Government to supply provisions for the use of Indians expected to emigrate from the eastern to the western side of the river Mississippi, agreeably to treaty stipulations between them and the United States, but who failed to emigrate.</content></section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/860">860</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 168, 169, 170, 171. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the said sum of money be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXVIII: for the relief of Daniel Kleiss.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 860</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVIII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Kleiss.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Daniel<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as an armorer.</p></sidenote> Kleiss out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighty- three dollars and fifty-two cents, as compensation for his service in the gang of armorers at Key West, from the third of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, to the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXIX: for the relief f Isabella Hill, widow, and John Hill, Elizabeth Hill, and Samuel Hill, children and minor heirs at law of Samuel Hill, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 860</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief f Isabella Hill, widow, and John Hill, Elizabeth Hill, and Samuel Hill, children and minor heirs at law of Samuel Hill, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be allowed and paid to Isabella Hill,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be allowed amount paid for land from which they were ejected.</p></sidenote> widow, and John Hill, Elizabeth Hill, and Samuel Hill, children and minor heirs of Samuel Hill, late of the county of Monroe, and stale of Illinois, deceased, or their legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and forty dollars, the amount of consideration money paid by the said Samuel Hill to the United States in his life-time, for three hundred and twenty acres of land, purchased at the land office at Kaskaskia, in said state, from which said tract of land the said Isabella Hill, widow, and the said John Hill, Elizabeth Hill, and Samuel Hill, children and minor heirs of the said Samuel Hill, deceased, were ejected (the said Samuel Hill having died during the pendency of said suit) by the decision of the supreme court of the state of Illinois, at the December term of the said court, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, in favor of Jonathan Moore and others, heirs at law of George Lunceford, who claimed title under a confirmation and patent made to Nicholas Jarrot, by General Arthur St. Clair, then Governor of the Territory north-west of the Ohio river, on the twelfth day of February, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the said sum of money be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Said money, how to be paid and distributed.</p></sidenote> paid to Isabella Hill, widow, as aforesaid, for herself, and as guardian for the said minor heirs of the said Samuel Hill, deceased, to be accounted for and distributed among the said persons concerned, according to the laws of Illinois, in cases of the distribution of the personal property of such persons as die intestate in said state.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-11">August 11, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXX: for the relief of George Sheffler.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 860</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-16</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Sheffler.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to cause to be placed on the roll of invalid pensioners the name of George Sheffler, and that the said Sheffler be paid at the rate of four dollars per month, from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-two.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXI: granting a pension to Mary Johnson.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 860</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-16</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Mary Johnson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> and directed to place the name of Mary Johnson on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and pay her, at the rate of twenty dollars per
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 172, 173, 174, 175. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/861">861</page>
year, for five years, according to the provisions of the act of the seventh<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote> of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, granting pensions to certain widows.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter CLXXII: for the relief of John Jorden.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 861</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-16</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Jorden.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the name of John Jorden, of Tompkins county, in the state of New York, on the invalid pension roll, and that he be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXIII: for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Thomas Atkinson, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 861</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-16</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Thomas Atkinson, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs and legal representatives of the late Thomas Atkinson, of Crawford county, in the state of Pennsylvania,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from balance due on a certain bond.</p></sidenote> be, and they hereby are, released and discharged from the balance due on the bond of the United States, in which the said Thomas Atkinson was one of the sureties for Richard Bean, a collector of direct tax and internal duties of the United States, for the twenty-third Pennsylvania collection district, and from the judgment obtained by the United States thereon against the executors of the said Thomas Atkinson.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CLXXIV: for the relief of the president, directors, and company of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 861</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-16</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXIV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the president, directors, and company of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, directed to ascertain what<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Necessary expenses, &amp;.c. to be ascertained, and credit given therefor.</p></sidenote> necessary expenses were incurred by the Agricultural Bank of the state of Mississippi, in receiving the proceeds of the sales of lands in the Chickasaw cession, in the states of Mississippi and Alabama, and transmitting the same from Pontotoc, the place at which they were received, to the said bank at Natchez, or to such points as were from time to time designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the authority given to the United States, in the last clause of the eleventh article of the treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw Indians, made on the twenty-fourth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four; and that a credit be allowed upon the debt now due from said bank, on account of the money thus received, for the amount which may be ascertained to have been thus expended, provided the said credit shall not exceed the interest due the United States on said debt.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter CLXXV: for the relief of Joseph F. Caldwell.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 861</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-16</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXV</docNumber>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph F. Caldwell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Auditor for the Post Office Department be directed to audit and settle the accounts of J. F. Caldwell, for carrying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His accounts for carrying the mail to be audited mid settled.</p></sidenote> the mail from Lewisburg to Salt, White Sulphur, and Sweet Springs, under his contract with the department, dated in October, eighteen hundred and thirty; and for carrying the mail from Salt Sulphur Springs, by Red Sulphur Springs, Peterstown, Giles’ Court-house, and Poplar Hill, to Newbern and back, under his contract with the department of November twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; and that in such
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/862">862</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 176. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
settlement he allow to said Caldwell the rate of compensation stipulated for in his contracts with the department for carrying the mail over said routes during the time specified, if in the opinion of the Attorney-General of the United States, (which opinion the said Auditor shall first require of the said Attorney-General,) the Postmaster-General had not the right, under the terms of these contracts, to make the alterations in the mode of transporting said mails, which were ordered by the department on the fourteenth November, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote>And the proper officers shall thereupon pay to the said Caldwell whatever sum shall, upon such settlement of his accounts, appear to be justly due him, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter CLXXVI: to compensate the township of Dublin, in Mercer county, Ohio, for the loss of school lands.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 862</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-16</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to compensate the township of Dublin, in Mercer county, Ohio, for the loss of school lands.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scrip to issue to the trusties of Dublin town-ship for the loss of school lands.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized to issue to the trustees of Dublin township, Mercer county, in the state of Ohio, land scrip to the amount of three hundred and eleven dollars and eight cents, in consideration of that part of section number sixteen reserved for the use of schools in said township, which, previous to the survey of said township, had been granted by Congress to Anthony Shane; and to the further amount of four hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-two cents, in consideration of another part of said section number sixteen, which in like manner had been granted to Louis Godfroy, and of which parts of said section sixteen the said Shane and Godfroy, their heirs and assigns, have possession under the grants aforesaid, to the exclusion of the right to the said township therein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scrip, how to be issued.</p></sidenote> which said scrip shall be issued in the form and manner heretofore prescribed for the granting of scrip for bounty land, and shall be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>of like effect in the hands of the legal holder: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That, before the issue and delivery of said scrip, the inhabitants of said town-ship, at a legal meeting called for that purpose, shall vote to accept of the same in full satisfaction of their right and claim to the lands so granted, and in full compensation therefor, and shall authorize and cause to be executed to the United States, and filed with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and to his approval, a good and sufficient deed of quit claim, in release, in law and equity, of all claim, right, title, and interest in and to all those parts of said section sixteen’ in said township, which are included in and conveyed by the grants <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>aforesaid to said Anthony Shane and Louis Godfroy:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, further</i>, That if so ordered by said inhabitants, at such meeting, the execution and acknowledgment of such deed or conveyance, by a majority of said trustees, according to the laws of Ohio, shall be deemed and held a sufficient execution and acknowledgment thereof by said inhabitants.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the scrip so issued and delivered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">The scrip, &amp;c. to be applied to the use of schools.</p></sidenote> by the said Secretary of the Treasury to said township of Dublin, or the lands or other things purchased therewith, shall be held and applied by said township to the use of schools, and to no other object or purpose, in the same manner as the said section sixteen, or the proceeds of the sales, or the rents and profits thereof, would be held and applied, had the said land not been granted to said Shane and Godfroy, but had been held and enjoyed as school lands, to the use of said township, by virtue of the original reservation therefor.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-16">August 16, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCIII: for the relief of John Underwood.</dc:title>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 193, 195, 196, 197, 198. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/863">863</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Underwood.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars be, and the same is hereby, allowed John Underwood, one of the clerks in the office of the First Auditor, in the accounts of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for additional services.</p></sidenote> customs, for additional services rendered by him in stating the accounts of the late internal duties and direct taxes; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to pay the said sum to the said John Under-wood, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCV: for the relief of Jehosaphat Briggs.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jehosaphat Briggs.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> required to place the name of Jehosaphat Briggs, of Jefferson county, New York, on the list of United States’ pensioners, and to pay him the sum of five dollars and thirty-three and one-third cents per month, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCVI: for the relief of the Springfield Manufacturing Company.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the Springfield Manufacturing Company.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to adjust and settle the account of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts for musket barrels and bayonets to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Springfield Manufacturing Company for fifteen thousand musket barrels and fifteen thousand and forty-two bayonets, manufactured for and delivered to the United States, on a contract made with Roswell Lee, while acting superintendent of the United States’ armory at Harper’s Ferry, and dated the sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven; allowing interest on said account, according to the terms of said contract: and cause the balance which may be found due to be paid to the said Springfield Manufacturing Company, out of any money remaining in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCVII: for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Nathaniel<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him, to correct an error in former act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 27, 1842, ch. 100.</p></sidenote> Mitchel] the sum of two hundred and seventy-five dollars out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to correct an error in the amount appropriated in a bill passed the present session for the relief of said Mitchell.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCVIII: for the relief of Elizabeth Gibbs.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elizabeth Gibbs.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Elizabeth Gibbs, of Tompkins county,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> New York, on the pension roll, and that she be paid during her natural life, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, for six months service of her first husband, Abram Smith, as a lieutenant, and for six months service as a private in the revolutionary war, according to the provisions of the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 362.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1837, ch. 42.</p></sidenote> and the explanatory act of March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CXCIX: for the relief of Christiana Low.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXCIX</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/864">864</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 199, 200, 201, 208. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXCIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Christiana Low.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is directed to place<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the name of Christiana Low, of Orange county, state of New York, widow of Cornelius Low, deceased, on the revolutionary pension roll, and pay her a pension, at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum, for five years; to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CC: for the relief of Charles F. Sibbald.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 864</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CC</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles F. Sibbald.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the third Auditor of the Treasury, under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of damages to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> the direction of the Attorney-General, be, and he is hereby, directed to ascertain the actual damages which Charles F. Sibbald has sustained and would be entitled to recover upon the principles of law as applicable to similar cases, by reason of the interference of any agent or agents of the United States acting under their authority, with the use, possession, or enjoyment of his lands, limiter, mills, or other property in East Florida, from eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, to February seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, at which time the title of said property was confirmed to the said Charles F. Sibbald by the Supreme Court of the United States; and that the Secretary of the Treasury, after the said damages shall have been ascertained in the manner aforesaid, in case any sum shall be found due to said Charles F. Sibbald, shall pay the same to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCI: for the relief of Hezekiah Cunningham.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Hezekiah Cunningham.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for transporting the mail.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to pay to Hezekiah Cunningham, the sum of eight hundred and forty-three dollars, out of the funds of the Post Office Department, in full of his claim for transporting the mail (from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, until the twenty-eighth of June following,) on route two thousand seven hundred and twenty-three, from Vincennes, Indiana, to Danville, Illinois.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-23">August 23, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCVIII: for the relief of Charles D. Hammond and Augustus H. Kenan.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 864</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles D. Hammond and Augustus H. Kenan.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That at the next term of the district court of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permitted to open a judgment against them, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> the United States for the district of Georgia, ensuing the passage of this act, Charles D. Hammond and Augustus II. Kenan be permitted to open a judgment obtained against them in the year eighteen hundred and forty, in said court, as the securities of Solomon D. Betton, late postmaster at Milledgeville, Georgia, at the suit of the Postmaster-General of the United States; and that the said Charles D. Hammond and Augustus H. Kenan be permitted to make the same defence to said suit, that they might or <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>could have made had said judgment not been rendered: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the said judgment shall stand as a security for such sum as may be recovered.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCIX: for the relief of John Pratt, or his legal representative.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 209, 210, 211, 212, 213. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/865">865</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Pratt, or his legal representative.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John Pratt, or his legal representative, is hereby authorized to enter, under his pre-emption claim, at the minimum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote> price of the public lands, that portion of fractional section number twenty-two, in township number four, range number one west, in the land district of St. Stephen’s, Alabama, not embraced in the patents heretofore issued to James Ethridge and William D. Stone: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The same<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall not exceed one hundred and sixty acres:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> also</i>, That it shall be the duty of the surveyor of public lands in the state of Alabama to make any survey necessary to complete said entry.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCX: granting a pension to Frederick Perrigo.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Frederick Perrigo.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to place the name of Frederick Perrigo, of the state of New York, upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> the list of invalid pensioners of the United States; and that said Perrigo be entitled to receive a pension of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXI: to increase the revolutionary invalid pension of John Looney.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to increase the revolutionary invalid pension of John Looney.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to increase the revolutionary invalid pension of John Looney<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to be increased.</p></sidenote> from thirty-four dollars and twelve cents per annum, to eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and to continue during life, deducting therefrom the amount of the payments made to him as an invalid pensioner, at the rate of thirty-four dollars and twelve cents per annum, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, the time of the commencement of the increase of his pension.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXII: for the relief of John King.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John King.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John King, or his legal representatives, the sum of nine hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a house burnt by the British.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the same being for a dwelling-house which was burnt by the British, in Richmond county, Virginia, during the late war.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXIII: for the relief of Phillis Patton.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXIII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Phillis Patton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and required to place Phillis Tatton, of Lebanon, in the county of New<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> London, state of Connecticut, widow of Cuff Wells, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners of the United States, and allow to her a pension for two years’ military service of her said husband, to be paid to her agreeably to the act of the seventh of June [July], eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote> and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain widows; to be paid as other pensions are paid.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXIV: for the relief of Mary Hand.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXIV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/866">866</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. S. II. Ch. 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mary Hand.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> to place the name of Mary Rand, widow of Walter Rand of North Carolina, on the revolutionary pension roll, and pay her a pension, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, for five years; to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXV: for the relief of James Tongue, John Scrivener, and the legal representatives of William Hodson, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 866</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Tongue, John Scrivener, and the legal representatives of William Hodson, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James Tongue, the sum of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seventy-eight cents; and to John ' Scrivener the sum of three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; and to the legal representatives of William Hodson, deceased, the sum of three thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-nine cents; the same being for their buildings, valued at the sums aforesaid, which were occupied by a detachment of militia, and in consequence thereof destroyed by the British, about the month of October, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXVI: for the relief of David Freelove.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVI</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of David Freelove.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> and required to place the name of David Freelove on the pension roll, under the act of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and that he <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote>cause him to be paid the sum of eighty dollars per annum during his natural life.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXVII: for the relief of John Flood.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Flood.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> the name of John Flood upon the list of invalid pensioners, at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty, and pay him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter CCXVIII: for the relief of Elizabeth Colfax.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elizabeth Colfax.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and be is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to place the name of Elizabeth Colfax on the pension roll, for the services of her late husband, Jonathan Colfax, as a sergeant for two years eleven months and eleven days, during the revolutionary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote> war, under the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXIX: for the relief of Randolph Carter.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 866</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXIX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Randolph Carter.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to place the name of Randolph Carter, of the state of Tennessee, on the roll of invalid pensioners; who shall be enti-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 220, 221, 222, 223, 224. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/867">867</page>
tied to, and receive a pension, at the rate of eight dollars a month, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXX: for the relief of Jacob Jackson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jacob Jackson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Jacob Jackson, of the state of New York,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll</p></sidenote> upon the roll of invalid pensioners, as a pensioner at the rate of five dollars per month; the pension to commence on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty, and to continue during his natural life.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXI: for the relief of Dorothy Bowman.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Dorothy Bowman.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Dorothy Bowman, of Marshall county, Virginia, out<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to her.</p></sidenote> of any money not otherwise appropriated, at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the time her late husband, Samuel Bowman, a revolutionary soldier, was stricken from the pension roll, in eighteen hundred and thirty-four, to the twentieth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty, the time of his death.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXII: for the relief of Joseph Parker.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Parker.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place the name of Joseph Parker, of Windsor, in the state<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> of Vermont, on the list of revolutionary pensioners of the United States, and to pay him the sum of sixty dollars per annum from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, during his natural life.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXIII: for the relief of Nathan Smith and others.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nathan Smith and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of customs for the district of New London, in the state of Connecticut, be directed to pay to Nathan<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of bounty to fishing schooner.</p></sidenote> Smith, and the owners, officers, and crew, of the fishing schooner James Monroe, of seventy-seven and thirteen ninety-fifths tons burden, which sailed from Stonington, in said district, during the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-four, on a fishing voyage to the straits of Belle Isle, and was absent and employed therein at sea for the term of three and a half months, the bounty she is entitled to receive for having been employed three and a half months in the cod fisheries, and using foreign salt on which the duties had been paid, agreeably to the act of July<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 29, 1813, ch. 35.</p></sidenote> twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and thirteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXIV: for the relief of Samuel R. Slaymaker.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 867</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXIV</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel R. Slaymaker.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, directed to settle with and pay to Samuel R. Slaymaker, of Pennsylvania,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for carrying the in all.</p></sidenote> for carrying the Baltimore and Philadelphia mail from Lancaster to Philadelphia, during the winters of eighteen hundred and thirty-three and thirty-four, and eighteen hundred and thirty-four and thirty-five, at
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/868">868</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 225, 226, 229. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
the same rate that he was paid for carrying the same mail from York to Philadelphia, during the winters of eighteen hundred and thirty-one and thirty-two, and eighteen hundred and thirty-two and thirty-three.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-26">August 26, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXV: for the relief of William Willis, of Monroe county, Virginia.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 868</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXV</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Willis, of Monroe county, Virginia.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to be increased.</p></sidenote> directed to pay to William Willis, in addition to what he already receives as a revolutionary pensioner, the sum of thirty-eight dollars and one cent per annum, during his natural life, to commence on the fourth day of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXVI: to authorize the inhabitants of township eight north, range thirty-two west, in the state of Arkansas, to enter u section of land in lieu of the sixteenth section in said township, upon condition that the same is surrendered to the United States for military purposes.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 868</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXVI</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the inhabitants of township eight north, range thirty-two west, in the state of Arkansas, to enter u section of land in lieu of the sixteenth section in said township, upon condition that the same is surrendered to the United States for military purposes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the inhabitants of township eight north, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote>range thirty-two west, in the state of Arkansas, be and they are hereby, authorized to enter one section of land in quarter sections, of any lands that may be subject to entry in the Fayetteville land district; which lands, so entered, shall be held by the inhabitants of said township upon the same conditions, and for the same purposes, as they now hold the sixteenth section in said township, upon the condition that the inhabitants of said township, under the authority of the state of Arkansas, shall relinquish to the United States the sixteenth section in township eight north, range thirty-two west, under such regulations as the Secretary of the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Treasury may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The President of the United States shall deem it expedient to obtain said section sixteen in township eight, range thirty-two, to be used for military purposes.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXIX: to authorize the issuing of a patent to the heirs or legal representatives of Francis Rivard, deceased, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 868</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXIX</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the issuing of a patent to the heirs or legal representatives of Francis Rivard, deceased, and for other purposes.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to issue to them for an island in the Mississippi.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be issued to the heirs of Francis Rivard, deceased, for the benefit of themselves and their legal assignee or assignees, a patent for an island in the Mississippi river, opposite the town of St. Genevieve, in the state of Missouri; which said island was granted by the French Government to the said Rivard, in the year seventeen hundred and fifty-six, and pronounced by the board of commissioners in eighteen hundred and twelve to be a <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>complete title: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the same shall only operate as a relinquishment of the right of the United States, and shall not affect the right of third persons.</proviso></content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><i>And be. it further enacted</i>, That the report with the accompanying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report, &amp;.c. made by the commissioners, &amp;c., in compilation of land documents, to be deemed equivalent to the original.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 9, 1832, ch. 180.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 84.</p></sidenote> testimony and documents, made by the commissioners for the final settlement of land claims in Missouri, on the twenty-seventh November, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in pursuance of the “ act for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri,” approved the ninth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the act approved the second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, entitled “ an act supplemental to the act, entitled ‘ an act for the final adjustment of land claims in Missouri,’ ” as contained on pages from seven hundred and two to eight hundred and thirty-eight, inclusive, of volume five of the compilation of land documents printed by Duff Green in the year
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 230, 231, 232, 233. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/869">869</page>
eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and selected and edited under the authority of the Senate of the United States, by Walter Lowrie, Secretary of the Senate, shall be deemed and taken, in all cases whatsoever, in law and in equity, as authentic and equivalent, similar and identical in all respects whatsoever as the original report of the said commissioners.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXX: for the relief of Elisha Burnet.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 869</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elisha Burnet.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Elisha Burnet, of the state of Ohio, late a private of the fortieth regiment of infantry in the late war with Great<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate a certain military land warrant.</p></sidenote> Britain, or his legal representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate at the proper land office, military land warrant number twenty- three thousand three hundred and four, issued to hint for his services, on one quarter section of any of the public lands subject to private entry, and not in the occupancy of any actual settler: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> same shall be located within two years from the date of this act.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXXI: for the relief of Thomas Brownell.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 869</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Brownell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the name of Thomas Brownell be placed upon the roll of navy pensioners, and that he be allowed and paid a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> pension of ten dollars per month, from the close of the year one thou-sand eight hundred and twenty-seven, to October, one thousand eight hundred and forty, for a disability received by him while in the dis-charge of his duty, as master on board the Lawrence, under Commodore Perry, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXXII: to confirm the title of the heirs if James Sympson, deceased, to a certain tract of land in the state of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 869</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to confirm the title of the heirs if James Sympson, deceased, to a certain tract of land in the state of Louisiana.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the heirs at law of James Sympson, deceased,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote> late of Clarke county, state of Kentucky, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a certain tract of land situate at the mouth of the Atchafalaya at its junction with the Mississippi river, containing six hundred and forty acres; and as surveyed and platted in the surveyor general’s office at Donaldsonville, in the state of Louisiana, upon the survey made and returned by Charles Morgan, of date eleventh February, eighteen hundred and six, and executed for Andy Robinson: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, This confirmation shall only be construed as a relinquishment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of the title of the United States to said land, and not to prejudice any superior and better title.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXXIII: for the relief of Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson, of the army of the United States.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 869</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson, of the army of the United States.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of nine hundred dollars be paid to Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed 8900 in full for certain services of her husband.</p></sidenote> in full for all claims for services rendered by the said Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson as assistant quartermaster for twenty-five months, at forts Mackinac and Gratiot; also for surveying and laying off by order of the Government, military reservations at fort Gratiot, and on the islands of Mackinac and Bois Blanc, and for services rendered in settling and adjusting private claims on the public lands at Fort Gratiot, under orders of the War Department; and that the said sum of nine hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/870">870</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234, 235, 236, 237. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay for the said services; and, when paid, shall be in full of the same.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That it shall be lawful for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other items in her account to be settled.</p></sidenote> proper accounting officers to audit the account of the said Mrs. Thompson as contained in Senate document, number two hundred and sixty-four of this session, for the other items not allowed in this act, and to settle said items on the same principles on which similar items may have been heretofore settled in the accounts of other officers; and the amount, if any thing, so found due, shall be paid the said Mrs. Thompson out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXXIV: for the relief of Andrew Forrest.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 870</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXIV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Andrew Forrest.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Andrew<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for money advanced to a detachment of marines.</p></sidenote> Forrest, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents, that amount having been advanced by the said Forrest to a detachment of marines, on the order of Lieutenant Desha, paymaster of the corps, and subsequently credited to Lieutenant Desha, in the settlement of his accounts with the Government, but never paid to the said Forrest.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXXV: for the relief of Henry Fry.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 870</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXXXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Fry.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Henry Fry, of the city of Philadelphia, formerly a purser in the navy, on the list of invalid navy pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXXVI: for the relief of John Compton, assignee and representative of Garrigues Flaujac.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Compton, assignee and representative of Garrigues Flaujac.</i></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a patent shall be issued in the usual form to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to ho issued to him for a certain tract of land.</p></sidenote> John Compton, assignee and representative of Garrigues Flaujac, for the land entered by him on the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, at the Opelousas land office, as a back pre-emption to the tract on Red river, located under the act for the relief of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 20, 1826, ch. 116.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 28, 1823, ch. 15.</p></sidenote>Garrigues Flaujac, in lieu of land on Bayou Gros Tete, confirmed to said Flaujac by act of Congress of the twenty-eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXXVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Therese Malette, widow of Gaspard Phiole.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Therese Malette, widow of Gaspard Phiole.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legal representatives ofTherese Malette,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate four floating rights, in lieu of, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> widow of Gaspard Phiole, be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate four floating rights, of five hundred acres each, on any unappropriated lands west of the Mississippi, in the state of Louisiana, which shall be in lieu of their claim to a tract of two thousand acres of land, recommended for confirmation by the old board of commissioners at Opelousas, and confirmed by the act of the twenty-ninth of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, the location of which is disputed by the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1816, ch. 159.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>Land Office: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That before patents shall issue for the lands, the location of which is authorized by this act, the legal representatives of
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 238, 239, 240. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/871">871</page>
said Therese Malette shall surrender to the United States, in such manner as the Commissioner of the Land Office shall direct, all right, title, and interest, in and to the land held under the aforesaid confirmation:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided, also</i>, Said locations shall be made on lands subject<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to sale at private entry, and to conform as nearly as possible to the public surveys of the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXXVIII: for the relief of Jean Baptist Comeau.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jean Baptist Comeau.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Jean Baptist Comeau, of the parish of Lafayette, in the state of Louisiana, be, and he is hereby, authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land, in lieu of a like quantity sold by U.S.</p></sidenote> enter, without payment therefor, two hundred and ten acres of land, upon any of the public lands which have been surveyed, and are subject to sale by private entry in the district of lands subject to sale at Opelousas, in lieu of a like quantity of land confirmed to him upon the report of the commissioners of land claims for the western district of Louisiana, of the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and which was subsequently sold by the United States to a certain Jean E. Lefabvre, under the provisions of the act of the twelfth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled “ An act for the final<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 12, 1814, ch. 52.</p></sidenote> adjustment of laud titles in the state of Louisiana and Territory of Missouri <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The location of the land, the entry of which is here<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> authorized, shall, as near as can be, conform to the legal divisions and subdivisions of the surveys of the public lands, and if the quantity located shall exceed two hundred and ten acres, the residue shall be paid for at the minimum price of public lands; and upon a return of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to issue.</p></sidenote> the usual certificate to the General Land Office of the United States, a patent shall issue as in other cases of lands sold by the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXXXIX: for the relief of Enoch Hidden.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXXXIX</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Enoch Hidden.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay to Enoch Hidden the sum of two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for use of a certain improvement.</p></sidenote> dollars out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in renumeration for the use, heretofore and in the future, of his improvement in the elevating screw-box and cap for carronades.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXL: for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Eckford, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Eckford, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to the legal representatives of Henry Eckford, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not other-wise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for certain vessels remaining on H. Eckford’s premises.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of three thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety-seven cents, in full payment and satisfaction for any claims they, or the said Henry Eckford had, or may have, on account of the United States vessels New Orleans and Chippewa being suffered to remain on the premises of the said Henry Eckford for any length of time anterior to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-two; and a further sum, at the rate of one hundred and ninety-one dollars sixty-two and one half cents, as long as the said United States vessel New Orleans shall remain at Navy Point.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLI: for the relief of William H, Kobertson, Samuel H. Garrow, and J. W. Simonton.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/872">872</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 241, 242, 243, 244. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William H, Kobertson, Samuel H. Garrow, and J. W. Simonton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest due and charged against them on a certain judgment, to be remitted, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> directed to remit to William H. Robertson, Samuel H. Garrow, and J. W. Simonton, the interest due and charged against them upon the books of his department, upon a judgment rendered against them in favor of the United States, in the district court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama, on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, for the sum of five thousand one hundred and nine dollars and seventy-five cents, as the value of the schooner Merino and her cargo, condemned for a violation of the laws prohibiting the introduction of slaves into the United States, and two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety cents for costs of suit; it appearing that the damages and costs of the said judgment have been fully paid; that the violation of law for which the said schooner was condemned was unintentional on the part of the owners of the said schooner, and committed by them before the existence of the law came to their knowledge, and that the principals have become insolvent, and the said interest, if collected, must be collected from their sureties; and the said Secretary is hereby directed, upon payment of all costs incurred, which are legally chargeable upon any suit now pending for the recovery of the same, to suspend all further proceedings for the collection of the interest due and unpaid upon the said judgment, and to cancel all charge for the same upon the books of his office.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLII: for the relief if the legal heirs and representatives of Hugo Krebs, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if the legal heirs and representatives of Hugo Krebs, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the report (number eight) of the register<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim to a lot in Mobile confirmed.</p></sidenote> and receiver of the land office at St. Stephen’s, in the state of Alabama, of date twenty-first January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, on the claim of Mary J. Krebs, Etienne Krebs, Genevieve Krebs, and Placide Krebs (in right of inheritance to Hugo Krebs,) to a lot of land in the town of Mobile, on Royal street, of ten toises front, with a depth of sixty feet, extending to the river, reported on pursuant to the act of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1829, ch. 40.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>second March, eighteen hundred4rnd twenty-nine, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Such confirmation shall only operate as a release of all right on the part of the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLIII: for the relief of Dennis Dygert.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLIII</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Dennis Dygert.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place Dennis Dygert,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> of Herkimer county, in the state of New York, on the list of invalid pensioners, at the rate of ten dollars per month, during his natural life; said pension to commence on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLIV: granting a pension to Amaziah Goodwin.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 872</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLIV</docNumber>
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<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Amaziah Goodwin.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy cause the name of Amaziah Goodwin,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> of the state of Maine, to be placed upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay to him six dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLV: for the relief of Effie Van Ness.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 873</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 245, 246, 247, 248, 249. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/873">873</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCXLV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Effie Van Ness.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Effie Van Ness, of New York, widow of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll</p></sidenote> Garret Van Ness, deceased, on the rMI of revolutionary pensions of that state, and to allow her pension at .the rate of forty-five dollars and eighty-eight cents per annum, to be paid to her in the manner prescribed by the act of the fourth of'July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, allowing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 362.</p></sidenote> pensions to certain widows.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLVI: for the relief of Isaac Hull.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac Hull.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Captain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him on account of certain live-oak timber.</p></sidenote> Isaac Hull, of the United States Navy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and four dollars and eighty-four cents, being the amount paid by said Isaac Hull to Peter H. Green, for certain live-oak timber, by order from the Navy Commissioners.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLVII: for the relief of William Polk.</dc:title>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Polk.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and adjust the account of William Polk,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be adjusted and paid.</p></sidenote> of Fulton county, Indiana, for supplies furnished to the Indiana militia while in the actual service of the Ünitqd States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Aid that the said Secretary shall pay to said William Polk whatsoever overbalance may be found due to him: <i>Provided</i>, That the sum shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> nineteen dollars and fifty cents.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLVIII: for the relief of F. B. De Bellevue.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of F. B. De Bellevue.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of F. B. De Bellevue on the roll of invalid pensioners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> and pay to the said De Bellevue a pension at the rate of ten dollars per month, for disability consequent upon a wound in the Hand while said De Bellevue was in the discharge of his duty as second lieutenant of marines.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCXLIX: giving Catharine Lehman the benefit of the act of the seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCXLIX</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>giving Catharine Lehman the benefit of the act of the seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Catharine Lehman, widow of Anthony<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> Lehman, late a revolutionary pensioner, of York county, Pennsylvania, on the pension roll, and that she be allowed such pension, under the act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote> of the seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, as her said husband would have been entitled to had he been living on the seventh June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCL: for the relief of Hannah Carrier.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/874">874</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 250, 251, 252, 253, 254. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCL.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Hannah Carrier.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Hannah Carrier, of the county of Oneida,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> and state of New York, widow of Jeremiah Carrier, and former widow of Guy Dodd, a soldier of the Revolution, be placed upon the pension roll for five years, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, at the rate of sixty-four dollars and eighty-six <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>cents per annum: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That, in the event of the marriage of said widow, said annuity or pension shall be discontinued.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLI: to permit the Solicitor of the Treasury to adjust and compromise a claim of the United States against Henry Daniel and Thomas Triplett, jr., deceased, now or late of the state of Kentucky.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 874</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to permit the Solicitor of the Treasury to adjust and compromise a claim of the United States against Henry Daniel and Thomas Triplett, jr., deceased, now or late of the state of Kentucky.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Solicitor of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims of U.S. against them to be settled.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized and empowered to settle, adjust, and compromise the claims which the United States have against Thomas Triplett, jr., deceased, and Henry Daniel, both now or late of the state of Kentucky, and for which suits have been brought against the executors and heirs of the said Thomas Triplett, jr., deceased, and the said Henry Daniel, respectively, which are now pending in the circuit and district courts of the United States for the District of Kentucky.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLII: for the relief of Jacob Greaves.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jacob Greaves.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> hereby, required to place the name of Jacob Greaves, of the city of Washington, on the invalid pension roll, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars a month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLIII: for the relief of Amey Babbitt.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 874</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Amey Babbitt.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 362.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Amey Babbitt, of Rhode Island, on the pension roll, under the act of the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and to pay to her ten dollars a month, from the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLIV: for the relief of Thomas B. Parsons.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas B. Parsons.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the pension of six dollars per month, heretofore<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to be increased.</p></sidenote> granted to Thomas B. Parsons, as a seaman in the naval service, be, and the same is hereby, increased, from and after the thirtieth day of May last, to nine dollars per month, the said Thomas B. Parsons having been a coxswain and not merely a seaman in the said service; <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrears for the difference to be paid.</p></sidenote>and the Commissioner of Pensions is hereby authorized to pay to the said Thomas B. Parsons the arrears of pension which are due to him for the difference in the said rate of nine dollars per month, for the period between the thirtieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and the thirtieth day of May last.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of William D. Cheever, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 875</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-30</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXIII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 273, 278, 284. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/875">875</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of William D. Cheever, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-30">August 30, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause the account of the legal representatives<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account for loss on treasury notes to be examined, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> of William D. Cheever, deceased, for losses sustained on treasury notes paid to or deposited with him, by the Secretary of War, on a contract for the supply of provisions for the army of the United States, in the years eighteen hundred and fourteen and eighteen hundred and fifteen, to be examined and audited by the proper accounting officers of the treasury; that he also inquire upon what grounds the claim of said Cheever for said losses on treasury notes was rejected by the Secretary of War to whom it was presented for settlement; whether such rejection was acquiesced in; if not, why there has been such delay in the prosecution of the claim; and whether, in his opinion, the representatives of said Cheever have now a valid claim against the United States; and that he report his proceedings thereon to Congress at as early a day as is practicable: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in the settlement of the said accounts,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> no loss upon treasury notes paid the said Cheever before the twenty-fifth of October, eighteen hundred and fourteen, or after the seventeenth of June, eighteen hundred and fifteen, shall be credited.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-30">August 30, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXVIII: for the relief of certain companies of Missouri volunteers commanded by Captains Stevenson and Allen.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 875</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-31</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CCLXXVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of certain companies of Missouri volunteers commanded by Captains Stevenson and Allen.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-31">August 31, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to cause to be audited and settled the accounts of Captains<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of said companies to be audited and settled.</p></sidenote> Allen and Stevenson’s companies of mounted Missouri volunteers or militia, which were called out by order of Governor Miller in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, said companies having been regularly called out and mustered into service by competent authority; and that the amounts found to be due, for provisions, transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> and pay, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-31">August 31, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXXIV: for the relief of the heirs, or assignees, or legal representatives of James May.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 875</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-31</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs, or assignees, or legal representatives of James May.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-31">August 31, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be, and hereby is, granted to the legal heirs of James May, deceased, or the legal assignee of James May, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain land granted in satisfaction of a claim confirmed to J. R. Williams and J. May.</p></sidenote> legal representatives of such assignee, of the late Territory of Michigan, the tract of land described as follows, namely: Section number four, in township number one north, of range number thirteen east, in the district of land subject to sale at Detroit, Michigan, in satisfaction, so far as said heirs are concerned, of the claim confirmed to John R. Williams and said James May, by the commissioners acting under an act entitled “An act to revive the powers of the commissioners for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 85.</p></sidenote> ascertaining and deciding on claims to land in the district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to lands at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien,” passed May the eleventh, eighteen hundred and twenty, and that the President of the United States be authorized to issue a patent in pursuance of this act.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-31">August 31, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter CCLXXXV: for the relief of Hugh Stewart.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1842-08-31</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/876">876</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 285. Res. 1, 6. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CCLXXXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Hugh Stewart.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-31">August 31, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Hugh<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for loss in macadamizing Pennsylvania Avenue.</p></sidenote> Stewart, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six thousand six hundred sixty-two dollars and twenty-five cents, for the loss sustained by him in the necessary performance of his contract made with the Government in August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, for macadamizing a large portion of the Pennsylvania Avenue, in the city of Washington, which loss was not occasioned by any neglect on the part of said contractor, but by events beyond his control.</content>
</section><section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><proviso><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the said Hugh Stewart shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Evidence to be furnished that the labor mid materials have been paid for, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> not receive any benefit from this act until he shall have furnished evidence to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and filed the same in the treasury Department, that the respective laborers whom he employed in his service, under his contract with the Government, shall have received compensation for their labor; and that he shall also have paid for the material used in said work, or until he shall have filed with the Secretary of the Treasury a satisfactory bond that the balances, if any, justly due to such laborers, shall be fully satisfied by said Stewart.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-31">August 31, 1842</date>.
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<preface><firstPageHeading class="centered">RESOLUTIONS.</firstPageHeading></preface>
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<dc:title>No. 1: to authorize the settlement of the accounts of George Whitman.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 876</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-04-14</dc:date>
<docNumber>1</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">Joint Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the settlement of the accounts of George Whitman.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-04-14">April 14, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="smallCaps inline"><i>Be it resolved, &amp;c</i>.,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be examined, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> directed to examine the accounts of George Whitman, late a contractor on the mail route from Mobile to New Orleans, and to make such allowances to the said George Whitman, as he would have been entitled to, on a full hearing of all the circumstances of his case, upon an original examination thereof.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-04-14">April 14, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>No. 6: for the benefit of George Schnabel and Robert Barber, jr.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
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<dc:date>1842-07-27</dc:date>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No 6. </docNumber></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">Joint Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the benefit of George Schnabel and Robert Barber, jr.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<preamble>
<recital class="indent0 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas it appears that on the sixteenth day of September, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> hundred and thirty-six, George'Schnabel deposited in the treasury of the United States, under the provisions of the second section of the act making<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 24, 1820, ch. 51.</p></sidenote> further provision for the sale of public lands, approved the twenty-fourth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty, the sum of two thousand dollars in gold, for which he received from the Treasurer of the United States ten receipts or certificates, of two hundred dollars each, numbered from three hundred and five to three hundred and fourteen inclusive; and that Robert Barber, jr., on the same day and in the same manner, deposited the sum of one thousand dollars, for which he received five like receipts or certificates, of two hundred dollars each, numbered from three hundred and twenty to three hundred and twenty-four, inclusive; and whereas the said section of the act aforesaid is so construed by the treasury department that the said receipts or certificates are not assignable or transferable: therefore,</recital>
<resolvingClause class="smallCaps inline"><i>Be it resolved, &amp;c</i>.,</resolvingClause>
</preamble>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be directed to endorse upon the said receipts or certificates, that the same are receivable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain receipts made receivable for public lands.</p></sidenote> from the said George Schnabel and Robert Barber, jr., or his or their assignee or assignees, in payment for any public lands which may be sold at public sale or at private entry; and the several receivers are hereby authorized and required to receive the same for public lands sold as aforesaid.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-07-27">July 27, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>No. 9: for the relief of Ferdinand Pettrich.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 877</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-29</dc:date>
<docNumber>9</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 9, 11. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/877">877</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess II. Res. 9, 11. 1842.</centerRunningHead>
<docNumber>No 9. </docNumber></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">Joint Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ferdinand Pettrich.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="smallCaps inline"><i>Be it resolved, &amp;c</i>.,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance of appropriation for statue of Washington to be paid him.</p></sidenote> authorized to pay over to Ferdinand Pettrich the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the finishing of the statue of Washington.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-29">August 29, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>No. 11: to authorize the Postmaster General to settle the accounts of Patton Pitcher and Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 877</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-08-31</dc:date>
<docNumber>11</docNumber>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No 11. </docNumber></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">Joint Resolution </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the Postmaster General to settle the accounts of Patton Pitcher and Company.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-08-31">August 31, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<resolvingClause class="smallCaps inline"><i>Be it resolved, &amp;c</i>.,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">P. M. General to allow them such sum as he may deem just and equitable.</p></sidenote> directed to allow Patton Pilcher and Company, contractors on mail route number three thousand seven hundred and eighteen, from Mobile to New Orleans, the amount which, in his discretion, he may deem just and equitable, not exceeding the amount they would have received if they had performed the service, the said contractors having been prevented from carrying the mail for twenty-three days by the interference of the postmaster at New Orleans.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-08-31">August 31, 1842</date>.
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<congress>27</congress>
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<dc:date>1843</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
</coverText>
<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed at the third session, which was begun, and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fifth day of December, 1842, and ended on the third day of March</i>, 1841.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">John Tyler</inline>, President of the United States; <inline class="smallCaps">Willie P. Mangum</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">John White</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE III.</session>
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<dc:title>Chapter I: to authorize the issuing of a new register for the American ship Westchester if New York, by the name of the Atlantic of New York.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 878</citableAs>
<dc:date>1842-12-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>I</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the issuing of a new register for the American ship Westchester if New York, by the name of the Atlantic of New York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1842-12-23">December 23, 1842</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be issued,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A new register to be issued.</p></sidenote> under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a new register for the American ship Westchester, by the name of the Atlantic of New York, which vessel is now owned by Taylor and Merrill and Augustus Whitlock, and which, having been wrecked and condemned, was purchased by them, and which they have caused to be rebuilt with a new keel, kelson, stem and new bottom, and throughout to be thoroughly repaired and <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>refitted: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That satisfactory evidence be first furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury, that the provisions of the existing laws relating to new registers to be issued to vessels in such cases, except as to the name thereof, have been complied with.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1842-12-23">December 23, 1842</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter V: for the relief of Cornelius Wilson and James Canter.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-01-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>V</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>V.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Cornelius Wilson and James Canter.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be made up<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services in North Carolina militia.</p></sidenote> a pay-roll for the services of Cornelius Wilson and James Canter, privates in the company of volunteer militia from the state of North Carolina, commanded by Captain William W. Pedru or J. J. Bryan, raised by a requisition of General Winfield Scott, on the Governor of said state of North Carolina, dated April eleventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to aid him in removing the Cherokee Indians west of the Mississippi, allowing them the same pay, pro rata, which was allowed the other privates of said company, from the time they arrived at the place of rendezvous to the time of their rejection for insufficiency of health, including pay and rations for travel each way, to and from the place of rendezvous, and certify the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby required and directed to pay the amount thereof to the said Cornelius Wilson and James Canter, or to their respective legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, it being for services rendered by said Cornelius Wilson and James Canter in a company of North Carolina volunteer militia called out to aid in the removal of the Cherokee Indians west of the Mississippi.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter VI: for the relief of James M. Morgan.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 879</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-01-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 6, 7, 8, 9. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/879">879</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James M. Morgan.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James M.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as bearer of despatches.</p></sidenote> Morgan, three hundred and seventy-eight dollars in full for his services and expenses as bearer of despatches from the Governor of Iowa to the Secretary of Stale in eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter VII: for the relief of Elisha Moreland, William M. Kennedy, Robert J. Kennedy, and Mason E. Lewis.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 879</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-01-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elisha Moreland, William M. Kennedy, Robert J. Kennedy, and Mason E. Lewis.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Elisha Moreland, William M. Kennedy, Robert J. Kennedy, and Mason E. Lewis, who were deprived of their<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land, in lieu of, &amp;c.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1800, ch. 206.</p></sidenote> respective rights of pre-emption to their improvements in Madison county, Alabama, to which they were entitled under the act of Congress of twenty-ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, by the location of a reservation for a Cherokee Indian named Challenge, under the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and the confirmation thereof by an act of Congress passed for his relief, be, and they hereby are, authorized to enter, each, one quarter section of any unappropriated public land, not improved or settled upon by any other person, within the Huntsville land district, in that state, or any adjoining district, by paying therefor the then minimum price per acre.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 2. </num><content><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That it shall be the duty of <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proof required that they were entitled to the right of pre-emption.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1830, ch. 208.</p></sidenote>the register and receiver of the land office, when any application to enter land, under the first section of this act, shall be made, before permitting such entry, to require, satisfactory proof to be made that such applicant was entitled to a pre-emption under the act of the twenty-ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The same is made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> within nine months from the passage of this act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter VIII: for the relief of John R. Delany.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 879</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-01-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John R. Delany.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of a certain judgment, with costs.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of a judgment rendered on the twenty-sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine in the circuit court of Hamilton county, in the state of Tennessee, wherein John Cornell was plaintiff, and Joseph Powell, John R. Delany, Thomas J. Caldwell, and Reuben Roddy, were defendants, and which judgment has been paid and satisfied by the said John R. Delany; together with all costs incurred in said suit, including attorneys’ fees.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter IX: for the relief of Snow Y. Sears.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-01-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Snow Y. Sears.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Snow Y. Sears, of Barnstable,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of a certain line to be refunded.</p></sidenote> in the state of Massachusetts, master mariner, or his attorney, the sum of four hundred dollars, on account of a fine of that amount remitted to said Sears, by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the twenty-fourth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and which was paid into the treasury before the remission of the same could take effect.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter X: for the relief of Joshua Drew.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-01-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/880">880</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joshua Drew.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of a certain fine to be refunded.</p></sidenote> directed to pay to Joshua Drew, of Duxbury, in the state, of Massachusetts, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and forty dollars, being the amount of a fine collected from him by the collector of the port of New Orleans, for a supposed violation of the law relative to return seamen.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Samuel Shannon, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-01-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Samuel Shannon, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His accounts to be examined, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to examine and audit the accounts of Captain Samuel Shannon, deceased, as assistant paymaster of the United States army, according to the principles of justice and equity, and report to the next session of Congress.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XII: for the relief of Ferdinand Leibert.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-01-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ferdinand Leibert.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for the amount paid as the penalty on a certain debenture bond, to be settled.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized to settle and adjust the claim of Ferdinand Leibert, of the city of New Orleans, liquidating partner of the firm of Fibreman and Leibert, for the amount paid as the penalty on a debenture bond for thirty-three bales of Texas cotton shipped on the seventeenth of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, in the British ship Robert Bruce, in all respects as if the amount paid by him, as penalty for not producing the consular certificate of the lading of the cotton, had not been transferred or paid into the treasury of the United States.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XIII: for the relief of Isaac and Thomas S. Winslow.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 880</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-01-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac and Thomas S. Winslow.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the port of New York be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be indemnified for duties exacted on certain gin.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby, required to pay to Isaac and Thomas S. Winslow seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and ninety-one cents, to indemnify them for duties exacted from them upon a quantity of gin which was improperly landed by the custom-house officers, from the brig Amphitrite, on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, at the port of New York, and which was destroyed by fire a few hours thereafter, before the same was entered at the custom-house, and while in the custody of said officers, and upon which the insurance against loss by fire was prevented by the irregular conduct of said officers.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XIV: for the relief of Burr and Smith.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 880</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-01-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Burr and Smith.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain duties to be refunded.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized to refund to Ephraim Willard Burr and Nathaniel P. Smith, of Warren, Rhode Island, merchants in company, the sum of two hundred and sixteen dollars and seven cents, being duties paid to the collector of New York on seven casks of oil imported into New York, and afterwards reshipped to said Warren for benefit of debenture, and reexported therefrom with a view to obtain the benefit of draw-back, in May, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty, provided the Secretary
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 15, 16, 17, 18. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/881">881</page>
of the Treasury shall be satisfied that all the requirements of law for securing the debenture have been complied with, excepting that which makes necessary the production of the final coastwise transportation certificate within two months from the coastwise clearance, and that said oil has been actually reexported and landed in some foreign country.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XV: for the relief of Peter Lionberger.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 881</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-01-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter Lionberger.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse lost.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized to pay to Peter Lionberger, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred dollars, for the value of a horse of the said Peter Lionberger, which died while in the service of the United States in eighteen hundred and thirteen, for want of sufficient forage.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-20">January 20, 1843</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XVI: to revive the act for the relief of Mary Pucher.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 881</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-01-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to revive the act for the relief of Mary Pucher.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-28">January 28, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the act for the relief of Mary Tucker, approved on the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 27, 1841, ch. 10, revived and continued for 12 months.</p></sidenote> forty-one, be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force for the term of twelve months from the passage of this act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, It shall appear to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, that the said Mary Tucker was not advised of the limitation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of said act, until after the six months within which she was required by said act to enter the land occupied by her had expired.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-28">January 28, 1843</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XVII: for the relief of the administrator of John Jackson.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 881</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-01-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the administrator of John Jackson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-28">January 28, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter credits of one hundred dollars and six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain credits to be entered to account against J. Jackson, deceased.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifty dollars to the account upon the books of the Treasury Department, against Captain John Jackson, deceased, so as to stop interest upon one hundred dollars of any balance that may stand against him on said books, from April twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and upon six hundred and fifty dollars of said balance, from May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-28">January 28, 1843</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XVIII: for the relief of Samuel Hambleton.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 881</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-01-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XVIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Hambleton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-28">January 28, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause to be settled the account of Samuel Hambleton,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account to be settled, and certain allowances made him.</p></sidenote> for office rent and clerk hire while he was on duty as purser in the navy-yard at Pensacola, in the years eighteen hundred and twenty-six, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and eighteen hundred and twenty-nine; and, in such settlement, to cause to be allowed to him at the rate of six hundred dollars a year for clerk hire, and three hundred and fifty dollars for house rent and office rent, from the twenty-first day of August, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, until sufficient accommodations were put up by the Government, at the said navy-yard, for the accommodation of the purser with house and office room: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no greater sum shall be allowed, as a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> balance due to said Hambleton, on such settlement, than nine hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-four cents; and the Secretary of the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/882">882</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 19, 21, 22, 23, 24. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
Treasury is hereby authorized to pay to the said Samuel Hambleton such balance as may be found due to him on such settlement, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-28">January 28, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XIX: for the relief of Elizabeth Munroe.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-01-28</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elizabeth Munroe.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-01-28">January 28, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Elizabeth Munroe, of the county of Boon, in the state of Missouri,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized, on surrender of a certain certificate, to enter land.</p></sidenote> or her legal representatives, upon the surrender at the proper land office, to be cancelled, of the certificate for the east half of the south-west quarter of section number thirty-one, township number fifty-eight, range number twenty-one, entered for her by mistake at the land office at Fayette, Missouri; and, upon the surrender of said certificate, shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter eighty acres of land upon which she has located and made her improvements, and which she, at the time of said entry, supposed she was locating;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the land upon which she settled shall not, previous to the date of this act, have been sold by the United States.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-01-28">January 28, 1843</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXI: for the relief of the Steamboat Company of Nantucket.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 882</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-02-04</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>27</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the Steamboat Company of Nantucket.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-04">February 4, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for transporting the mail.</p></sidenote> and directed to pay to the Nantucket Steamboat Company, out of the funds of the Post Office Department, the sum of six hundred dollars, for transporting the mail from Nantucket and Wood’s Hole to New Bedford, for four years next preceding the fourteenth of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-04">February 4, 1843</date>.
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chapter XXII: for the relief of J. R. Vienne.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 882</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-02-04</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of J. R. Vienne.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-04">February 4, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of State pay to J. R. Vienne, of Louisiana,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of balance due for taking the census.</p></sidenote> one of the assistant marshals employed in taking the recent census of the inhabitants of the parish of Orleans, and city of New Orleans, the sum of four hundred and eighteen dollars and nine cents, that being the balance due to him for said service, according to the account certified by the district judge of Louisiana, but which was withheld on settlement at the State Department, for want of proof that any portion of the inhabitants enumerated by him resided in the country.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-04">February 4, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXIII: for the relief of Samuel Dicy.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Dicy.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-04">February 4, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> required to place the name of Samuel Dicy, of the state of New Hampshire, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay him at the rate of six dollars per month; to commence on the twenty-ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and continue during his natural life.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-04">February 4, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXIV: for the relief of John P. Skinner and the legal representatives of Isaac Green.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-02-04</dc:date>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John P. Skinner and the legal representatives of Isaac Green.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-04">February 4, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That John P. Skinner and the legal representatives<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from payment of the balance of a certain judgment.</p></sidenote> of Isaac Green be, and they hereby are, released from the payment of the balance of five thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-five cents, remaining unpaid on a judgment recovered at the May term, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, of the circuit court of the United States for the Vermont district, by the United States, against
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 25, 28, 29, 35. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/883">883</page>
Thomas Emmerson, and the said John P. Skinner, and Isaac Green, sureties, on the official bond of the said Emmerson, late pension agent, for the sum of thirteen thousand six hundred and ninety dollars and ninety-one cents, it appearing that the amount due to the United States by said Emmerson might have been obtained from him without resorting to said sureties, if legal proceedings had been adopted against him by the proper officers of the United States, and that said officers, though requested by said sureties to commence and prosecute such proceedings, neglected and refused so to do: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall be construed to discharge the said Emmerson from liability under said judgment.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-04">February 4, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXV: for the relief of Barent Stryker.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Barent Stryker.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-04">February 4, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to Barent Stryker, at and after the rate of four hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for carrying the mail, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> and ninety-five dollars a year, for carrying the mail on route number nine hundred and twenty-three, in the state of New York, for the time that said Barent Stryker has carried or may hereafter carry the mail on said route under his present contract; and that the Postmaster- General be further authorized to re-let the. said route number nine hundred and twenty-three, at any time before the expiration of the contract of the said Barent Stryker.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-04">February 4, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXVIII: for the relief of Casper W. Wever.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-02-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Casper W. Wever.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-15">February 15, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for superintending improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue.</p></sidenote>paid to Casper W. Wever, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full for his claim for compensation for services rendered by him in superintending the improvement of the Pennsylvania avenue, under the act of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 13, 1833, ch. 32.</p></sidenote> of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-15">February 15, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXIX: for the relief of the representatives of Alexander Macomb, Robert Jennings, and the heirs and legal representatives of James Roddy, deceased, sureties if Samuel Champlin, late a paymaster in the army of the United States.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 883</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-02-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the representatives of Alexander Macomb, Robert Jennings, and the heirs and legal representatives of James Roddy, deceased, sureties if Samuel Champlin, late a paymaster in the army of the United States.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-15">February 15, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Robert Jennings, and the heirs and legal representatives of the late Alexander Macomb and James Roddy be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharged from liability on a certain bond.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, discharged from their liabilities on a bond to the United States, in which the said Alexander Macomb, James Roddy, and Robert Jennings, were sureties for Samuel Champlin, formerly a paymaster in the army of the United States, and from any judgment obtained by the United States on said bond, against all or any of the said sureties, or their representatives.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-15">February 15, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chapter XXXV: to authorize the enrolment or register of the brig Nueva Granada.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
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<preface><p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle>
<officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the enrolment or register of the brig Nueva Granada.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-18">February 18, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the brig Nueva Granada, built at Mystic, Connecticut, and afterwards sold to a citizen of New Granada, but<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brig Nueva Granada may be registered or enrolled.</p></sidenote> since repurchased by a citizen of the United States, and now his property, lying at New York, may be registered or enrolled, the same as if said brig had not been sold to a foreigner.</content></section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-18">February 18, 1843</date>.
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: for the relief of William W. Street.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/884">884</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William W. Street.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-18">Feb. 18, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for use of his steamboat.</p></sidenote> to William W. Street six hundred and twenty-five dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for five days’ use of his steamboat in the transportation of Florida militia, in October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-18">February 18, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVII: for the relief if William De Buys, postmaster at New Orleans.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 884</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-02-18</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if William De Buys, postmaster at New Orleans.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-18">Feb. 18, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That William De Buys, postmaster at New Orleans,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be reimbursed his expenses for repairs.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized to retain, out of any sums in his hands, or which may come to his hands on account of rents arising from boxes or other private receptacles for letters, in his office, the sum of six hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-two cents, to reimburse him for money expended by him in repairs and fixtures for the post office in the city of New Orleans, between the twenty-sixth of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-18">February 18, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVIII: for the relief of Asahel Brainard.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Asahel Brainard.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-24">Feb. 24, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to be increased.</p></sidenote> required to pay, out of any moneys of the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a pension, at the rate of twenty dollars a month, to Asahel Brainard, in lieu of the pension now received by him, commencing from and after the passage of this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-24">February 24, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIX: for the relief of Samuel D. Rose and others.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 884</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel D. Rose and others.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-24">Feb. 24, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain money recovered from a mail-robber to be paid 10 them.</p></sidenote> directed to pay over to Samuel D. Rose, of Pennsylvania, John Baker, of Ohio, and Judah Case, of Pennsylvania, each his pro rata proportion of the two hundred and thirty dollars now in the hands of the Post Office Department, and which is a part of the money recovered from William Martin, of Pennsylvania, who was convicted of robbing the United States mail in Pennsylvania, in eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and who confessed that he took from said Rose one hundred and ten dollars, from said Baker one hundred and fifteen dollars, and from said Case four hundred and seventy dollars; on each of said persons giving bonds, with surety, to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General, to repay said money, if it shall hereafter be shown to belong to any other person or persons.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-24">February 24, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XL: for the relief of Nancy Hambright, widow of Captain John Hambright, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 884</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XL</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nancy Hambright, widow of Captain John Hambright, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-24">Feb. 24, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to her.</p></sidenote> to pay to Nancy Hambright, widow of Captain John Hambright, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a pension, under the net of seventh July, eighteen hundred <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote>and thirty-eight, for eighteen months’ service of her husband, John Hambright, as a captain of a volunteer company of light horse, raised during the revolutionary war, in the service of the United States.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-24">February 24, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLI: for the relief of Thomas King.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 885</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLI</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 41, 42, 43, 48. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/885">885</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas King.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-24">Feb. 24, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Pensions is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 907.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to place the name of Thomas King, of Tennessee,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> upon the pension roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay to the said King the sum of eight dollars per month, during his natural life out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-24">February 24, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of certain companies of Michigan militia.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of certain companies of Michigan militia.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-24">Feb. 24, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers of the treasury lie, and they hereby are, authorized and required to audit and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of certain companies to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> settle the accounts of four companies of the militia of the state of Michigan, which were ordered into service by the Governor of the state, on the requisition of the United States marshal, for the maintenance of the neutral obligations and laws of the United States; and that the amount found due be paid to them out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>, That the said accounting officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims of the Brady Guards to be settled and paid.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, also authorized and required to audit and settle the claims of the Brady guards, a volunteer company of the city of Detroit, for services rendered by them in maintaining the neutral obligations and laws of the United States, and in protecting the public property, during the disturbances in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, on the frontiers of Canada; and that the amount found due be paid to them.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-24">February 24, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of George Mayfield” approved July twenty-seven, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of George Mayfield” approved July twenty-seven, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-24">Feb. 24, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the time within which George Mayfield is required to select and enter six hundred and forty acres of land, granted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed further time to enter land.</p></sidenote> to him by the provisions of an act of the twenty-seventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, be, and the same is hereby, extended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 27, 1842, ch. 78.</p></sidenote> one year; and the said Mayfield shall be permitted to enter said land in one entire section, or in quarter sections, subject to private entry and not in the occupancy of any actual settler, as he in his discretion may determine.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-24">February 24, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Jacob White.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jacob White.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-02-27">Feb. 27, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Jacob White on the revolutionary pension roll, and that he be allowed and paid annually, during his natural life, a pension under the act of June seventh, one thousand eight hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote> thirty-two, for twenty-two months’ service as a captain and six months’ service as a private, to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the full amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of pension already received by the said Jacob White be deducted from the pension granted him by the provisions of this act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-02-27">February 27, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of Benjamin J. Totten.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 54, 55, 56, 57, 58. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/886">886</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin J. Totten.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be allowed and paid to Benjamin J. Totten,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for services as an acting lieutenant in the navy.</p></sidenote> of the United States navy, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the difference of compensation between a sailingmaster and a lieutenant in the navy, for the period during which said Totten acted as lieutenant on board of the United States schooner Dolphin, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, by the temporary appointment of J. C. Long, commander; said Totten furnishing to the Navy Department satisfactory evidence of the fact.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of Joseph Hover, Abelard Guthrie and Edmund Ogden.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Hover, Abelard Guthrie and Edmund Ogden.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to be issued for lands entered by them.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to cause patents to be issued to Joseph Hover, Abelard Guthrie, and Edmund Ogden, their heirs or legal representatives, for the lands by them entered at the land office at Lima, in the state of Ohio, in the month of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, agreeably to the entries. The patents to said lands having been withheld on account of informality in the <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote>entries: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Said lands shall not have been sold to other purchasers by the United States before the date of this act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LVI: for the relief of Mary Crawford.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mary Crawford.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Mary Crawford, widow of David Ross <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>Crawford, late of the United States navy, be placed on the roll of pensioners, and that there be paid to her such sum, as an annual pension, as she would have been entitled to receive had her late husband been a lieutenant in the service at the time of his death.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LVII: for the relief of William Allen.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Allen.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy place the name <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote>of William Allen, of Portland, in the state of Maine, on the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and to be continued so long as said Allen’s disability shall continue to be total.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: granting to James Lowe one thousand dollars and a section of land.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 886</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting to James Lowe one thousand dollars and a section of land.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of money and land to him for rescuing an American vessel from pirates.</p></sidenote> authorized and required to pay to Captain James Lowe, of Westmoreland county, Virginia, one thousand dollars, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to issue to said Lowe a warrant for one section of land, to be located on any of the public land subject to private entry; the same being granted to the said James Lowe as a testimonial to him of the consideration in which Congress hold his gallantry and peril, in the rescue of an American brig, her crew, and passengers, from the hands of pirates.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of John Core.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 59, 60, 61, 62. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/887">887</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Core.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to John Core the sum of eighty dollars, out<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for a horse killed in service.</p></sidenote> of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for a horse which was killed while in the public service.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of the heirs of Madam De Lusser, and their legal representatives.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 887</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Madam De Lusser, and their legal representatives.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the lands described in the special report of the register and receiver of the land office for the district of St. Stephens,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain lands confirmed to them.</p></sidenote> in the state of Alabama, bearing date of the third July, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, to the heirs of Madam De Lusser, to whom they were originally granted by the French Government, in seventeen hundred and sixty-three, and to their legal assignees, or their heirs: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That this act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall be construed as to operate as a relinquishment of the title of the United States only.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief of John E. Hunt and others.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John E. Hunt and others.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to Forsyth and Hull, one thousand four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain payments to be made out of moneys due from U. S. to Ottowa-Indians.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirty-eight cents; to R. A. Forsyth, two thousand five hundred and twenty-nine dollars; to Elisha Mack, eighty-four dollars and fifty-seven cents; to Isaac Hull, one hundred and ninety-five dollars; to James II. Forsyth, nine hundred and thirty-five dollars and forty-eight cents; to R. F. Hollister, fifty dollars; to James Wilkeson, thirty-five dollars; and to John E. Hunt, two thousand eighteen dollars and thirty-five cents, out of any moneys due, or that may hereafter become due, from the United States to the Ottowa tribe of Indians, by existing treaties, on account of an order drawn by nineteen of the chiefs, headmen, and warriors of said tribe, dated Ottowa Indian Reserve, Osage river, September two, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, requesting the payment of said several sums of money, as herein directed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That each individual to whom payment is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> herein directed to be made shall only receive such proportion of his respective claim, out of any sum that may be due to said tribe, less than the whole amount of said claims, as his claim bears to the whole amount of said claims.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of Thomas D. Gilson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas D. Gilson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain services.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, unto Thomas D. Gilson, late sheriff of Clinton county, New York, the sum of one hundred and fifty-one dollars and eighty-five cents, in full for his official services in assisting to preserve our neutral relations on the Champlain frontier.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIII: for the relief of William G. Sanders.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 888</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIII</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/888">888</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 63, 64, 65, 66, 67. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William G. Sanders.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> authorized to pay to William G. Sanders nine hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount allowed for a store-house, a dwelling-house, and one other house, owned by him, and destroyed the twenty-first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, by order of Captain F. S. Belton, of the second artillery, United States army, he being then commander at Fort Brooke, Florida, to destroy the cover of the enemy in approaching the fort, as well as to prevent the said three buildings being occupied and burned by the hostile Indians in the vicinity of the fort, with a view of setting on fire the block-houses and other defences.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXIV: for the relief of William Fabre.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 888</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Fabre.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to William Fabre,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for prize money.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars and forty-two cents, being for prize money due to said William Fabre, when a sailor on board the Saratoga, on Lake Champlain.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXV: for the relief of Robert G. Ford.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 888</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert G. Ford.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be audited,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> settled, and paid, by the proper officers of his department, to Robert G. Ford, the amount of the accounts in his favor, and in favor of Robert Williams, for provender furnished General Nelson’s brigade of mounted volunteer militia in the service of the United States in the year one thousand eight hundred thirty-seven, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, under the same rules and on the same terms as if the original accounts and duplicates were produced; provided the claimant give security to the United States, indemnifying them against loss arising from the production of the original papers, should they ever be found, before receiving the money authorized to be paid by this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXVI: for the relief f Mary Williams, widow of Jacob Williams, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 888</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief f Mary Williams, widow of Jacob Williams, deceased.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Mary Williams, of East Hartford, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 932.</p></sidenote> state of Connecticut, widow of Jacob Williams, a revolutionary soldier,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> deceased, be placed on the pension roll, under the act of July fourth, <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 362.</p></sidenote>eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and that she be paid such annual pension while she remains a widow as her said husband would have been entitled to had he been living on the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXVII: for the relief of George Randall, John C. Haskell, and Elisha H. Holmes.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 888</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Randall, John C. Haskell, and Elisha H. Holmes.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for removing the bar at Saybrook.</p></sidenote> directed to pay to George Randall, John C. Haskell, and Elisha H. Holmes, or their legal representatives, the sum of three thousand four hundred and seventy-one dollars, and fifty-seven cents, out of any
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 68, 104, 105, 106, 107. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/889">889</page>
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of labor bestowed and expenses incurred by them as contractors for removing the bar at Saybrook, in the state of Connecticut, over and above the amount appropriated by the twenty-fourth Congress for that purpose.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXVIII: for the relief of John Wharry.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 889</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Wharry.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the judgment recovered in the district court of the United States, for the district of Ohio, against John Wharry and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A certain judgment discharged, and the penalty to be repaid.</p></sidenote> his sureties, as postmaster at Greenville, Ohio, be, and the same is hereby, discharged, and that the penalty of ninety-eight dollars and fifty-one cents, included in said judgment, be repaid to said John Wharry, together with the interest thereon, from the twenty-second of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-01">March 1, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CIV: for the relief of John B, Williams.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 899</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John B, Williams.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be, and is hereby, granted to John R. Williams, of the state of Michigan, the following described tract of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land granted to him tn satisfaction of a certain claim.</p></sidenote> land, to wit: the east half of section thirty-three, and the west half of section thirty-four, township two north, range thirteen east, in the district of land subject to sale at Detroit, Michigan, containing six hundred and forty acres; this grant being in satisfaction (so for as said Williams is concerned) of the claim confirmed to John R. Williams and James May by the commissioners acting under an act entitled “ An act to revive the powers of the commissioners for ascertaining and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 85.</p></sidenote> deciding on claims to lands at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien,” passed May eleven, eighteen hundred and twenty, and that the President of the United States be authorized to issue a patent in pursuance of this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CV: for the relief of Richard Patten.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 899</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard Patten.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay to Richard Patten out of any moneys in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain instruments.</p></sidenote> treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty dollars, that being the price of one telescope, for observing coincidences, and two large spirit levels, and two bubbles, delivered by him to the naval storekeeper at New York, for the use of the navy.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CVI: for the relief if Solomon Emerson.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 899</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if Solomon Emerson.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Solomon Emerson, of the state of Massachusetts,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be replaced on pension roll.</p></sidenote> on the invalid pension roll, and to pay him at the rate of four dollars per month, from and after the fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CVII: for the relief of George J. Winslow.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George J. Winslow.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, required to pay to George A. Winslow the sum of one hundred
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/890">890</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 108, 109, 110, 111, 112. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
and forty-four dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for enlisting recruits.</p></sidenote> appropriated; it being the amount due him for premium money in enlisting recruits during the last war with Great Britain.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CVIII: for the relief of the heirs of Philander Smith and James Young.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 890</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Philander Smith and James Young.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the heirs of Philander Smith and the heirs of James Young<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim (according to the portions by them respectively owned) to a tract of land containing fifteen hundred arpens, situate about six miles from the town of Baton Rouge, in the state of Louisiana, originally granted to Armand Duplantier, by Baron de Carondelet, on the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CIX: for the relief of Elizabeth Gresham, widow of George Gresham.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elizabeth Gresham, widow of George Gresham.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1844, ch. 23.</p></sidenote>That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to her.</p></sidenote> and instructed to allow to Elizabeth Gresham, widow of George Gresham, late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, a pension for five years, at the rate of six hundred dollars a year, to commence on the seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and to be paid as other pensioners are paid, under the act of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, allowing pensions to certain widows.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CX: for the relief of John Shirring.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Shirring.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for building furnaces in the treasury.</p></sidenote> to pay to John Skirving three thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for building furnaces for warming the Treasury Department.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXI: for the relief of Benjamin Truslow.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin Truslow.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> and required to place Benjamin Truslow, of Stafford county, Virginia, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners of the United States, and allow him eighty dollars a year during his life, and to be paid to him <sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote>according to the provisions of the act of Congress passed the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, deducting therefrom whatever amount of pension which may have been allowed&amp;and paid to the said Benjamin Truslow prior to the passage of this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXII: for the relief of S. and M. Riche.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of S. and M. Riche.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That so much of a judgment which was obtained by the United States,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from the penalty attached to a judgment against them.</p></sidenote> in the district court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, for the sum of one hundred and eight dollars and fifty-three cents, besides. damages and costs, against John F. Moore, late postmaster at Gaines’s Cross Roads, in the state of Kentucky, and the said S. and M. Riche, his securities, as is in the nature of penalty
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 113, 114, 115, 116, 117. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/891">891</page>
be, and the same is hereby, released, as against said S. and M. Riche: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the balance of said judgment, if not already paid, shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> be paid within sixty days from the passage of this act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: for the relief of Samuel Lord.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Lord.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Samuel Lord, of Charleston, South Carolina, be, and he is hereby, discharged from all further liability upon a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditionally discharged from further liability on a judgment.</p></sidenote> judgment obtained and now outstanding against him as surety on a custom-house bond, given to the United States, by Howe and Fitch, in eighteen hundred and eighteen, upon said Lord first paying, or securing to be paid, to the United States the sum of one thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to execute a release to said Lord, for said judgment, upon his paying, or securing to be paid, in a satisfactory manner, the sum of one thousand dollars.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: for the relief of Knott Martin, 3d, and Arnold Marlin, owners of the fishing schooner Only Son, and others.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 891</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Knott Martin, 3d, and Arnold Marlin, owners of the fishing schooner Only Son, and others.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the district of Marblehead, in the state of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> pay to Knott Martin, 3d, and Arnold Martin, late owners of a fishing schooner lost at sea, called the Only Son, burden sixty-eight tons and fifty-seven ninety-fifths, and to the legal representatives of the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive had the said schooner completed her fishing term, and returned into port.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXV: for the relief of Jonathan Britton.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jonathan Britton.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the name of Jonathan Britton, of Otisfield, Cumberland county, and state of Maine, on the pension roll, and pay him a pension, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of Horace Wetherall.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Horace Wetherall.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That Horace Wetherall, an invalid pensioner, be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote> the rate of eight dollars per month from the first day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, to the thirtieth day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and forty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVII: for the relief of Charles Waldron.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles Waldron.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, required and directed to pay to Charles Waldron, or to his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for property destroyed.</p></sidenote> legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-one cents, it being for buildings and other property destroyed at Micanopy, Florida, in eighteen hundred and thirty-six, by order of the officer then in command at that post, and to prevent them from falling into possession of the enemy.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: for the relief of Andrew Fisher.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVIII</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/892">892</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Andrew Fisher.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain repairs.</p></sidenote> directed to pay to Andrew Fisher, or his legal representatives, the sum of seventy-nine dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of expenses incurred by him in repairing the damages done to the light-house keeper’s house at Gibraltar, on Detroit river, while in the possession (by impressment) of the United States troops under the command of General Brady, in one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIX: for the relief of Gamaliel E. Smith.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Gamaliel E. Smith.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Gamaliel<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for work, &amp;.C. on Mount Desert rock light.</p></sidenote> E. Smith three hundred and fifty dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for work done and materials furnished for the erection of a dwelling-house and light-house on Mount Desert rock, in the state of Maine, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of James Gray.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Gray.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That there be paid to James Gray, of Washington county,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension to be paid to him.</p></sidenote> Pennsylvania, at the rate of eight dollars per month, from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-three.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: for the relief of Charles B. Hall, of Cincinnati.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 892</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles B. Hall, of Cincinnati.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A judgment recovered by him for an unlawful seizure, &amp;c., to be paid.</p></sidenote> directed to settle and pay to Charles B. Hall, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of a certain judgment recovered by him in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Ohio, at December term, in the year eighteen hundred and forty, against John B. Warren, late surveyor of the port of Cincinnati, in the state of Ohio, for damages occasioned by the unlawful seizure and detention of certain goods, under orders from the Treasury Department.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: for the relief of Richard Rush.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard Rush.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for extra services.</p></sidenote> of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Richard Rush, the sum of three thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars and seventy-three cents, for extra services in converting the Smithsonian funds received by him, as the agent of the United States, into gold coin, and for his aid and supervision in transporting the same from London to the mint at Philadelphia.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Lieutenant William S. Eveleth.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Lieutenant William S. Eveleth.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury cause a credit of eight hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty-two cents to be passed to the account of Lieutenant William S. Eveleth, as of the date of his
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 124, 125, 126. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/893">893</page>
death, to be ascertained by the order announcing his death at the Engineer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit to be allowed him. and amount due to be paid.</p></sidenote> Department; and that the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be paid to the legal representatives of William S. Eveleth, late of the corps of engineers of the United States army, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sum of money as is due for his services and emoluments at the time of his death, to be ascertained as aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIV: for the relief of John Drysdale.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Drysdale.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause John Drysdale to be paid agreeably to his rank as assistant adjutant-general of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for his services in Florida militia.</p></sidenote> the second brigade of Florida militia, ordered into the service of the United States by General Joseph Hernandez, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, on the principles adopted by him in paying the officers and non-commissioned officers of the second regiment of said brigade, under the act for their relief approved the third of March, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 100.</p></sidenote> and thirty-nine, provided the time of service to be paid for shall not exceed five months and eleven days.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXV: for the relief of Richard Sneed.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard Sneed.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula> <section class="inline"><content class="inline">That the Solicitor of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to suspend, for a reasonable time,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection of a judgment recovered against him to be suspended.</p></sidenote> the collection of a judgment against Richard Sneed, in the circuit court of the United States for the district of North Carolina, in favor of the United States, rendered at May term, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said Richard Sneed shall execute and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> deliver to the Solicitor of the Treasury a bond for one thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-four cents, with such security as the said Solicitor shall approve:</proviso> <i>And provided, further</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said Richard Sneed shall use all proper despatch, under the directions of the Solicitor of the Treasury, to enforce the collection of certain refunding bonds taken by the said Richard Sneed and other executors of Stephen Sneed, deceased; as also of a certain decree had in the United States circuit court for the district of North Carolina, in favor of the United States, against Nathaniel M. Sneed and Albert Sneed, to be applied, when collected, to the credit of the judgment aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That there shall be no suspension of proceedings upon said judgment, or any delay or indulgence given upon it, which would work the discharge, release, or forfeiture of any right of the United States; it being the only object of this act to give a reasonable time to the said Richard Sneed to subject to the payment of the said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> judgment all the estate of his testator, Stephen Sneed, deceased, which the original judgment against him bound, for the convenience and benefit of the said Richard Sneed, without prejudice to the United States.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVI: for the relief of Joseph R. Chandler.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph R. Chandler.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the clerk of the district court of the United States, in and for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, be required to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be credited with certain payments on a judgment.</p></sidenote> credit the defendants in the judgment in favor of the United States against William C. Graham, George II. Hart, Joseph R. Chandler, and John Connel, obtained before said court, with the following payments, to wit:</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/894">894</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 127, 128, 129, 130. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p></sidenote>September ninth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one hundred dollars; October twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one hundred dollars; January fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, one hundred dollars; February twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, two hundred dollars; June twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, two hundred dollars: and that the said court be, and hereby is, authorized to allow to said defendants such other credits on said judgment as to said court may appear just and equitable, not exceeding three hundred dollars.</p></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVII: for the relief of Elizabeth Powers.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 894</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elizabeth Powers.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Elizabeth Powers, widow of Timothy Powers, deceased, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that she be paid, during her natural life, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVIII: to allow a pension to Nancy Williams, widow of David Williams, who was one of the captors of Major Andre.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to allow a pension to Nancy Williams, widow of David Williams, who was one of the captors of Major Andre.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> and required to place Nancy Williams, widow of David Williams, who was, during the war of the Revolution, one of the captors of Major Andre, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and pay to her two hundred dollars annually, during her life, to commence on the second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, at which date the said David Williams departed this life; the same to be paid as other pensions are paid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIX: for the relief of John Hicks.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 894</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Hicks.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of John Hicks on the invalid pension roll, and that he be entitled to receive at the rate of eight dollars per month during his natural life, commencing the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXX: for the relief of Edwin Bartlett, late consul of the United Slates al Lima, in Peru.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 894</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Edwin Bartlett, late consul of the United Slates al Lima, in Peru.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for diplomatic services.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized and required to cause to be paid to Edwin Bartlett, late consul of the United States at Lima, in Peru, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine thousand sixty-two dollars and fifty cents, in full of all demands for the services of a diplomatic character rendered by the said Edwin Bartlett, in the interval between the death of Mr. Thornton, late charge d’affaires to Peru, on the twenty-fifth January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and the recognition of his successor (Mr. Pickett) on the thirtieth January, eighteen hundred and forty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXI: for the relief of William Gale.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 895</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXI</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 131, 132, 133, 134. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/895">895</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Gale.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That so much of the eighteenth section of the act entitled “An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Renewal of a patent for an improvement in the manufacture of silver spoons, &amp;c., authorized.</p></sidenote> all acts and parts of acts heretofore made for that purpose,” passed the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, as prohibits the extension of a patent after the expiration of the term for which it was originally issued, be, and the same is hereby, suspended, so far as shall be necessary to authorize the renewal of a patent to William Gale, of the city of New York, for his invention of what is denominated in his former letters patent “ a new and useful improvement in the manufacture of silver spoons and forks;” subject, however, to all other restrictions and conditions in said act contained.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXII: granting a pension to David Welch.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to David Welch.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 357.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause the name of David Welch, an Oneida Indian, of Madison county, New York, to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> placed on the invalid roll of the Albany agency of that state, and that he be allowed, during his natural life, a pension of six dollars per month, commencing on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIII: for the relief of Charles Gordon, owner of the schooner Two Sons, and the legal representatives of the crew of said vessel.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 895</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles Gordon, owner of the schooner Two Sons, and the legal representatives of the crew of said vessel.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the port of Belfast, in the state of Maine, be authorized and directed to pay to Charles Gordon,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing  schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> owner of the schooner Two Sons, of Belfast, burden seventy-five and fifty-four ninety-fifths tons, such sum as he would have been entitled to as bounty had she completed her voyage, said vessel having been lost after having been employed in the fishing season upwards of three months; which sum shall be distributed according to law, among the heirs and legal representatives of the persons composing the crew of said vessel, in such proportions as said crew would have been entitled to if they had survived.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIV: for the relief of Richard Coke, jr., Robert Anderson, and George W. Southall.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 895</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard Coke, jr., Robert Anderson, and George W. Southall.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Richard Coke, jr., Robert Anderson, and George W. Southall, sureties of Peyton A. Southall, in his official bond<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditionally released from liability as sureties of Peyton A. Southall.</p></sidenote> to the United States as a purser in the navy, be released from their liabilities on said bond, and from any suits brought or judgments obtained thereon against them, or any of them, provided they shall first pay to the Treasurer of the United States the sum of nineteen hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-two cents, with interest thereon from the thirteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and also all the costs of any suit or suits against them on the trial aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXV: for the relief of John Randolph Clay, late secretary of legation of the United States at the court of Vienna.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 896</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/896">896</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 135, 136, 137, 138, 139. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Randolph Clay, late secretary of legation of the United States at the court of Vienna.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for diplomatic services.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be paid to John Randolph Clay, late secretary of legation of the United States at the Court of Austria, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, in full of all demands for services of a diplomatic character rendered by the said John Randolph Clay in the interval between the eighteenth of September, eighteen hundred and forty, the date of the recall of Mr. Muhlenburg, late minister plenipotentiary to Austria, and the recognition of his successor (Mr. Jenifer) on the eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVI: granting a pension to Israel Thomas.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 896</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Israel Thomas.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension list.</p></sidenote> place the name of Israel Thomas, of Lewis county, in the state of Kentucky, upon the list of invalid pensioners, and pay him a pension of eight dollars per month, commencing on the fourth day of September, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, continuing during his life.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVII: for the relief of John Wolfenden.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 896</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Wolfenden.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Wolfenden, out of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid, annually, a sum not exceeding 8108.</p></sidenote> treasury, from any moneys not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money, annually, equal to the amount paid at the naval asylum, at Philadelphia, for the support of a seaman in the service of the United States, but not exceeding one hundred and eight dollars; said payment to be made semi-yearly, and to continue during the life of said John Wolfenden.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVIII: for the relief of Johnson Patrick.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 896</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Johnson Patrick.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for boarding Pollawalomie chiefs.</p></sidenote> he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to Johnson Patrick, or to his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirteen hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-six cents, for boarding certain Pottawatomie chiefs, while holding a council at Prairie road, in Kalamazoo county, Michigan, in the summer of eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIX: to transfer to the trustees of Centre College, in Kentucky, the lands heretofore granted to the Kentucky Asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 896</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to transfer to the trustees of Centre College, in Kentucky, the lands heretofore granted to the Kentucky Asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all grants of lands heretofore made, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands granted to the Kentucky Asylum, transferred to Centre College.</p></sidenote> patents issued by virtue of any act, to “ the incorporated Kentucky Asylum for the education of the deaf and dumb,” shall enure to, and be accepted and construed to have enured to, “ the trustees of the Centre College of Kentucky and the said trustees of the Centre College of Kentucky are hereby vested with all faculties and functions, privileges, powers, and rights, that any grant or patent for lands may have, or been supposed to have, vested and conferred upon “ the incorporated Ken-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 140, 141, 142, 143. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/897">897</page>
tucky Asylum for the education of the deaf and dumb:” <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That nothing herein contained shall be construed to divert the funds the proceeds of said lands, or the lands, from the purposes and intention of the original grants.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXL: supplemental to the act of the twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to continue a copyright to John Rowlett.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 897</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXL</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>supplemental to the act of the twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to continue a copyright to John Rowlett.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the copyright of John Rowlett, of Philadelphia, as author of a useful book, called Rowlett’s Tables of Discount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copyright of Rowlett’s Tables of Discount and Interest extended fourteen years.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 145.</p></sidenote> and Interest, the title whereof was deposited, on the fourth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and two, in the office of the clerk of the district court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, which copyright was continued by act of Congress dated the twenty-fourth of May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, be, and the said copyright of John Rowlett is hereby, prolonged and continued forward during the term of fourteen years, to begin from and at the fourth of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, with all rights, remedies, and privileges, conferred by copy-right by any law of the United States, including all improvements and enlargements of the said book thereto made, at any till the present time, by the said John Rowlett: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That within two months next<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> after the passage of this act he shall in all things comply with the provisions of the laws concerning copyrights, as to recording, publishing, depositing, and otherwise manifesting his said copyright, in his original work, and all subsequent improvements and enlargements, or other changes thereof whatever.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLI: for the relief of Robert B. Lewis.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 897</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert B. Lewis.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to refund and pay to Robert B. Lewis, the sum of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent fees to be refunded.</p></sidenote> fifteen dollars, being the amount of money paid by him into the treasury of the United States, as fees, on the surrender by him of a patent, granted the twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, for the purpose of correction and re-issue; his application for a re-issue having been denied at the Patent Office, and he, thereby, having been deprived of the benefit of his said patent for the residue of the term remaining unexpired.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLII: for the relief of John Javins.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 897</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Javins.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of John Javins, of the state<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To he placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> of Pennsylvania, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and that he pay him at the rate of eight dollars per month during his natural life; to commence on the first day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-one.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIII: for the relief of John F. Wiley.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 897</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John F. Wiley.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of John F. Wiley on the roll of invalid pensions, and that he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> receive four dollars per month from the first day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXLIV: for the relief of James Sweetman.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 898</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 144, 145, 146, 147, 148. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Sweetman.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of James Sweetman, of the state of New York, on the pension roll, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars per month, from and after the twenty-first day of February” one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLV: for the relitf of Joseph Nimblett.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relitf of Joseph Nimblett.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<i>Be it enacted</i>, $c., That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Joseph Nimblett, of the state of Vermont’ on the roll of invalid pensioners, and cause him to be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the twelfth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, being the time when the taking of his testimony was completed.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVI: to diet for the relief of Gorham A. Worth, one of the sureties of Samuel Edmonds, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 898</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to diet for the relief of Gorham A. Worth, one of the sureties of Samuel Edmonds, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Gorham A. Worth be, and is hereby, acquitted,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from the payment of a bond.</p></sidenote> released, and discharged, from all liability whatever to pay, or cause to be paid, a certain bond, executed by him to the United States in tire year eighteen hundred and thirteen, conditioned in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of the duties of Samuel Edmonds, as principal paymaster of the militia of the state of New York.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVII: for the relief of Samuel Weller.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Weller.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for materials furnished for the breakwater at Plattsburg.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, directed and required to ascertain the quantity of timber, stone and other materials delivered by Samuel Weller, after the twentieth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, for the construction of a breakwater at the harbor at Plattsburg, Lake Champlain, New York, under certain agreements made with the superintendent for the construction of said breakwater, in the summer or fall of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and of the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; and when the quantity is so ascertained of the size and quality described in said contracts, that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to said Samuel Weller, the prices stipulated in said contracts for the same, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Peters, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of John Peters, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A duplicate land warrant to be issued.</p></sidenote> authorized to issue to the legal representatives of John Peters, deceased, a duplicate of warrant number one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, for one hundred acres of land, bearing date the sixth March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, issued in favor of John Peters and Sarah Farnum, as heirs at law of the said John Peters; and the
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 149, 150, 151, 152, 153. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/899">899</page>
 same, when issued, shall in every respect, have the same force and effect as the original warrant, which original warrant is hereby declared to be null and void.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLIX: for the relief of John Skirving.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 899</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Skirving.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to John Skirving the sum of six hundred dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment far services on the public buildings.</p></sidenote> out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, it being for services by him performed upon the public buildings, in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, eighteen hundred arid forty, and eighteen hundred and forty-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CL: for the relief of Samuel K. Jennings.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 899</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CL</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel K. Jennings.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Patents be, and he is hereby, directed to renew, for the period of fourteen years, the letters<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for the generation and application of heat, &amp;.c., to be renewed.</p></sidenote> patent granted to Samuel K. Jennings, of the city of Baltimore, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, for an apparatus for the speedy generation, and convenient, prompt, and agreeable application of heat to the human system; and that he embrace in said renewal of letters patent the improvement subsequently made by said Jennings in its mode of application; subject, however, to the rules and usages of the Patent Office, and all the provisions, except as aforesaid, of the act entitled “ An act to promote the progress of the useful arts,” and all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 10, 1790, ch. 7.</p></sidenote> acts in addition and amendatory thereto.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLI: for the relief of Nancy Wilson.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 899</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nancy Wilson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is authorized, and hereby required, to place Nancy Wilson, widow of the late Captain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> William Wilson, on the pension roll, and pay to her five years’ full pay of a captain, in the manner provided by the act of the seventh of July,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote> one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain widows: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all moneys heretofore received by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> said Nancy Wilson, on account of the revolutionary services of her said husband, be deducted from the above pension.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLII: for the relief of John Hodgkin.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 899</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Hodgkin.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to John Hodgkin the sum of three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for work on New York custom-house.</p></sidenote> five hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty cents, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the balance of his account for painting and bronzing done on the New York custom-house, under the direction of the commissioners appointed by the President of the United States to superintend said work.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLIII: for the relief of Thomas Weaver and Jacob Heyberger, sureties of the Norristown and Talley Railroad Company.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 899</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Weaver and Jacob Heyberger, sureties of the Norristown and Talley Railroad Company.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time for actually and permanently laying upon any railroad the railroad iron imported into the port of Philadelphia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for laying certain rail road iron, extended.</p></sidenote> by the Norristown and Valley Railroad Company during the
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/900">900</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 154, 155, 156, 157. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
 year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, to entitle the same to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceedings against sureties for duties thereon, stayed, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> a drawback of duties, is hereby extended one year; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and required to cause all proceedings upon the judgments obtained against the sureties on bonds given for the duties upon the importation of said railroad iron, to stay for and during the said term of one year; and if, at or before the expiration of the said one year, it shall be proved to his satisfaction that the whole or any part of the said railroad iron has been actually and permanently laid upon any railroads in the United States, then to order and direct the whole, or a proportionate part, of the said judgments to be marked satisfied, upon the defendant paying the costs.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLIV: for the relief of the legal representative of Robert T. Spence.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 900</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representative of Robert T. Spence.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A credit to be allowed him, tec.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized to allow to the legal representative of Robert T. Spence, a credit of four hundred and twenty dollars and ten cents, with interest on two hundred and forty-five dollars and ten cents thereof from the time that the United States calculated and recovered interest in the judgment obtained by them against the said representative, on account of the liability of her intestate as security of G. K. Spence, on a balance appearing upon the books of the treasury department to be due from the said G. K. Spence for treasury notes by him received in eighteen hundred and fifteen, and like interest on one hundred and seventy-five dollars thereof from the same time, provided that time be not anterior to the ninth day of November, eighteen hundred and nineteen; and if it be, then from the said ninth day of November, eighteen [hundred] and nineteen, upon a judgment in favor of the United States, and against the said representative, in a suit upon a bond executed by her intestate as the security of the said G. K. Spence.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLV: for the relief of Hannah Jenkins, widow [of] James Jenkins, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 900</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLV</docNumber>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Hannah Jenkins, widow [of] James Jenkins, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension, roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Hannah Jenkins, widow of James Jenkins, on the pension roll, and that she be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a pension for eleven mouths’ service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote> of her husband in the revolutionary war, under the act of July seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLVI: for the relief of Ruth Mathiot.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 900</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ruth Mathiot.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roil.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Ruth Mathiot, widow of George Mathiot, a soldier oi the Revolution, on the pension roll, and to pay her the sum of seventy-one dollars per annum, from the fourth of April, eighteen hundred and forty, during her natural life.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVII: for the relief of Peters, Moore, and Company.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 900</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peters, Moore, and Company.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to Peters, Moore, and Company,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for transporting the mail.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, belonging to the revenues of the Post Office Department, the sum of two thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, in
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 158, 159, 160, 161, 162. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/901">901</page>
 full payment and satisfaction for services rendered by them in transporting the United States mails on the turnpike from Philadelphia to Lancaster, from the second day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to the first day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLVIII: for the relief of Nancy Polerecsky.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 901</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Nancy Polerecsky.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of Nancy Polerecsky on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote> roll of pensioners, under the act of July seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and allow and pay her a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per month for the term of five years, agreeably to the terms of said act of July seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLIX: for the relief of the foal representatives of Daniel Brent, deceased, lalc consul f the United Slates at Paris.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 901</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the foal representatives of Daniel Brent, deceased, lalc consul f the United Slates at Paris.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be paid to the legal representatives<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for diplomatic services.</p></sidenote> of Daniel Brent, deceased, late United States consul at Paris, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand and eighty-four dollars and twenty cents, deducting therefrom the sum which he may have received during the same period as the consul of the United States, in full discharge of all demands for the diplomatic services of the said Daniel Brent during the. suspension of the regular diplomatic intercourse between the Governments of France and the United States, in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-five and eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLX: for the relief of Robert Ramsay.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 901</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLX.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert Ramsay.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of Robert Ramsay on the roll of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> navy pensioners, and to pay him a pension, at the rate of five dollars per month; to commence and be computed from the thirtieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXI: for the relief f George C. Johnston.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 901</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief f George C. Johnston.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to George C. Johnston the amount due and to become<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Debt due him by Shawnee Indians to be paid out of their annuity.</p></sidenote> due to the Shawnee Indians, under the act of Congress approved July fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, on account of a debt due from said Indians to said Johnston, and which the said Indians have ordered to be paid out of the annuity granted by said act; provided the sum paid pursuant to this act shall not exceed the sum due to said Johnston by said Indians, exclusive of interest, to wit: eighteen thousand five hundred and ten dollars.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXII: to revive an act entitled “ An act for the relief of John Davlin.”.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 901</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to revive an act entitled “ An act for the relief of John Davlin.”.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the act entitled “ An act for the relief of John Davlin,” approved on the. second day of March, eighteen hundred
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/902">902</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 163, 164, 165, 166. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 2, 1839, ch. 66, revived.</p></sidenote> and thirty-nine, be, and the same is hereby, revived in favor of the said John Davlin, or his legal representatives, and shall continue in force twelve months from and after the passage of this act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXIII: for the relief of Daniel Penhallow.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 902</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel Penhallow.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Daniel Penhallow upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and cause to be paid to him at the rate of four dollars per month, from and after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-two, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXIV: authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to David Walkinson and Company a part of the duties imposed on à certain quantity of tin and iron imported by them into the port of Sew York.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 902</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to David Walkinson and Company a part of the duties imposed on à certain quantity of tin and iron imported by them into the port of Sew York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part of the duties on certain tin and iron to be refunded.</p></sidenote> hereby is, authorized and required to refund to David Watkinson and Company, merchants, who imported into the port of New York, between the eighteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and the twentieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, a certain quantity of tin in plates, and a certain quantity of iron in bars and bolts, and iron in sheets, hoops, and brasiers’ rods, which tin and iron were shipped by the same importers to the city of Hartford, in their original packages, where the importers reside, and where it was intended to use the said goods, the sum of nine hundred and six dollars and fifty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the difference between the duties on said importations under the act of fourteenth July, eighteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">1832. ch. 227.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> thirty-two, and the existing duties prior to the passage of said act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That due proof be given, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the compliance, in good faith, on the part of the importers, with all the requisites of the law, as they would have applied if the goods had been placed under the custody of the proper officer of the customs at New York.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXV: for the relief of Robert Layton’s children.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 902</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
<publicPrivate>private</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXV.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert Layton’s children.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War pay to the widow of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them on account of a pension improperly suspended.</p></sidenote> Captain Robert Layton, if any widow there be, or, if no widow, to Richard Layton, Elizabeth Gordon, John Layton, and Charles Layton, the surviving children of Captain Robert Layton, deceased, late a pensioner of the United States, the sum of one thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollars, it being the amount of pension, improperly suspended, which fell due to said Captain Robert Layton between the fourth March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and the eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, the day of the said Captain Layton’s death.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXVI: for the relief of Mary McGee and Susan Pierce, heirs at law of George Neilson.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 902</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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</meta>
<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVI.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mary McGee and Susan Pierce, heirs at law of George Neilson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Mary McGee and Susan Pierce, heirs at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote> law of George Neilson, deceased, a soldier of the late war, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter free of cost, one quarter section of one
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 167, 168, 169. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/903">903</page>
 hundred and sixty acres of any of the public lands subject to sale at private entry, and that a patent issue to them for the same, which quarter section shall be taken for and in full consideration of the land bounty to which the said George Neilson would be entitled if living.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXVII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Robert A. Kelly.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 903</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Robert A. Kelly.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause the claim of the legal representatives of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services as register of land office at Opelousas.</p></sidenote> Robert A. Kelly, for the services of said Kelly as register of the land office at Opelousas, in the state of Louisiana, in making a report to the Secretary of the Treasury, in one thousand eight hundred and forty, in obedience to an order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and in conformity to “An act for the final adjustment of claims to lands in the state of Louisiana,” approved February six, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Feb. 6, 1835, ch. 17.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and thirty-five, and for money paid by the said Kelly for translating instruments of writing filed among the papers of claimants under said law, to be audited, settled, and paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum so paid to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the representatives of said Kelly shall not exceed five hundred dollars for his services, and one hundred dollars for money paid for translations.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXVIII: for the relief of Hugh Riddle, of the state of New York.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Hugh Riddle, of the state of New York.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to Hugh Riddle, of the state of New York, a warrant for one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A bounty land warrant to be issued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Dec. 24, 1811, ch. 10.</p></sidenote> sixty acres of military bounty land, according to the provisions of [an act] entitled “An act for completing the existing military establishment, passed the twenty-fourth of December, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXIX: for the relief ff Garret Vleit.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 903</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief ff Garret Vleit.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be directed to audit the account of Garret Vleit, for surveying done in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account for certain surveying to be audited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 2, 1836. ch. 262.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1837, ch. 36.</p></sidenote> laying out certain towns in the Territory of Wiskonsin, mentioned in an act passed on the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and in an act passed on the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in relation to surveying said towns; and that he allow said Vleit such portion of the price agreed on for the whole work, as the work performed by him, accepted, used and approved by the proper department, bears to the whole work to complete said surveys, as fixed in the contract signed by R. T. Lytle, Surveyor-General, and the said Vleit, on the sixteenth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That said Commissioner, in settling<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount already paid to be deducted, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote> said account, deduct the amount already paid to said Vleit, and that the balance be paid to him out of the money<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> appropriated to the making of said surveys by the act first mentioned; and so much of the money appropriated for said surveys, by the act first mentioned, as shall be necessary to pay the balance so found due to said Vleit, is hereby reappropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXX: for the relief of George Waddle.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXX</docNumber>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/904">904</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 170, 171, 172, 173, 174. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Waddle.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the name of George Waddle, of Kentucky, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay him four dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXI: for the relief of Lyman N. Cook.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 904</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>25</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Lyman N. Cook.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> required to place the name of Lyman N. Cook, of New York, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of eleven dollars and twenty-five cents per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXII: for the relief of Boyd Reilly.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 904</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>25</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Boyd Reilly.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of the right to use his apparatus for the application of vapor to the human system, authorized.</p></sidenote> the Navy be, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to receive from Boyd Reilly his patent right for the use of the different forms of apparatus invented by him, for the application of gas or vapor of any description to the human system, which are at present in use, or may at any time hereafter be introduced into the hospitals of the army, the navy, and the penitentiary of the United States, and on board of the national shipping; and, also, to settle the amount of compensation due to him, on principles of equity—the sum awarded to be charged in equal proportions to the contingent expenses of the army and navy, or to hospital expenditures of each service—provided the same shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXIII: for the relief of Allen Rogers.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 904</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>25</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Allen Rogers.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury Department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for provisions furnished certain invalid seamen.</p></sidenote> pay to Allen Rogers, of the state of Maine, or his assigns, owner of the brig L’Orient, the sum of two hundred and eighty-two dollars and five cents, in full for provisions furnished certain invalid seamen returning from Rio Janeiro in said brig, and that said sum be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXIV: for the relief of Mary W. Thompson, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson, of the army of the United States.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 904</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXIV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>25</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mary W. Thompson, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson, of the army of the United States.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services of Col. Thompson.</p></sidenote> be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson, of the army of the United States, in further and final satisfaction of all claims for agencies and services rendered by the said Colonel Thompson, out of the line of his military duties: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall interfere with the acts heretofore passed for the relief of the said Mrs. Thompson.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXV: for the relief of Jeremiah Kimball.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 905</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>25</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 175, 176, 177. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/905">905</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Jeremiah Kimball.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to restore the name of Jeremiah Kimball, of Watertown, in the state of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be restored to pension roll.</p></sidenote> New York, to the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him, during his natural life, a pension of five dollars and thirty-three and a third cents per month; commencing on the second day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVI: for the relief of James B. Sullivan, of the county of Rapides, in the state of Louisiana.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 905</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>25</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James B. Sullivan, of the county of Rapides, in the state of Louisiana.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James B. Sullivan be, and he is hereby, authorized and permitted to complete his purchase of lot numbered sixteen,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to complete the purchase of certain land.</p></sidenote> (or part of it, containing one hundred and fifty-three acres and a sixtieth part of an acre,) being lot sixteen, in township numbered five north of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, of range numbered three west of the basis meridian, in the south-western district of the state of Louisiana, situated in the parish of Rapides, in said state, and containing, according to the register’s certificate, one hundred and fifty-three acres and the sixteenth part of an acre, in virtue of his right of preemption, according to the act of Congress of the nineteenth of June,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 19, 1834, ch. 54.</p></sidenote> one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, which said laud is hereby declared to be no part of section sixteen, reserved for the use of schools in the congressional township in which the same is situated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVII: for the relief of the heirs or the assignees of the heirs, of Isaac Todd and James McGill.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 905</citableAs>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-12-05</processedDate>
<congress>25</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs or the assignees of the heirs, of Isaac Todd and James McGill.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
 <content class="inline">That all the right, title, interest, claim, and demand of the United States in, over, and to the following described tract<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of U. S. to certain land relinquished to J. McGill, his heirs. &amp;c.</p></sidenote> or parcel of land, situate, lying, and being in the state of Michigan, known as claim two hundred and seventy, as entered upon the records of the land board at Detroit, under the act of twenty-sixth of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and four, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished to James McGill, his heirs, and legal representatives, and to those legally holding under him or them; and all the right,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of U. S. to certain land relinquished to Isaac Todd, his heirs, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> title, interest, claim, and demand of the United States in, over, and to the following described tracts or parcels of land situate, lying and being in the state of Michigan; that is to say, those certain tracts numbered two hundred and sixty-seven and two hundred and sixty-eight, as entered on the records aforesaid, under the act aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished to Isaac Todd, his heirs and legal representatives, and to those legally holding under him or them: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> relinquishment on the part of the United States shall not take effect until the said James McGill and Isaac Todd, their heirs, or those holding and claiming the said land through them, for a consideration to be fixed by the valuation, upon oath, of three disinterested men, to be selected by the Secretary of War, and paid by the United States out of the sum of fifty thousand dollars appropriated by the act of September the ninth, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty-one, entitled “An act making<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of Sept. 9, 1841, ch. 17.</p></sidenote> appropriations for various fortifications for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities,” shall execute to the United States in such form and with such covenants, as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, a good and sufficient deed to the following described</proviso>
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<p class="centered">114</p>
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<p class="centered">4a2</p>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/906">906</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 178, 179, 180, 181, 182. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
 part of said tracts, that is to say, a tract adjoining on the south-west side, the land lately purchased by the United States from B. B. Kerchivell, bounded as follows: beginning at the north-west corner of said public land, thence south thirty-five degrees, west twenty-five chains, thence south twenty-eight degrees sixteen minutes east, twenty chains, more or less to the Detroit river, thence along the shore of said river in a north-easterly direction to the south-west corner of said public land; thence along the south-westerly boundary of the same to the place of beginning, containing forty acres more or less, which is hereby reserved to the United States for military purposes.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXVIII: for the relief of Samuel AL Asberry.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel AL Asberry.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the pension of Samuel M. Asberry, allowed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension to be increased.</p></sidenote> by an act approved on the twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall be, and the same is hereby, increased to the sum of six dollars and forty cents per month, in lieu of the sum heretofore allowed; and that he be paid at the rate of six dollars and forty cents per month from the thirty-first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, deducting therefrom four dollars per month, that being the sum he has heretofore received.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXIX: for the relief of John McGinnis, a soldier in the late war.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John McGinnis, a soldier in the late war.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War issue to John McGinnis<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bounty land warrant to issue to hint.</p></sidenote> a land warrant for military bounty land, for his services during the late war.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXX: for the relief of Joseph Ellery.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Ellery.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to place the name of Joseph Ellery, of the state of New York, on the roll of invalid pensioners; who shall be entitled to and receive a pension, at the rate of six dollars a month, from the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXI: for the relief of James S. Calhoun.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James S. Calhoun.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"> That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for use of his steamboat and barges.</p></sidenote> hereby, directed to pay to James S. Calhoun the sum of fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars, in full for the claims of the said James S. Calhoun against the United States for the use and detention by an officer of the Government of the United States of the steamboat Anna Calhoun and the barges Mary Eliza and Antoinette, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXXXII: for the relief of Asahel Lee, Harvey Lee, and Lemuel Lee.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Asahel Lee, Harvey Lee, and Lemuel Lee.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount due to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized to audit and settle the amount due to Asahel Lee, Harvey Lee, and Lemuel Lee, on a contract entered into by them on the tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Res. 8, 9. 1843.</centerRunningHead>
 hundred and thirty-seven, with Captain C. A. Ogden, acting on behalf of the United States, by which they agreed to erect a bridge across the Kaskaskia river, and to construct a certain part of the Cumberland road in the state of Illinois; and that he pay said amount, when ascertained, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<preface><firstPageHeading class="centered">RESOLUTIONS</firstPageHeading></preface>
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<dc:title>No. 8: explanatory of “An act for the relief of Thomas King.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 907</citableAs>
<docNumber>8</docNumber>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No. 8. </docNumber></preface>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">Joint Resolution </docTitle> <officialTitle class="inline"><i>explanatory of “An act for the relief of Thomas King.”</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, instead of the Commissioner of Pensions, to carry into execution the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sec. of War to carry into effect the act of Feb. 24, 1843, ch. 41.</p></sidenote> act of the present session of Congress entitled “An act for the relief of Thomas King,” approved the twenty-fourth day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-three.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>No. 9: to authorize the Postmaster-General to settle with J. and P. Voorhies.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1843-03-03</dc:date>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 907</citableAs>
<docNumber>9</docNumber>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No. 9. </docNumber></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">Joint Resolution </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the Postmaster-General to settle with J. and P. Voorhies.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to settle with, and make an allowance to, J. and P. Voorhies, contractors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for carrying the mail authorized.</p></sidenote> for carrying the mail on route number two thousand two hundred and forty-six, between Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Indiana, from seventh March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, to February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, one trip a week, if in his opinion, under the circumstances of the case, in justice and equity they are entitled to such allowance.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1843-03-03">March 3, 1843</date>.</action>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<dc:date>1844</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of December</i>, 1843, <i>and ended on the. seventeenth day of June</i>, 1844.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">John Tyler</inline>, President of the United States; <inline class="smallCaps">Willie P. Mangum</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">John W. Jones</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of John Mullings.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-03-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Mullings.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-03-26">March 26, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land title confirmed.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the title to the south-east quarter of section twenty, the whole of section twenty-one, and the north-west quarter of section twenty-eight, in township seventeen north, range fifteen east, of the Columbus land district, of Mississippi, heretofore located to satisfy the claim of Alabatcha, the wife of John Mullings, be, and the same is hereby confirmed to the said John Mullings, to have and to hold the same right and interest in the same as he would have held had he been returned in Ward’s register: and that the President is hereby directed to cause to be issued a patent to the said Juhn Mullings for the above described lands, as in other cases.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-03-26">March 26, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. IX: for the relief of George Davenport, of Hock Island, in the state of Illinois.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Davenport, of Hock Island, in the state of Illinois.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-04-02">April 2, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That George Davenport be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote> to enter the fractional quarter section of land upon which he resides, on Rock Island, in the stale of Illinois, it being the south-east fractional quarter of section twenty-five, in township numbered eighteen north, range numbered two west of the fourth principal meridian, upon his paying to the receiver of public moneys of the United States land office at Dixon the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the same, upon which a final certificate and patent shall issue, as in other cases.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-04-02">April 2, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XIX: for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Samuel Shannon, deceased.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Captain Samuel Shannon, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be credited with certain allowances; balance due to be paid.</p></sidenote> hereby, directed to credit the accounts of Captain Samuel Shannon, late an assistant quartermaster in the service of the United States with the allowances made under the audit of the Secretary of War, in his report to Congress, dated the thirteenth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three; and to pay to the legal representatives of Captain
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/909">909</page>
 Samuel Shannon the sum of six hundred and thirty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents, being the balance declared to be due in the report of the Third Auditor, under the authority of the said audit of the Secretary of War.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XX: for the relief of Violet Calhoun, widow of John Calhoun.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Violet Calhoun, widow of John Calhoun.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and required to place Violet Calhoun, widow of John Calhoun, late a captain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> in the army of the Revolution, on the roil of revolutionary pensioners of the United States: and that she be allowed annually the full pay of a captain, commencing on the seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of John Miller.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Miller.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and requested to cause to be issued to John<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued.</p></sidenote> Miller, of Williams county, in the state of Ohio, a patent for the. west hall of the north-west quarter of section twenty-two, in township five north, range one east, containing eighty acres, without any further payment of money therefor by said Miller.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXII: granting a pension to Bartholomew Maguire.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Bartholomew Maguire.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, to pay to Bartholomew Maguire, out of any moneys in the treasury not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to him.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, the sum of six dollars per month, from the first day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, being the time he made application for a pension, to the twelfth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-two, the time at which his present pension commenced.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: to explain an act of Congress, passed on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, entitled “An act for the relief of Elizabeth Gresham, widow of George Gresham.”.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 909</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to explain an act of Congress, passed on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, entitled “An act for the relief of Elizabeth Gresham, widow of George Gresham.”.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the act of Congress, which passed on the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, entitled “An act for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Art of March 3, 1843, ch. 109, to be so construed as to allow an additional pension for one year.</p></sidenote> the relief of Elizabeth Gresham, widow of George Gresham,” shall be so construed, understood and executed by the Secretary of War as to authorize and require him, and he is hereby instructed, to allow to the said Elizabeth Gresham in common with all other widows who have been pensioned under, and received the benefit of the act of seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, the additional pension for one year, which by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, is made payable to such widows as have received the benefit of the said act of the seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote> the amount so to be paid to the said Elizabeth Gresham, for the additional year, to be the same which was allowed to her annually for five years, in pursuance of the aforesaid act of which this act is explanatory.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIV: for the relief of Isaac Justice.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac Justice.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to place the name of Isaac Justice, of Tennes-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/910">910</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
 see, on the roll of invalid pensions, and that he be entitled to receive the sum of twelve dollars seventy-five cents per month, during his natural life, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXV: for the relief of Sarah Blackemore.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 910</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sarah Blackemore.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Sarah Blackemore, widow of George Blackemore, late a revolutionary pensioner, of Lincoln county, Tennessee,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 139.</p></sidenote> on the pension roll, under the act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled “ An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows,” at the rate of forty-six dollars and twenty-two cents per annum, from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one; and also, from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, to the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-four.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to benefit of all laws affecting act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That said Sarah Blackemore shall be entitled to the full benefit of all laws and resolves which shall hereafter be passed continuing in force the said act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and the several acts and resolves amendatory thereof.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVI: for the relief of Levi Colmus.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 910</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Levi Colmus.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized, empowered,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> and directed, and he is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed, to place on the invalid pension roll of the United States the name of Levi Colmus; and to pay to him, from and after the passage of this act, four dollars per month, for and during his natural life.</content>
</section>
<action><actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: for the relief of Joseph Bonnell.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 910</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Bonnell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Joseph Bonnell on the pension roll; and that he be paid, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a pension, for eighteen months’ service as a private soldier in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote> the revolutionary war, under the act of Congress of the seventh June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXVIII: for the relief of James Reid.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 910</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>XXVIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Reid.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of James Reid, of the state of Illinois, on the invalid pension roll, and to pay him at the rate of eight dollars per month, from and after the fourth day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of James C. Hallock.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 910</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-05-23</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James C. Hallock.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of James C. Hallock, of’Dutchess county’ New York, on the pension list of invalid pensioners of the United States; and that the said James C. Hallock be entitled to receive a pension, at
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 33, 34, 35, 36. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/911">911</page>
the rate of eight dollars per month, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-23">May 23, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: for the relief of William Glover.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 911</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Glover.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War place the name of William Glover, of the town of Brutus, Cayuga county, New York, on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay to him the sum of eight dollars per month, from the twenty-eighth day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, when his evidence was completed, during his natural life, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of Mam L. Mills.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 911</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mam L. Mills.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General be authorized, and is hereby required, to cause to be audited and paid to Adam L. Mills<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for carrying the mail.</p></sidenote> the additional amount which may be found due him under a contract for carrying the mail from Vandalia, Illinois, to St. Louis, Missouri, dated the seventeenth day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, at the rate of pay for the highest grade of service mentioned in said contract, from the eighteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to the full period for which said Mills carried the mail, under said contract, in four-horse post-coaches: and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the treasury appropriated for the use of the Post Office Department.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXV: for the relief of Lois Cronk, alias Cronkhite.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 911</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>XXXV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Lois Cronk, alias Cronkhite.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Lois Cronk, alias Cronkhite, widow of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> John Cronk, alias Cronkhite, late a corporal in the New York line of the army of the Revolution, on the pension roll under the act of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 183.</p></sidenote> seventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, entitled “ An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows,” and also under the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1843, ch. 103.</p></sidenote> forty-three, entitled, “ An act granting a pension to the widows of certain revolutionary soldiers” (misprinted (<i>a</i>) in the laws “ An act granting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">(<i>a</i>) The error is in the original.</p></sidenote> a pension to certain revolutionary soldiers”) at the rate of eighty-eight dollars per annum.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That the said Lois shall be entitled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to benefit of any laws affecting said acts.</p></sidenote> to the lull benefit of all laws and resolves which shall hereafter be passed, continuing in force the said acts, or either of them.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXVI: for the relief of Abigail Gibson.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 911</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-05-31</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>XXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Abigail Gibson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Abigail Gibson, widow of George Gibson,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> late a revolutionary pensioner, of Todd county, Kentucky, on the pension roll, under the act of the seventh July, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote> and thirty-eight, entitled “An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows, at the rate of twenty-six dollars and sixty-six cents per annum, from the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one; and, also, from the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/912">912</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 40, 41. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
 and forty-three, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to benefit of any laws affecting said acts.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And he it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That said Abigail Gibson shah be entitled to the full benefit of all laws and resolves which shall hereafter be passed continuing in force the said act of seventh July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and the several acts and resolves amendatory thereof.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XL: for the relief of Benjamin B. Ferguson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-04</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XL</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin B. Ferguson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-04">June 4, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> required to place the name of Benjamin B. Ferguson, of the state of Pennsylvania, on the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of five dollars and fifty cents per month; said pension to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-04">June 4, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLI: to incorporate Georgetown College in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 912</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-10</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>XLI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to incorporate Georgetown College in the District of Columbia.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-10">June 10, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be called “ The President and Directors of Georgetown College.”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">James Ryder and others incorporated.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be erected, and hereby is erected, in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, a college for the instruction of youth in the liberal arts and sciences, the name, style, and title of which shall be “ the President and Directors of Georgetown College.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That James Ryder, Thomas Lilly, Samuel Barber, James Curley, and Anthony Rey, be, and they are hereby declared to be, a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession in deed or in law, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, by the name, §ty)e, and title of “ the President and Directors of Georgetown<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of the corporation.</p></sidenote> College,” by which name and title they and their successors shall be competent, at law and in equity, to take to themselves and their successors, for the use of said college, any estate whatsoever, in any messuage, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, moneys, and other effects, by gift, bequest, devise, grant, donation, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, or will; and the same to grant, bargain, sell, transfer, assign, convey, assure, demise, declare to use and farm let, and to place out on interest for the use of said college, in such manner as to them, or a majority of them, shall be deemed most beneficial to said institution; and to receive the same, their rents, issues, and profits, income and interest, and to apply the same for the proper use and benefit of the said college; and by the same name to sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded, in any courts of law and equity, in all manner of suits, actions, and proceedings whatsoever, and generally, by and in the same name, to do and transact all and every the business touching or concerning<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> the premises; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the same do not exceed the value of fifty thousand dollars nett annual income, over and above and exclusive of the receipts for the education and support of the students of said college.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To have a common seal.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That the said corporation shall adopt a common seal, under and by which all deeds, diplomas, and acts of the said college or corporation, shall pass and be authenticated, and the same seal at their pleasure to break and alter, or devise a new one.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Misnomer not to defeat a donation, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That no misnomer of the said corporation shall defeat or annul any donation, gift, grant, devise, or bequest, to or from the said corporation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Funds not to be employed in banking operations.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That the said corporation shall not employ its funds or income, or any part thereof, in banking operations, or for any purpose or object other than those expressed in the first
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 42, 43, 48, 76, 77. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/913">913</page>
 section of this act; and that nothing in this act contained shall be so<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act may be altered, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote> construed as to prevent Congress from altering, amending, or repealing the same.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-10">June 10, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLII: for the relief of Edward Kennard.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-10</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Edward Kennard.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-10">June 10, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Edward Kennard the sum of fifty dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him, being one moiety of a certain penalty.</p></sidenote> The same being one moiety of the penalty collected of the said Kennard, by the collector of the port of New Orleans, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, for a breach of the revenue laws: it having been made to appear that the said penalty was incurred without wilful negligence, and without any design to violate the law.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-10">June 10, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIII: for the relief of Daniel G. Skinner, of Alabama.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 913</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-10</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>XLIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel G. Skinner, of Alabama.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-10">June 10, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and adjust the account of Daniel G.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> Skinner, of Alabama, for supplies of ammunition and subsistence, alleged to have been taken by military authority in May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, for the necessary use and support of the Alabama militia, then in the service of the United States. And that he pay to said Skinner whatever balance, if any, there may be found due to him, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-10">June 10, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLVIII: for the relief of Joseph Bryan, Harrison Young and Benjamin Young.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 913</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-12</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>XLVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Bryan, Harrison Young and Benjamin Young.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-12">June 12, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the claim and title of Joseph Bryan, Harrison Young, and Benjamin Young, to the north half of section nineteen,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claim confirmed.</p></sidenote> in township twenty-one, in range twenty-four, in the Tallapoosa land district, in the state of Alabama, purchased by them jointly of Benjamin Chambers, the head of a Creek Indian family, who was entitled to the same under the provisions of the treaty between the United States and the Creek tribe of Indians, concluded on the twenty-fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same is hereby confirmed.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-12">June 12, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXVI: for the relief of George Wallis.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 913</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Wallis.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War of the United States be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to George Wallis the sum of three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for cattle destroyed by Indians.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, it being for the destruction of the cattle of the said George Wallis by the Sac, Fox, and Iowa tribes of Indians: and that said sum of money be paid out of the annuities payable to said tribes of Indians in equal proportions: that is to say, one thousand five hundred dollars out of the annuities due the Sac and Fox’s of the Missouri river, and one thousand five hundred dollars out of the annuities due the Iowas.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXVII: authorizing a patent to be issued to Joseph Campau far a certain tract of land in the state of Michigan.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 913</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing a patent to be issued to Joseph Campau far a certain tract of land in the state of Michigan.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be issued to Joseph
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 78, 79, 80. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land patent to be issued.</p></sidenote> Campau, assignee of the children and heirs of Tawcum-e-go-qua, (au Indian woman) a patent for section number one, of the Indian reservation at the Grand Traverse of Flint river, in the state of Michigan, which section was reserved to said Tawcum-e-go-qua by the treaty concluded with the Chippewa Indians at Saginaw, in said state, on the twenty-fourth of September, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That before said patent shall be issued, said Campau shall file, in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, proof that he has purchased said land of the children and heirs of said Tawcume-go-qua, and that he paid therefor, at the time when said purchase was made, a fair and equitable consideration.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXVIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Valentine Geesey, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 914</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXVIII</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Valentine Geesey, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of amount of judgment for work done on Cumberland road.</p></sidenote> hereby, directed to pay to the legal representatives of Valentine Geesey, deceased, late of the state of Pennsylvania, the sum of two hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents, being the amount of debt recovered of the estate of said Valentine by a contractor for work done on the national road, while under his superintendence.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXIX: for the relief of Henry Newingham.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 914</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXIX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry Newingham.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant to be issued to bint.</p></sidenote> directed to issue to Henry Newingham, in the right of William Marshall, who was a private soldier in Armand’s legion of the continental establishment in the revolutionary army, a warrant for the bounty land to which the said Marshal) would be entitled as such soldier; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to grant scrip for said warrant, in the manner, and on the conditions heretofore prescribed for the grant of scrip for bounty land: the said Marshall having intermarried with the mother of said Newingham, and died without lineal heirs: and having in his life-time been supported by the said Newingham, and in consideration thereof, before his death, delivered to him his original certificate of discharge from the army, and declared his intention that the said Newingham should have the benefit of said bounty land: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prejudice the claim of any heirs, if any, of said Marshall.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXX: to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to grant a register to the British boat therein mentioned.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 914</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to grant a register to the British boat therein mentioned.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A register to be issued to the boat A. Bartow.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized, under such regulations as he shall prescribe, to cause a register to be issued to the boat, or vessel “ A. Bartow,” a British boat lately belonging to the British barque “Glengary,” which was wrecked in the mouth of the Savannah river, in the state of Georgia, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, her long-boat having been saved in a damaged state, and subsequently purchased and repaired by S. B. Hill, A. Bartow, and James Kennedy, citizens of the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> to whom she now belongs: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, It shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the said Secretary of the Treasury, that the cost of the repairs made in the United States, after the purchase of the said vessel, or boat, by the present owners, exceeds three-fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXI: for the relief of Walter S. Alexander and others.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 915</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 81, 82, 83, 84. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/915">915</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Walter S. Alexander and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That upon good and sufficient cause being shown by either party, that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed, upon cause shown, to remove a certain trial, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote> county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, in the trial of a certain issue of “ devisavit vel non,” sent to be tried at the bar of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Alexandria, by a jury, as in such cases provided, by order of the orphans’ court of said county, in which Walter S.-Alexander and others are caveators, and plaintiffs, and George Wise is the expounder of the last will and testament of George Dent Alexander, deceased, and defendant with others in said issue, the said circuit court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Alexandria, shall at its discretion order the said issue to be tried before the circuit court for the county of Washington, in the said District of Columbia, at the next session of the last mentioned court, in the same manner and to the same effect, that the said issue is required, by any law heretofore in force, to be tried in said county of Alexandria; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court for the county of Alexandria aforesaid, to transmit to the clerk of the said court, for the county of Washington, the record and all the proceedings in said case, now in said court for the county of Alexandria, and all original and other papers filed in the suit aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXII: for the relief of John Edmonson.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 915</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Edmonson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of John Edmonson, of Fulton county, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> state of Illinois, upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that he pay him at the rate prescribed in the act of seventh of June, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p></sidenote> hundred and thirty-two, for two years’ service as a private in the revolutionary war; and that bis pension commence according to the provisions of the said act, and be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: for the relief of the legal representatives of Brands Cazcau, late merchant at Montreal.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 915</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Brands Cazcau, late merchant at Montreal.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of twenty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirty-two cents, be paid out of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them.</p></sidenote> money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of Francis Cazeau, late merchant at Montreal, or to their legal attorney, or other person lawfully entitled to receive the same; it being one-fourth of the sum appropriated under an act of Congress approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 70.</p></sidenote> on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, with interest from May, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIV: for the relief of George W. Allen awl Reuben Allen.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 915</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George W. Allen awl Reuben Allen.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the reversionary interest of the United States in and to the reservation to John B. Shadernah, by and under the second<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversionary interest of U. S. in a certain reservation, relinquished to them.</p></sidenote> article of the treaty with the Pottawatomie Indians of the twenty-sixth day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished to George W. Allen and Reuben Allen; it being understood, and this relinquishment is made upon the condition, that the said George W. Allen, and Reuben Allen as grantees, have
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/916">916</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 85, 86, 87, 88, 89. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
 purchased of the said reservee by authentic and regular deed, his right<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> in and to the said reservation: <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That no sale or conveyance of said reservation by said reservee shall be deemed regular, nor shall this act have effect, until the President of the United States shall have approved such conveyance, and endorsed his approval thereon.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXV: for the relief of George M. Jones.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 916</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George M. Jones.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for blacksmith work.</p></sidenote> is hereby, directed to pay to George M. Jones, or his heirs, the sum of three hundred and twenty dollars, and eighty-nine cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the balance due him on his account of blacksmith work done, and materials furnished to Jonathan Prescott, as agent of the United States, for the use of the dredging-machine while at work in removing the bar at Nantucket harbor in eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVI: for the relief of Isaac Fessenden.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 916</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac Fessenden.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of a fine for a breach of the revenue laws to be refunded.</p></sidenote> hereby, directed to pay to Isaac Fessenden the sum of fifty dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of a fine imposed upon him at Pensacola for leaving the port of Franklin, Louisiana, in the schooner Pearl, without clearing from the custom-house; afterwards remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, but not in time to prevent its going into the treasury of the United States.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVII: for the relief of Gervis Foote.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 916</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Gervis Foote.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for delivering stone under a contract.</p></sidenote> is hereby, directed to pay to Gervis Foote, of the state of New York, or his heirs, the sum of eleven hundred and fifty dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount agreed to be paid to him by the agent of the United States, under his contract for the delivery of a certain quantity of stone on the bank of Lake Erie, at Barcelona, in eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXVIII: for the relief of Samuel B. Folger.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 916</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXVIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel B. Folger.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for blacksmith work.</p></sidenote> is hereby, directed to pay to Samuel B. Folger, or his heirs, the sum of five hundred and thirty-six dollars and seventy-four cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of his account of blacksmith work done, and materials furnished to Lieutenant Jonathan Prescott, for the use of the public works at Nantucket harbor, then under his charge as an officer in the engineer service of the United States, during the years eighteen hundred and thirty, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXXXIX: for the relief of Samuel B. Tuck.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 916</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXXXIX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel B. Tuck.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for coal delivered.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay Samuel B. Tuck or his heirs, a just and rea-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 90, 91. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/917">917</page>
sonable price for thirty and nineteen thirty-sixths chaldrons of Virginia coal delivered to Lieutenant Jonathan Prescott, as agent of the United States at Nantucket harbor, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The whole amount to be paid under this act shall not exceed the sum of four hundred and twelve dollars and twelve cents.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XC: for the relief of Woodson Wren, of Mississippi.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 917</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XC</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XC.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Woodson Wren, of Mississippi.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Woodson Wren, of the state of Mississippi be, and he is hereby, confirmed in the following described tracts and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain tracts of land confirmed to them.</p></sidenote> parcels of land, to wit: Fractional section twenty-five, in township seven, range nine west, including the site of the old French fort, and containing about one hundred and twenty-three acres; also, a portion of fractional section number twenty-four, in township seven, range nine west, being lot number six, containing eighty acres, situated on the east side of the Bay of Biloxi, in the county of Jackson, Mississippi, claimed by virtue of a deed from Littlepage Robertson, and reported for confirmation by the register and receiver of the land office at Jackson court-house, Mississippi, dated July twelve, eighteen hundred and twenty-three.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That the Commissioner of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to be issued.</p></sidenote> General Land Office, upon the passage of this act shall issue a patent for the same; which patent shall operate only as a relinquishment on the part of the United States of all right and title to said land.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That said Woodson Wren shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">W. Wren allowed to enter land.</p></sidenote> be allowed to enter a quantity of land, which, together with the foregoing described tracts, by this act confirmed to him, will make a number of acres equal to eight hundred arpens, being the amount confirmed to him by act of Congress, entitled “An act for the relief of Woodson<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1831, ch. 125.</p></sidenote> Wren,” approved eighteen hundred and thirty [-one], out of any unappropriated lands in the state of Mississippi subject to private entry: conforming, in such entry, to the divisions and subdivisions established by law.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XCI: for the relief of Eaton Nance.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 917</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Eaton Nance.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<recital class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas it satisfactorily appears that on the second day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, a patent issued from the General Land<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> Office of the United States, where the same was duly recorded, to Eaton Nance for a certain tract of land containing one hundred and sixty acres, being the south-east quarter of section thirty-four, of township ten north in range eight west in the tract appropriated by certain acts of Congress for military bounties, in the Territory of Arkansas—which said patent was duly countersigned by Josiah Meigs, Commissioner of the General Land Office, but by accident was not signed by the President of the United States. Therefore,</recital>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That said patent shall be deemed and held to be perfect and valid to all intents and purposes as though the same had<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to be held as perfect from the day of its dale.</p></sidenote> been signed by the President of the United States on the day of the date thereof; and that all questions or disputes that may arise in relation to said land or the title to the same, shall be decided and determined as though said patent had been perfect from the day of its date.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XCII: for the relief of the owner and crew of the schooner Mary Francis.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 918</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCII</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/918">918</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 92, 93, 109, 110, 111. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the owner and crew of the schooner Mary Francis.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the customs for the district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance of bounty Io fishing schooner.</p></sidenote> of Marblehead, in Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay to Joseph Hidden, late owner of a fishing-schooner called the Mary Francis, of sixty-seven tons burden, and to the persons composing her late crew, or their heirs, such allowance, to be distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive had the said schooner completed her fishing term and returned into port.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XCIII: for the relief of William II, Hoag and others.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 918</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XCIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XCIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William II, Hoag and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them, amount forfeited under a contract for making a road in Michigan.</p></sidenote> hereby, directed to pay to William H. Hoag, or his assigns, four hundred and forty-two dollars and forty cents, to George Taylor, or his assigns, two hundred and seventy-two dollars and twenty-nine cents, to N. P. Drake, or his assigns, one hundred and thirty-two dollars and seventy-five cents, to David Stiles, or his assigns, one hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty cents, to William Nesbit, or his assigns, three hundred and twenty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents, to Cornelius Millspaugh or his assigns, three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty cents, and to J. S. Sturgess or his assigns, one hundred and seventy dollars and twenty cents, in the aggregate, eighteen hundred and twenty dollars and twenty-two cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of five per cent, per month forfeited by each of the above-named persons, and retained by the United States agent, under their respective contracts to make certain portions of the La Plaisance Bay road, in the state of Michigan, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three; which sums respectively have been remitted by the Secretary of War, but cannot be paid for want of an appropriation.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CIX: for the relief of Robert Monroe.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 918</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CIX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Robert Monroe.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Robert Monroe, of Westmoreland county, in the state of Pennsylvania, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him four dollars per month during his natural life, from and after the first day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CX: for the relief of Sengstack.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 918</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Sengstack.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for glass furnished for post-office building.</p></sidenote> is hereby, directed to pay to C. P. Sengstack the sum of six hundred and one dollars and thirty-five cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of his bill of glass, purchased for public use and delivered to the new post office building by order of the architect of the public buildings, and now subject to his control.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXI: for the relief of Alice Usher.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 918</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Alice Usher.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Alice Usher, of the county of Providence, and state of Rhode Island, on the pension roll; and that she be paid,
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 112, 113, 114. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/919">919</page>
 out of any money not otherwise appropriated, for the term of five years, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the same rate of pension allowed by the act of July [June], seven,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1838, ch. 126.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to a drummer for twelve months’ service, and also the same rate of pension allowed by the same act to a drum major for six months’ service.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXII: for the relief of Ferguson and Reid.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 919</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ferguson and Reid.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to allow and credit on any judgment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowed amount of certain certificates of debenture.</p></sidenote> obtained by the United States on any bonds given by John Ferguson, jr., and William Reid, of New Orleans, as principals, upon the importation of fifty-eight bales of cotton from Texas into the port of New Orleans, in the months of March and April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, the amount of any certificate or certificates of debenture issued, upon the exportation of said cotton, to J. G. Stouse of New Orleans, which have been endorsed or assigned to said Ferguson and Reid, and have not been otherwise cancelled or paid, upon the surrender and discharge of the same, and upon due proof that the said cotton was landed at the port in France for which it was cleared: and if all such judgments have been fully paid and discharged, the said Secretary is hereby authorized and required to pay to said Ferguson and Reid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of said certificates, upon the surrender of the same, and the proof required as aforesaid.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIII: for the relief of John Fraser and George A. Trenholm.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 919</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Fraser and George A. Trenholm.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to refund to John Fraser, and George A. Trenholm,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be refunded the amount of money collected for importation of cotton bagging.</p></sidenote> of Charleston, South Carolina, whatever sum of money may have been collected of them, and paid into the treasury of the United States, for the importation of one hundred and sixteen pieces of cotton bagging from the port of New Orleans into the port of Charleston, in the brig Powhatan, in December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, which pieces were not released from forfeiture by the Secretary of the Treasury; it appearing that the cause for which the same were forfeited was not any misconduct or neglect of the said Fraser and Trenholm.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIV: for the relief of Isaac S. Ketchum.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 919</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac S. Ketchum.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to retain, out of the annuities due the Ottawa, Chippewa, and Pottawatomie Indians,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of expenses of an Indian deputation.</p></sidenote> the sum of five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-two cents, and pay the same to Isaac S. Ketchum, the amount due him from said Indians for money laid out in bringing on a deputation of chiefs to Washington city: which expense was to be incurred and paid by said Indians, as agreed upon in council held in December, eighteen hundred and forty.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXV: for the relief of Isaac S. Ketchum, late special Indian agent.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 920</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/920">920</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 115, 116, 118, 119, 120. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac S. Ketchum, late special Indian agent.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for provisions furnished Indians.</p></sidenote> to pay to Isaac S. Ketchum the sum of three hundred and eighty-three dollars and one cent, the balance due him for provisions purchased and delivered by him as special agent for the Government to the Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pottawatomie Indians, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVI: for the relief of William De Peyater and Henry N. Cruger.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 920</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXVI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William De Peyater and Henry N. Cruger.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid the value of their slave Romeo.</p></sidenote> required to pay to William De Peyster and Henry N. Cruger the value of their slave Romeo, who was sent from Fort Delhi to Arkansas, with the Seminole Indians, under the authority of the officers of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXVIII: for the relief if Ephraim D. Dickson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
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<docNumber>CXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if Ephraim D. Dickson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Ephraim<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for shoeing horses of volunteers.</p></sidenote> D. Dickson, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and fifty-two dollars for shoeing seventy-six horses in Captain E. D. Dickson’s company of volunteer mounted gunmen, in General Coffee’s brigade of Tennessee volunteers, in September, eighteen hundred and fourteen, at two dollars per horse.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXIX: for the relief of William Henson.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Henson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for enrolling Cherokee Indiana.</p></sidenote> out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to William Henson one hundred and eighty dollars for ninety days’ service enrolling Cherokee Indians for emigration; also, five hundred and forty dollars for rations by him furnished for the same Indians, averaged at forty-five days, making in all the sum of seven hundred and twenty dollars.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXX: for the relief of the owners and crew of the schooner “ Privado.”.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 920</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the owners and crew of the schooner “ Privado.”.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the collector of the district of Portsmouth, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to a fishing schooner lost at sea.</p></sidenote> the state of New Hampshire, is hereby authorized to pay to the owners and crew of the schooner “ Privado,” for the fishing season of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, to be distributed according to law, the same sum of money they would have been entitled to, as bounty or allowance, if she had not foundered on her second fare, in June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, but had complied with all the requirements of law to secure said bounty; said vessel being of the burden of fifty-five and fifty-eight ninety-fifths tons, and having sailed last from Portsmouth on the seventeenth day of said June.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXI: for the relief of Richard Sneed.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXI</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 121, 122, 123, 124. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/921">921</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Richard Sneed.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to make any arrangement or compromise with Richard<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgment against him as executor. &amp;.c., to be compromised.</p></sidenote> Sneed, in the settlement of a judgment had against him, as one of the executors of Stephen Sneed, in the circuit court of the United States for the district oi North Carolina, rendered at May term, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, upon such terms as he may deem most conducive to the best interest of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXII: for the relief of Abelard Guthrie.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Abelard Guthrie.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the entry made by Abelard Guthrie at the Lima land office, tn the state of Ohio, on the twenty-first day of May,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land entry confirmed, and patent to issue.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, of a tract of land known and distinguished on the plan of the surveys of the United States’ public lands as the east half, and the north-west quarter of section thirteen, in township three south of range five east, be and the same is hereby confirmed: and that the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be issued, on said entry, a patent for the same, to the said Abelard Guthrie, his heirs and assigns, as in other cases where a legal entry has been made.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIII: for the relief if True Putney and Hugh Riddle.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if True Putney and Hugh Riddle.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to True Putney and Hugh Riddle, of the city<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for extra work on U.S. warehouse at Baltimore.</p></sidenote> of Baltimore, the sum of sixteen hundred and seventy-two dollars and sixty-one cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of extra work and material not embraced by their contract to do the stone-work of the United States warehouse in said city in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, but furnished for said building by direction of the architect and superintendent thereof.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That the accounting officers of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">An account to be stated between them and the U. S. government, dec.</p></sidenote> the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to examine all papers and proofs in the case, and to state an account between the United States and the said Putney and Riddle, allowing them such sum as may seem equitable by way of indemnity for the losses sustained by them in consequence of the Government not providing for the building of the custom-house at Baltimore, in time to allow the said Putney and Riddle to execute their contract in the time stipulated therein, and that the sum so allowed be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The same do not exceed eight thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> dollars.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIV: for the relief of George W. Clarke, Harris Cooke, and John Brainerd, second, if the state of Rhode Island.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 921</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George W. Clarke, Harris Cooke, and John Brainerd, second, if the state of Rhode Island.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to George W. Clarke, Harris Cooke and John<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount forfeited by them under a contract, to be refunded.</p></sidenote> Brainerd, second, the sum of three hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount forfeited by them under a contract to deliver a certain quantity of stone at Fort Adams, state of Rhode Island, on the second day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXV: for the relief of George Harrison and his sureties.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 922</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXV</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/922">922</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 125, 126, 127, 128, 129. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of George Harrison and his sureties.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That George Harrison, a regimental paymaster of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exonerated from a balance claimed by the U.S., &amp;.c.</p></sidenote> Kentucky militia during the late war with Great Britain, be, anti he is hereby, exonerated and acquitted of and from the sum of three hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-six cents, part of the balance reported and claimed as due from him and his sureties to the United States, upon his accounts as such paymaster, together with all interest accrued on said sum; and that the surety or sureties of said Harrison, as such paymaster, be, and are hereby, acquitted of and from all responsibility or liability for or on account of such suretyship, and from all judgments or demands of the United States on that account.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVI: for the relief of Charles W. Morgan.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 922</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles W. Morgan.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for certain extraordinary expenses.</p></sidenote> and directed to pay to Captain Charles W. Morgan, of the United States’ navy, the sum of four thousand two hundred dollars for extraordinary expenses incurred by him while he commanded the United States’ squadron in the Mediterranean in the years one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, in conducting the negotiation with the minister plenipotentiary of the Emperor of Morocco, in relation to the indignity offered to the United States’ Consul, Thomas N. Carr; in entertaining the Queen of Prussia and her suite; and in relation to the reception and entertainment of the Prince of Syracuse and the Prince of Lucca; including, also losses on stores, laid in at Toulon for a cruise, which were abandoned and sold upon being suddenly recalled by the Navy Department; the said allowance being made in full compensation for all extraordinary expenses incurred by the said Captain Charles W. Morgan during his command of the Mediterranean squadron, as aforesaid, and to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXVII: for the relief of Lathrop Foster.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 922</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Lathrop Foster.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the name of Lathrop Foster on the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of one-half the pay of a private, from the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXVIII: for the relief of Harvey Heth.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 922</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Harvey Heth.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be paid to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for corn destroyed by Indians.</p></sidenote> Harvey Heth, of Cass county, Indiana, the sum of four hundred dollars, out of the annuity which is or shall be due to the Wabash band of the Pottawatomie Indians; the said sum of four hundred dollars being the value of a field of corn used and destroyed by the said Indians, of the property of said Heth, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXIX: for the relief of Daniel W. Church.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 922</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Daniel W. Church.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> required to place the name of Daniel W. Church on the invalid pension roll; and there shall be paid out of the treasury of the United States, to
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 130, 131, 132, 133. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/923">923</page>
 the said Daniel W. Church, a pension at the rate of twelve dollars and seventy-five cents each month, from and after the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, in the manner, and at the times, other invalid pensions are payable.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXX: for the relief of Manlius p. Thompson, sole executor of Milus W. Dickey, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 923</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Manlius p. Thompson, sole executor of Milus W. Dickey, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of eleven hundred and twenty-five dollars be appropriated and paid, out of any money in the treasury not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him in satisfaction of a mail contract.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, unto Manlius V. Thompson, executor of Milus W. Dickey, deceased, in full satisfaction of a contract made by the said Dickey with the Post-Office Department for transporting the mail from Maysville to Lexington, in the state of Kentucky, terminating on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXI: for the relief of Josiah Dillon, late assistant quartermaster of the army.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 923</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Josiah Dillon, late assistant quartermaster of the army.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War pay to Josiah Dillon, late assistant quartermaster-general, out of any money in the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of a suspended balance due him.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents, being the balance found to be due to said Dillon, on vouchers suspended for the want of form in the settlement of his accounts.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXII: for the relief of Mary Jinn Linton.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 923</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mary Jinn Linton.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby required to place Mary Ann Linton, widow of William S. Linton, who was lately a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1843, ch. 102.</p></sidenote> pensioner of the United States under the act of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, on the pension roll of the acts of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and March third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and to allow her the same amount of pension as was annually allowed to her husband white living; the same to be paid, as other pensions have been paid, in pursuance of the provisions of the aforesaid acts.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That said Mary Ann Linton shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to benefit of all laws affecting act of July 7, 1838.</p></sidenote> be entitled to the full benefit of all laws and resolves which shall hereafter be passed, continuing in force the said act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and the several acts amendatory thereto.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIII: for the relief of David Allspach.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 923</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of David Allspach.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That David Allspach, surety for Michael Allspach, late collector of the excise duty, in two official bonds, be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released on payment of costs as surety of M. Allspacn, on two official bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> hereby, released and discharged from all of his liabilities as such surety, on paying any costs that may have accrued by reason of the prosecution of any suit or suits against him on account of his liability aforesaid: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this act contained shall he held to discharge the estate of the said Michael Allspach from the payment of any balance that may be due the United States on account of the said bonds.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIV: for the relief of the heirs of Ebenezer Moore.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 924</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIV</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/924">924</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 134, 135, 136, 137, 138. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Ebenezer Moore.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War cause to be issued to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A bounty land warrant to be issued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 106.</p></sidenote> the heirs of Ebenezer Moore, of the state of New York, a Canadian volunteer, a warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of bounty land, under the act passed March fifth, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act granting bounties in land and extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers,” and the act passed March third, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, entitled “An act to amend the act entitled “An act granting bounties in land and extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers,” passed the fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixteen which warrant may be located on any unappropriated land of the United States which is subject to private entry.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXV: for the relief of Henry S. Commager.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 924</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXV</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Henry S. Commager.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him out of money due Ottowa Indians.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, authorized to pay to Henry S. Commager two hundred and six dollars and thirty-one cents, out of any money due or that may hereafter become due the Ottowa tribe of Indians from the United States, by existing treaties, on account of an order drawn by eight of the chiefs, head-men and warriors of the said tribe, dated Maumee city, Ohio, August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, requesting the said sum of money as herein directed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVI: to refund the fine imposed on the tale Anthony Haswell, under the sedition law, to his legal hairs and representatives.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 924</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to refund the fine imposed on the tale Anthony Haswell, under the sedition law, to his legal hairs and representatives.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to them.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the legal heirs and representatives of Anthony Haswell, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and sixty-two dollars and thirty-three cents, with interest thereon from the ninth day of July, eighteen hundred, to the present day.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVII: for the relief of Margaret Dougherty.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 924</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
<session>1</session>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Margaret Dougherty.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of twenty dollars and eighty-five cents<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for prize money.</p></sidenote> be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the benefit of Margaret Dougherty, widow and representative of Owen Dougherty, deceased; it being the amount due to the said Owen Dougherty under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 119.</p></sidenote> the provisions of an act entitled “An act providing for the distribution of one hundred thousand dollars among the captors of the Algerine vessels captured and restored to the Dey of Algiers,” approved April twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXVIII: for the relief of James Pepper, and others.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 924</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXVIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Pepper, and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the entry made at the land office at Washita,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land entry confirmed.</p></sidenote> Louisiana, by James Pepper and others, of section number fifty-two, in township numbered sixteen, of range numbered fourteen east, on the thirtieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, by cer-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 139, 140, 141, 142. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/925">925</page>
 tificate number three thousand four hundred and twenty-six, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is authorized to issue a patent therefor.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CXXXIX: for the relief of Marcay Olds.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 925</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXXXIX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXXXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Marcay Olds.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to place the name of Marcay Olds, of Chenango county,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p></sidenote> New York, on the pension roll, under the act of July seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled “ An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows,” at the rate of eighty dollars per annum from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and also from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, to the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-four, for the services of her first husband, John Stewart, during the revolutionary war.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That said Marcay Olds shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entitled to benefit of all laws affecting act of July 7, 1838.</p></sidenote> entitled to the full benefit of all laws and resolves which shall hereafter be passed, continuing in force the said act of July seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and the several acts and resolves amendatory thereof.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXL: for the relief of Lund Washington.</dc:title>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXL.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Lund Washington.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Lund Washington the sum of two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for services of his son as clerk.</p></sidenote> dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount due for the services of his minor son, William T. Washington, as a clerk in the war department during the first quarter of the year eighteen hundred and eighteen.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLI: for the relief of William P. Duval.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William P. Duval.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the proper accounting officers be, and they are hereby, directed to settle according to principles of equity and justice,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His accounts as superintendent of Indian affairs in Florida, to be settled.</p></sidenote> under the direction of the Secretary of War, the account of William P. Duval, for his services and the disbursements made by him and expenses incurred as superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Territory of Florida; and that he be paid such sum of money as shall be found on such settlement to be due to him.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLII: for the benefit of James Anderson, of the Territory if Iowa.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the benefit of James Anderson, of the Territory if Iowa.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the said James Anderson be, and he hereby is, permitted to enter, at the minimum price of the public lands, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote> fractional sixteenth section in township sixty-nine north, range two west, containing two hundred and eighteen acres, and forty-five one-hundredths, in the district of lands subject to entry at Burlington, in the Territory of Iowa.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That the authority having charge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other land to be selected for use of schools.</p></sidenote> of the said school land, is hereby authorized to select and report to the register and receiver of the district in which said land is situate, other unappropriated lands of the United States subject to private entry in the said Territory, of a similar quantity to that which shall have been en-
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 143, 144, 145, 146. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
 tered by said Anderson, for the use of schools for the inhabitants of said township, under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> of the General Land Office: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, The majority of the legal voters of said township sign a petition authorizing the said James Anderson to enter the said fractional section sixteen, in said township, and present the same to the register of the district.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLIII: for the relief of Simeon Dennin.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Simeon Dennin.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War place the name of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> Simeon Dennin on the invalid pension roll, and that he pay him at the rate of four dollars per month during his natural life, commencing from and after the passage of this act.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLIV: for the relief of Solomon Slurgee, assignee of Humphrey Richcreek.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 926</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Solomon Slurgee, assignee of Humphrey Richcreek.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Solomon Sturges be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter land, in lieu of, &amp;c.</p></sidenote> to enter one half quarter section of land of any of the public lands in the state of Ohio, subject to sale by private entry, in lieu of the west half of the north-west quarter of section eight, in township five, of range seven, which was entered and paid for with military land scrip at the Zanesville land office, in the said state of Ohio, by Humphrey Richcreek, and transferred by him on the twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, the day on which said entry was<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> made to the said Solomon Sturges: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said Solomon Sturges shall relinquish to the United States all his right and claim to the land so entered, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, and also to the military laud scrip with which said entry was made.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLV: for the relief of Pierre S. Derbanne.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 926</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLV</docNumber>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Pierre S. Derbanne.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Pierre S. Derbanne, of the parish of Natchitoches,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote> in the state of Louisiana, or his legal representatives, shall be, and he or they are hereby authorized to make entry and purchase at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, on the terms above stated, of lots numbers two and three, being the north-west fractional quarter of section fifteen, of township nine north, range six west of the north-western land district in the state of Louisiana, or so much thereof as does not conflict with the claim of Jean Pierre Valade, agreeably to a diagram approved by the surveyor-general of Louisiana, to include his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> improvements as nearly as practicable: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said lots shall not have been sold by the United States prior to the passage of this act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVI: for the benefit of Thomas Hunter and Alexander Caldwell.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVI</docNumber>
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<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the benefit of Thomas Hunter and Alexander Caldwell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas Hunter and Alexander Caldwell be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from a certain judgment, except us to costs.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, released from the judgment rendered against them by the circuit court of the United States for the Kentucky district, for two thousand dollars and the costs, except as to the costs; the said judgment being the same rendered against them upon the recognisance of bail by them entered into before Thomas B. Monroe, judge of the United States for the district of Kentucky, on the thirtieth day of April, eigh-
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 147, 148, 149, 150, 151. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/927">927</page>
 teen hundred and forty-two, conditioned for the appearance of William H. Hunter before the said court, at the capitol, in the town of Frank-fort, on the first day of the May term thereof, eighteen hundred and forty–two , to answer to a charge of felony against the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVII: for the benefit of John Perham.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the benefit of John Perham.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of John Perham, of the state of Maine, upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of seventy-two dollars per annum; said pension to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLVIII: for the relief of Ann Hunter, widow of Robert Hunter.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Ann Hunter, widow of Robert Hunter.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be required to place the name of Ann Hunter (widow of Robert Hunter late a pensioner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of June 7, 1832. ch. 126.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1843, ch. 102.</p></sidenote> under the act of seventh June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two,) upon the pension roll, and that she be entitled to receive the same amount which the said Robert Hunter received, agreeably to the provisions of the acts of July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, granting pensions to widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary war.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CXLIX: for the relief of the legal representatives of John Baker, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 927</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CXLIX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CXLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of John Baker, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That an entry of five hundred and seven acres of land, made at the land office at St. Stephens, in the state of Alabama,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land entry confirmed.</p></sidenote> by the legal representatives of John Baker, on the ninth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, be, and the same is hereby’, confirmed; and the said legal representatives shall be entitled to a patent therefor, as in other cases.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CL: for the relief of Asa Davis.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CL</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Asa Davis.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Asa Davis on the invalid pension roll;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> and that he pay to him at the rate of six dollars per month, from and after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-two, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLI: for the relief of William R. Davis.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 927</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William R. Davis.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for repairing arms &amp;.c.</p></sidenote> William R. Davis, of Indiana, the sum of seventy-five dollars, for repairing and cleaning arms and accoutrements used in the regiment commanded by Colonel George W. Ewing, at the Pottawatomie Indian payment, in September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and for furnishing powder, lead, paper, twine, casting balls, and making one thousand cartridges for said expedition.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLII: for the relief of the heirs of Hyacinth Lasselle.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/928">928</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 152, 153, 154. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the heirs of Hyacinth Lasselle.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<recital class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas, by an act of the Congress of the United States, entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 21 1840, ch. 100.</p></sidenote> act for the relief of Hyacinth Lasselle,” approved the twenty-first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and forty, the said Hyapinth Lasselle was authorized to locate five hundred and sixty acres of land at any land office in the state of Indiana, at any time prior to the fourth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-three, by paying the minimum price fixed for such lands, for eighteen acres and forty-six hundredths of an acre, part and parcel of said tract of five hundred and sixty acres: and whereas, also, the said Hyacinth Lasselle has deceased without perfecting the location of said land: Therefore,</recital>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be lawful for the heirs of the said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to locate land.</p></sidenote> Lasselle to locate the said tract of land in said act contemplated, at any time prior to the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-six, at any land office in the state of Indiana, either before or after any lands therein may have been offered at public sale, by paying the said minimum price for the said eighteen acres and forty-six hundredths, as by said act is provided.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLIII: for the relief of François Christ ten and widow Baptiste Berard.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 928</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of François Christ ten and widow Baptiste Berard.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the claims, by right of ancient settlement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land claims confirmed.</p></sidenote> of Madame Baptiste Berard, widow of Baptiste Berard, deceased, and François Christien, respectively, on the east side of the bayou Teche—the Berard claim for eleven arpens front by forty deep, and the other for twelve arpens front by forty deep, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed to the aforesaid claimants, respectively, or their legal representatives, to embrace the original improvements of the claimants; and on the return to the General Land Office of plats of survey, duly approved by the surveyor-general of Louisiana, for the aforesaid claims patents<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> shall issue: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That this act, and the patents that may issue in pursuance hereof, shall only be held to be a relinquishment of the title of the United States, and shall in no manner affect the rights of third persons, or preclude a judicial decision in favor of any other title, if such exist, to the same tracts.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLIV: granting; a pension to “ Milly,” an Indian woman of the Creek nation.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 928</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting; a pension to “ Milly,” an Indian woman of the Creek nation.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to her.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to pay to Milly, an Indian woman of the Creek nation, and daughter of the prophet Francis, a pension at the rate of ninety-six dollars per annum, payable semi-annually during her natural life, as a testimonial of the gratitude and bounty of the United States for the humanity displayed by her in the war of one thousand eight hundred and seventeen and one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in saving the life of an American citizen, who was a prisoner in the hands of her people and about to be put to death by them; the said pension to commence and take effect from the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.</content>
</section>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 155, 156, 157, 158, 159. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/929">929</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A medal to be given to her.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby authorized and directed to procure, and transmit to the said Milly, a medal with appropriate devices impressed thereon, of the value of not exceeding twenty dollars, as an additional testimonial of the gratitude of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLV: granting a pension to Bethia Healy, widow of George Healy, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 929</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Bethia Healy, widow of George Healy, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of Bethia Healy, of the city of New York, widow of George<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> Healy, on the revolutionary pension roll; and to pay her at the rate of six months’ service, rendered by her late husband in the revolutionary war, as a soldier, under the act of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLVI: granting a pension to Emanuel Shrofe.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 929</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to Emanuel Shrofe.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of Emanuel Shrofe, of Brown<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> county, in the state of Ohio, on the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of four dollars per month, to continue during his natural life, and commence from the twenty-third day of September, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLVII: for the relief of F. A. Kerr.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 929</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of F. A. Kerr.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to F. A. Kerr, of Arkansas, the sum of five hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for enrolling Osage Indians.</p></sidenote> fifteen dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; it being for actual expenses incurred by said Kerr while engaged in enrolling and issuing rations to indigent Osage Indians, from the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLVIII: for the benefit of the heirs of Christopher Miller.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 929</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the benefit of the heirs of Christopher Miller.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Isaiah Miller, Mary W. Walls, Elizabeth P. Moreland, Gilley C. Bethall, Christopher Wayne Miller, Kitty Ann Thomas,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to enter certain land.</p></sidenote> Margaret A. Showers, Christopher Wayne Thomas, Isaac Hardin Thomas, and Charles Henry Thomas, all of the state of Kentucky, and heirs at law of Christopher Miller, deceased, late of said state, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, without charge or payment, on any vacant or unappropriated lands of the United States now subject by law to private entry, one quarter section of land, each of the first seven named heirs separately, and the three last named heirs one quarter section jointly; and that a patent shall issue therefor, according to the provisions of the general law.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLIX: for the relief of Hiram Murch.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 929</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Hiram Murch.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Hiram Murch the sum of fifty dollars, the  
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 160, 161, 162, 163. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/930">930</page>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">One moiety of a certain fine to be refunded.</p></sidenote> same being one moiety of the penalty collected of the said Murch, by the collector of Appalachicola, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, for a breach of the revenue laws, and paid into the treasury, it having been made to appear that the said penalty was incurred without any intention, on the part of the petitioner, of violating the law.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLX: for the relief of Benjamin Morphy.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 930</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin Morphy.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That under the directions of the Secretary of War,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for corn, &amp;c. taken by Indians.</p></sidenote> there shall be paid to Benjamin Murphy, of Arkansas, the reasonable value of the corn, the cattle, and hogs, the property of said Benjamin, which were taken by the Cherokee Indians west of the river Mississippi, and appropriated to their own use, in the month of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight: <i>Prodded, always</i>, That the said Benjamin shall produce satisfactory evidence that his property was taken by said Indians, and the value of such property so taken.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value=" "><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be retained out of annuity.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And he it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That said payment shall be made out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the amount so paid shall be retained out of the annuity of the said Cherokee tribe of Indians.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXI: for the relief of William McPherson.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 930</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>CLXI</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William McPherson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be directed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> place the name of William McPherson on the roll of invalid naval pensioners, and that there be paid to the said William McPherson a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month during his natural life, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXII: for the relief of John Atchison.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 930</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>CLXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Atchison.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Satisfaction to be eniered on a judgment against him.</p></sidenote> is hereby, directed to cause satisfaction to be entered on a judgment obtained by the United States against John Atchison in the United States court for the district of Illinois, it appearing that the sum agreed to be received by the proper department, in satisfaction of the same, has been paid by the said John Atchison.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXIII: for the relief of Joseph Campau.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Campau.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the register of the land<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to issue to him for certain land.</p></sidenote> office at Detroit, in the state of Michigan, on being fully satisfied of the justice of the claim of Joseph Campau to a certain tract of land on the border of Lake St. Clair, in said state, designated on the plat of private land claims, surveyed under the authority of the United States by Aaron Greely, as lot number seven hundred and thirty-six, containing about seventy-five acres, to grant to said Joseph Campau a patent certificate for said tract, upon which a patent may be issued in the usual manner in which patents have heretofore been issued to claimants under the act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1807, ch, 34.</p></sidenote> of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled “An act regulating the grants of land in the Territory of Michigan.”</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXIV: for the relief of Mary M. Telfair.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 931</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 164, 165, 166, 167. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/931">931</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mary M. Telfair.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That warrants for the bounty lands due to Tobias Briggs and Isaac Curtis, privates in the Rhode Island line, for revolutionary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain bounty land warrants to be given to her.</p></sidenote> services, shall be made out by the proper officers, and delivered to Mrs. Mary M. Telfair, the only heir and legal representative of Israel Pearce, deceased, who appears to have purchased the right to said bounty lands of the said Briggs and Curtis: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That before said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> warrants shall be delivered to said Mrs. Telfair, she shall execute her own bond to the United States, with good and sufficient security, in such sum as the Secretary of War shall require, to indemnify the said United States against the claim of any other person or persons to said lands.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scrip to be paid to her.</p></sidenote> shall cause to be paid to said Mrs. Telfair any moneys which may be due to Scipio Brown, a private in the Rhode Island line of the revolutionary army, upon the certificate issued to him for his revolutionary services, which certificate is alleged to have been purchased by, and assigned to said Israel Pearce, the father of said Mrs. Telfair: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> That before such payment shall be made, the said Mrs. Telfair shall execute her bond, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by said Secretary of the Treasury in double the amount of the sum to be so paid to her, to indemnify the United States against the claim of said Scipio Brown, his executors, administrators or assigns, to the money due on said certificate.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXV: for the relief of Charles Holt.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 931</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>CLXV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Charles Holt.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to Charles Holt, of the city of New York,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of a fine under the alien and sedition laws, to be refunded.</p></sidenote> out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred dollars, with interest thereon at six per cent., to be computed from the eighteenth day of July, eighteen hundred, it being the amount of a fine imposed upon said Holt by the circuit court of Connecticut, under the “ alien and sedition” law.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. CLXVI: for the relief of Major Thomas Harrison.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 931</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Major Thomas Harrison.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to pay to Thomas Harrison, out of any moneys in the treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension to be paid to him.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifteen dollars per month, from the fifteenth of June, eighteen hundred and fifteen, being the time that he was placed on the pension roll, to the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the time at which his present rate of pension commenced.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXVII: for the relief of John Sands.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 931</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Sands.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he Is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to John Sands, of Fredericksburg,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him on account of certain lines remitted.</p></sidenote> in the state of Virginia, (master mariner,) or his attorney, the sum of one hundred dollars, being the one moiety of two fines remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury on the twenty-seventh day of Novem-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/932">932</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 168. Res. 7, 8. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
ber, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and which fines were paid by the said Sands before the remission of the same could take effect.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. CLXVIII: for the relief of Amos Proctor.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 932</citableAs>
<dc:date>1844-06-17</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>CLXVIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>CLXVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Amos Proctor.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for part of appraised value of certain goods seized, &amp;c., to be settled.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of April 27, 1816, ch, 108.</p></sidenote> hereby are, authorized and directed to adjust and settle, on equitable principles, the claim of Amos Proctor, of one half of one moiety of the appraised value of the goods seized and libelled upon his information, and released from forfeiture by virtue of the act of April twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixteen, as set forth in his claim; and that the same be paid to him, or his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-06-17">June 17, 1844</date>.</action>
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<preface><firstPageHeading class="centered">RESOLUTIONS</firstPageHeading></preface>
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<dc:title>No. 7: to authorize the Post master-General to re-examine certain claims, and to allow one month’s extra pay to certain mail contractors.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1844-05-31</dc:date>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No. 7. </docNumber></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">Joint Resolution </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to authorize the Post master-General to re-examine certain claims, and to allow one month’s extra pay to certain mail contractors.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">John R. Jefferson and others allowed one month’s extra pay.</p></sidenote> required to examine the claims of John R. Jefferson and others, late mail contractors, for one month’s extra pay, arising under different orders of the Postmaster-General, in the years one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, suspending, for a temporary period, the mail service of said claimants, with a corresponding deduction of mail pay, as reported to Congress, as the same appears in printed document number one hundred and forty-nine, of the House of Representatives; and, on such examination, to allow one month’s extra pay to each of the above-named claimants, whose mail service was so temporarily suspended, on such suspended service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> and deduction, estimating the said pay as made annually: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said Postmaster-General shall be satisfied said allowance has not already been made; and that the particular claimant did not request said suspension, nor abandon nor assign his contract within the period of the said suspension; that the respective sums so found to be paid out of the appropriation made on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, in an act to make appropriations for the Post Office Department, in such form and manner as are required in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of July 2, 1836, ch. 270.</p></sidenote> other cases, by the act of July second, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, for reorganizing the Post Office Department, &amp;c.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>No. 8: explanatory of “An act for the relief of Mary Williams, widow of the late Jacob Williams, deceased.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1844-05-31</dc:date>
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<docNumber>8</docNumber>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No. 8. </docNumber></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">A Resolution </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>explanatory of “An act for the relief of Mary Williams, widow of the late Jacob Williams, deceased.”</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved, &amp;c</i>.,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in carrying into effect an act approved the first<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 1, 1843, ch. 66, to be so construed as to allow a pension for two years’ services.</p></sidenote> day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, entitled “An act for the relief of Mary Williams, widow of Jacob Williams, deceased,” the pension to which said Jacob Williams would have been entitled had he been living on the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, be deemed and the same is hereby declared to be, a pension for two years’ service, and that the Secretary of War interpret said act accordingly.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>No. 13: authorizing the accounting officers of the treasury to audit and settle the accounts of William P. Zantzinger.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1844-06-15</dc:date>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 933</citableAs>
<docNumber>13</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 13. 1844.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/933">933</page>
<docNumber>No. 13. </docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">Joint Resolution </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing the accounting officers of the treasury to audit and settle the accounts of William P. Zantzinger.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the accounts of William<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for purser’s stores thrown over-board.</p></sidenote> P. Zantzinger, and to allow him the value of such stores as were thrown overboard from the United States ship Hornet; to be ascertained by deducting from what shall appear to have been, at that time, the usual amount taken on board a sloop of war, going upon a cruise like that of the Hornet, the quantity which the said accounting officers may be of opinion was probably issued or expended between the period of the vessel’s sailing from New York and the time at which the chase occurred.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1844-05-31">May 31, 1844</date>.</action>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<dc:date>1845</dc:date>
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<coverText>
<p class="centered">PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES,</p>
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<enrolledDateline class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><i>Passed at the second session, which. was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December</i>, 1844, <i>1844</i>, 1845.</enrolledDateline>
<explanationNote class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">John Tyler</inline>, President of the United States; <inline class="smallCaps">Willie P. Mangum</inline>, President of the Senate, pro tempore; <inline class="smallCaps">John W. Jones</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.</explanationNote>
<session class="centered">STATUTE I.</session>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. III: for the relief of Asahel Brainard.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 934</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-04</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
 <docNumber>III</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>III.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Asahel Brainard.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-04">Feb. 4, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrears of pension to be paid.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the arrears of a pension to Asahel Brainard, at the same rate per month as now received by him, as a captain of a rifle company in the service of the United States during the late war with Great Britain; said arrears of pension to be computed from the seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, deducting therefrom any pension which may have been received by the said Brainard between the said dates.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-04">February 4, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. VI: for the relief of James Ritchie.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of James Ritchie.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-13">Feb. 13, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> and required to settle the accounts of James Ritchie, as hospital surgeon at the port of New Orleans during the years one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, on the same principles as were applied to the settlement of similar accounts before the order of December twelve, one thousand eight hundred and forty, was issued.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-13">February 13, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. VII: for the relief of Marie Simpson.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 934</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-13</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Marie Simpson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-13">Feb. 13, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> to place the name of Mark Simpson on the roll of invalid pensioners, and that he be paid a pension, at the rate of six dollars per month, during his life, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-13">February 13, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. VIII: granting a pension to James Duffy.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 935</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-13</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>VIII</docNumber>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 1845.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/935">935</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>VIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to James Duffy.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-13">Feb. 13, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy be, and lie is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of James Duffy on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> the roll of invalid naval pensioners, and to pay him a pension, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, during his life, to commence on the first day of December, one .thousand eight hundred and forty-two.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-13">February 13, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. IX: granting a pension to George Whitten.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 935</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-13</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>IX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>IX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to George Whitten.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-13">Feb. 13, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to George Whitten, late a private in the twenty-first regiment of infantry, a pension, at the rate of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A pension granted to him.</p></sidenote> five dollars and thirty-three cents per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and to continue during his natural life, he having been wounded in battle at Williamsburg, in Upper Canada, November eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-13">February 13, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. X: for the relief of J. McFarlane.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 935</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-13</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>X</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>X.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of J. McFarlane.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-13">Feb. 13, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and required to settle the accounts of J. McFarlane, as hospital surgeon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts to be settled.</p></sidenote> at the port of New Orleans during the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, on the same principles as were applied to the settlement of similar accounts before the treasury order of December twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and forty, was issued.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-13">February 13, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XI: for the relief of Gideon Batchelder and others.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 935</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-13</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Gideon Batchelder and others.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-13">Feb. 13, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of. the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sum as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for etone for Sandy Bay Break-water.</p></sidenote> shall be found equitably due to Gideon Batchelder and others, by the proper accounting officer, for any stone delivered in the years one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, towards the erection of Sandy Bay Breakwater, near Gloucester, Massachusetts, under the inspection and by the assent of the public agent there at that time: the price not to exceed the previous contract price, and none to be paid for which was so delivered after the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, or which was not suitable for the work, and useful either for its completion or preservation.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-13">February 13, 1845</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XII: for the relief of Peter Von Schmidt.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 935</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-20</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Peter Von Schmidt.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-20">Feb. 20, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay to Peter Von Schmidt the sum of three hundred dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for a translation.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for his translation of a pamphlet on the culture and preparation of hemp, published at Odessa, in Russia.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-20">February 20, 1845</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXI: for the relief of the president and directors of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 936</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/936">936</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 21, 23, 27. 1845.</centerRunningHead>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the president and directors of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-26">Feb. 26, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the said company are hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to retain certain dividends.</p></sidenote> retain the dividends hereafter to be declared, and now on hand, on eight hundred shares held by the United States in the stock of said canal company, to be applied to refund the principal and interest on thirty-two thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars and thirty-two cents—moneys advanced by said company to complete the work originally undertaken, and partly executed, by the agents of the United States; and that the same be paid to the company before any of the dividends accruing on said stock be paid into the treasury of the United States.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-26">February 26, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXIII: vesting in the county commissioners of the county of Wyandot the right to certain town lots and out lots in the town of Upper Sandusky, in the state of Ohio.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 936</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>vesting in the county commissioners of the county of Wyandot the right to certain town lots and out lots in the town of Upper Sandusky, in the state of Ohio.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-26">Feb. 26, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the right to the one third part of the unsold<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right to lots vested in the commissioners, &amp;c.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of March 3, 1843, ch. 91.</p></sidenote> town lots in the town of Upper Sandusky, by the act entitled “An act providing for the sale of certain lands in the states of Ohio and Michigan, ceded by the Wyandot tribe of Indians, and for other purposes,” passed March third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, directed to be laid out and surveyed, and to one third part of the out lots of said town, he and hereby is, vested in the county commissioners of the county of Wyandot, in the said state of Ohio; on condition, nevertheless, that said commissioners, or other competent authorities of said state of Ohio, shall permanently locate and fix the seat of justice of the county at said town, and that the nett proceeds of the sales of said town and out lots be applied by said county commissioners, or other proper authorities, to the erection of public buildings, and the improvement of the public squares and public grounds in said town.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lots to bo selected, how.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That the town lots and out lots of said town of Upper Sandusky, so to be granted and applied, shall be selected by alternate and progressive numbers, (every third town lot and every third out lot, according to their numbers, respectively, being granted and applied as aforesaid) under the direction and subject to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> control of the Secretary of the Treasury: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to grant to and vest in said county commissioners any lot or lots heretofore appropriated to and used by the Indian agency at Upper Sandusky, and upon which there may remain any valuable building, orchard, or other valuable improvement, belonging to the United States; and if any such town lot or out lot, so by its progressive number selected, should be found to comprise and include any such valuable building, orchard, or other valuable improvement, then the said Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to substitute some other lot or lots, of a fair and proportionate value.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-26">February 26, 1845</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXVII: to extend a patent heretofore granted to William Woodworth.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 936</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-26</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXVII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to extend a patent heretofore granted to William Woodworth.</i></officialTitle><sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-26">Feb. 26, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the patents granted to William Woodworth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain patents extended seven years.</p></sidenote> on the twenty-seventh day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, for his improvement in the method of planing, tonguing, grooving, and cutting into mouldings, or either plank, boards, or any other material, and for reducing the same to an equal width and thickness, and also for facing and dressing brick and cutting mouldings on, and facing several other substances, a description of which is given
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29, 30, 31, 32. 1845.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/937">937</page>
 in a schedule annexed to the letters patent granted as aforesaid, he and the same is hereby extended to the term of seven years, from and after the twenty-seventh day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine; and the Commissioner of Patents is hereby directed to make a certificate of such extension in the name of the administrator of said William Woodworth, and to append an authenticated copy thereof to the original letters patent, whenever the same shall be requested by the said administrator or his assigns.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-26">February 26, 1845</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXIX: for the relief of Joseph Ramsey.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 937</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXIX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Ramsey.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-27">Feb. 27, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Joseph Ramsey, of Wythe county, Virginia, be, and he is hereby, discharged from all further liability upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharged from a certain judgment.</p></sidenote> a judgment had and now outstanding against him, John H. Price and Samuel McCamant, in favor of the United States in the district court oi the United States for the western district of Virginia, at September term, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, of said court: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> nothing herein contained shall operate to discharge the said John H. Price and the said Samuel McCamant in any way from their liability on said judgment.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-27">February 27, 1845</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. XXX: for the relief of Walker, Kinkle, and Caruthers.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 937</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXX</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXX.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Walker, Kinkle, and Caruthers.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-27">Feb. 27, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department state the account of Walker, Kinkle, and Caruthers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Account for transporting the mail to be Bellied, &amp;c.</p></sidenote>, for their service in transporting the mails from the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, to the sixth of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, allowing them at the rate of two-thirds of the excess paid M. A. Price and Company, who became the contractors, and who, on the said sixth day of August, took possession of the routes, over and above the amount allowed to Walker, Kinkle and Caruthers, under their contract for the same routes; and that the said Auditor deduct from said account any sum which may have been paid to said Walker, Kinkle, and Caruthers, on account of the service so rendered between the above stated periods; and that the Postmaster-General pay, or cause to be paid to them, the balance, if any.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-27">February 27, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXI: for the relief of John Adams and John Adams, junior.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1845-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John Adams and John Adams, junior.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-27">Feb. 27, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be paid to John Adams and John Adams, junior, of Massachusetts, out of any money in the treasury not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of a certain fine to be refunded.</p></sidenote> otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred dollars, the amount by them paid in satisfaction of a fine imposed by Mr. Charles, the revenue officer of Elizabeth city, North Carolina, for an alleged violation of the revenue laws of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-27">February 27, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXII: to alter the corporate limits of Georgetown.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 937</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>to alter the corporate limits of Georgetown.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-27">Feb. 27, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the present corporate limits of the town of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, so<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporate limits of Georgetown extended.</p></sidenote> altered and amended as to exclude therefrom so much of the territory within said present limits as lies west of the west line of Fayette street, and between the north line of Third street and a line drawn west and parallel therewith from a point on the said west line of Fayette street at the end of sixty feet north of the north line of Sixth street, saving
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/938">938</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 33, 34, 40, 49. 1845.</centerRunningHead>
 excepting and reserving however out of said territory so to be excluded the several lots of ground lying in Threlkeld’s Addition of Georgetown, and respectively being lots numbers one hundred and fifty-three, one hundred and sixty-one, one hundred and sixty-two, one hundred and sixty-three, one hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and seventy-four, one hundred and seventy-six, and one hundred and seventy-eight, and the south half of lot number one hundred and seventy-one.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-27">February 27, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIII: for the relief of Samuel Neely.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1845-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Samuel Neely.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-01">March 1, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Samuel Neely, of the state of Pennsylvania, on the pension roll, and to pay him at the rate of six dollars per month, from and after the fourth day of September last.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-01">March 1, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XXXIV: for the relief of Benjamin S. Roberts.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1845-03-01</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XXXIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XXXIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Benjamin S. Roberts.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-01">March 1, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditionally discharged from further liability on a judgment, &amp;.c.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized and directed to release and discharge Benjamin S. Roberts from all liability to the United States for or on account of any judgment or judgments, decree or decrees, bonds, or obligations, in favor of the United States against him; he, the said Roberts, releasing and conveying to the United States all his right, title, and interest in and to all the lands mentioned and described in a certain mortgage deed made, executed, and delivered to the United States, on the thirteenth day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, by the said Benjamin S. Roberts.</content>
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<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">His accounts as a lieutenant to be settled.</p></sidenote>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to adjust and settle the account for services, pay, and rations of the said Benjamin S. Roberts, prior to his resignation of the office of lieutenant in the line of the army of the United States.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-01">March 1, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XL: for the relief of Joseph Simmons.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 938</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XL</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XL.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Joseph Simmons.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War he, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to put the name of Joseph Simmons, of North Brookfield, in Massachusetts, upon the pension roll as an invalid pensioner, to receive at the rate of eight dollars a month, from and after the fourth day of March last.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. XLIX: for the relief of Dunning R. McNair.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 938</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>XLIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>XLIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Dunning R. McNair.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for carrying the mail.</p></sidenote> required to cause to be audited and paid, out of any money in the treasury appropriated to the Post Office Department, to Dunning R. McNair, former mail contractor on route number one thousand one hundred and fifteen, from Bedford to Washington, Pennsylvania, at the rate of eleven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, from the time it shall be found the great western mail from Philadelphia to Wheeling, Virginia, was put upon said route, until the same was restored to the original route via Baltimore and national road to Wheeling, under contract made with Stockton and Stokes on the third day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, deducting therefrom the amount heretofore paid the said McNair, under his conditional and privileged bid of carrying passengers.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. L: for the relief of Elisha Morrell, administrator cf Joseph Icard, deceased.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 939</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 50, 51, 52, 53. 1845.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/939">939</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>L.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Elisha Morrell, administrator cf Joseph Icard, deceased.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to settle with, and pay to Elisha Morrell,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid one third of an award under tho convention with Franco.</p></sidenote> administrator of Joseph Icard, deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one third of whatever sum may have been retained in the treasury of the United States on account of an award made by the commissioners under the convention with France of the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and forty-one, in behalf of Julien S. Roulet, on account of the loss of the cargo on board of the vessel called the Cadoz, after deducting any commissions or charges which may have been allowed for attending to said claim.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LI: for the relief of Harvey and Slagg.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<congress>28</congress>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Harvey and Slagg.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, required to pay to Harvey and Slagg, of the city of New York,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of drawback on certain merchandise to be paid.</p></sidenote> the drawback of duties upon ten cases of merchandise, duly entered for exportation at the New York custom-house on the fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, examined by the proper officer, found correct, and sent alongside of the ship Patrick Henry, in charge of the proper officer of the customs, and which were actually exported on board said vessel, and landed in Liverpool; the payment of which drawback of duties was withheld by reason of informality in lading the said ten cases of merchandise on board said ship: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> The Secretary aforesaid shall be satisfied that every other requirement of law shall have been fully complied with.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LII: granting a pension to John E. Wright.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 939</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LII.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>granting a pension to John E. Wright.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of John E. Wright on the roll of invalid pensioners, and to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> pay him a pension at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence from the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-four, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LIII: for the relief of Stanley White.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIII</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Stanley White.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<preamble>
<recital class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Whereas, Stanley White purchased of the United States, at the Fort Wayne land office, in the state of Indiana, the west half of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> number thirty, in township number thirty north, of range ten east, containing three hundred and thirty-one acres and sixty one-hundredths of an acre, by paying therefor to John Spencer, the receiver of public moneys at said land office, the sum of four hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents, and receiving therefor, from said receiver, his duplicate receipt for said sum, and describing said land, bearing dale the eighteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six: and whereas, also, prior to said entry of said half section of land by the said Stanley White, to wit, on the twelfth day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-six, one Charles II. Lewis entered at said office the south-west quarter of said section thirty, township thirty north, of range ten east, being the south half of said half section, containing one hundred and sixty-seven acres and thirty-six hundredths of an acre, for which he paid two hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents; and for which said last-mentioned quarter sec-
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/940">940</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 54, 55, 56, 57. 1845.</centerRunningHead>
tion a patent has been issued to the said Charles H. Lewis: and whereas, also, the said officers of said land office made no return of said purchase by said Stanley White, except for the north-west quarter of said section, containing one hundred and sixty-four acres and. twenty-four hundredths of an acre, whereby the Commissioner of the General Land Office is unable to order the refunding the said sum of two hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents to the said Stanley White; and the said John Spencer is represented and believed to be totally insolvent: Therefore—</recital>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the said Stanley White, his assigns, or legal representatives, the said sum of two hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LIV: for the relief of Edward A. Lambert.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 940</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIV.—</docNumber></p>
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<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Edward A. Lambert.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mistake in a contract to be corrected.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized and directed to adjust the claim of Edward A. Lambert; and if satisfied that a mistake was made in his bid, or his contract, for the supply of stationery to the New York custom-house, to his injury, the Secretary shall pay the same out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the amount of the allowance to said Lambert shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-one cents.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LV: for the relief of Isaac Allen.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LV</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LV.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Isaac Allen.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> directed to place the name of Isaac Allen on the invalid pension roll, and pay him at the rate of four dollars per month; commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LVI: for the relief of the legal representatives of Alexander Mitchell.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 940</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVI</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVI.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of the legal representatives of Alexander Mitchell.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the legal representatives of Alexander<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Released from certain judgments.</p></sidenote> Mitchell, deceased, and the real and personal property of the estate, and widow and heirs of the said Alexander Mitchell, he, and they hereby are, released and relieved from four several judgments, and all liens and encumbrances of said judgments, in favor of the United States, obtained in the United States district court for the western district of Virginia, against the said Alexander Mitchell, in his life-time, as security for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p></sidenote> Peter Yarnall and Samuel Mitchell: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall operate to release the said Peter Yarnall or Samuel Mitchell from their liability on said judgments.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>Chap. LVII: for the relief of Philip Sehwartztrawbcr of Ohio.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 940</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVII</docNumber>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Philip Sehwartztrawbcr of Ohio.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be paid for taking care of booms on Red river.</p></sidenote> to pay to Philip Schwartztrawber, for his services in taking care of the booms left on Red river by Captains Tyson and Shreve, the surn of two hundred and forty dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LVIII: for the relief of Thomas Bronaugh.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 941</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LVIII</docNumber>
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<preface>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 58, 59, 60, 61, 62. 1845.</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/6/941">941</page>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LVIII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Thomas Bronaugh.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be directed and required to place the name of Thomas Bronough, of the state of Indiana,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> on the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of four dollars per month, from the twelfth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-four, and to continue during his natural life.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LIX: for the relief of William Rich.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 941</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LIX</docNumber>
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<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LIX.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of William Rich.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to William Rich,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to him.</p></sidenote> the sum of two hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-two cents, it being in full payment of any equitable claim he may have upon the United States for having relinquished his interest, as a custom-house officer in Vermont, in the result of a suit at law, (in a case of smuggling, upon which he had expended a considerable sum of money,) to enable him to become a witness for the government.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LX: for the relief of March Farrington.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 941</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LX</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LX.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of March Farrington.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be authorized and directed to place the name of March Farrington on the roll of invalid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be placed on pension roll.</p></sidenote> pensioners, and that he be paid a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-third of December, eighteen hundred and forty-three, and to continue during life.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXI: for the relief if Daniel Homans.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 941</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXI</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXI.—</docNumber></p>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief if Daniel Homans.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Daniel Homans the sum of three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for extra work, &amp;c. on a marine hospital.</p></sidenote> two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-six cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount due him for damages sustained by lightning, money retained, and extra work done on the marine hospital built by him for the United States in eighteen hundred and thirty-one, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and eighteen hundred and thirty-three.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. LXII: for the relief of John H. McIntosh.</dc:title>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 941</citableAs>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>LXII</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<preface>
<p class="smallCaps"><dc:type>Chap.</dc:type> <docNumber>LXII.—</docNumber></p>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">An Act </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of John H. McIntosh.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to pay to John H. McIntosh the sum of nine thousand nine hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for properly destroyed.</p></sidenote> fifty dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the value of certain of his property destroyed by a military officer of the United States, under due authority.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2. </num>
<content class="inline"><enactingFormula><i>And be it further enacted</i>,</enactingFormula> That the Secretary of War shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Value of cotton destroyed to be ascertained and paid.</p></sidenote> cause to be ascertained the quantity and value of the cotton destroyed on the same occasion by order of the commanding officer; and that the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum certified by the Secretary of War, for the same, not exceeding the sum of four thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<p class="centered">4<inline class="smallCaps">d</inline>2</p>
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<preface><firstPageHeading class="centered">RESOLUTIONS.</firstPageHeading></preface>
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<dc:title>No. 2: authorizing an allowance to Purser O. M. F. Thornton, in the settlement of his accounts.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1845-02-13</dc:date>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 942</citableAs>
<docNumber>2</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/6/942">942</page>
<centerRunningHead class="smallCaps">TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 2, 6, 12. 1845.</centerRunningHead>
<docNumber>No. 2. </docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">A Resolution </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>authorizing an allowance to Purser O. M. F. Thornton, in the settlement of his accounts.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-02-13">Feb. 13, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Purser D. M. F. Thornton be credited with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit allowed for injury to purser’s stores.</p></sidenote> the sum of eight hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-three cents in his accounts with the United States; that sum being in full for the value of his stores destroyed or injured on board the United States’ ship Erie, during a hurricane, on the third of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.</content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-02-13">February 13, 1845</date>.</action>
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<meta>
<dc:title>No. 6: for the relief of Mrs. Mary W. Thompson.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1845-03-01</dc:date>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 932</citableAs>
<docNumber>6</docNumber>
<dc:publisher>Charles C. Little and James Brown</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No. 6. </docNumber></preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">A Resolution </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the relief of Mrs. Mary W. Thompson.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-01">March 1, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts for services of Col. A. R. Thompson to be audited and settled.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to cause to be audited and settled the accounts of Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, for all services which shall appear to have been rendered by her husband, the late Lieutenant-Colonel A. R. Thompson, of the United States’ army, for the Government, and to allow her therefor the same rate of pay and emoluments as may have been heretofore allowed to any other officer of the line or staff of the army, or agent, who may have rendered services of the same grade, character, or denomination; and the amount so found due shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the said Mrs. Thompson: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any money which may have heretofore been received on account of said services shall be credited to the Government.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-01">March 1, 1845</date>.</action>
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<dc:title>No. 12: for the benefit of Frances Slocum and her children and grandchildren of the Miami tribe of Indians.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Resolution</dc:type>
<dc:date>1845-03-03</dc:date>
<citableAs>6 Stat. 932</citableAs>
<docNumber>12</docNumber>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface class="inline"><docNumber>No. 12. </docNumber></preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle class="italic inline">Joint Resolution </docTitle><officialTitle class="inline"><i>for the benefit of Frances Slocum and her children and grandchildren of the Miami tribe of Indians.</i></officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</approvedDate>.</p></sidenote>
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<enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted, &amp;c</i>.,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">That the portions or shares of the annuities or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuities, where and to whom paid.</p></sidenote> other moneys which are now or may hereafter become payable to the Miami tribe of Indians due to the following named persons members of said tribe of Indians shall be hereafter and forever payable to them and their descendants at Fort Wayne or Peru, or such other place in the state of Indiana as the Secretary of War shall direct, viz: To Frances Slocum, Ke-ke-na-kush-wa, We-saw-she-no-qua, Te-quoc-yaw, Ke-po-ke-na-mo-qua,Wa-pa-noc-shi-no-qua, Ke-no-sack-qua, Ching-shing-gwaw, Petu-loc-a-to-qua, Spo-quang-gwaw, Waw-pop-e-tah, So-eel-en-je-sah, No-ac-co-mo-qua, Coch-e-no-qua, Po-con-da-maw, Tah-he-qua, Ki-ki-o-qua, Te-quoc-yaw, junior, Soc-o-chu-qua, Peem-y-o-ty-maw, So-eel-en-je-saw, junior, and Pun-ge-she-no-qua.</p>
<p class="indent0 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment in case of removal.</p></sidenote><enactingFormula class="inline"><i>And be it further resolved</i>,</enactingFormula> That if the aforesaid Indians, their descendants, or any part thereof, shall hereafter remove to the country west of the Mississippi river assigned to the Miami tribe of Indians, then and in such case the portions or shares of annuities or other moneys payable to said tribe shall be paid to such persons so removing at the place of payment of .annuities to said tribe of Indians.</p></content>
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<actionDescription class="smallCaps">Approved, </actionDescription><date date="1845-03-03">March 3, 1845</date>.</action>
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<heading class="centered">INDEX</heading>
<heading class="centered smallCaps">to the</heading>
<heading class="centered">MATTERS IN THE PRIVATE LAWS.</heading>
<note>[Subjoined to this Index, and intended as a part of it, is an alphabetical list of the persons named in the Private diets, and of most of the subjects to which those acts relate.]
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Settlement of accounts of Nicholas Rich,</label> <target>17</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Edward Blanchard,</label> <target>18</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin Strother’s accounts to be settled,</label> <target>22</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sylvanos Bourne’s accounts to be settled,</label> <target>27</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Frank’s accounts to be settled,</label> <target>32</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Alexander’s accounts to be settled,</label> <target>33</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Jonathan Haskill,</label> <target>37</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Comfort Sands and others to be paid for supplies to troops during the war,</label> <target>38</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Campbell Smith, as judge-advocate, to be settled,</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Major Nathaniel Holmes to be settled,</label> <target>43</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Suit against Theodosius Fowler discontinued,</label> <target>47</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Hyde’s accounts to be settled,</label> <target>49</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Moses White to be settled,</label> <target>50</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The officers of the Treasury to allow certain charges in favour of John Habersham,</label> <target>51</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Oliver Pollock, commercial agent at New Orleans, to be settled and allowances made,</label> <target>65</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of William Eaton, late consul at Tunis, to be settled,</label> <target>65</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of John Chester, supervisor of the revenue, to be settled, and credits given, 66 The accounts of Thomas Barclay, late vice-consul in France, to be settled and certain allowances made,</label> <target>72</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The joint account of Matthew Smith and Darius Gates, and the separate account of Darius Gates to be settled,</label> <target>72</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of John N. Stout to be settled,</label> <target>88</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of major-general Anthony Wayne to be reexamined and settled,</label> <target>96</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of the board of commissioners west of Pearl River to be settled and paid,</label> <target>104</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Thomas Wilson for rations to be settled,</label> <target>107</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of John Thompson, who served in the revolutionary war, to be settled,</label> <target>108</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Thomas and William Streshly as collectors of internal revenue to be settled,</label> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Alexander Scott for expenses in liberating from confinement, and provisions furnished the crew of the Rosamond, to be settled,</label> <target>121</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of the officers and crew of the brig Vixen to be settled, and balances paid to them,</label> <target>124</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David Henley’s accounts as general agent in Tennessee to be settled,</label> <target>125</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Piatt’s accounts to be settled,</label> <target>128</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joshua Sands accounts as collector to be settled,</label> <target>131</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Thomas Wilson to be re-opened,</label> <target>131</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William H. Savage, agent of American seamen, to be allowed for office rent,</label> <target>133</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edwin T. Satterwhite’s accounts as purser to be settled,</label> <target>132</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Brevard’s accounts to be settled,</label> <target>134</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John P. Williamson’s and Thomas Rice’s accounts to be settled,</label> <target>138</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Inhabitants of Florida to be paid for advances made for the use of the United States,</label> <target>139</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peyton Short to be allowed a credit for spirits purchased for the army,</label> <target>192</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Benjamin Wells, supervisor of the revenue, to be revised,</label> <target>147</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Chalmers to be allowed for cordage for the frigate Java,</label> <target>145</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Ashael Clark to be settled,</label> <target>206</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Samuel H. Osgood to be settled,</label> <target>206</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of John Rodgers to be settled,</label> <target>206</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">An act in addition to an act entitled “An act for the relief of John Thompson,”</label> <target>208</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Isaac Briggs, as surveyor of lands in South Tennessee, to be settled,</label> <target>209</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Hall, major of marines, to be allowed a credit,</label> <target>211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Captain Henry Gist and Captain Benjamin Johnson to be settled,</label> <target>211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of Richard M. Johnson to be settled,</label> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of Jonas Harrison to be settled,</label> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Benjamin Birdsall and William S. Foster to be settled,</label> <target>214<page identifier="/us/stat/6/944">944</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of Frederick Brown to be settled,</label> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of Sampson S. King to be settled,</label> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of William B. Lewis, deputy quartermaster, to be settled,</label> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Kenzie and Forsyth to be settled,</label> <target>225</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Joseph Wheaton to be settled,</label> <target>232</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Minis and Henry and others, for payments made to the army and militia,</label> <target>232</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of Patrick Callan to be settled,</label> <target>232</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Esther Shipley and others to be settled,</label> <target>238</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of Jennings O’Bunnon to be settled,</label> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of John H. Piatt to be settled,</label> <target>245</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of Stephen Baxter, late paymaster, to be settled,</label> <target>247</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of James Leander Cathcart to be settled,</label> <target>250</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Richard O’Brien, late American consul at Algiers, to be settled,</label> <target>250</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Tench Francis, late purveyor of public supplies, to be settled,</label> <target>252</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Thomas Hunter, for retained bounty, pay, &amp;c., as a soldier, to be paid to S. Johnson,</label> <target>253</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of the late Le Roy Opie to be settled,</label> <target>262</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Richard O’Brien, late consul at Algiers, to be settled,</label> <target>267</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of James Green to be settled,</label> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Charles Campbell to be settled,</label> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of David Cummings to be settled,</label> <target>269</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Secretary at War authorized to settle the account of Thomas Wilson,</label> <target>229</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Robert M’Calla and Matthew H. Jouett to be settled,</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of B. and P. Jourdan, brothers, to be settled,</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of Harold Smyth to be settled,</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Lieutenant-colonel George M. Brook, and Captain Edmund P. Kennedy to be settled,</label> <target>231</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of Rees Hill to be settled,</label> <target>231</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Isaac Finch’s account to be settled,</label> <target>263</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Gad Worthington to be settled,</label> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Anderson to be paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Explanation of the act for the relief of James Leander Cathcart,</label> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Daniel D. Tompkins, late governor of New York, to be settled,</label> <target>280</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of the Planters’ Bank of New Orleans to be settled for moneys advanced,</label> <target>275</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alexander Roddy to be paid for taking an account of the manufacturing establishments in South Carolina,</label> <target>275</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of John M’Clure for making a part of the Cumberland road, to be settled,</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of the securities of Joseph Pettipool to be settled,</label> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Joseph Bainbridge to be settled,</label> <target>272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Joseph H. Rees, late assistant deputy paymaster-general, to be settled, 281 Account of James Rees, one of the sureties oi Joseph II. Rees, late an assistant deputy paymaster-general, to be settled,</label> <target>281</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Credits to be allowed to Henry Lee, one of the sureties of John Ricaud, late a paymaster in the service of the United States,</label> <target>283</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Credits to be allowed to James Morrison of Kentucky,</label> <target>283</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Nimrod Farrow and Richard Harris,</label> <target>283</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Richard Hightower to be adjusted,</label> <target>285</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Polly L. Campbell, widow of Colonel John B. Campbell, to be allowed certain credits,</label> <target>285</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of John Smith, a contractor for the army, to be revised,</label> <target>287</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A credit of $3,020.64 to be given to Johnston Blakely in the settlement of his account,</label> <target>288</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance of $10,000 to James Morrison in the settlement of his accounts,</label> <target>288</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Daniel D. Tompkins,</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of John B. Hogan,</label> <target>293</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Joseph Wood, of Ohio,</label> <target>294</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Joseph C. Boyd,</label> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of James Johnson,</label> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Ichabod Lord Skinner,</label> <target>297</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Benjamin Lincoln,</label> <target>297</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Captain Thomas Staniford,</label> <target>297</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Hanson Kelly,</label> <target>298</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Colonel William Duane,</label> <target>298</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of William N. Earle,</label> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Charles Humphrey,</label> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Stephen Brace,</label> <target>302</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of the administrator of John B. Funning,</label> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Jacob Slough,</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Mary Hawkins,</label> <target>309</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of John S. Maffit,</label> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A credit in his accounts to be allowed to the representatives of the late Colonel David Henley,</label> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Thomas Robinson, who was one of the sureties of Sharp Delaney, to be settled on equitable principles, and certain allowances made,</label> <target>317</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Joseph M. White and William Davidson, District Attorney and Marshal of Florida, to be settled,</label> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A certain credit to be allowed to Daniel T. Patterson,</label> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Joseph Decrits to be settled,</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A credit of $500 to be given to Captain Richard Hightower in the settlement of his account,</label> <target>329</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Nimrod Furrow and Richard Harris to be adjusted, suits discontinued, &amp;c.,</label> <target>331</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of William M’Clure, a soldier, to be settled, and a warrant for bounty land to issue to his heirs,</label> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Joseph Shomo, late a Captain in the army, to be settled,</label> <target>343</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of James R. Mullany, late Quartermaster-General of the army, to be settled,</label> <target>345<page identifier="/us/stat/6/945">945</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Davis Floyd to be settled,</label> <target>347</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Mack and Conant, of Detroit, to be settled,</label> <target>354</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of William Tharp, a suffer in the army, to be settled,</label> <target>354</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Henry M. Breckenridge, keeper of the archives in Florida, to be settled,</label> <target>366</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Thompson, on account of Elsey Farr and others, of the thirty-sixth regiment of Virginia militia, to be paid $298.68,</label> <target>371</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Alexander Garden to be settled, and an allowance to be made of five years’ full pay as a Lieutenant in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Abraham C. Truax to be settled, and payment to be made to him,</label> <target>388</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Willard and Thomas P. Baldwin to have allowed to them on a judgment $393.91,</label> <target>390</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Richard Biddle, administrator of John Wilkins, formerly Quarter-master-General of the army, to be settled,</label> <target>407</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A certain credit to be allowed to the sureties of G. L. Dox, Postmaster at Albany,</label> <target>439</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A credit to be allowed to Samuel Sitgreaves in the settlement of his account,</label> <target>446</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Benjamin Wells, Deputy Commissary of Issues, to be settled,</label> <target>447</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mrs. Clarissa B. Harrison to be allowed certain credits, and time allowed for the payment of the balance due by J. C. P. Harrison,</label> <target>458</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of James Thomas, late Quartermaster-General of the army, to be settled,</label> <target>468</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Lawrence L. Van Kleeck to be opened, and allowance made,</label> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The executor of Valentine Richardson to be paid the amount improperly collected by the United States from the testator,</label> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of Adam Peek to be reopened, and allowances made,</label> <target>475</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of William Tharp to be opened, and allowances made,</label> <target>476</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of Amariah Squirrel, administrator of Jacob Squirrel, to be adjusted and paid,</label> <target>479</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Samuel Keep to be settled and paid,</label> <target>480</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A credit to be allowed to Sylvester Havens,</label> <target>482</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of John Lacy to be settled,</label> <target>501</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of Samuel Dale for supplies to be settled,</label> <target>503</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of William A. Tennille to be adjusted,</label> <target>521</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of James Taylor, of Kentucky, as District Paymaster, to be settled,</label> <target>540</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of John Miller, late clerk of the courts of Florida, to be settled,</label> <target>541</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Alexander Scott, junior, to be adjusted,</label> <target>542</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Dr. John Berrien to be revised, and the balance paid to his heirs, &amp;c.,</label> <target>565</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Andrew Armstrong, Navy Agent at Lima, to be readjusted and paid,</label> <target>587</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of William Mann, Deputy Marshal of Virginia, to be adjusted and paid,</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of John Emerson to be adjusted,</label> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance made in the settlement of the account of John Mullowny,</label> <target>604</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance in the accounts of William P. Zantzinger, Purser in the navy,</label> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of James Dougherty, an Indian agent, to be adjusted and settled,</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance for clerk hire in the accounts of the American Consul at Lisbon to be continued,</label> <target>620</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Marinus W. Gilbert, late an army sutler, to be settled,</label> <target>621</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lieutenant Washington Sewall to be credited with money lost,</label> <target>624</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Quartermaster-General to settle the account of Joseph Russ and Stephen J. Roach for constructing a road in Florida,</label> <target>624</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Benjamin Franklin Stickney to be settled and paid,</label> <target>625</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry B. Tyler, executor of Colonel Richard Smith, to be allowed a credit for money accruing to him under the provisions of the act of Congress of the 14th day of July, 1832,</label> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain accounts of Jesse Smith and others to be investigated and settled,</label> <target>634</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of James Wiltbank, as Chaplain, to be audited and settled,</label> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Absalom Baird to be settled,</label> <target>641</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Navy to examine and certify the account of Nathaniel P. Tatum, and the same to be paid,</label> <target>642</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of the representatives of David Caldwell as Clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States, for fees, to be settled and paid with interest,</label> <target>664</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of James Brobson, Marshal of Delaware district, to be settled, and allowance made,</label> <target>671</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel M’Cord to be credited with money lost,</label> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Theodore W. Maurice to be settled,</label> <target>674</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Walter Loomis and Abel Gay, contractors for making the Cumberland road, to be settled and paid,</label> <target>679</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of James Thomas, as contractor, to be settled and paid,</label> <target>679</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of George F. Strother, as receiver of public money at St. Louis, to be settled,</label> <target>699</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Orange H. Dibble, for materials furnished for building the bridge across the Potomac, to be settled,</label> <target>700</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edward W. Duval to be credited with the amount expended on an Indian reservation taken from him,</label> <target>702</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A credit allowed to John M. Oliver in his accounts, and the suit against him discontinued,</label> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Abraham Lansing to be examined and settled,</label> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of James Witherell to be settled and allowance made,</label> <target>717</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of the heirs of Captain Jesse Copeland to be adjusted,</label> <target>754<page identifier="/us/stat/6/946">946</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of John Brown and Company to be settled,</label> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of John L. M’Carty to be credited with fees for services under the Cherokee treaty,</label> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Jamison and Williams for services to be paid out of funds of the Post-office department,</label> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of William P. Rathbone, as paymaster and collector, to be settled,</label> <target>821</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Aaron Vail, late Consul at L’Orient, to be settled,</label> <target>828</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Money to be refunded to Clark Woodrooff, paid by him for land on Pearl River, Louisiana,</label> <target>828</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John P. Campbell to be allowed a certain credit,</label> <target>844</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Edwin H. Childers, as a paymaster, to be settled,</label> <target>848</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Alexander Hammett to be settled,</label> <target>850</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Marston G. Clarke to be settled,</label> <target>852</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Francis Newman, as collector of taxes in Maryland, to be settled,</label> <target>852</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of David Gelson, formerly collector of New York, to be settled,</label> <target>854</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Joseph F. Caldwell, for carrying the mail, to be settled,</label> <target>861</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of the Springfield Manufacturing Company, for musket-barrels, to be settled,</label> <target>863</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles H. Hammond and Augustus H. Kenan permitted to open a judgment against them, as securities of Solomon D. Benton, postmaster at Milledgeville, Georgia,</label> <target>864</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of George Whitman to be examined as a contractor on the mail route from Mobile to New Orleans,</label> <target>876</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Postmaster-General to settle the accounts of Patton Pilcher and Company,</label> <target>877</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Captain Samuel Shannon, the assistant paymaster of the army, to be examined and settled according to principles of justice, and reported to Congress,</label> <target>880</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain credits to be entered to the account against J. Jackson, deceased,</label> <target>881</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Samuel Hambleton, as purser at the navy-yard at Pensacola, to be settled,</label> <target>881</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of certain companies of Michigan militia to be settled,</label> <target>885</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of William S. Eveleth to be allowed a credit, and amount due to be paid</label> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph R. Chandler to be credited with certain payments on a judgment,</label> <target>893</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Robert T. Spence to be allowed a credit in his accounts,</label> <target>900</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Garret Vleit’s account for certain surveys to be audited,</label> <target>903</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Daniel G. Skinner, of Alabama, to be settled,</label> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of William P. Duval, the superintendant of Indian affairs in Florida, to be settled,</label> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">An allowance to be made to William P. Zantainger for purser’s stores thrown overboard,</label> <target>933</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of James Ritchie, as hospital surgeon, to be settled,</label> <target>934</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of James M’Farlane, as hospital surgeon at New Orleans, to be settled,</label> <target>935</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, for services of Colonel A. R. Thompson, to be audited and settled,</label> <target>942</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Purser D. M. F. Thornton to be allowed for injury to purser’s stores in the settlement of his accounts,</label> <target>942</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Resolution for the benefit of Francis Slocum and her children and grandchildren of the Miami tribe of Indians,</label> <target>942</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Alexandria,</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Levy Court in Alexandria may erect a courthouse and jail, &amp;c.</label> <target>202</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Apprehension of Pirates.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Morris Goldsmith and Anthony Roderick, to be paid for apprehending pirates,</label> <target>308</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Baltimore.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Owners of vessels sunk in the defence of Baltimore to be paid a just and reasonable compensation for them,</label> <target>265</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Construction of the Act of April 26, 1822,</label> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of John S. Stiles to be paid for vessels sunk in defence of Baltimore,</label> <target>326</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mayor and Council of Baltimore to be paid for money expended in defence of Baltimore during the late war,</label> <target>411</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Value of certain vessels used for the defence of Baltimore to be paid,</label> <target>447</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The memorials for compensation for vessels destroyed in the defence of Baltimore referred to the Third Auditor,</label> <target>552</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Banks in the District of Columbia.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charters extended until June 1, 1822,</label> <target>243</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The act of May 25, 1838, to extend the charter of the Union Bank of Georgetown, extended to them,</label> <target>802</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Battery in the City of New York.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The tract of land on or near the west head of the battery, New York, to be reconveyed to the city of New York,</label> <target>263</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bond cancelled.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bond of Perley Keyes and Jason Fairbanks, as sureties of Samuel Whittlesey, to be cancelled,</label> <target>255</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Land.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A warrant for bounty land to issue to Sarah Drew, in right of John Drew,</label> <target>236</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A warrant for bounty land to be issued to the mother of George Braden, who died of his wounds received in the late war,</label> <target>241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A warrant for bounty land to be issued to Margaret Perry, the mother of William Valliant,</label> <target>255</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Warrant for bounty land to issue to Peggy Mellen for land to which Alford Stebbins was entitled,</label> <target>263</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A warrant for bounty land to issue to Sally Vunee, the mother of Thaddeus Carby</label> <target>278<page identifier="/us/stat/6/947">947</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bounty Land.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Warrants for bounty lands to issue to Joshua Cannon, Reuben Hickman, and Fielding Hickman,</label> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bounty land of Peter Woosely, vested in Sarah Venable,</label> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duplicate military land warrants to be issued to Thomas Flowers and others,</label> <target>374</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A bounty land warrant to issue to William Jacocks,</label> <target>405</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel M’Duff authorized to locate his warrant for bounty land in Jackson county, Alabama,</label> <target>415</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A military bounty land warrant to issue to the widow of George Ludlam,</label> <target>565</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A military bounty land warrant to issue to the representatives of Leonard Holly, and a warrant to Amos W. Brown,</label> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The provisions of the act of May 22, 1826, chap. 147, extended to William Enos, of Arkansas,</label> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven military bounty land warrants to be issued to Elizabeth Pearce and others,</label> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A bounty land warrant to issue to John M’Ginnis, a soldier in the late war,</label> <target>906</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A bounty land warrant to be issued to the heirs of Ebenezer Moore,</label> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain bounty land warrants to be given to Mary M. Telfair, for bounty lands due to Tobias Briggs and Isaac Curtis,</label> <target>931</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Brazilian Government.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to M. S. Gordon and others of money received from the Brazilian government,</label> <target>599</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge at Harper’s Ferry.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Shenandoah Bridge Company authorized to build a bridge at Harper’s Ferry,</label> <target>848</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Cahokia Village, Illinois.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Proceeding of the inhabitants of the village of Cahokia confirmed,</label> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Captured Property.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Right of the United States to property captured by John Cahoone and others, released,</label> <target>134</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Right of the United States to property captured by David Porter and others, released,</label> <target>134</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Donation to Nathaniel Seavy and others for capture of property from the enemy,</label> <target>191</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Kindall to be allowed for merchandise captured by the British, &amp;c.</label> <target>193</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Teakle Savage and others to be paid for property captured at Hampton,</label> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Corn taken by General Harrison for the army, belonging to William Wells, to be paid for,</label> <target>195</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Buckmaster to be paid for whaleboats,</label> <target>195</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The owners of the ship Alleghany to be paid for her, she having been captured when in the service of the United States,</label> <target>441</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elisha Ives to be paid for property captured at Sackett’s Harbour by the enemy,</label> <target>442</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Kaine to be paid for equipments captured by the enemy,</label> <target>493</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Witford Gill to be paid for a boat captured by the enemy,</label> <target>559</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Census.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claims of Ferrar and others, for taking an account of manufactories in South Carolina, to be paid,</label> <target>172</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Certificates of Loan and Stock.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Dixon and John Murray to be paid for lost certificates,</label> <target>117</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin W. Crowninsbield to have certain certificates of stock renewed,</label> <target>142</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Farrington Barkclow to be paid for certificates of stock lost,</label> <target>146</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Arnold to be paid for certificates of stock lost,</label> <target>146</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Leiper to be paid the value of certain loan office certificates, with interest,</label> <target>252</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of a final certificate granted to James M’Clung, to be made to his representatives,</label> <target>284</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Patience Gordon to be paid for a certificate of loan,</label> <target>378</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Executors of Doctor Robert Johnson to be paid for three loan office certificates,</label> <target>392</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of the heirs, &amp;c. of William Falconer, for loan office certificates alleged to be lost, to be settled,</label> <target>430</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Moffitt to be paid the value of a continental loan certificate,</label> <target>433</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Ann D. Baylor, widow of the only son of Col. Baylor, for a loan office certificate, to be settled and paid,</label> <target>437</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Scott, executor of Charles Yates, to be paid the interest on a certificate of loan,</label> <target>440</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Certificates of Stock lost, &amp;c.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lucien Harper to be paid the value of a certificate of loon issued by Francis Hopkinson,</label> <target>457</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Berkwood Taylor to be paid the specie value of a certificate, with interest, 507 Gertrude Gates allowed certain certificates with interest,</label> <target>521</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Peck to be paid interest on certain final settlement certificates,</label> <target>524</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Bruce, administrator of Phi1ip Brush, to be paid for a certificate of revolutionary debt,</label> <target>540</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The value of loan office certificates to be liquidated and paid to the executors of John Bayard, and the executors of Joseph Falconer,</label> <target>574</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Samuel Gibbs to be paid their claim on loan office certificates,</label> <target>576</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Benjamin Bird and Grove Pomeroy to be paid their claims on loan office certificates,</label> <target>576</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount payable on certain settlement certificates to be ascertained and paid to George Hurlbut,</label> <target>674</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Change of Name.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Name of Lewis Grant changed to Lewis Grant Davidson,</label> <target>97</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The names of William B. Finch and Elizabeth B. Finch, changed to William Compton Bolton and Elizabeth Bolton,</label> <target>528</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Cherokee Indians.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment for improvements surrendered by Cherokee Indians,</label> <target>692<page identifier="/us/stat/6/948">948</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>City of Washington.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Law and Jonathan Elliot allowed time to comply with building regulations in the city of Washington,</label> <target>244</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lots granted to certain corporations to be freed from taxes for five years’ unless sold,</label> <target>512</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Public reservation marked No. 8, to be enclosed and improved,</label> <target>512</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to John McCord in full of all claims,</label> <target>2</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of John B. Cutting,</label> <target>10</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Samuel Prioleau to be settled,</label> <target>18</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gilbert C. Russell to be paid for expenditures, &amp;c. for the United States,</label> <target>61</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hamet Caramalli; temporary relief granted to him,</label> <target>62</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Robinson to be paid for services as clerk,</label> <target>94</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">P. C. L’Enfant to be paid for laying out the plan of the city of Washington,</label> <target>94</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Aaron Greely to be settled,</label> <target>107</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Minifie to be paid for masts,</label> <target>108</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas F. Reddick to be paid for services as clerk,</label> <target>108</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lewis Chacherie to be paid for services as translator,</label> <target>118</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Lyon to be paid for services us clerk,</label> <target>125</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Dale to be allowed for sea stores,</label> <target>127</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Saltus, Son and Company, of New York, to be examined and settled,</label> <target>148</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Uriah Coolidge and James Burnham to be paid expenses incurred in behalf of wounded seamen,</label> <target>149</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Thomas Sprigg, for destruction of ropewalk, to be settled,</label> <target>155</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Workmen at the navy-yard to be paid for tools destroyed by fire,</label> <target>155</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Jahn T. Wirt, assistant deputy quarter master-general, to be settled,</label> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Alexander Roxburgh, on a final settlement certificate, to be paid,</label> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of John Crosby and Jahn Crosby, junior, for property destroyed in the town of Hampden, Massachusetts, to be settled,</label> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Taylor and M’Neal and others to be paid for their scows used in the defence of Baltimore,</label> <target>172</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Audrain to be paid for services as clerk, &amp;c.</label> <target>180</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Madame Montrieul to be paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of William Chism, for advances for shoeing horses, to be settled,</label> <target>188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of Francis Cazcau, late merchant at Montreal, to be settled,</label> <target>191</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Villere to be paid for certain claims,</label> <target>192</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Winslow and Henry Lewis, for money deposited in the hands of M. M. Noah, for the ransom of American prisoners at Algiers, to be settled,</label> <target>198</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Mary Sullivan, for tobacco, to be settled,</label> <target>209</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of John B. Dabney, consul for the Azores, for money advanced, to be paid,</label> <target>211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Three thousand five hundred dollars to be paid to John Dillon, received from the condemnation of the schooner Rochelle,</label> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Madame Poidevin to be allowed,</label> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Benjamin Berry, for bringing certain property from the wreck of the British ship Diligent, to be settled,</label> <target>213</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Work to be paid for provisions and forage furnished to Kentucky militia,</label> <target>214</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Money received from the condemnation of the ship Edward, to be refunded to Jonathan Amory,</label> <target>214</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas B. Farish to be paid §149.60,</label> <target>218</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel F. Hooker to be paid $785,</label> <target>218</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin Pool to have refunded the amount of a judgment recovered against him,</label> <target>223</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A. Kinsley, T. French, and C. S. Leonard, to be paid for arms manufactured,</label> <target>223</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Davis to be paid $40.70,</label> <target>223</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Griffin, administrator of William Morgan, to be paid for certain bills drawn by General Armstrong,</label> <target>224</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five thousand dollars of the claims of Thomas Hall Jervey, on account of the condemnation of certain vessels, to be paid,</label> <target>224</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Harold Smith to be allowed a credit for the payment to troops of the U. S.</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Matthew Barrow to be paid for expenses of defending a suit against him for goods impressed for the United States,</label> <target>237</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Cassin, widow of Patrick Cassin, to be paid for money advanced for the United States,</label> <target>238</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claims of the heirs, &amp;c., of Nicholas Vice-land, to be settled,</label> <target>238</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Robert Swartwout for loss on the sale of treasury notes, to be settled,</label> <target>239</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Harding and others to be paid for detention of boats by order of Major-General Thomas,</label> <target>239</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David Henley, agent of Edward Fox, to be paid for muskets impressed into the service of the United States,</label> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The administratrix of John Clark to be paid the amount of a bill of exchange drawn by the Minister of the United States in France,</label> <target>247</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Richard S. Hackley for expenses in the case of the ship Vigilant, to be paid,</label> <target>251</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ambrose Vasse to be paid the amount of the award in the case of the ship Olive Branch,</label> <target>251</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Nathaniel Allen for moneys disbursed for the public service, to be paid,</label> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Webster to be paid his claim,</label> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Guthry’s representatives to be paid the amount of a final settlement certificate and interest,</label> <target>269</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Gooding and James Williams to be paid a bounty for prisoners taken,</label> <target>274</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Samuel F. Hooker against the navy department, to be settled,</label> <target>281</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claims of the representatives of Comfort Sands to be allowed,</label> <target>287</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Brintnel Robbins to be paid his claim for bouts built for the United States,</label> <target>291<page identifier="/us/stat/6/949">949</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Claims.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Garrett Fountain to be paid for the rent of a house,</label> <target>292</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Assignees of Morris Linsey to be paid for blacksmith work done daring the Seminole war,</label> <target>296</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment by Elijah Vansyckel of duties on sugar destroyed by fire, postponed,</label> <target>297</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Gwynn repaid money paid as surety,</label> <target>297</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Amasa Stetson to be paid interest on advances made for the United States,</label> <target>298</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alvin Bronson to be paid the value of a schooner captured,</label> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Jones to be paid the value of a boat captured,</label> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Thomas and Company to be paid for flour furnished to the army,</label> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Wheaton, Sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives, to be paid for expenses of removing furniture to Washington,</label> <target>302</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Repayment of money erroneously paid into the treasury by Bazalcel Wells,</label> <target>302</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Frederick Perley’s claim to be settled,</label> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James, John and Nathaniel Brooks, to be paid for arms manufactured,</label> <target>306</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claims of Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, for rent of a house used by the Congress of the United States, to be paid,</label> <target>306</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Jonas Duncan for the use of a house occupied by the officers of the United States during the war,</label> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Fry and Spalding to have their claim settled to certain stock on die Georgia Mississippi Company and Georgia Company,</label> <target>308</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">J. M. C. Montgomery to be paid for money overpaid,</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Topp to be paid for wood taken for the army of the United States,</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edward Evans to be paid for arms manufactured,</label> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Strain to be paid for two rifles impressed for the United States,</label> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The assignees and representatives of John H. Piatt to be paid $63,626.42,</label> <target>314</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hezekiah Langley and Benjamin M. Belt to be paid for work, labour and repairs done on the Circuit Court room, Washington,</label> <target>314</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Baylies to be paid for apprehending and delivering deserters,</label> <target>320</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elisha Snow, junior, to be paid the proceeds of the sloop Mary Snow, condemned in the District Court of Maine,</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jonathan Hudson, of Baltimore, to be repaid the amount paid by him as surety of Matthew Pascal,</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Hewes to be paid the balance paid by him on an execution as security of James Jones,</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elias Glen to be paid for taking depositions,</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John M’Lure to be paid for making part of the Cumberland road,</label> <target>324</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Craven P. Luckett and William Reynolds to be paid as commissioners, &amp;c., relative to the claims of land in Florida,</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Ennis and William R. Maddox to be paid for graduating a road round Capitol Square,</label> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas L. Ogden and others to be paid for wood consumed by the army of the United States in the late war,</label> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Averill to be paid for pasturing horses in the service of the United States,</label> <target>328</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Stephen Arnold and others, claim for muskets to be settled,</label> <target>331</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Taylor, junior, to be paid for filling up, &amp;c., north of the President’s house,</label> <target>331</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Love to be paid for money advanced to the representatives of deceased officers,</label> <target>332</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gilbert C. Russell to be paid the value of property seized by the United States, and also for labour performed,</label> <target>333</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Frederick Goetz and Charles W. Westfall to be paid for muskets manufactured by them,</label> <target>334</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Colonel William Duane to be paid for a system of infantry discipline,</label> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles D. Brodie to be paid for work done on the Delaware seventy-four,</label> <target>336</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moses Shepherd to be paid the balance due him,</label> <target>336</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Russell to be paid clerk-hire,</label> <target>336</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The act for the relief of the representatives of John Donelson and Stephen Heard, extended for twelve months,</label> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Davis Floyd to be paid for conveying the report of commissioners of private land claims in Florida to Washington,</label> <target>341</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Michael Copp to be paid for a rifle, &amp;c.</label> <target>342</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of James Cook for supplies furnished to the United States in 1813, to be paid,</label> <target>344</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Hitchcock to be allowed a credit for horses for the use of the militia,</label> <target>344</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Donly to be paid for transporting the mail,</label> <target>345</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jacob Stinman and others, to be paid for the manufacture of arms,</label> <target>345</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Walker K. Armistead to be paid for advances made by him,</label> <target>353</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of James Monroe, to the amount of twenty-nine thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars, in full of all demands against the United States, to be paid,</label> <target>354</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edward Lee to be paid for bread, under contract with Commodore Chauncey,</label> <target>356</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Noah Noble, of Indiana, receiver of public moneys in Indiana, to be allowed a certain credit,</label> <target>358</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Morrison to be paid for supplies furnished,</label> <target>361</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John E. Dorsey, administrator of John Dorsey, allowed for money advanced for anchors,</label> <target>363</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Thomas C. Withers, for team and wagon taken in the service of the United States, to be settled,</label> <target>363</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bar. J. B. Valkenburgh to be paid interest on certain indents of interest,</label> <target>365</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The assignees and representatives of Kendall and Butterfield, sutlers of the army of the United States, to be settled,</label> <target>365</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Administrator of George Mansell allowed a credit as collector of internal duties, &amp;c.</label> <target>368<page identifier="/us/stat/6/950">950</page></target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of the representatives of the late General William Hull to be paid,</label> <target>372</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Willoughby Barton, on a contract for live oak, to be adjusted,</label> <target>377</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Brown and Aaron Stanton to be paid for furnishing Hour for the treaty with the Indians on the Wabash,</label> <target>378</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Marinus W. Gilbert, for sutlers’ stores, to be settled,</label> <target>379</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Ward to be paid for a final settlement certificate,</label> <target>386</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Miles to be paid for the manufacture of muskets,</label> <target>387</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Amos Sweet and others; claim for manufacture of muskets to be settled,</label> <target>389</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Huston to be paid for provisions furnished to the militia in 1812,</label> <target>391</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jonathan Taylor, of Kentucky, to be paid a balance due him for mustering militia in 1807,</label> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The executor of Benjamin Goodwin to be paid for the use of a wharf,</label> <target>395</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles A. Burnett to be paid for work done to the President’s house,</label> <target>400</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of James A. Harper to be paid for money expended in the recruiting service,</label> <target>401</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William R. Maddox to be paid for bricks delivered at the capitol in Washington,</label> <target>401</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joshua Foltz’s claim as a wagoner in the revolutionary war, to be settled,</label> <target>401</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lewis Schrack to be paid for rifle-stocks,</label> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of the representatives of Benjamin W. Hopkins, for damages resulting from the default of the United States in Alabama, to be paid,</label> <target>404</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ezra Thurbur, and the legal representatives of Gideon King, to be paid for the detention of the sloop Essex, by the British,</label> <target>406</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Francis Compared to be paid his claim under the treaty with the rottawatamic Indians,</label> <target>409</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Francis Tennille, indemnified for a claim to certain land in Georgia,</label> <target>410</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Bank of Chillicothe to be paid according to their contract for advances, &amp;c.</label> <target>414</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Luther Chapin to be paid for a vessel captured by the enemy,</label> <target>414</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Richard Eppes refunded payment for clothing,</label> <target>416</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Lucy M. Lipscomb, for money erroneously deposited to the credit of the United States, to be paid,</label> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of the creditors of Bennet and Morte, for work done on certain fortifications, to be paid,</label> <target>428</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Wilkins Tannehill, for hire of wagons, &amp;c., to be settled,</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Major M. M. Payne, of the United States army, to be paid certain expenses for defending a suit,</label> <target>439</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lieutenant Daniel Tyler to be paid money advanced for the government of the United States,</label> <target>440</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ephraim F. Gilbert to be remunerated for loss on a contract with the U. S.</label> <target>440</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Fisk to be paid the amount of money robbed from him as collector of customs,</label> <target>441</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Morrison to be paid for supplies,</label> <target>442</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Childers to be paid for taking the fourth census in the county of Norfolk, Virginia,</label> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elizabeth Williams to be paid for labour performed by her husband,</label> <target>446</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lewis Rouse to be paid for whiskey furnished to the garrison at Fort Crawford,</label> <target>448</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">T. Livingston’s claim for maintenance of fifteen Africans, to be settled,</label> <target>453</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Clower to be paid for carrying the mail,</label> <target>455</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">D. M’Intire’s representatives to be paid the arrears of a pension due at the time of his death,</label> <target>456</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moiety of the proceeds of schooner Anna, to be refunded to Peters and Pond,</label> <target>457</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William T. Carroll to be paid for services in transcribing causes in the Supreme Court,</label> <target>464</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Nicholson to be allowed for the maintenance of Africans,</label> <target>466</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment for certain improvements on a lot in the city of Hartford, in Connecticut, to be made to Ariel Ensign,</label> <target>475</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment for pay and rations advanced by Doctor Hanson Catlett, to be paid,</label> <target>476</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edward Lee to be paid for bread taken by the United States’ troops,</label> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Eber Hubbard to be paid for a boat captured by the enemy,</label> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathan Towson, paymaster of the army, allowed quarters and fuel,</label> <target>481</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard S. Hackley allowed expenses in the case of the ships Franklin and Acushnett,</label> <target>481</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Thomas Paine, for provisions lost, to be paid,</label> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Rogers to be paid for certain improvements made by him,</label> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Smart to be paid for plank, boards, &amp;c., taken from him in Sandwich and Detroit,</label> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Act for the relief of the representatives of John Donelson, Stephen Heard, and others, revived and continued for twelve months,</label> <target>486</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Bogy to be paid for rations furnished by him,</label> <target>487</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Miami Exporting Company to be paid for moneys advanced on account of the United States,</label> <target>487</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of De Garme Jones, on account of certain certificates, to be paid,</label> <target>489</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George J. Knight to be paid for a schooner captured by the enemy,</label> <target>489</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Captain John Burnham to be paid §267.57,</label> <target>493</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Robert Kaine, of Buffalo, for boards, to be settled,</label> <target>493</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of James M’Carty, for a quantity of lime deposited in the ordnance yard at Boston, to be settled,</label> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A claim of Aaron Snow, on certain certificates, to be settled,</label> <target>503<page identifier="/us/stat/6/951">951</page></target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A claim of William P. Gibbs, executor of Benjamin Gibbs of Kentucky, for a final settlement certificate, to be paid,</label> <target>504</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Judgments against the marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania, to be paid, and J. and W. Lippincott &amp; Company to be paid,</label> <target>510</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment for making a road from Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson, to James L. Dawson,</label> <target>513</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Repayment of money illegally demanded from E. T. Warren, one of the sureties of Daniel Evans,</label> <target>513</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Don Carlos Dehault Delassus to be paid for moneys taken at the capture of Baton Rouge,</label> <target>513</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to Heman Allen, marshal of Vermont, of fees,</label> <target>514</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Christopher Brooks to be paid for apprehending a mail robber,</label> <target>514</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Rebecca Blodget to be paid in full for her dower in the general post-office,</label> <target>517</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Guy W. Smith to be allowed on account for money stolen,</label> <target>517</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moneys erroneously paid to Pierre Leglize, to be refunded,</label> <target>517</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Two thousand dollars to be distributed to Thomas Holdup Stevens and others, captors of a piratical felucca,</label> <target>518</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of Robert C. Jennings, and the executors of James Roddy, to be settled,</label> <target>522</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bartholomew Shaumburgh to be paid for money advanced to the troops of the United States,</label> <target>523</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer, heirs of Col. Harrison, to be paid interest on his commutation,</label> <target>524</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Commissioners to examine the claims of Nimrod Farrow and Richard Harris, on a contract to erect a fortress on Dauphin Island,</label> <target>526</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Archibald W. Hamilton, for property purchased for the quartermaster-general’s department, to be paid,</label> <target>545</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Benjamin Goodwin, for the occupation of a house and wharf during the revolutionary war, to be paid,</label> <target>545</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Further allowances to Alexander Claxton for his expenses in the case of the ship James Mitchell,</label> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain payments refunded to Lieutenant Ramsay,</label> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of Parish Carter for salt purchased from him, to be paid, and his account settled,</label> <target>547</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Excess of money paid by William Stewart for land, to be repaid to him,</label> <target>550</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lieutenant Harvey Brown to be paid a compensation for quarters not furnished,</label> <target>551</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Interest to be allowed to James Barnett on his commutation,</label> <target>551</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Chinn to be allowed for rations as lieutenant of a revenue cutter,</label> <target>553</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Russell Hunt and others to be paid on account of anchors,</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edward Willett or his heirs to be paid interest on a bill drawn by B. Shambaugh,</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Bagnull, executor of James Vaughan, to be paid for brick,</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph M. Harper to have a judgment satisfied,</label> <target>555</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin Sherfey to be repaid the amount of a military fine collected,</label> <target>555</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claims of the United States on the late firm of Minturn and Champlin to be compromised,</label> <target>555</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of John Kimberlin for provisions furnished to volunteers, to be paid,</label> <target>556</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Hone and Sons, of New York, to have their claims for an illegal seizure of teas adjusted,</label> <target>556</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Philip Hickey for timber, &amp;c., to be paid,</label> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Haggerty and Austin for an illegal seizure of teas, to be adjusted,</label> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Thomas Richardson for goods purchased by soldiers, to be paid,</label> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Thompson to be paid for blankets,</label> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hazleton and Palmer to be paid for extra work at a lighthouse near Portsmouth,</label> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Thompson to be paid for materials and labor at the public works at Gosport,</label> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Webber to be paid for extra labor in taking the census at Madawaska,</label> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Francis Barnes to be paid the difference in the price of whiskey between the contract price and the sum paid by the navy agent al Baltimore,</label> <target>564</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Percival, Master and Commandant in the navy, to be paid money expended in the public service,</label> <target>564</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Aaron Bellamy to be paid for a vessel lost in the public service,</label> <target>564</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Burkham and others to be paid for services as spies,</label> <target>565</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of damages to the administrators of Samuel Burr,</label> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Guedry repaid money paid for land,</label> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joel Byington to be paid for the occupation of his property during the late war,</label> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Philip Bessom to be paid for bringing seamen to the United States,</label> <target>569</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of the amount of awards for injuries done to property in Florida by the United States,</label> <target>569</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Christian Ish to be paid for certain certificates,</label> <target>570</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment made by Baptiste Jeansonne and J. P. Petre for land, to be repaid,</label> <target>570</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The value of two loan office certificates to be liquidated, and paid to the heirs of Michael Gratz,</label> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Elliott to be paid for services in the removal of the Cherokees,</label> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Terence Le Blanc to be paid for land sold by the United States by mistake,</label> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of John Thompson, jun., to be paid for his services as clerk,</label> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Winslett to be paid for a wagon and horses impressed for the service of the United States in 1816,</label> <target>573</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Walter Livingston to be paid for his claim on the United States under an award of referees,</label> <target>573</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Asel Wilkinson to be paid extra pay for his services on board the squadron commanded <page identifier="/us/stat/6/952">952</page>by Oliver H. Perry in the battle on Lake Erie,</label> <target>575</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Whitney to be paid for his services as secretary on board the Guerriere frigate,</label> <target>579</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of John Peck for interest on a final settlement certificate, to be paid,</label> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Horatio N. Crabb to be paid for naval services,</label> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John C. Naylor to be paid for his services as clerk in the surveyor-general’s office in Tennessee,</label> <target>583</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alexander J. Robison to be paid for medical services among the Creek Indians,</label> <target>583</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Française Suzone to be paid for wheat, &amp;c., furnished to the troops by order of Colonel R. M. Johnson in 1813,</label> <target>583</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Bowen to be paid for transporting the mail,</label> <target>583</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A certificate for $40 to issue to William Haslett,</label> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Jonathan Walton and John J. De Graff, for transportation, to be settled,</label> <target>586</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of the legal representatives of James Brown to be paid,</label> <target>586</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Bolitha Laws, for mason work at Old Point Comfort, to be paid,</label> <target>588</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Bruce to be paid certain damages,</label> <target>588</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of arrearages to Colonel A. R. Woolley, late of the army of the United States,</label> <target>590</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of William D. Acken, as timber agent, to be paid,</label> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment erroneously made by Philip Moore to be refunded,</label> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Shack ford to be paid rent for a storehouse occupied by the United States,</label> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Stephen C. Phillips to be paid for maintenance of wrecked American seamen,</label> <target>595</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Hugh M’Ginnis to be paid for extra work and materials on the Cumberland road,</label> <target>596</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles J. Hand’s claim for reclaiming horses lost, to be paid,</label> <target>596</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Read to be paid the amount of an award and judgment in the district of Delaware,</label> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Chandler and William Johnson, sureties of John B. Griffin, formerly Postmaster in Alabama, to be paid the money collected from them,</label> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The proceeds of sugar illegally condemned to be paid to Tuffs and Clark,</label> <target>604</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Money paid for lots in the city of Washington to be refunded to the representatives of Bailey E. Clarke,</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Buford to be paid for advances made to militia,</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Awkward to be paid his claim,</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Shubael Conant to be paid his claim for forage,</label> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Theodore Owens to be paid his claim for taking census,</label> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Riddle, Becktle, and Headington, &amp;c., to be paid their claim under an act of Congress, passed in 1834,</label> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mervin P. Mix to be allowed for loss in disbursing treasury notes,</label> <target>619</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Guiseppe Franzoni, &amp;c., to be paid on a contract with him to return his family to Italy,</label> <target>620</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">F. Jardella’s claim to be paid for services on the Capitol,</label> <target>621</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Thomas F. Townsley to be paid for damages on certain drafts,</label> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Hardesty to be paid for mason work,</label> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Marinus W. Gilbert to be paid interest on money advanced by him for the U. States,</label> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Baker to be paid for damages to his properly at Sackett’s Harbour while in the possession of the troops of the United States,</label> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David Bartlett to be paid money expended by him,</label> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Whitney to be paid for transporting baggage,</label> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Andrew Dodge to be paid his claim for expenses in the late war,</label> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Willie Blount to be paid money disbursed for the United States,</label> <target>624</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John M’Donell to be paid for forage, &amp;c.,</label> <target>625</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Interest allowed on the claim of the executor of Charles Wilkins,</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Abner Stilson to be paid for carrying an express,</label> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of the representatives of Jacob Eyerly to be examined, and if just, allowed,</label> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Daniel Homans for damages under contract to be settled,</label> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Stephen Crittenton to be paid for ground at Middletown, Connecticut, conveyed to the United States,</label> <target>628</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Moses Bliss for fees as Marshal to be paid,</label> <target>634</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of John Pierce and Daniel Van Voorhis, for brass buts, to be paid,</label> <target>634</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Thomas Haliday to be paid money expended in the public service,</label> <target>635</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Dawson’s account for mason work to be settled,</label> <target>662</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Platt to be paid for rent and forage,</label> <target>663</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William B. Stokes and others, their claims to be settled for extra service as mail contractors,</label> <target>665</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John S. Stiles to be paid for bread delivered,</label> <target>667</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James L. Cathcart to be paid in full for all his claims,</label> <target>668</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The owners, &amp;c. of the private armed vessels Neptune and Fox, allowed for prisoners captured by them,</label> <target>669</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nancy Leamaster, widow of James Leamaster, to be paid for provisions and forage,</label> <target>670</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Properly captured from Joseph Bogy by the Choctaw Indians, to be paid to him, and the treasury to be reimbursed from the annuity due to the Choctaw Indians,</label> <target>671</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Interest on a certain sum allowed to Don Carlos Dehault Delassas,</label> <target>672</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Amount paid by John La Tourette for land, to be refunded to him,</label> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John M. Gamble to be paid the value of rations furnished by him,</label> <target>675<page identifier="/us/stat/6/953">953</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Mary O’Sullivan for loss by detention of a vessel, to be paid,</label> <target>679</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Frederick C. De Krafft, his account as surveyor of the city of Washington, to be settled,</label> <target>683</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Christy’s account as military storekeeper to be settled—an arrangement to be made for payment of judgment,</label> <target>692</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">P. F. Voorhees to be paid certain expenses incurred while commanding the ship John Adams,</label> <target>699</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sarah Murphy to be paid for cleansing the Arch street prison in 1815,</label> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A credit to be allowed to John Krepps, and his account to be settled,</label> <target>707</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Mclanethon T. Woolsey to be settled on the principles of equity, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Navy,</label> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">M. Golston to be credited with the amount of a judgment against David Golston, and costs paid by David Gelston to be repaid,</label> <target>728</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Henry Fisher, deceased, to be settled, and the balance due to be paid to his representatives,</label> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Mary A. Patrick to be settled,</label> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Richard Harrison, formerly consular agent of the United States at Cadiz, to be settled,</label> <target>734</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of John Braham, late receiver-general at Huntsville, to be settled,</label> <target>746</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of E. T. Langham, surveyor of public lands in Missouri and Illinois, to be settled by his securities,</label> <target>751</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of the heirs of Captain Jesse Copeland to be settled,</label> <target>754</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Major Tarlton Woodson to be settled,</label> <target>762</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin Mooers to be paid for hay, &amp;c.</label> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas J. Lawler and Smith M. Miles to be paid for maintaining negroes under various acts of Congress,</label> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edward Burgess to be paid for certain expenses incurred as a captain of the New York militia in the service of the United States,</label> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Peebles and John Graham to be paid the amount due them as contractors,</label> <target>707</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Representatives of Thomas W, Bacot, of Charleston, to be paid moneys expended in erecting a post-office,</label> <target>709</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">H. W. Russell to be paid for forage purchased,</label> <target>712</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Freeman Brady to be paid for work done on Cumberland road,</label> <target>712</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Tyner and others to be paid for work on Cumberland road,</label> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jonathan Eliot to be paid for hay, &amp;c.</label> <target>714</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James M’Mahon to be paid for expenses in prosecuting C. B. Rouse, a post-master,</label> <target>715</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Christopher Clark to be paid for provisions furnished, &amp;c.</label> <target>716</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of William Tharp, for reimbursement of a fee in the Supreme Court of New Orleans, to be settled,</label> <target>717</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of John P. Austin and Edward N. Tailer, for damages in the execution of a contract for the delivery of stone in the harbor of Charleston, to be settled,</label> <target>718</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Colonel Anthony Walton White, to be paid the specie value of continental money advanced in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William East to be paid for horseshoes furnished to Tennessee volunteers,</label> <target>746</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Thomas Glascock, of Virginia, to be paid their claim,</label> <target>751</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jesse E. Dow to be paid for bearing despatches from the Mediterranean,</label> <target>754</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Archibald R. S. Hunter to be paid for forage taken for public service,</label> <target>757</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of Joseph N. Hernandez to be examined, for corn, cattle, &amp;c. taken in the Seminole war, in Florida, and the amount due to be paid,</label> <target>757</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representative of Thomas T. Triplett to be paid for valuing Creek Indian improvements,</label> <target>759</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Peter Bargy, junior, to be paid for loss on the performance of a contract,</label> <target>760</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Adam Smith to be paid for stone prepared for the Cumberland road,</label> <target>761</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Francis Mallaby, sailing-master in the navy, to be paid for quarters not furnished to him,</label> <target>767</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Hendley to be paid for accommodations to post-office guard,</label> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Winslow Lewis to be paid for building lighthouse at Cape Florida,</label> <target>771</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Benjamin Hewitt to be examined, &amp;c.</label> <target>772</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Henry Grady, of North Carolina, for corn delivered, to be paid,</label> <target>775</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Chauncey Calhoon to be audited and settled,</label> <target>775</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Thomas Sinnard, for extra work on the Cumberland road, to be paid,</label> <target>782</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Griffith Coombe and John P. Ingle, trustees for the brick capitol, to be paid,</label> <target>784</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Dudley Walker to be paid for advances made to certain seamen,</label> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Traverse to be paid for cattle killed for public service in 1836,</label> <target>790</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Jones, Charles Souder, Robinson Carr and Company, to be paid for expenses in unloading stone at the Peapatch,</label> <target>791</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The assignees of Jacob Clements to be paid for demurrage,</label> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gamaliel E. Smith to be paid for labour and materials used in building a light-house,</label> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Richard Booker and others for clothing furnished to the Richmond volunteers in 1812, to be paid,</label> <target>799</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">General Duncan L. Clinch to be paid for corn and sugar cane consumed by the troops of the United States in 1836, in Florida,</label> <target>801</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Lobdell to be paid for extra labour on the Kennebec river,</label> <target>807</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Balch, junior, to be paid for cables and anchors sold by the marshal of the United States of Massachusetts,</label> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John H. Holland to be paid on account of Africans placed in his charge,</label> <target>682<page identifier="/us/stat/6/954">954</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of William R. Taylor and others, for interest on a liquidated demand for damages of salt works, to be settled,</label> <target>711</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Captain John Downes to be repaid money twice charged to him,</label> <target>810</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment for transportation by steamboats,</label> <target>813</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">For supplies to the Creek Indians,</label> <target>813</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Expenses of a division of lands of Brothertown Indians,</label> <target>813</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">H. Lucas and A. P. King, for teams and wagons,</label> <target>814</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hart end Bosworth, for arms, &amp;c.</label> <target>814</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">J. H. Craddack, for property destroyed,</label> <target>814</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mitchell and Fox, contractors,</label> <target>814</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Surveys and maps,</label> <target>814</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A. Davezue, Chargé d’Affaires at the Hague,</label> <target>814</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">W. D. Jones, for diplomatic services in Mexico,</label> <target>814</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">N. Niles, Chargé d’Affaires,</label> <target>814</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">M. St. Clair Clarke and P. Force for the Documentary History,</label> <target>814</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of Ingoldsby W. Crawford and Samuel Phillips, to be settled,</label> <target>843</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Nathaniel Mitchell to be settled,</label> <target>843</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Benjamin F. Hard to be paid,</label> <target>848</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Explanation of the act of May 10, 1842, chap. 27, for the relief of Clark Woodrooff,</label> <target>849</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin C. Roberts to be paid for fuel furnished British prisoners,</label> <target>857</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Silas Deane to be settled, and payment made for services, &amp;c. during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>857</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard T. Banks, of Arkansas, to be paid losses on a contract for the supply of the Indians,</label> <target>859</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Dunning R. M’Nair to be paid for carrying the mail from Bedford to Washington, Pennsylvania,</label> <target>938</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Cornelius Tiers to be paid a loss on making blocks for a vessel of the United States,</label> <target>811</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Francis G. M’Cauly to be paid the amount due to him,</label> <target>832</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Kleiss to be paid for his services as armorer,</label> <target>860</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Samuel Hill, deceased, to be repaid money paid for land,</label> <target>860</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Thomas Atkinson to be paid a balance due on a certain bond,</label> <target>861</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Agricultural Bank of Mississippi to be paid certain expenses,</label> <target>861</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Mitchell to be paid $275, a correction of the act for his relief,</label> <target>863</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount of damages to lands of Charles E. Sibbald, in Florida, to be paid,</label> <target>864</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Enoch Hidden to be paid for his improvement in the elevating screw-box and cap for carronades,</label> <target>871</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Henry Eckford to be paid for certain vessels remaining on H. Eckford’s premises,</label> <target>871</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Isaac Hull, on account of certain live-oak timber, to be paid,</label> <target>873</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of the United States against Daniel and Thomas Triplet, junior, to be adjusted by the Solicitor of the Treasury</label> <target>874</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of the companies of Missouri volunteers to be audited and settled,</label> <target>875</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Hugh Stewart, for loss in macadamizing Pennsylvania Avenue, to be settled,</label> <target>876</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ferdinand Pettrich to be paid the balance of appropriation for finishing the statute of Washington,</label> <target>877</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Ferdinand Leibert for a penalty on a certain debenture bond, to be settled,</label> <target>880</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The legal representatives of William D. Cheever to have their accounts for loss on treasury notes examined,</label> <target>875</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">J. R. Vienne paid balance due for taking the census,</label> <target>882</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Casper W. Wever to be paid for superintending improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue,</label> <target>883</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William W. Street to be paid for the use of a steamboat in Florida,</label> <target>884</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William De Buys to be reimbursed his expenses for repairs of post-office,</label> <target>884</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Fabre to be paid prize money due to him as a sailor on board the Saratoga on Lake Champlain,</label> <target>888</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Randall and others to be paid for removing the bar at Saybrook,</label> <target>888</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Patten to be paid for certain instruments delivered to the naval storekeeper at New-York,</label> <target>889</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George A. Winslow to be paid premium money for enlisting recruits during the last war with Great Britain,</label> <target>889</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Skirving to be paid for building furnaces in the treasury building,</label> <target>890</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Andrew Fisher to be paid for repairs to the lighthouse keeper’s house at Gibraltar, on Detroit river,</label> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gamaliel E. Smith to be paid for dwelling-house and lighthouse on Desert rock, in the state of Maine,</label> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Johnson Patrick to be paid for boarding Pottawatomie chiefs,</label> <target>896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles B. Hall, of Cincinnati, to be indemnified for a judgment obtained against him,</label> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Weller to be paid for materials furnished for the breakwater at Plattsburg,</label> <target>898</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Hodgkin to be paid for work on the New York custom-house,</label> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">An act for the relief of John Davlin, revived,</label> <target>901</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allen Rogers to be paid for provisions furnished certain invalid seamen,</label> <target>904</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James S. Calhoun to be paid for the detention of his steamboat and barges,</label> <target>906</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Asael Lee and others to be paid the amount due them for erecting a bridge on the Kaskaskia river,</label> <target>906</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Valentine Geesey to be paid for work done on the Cumberland road,</label> <target>914</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Francis Cazeau to money appropriated under the act of March 3, 1817, to be paid,</label> <target>915<page identifier="/us/stat/6/955">955</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George M. Jones to be paid for blacksmith work,</label> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gervis Foote to be paid for delivering stone under a contract,</label> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel B. Folger to be paid for blacksmith work,</label> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel B. Tuck to be paid for coal,</label> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">C. P. Sengstack to be paid for glass furnished for the post-office building,</label> <target>918</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Isaac S. Ketchum to be paid the expenses of an Indian deputation, and for provisions furnished Indians,</label> <target>919, 920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William De Peyster and Henry N. Cruger to be paid the value of their slave Romeo, sent with the Seminole Indians by the officers of die United States,</label> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ephraim D. Dickson to be paid for shoeing horses of Kentucky volunteers in 1814,</label> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Henson to be paid for enrolling Cherokee Indians,</label> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Judgment against Richard Sneed to be compromised,</label> <target>921</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">True Putney and Hugh Riddle to be paid for extra work on the United States warehouse at Baltimore,</label> <target>921</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Harrison, regimental paymaster, and his sureties, exonerated from a balance claimed by the United States,</label> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The executor of Milus W. Dickey to be paid for a contract for transporting the mail in Kentucky,</label> <target>923</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Josiah Dillon, late assistant quartermaster of the army, to be paid a suspended balance due him,</label> <target>923</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Benjamin Murphy, for corn taken by the Indians, to be paid him,</label> <target>930</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Postmaster-General to reexamine certain claims of mail contractors, &amp;c.</label> <target>932</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gideon Batchelder to be paid for stone for Sandusky Bay breakwater,</label> <target>935</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Von Schmidt to be paid for a translation of a pamphlet on die cultivation of hemp,</label> <target>935</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of William Rich, as a customhouse officer in Vermont, to be paid,</label> <target>941</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Homans to be paid for extra work on a marine hospital,</label> <target>941</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Walker, Kinkle and Caruthers’ account for transporting the mail to be settled,</label> <target>937</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Charles W. Morgan, for expenses incurred while he commanded the United States’ squadron in the Mediterranean, to be paid,</label> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of William R. Davis, for repairing arms, &amp;c., to be paid,</label> <target>927</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payments to John Sands, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, mariner, on account of fines remitted,</label> <target>931</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The President and Directors of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company, authorized to retain dividends on the stock of the United States for advances made for the completion of certain work,</label> <target>936</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Interest on the claims of Return J. Meigs and Christopher Green,</label> <target>11</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment for advances to Fulwar Skipwith,</label> <target>48</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Relief of John Habersham,</label> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The commissioners west of Pearl river to be paid,</label> <target>104</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of John de Castinado for wood taken for the array, to be settled,</label> <target>193</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claims of Charles Williams, for two horses taken into the service of the United States, to be settled,</label> <target>188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of William Chism to be settled,</label> <target>188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of George Hunter to be settled,</label> <target>78</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of John N. Stout to be settled,</label> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of the representatives of Samuel Lapsley for final settlement certificates, to be settled,</label> <target>119</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Edwin T. Satterwhite, as purser, to be settled,</label> <target>121</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alexander Scott’s claim to be settled,</label> <target>121</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim for horses, &amp;c., taken by the United States from Elisha J. Winter, to be paid,</label> <target>121</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Jonathan B. Eastman to be settled,</label> <target>156</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of John G. Camp to be settled,</label> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gustavus Loomis’ claim to be settled,</label> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John M. Forbes’ claim to be settled,</label> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claims of John T. Wirt to be settled,</label> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Rufus L. Reed and Daniel Dobbins to be settled,</label> <target>170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Ephraim Shaler to be settled,</label> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Credit to be allowed to Thomas Ap Catesby Jones,</label> <target>165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of John Holkar, formerly consul-general of the United States in France, to be settled,</label> <target>175</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of William Haslet, for the ship Liberty, delivered to the Bey of Tunis, to be settled,</label> <target>183</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Jacint Laval to be settled,</label> <target>185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Flavil Sabin to be settled,</label> <target>186</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of John J. Yarnall to be settled,</label> <target>186</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Imlay allowed for clerk hire as Commissioner of Loans,</label> <target>34</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Lyon to be paid as clerk in the Post-office,</label> <target>125</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of John Coffee, for clerk hire, to be settled,</label> <target>284</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Amos Nichols to be paid for services as clerk,</label> <target>286</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Coinage.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Vaughn to be paid for difference on coinage of silver,</label> <target>39</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Columbia College.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Columbian Institute.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A lot in Washington granted during the pleasure of Congress to the Columbian Institute,</label> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Commissioner of Public Buildings.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Congress.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to James Mathers, Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate,</label> <target>38</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of William Findlay to be paid his compensation as a member of Congress,</label> <target>621</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The travelling expenses of Robert P. Letcher and Thomas P. Moore, chiming seats in Congress, to be paid,</label> <target>684</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Copy-right.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Copy-right of John Rowlett extended,</label> <target>389</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The act to continue the copyright of John Rowlett amended,</label> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Supplement to the act to extend the copyright to John Rowlett,</label> <target>897</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Count De Grasse.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of four thousand dollars to his daughters,</label> <target>19</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Appropriation for his daughters,</label> <target>31</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Creek Reservations.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">All the rights the United States possess under reservations of lands by the Creek treaty vested in each occupant,</label> <target>323</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Cultivation of Tropical Plants.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Supplement to the act of July, 1838, chap. 188, to encourage the cultivation of tropical plants,</label> <target>819</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages for Marine Captures.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Appropriations for damages for capture of the Amphitheatre by captain Maley,</label> <target>47</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alexander Murray to be paid the damages for capture of the Charming Betsey,</label> <target>56</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Damages in the case of the Flying Fish,</label> <target>63</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jared Shattock to be paid damages for the capture of the ship Mercator by captain Maley,</label> <target>116</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Damages to Property by the Indians.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of John Scott to be paid damages done by emigrating Indians,</label> <target>855</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David M. Hughes, Charles Shipman, and John Henderson, to be paid for damages to their property by the Creek Indians,</label> <target>849</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Alexander and Ira Nash to be paid for depredations committed by the Sac and Fox Indians,</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Debts to the United States.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A claim on the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie to be compromised,</label> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Interest on public moneys released to the Louisville Savings Institution,</label> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Coke and others released from liabilities as sureties of Peyton A. Southall,</label> <target>895</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Demurrage.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Demurrage allowed on ship Grand Turk,</label> <target>51</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Cotton allowed for detention and demurrage of ship Anna Maria,</label> <target>80</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to Joseph Forrest for demurrage on the schooner William Yeaton,</label> <target>323</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Detroit.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Stock, &amp;c., in Detroit, granted to the corporation,</label> <target>315</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Disposition of the residue of the military reserve,</label> <target>315, 346</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diplomatic Expenses.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance for services of William Carmichael,</label> <target>31</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of a balance due to him,</label> <target>34</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A credit allowed William Tazewell,</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Stephen Sayre as Secretary of Legation,</label> <target>65</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moses Young to be paid as agent of claims,</label> <target>55</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moses Young to be paid as Secretary of Legation,</label> <target>89</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of William B. Lawrence, late chargé des affaires at London; of James Barbour, late secretary of legation at London; William Radcliff, late consul at Lima; and of William H. D. C. Wright, late consul of the United States at Rio de Janeiro, to be settled,</label> <target>436</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alexander Scott to be paid for services as political agent at Venezuela,</label> <target>436</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Joseph Wilcox to be paid for passage money,</label> <target>288</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edwin Bartlett, Consul at Lima, to be paid for diplomatic expenses,</label> <target>894</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Account of the representatives of Colonel John Laurens, some time minister extraordinary to France, and for military services during the revolution, to be settled and paid,</label> <target>514</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Randolph Clay, T. P. Barton, T. L. L. Brent, and George F. Brown, to be paid for diplomatic services,</label> <target>667</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Thomas Sumpter, late minister to Brazil, to be closed, and allowance made,</label> <target>747</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles S. Walsh allowed compensation as charge d’affaires in Spain,</label> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Randolph Clay allowed compensation as charge d’affaires in Russia,</label> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edmund Roberts allowed salary as charge d’affaires, with outfit as the diplomatic agent of the United States to Cochin China, Muscat and Siam,</label> <target>759</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The legal representatives of William Tudor to be allowed for his services in Peru,</label> <target>760</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The salary of a consul and agent of claims allowed to Dunscomb Bradford,</label> <target>793</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Randolph Clay to be paid for diplomatic services as secretary of legation at Vienna,</label> <target>896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Daniel Brent, late U. S. consul at Paris, to be paid for the diplomatic services of Daniel Breut,</label> <target>901</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Discharge from Imprisonment.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Sturgeon discharged,</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Solomon Boston discharged,</label> <target>42</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Lewis, sen., discharged,</label> <target>43</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lawrence Erb discharged,</label> <target>45</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John York to be discharged,</label> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Hearn to be discharged,</label> <target>64</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel S. Dexter to be discharged,</label> <target>66</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gilbert Drake to be discharged,</label> <target>66</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Heard discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>86</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Wilkinson, jun., discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>86</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edward Beamont to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>79<page identifier="/us/stat/6/957">957</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Kerr to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>89</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Hawkins to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>88</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Mills to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>97</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel F. Fosdick to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>97</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Royal Converce to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>118</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Updike to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>118</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel G. Ingraham, Alexander Phoenix, and William Nexsen, jun., to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>119, 120</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joshua Dorsey to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>125</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Willet Warne to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>125</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Peck to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Redfield, jun., to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>117</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Walkington to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>133</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Hamilton to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>140</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Castille of New Orleans to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>145</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John C. Hurlburt of Connecticut to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>145</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Brahany to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>147</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jonathan Rogers, jun., to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>158</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Fanning to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>156</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moses Lewis to de discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Keeler and John Francis to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Williams to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>183</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Taft to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>183</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Ricaud to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moses Turner to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>174</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Oliver Spellman to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lewis Olmsted to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Park Holland to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>186</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Smith to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>192</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Post and Farly Fuller to be exempted from imprisonment, on a judgment against them as sureties of Robert Dixon, a postmaster,</label> <target>272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Buel to be discharged from imprisonment,</label> <target>280</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">E. Davidson authorized to sell the lands of her husband in the county of Washington,</label> <target>809</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain lunatics to be sent to the lunatic asylum in Baltimore,</label> <target>818</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Donation Lands.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Donation certificates for lands to Richard Tervin and others,</label> <target>99</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Donation of land to James Hynum,</label> <target>151</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A warrant for one thousand acres of donation lands to he issued to Robert S. Foreman</label> <target>308</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Donation of land to Antoine Cruzat,</label> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dower.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Right of dower of Rebecca Blodget in certain lots in Washington to be ascertained,</label> <target>347</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Catharine Stearns to be paid the value of her dower in land at the navy-yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts,</label> <target>374</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Rebecca Blodget to be paid for her dower in certain property in Washington,</label> <target>378</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Drawback.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">To be paid on goods, part of cargo of the Enterprise,</label> <target>19</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Drawback to George Gibbs on exported wines,</label> <target>19</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Drawback to Man and Foltz,</label> <target>21</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowed to Israel Loring,</label> <target>22</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowed to John Brown,</label> <target>30</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Debentures to be issued to Thomas K. Jones,</label> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Drawback to Gazzam and others,</label> <target>37</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Drawback allowed to Samuel Corp,</label> <target>53</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Armroyd and Company allowed drawback,</label> <target>96</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Drawback allowed on an invoice of foreign Bibles,</label> <target>162</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain debentures to be paid to Isaac Lawrence and others,</label> <target>187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Lenox and William Maitland to be paid debentures issued by Joseph Sands,</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John H. Howland to be paid for drawback on sugar shipped on board the William Howland for Hamburg,</label> <target>317</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Walley and Foster to be paid drawback on the export of pepper,</label> <target>346</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">W. and J. Montgomery to be paid a drawback on coffee exported to Antwerp,</label> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Von Kapffe and Brune allowed drawback on playing cards,</label> <target>357</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Lee Carpentier and J. Ballastier &amp; Co. and others, allowed drawback on playing-cards,</label> <target>367</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Abraham Willink allowed drawback on sugar exported,</label> <target>368</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry G. Rice allowed a drawback on a quantity of cotton exported,</label> <target>372</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Summerl and Brown to be paid drawback on merchandise exported in the brig Franklin,</label> <target>390</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John T. Ross to be paid a drawback on Madras handkerchiefs exported,</label> <target>391</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seth Knowles allowed debentures on rum shipped to Hamburg,</label> <target>391</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certificates of debenture to be issued to David Ellis on Madeira wine,</label> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John B. Lemnitre, jun., to be allowed a drawback on playing cards,</label> <target>395</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Augustus Aspenwall allowed a drawback on white sugar exported,</label> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Drawback allowed to Peter and John S. Crary and Company of New York, and to Allen Reynolds,</label> <target>413<page identifier="/us/stat/6/958">958</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Christian Jacob Burcle allowed drawback on playing-cards,</label> <target>333</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certificates of debenture to be issued for the drawback on fifty hogsheads of domestic spirits,</label> <target>426</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certificates of debenture to be issued to Payson Perrin for drawback on Bengal cotton,</label> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Rollins to be paid a drawback on certain merchandise,</label> <target>455</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Debentures to be issued to Barnard Thooft, for duties on coffee exported by him,</label> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Debentures to be issued to Benjamin Desobry</label> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel D. Walker allowed a drawback on tobacco,</label> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The benefit of drawback on cotton exported to Liverpool allowed to Thadeus Phelps and Company,</label> <target>550</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David Rogers and Sons to be paid the amount of a drawback on teas,</label> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of amount of debenture on certain wines to be made to Robert Dickey of New York,</label> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A drawback on certain merchandise allowed to Samuel Milligan, of Montreal, Canada,</label> <target>711</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Drawback on sugar exported by Messrs. Smith and Town by die Prussian brig Die Odor, from New York, allowed,</label> <target>751</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Frederick Frey and Company allowed a drawback on exporting playing-cards to Mexico,</label> <target>758</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Drawback on playing-cards to be allowed on their exportation to A. Quartier and Albert, of New Orleans,</label> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">H. and D. Cotheal, of New York, allowed drawback on playing-cards,</label> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A debenture certificate to be issued to Humphrey B. Gwathmey,</label> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Drawback allowed on goods not paid because of omission to take the oaths, &amp;c.,</label> <target>812</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount of drawback on certain coffee to be paid to Caleb Eddy, of Warren, Rhode Island,</label> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ferguson and Reid allowed certain certificates of debenture,</label> <target>919</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Harvey and Slagg to be paid drawback on certain merchandise exported from New York,</label> <target>939</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certificates of debenture to be issued to J. and B. Welles,</label> <target>522</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Drawback of certain duties allowed to Stephen Kingston,</label> <target>583</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Drawback on sugar allowed to Robert M’Jimsey,</label> <target>647</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Drawback on playing-cards to Peter Harmony, of New York,</label> <target>694</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Amount of debenture to be paid to A. and J. Dennistoun and Company, of New Orleans,</label> <target>668</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate Land Warrant.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A duplicate land warrant to be issued to Beckford C. Mathews,</label> <target>853</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duplicate land warrants to be issued to James Brisban and Jonah Lewis; warrants issued originally to Canadian volunteers,</label> <target>272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A duplicate land warrant to be issued to the representatives of John Peters,</label> <target>898</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duties.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Remission of duty on salt to John Davidson,</label> <target>3</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties remitted to Leffert Lefferts and others,</label> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bonds for duties to be received from Stephen Paranque,</label> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties remitted on coffee destroyed by fire to Elliott and Purviance,</label> <target>15</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties remitted to Reuben Smith and Nathan Strong,</label> <target>15</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties charged by reason of incompetent register, remitted to Epaphras Jones and others,</label> <target>19</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Remission of duties on French vessels,</label> <target>18</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on distilled spirits destroyed by fire, remitted to Jabez Rogers,</label> <target>17</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to North end Vesey,</label> <target>32</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties remitted on the property of James O’Brien and James Aylward,</label> <target>30</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The credit for duties on teas by ship Argonaut extended,</label> <target>16</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">On sugars saved from the schooner Free-love,</label> <target>16</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties to J. R. Silva refunded,</label> <target>22</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Remission of duties on teas destroyed by fire in Providence, Rhode Island,</label> <target>44</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on rifles refunded to Lyon Lehman,</label> <target>45</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on sales of prize goods refunded,</label> <target>51</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to Patten and Company,</label> <target>58</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to Tristram Hussey,</label> <target>88</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties remitted on paintings, &amp;c., to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,</label> <target>121</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to the Bible Society of Philadelphia,</label> <target>116</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain duties refunded to Isaac Clason,</label> <target>131</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to Seth Russell and Sous,</label> <target>133</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Archibald McCall to have certain duties refunded,</label> <target>142</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on glass to be returned to Saltns, Son, and Company,</label> <target>148</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to Henry Nimmo,</label> <target>149</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Remission of duties on philosophical apparatus to John Redman Coxe,</label> <target>158</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Remission of duties on stereotype plates, to the Baltimore and Massachusetts Bible Societies,</label> <target>162</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Remission of duties on books imported for Harvard College, and on personal baggage of William Gore, Governor of the British province of Upper Canada,</label> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The bond of Caspar C. Schutte for duties to be cancelled,</label> <target>173</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on a painting presented to the Pennsylvania Hospital remitted,</label> <target>197</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to Robert Burnside,</label> <target>187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties to be adjusted on cotton goods imported by Henry Lee,</label> <target>187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to Robert Kid and others, paid upon copper bottoms,</label> <target>234</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain duties refunded to Denton, Little, and Company, and others,</label> <target>237</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to Walter Channing,</label> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties paid on copper bottoms refunded to Beck and Harvey,</label> <target>246</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on a boiler refunded to Martha Flood, administratrix of William Flood,</label> <target>248<page identifier="/us/stat/6/959">959</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to Thomas and John Clifford, and others,</label> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain duties on goods imported into Castine, while in the possession of the British forces, refunded,</label> <target>241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The credit on duties on goods destroyed by fire at Savannah, extended for four years’,</label> <target>241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to Samuel Clarkson and Alexander Elmslie,</label> <target>263</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">To Jonathan N. Bailey,</label> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">To Solomon Porter, jun.,</label> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">To certain distillers within the Sixth Collection District, Pennsylvania,</label> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">B. H. Rand released from bonds for duties on unfinished engravings, &amp;c.,</label> <target>265</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Excess of duties on a cargo of salt, to be allowed to Trapmaun, Jahucke, and Company,</label> <target>276</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Chase discharged from payment of certain duties,</label> <target>336</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on imported marble capitals for the University of Virginia, remitted,</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties remitted on vestments, &amp;c., imported by Joseph Flagtit, Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky,</label> <target>346</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of the United States against Otway Burns for duties, to be settled,</label> <target>352</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on a still remitted to Michael Hoff,</label> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties paid on models by James Barron, refunded,</label> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Amount of an export bond refunded to Henry Lee,</label> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain duties refunded to Pedro Miranda,</label> <target>366</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to Dodd and Barnard, and others, paid on goods brought from St. Augustine to Charleston,</label> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">J. W. Hollaster and Company, and George Anderson, to be refunded certain duties,</label> <target>411</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to Charles Henry Hall, and to the Mercantile Insurance Company in Salem, Massachusetts,</label> <target>412, 413</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain duties remitted to Benedict Joseph Flaget,</label> <target>484</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain duties on church vestments and ornaments, imported into New York, refunded to John Hughes,</label> <target>491</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties paid by Nathan Branson to be returned to him,</label> <target>287</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to certain distillers in Berks county, Pennsylvania,</label> <target>291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">To Napier, Rapelye, and others,</label> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">To J. Aubin and others, duties on goods imported into Castine,</label> <target>305</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jacob Babbit released from the payment of a bond for duties on sugar,</label> <target>292</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The owners of the ship General Jackson released from the payment of certain duties, &amp;c.,</label> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">J. Ottramare to be paid duties on jewelry libelled,</label> <target>313</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The duties on the bells for the Roman Catholic church at St. Louis remitted,</label> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Excess of duty paid by James Seaburn on a cargo of salt refunded,</label> <target>857</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Isaac and Thomas S. Winslow to be indemnified for duties exacted on certain goods destroyed by fire,</label> <target>880</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Burr and Smith to have refunded certain duties paid on oil, re-exported,</label> <target>880</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The time for laying the iron on the railroad of the Norristown and Valley Railroad Company extended,</label> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on wine destroyed by fire while in the custody of Customs, remitted to Ebenezer Breed,</label> <target>691</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on railroad iron refunded to the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Company,</label> <target>740</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to the Newcastle and French-town Turnpike and Railroad Company,</label> <target>740</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The duties on certain railroad iron to be refunded to the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company,</label> <target>745</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on the French ship Alexandre refunded,</label> <target>823</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Part of the duties imposed on the cargo of the brig Liberator remitted,</label> <target>511</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Deduction from duties levied on certain books to be paid to Alexander O. Brodie of New York,</label> <target>525</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to James Robertson of South Carolina,</label> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to John Frasier and Company, of South Carolina,</label> <target>647</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties refunded to John F. Lewis,</label> <target>647</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties overpaid on lead, refunded to Henry Wainwright,</label> <target>674</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on sugar, refunded to Jacob Shoemaker,</label> <target>682</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Eastern Branch Bridge on the Potomac.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The act of November 1797 revived and re-enacted, and William Benning invested with all the powers of the corporation,</label> <target>375</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Exchange of Lands.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lands may he exchanged with the Ursuline Nuns, New Orleans,</label> <target>107</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Expenses of wounded Seamen.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Uriah Coolidge and Joseph Burnham to be paid expenses on behalf of certain wounded seamen,</label> <target>149</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Exploring Expedition.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Wilkes, jun., to be paid for mathematical instruments, &amp;c., for the exploring expedition,</label> <target>415</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Exportation of Negroes.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bond for the exportation of sundry African negroes to be cancelled,</label> <target>376</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fishing Vessels.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bounty on fishing voyage to be paid to Edmund Briggs,</label> <target>64</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seth Sprague and others to be paid the allowance of a fishing vessel had she returned to the United States,</label> <target>210</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bounty on a fishing vessel allowed to Martin Warner,</label> <target>202</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elkanah Finney and others to be paid the allowance for a certain fishing vessel, as if she had returned to port,</label> <target>244</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Bartlett and John Steams and others <page identifier="/us/stat/6/960">960</page>to be paid the allowance the schooners Angler and Harmony would have been entitled to, bad they returned to the United States,</label> <target>291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Isaac Collyer and others to be paid the allowance to the Dove, a fishing vessel,</label> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elijah Bailey and others to be paid the bounty on a fishing vessel lost at sea,</label> <target>324</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance of schooner Welcome Return to be paid to John Moody and others,</label> <target>324</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Otis Pendleton and others, and John F. Delaplaine and others to be paid bounty for fishing vessels lost or destroyed,</label> <target>330</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Horace Waite and others to tic paid allowance for a schooner lost in the cod fishery,</label> <target>367</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joshua T. Chase and others to be paid an allowance for a fishing vessel lost at sea,</label> <target>372</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Philip Coombs and others to be paid the allowance of a fishing vessel lost at sea,</label> <target>388</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Dickens and others to be paid the allowance of a schooner in the cod fishery,</label> <target>409</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Andrew Wilson to be paid the allowance for a fishing vessel lost at sea,</label> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to William B. Doliber and others for a fishing schooner lost at sea,</label> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The bounty to which the schooner Two Brothers would have been entitled, to be paid by the collector of Boston,</label> <target>578</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The owners and others of the schooner Admiral to receive the bounty to which she was entitled on her return from sea,</label> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Bragdon and others allowed for the fishing schooner Haleyon, lost at sea,</label> <target>606</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Gordon and others allowed for the fishing schooner Two Sons, lost at sea,</label> <target>606</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel S. Lord and others allowed for the fishing schooner Mary and Sally, lost at sea,</label> <target>606</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Haskell and others to be allowed the bounty on the schooner Friendship, a fishing vessel lost,</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph W. Green and others, of Marblehead, allowed a bounty for the fishing schooner Two Brothers, lost at sea,</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Cushing to be allowed the bounty to the fishing schooner Germantown, of Boston,</label> <target>714</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Winthrop Sears and others allowed the bounty, to the fishing schooner Laban, lost at sea,</label> <target>715</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moses Merrill and others allowed the bounty to a fishing schooner Fortune, lost at sea,</label> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance of bounty to the fishing schooner Commerce, of Boston, to Thomas Cushing,</label> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gilbert A. Smith and Nathan Stark to be paid the bounty to the fishing schooner Lilly,</label> <target>807</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John L. Bowman and Enoch J. Noyes to be paid the allowance to the fishing schooner George, lost at sea,</label> <target>808</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joshua Atwood to be paid the bounty of a fishing vessel lost at sea,</label> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Josiah Holmes allowed the bounty to a fishing vessel,</label> <target>843</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathan Smith and others to be allowed the bounty to a fishing vessel,</label> <target>867</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Gordon and others to be paid the allowance for a fishing schooner lost at sea,</label> <target>895</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The owners and crew of the schooner Privado, allowed the bounty to the schooner, lost at sea,</label> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Hidden to be paid the allowance for the fishing schooner Mary Francis, lost at sea,</label> <target>918</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Florida Indians.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Appropriation for the relief of Florida Indians,</label> <target>354</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Florida Land Claims.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Craven P. Luckett to be paid as commissioner on Florida land claims, and William Reynolds to be paid for bringing the report of the commissioners to Washington,</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fines and Forfeitures.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claims of the United States to forfeiture of goods entered at Hampden, in the district of Maine, released,</label> <target>169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Forfeiture of brig Sally remitted to Anthony S. Delisle and others,</label> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Proceeds of property refunded to Peter Cadwell and James Britten,</label> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David Beard released from a forfeiture,</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Damages to Henry Lightner, postmaster, released,</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to George B. R. Gove of the moiety of a forfeiture,</label> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Wilmot to be refunded money paid on a decree for a forfeiture, which decree was reversed,</label> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elisha Snow repaid a forfeiture from the proceeds of the sloop Mary Snow,</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Dickson and Company to be paid the moiety of the proceeds of certain goods sold as forfeited,</label> <target>350</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Cloyd to be paid the amount of a fine improperly assessed upon him,</label> <target>372</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A moiety of the forfeiture of the schooner Volant to be refunded,</label> <target>415</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A moiety of the forfeiture of the brig Nedeshda to be paid to Charles Collins, collector of Bristol,</label> <target>436</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of a forfeiture of merchandise to David Beard of New York,</label> <target>450</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas H. Smith and Son released from the claim of the United States on thorn,</label> <target>495</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount of a forfeiture to be refunded to Jane Dauphin, administratrix of John Dauphin,</label> <target>551</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moneys refunded to Charles Cramer and others, paid into the Treasury in consequence of the forfeiture of the schooner Joseph and Mary,</label> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of a moiety of a forfeiture on a license bond, to be made to Henry Darling, surety of John Phillips,</label> <target>631</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of a forfeiture to Joseph Gresham,</label> <target>635</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Isaac Means and others, late owners of the schooner Elizabeth, to be repaid for an alleged forfeiture,</label> <target>671<page identifier="/us/stat/6/961">961</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A forfeiture incurred by Joseph Deshields, collector of the District of Norfolk, to be refunded,</label> <target>714</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to be made to John H. Pease, of the moiety of forfeiture as master of a coasting vessel,</label> <target>759</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Repayment to Herman Harris, of New York, of a moiety of a forfeiture paid to the deputy collector at Pensacola,</label> <target>768</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The fine imposed on Matthew Lyon to be refunded, with interest to this time, &amp;c.,</label> <target>802</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jabez L. and Asa White to be released from all claims for proposals for carrying the mail in Connecticut,</label> <target>838</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The fine imposed upon Isaac Fessenden for a breach of the revenue laws, to be refunded to him,</label> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to William H. Hoag and others, of the amount forfeited under a contract for making a road in Michigan,</label> <target>918</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount of money collected for importation of cotton bagging, to be refunded to John Frazer and others,</label> <target>919</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount of a certain fine refunded to John Adams and John Adams, jun., imposed by the revenue officer of Elizabeth City, North Carolina,</label> <target>937</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount forfeited by George W. Clarke and others, under contract to deliver stone at Fort Adams, to be refunded,</label> <target>921</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The fine imposed on the late Anthony Haswell, under the sedition law, to be repaid,</label> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>France.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The administrator of Joseph Icard to be paid one-third of an award under the Convention with France, on account of the loss of the cargo on board the Cadoz,</label> <target>939</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mistakes which have occurred in relation to the payments to Fortesque Whittle to be corrected,</label> <target>709</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Franking privilege</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowed to Mrs. Martha Washington,</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Galliopolis.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Repeal of part of the Act of June 25th, 1798, authorizing a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Galliopolis,</label> <target>59</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Georgetown College</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">May confer degrees,</label> <target>152</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Georgetown District of Columbia.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Part of an act of the legislature of Maryland respecting certain lots in Georgetown repealed,</label> <target>280</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain lots in the city of Washington granted to Georgetown College, in the District of Columbia,</label> <target>538</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Portions of certain public streets may be sold,</label> <target>683</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The corporate limits of Georgetown extended,</label> <target>937</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Gratuity.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gratuity to Alary Cliever for the services of her sons on board the frigate Constitution,</label> <target>134</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Twenty-five thousand dollars to be paid to Mrs. Harrison</label> <target>825</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses Lost, or Destroyed.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Compensation to Joseph Wilson for a horse lost,</label> <target>165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Bruce to be paid for a horse impressed,</label> <target>245</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Converse and George Miller to be paid for horses,</label> <target>245</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas C. Withers to be paid for horses, &amp;c.,</label> <target>245</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joshua Newsom and others to be paid for horses impressed,</label> <target>252</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Fielding Jones to be paid for a horse,</label> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The administrator of George Skinner to be paid for a horse,</label> <target>243</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Dooly to be paid for six horses impressed,</label> <target>272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joel Abbott to be paid for a horse lost in the late war,</label> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Yandez to be paid for a horse lost in the late war,</label> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John A. Webster to be paid for a horse lost in the late war,</label> <target>348</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Adams to be paid for a horse lost,</label> <target>351</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jesse F. Royston to be paid for a horse lost in the late war,</label> <target>353</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Mendenhall to be paid for horses lost,</label> <target>359</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Fielding to be paid for horses and wagon lost,</label> <target>360</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Isaac Ricker to be paid for a horse impressed,</label> <target>361</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Joseph Jeans to be paid for horses impressed during the late war,</label> <target>368</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Chesnut to be paid for a horse Jost,</label> <target>400</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Theophilus Cooksey to be paid for a horse lost,</label> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Orson Sparks and Jolin Watson to be paid for horses lost,</label> <target>405</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Ford to be paid for oxen and sled lost,</label> <target>405</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Cread Glover to be paid for a horse lost,</label> <target>409</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Smith to be paid for a horse lost,</label> <target>428</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Wheatley to be paid for a horse lost,</label> <target>428</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Williams to be paid for horses lost,</label> <target>428</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Gasney to be paid for a horse lost,</label> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Hayner to be paid for a horse lost at the attack on Baltimore,</label> <target>442</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas W. Newton, assignee of Robert Crittenden, to be paid the value of two horses lost for want of forage,</label> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mesheck Browning to be paid for two horses lost in the service of the United States,</label> <target>439</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Jeans representatives to be paid for horses impressed into the service of the United States,</label> <target>445</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Ermatinger to be paid for a horse lost</label> <target>445<page identifier="/us/stat/6/962">962</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Horses Lost, or Destroyed,</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to John Sapp for a horse lost,</label> <target>477</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to Peter Peck for a horse lost,</label> <target>477</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to John Mcnary for a horse lost,</label> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of David Dardin to be paid $1500 for a horse, Romulus, impressed into the service of the United States,</label> <target>495</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peleg Spencer to be paid for horses lost while in the service of the United States,</label> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joshua Bennett to be paid the value of a horse lost,</label> <target>305</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Landie Richardson to be paid for a horse lost,</label> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William S. Anderson to be paid for a horse lost for want of forage in the military service of the United States,</label> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peregrine Gardner to be paid for a horse, &amp;c. lost during the lute war,</label> <target>566</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The value of a horse stolen from James Fife, a Creek Indian, to be ascertained and paid,</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jane Taylor and others to be paid for a horse, &amp;c. impressed,</label> <target>620</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Knowles, sen., to be paid for a horse impressed by order of Captain Humphries in 1814,</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joel Sartain to be paid for a horse lost in the military service of the United States,</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Andrew Hoover, of Indiana, to be paid for a horse lost,</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to Martin Prindle for a horse and sleigh lost,</label> <target>674</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Presley N. O’Bannon to be paid for a horse furnished to Landy Summer, a Kentucky volunteer, in 1813,</label> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jonathan Davis to be paid for horses taken by the United States near Fort Eric in 1813,</label> <target>707</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hugh M’Donald to be paid for a horse taken for the United States,</label> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elias Johns to be paid for a mare lost while engaged in the service of the United States,</label> <target>715</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Jackson to be paid for a horse lost in Florida,</label> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas W. Taylor to be paid for a horse taken by the United States,</label> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hezekiah L. Thistle to be paid for a horse killed and used for food in Florida,</label> <target>859</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Lionberger to be paid for a horse that died in the service of the United States in 1813,</label> <target>881</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Core to be paid for a horse killed in the service,</label> <target>887</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John B. Perkins to be paid for a horse,</label> <target>703</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Impeachment of Samuel Chase.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Expenses incurred to be paid,</label> <target>70</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Imprisonment for Debt.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain persons exempted from imprisonment for debt,</label> <target>50</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Abraham Snyder allowed to take the benefit of the insolvent laws,</label> <target>287</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Incorporation.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Columbian Library Company incorporated,</label> <target>51</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Incorporation of the Trustees of the Presbyterian Congregation of Georgetown,</label> <target>59</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Incorporation of the Georgetown Lancaster School Society,</label> <target>105</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Fire Insurance Company of the town of Alexandria incorporated,</label> <target>129</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A Company incorporated to supply Georgetown with water</label> <target>135</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Incorporation of the Washington Library Company,</label> <target>141</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Incorporation of the Mechanics’ Relief Society,</label> <target>207</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Franklin Fire Insurance Company, in the city of Washington, incorporated,</label> <target>203</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Columbian Institute incorporated,</label> <target>214</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Medical Society of the District of Columbia incorporated,</label> <target>221</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Provident Association of Clerks in the Civil Department of the government of the United States, in the District of Columbia, incorporated,</label> <target>218</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Columbian Insurance Company of Alexandria incorporated,</label> <target>198</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A Company to build a bridge on the eastern branch of the Potomac incorporated,</label> <target>225</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">An act to incorporate the Columbian College in the District of Columbia,</label> <target>255</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Act incorporating the Provident Association of Clerks amended,</label> <target>337</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Trustees of the Female Orphan Asylum in Georgetown, and the Washington Orphan Asylum, incorporated,</label> <target>381</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sisters of Charity of St, Joseph, and the Sisters of the Visitation of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, incorporated,</label> <target>383</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Steam Packet Company, incorporated,</label> <target>398</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alexandria Canal Company incorporated,</label> <target>419</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia, incorporated,</label> <target>453</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A Fire Insurance Company in Georgetown, District of Columbia, incorporated,</label> <target>460</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Supplement to the act incorporating the Female Orphan Society of Georgetown, and the Washington City Asylum in the District of Columbia,</label> <target>492</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charter of Provident Association of Clerks extended,</label> <target>504</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia, incorporated,</label> <target>538</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Fire Insurance Company of Alexandria incorporated,</label> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Provident Association may invest their funds in State or other stocks,</label> <target>681</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Howard Institution of the City of Washington incorporated,</label> <target>685</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Organization of several Fire Companies in the District of Columbia,</label> <target>687</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The charter of the Potomac Fire Insurance Company of Georgetown amended,</label> <target>691</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Fire Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown incorporated,</label> <target>694</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charter of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company,</label> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Medical Society of the District of Columbia incorporated,</label> <target>741</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Washington City Benevolent Society incorporated</label> <target>823<page identifier="/us/stat/6/963">963</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Washington Manual Labor School, and Male Orphan Association of the District of Columbia, incorporated</label> <target>830</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The act to incorporate the Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria, revived and continued in force for ten years’,</label> <target>825</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The German Benevolent Society of the City of Washington incorporated,</label> <target>839</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The National Institute for the Promotion of Science, in the District of Columbia, incorporated,</label> <target>845</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Georgetown College, in the District of Columbia, incorporated,</label> <target>912</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indemnity.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elijah Bostwick to be indemnified,</label> <target>12</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Major-General Nathaniel Green indemnified against a bond,</label> <target>28</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Indemnity to Joseph Nourse for expenses of removal to Washington,</label> <target>35</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Ellis to be indemnified for levying an execution at the suit of the United States,</label> <target>132</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joshua Sands, collector of New York, indemnified from damages by reason of the seizure of the brig Harriet,</label> <target>150</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Asher Palmer indemnified for a schooner captured,</label> <target>165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Indemnity of the sureties of Jabez Mowry and others, for bonds given on the importation of goods which were afterwards captured by the enemy,</label> <target>175</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Indemnity to the sureties of Commodore John Rogers</label> <target>180</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Major-General Jacob Brown’s account to be settled on account of judgment against him,</label> <target>208</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to the officers of the revenue cutter Louisiana, for the seizure of the British vessel Ardent,</label> <target>249</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Discharge of a judgment against John Steele, collector, for refusal of a clearance of the Spanish brig Los Dos Amigos,</label> <target>241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Swartwout indemnified for a judgment for a boat impressed,</label> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Indemnity to Col. Robert Purdy for imprisonment of William Luty,</label> <target>282</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Indemnity of Robert F. Stockton for suits against him for the capture of the Jeune Eugenia, on the const of Africa, and in the case of the Marianna Flora,</label> <target>288</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Josiah Hook to be paid expenses of an action against him as collector,</label> <target>302</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Indemnity to Joseph Marcehal,</label> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A. Clark to be indemnified for a judgment against him as collector,</label> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lieut. Isaac M’Keever indemnified for his expenses in the case of the vessels Marino and Louisa,</label> <target>357</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A judgment against Thomas Flournoy of Georgia to be paid,</label> <target>370</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Johnson and others indemnified for the expenses in an action of trespass,</label> <target>373</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Indemnity of Francis H. Gregory and Jesse Wilkinson, officers in the navy,</label> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The owner and underwriters of the British brig Union and cargo indemnified for the destruction of the ship, &amp;c., after the peace with England in 1815,</label> <target>394</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alexander Claxton to be paid the taxable costs in the case of the ship James Mitchell,</label> <target>434</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The expenses in the said case to be settled and allowed,</label> <target>434</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Conard, Marshal of Pennsylvania, to be indemnified for a judgment against him in favour of F. H. Nicholl,</label> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lieutenant-Colonel Enos Cutler, of the United States army, to be indemnified for certain suits against him,</label> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to the representatives of Simeon Theus, on account of bad bonds,</label> <target>449</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel C. Whittier to be paid money illegally demanded of him as surety,</label> <target>455</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Cheever and others to be paid for money illegally demanded of them as sureties,</label> <target>456</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Leonard Denison and Elisha Ely indemnified for certain damages,</label> <target>482</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David E. Twiggs, J. M. Street, and S. W. Kearney, to be indemnified for suits against them,</label> <target>515</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">W. C. H. Waddell indemnified for a judgment rendered against him as marshal of New York,</label> <target>594</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Mitchell to be indemnified for a judgment against him,</label> <target>754</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John L. Allen to be indemnified for an official act,</label> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathan Levy, consul at St. Thomas, to be indemnified for a judgment against him,</label> <target>797</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Morrow and Jonathan Tipton to be indemnified for certain judgments,</label> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George W. Pascall indemnified for an official act in the destruction of whiskey intended for the Cherokee Indians,</label> <target>858</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John R. Delany to be indemnified for a certain judgment against him,</label> <target>879</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indian Lands.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Extinguishment of the Indian title to certain lands in Georgia,</label> <target>379</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Title of the United States to land allowed to Peter Lynch extinguished,</label> <target>379</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Winton, of the State of Tennessee, to be paid for land ceded by a Cherokee Indian,</label> <target>387</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The interest of the United States in certain Indian reservations in Alabama, relinquished,</label> <target>411</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Right of the United States in a certain reservation of land, in the Cherokee tract, relinquished to Joseph Elliot,</label> <target>507</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The right of the United States to reservations made to Thomas Harrison, the head of an Indian family of the Cherokee tribe, relinquished to Isaac Welborn, jun., and William Welborn,</label> <target>710</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land certificate to be issued to the children of Stephen Johnson, granted to kirn by the treaty with the Pottawatomie Indians,</label> <target>812</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Reversionary interest in certain reservations for the Indians, made by the treaty with the Pottawatomie, of the Prairie, tec., relinquished,</label> <target>818<page identifier="/us/stat/6/964">964</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Injuries to property—Destruction of property during the war, by the Indians, &amp;c.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Compensation to the Public Grammar School at Wilmington, for damages to property in the late war,</label> <target>8</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Relief of persons whose property has been destroyed by the insurgents of Pennsylvania,</label> <target>20</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Compensation to Rhode Island College,</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Robinson and others to be paid for damages to property during the war,</label> <target>146</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Sprigg to be paid for destruction of a rope-walk,</label> <target>155</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Workmen paid for tools, destroyed at the Navy Yard in Washington,</label> <target>155</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Savage and others to be paid for property destroyed by order of Major-General Macomb,</label> <target>155</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The supervisors of the county of Clinton to be paid for property destroyed by order of General Alexander Macomb,</label> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Compensation to William Flood for property destroyed near New Orleans,</label> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Charles Ross and Samuel Breck, for injury to a farm in Georgia, to be settled,</label> <target>172</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Caslard to be paid for a sawmill destroyed by order of General David B. Morgan,</label> <target>188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Compensation for property destroyed by hostile Creeks,</label> <target>191</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Perkins to be paid for the destruction of the ship Liverpool Trader,</label> <target>148</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Shinnick and others paid for property destroyed by the United States,</label> <target>150</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William H. Washington to be paid for property destroyed near Potomac Bridge,</label> <target>151</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Eastern Branch Bridge Company to be paid damages for injuries to the bridge by order of the Navy Department,</label> <target>152</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Manac to be paid for property destroyed by hostile Indians,</label> <target>171</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph I. Green’s claim for his house, destroyed by order of General Macomb,</label> <target>193</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Journonville de Villiers to be paid for a fence used as fuel by the troops of the United States,</label> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Caleb Nicholls to be paid for property injured at Plattsburg,</label> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James H. Boisgervais to be paid for destruction of saw-mill, and wood and fences,</label> <target>195</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Property of William Oliver destroyed at Fort Wayne to be paid for,</label> <target>196</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Property of Ignace Chalmet Delino and others, destroyed at New Orleans, to be paid for,</label> <target>186</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Madame Montriuel to be paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Dr. Mottrom Ball to be paid for buildings destroyed on Old Court-House Point,</label> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Compensation for the property of Daniel Renner and Nathaniel H. Heath,</label> <target>221</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Henderson to be paid for property destroyed by the enemy,</label> <target>263</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Michael Hogan for damages to his property at Utica to be settled,</label> <target>231</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Orr to be paid for schooner Telegraph, taken and sunk in defence of Baltimore,</label> <target>235</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to the widow and representatives of William Dewees for properly destroyed or taken for public use,</label> <target>207</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Miller and Stephen Baker to be paid for a house destroyed by fire whilst in the occupation of troops of the United States,</label> <target>209</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Samuel F. Hooker, for properly destroyed by the enemy, to be paid,</label> <target>211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elias Parks to be paid for property destroyed by the British,</label> <target>254</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Rosalie P. Deslonde to be paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>258</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Rodriguez to to paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Francis B. Languille to be paid for properly destroyed,</label> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alexander Milne to be paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lewis H. Guerlain to be paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph McNiel to be paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bartholomew Duverge to be paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>260</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pierre Dennis De La Ronde to be paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>260</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to John Pellet for losses during the invasion of Louisiana,</label> <target>277</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Edward McCarty to be paid for property destroyed by the invasion of Louisiana,</label> <target>270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James May and the representatives of William Macomb to be paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>266</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The legal representatives of Joseph Hodgson to be allowed the value of a brick house, destroyed while in the occupation of the United States,</label> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Solomon Prevost remunerated for losses sustained by the invasion of Louisiana,</label> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Pierce to be paid for a wagon and horses employed in the last war,</label> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Gwynn to be paid for a horse killed in battle,</label> <target>274</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Thomas Shields for loss of property by the burning of a public storehouse in Louisiana,</label> <target>274</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Matthew M’Nair to be paid for a flat-bottomed boat,</label> <target>275</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Holmes to be allowed for a horse killed in an Indian engagement,</label> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Eleanor Lawrence to be paid damages for the occupation of a farm on Long Island,</label> <target>282</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Walker and others to be paid for injuries to their lands in erecting fortifications at Marcus Hook,</label> <target>284</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edward Evat to be paid for a house burned while in the occupation of the United States,</label> <target>281</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Loudon Case to be paid for a yoke of oxen impressed into the service of the United States,</label> <target>291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Blean to be paid for materials taken from a house at West Point,</label> <target>305</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thaddeus Mayhew to be paid for property taken for the use of the American troops at New Orleans,</label> <target>298</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Solomon Sibley to be paid for his fences at Detroit, destroyed in 1814,</label> <target>300<page identifier="/us/stat/6/965">965</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Samuel Mims, deceased, to be paid for property destroyed by the hostile Indians,</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William T. Nimmo to be paid for a pleasure house destroyed in Princess Ann County, Virginia,</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Elijah Brush to be paid for fonces at Detroit, destroyed in 1814,</label> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David Cooper to be paid for an unfinished house pulled down,</label> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David Giffin and Samuel Hoag to be paid for fences destroyed,</label> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lemuel Arms to be paid for a building destroyed,</label> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Holliday to be paid for a wagon and team captured by hostile Indians,</label> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alexander M’Nair to be paid for a house in Missouri, near Fort Massack, destroyed while in possession of the troops of the United States,</label> <target>314</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Dozet and Antoine Bourgoud to be paid for damages to their property in Michigan during the late war,</label> <target>323</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sarah Shillito to be paid for the destruction of her house while occupied by the troops of the United States,</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lemuel Wootten to be paid for a wagon, &amp;c., lost in the service of the United States,</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joel Byington to be paid for damages done to his house and barn while in the service of the United States during the late war,</label> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to certain persons for property destroyed by the Osage Indians,</label> <target>408</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Abbot to be paid for fences taken by the United States troops,</label> <target>416</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Rodriguez to be paid for damages done to his property during the late war,</label> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hubert La Croix to be paid for his house destroyed by the enemy in the territory of Michigan,</label> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs, &amp;c., of widow Dupree to be paid for fences, &amp;c., destroyed below New Orleans,</label> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jasper Parish to be paid for property destroyed in the state of New York by the troops of the United States,</label> <target>447</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Baptiste Jerome to be paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>448</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Compensation to Gabriel Godfroy for property destroyed on the river Raisin,</label> <target>450</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin S. Smoot, of Alabama, to be paid for property destroyed under orders of the officers of the United States,</label> <target>466</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Samuel Wagstaff to be paid for a house destroyed by the enemy,</label> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pereia Tupper, executrix of Samuel Tupper, to be paid for a barn destroyed by the enemy,</label> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jane Muir to be paid for injuries done to her property,</label> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Silvia Posner to be paid for buildings destroyed while occupied by the American troops,</label> <target>513</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Brunson to be paid for property destroyed by the enemy at Buffalo,</label> <target>518</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs, &amp;c. of Edward Barry, to be paid for property destroyed in the conflagration of the navy-yard at Washington,</label> <target>520</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Augustine Taney to be paid for property destroyed by the enemy on Soller’s Point, near Baltimore,</label> <target>525</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Waller to be paid the value of buildings destroyed by the enemy on the eastern shore of Maryland,</label> <target>525</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs, &amp;c. of George Hodge to be paid for property destroyed by the conflagration at the navy-yard, Washington,</label> <target>545</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joshua P. Frothingham and the heirs of Thomas Hopping to be paid for property destroyed in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Robert Avart, for property destroyed near New Orleans, in the late war, to be adjusted and paid,</label> <target>553</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment for property destroyed by Indian depredations,</label> <target>581</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Sewall and Robert Sewall, of St. Mary’s county, Maryland, to be paid for property destroyed by the enemy during the late war,</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs, &amp;c. of John Rose, to be paid for property destroyed by the burning of the navy-yard at Washington, in 1814,</label> <target>594</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Hertick to be paid for a boat impressed,</label> <target>678</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel May to be paid for property destroyed by the enemy at Buffalo,</label> <target>518</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David S. Campbell to be paid for a rifle-gun lost in 1812,</label> <target>624</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Pollock to be paid for a boat impressed in 1814, to convey the Kentucky militia to New Orleans,</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joshua Cullumber to be paid for a schooner impressed into the service of the United States in 1814, and destroyed by die British,</label> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of William Forbes to be paid for houses destroyed at Kinsale, in Virginia, by the enemy, in the late war with Great Britain,</label> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Scioto Evans to be paid for a horse, saddle, &amp;c.,</label> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Aaron Smith to be paid for property destroyed, while in the military service of the United States,</label> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John J. Avery to be paid for his property destroyed in erecting a fort in 1814,</label> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Butler to be paid for the loss of a wagon, &amp;c.,</label> <target>619</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of James Tilford, for property destroyed, to be settled,</label> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jacob B. Gilbert to be paid for a house on the Niagara frontier, destroyed in the late war,</label> <target>625</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Beacham to be paid for property destroyed by the British in the late war, in Northumberland county, Virginia,</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles M. Frasier to be paid for a house destroyed in St. Leonard’s county, Maryland, by die British,</label> <target>642</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Michael Fenwick to be paid for a house destroyed by the enemy during the late war,</label> <target>661</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel Canada’s legal representative to be <page identifier="/us/stat/6/966">966</page>paid for property destroyed by the British in Connecticut,</label> <target>669</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles I. Catlett to be paid the amount of loss on the tobacco destroyed by the enemy in Maryland,</label> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James F. Sothoron to be paid for property destroyed by the enemy in St. Mary’s county, Maryland,</label> <target>675</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Albion T. Crow to be paid for property destroyed while in the occupation of the Illinois volunteers,</label> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John M’Carty’s representatives to be paid for a house destroyed by the British at Farnham, Virginia,</label> <target>703</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The property of Frances Gardiner, at Fort Brook, destroyed while in the occupation of the troops of the United States, to be paid for,</label> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Occupation of a store by the United States, and damages done to it, to be paid for,</label> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James J. Pattison to be paid for his house on the Patuxent, destroyed by the enemy in 1814,</label> <target>709</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Eadus to be paid far his property at Sodus, destroyed by the British in 1813,</label> <target>710</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The court-house, in Calvert county, Maryland, destroyed by the British during the late war, to be paid for,</label> <target>711</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Frisby to be paid for his property at Farlie, Kent county, Maryland, destroyed by the British in 1814,</label> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Willis to be paid for a pilot-boat lost while piloting a revenue cutter,</label> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John T. Addoms to be paid for damages to his property at Plattsburg in 1814,</label> <target>799</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles M. Keller and Henry Stone to be paid for property destroyed while in the public service,</label> <target>821</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Avery, Saltmarsh, and Company, to be paid for properly destroyed by the Creek Indians,</label> <target>822</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Plumb Island Bridge, destroyed, to be paid for,</label> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Archibald M’Callum to be paid for property destroyed at Rouse’s Point, New York,</label> <target>844</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sylvester Phelps and the heirs of Charles Landon to be paid for property destroyed,</label> <target>848</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John King to be paid for a house burnt by the British in Richmond county, Virginia,</label> <target>865</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Tongue and others to be paid for property destroyed by the British in</label> <target>1814, 866</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William G. Sanders to be paid for a storehouse, &amp;c., destroyed in Florida,</label> <target>888</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Wallis to be paid for properly destroyed by the Indians,</label> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Harvey Heth to be paid for corn destroyed by the Indians,</label> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Interest allowed on General Kosciusko’s certificate,</label> <target>32</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Baynham to be paid interest on certificates,</label> <target>89</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Interest to be paid to Joseph Wheaton,</label> <target>166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Internal Taxes.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The executors of John B. Mebane authorized to collect arrears of internal taxes,</label> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The executors of John B. Mebane authorized to collect arrears of direct taxes,</label> <target>311</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Judgments released.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Soloman Frazer, and the representatives of Charles Eccleston, released from a judgment,</label> <target>151</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Mitchell released from a judgment,</label> <target>162</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Major Loring Austin and George R. Wells, to be released from claims upon judgments for damages for arrest and detention of persons under orders of General Pike,</label> <target>210</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Widow and children of Jacob Graeff, released from a judgment against Jacob Graeff,</label> <target>210</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Steele released from a judgment,</label> <target>241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elliott Rucker released from a judgment against him,</label> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A judgment against the representatives of Elijah Wadsworth, to be discharged,</label> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David Gilmore and others released from a judgment in the District Court of Maine,</label> <target>323</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Reuben Ewing and others, securities of William Whitsell, released from a judgment,</label> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Michael M’Kewen to have satisfaction entered on certain judgments against him,</label> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Collins exonerated from balance in his account as captain in the service of the United States,</label> <target>368</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin King released from interest on a judgment,</label> <target>309</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Blagrove discharged from a judgment,</label> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Brotherton to be released from a judgment,</label> <target>306</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bannister Stone released from a judgment against him as security of A. Carruth,</label> <target>388</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Erastus Granger released from a judgment,</label> <target>410</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Johnson to be released from a judgment obtained against him as one of the sureties of Benjamin F. Bourne,</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Kilbourn to be discharged from a judgment in favour of the United States,</label> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Representatives of Elias Earle released from a judgment,</label> <target>510</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John H. Harrison released from a judgment as security,</label> <target>510</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James W. Zachary released from a judgment, and payments refunded,</label> <target>510</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount of certain judgments, &amp;c., to be repaid to Major Abraham A. Massias,</label> <target>545</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seaborn Jones and Joel Crawford released from a judgment against them as securities of Thomas F. Green, Postmaster at Milledgeville,</label> <target>672</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Lee released from a judgment as surety of John Ricaud,</label> <target>692</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William B. Ferguson and his sureties released from a judgment and costs,</label> <target>750</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gabriel W. Denton and his sureties released from a certain promissory note,</label> <target>665</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Nathan Sage to be repaid the amount of a judgment recovered by him as collector at Oswego, New York,</label> <target>756<page identifier="/us/stat/6/967">967</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Proceedings on a judgment against Walter Jones suspended; settlement to be made of his accounts,</label> <target>764</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Proceedings against Daniel Ward and George Ficklin on a judgment suspended,</label> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Abel A. Pasko released from part of a judgment against him for the Post-Office Department,</label> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">No proceedings to take place on a judgment against Edward Blake,</label> <target>785</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John R. Tefft, administrator of Francis D. P. de Villers, released from a judgment,</label> <target>853</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Randal, Charles York, and James Williams to be released from judgments against them,</label> <target>840</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William H. Robertson and others to have interest on certain judgments remitted to them,</label> <target>872</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Wharry released from a judgment, and the penalty to be repaid,</label> <target>889</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Lord to be conditionally discharged from liability on a judgment,</label> <target>891</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The administrator of Abiel Wood to be released from a judgment against A. Wood,</label> <target>800</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A. G. S. Wight, released from part of a judgment against him, on paying the balance,</label> <target>801</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The collection of a judgment against Richard Sneed to be suspended, &amp;c.,</label> <target>893</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David Alspach released as surety of M. Alspach, on payment of costs,</label> <target>923</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Hunter and Alexander Caldwell released from a certain judgment in the Circuit Court of Kentucky, except as to costs,</label> <target>926</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Alexander Mitchell released from certain judgments in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia,</label> <target>940</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin S. Roberts conditionally discharged from liability on a judgment; his accounts to be settled as a lieutenant,</label> <target>938</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Ramsay discharged from a certain judgment,</label> <target>937</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Kentucky Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land granted to the Kentucky Asylum,</label> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Time for selling land extended,</label> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Further time for the sale of lands granted,</label> <target>810</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>La Fayette.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Two hundred thousand dollars and a township of land granted to General La Fayette,</label> <target>320</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lewis and Clarke and their Companions.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Warrants for lands to be issued to them,</label> <target>66</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Double pay to be allowed,</label> <target>66</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Mail of the United States.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The widow of John Heaps to be paid $500; her husband having been killed while employed as a carrier of the mail,</label> <target>245</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Maritime Captures.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sums to be paid to the representatives of David Valenzin and others,</label> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Marine Hospital at Charleston.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Appropriation for a marine hospital at Charleston, South Carolina,</label> <target>419</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Medical Services.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Dr. David H. Maxwell to be paid for medical services in 1814,</label> <target>711</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Merchandise Exported.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Further time to export merchandise allowed to James Yard,</label> <target>39</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Michigan Volunteers.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claims of Francis Lasselle and others, Michigan volunteers, to be paid,</label> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Militia.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payments to the militia under Major James Ore,</label> <target>34</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount of a militia fine returned to John M’Causland,</label> <target>234</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Walker to be paid for provisions for the militia on the frontiers of Indiana,</label> <target>274</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Greenbury H. Murphy to be allowed for the amount of a judgment incurred for collecting militia fines,</label> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Professors, tutors, stewards, &amp;c, of seminaries of learning in the District of Columbia exempt from militia duty,</label> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Charles Carr for payments to the Kentucky militia,</label> <target>289</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mareen Duval to be paid for provisions furnished to the Ohio militia,</label> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lucy Loomis to be paid the amount which would have been due to her husband, a lieutenant in the militia. Half-pay allowed to her,</label> <target>565</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Services.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The pay of a captain allowed to Baron de Glaubeck,</label> <target>1</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Annuity of $2500 for life given to Frederick William de Steuben for military services during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>2</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Gibson to be paid for military services,</label> <target>10</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance for the education of the children of Hugh Mercer,</label> <target>12</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land warrant to be issued to Ephraim Kimberly,</label> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance for military services of General La Fayette,</label> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Colonel Tousard for military services,</label> <target>15</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of Lewis Dubois for military services to be settled,</label> <target>16</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Services of Peter Covenhoven,</label> <target>18</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Military services of Angus M’Lean,</label> <target>20</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pension for the children of Col. Harding and Major Truman,</label> <target>12, 41</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Major Thomas Lewis,</label> <target>37</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to the widow and orphan children of Robert Elliott,</label> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to the widow and orphans of Thomas Flinn,</label> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sums to be paid to Gilbert C. Russell,</label> <target>61</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Louis Tousard,</label> <target>47</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Philip Turner,</label> <target>73<page identifier="/us/stat/6/968">968</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Arthur St. Clair for military , services,</label> <target>94</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Major-General Anthony Wayne to be re-examined,</label> <target>96</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Thompson to be paid for services as captain,</label> <target>108</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Washington Lee to be allowed for services as judge-advocate,</label> <target>118</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Ninian Pinkney,</label> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lieutenant-Colonel William D. Beal to be allowed for services as adjutant and inspector in the army,</label> <target>110</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Brigadier-General Wilkinson to be allowed the same emoluments as other brigadier-generals,</label> <target>110</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Heirs of Colonel John Durkee to be allowed seven years’ half-pay and interest, for services of Colonel Durkee,</label> <target>110</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">An annuity to be allowed to Young King, a chief of the Seneca Indians, for military services,</label> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Donation to the widow of Charles Dolph, for his services during the late war,</label> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jonathan Wamsly’s company of Virginia militia to be paid,</label> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Services of the sons of Patrick and Abigail O’Flyng to be rewarded,</label> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Rewards to Joseph Stewart, Matthew Guy, and others, for services during the war,</label> <target>176</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Four years’ half-pay of Alexander Hamilton, as a lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary war, to be allowed to his widow,</label> <target>173</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jervis Cutler to be allowed the pay of a captain,</label> <target>143</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Warrant to General Moses Porter, for military services,</label> <target>207</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peggy Bailey may enter a tract of land for the services of her brother, Dixon Bailey, an Indian, slain in the service of the United States, at Fort Mims,</label> <target>213</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of M. Poirey, secretary and aid-de-camp of Major-General La Fayette, to be paid,</label> <target>225</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven months’ pay, &amp;c., allowed to M. de Vienne, as lieutenant-colonel,</label> <target>225</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance for bounties and premiums paid by James M’Donald, for enlistments in the army of the United States,</label> <target>237</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John A. Dix to be paid for military services,</label> <target>239</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel B. Benl to be paid the amount of certificates for his services as lieutenant during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>249</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A duplicate land warrant to be issued to James Brady,</label> <target>258</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Shields and others to be paid for prisoners captured,</label> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Aquila Giles, for military services,</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A military land warrant to be issued to Daniel Moss,</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Cocke to receive two months’ pay as colonel of infantry,</label> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John T. Johnson to be paid for military services,</label> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Dean Weymouth to be paid for military services,</label> <target>311</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Cleveland to be paid for services as a soldier,</label> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Priscilla Adams, wife of John Adams, to be paid the monthly pay due to her husband,</label> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Dale, of Alabama, to be paid for military services,</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The companies of mounted rangers, commanded by Captains Boyle and M’Girth, to be paid for their services in the Seminole war,</label> <target>328</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of soldiers of the Mississippi militia, to be paid to Holden W. Prout, administrator of Joshua W. Prout,</label> <target>333</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Luther P. Chapin, of Ohio, to be paid for his services during the late war,</label> <target>334</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to the children of J. W. Baylor, for his military services, and to the heirs of Captain Edwards and Ensign Eustace,</label> <target>351</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The company of mounted rangers, under the command of Captain James Bigger, to be paid,</label> <target>352</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment for the services of the late Major-General Brown, to Mrs. Brown,</label> <target>374</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Richard W. Steele, a soldier, to be settled and paid,</label> <target>361</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A military land warrant Lobe issued to Allan B. M’Alhany for services,</label> <target>386</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Reynolds to be paid a balance due to her husband, John Reynolds, for services as commissary of clothing of Rhode Island during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>387</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Caleb Stark to be paid his commutation as lieutenant in the revolutionary war, and a bounty land warrant to be issued to him,</label> <target>388</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The children, &amp;c. of William Beckham, of Louisiana, to be paid for his services as captain of militia,</label> <target>389</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of General Moses Hazen to be paid for loss of half-pay in the British service, by entering the service of the United States,</label> <target>392</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Hunt to be paid for his services as adjutant in the army in 1812 and 1813,</label> <target>401</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James D. Cobb to be paid for his services as lieutenant of light artillery,</label> <target>405</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Commutation of pay as a captain in the Maryland line of the revolutionary army, allowed to Mountjoy Bayly,</label> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ pay as a lieutenant allowed to James Barnet, an officer in the late war,</label> <target>428</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ pay as captain allowed to Thomas Blackwell,</label> <target>436</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ half-pay as a lieutenant-colonel, and a bounty land-warrant for four hundred acres, to be granted to Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer, children of Robert Hanson Harrison,</label> <target>437</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to David Kilbourn for services in the late war,</label> <target>513</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Vawters allowed five years’ full pay as lieutenant,</label> <target>489</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Dr. Samuel Kennedy allowed seven years’ half-pay as surgeon,</label> <target>490</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Provisions of the act of Feb. 6th, 1812, chap. 12, extended to Antoine Dequindre and others, Michigan volunteers,</label> <target>475<page identifier="/us/stat/6/969">969</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The benefits of the act of May 15, 1828, ch. 53, extended to Stephen Olney,</label> <target>433</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jacob Wilderman to be paid for his services as a mounted ranger,</label> <target>435</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The provisions of the act of May 15, 1828, chap. 53, extended to Abraham Brownson,</label> <target>435</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Martha Yeomans to be paid for the military services of John Yeomans,</label> <target>444</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The provisions of the act of May 15, 1828, chap. 53, extended to David Brooks,</label> <target>445</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Price to be allowed five years’ pay as lieutenant during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>445</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ephraim Whitaker and John J. Jacobs to have extended to them the benefits of the act of May 15, 1828,</label> <target>446</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The proviso in the act for the relief of Philip Slaughter, repealed,</label> <target>446</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Roberts, late major of infantry in the war of the revolution, allowed five years’ pay as major,</label> <target>490</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">R. Hillary’s legal representatives allowed five years’ full pay for services in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>490</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs, &amp;c., of William Carter, late of Virginia, allowed five years’ pay for his services as a surgeon in the revolution,</label> <target>490</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ half pay as colonel, allowed for the services of John Walker Baylor in the revolution, to be paid to Ann D. Baylor,</label> <target>491</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ half-pay as lieutenant during the revolution, allowed to Edmund Brooke,</label> <target>491</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs, &amp;c., of Dr. Samuel J. Axson to be paid five years’ half-pay for his services during the revolution as surgeon,</label> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Knight allowed five years’ half-pay as surgeon’s mate during the revolution,</label> <target>495</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Additional pay granted to E. Whitaker,</label> <target>501</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to David Brooks, how to be computed,</label> <target>503</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John H. Wendell, n captain in the revolutionary war, allowed the benefit of the act of May 15, 1828, chap. 53,</label> <target>504</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John J. Jacob to be paid the commutation of his half-pay as a lieutenant, with interest,</label> <target>516</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Davenport to be allowed five years’ full pay, with interest, for revolutionary services,</label> <target>518</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Harvey Brown to be paid for services as assistant quartermaster-general,</label> <target>525</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Thomas and Peter Foster allowed five years’ pay and interest, as revolutionary officers,</label> <target>540</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Henly Court’s services as surgeon’s mate during the revolution to be paid,</label> <target>542</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The military services of Dr. Isaac Ledyard, deceased, to be paid with interest,</label> <target>542</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sixty dollars per month and interest to be allowed to the heirs of Col. John Ely, of the Connecticut line,</label> <target>543</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Adam Caplinger to be paid for his services as artificer in a militia tour of duly,</label> <target>544</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Triplett allowed five years’ pay, with interest, as a captain in the revolution,</label> <target>544</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ full pay, with interest, allowed to the heirs, &amp;c., of John Peter Wagnon, a lieutenant in the revolutionary army,</label> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">J. Gibbon allowed five years’ half-pay, with interest, as a captain during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>551</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Price allowed five years’ half-pay, with interest, as a lieutenant during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>552</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">P. Slaughter allowed interest on his commutation of half pay,</label> <target>552</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to be made to John G. Reynolds, for services as lieutenant in the marine corps,</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven years’ half-pay as a brigadier-general during the revolutionary war, to be paid to the representatives of Francis Nash,</label> <target>586</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ half-pay as captain during the revolutionary war, allowed to Ephraim Whitaker,</label> <target>587</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certificate issued to Lord Sterling, to be paid to William A. Duer and others, trustees of the estate of Sarah Alexander,</label> <target>587</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ half-pay as a captain during the revolutionary war, allowed to Thomas Minor,</label> <target>587</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven years’ pay as a lieutenant in the army of the revolution, allowed to the representatives of John M. Gregory,</label> <target>588</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ half-pay as a lieutenant during the revolutionary war, allowed to the representatives of John Taylor,</label> <target>588</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ full pay as a cornet allowed to William Teas’ representatives, for services in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>589</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ full pay as captain during the revolutionary war, allowed to the representatives of George Hurlbut,</label> <target>589</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ full pay as major during the revolutionary war, allowed to the representatives of Joseph Torrey,</label> <target>590</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven years’ half-pay allowed to Margaret Riker, the widow of Abraham Riker, a captain in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>590</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven years’ half-pay allowed certain officers and the widows of officers, for services during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>590</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A tract of land in the state of Louisiana, granted to General Philemon Thomas, in consideration of military services,</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ full pay us a captain, allowed to the representatives of William Royall,</label> <target>595</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of James Noble, as lieutenant in the navy, to be audited and settled,</label> <target>595</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ full pay allowed to the representatives of Thomas Wallace, a lieutenant in the Virginia line,</label> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ pay as a lieutenant, allowed to Robert Wilmott, for services in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>601</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Enos Grannis to be settled, and his allowance of five years’ full pay as a lieutenant in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>601</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Buller Claiborne to be allowed pay for his services as captain in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Everard Meade to be allowed pay for his services as captain during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven years’ half-pay as a lieutenant, allowed <page identifier="/us/stat/6/970">970</page>to Ann M. Barron, daughter of William Barron, for his services as lieutenant during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ full pay allowed to the representatives of Captain James Craine, for his services in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land warrant for military services as adjutant and inspector-general of die forces of the United States in Egypt, to be issued to John Eugene Leitensdorfer,</label> <target>606</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven years’ half-pay of a lieutenant allowed to Francis and Judith Taylor, for the services of Henry Field,</label> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ full pay as a lieutenant, allowed the representatives of Robert Jouet, for his services during the revolutionary war, in the Virginia line, continental establishment,</label> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The act of May 15, 1828, chap. 53, to be extended to Albert Pawling, a colonel in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Elizabeth Robinson, daughter of Lieutenant Richard Wilde, a lieutenant in the army of the revolution,</label> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Bender to be allowed the pay of a major of engineers, for his services in the construction of die Delaware breakwater,</label> <target>642</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ann Evans, widow of George Evans, a soldier in the revolutionary war, allowed the half-pay of a soldier for five years’,</label> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A half month’s pay of a captain to be paid to the widow of Jacob Schmuck,</label> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven years’ half-pay allowed to Nancy Haggard, only daughter of William Grymes, a captain in the Virginia line, continental establishment,</label> <target>662</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven years’ half-pay of a brigadier-general, allowed to the heirs of James Moore, in the army of the revolution,</label> <target>663</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of William P, Rathbone, as paymaster and contractor, to be settled,</label> <target>663</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven years’ half-pay, as colonel, allowed to the children of Colonel John Hazlet, of the state of Delaware,</label> <target>671</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Thornton Taylor, to be allowed pay as ensign in the Virginia line, continental establishment,</label> <target>676</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven years’ half-pay as lieutenant to be allowed to the children of James Parkinson, of the continental line in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>676</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Captain David Hopkins allowed five years’ full pay for his services in the revolutionary army,</label> <target>676</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles W. Pickering allowed the difference between the pay of a lieutenant and a midshipman,</label> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jerah Fenner to be paid for his services as a soldier,</label> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance of five years’ half pay to the widow of Elias Hyde, a volunteer in a company of riflemen in 1813,</label> <target>708</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Wilson to be paid as inspector-general of Missouri militia,</label> <target>712</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Alexander G. Morgan, for military services in 1832, in a company of Illinois volunteers, to be settled,</label> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Philip Marshal, and the representatives of John Marshal, for services at the Baltimore station,</label> <target>715</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Dr. Thomas Carter, to receive a further allowance for his services in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>716</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Witherell to be allowed five years’ full pay as an ensign during the revolutionary war, in the Massachusetts line,</label> <target>717</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Spitfathom to be allowed five years’ full pay as an ensign in the Virginia line, during the revolutionary war, without interest,</label> <target>718</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Coggswell, who was a hospital surgeon, allowed five years’ full pay us a captain in the army of the revolution,</label> <target>718</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of William Russwarm allowed five years’ full pay as lieutenant in the North Carolina line, during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moses Van Campen allowed five years’ full pay of a lieutenant of infantry in the Pennsylvania line, during the war of the revolution,</label> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Warren, of South Carolina, allowed five years’ full pay as captain in the army of the revolution,</label> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Henry Morfit to be paid five years’ full pay as a captain during the war of the revolution,</label> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Major Peter Helphenstein, a major in the Virginia line, on the continental establishment, to receive five years’ full pay,</label> <target>720</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ full pay allowed to the representatives of Daniel Duval, a captain in the Virginia line, on continental establishment,</label> <target>720</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Five years’ full pay allowed to Patrick M’Gibbon, a lieutenant in the North Carolina line, on continental establishment,</label> <target>720</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The half monthly pay of Julius F. Heilman, as a major of artillery, allowed to his widow,</label> <target>720</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven years’ half-pay of a lieutenant-colonel to be paid to the heirs of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Campbell, of the Virginia line, on continental establishment,</label> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Irwin allowed seven years’ half-pay as a lieutenant in the North Carolina line, on continental establishment,</label> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Doctor William Johonnot’s representatives to be paid five years’ full pay as a hospital surgeon in the army of the revolution,</label> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Captain Charles Snead’s representatives to be allowed five years’ half-pay as a captain of the Virginia line, on continental establishment,</label> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Joshua Fanning allowed seven years’ half-pay as lieutenant of a frigate during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of William Hooker Smith allowed five years’ full pay as a captain during the war of the revolution,</label> <target>731</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of John B. Ashe allowed the commutation of half-pay for life, as a lieutenant-colonel during the revolutionary war,</label> <target>731</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The children, &amp;c. of John Chilton, slain in <page identifier="/us/stat/6/971">971</page>the battle of Brandywine, to receive five years’ full pay of a captain of infantry during the revolution,</label> <target>731</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Wharton Quarles to be paid the balance of a judgment for military services in the second state regiment of the Virginia line,</label> <target>732</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Seven years’ half-pay as a lieutenant of infantry to be paid on account of the revolutionary services of John M’Clelland, deceased,</label> <target>735</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Timothy Feely, late a lieutenant in the Virginia line, to be allowed five years’ full pay as a lieutenant,</label> <target>738</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Daniel Williams, late a lieutenant in the army of the revolution, and the representatives of William B. Bunting and Thomas H. Boyles, late a major of infantry, to receive half-pay,</label> <target>738</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The officers and non-commissioned officers of the second brigade Florida militia, in 1835, to be paid,</label> <target>760</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Dr. John M. Foltz to be allowed certain pay,</label> <target>766</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Spencer G. Gist allowed for services as acting lieutenant on board the frigate Guerriere,</label> <target>772</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A. J. Picket and George W. Gayle, aids-de-camp to C. C. Clay, late Governor of Alabama, allowed certain pay and emoluments,</label> <target>776</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Vannettin and his company of the Ohio militia to be paid for their services,</label> <target>777</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James H. Grant and others, privates in Captain Ayres Maupin’s company of volunteers, to be paid for their services,</label> <target>784</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of John Levacher de Van Brun to be paid seven years’ half-pay of a lieutenant in the revolutionary war in the Maryland line,</label> <target>785</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Three companies of militia of Indiana called into the service of the United States to be paid,</label> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Andrew Rembert allowed pay and emoluments as first sergeant in Capt. Broadnax’s company in the late Creek war,</label> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount due the late Lieutenant-Colonel A. R. Thompson, and also the value of any horse or horses of his, to be paid,</label> <target>806</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Leonard Smith allowed the pay of a lieutenant,</label> <target>811</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The military services of Thomas G. Prettyman to be paid for,</label> <target>855</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance for the military services of Lieutenant-Colonel Thompson in the service of the United States,</label> <target>869</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin J. Totten to be paid for his services as an acting lieutenant in the navy,</label> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Drysdale to be paid for his services in the Florida militia,</label> <target>893</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Mississippi Stock.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certificate of Mississippi stock to be issued to the representatives of George Pearson,</label> <target>298</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Mobile.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Title to a lot of ground in Mobile confirmed to William Pollard’s heirs,</label> <target>680</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money recovered from a Mail Robber.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel D. Rose and others to be paid money recovered from a mail robber,</label> <target>884</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Money Lost or Robbed.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William D. Ewing to be allowed a credit for money lost by robbery,</label> <target>352</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Malcolm to be credited with $1000, collected by him, and lost in transmission to New York,</label> <target>184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James H. Clark to be allowed in the settlement of his accounts for money robbed from him at Marseilles,</label> <target>286</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Money stolen from John C. Reynolds, late disbursing agent of the Indian Department, to be refunded,</label> <target>852</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Money robbed from Richard Smyth, a collector of direct taxes, to be credited to him,</label> <target>253</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naturalization.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The record of the naturalization of Dr. J. C White of Baltimore, to be corrected,</label> <target>750</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Dale to be paid for sea stores furnished,</label> <target>127</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy Pension Fund.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Commissions allowed to John H. Maguire for investments of the Navy Pension Fund,</label> <target>561</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Naval Services.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sum to be paid to Peter Landais,</label> <target>61</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Augustin Serry to be allowed pay as a boatswain,</label> <target>79</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A donation to James Levins for the capture of the schooner Santee,</label> <target>166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Rogers and others to be paid for their valour in capturing a British midshipman and two seamen,</label> <target>170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Medals to be presented to Captain James Stewart and the officers of the Constitution, for the capture of the British vessels of war, the Cyane and Levant,</label> <target>181</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Medals to he presented to Captain James Biddle and the officers of the Hornet, for the capture of the British sloop-of-war Penguin,</label> <target>181</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Relief granted to the widow and children of Abraham Owen,</label> <target>196</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Widows and orphans of officers and seamen lost in the Epervier to be allowed six months’ pay,</label> <target>188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">An act for the relief of the family of the late Oliver Hazard Perry,</label> <target>260</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Melacthon Taylor Woolsey, one-third of his pay as a captain in the navy to be retained, until arrears due by him to the United States shall be paid,</label> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Matthew C. Perry, a muster commandant in the navy, to be paid for extra services,</label> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">E. R. Shubrick, a master commandant in tile navy, to be paid for extra services,</label> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Rockwell allowed the pay of a chap, lain in the navy,</label> <target>791</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James H. Cheears allowed compensation as an assistant surgeon in the navy,</label> <target>793</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>New England Mississippi Land Company.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A certificate to be issued to Jane Moran, administrator of Jacob Mitchell,</label> <target>293<page identifier="/us/stat/6/972">972</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Ohio Company.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Grant of land to,</label> <target>8</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Indemnity to Major-General Green,</label> <target>9</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Ottaway Indians.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry S. Comager to be paid money due to him by the Ottaway Indians,</label> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Papers to be returned.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The papers of Susannah Stewart to be returned to her,</label> <target>249</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patent Fees refunded.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent fees refunded to William Woodward and William Mitchell,</label> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent fees returned to Ebenezer Spaulding,</label> <target>670</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent fees returned to Jacob F. Walter,</label> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent fees refunded to Joseph Hall,</label> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Eli Horton to be refunded the patent fees paid into the Treasury,</label> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent fees refunded to Erastus and Thaddeus Fairbanks, and to Elisha Town,</label> <target>749</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent fees refunded to Joab Seely,</label> <target>821</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent fees paid by Robert B. Lewis to be refunded,</label> <target>897</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patents for Inventions.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Anthony Broncherie to receive a patent for manufacturing sugar,</label> <target>70</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Oliver Evans’ patent for manufacturing flour extended,</label> <target>70</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent right of A. and W. Whittemore, for manufacturing cotton and wool cards, extended,</label> <target>80</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Joshua Dyster to be allowed to obtain a patent for constructing iron bridges,</label> <target>87</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Lowe Storbie to obtain a patent for discovering an improvement in a ship’s rudder and a pump,</label> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent to be issued to Andrew Kurtz for manufacturing charcoal of wood, and purifying pyroligneous acid,</label> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent right to Oliver Evans for improvement of steam-engines extended,</label> <target>147</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Letters patent to be issued to Richard Wilcox for a rotary oven,</label> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Burden to have letters patent for the construction of a plough,</label> <target>250</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to Thomas Oxley,</label> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patents of Samuel Parker extended for fourteen years,</label> <target>262</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to Frederick S. Warburg for an improvement in a lamp,</label> <target>277</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to Richard Holden for a machine for combining mechanical powers,</label> <target>277</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Letters patent to issue to Samuel Brown,</label> <target>293</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Letters patent to issue to Nathaniel Sylvester for an improvement on paper, to prevent frauds in bank-notes,</label> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Letters patent to be grunted to Adolphus G. Trott for invention of a new dye,</label> <target>320</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Letters patent to issue to Peter Burt for his improved sounding machine,</label> <target>330</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to be granted to Joshua Garsed for an improvement in spinning flax,</label> <target>270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent to issue to Simeon Broadmeadow for his invention in condensing and propelling air, &amp;c.,</label> <target>370</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent to issue to Elizabeth H. Bulkley, widow of Chauncey Bulkley, for his invention of a plan to make shovels,</label> <target>371</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent for improvements in the refinement of sugar to be issued to William Augustus Archbald,</label> <target>373</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent to be issued to Anthony Hermange for improved machinery for propelling ships,</label> <target>375</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Letters patent to issue to Edwin Allen Talbot for his improved reciprocating steam-engine,</label> <target>381</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent to issue to William Bell for an improvement in the construction of gun-carriages,</label> <target>378</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to Moses Shaw for a mode of blasting rocks,</label> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Letters patent for machinery for washing ores to be issued to Vincent de Rivafinoli and others,</label> <target>435</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Letters patent to issue to John Powell for a machine for separating the metal from gold ore,</label> <target>452</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent of John Adamson, for a floating drydock, extended for fourteen years,</label> <target>458</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent to Samuel Browning extended for fourteen years,</label> <target>467</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Letters patent to issue to Christopher Bechtler for two machines for washing gold ore,</label> <target>468</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The patent-right of Jethro Wood extended,</label> <target>486</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to Horatio Gates Spafford,</label> <target>502</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patents to issue to Thomas Knowles and others, aliens,</label> <target>502</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to Samuel Hall for an improved piston and valve for steam gas,</label> <target>547</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The patent granted to Robert Eastman for a circular saw, extended,</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to be issued to James Jones for certain improvements in making rovings,</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Tucker and John Judge to be paid for the use of their patents, and the construction of anchors for the navy,</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Two patents issued to James Barron, to be extended,</label> <target>678</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent to issue to James Smith for a self-acting mule,</label> <target>702</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The act to renew the patent to Thomas Blanchard, passed June 13, 1834, amended and extended for fourteen years,</label> <target>748</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to be granted to John Blanc for a “marsh drainer,”</label> <target>767</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for a machine to be issued to John W. Fannce and Oliver Perrin,</label> <target>807</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Daniel Pettibone to be paid for a circular bullet-mould,</label> <target>833</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent to William Gale for improvement in the manufacture of silver spoons, renewed,</label> <target>895</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to Samuel K. Jennings, for applica<page identifier="/us/stat/6/973">973</page>tion and generation of heat, to be renewed,</label> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patents granted to William Woodworth for planning machines, extended,</label> <target>936</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Payment of a Judgment.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Johnson to be paid the amount of a judgment obtained by the United States against him,</label> <target>856</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Paymaster in the Army.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Proceedings against John B. Hogan, late a paymaster in the army, to be stayed,</label> <target>282</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Penalties remitted.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The ship Manilla exonerated from penalty,</label> <target>78</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Penalties incurred by William W. Weymouth and Joseph F. Weeks, remitted,</label> <target>95</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Remission of penalties incurred by Caldwell, Jackson, Reynolds, and Jones, for infracting the laws against the slave trade,</label> <target>87</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Schooner Sally, and penalties for violation of acts against the slave trade, released,</label> <target>99</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Remission of penalties incurred by Thomas Denny,</label> <target>122</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Remission of penalties to the owners of the ship Good Friends,</label> <target>122</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Stolhart and Josiah Starkey may be released from penalties for importation of goods,</label> <target>128</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph W. Page released from the penalty of an embargo bond,</label> <target>132</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Remission of penalties incurred by Daniel M’Cauly and Samuel Ralston,</label> <target>133</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Remission of penalties incurred by Jonathan Davis and others, by importations in the brig Patriots,</label> <target>133</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Augustus M’Kinney and Luyzel Bancroft released from penalties for importing nitro,</label> <target>138</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Morrisett to be paid for a penalty remitted,</label> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">An act to amend an act for the relief of Ed. ward Hallowell,</label> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ship Eliza Ann and ship Mary relieved from penalties,</label> <target>104</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Judgment against Abraham Byington as security for Robert Gilmore remitted,</label> <target>201</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A penalty incurred by Nathaniel Twining for failure to transport the mail, remitted,</label> <target>3</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edward Hallowell, penalties on an importation of goods remitted,</label> <target>150</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Penalties on importation of merchandise remitted to Joseph Whitney and Joseph H. Dorr,</label> <target>143</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Penalty remitted to Nathaniel Briggs, master of the brig Enterprise,</label> <target>390</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Shiverick released from a penalty for not renewing coasting license,</label> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Roger Enos, collector in Vermont, to be paid the amount of a penalty recovered against him,</label> <target>439</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of a moiety of a certain penalty to Edward Kennard,</label> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Amount of certain debenture bonds to be refunded to Robert Miller,</label> <target>858</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Herd, jun., assignee of Amasa Davis, jr., repaid the moiety of a penalty,</label> <target>496</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of a moiety of the proceeds of a prosecution to be paid to Jesse E. Dow,</label> <target>703</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A penalty refunded to Robert Eaton,</label> <target>541</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Simeon Thayer to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>12</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pensions to soldiers of the revolution,</label> <target>4, 5</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Seymour to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>20</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Obadiah Brown to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>34</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain persons placed on the pension list,</label> <target>32</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Scoone and Alexander Cameron to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Taylor allowed a pension as a spy,</label> <target>58</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">To Charlotte Hazen, widow of General Hazen,</label> <target>56</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A pension allowed to Seth Harding,</label> <target>63</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">To sundry persons,</label> <target>80</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pensions to persons named in the act,</label> <target>100</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pensions to persons named in the act,</label> <target>153</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Increase of pensions,</label> <target>154</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pensions to persons, and their widows and children, who were wounded at Dartmoor prison,</label> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pensions to persons named in the act,</label> <target>176</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pensions to sundry persons,</label> <target>232</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Merrill to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>243</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Tucker to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>258</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Phœbe Stewart, widow of James Stewart, to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>229</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pensions to Jonathan Ring, John Frink, Abraham Edwards, and Thomas Lucas,</label> <target>231</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Priscilla Adams to be paid the monthly pay due to her late husband, Charles Adams,</label> <target>321<page identifier="/us/stat/6/974">974</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pensions granted to James Barker and Zebuion Pike,</label> <target>324</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Thompson to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Balthazar Kramar and Richard Taylor allowed pensions,</label> <target>362</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ebenezer Lord and others placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>364</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Shirkey to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>375</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Taylor to be paid $2551.58 for a pension,</label> <target>376</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elizabeth Shaw to be paid arrearages of pension due to her husband, John Shaw,</label> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary James to be paid the arrearages of pension due to her husband, Johnson James,</label> <target>386</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Abigail Appleton, widow of Daniel Appleton, placed on the pension list,</label> <target>407</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A pension granted to Elizabeth Mays,</label> <target>408</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Taylor of Kentucky exempted from the operation of the act of Jan</label> <target>25, 1828, 409</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Larrabee and Daniel McDuff to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>410</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John L. Pollcresky and others placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>416</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Edgar of Illinois entitled to the benefits of the pension act,</label> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A pension allowed to Joseph Shaw,</label> <target>428</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A pension granted to John H. Wendal, a captain in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to his representatives of the amount of the pension due James Davenport,</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William E. Meek allowed the pay of sergeant,</label> <target>265</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Clark McPherrin to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Gibson of Indiana, and James Kay of Kentucky to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>341</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Penelope Denny, mother of James Denny, late a quarter gunner in the navy, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>342</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Barker and Colonel Zebulon Pike to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>324</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Widows of officers and seamen lost in the Hornet entitled to additional allowance,</label> <target>414</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The unpaid pension of Mahlon Ford to be paid to his representatives,</label> <target>285</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Noah Smith of Maine to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>296</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain persons named in the act to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>305</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Bradford to be allowed a pension,</label> <target>306</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Louderman allowed a pension,</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The pensions of Dean Weymouth and Zachariah Bunker to be increased,</label> <target>311</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Arrears of pension to be paid to William Tipton,</label> <target>434</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">General Simon Kenton to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>434</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A sum equal to six months’ pay allowed to the widows and orphans of the officers and seamen of the United States’ schooner Sylph,</label> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Scott to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>505</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">J. Bryant’s pension to commence from the date of his discharge,</label> <target>505</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to G. W. Howard,</label> <target>505</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Arrears of pension allowed to Joseph Chamberlain,</label> <target>505</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Zebulon Wade and others to be placed on the invalid pension roll,</label> <target>515</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Abel Allen to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>440</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pension to Samuel H. Phillips and others,</label> <target>441</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Brown, a revolutionary soldier, to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>445</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Isaac Pinney to be placed on the revolutionary pension list,</label> <target>450</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Aaron Fitzgerald to be placed on the pension-list,</label> <target>451</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Fitzgerald to be paid arrears of pension,</label> <target>451</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Porter of Indiana to be placed on the invalid pension list,</label> <target>455</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A pension allowed to Peter Cleer of Maryland,</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The name of Jonathan Crocker restored to the pension list,</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Arrears of pension to be paid Hugh Barnes,</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Becker to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>460</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A pension granted to Samuel Nowell,</label> <target>460</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Belger to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>463</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A mistake in the name of William Tumey, an invalid pensioner, to be rectified,</label> <target>463</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Delzell, of Ohio, to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>463</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A pension granted to Martin Miller,</label> <target>468</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A pension granted to Jared Cone,</label> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Arrears of pension due to J. Shirley to be paid to William Owens,</label> <target>479</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Arrears of pension due to J. Shirley to be paid,</label> <target>479</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin Calhoun and others placed on the invalid pension roll,</label> <target>527</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Grieve Drummond allowed a pension,</label> <target>527</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jesse Cunningham and others to be placed on the invalid pension roll,</label> <target>543</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Fitz-Henry Babbit allowed a pension for five years,</label> <target>547</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Gaston, of South Carolina, to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Arrears of pension to be paid to Thomas Ap Catesby Jones,</label> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Invalid pensions to Joseph Webb, junior, and others,</label> <target>566</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pearson Freeman to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pensions granted to Simon Deloach and others,</label> <target>577, 578</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pension granted to Hannah Stone, widow of John Stone,</label> <target>580</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Two years’ half-pay to Judith Thomas, widow of John Thomas, a soldier, during the late war,</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Arrears of pension to be paid to D. Palmer,</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Reynolds to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moses Archer to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>587<page identifier="/us/stat/6/975">975</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A pension granted to John A. Webster,</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Larnard Swallow to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>607</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Bryant to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Solomon Case to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Morton to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Timothy Jordan to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Abraham E. Boutwell, David Pearson, and John Ashton, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Aaron Fitzgerald to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benedict Alford and Robert Brush to be placed on the revolutionary pension list,</label> <target>599</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Justus Cobb to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Captain Cole, a Seneca Indian chief, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Page, Joseph Mead, John Gerodelle, William Wilges, Thomas Ball, Peter Triplett, John Moore, Noah Miller, Benjamin Holland, Isaac Eckright, Joseph Gilbert, Joseph Swartwood, Stephen Gatlin, Benjamin Leslie, Samuel Shelmerdine, Simeon Meachum, of the state of New York, Isaac Janvier, Amasa A. Titft, John Cullins, a soldier of die revolutionary war, Job Barton, William Baden and James Harrington, to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>609—ss612</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George C. Seaton to be paid arrears of pension,</label> <target>615</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benedict Alford and Robert Brush to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jesse Sykes to be placed on die pension list,</label> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Doxtator and Jacob Weaver to be placed on die pension list,</label> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Orris Gay to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The widow of Samuel Gibbs to be allowed a pension,</label> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Richard Anderson to be allowed a pension,</label> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The pension of Jacob Slough to be increased,</label> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The pension of Thomas Harrison to be increased,</label> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Carey Clark to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The pensions of Daniel Stoddard and Jonathan Elkins to be increased,</label> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Stephen Bohannan, Gaius Hitchcock, John A. Rodgers, and Leslie Combs, to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Hunt to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Pickard, Richard Martin, Peter Dimick, John Smith, Peter Cook, and Samuel Kincaid, to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Elliot, John Bennet, Samuel Cole, James Stevens, James Mullings, and Stephen Talmage, to receive pensions,</label> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Collins, Francis F. Saint Cyr, and Luke Voorhise, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>646</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Theophilus E. Beekman, William Hewes, Henry Keefer, Francis Bashford, Bernard Pompilly, Elisha Lucas, and James Whitsit, and others, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thaddeus Tuttle, James Steel, Davis Hunt, Relief Harris, and James Taylor, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Dal, William Lawrence, Peter L. Allen, John Logan, John Conkin and Thaddeus Potter, to be placed on pension roll,</label> <target>650</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Foxworthy, Ephraim F. Gilbert, Godfrey Vought, John Lent, Patrick M’Ewen, and Charles Blake, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Walter Dyer, Jeremiah Goldsmith, Joseph Tuttle, Mathias Traverse, Joseph Danforth, and Jacob Wallace, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jonathan Dow, James Scott, Richard Severson, and Lot Leonard, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Boone, John Herrick, Ann Evans, and Ebenezer Dewey, to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin Parkhurst, Daniel Havens, Jonas Coinins, Isaac Ruland, Job Daniels, Daniel Trabue, and Benjamin Colt, to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Smith, John Daw, Andrew Gray, George Fields, Samuel L. Asbury, and John Miles, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>655</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Josiah Curtis, William Pattie, of Virginia, John Scott, Travise Fritters, Balaam Bowers, of Virginia, and Singleton Ketcham, to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pension due Charles Swain to be paid Elizabeth Swain,</label> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peggy Abel and others, children of Elisha Green, to be paid the arrears of pension due to Elisha Green, senior,</label> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Micajah Ricketts and Henry Maggart to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Arrears of pension due John Lampkin to be paid to Mary Lampkin,</label> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Warden, George White, Daniel Cobb, Daniel Granger, and Jonathan Flint, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alpheus Hutchins to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Smith’s pension to be paid to his widow,</label> <target>666</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Larned Swallow, Ephraim Page, and Parker Chase to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>666</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Coleman A. Collier and Jean Baptiste Janis, senior, of Missouri, to be placed on the pension list,</label> <target>681</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">General Eleazer W. Ripley to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>683</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pension to Abigail Appleton, widow of Daniel Appleton, renewed,</label> <target>689</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William C. Beard, late a captain in the United States army, Findley Kellock, and Alexander Gibson, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>690</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Doctor John P. Briggs to be placed on the navy pension list,</label> <target>699</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The pension of Empson Hamilton to be increased,</label> <target>699<page identifier="/us/stat/6/976">976</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John P. Becker to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>699</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A pension granted to Susan Decatur, widow of the late Stephen Decatur,</label> <target>700</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">E. Steel to receive the pension granted to her father, James Steel, for him,</label> <target>703</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Neil M’Neil to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>722</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Amos Thompson, Solomon Ketcham, and Anna West, of the state of Massachusetts, Frederick Hill and Christopher Dennison, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>723</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Josiah Clark, Thomas West of Alabama, Bradley True Jipson, Daniel Reardon, Seth Whitney, and Catherine Rollins, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>724</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Primus Hall, James M’Farland, Robert Casey, Eli Eastman, and Leonard Loomis, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Coffin and Samuel Smith, of New Hampshire, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>726</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Isaac Gale, Miller Francis, and Benjamin B. Dowd to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>727</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Oliver Dorsett and Moses Eldred to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>728</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gratia Ray to receive a pension for the services of her husband as a quartermaster in the navy of the United States,</label> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lewis Hatch to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>731</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James H. Bradford, John M’Clelland, and Johan Jost Deitz, of New York, James Boyd, Sarah Pemberton, Joseph Salmonds, William Collins, Letitia Grano, and Nicholas Verplast, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>732, 733</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Barton to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>734</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount of the pension due Captain Robert Laird, of the state of Georgia, to be paid his executor,</label> <target>734</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Vattier to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>735</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Deborah Gannett to be paid an equivalent for a pension,</label> <target>735</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Delesdernier to draw the pension due to the late Lewis F. Delesdernier,</label> <target>736</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Tandy Walker, Coffin Sanborn, Plœbe Champe, and Sarah Barney, widow of Samuel Barney, late of Connecticut, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>736</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John M. Jewell, Daniel H. Crockett, Thomas Frazer, James M. Edwards, James Sayer, and Benjamin Durfee, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>737</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount due Samuel York at the time of his death to be paid to his legal representatives,</label> <target>738</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Challer to be placed on the pension roll</label> <target>739</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Anson Tucker to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The pension granted by the act of June 28, 1838, chap. 135, to Bradbury T. Jipson, to be corrected,</label> <target>745</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sarah Windham, widow of Joshua Lamb, a soldier of the revolution, and Michael M’Cray, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>761</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Susannah Rowe, widow of John Rowe, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>763</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The widow of Thomas Kibbey to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>764</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Harvey Reynolds and Eliphalet Spence to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>765</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Frederick Richmond to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>766</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Conly to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>769</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The widow of John Marsh, Mary Updegraff, and John Clark, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>775</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Solomon Prewett, William Ford, Frances Jones, widow of John Jones, David Rollins and Weight Hal but to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>774</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">W.C. Hazzard, of Rhode Island, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>779</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A pension grunted to Sibel Barnes,</label> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ichubod Beardsley, of New York, and Elizabeth Davidson, widow of John Davidson, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>802</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Israel Parsons, Philip Hartman, of Virginia, Medad Cook, Lyman Bristol, James Francher, and Seneca Rider to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>803</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Bowman, Jacob Beeker, Peter W. Short, of New York, Daniel W. Going, Erastus Pierson, and Gideon Sheldon to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>804</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jared Winslow, Peter A. Meyers, Chauncey Rice, Sylvester Tiffany, William Andrews, of New York, and Peter Warner, of Indiana, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>805</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Bennet to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>809</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hannah Leighton to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>820</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lemuel White to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>822</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Crapin, Huldah Tucker, Margaret Jamison, and David Waller to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>826</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Margaret Barnes, Joseph Bassett, and William Rand to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>827</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John S. Billings’ pension increased, and Benjamin Franklin to receive a pension,</label> <target>828</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sarah Decker, widow of Samuel Decker, and Esther Purroti, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>834</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ellen Turney, Huldah Farlow, and Peter Sky, an Onondaga Indian, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>835</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Clarissa Turney and Burnett Burdsall to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>836</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph J. Martin, Sarah Brsly, Betsey Vreeland, and George Mayfield, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>837, 838</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Wells, Daniel Chase, and Thomas Collins to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>839, 840</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel B. Hugo to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>841</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Harper and Sarah Moore, of Maryland, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>842</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George M. Bedinger, of the state of Kentucky, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>844</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Snow to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>855<page identifier="/us/stat/6/977">977</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Sheffler, Mary Johnson, and John Jorden to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>860, 861</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jehosaphat Briggs, Elizabeth Gibbs, and Christiana Low to be placed on the pension roll, 863,</label> <target>864</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Frederick Perrigo, John King, John Looney, and Phillis Tatton to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>865</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Rand, David Freelove, John Flood, Elizabeth Colfax, Randolph Carter, Jacob Jackson, Dorothy Bowman, and Joseph Parker, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>866, 867</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Willis, Elisha Burnet, and Thomas Brownell to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>868, 869</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Fry to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>870</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Dennis Dygert and Amaziah Goodwin to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>872</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Effie Van Ness, F. B. De Bellevue, and Catharine Lehman, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>873</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Harriet Carrier, Jacob Greaves, Amy Babbit, and Thomas B. Parsons, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>874</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Tucker and Samuel Dicey to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>881, 882</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ashel Brainard, Mary Hambright, Thomas King, and Jacob White, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>884, 885</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Crawford and William Allen to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Williams to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>888</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Solomon Emerson to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>889</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elizabeth Greesham, Benjamin Truslow, Jonathan Britton, and Horace Wetherall, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>890, 891</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Gray to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elizabeth Powers, Nancy Williams, John Hicks, and David Welch, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>894, 895</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Israel Thomas and John Wolfenden to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Javins, John F. Wiley, James Sweetman, and Joseph Nimblit, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>897, 898</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nancy Wilson to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hannah Jenkins, Rath Mathiot, Nancy Polerecsky, and Robert Ramsay, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>900, 901</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Penhallow and Robert Layton’s children to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>902</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Waddle and Lyman N. Cook to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>904</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jeremiah Kimball to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>905</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel M. Asherry and Joseph Ellery to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>906</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Resolution explanatory of an act for the relief of Thomas King,</label> <target>907</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Violet Calhoun, John Miller, and Isaac Justice to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>909</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">An additional pension allowed to Elizabeth Greesham,</label> <target>909</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sarah Blackemore, Levi Colmers, Joseph Bonnell, James Reid, James C. Hallock, William Grover, Lewis Cronk, and Abigail Gibson, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>910, 911</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin B. Ferguson to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>912</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Edmonston to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>915</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Monroe and Alice Usher to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lattrop Foster to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Ann Linton to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>923</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Marcay Olds to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Simeon Dennin, Jacob Perham, Ann Hunter, and Asa Davis, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>926, 927</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Milly, an Indian woman, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>928</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bethia Healy and Emanuel Shrofe to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>928</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William M’Pherson and Major Thomas Harrison to be paid pensions,</label> <target>930, 931</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The act of March 1, 1843, to be so construed as to allow a pension to Mary Williams, for two years’ service of Jacob Williams,</label> <target>932</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Asahel Brainard, James Duffy, and George Whitten, to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>934, 935</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Neely and Joseph Simmons to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>938</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John E. Wright to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>939</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Isaac Allen to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>940</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Brunough and March Farrington to be placed on the pension roll,</label> <target>941</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Post-Office.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jarvis Jackson released from all demands by the post-office department,</label> <target>348</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Haley and Harris to be paid for transporting the mail,</label> <target>367</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Contracts for building the post-office extended,</label> <target>816</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pre-emption.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Preemption granted to William Wells,</label> <target>72</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pre-emption of public land granted to Moses Hook,</label> <target>127</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pre-emption granted to Amos Spafford, of land at the rapids of Miami of Lake Erie,</label> <target>166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A right of preemption of land in Mississippi granted to Noble Osborne and William Doake,</label> <target>270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Daws and others, of Florida, to be allowed preemption rights to certain land,</label> <target>527</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pre-emption right granted to John Yantis,</label> <target>563</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Grant of land to Ebenezer Zane,</label> <target>27</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Survey of lands granted to the refugees from Canada,</label> <target>42<page identifier="/us/stat/6/978">978</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent for land to Henry Dorhman, or his legal representatives,</label> <target>43</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Three land warrants to be issued to Ithamar Canfield,</label> <target>41</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lands to be conveyed to Cornelius Vermule, &amp;c.,</label> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lands granted to Isaac Zane,</label> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Grant of land to Stephen Monot and others, at Galliopolis,</label> <target>35</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Purchase of lands by John J. Dufour and others,</label> <target>47</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Confirmation of land purchased by Thomas Orr,</label> <target>106</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claim of Thomas Sloo,</label> <target>120</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Binnion allowed to withdraw his entries and to make other entries,</label> <target>116</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Purchase money paid for land by Dennis Clark to be refunded,</label> <target>141</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to Joseph Anderson for land in Ohio, and a certain payment to be placed to his credit,</label> <target>156</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Markin may withdraw entry of lands, and payments made by him to be credited to other purchases,</label> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Martin Cole and others may withdraw entries of land,</label> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas H. Boyle allowed to enter land, and to receive three months’ pay as a captain,</label> <target>169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The final certificates of Samuel Dick and others to be received as evidence of the payment for land,</label> <target>169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph S. Newall may withdraw his entry at the land office at Canton, and the money paid to be credited on other purchases,</label> <target>170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edward Wilson allowed to withdraw his entry in the land office at Steubenville,</label> <target>162</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land warrants to Patrick, Abigail and Edmund O’Flyng,</label> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Levaux Trudeau may enter six quarter sections of land,</label> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Boone confirmed in his title to certain lands,</label> <target>127</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Perine to enter certain lands in Ohio,</label> <target>150</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Crawford, Frederick Bates, William Garrard and Thomas B. Robertson’s claims to lands to be settled,</label> <target>174</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lund warrant to George Shannon,</label> <target>143</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land entry of William Barton may be withdrawn, and payments transferred,</label> <target>216</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The evidence to the claims to lands by the legal representatives of Alexander Montgomery, to be examined with a view to issue patents,</label> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claims of Narcissus Broutin and others confirmed,</label> <target>202</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Military bounty land given to the mother of Abden Turrill,</label> <target>202</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Persons allowed to withdraw their entries of land at the land office at Jeffersonville, and credit to be allowed to them by the receiver for other lands,</label> <target>200</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joel Earwood allowed to transfer moneys to any entry of lands,</label> <target>198</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land title confirmed to John Small,</label> <target>201</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land warrant to be issued to John Clark,</label> <target>224</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Alexander M’Comb to a tract of land in Michigan, confirmed,</label> <target>228</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claim of the representatives of Philip Barbour,</label> <target>236</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">An act for the relief of James Hughes,</label> <target>237</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Anthony Burk to be allowed to enter a tract of land without payment,</label> <target>237</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Abijah Hunt and William Gordon Forman, confirmed in their claim to a tract of land in Mississippi,</label> <target>248</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Title of Susan Berzat and others to land in Louisiana, confirmed,</label> <target>276</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to Samuel Ewings for land in Michigan,</label> <target>276</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The right of the United States to land in west Baton Rouge, granted to the parish on condition that a levee be kept up in front on the Mississippi,</label> <target>319</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The right of the United States in lands ceded to the United States in the treaty at Fort Jackson, by the Creek Indians, vested in each occupant of the land,</label> <target>323</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Marie Therese confirmed in their claim to land in Louisiana,</label> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Construction of the act of May 8, 1820, for the relief of the legal representatives of Henry Willis,</label> <target>254</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John B. Regnier authorized to enter a quarter section of land,</label> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Christopher Miller authorized to enter land without payment,</label> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The title to a tract of land confirmed to Alzira Dibrel and Sophia Hancock,</label> <target>267</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Matson to receive a certificate for $191 in satisfaction of his claim for money paid for land,</label> <target>267</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The legal representatives of John Girault to enter, without payment, two sections of land in Mississippi,</label> <target>269</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin Stephenson allowed to locate certain land within the military reservation,</label> <target>269</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A tract of land granted to William Conner and wife and to their children,</label> <target>270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain lands granted to the heirs, &amp;c., of Alexander Montgomery,</label> <target>282</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The receiver at Jackson Court-house, Alabama, to decide on the claim of Woodson Wren,</label> <target>283</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joshua Russell allowed to relinquish certain entries,</label> <target>286</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bounty land warrant to be issued to M. Roll and W. Jackson,</label> <target>452</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land patent to issue to John Gough and other Canadian refugees,</label> <target>467</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Existing laws applicable to correction of errors,</label> <target>467</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Hogland authorized to surrender a tract of land, and enter another,</label> <target>468</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">J. H. Watts authorized to relinquish a patent, and to receive another,</label> <target>433</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent to issue to Alexander Montgomery,</label> <target>433</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claims of the executors of James O’Harra, late of Pittsburg, confirmed, &amp;c.</label> <target>670<page identifier="/us/stat/6/979">979</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment for land refunded to John Cummings,</label> <target>671</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Kendal to enter vacant land without payment,</label> <target>292</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Celestin Moreau’s land claim in Louisiana, confirmed,</label> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Firman Le Sieur to enter a section of land in any office in Missouri,</label> <target>296</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A warrant for 100 acres to issue to Thomas Williams,</label> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Maturin Guichot’s title confirmed to a tract of land in Louisiana,</label> <target>309</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Miguel Eslava’s heirs confirmed in their title to a lot of ground below Fort Mobile, Alabama,</label> <target>311</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Fisher to be repaid money paid for land in Alabama,</label> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to Malachi Burns for land in Louisiana,</label> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patents to issue to Richard Cain and Isaac Baldwin, of Ohio, for land in the Marietta district, Ohio,</label> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The devisees of John Ferrell may relinquish certain land in the Marietta district, Ohio, and receive other land,</label> <target>328</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land in Louisiana confirmed to the heirs, &amp;c. of Noel Soileau,</label> <target>329</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land warrant to issue to the son and heirs of Francis Wright,</label> <target>329</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A military quarter section of land to be entered in Arkansas by Moses Plumer,</label> <target>329</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Matson authorized to withdraw his locations of land in the state of Missouri, and locate them elsewhere,</label> <target>338</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lands at Cahawba relinquished to Elijah Buckley,</label> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moses Kenney authorized to change the location of a survey,</label> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles Anderson may surrender a quarter section of land in Alabama, and enter another,</label> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A tract of land in West Florida, granted to William Hambly and Edmund Doyle, in lieu of other land,</label> <target>341</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The right of the United States in land within the country ceded by the treaty with the Creek Indians, relinquished to Samuel Brashiers and to William Hollinger,</label> <target>342</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William M. Dever may enter land in the Vincennes land district; a certain tract reserved from entry within one year,</label> <target>343</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Wolcott and Mary his wife to be paid for land in Ohio, sold by mistake,</label> <target>343</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Arthur Jones may relinquish a tract of land in Alabama, and receive a patent for another tract,</label> <target>344</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Matthews authorized to enter a tract of land in Louisiana,</label> <target>346</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for land in Indiana to issue to Jacob Hampton,</label> <target>348</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hugh M’Clung to be paid for land in the state of Tennessee,</label> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land warrant to be issued to Daniel Davis, a soldier in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>350</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John H. Mills’ title to land in Louisiana confirmed,</label> <target>350</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Garrigues Flaujac, of Louisiana, authorized to enter a tract of land,</label> <target>351</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The land title of William V. Keary to land, confirmed,</label> <target>352</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alfred Flournoy may enter two sections of land in discharge of his pension, and the pension then to cease,</label> <target>353</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Biggs authorized to enter three sections of land in Illinois,</label> <target>353</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Phinchas Underwood may enter an unlocated section of land in Illinois,</label> <target>355</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Lime of filing petitions for lands in Missouri and Arkansas, extended,</label> <target>355</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patents for lands in Alabama to issue to Alfred Flournoy,</label> <target>358</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Warrant for land to be issued to Jacob Shafer,</label> <target>359</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Louis de la Houssaye’s heirs confirmed in their title to land in Louisiana,</label> <target>360</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Polly Bell may enter a tract of land in Mississippi,</label> <target>361</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Isaac Delawder may enter a tract of land in Ohio,</label> <target>362</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Boardman may enter a tract of land in Alabama,</label> <target>362</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Giles Egerton may enter a quarter section of land in Illinois,</label> <target>366</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Gulledge may enter a tract of land in Mississippi,</label> <target>366</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Ann Bond and Mary Loveless may enter and obtain patents for land in Michigan,</label> <target>374</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Gentry and Elvington Roberts may relinquish a tract of land, and enter another in Mississippi,</label> <target>377</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The location of a Madrid certificate for land confirmed to John B. Dupuis,</label> <target>377</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The legal representatives of Merriwether Lewis allowed to enter certain public lands under the net making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, of March 3, 1807, chap, 32,</label> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patent to issue for a section of land to Francis English, of Indiana,</label> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patents for land to be issued to Andrew Wesbrook,</label> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims to land in the district between the Rio Hondo and Sabine rivers, reported for confirmation, confirmed,</label> <target>382</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Frederick Onstine authorized to enter two sections of land in Ohio,</label> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin Freeland, of Ohio, may relinquish a certain tract of land, and enter another tract,</label> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A tract of land in Missouri confirmed to Francis Valle and others,</label> <target>386</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims to land under the Spanish government, of John F. Carmichael, to be examined,</label> <target>394</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jacob Rentleman authorized to enter a half-section of land in Illinois,</label> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert L. Kennon to be repaid a sum overpaid for land,</label> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land warrant to be issued to the heirs of John Gwyn,</label> <target>397</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elijah Carr authorized to relinquish certain land, and to enter other laud,</label> <target>402</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elijah L. Clarke, and the heirs and representatives of Lewis Clarke, of Louisiana, confirmed in their title to certain lands,</label> <target>406<page identifier="/us/stat/6/980">980</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims for a tract of land in Louisiana, of Antoine Prudhomme, Louisa Closeau, and Gilbert Closeau, confirmed,</label> <target>407</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land patent to be issued to the heirs of John Pierre Landerneau, in Louisiana,</label> <target>408</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for land in Michigan to be issued to Gabriel Godfroy and John Baptiste Beaugrand,</label> <target>413</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Arund Rutgers may locate a tract of land in Missouri, upon relinquishing certain land confirmed to John Welden,</label> <target>414</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to Ann Brashears of Mississippi, the residue of a grant by the Spanish government,</label> <target>436</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Jeremiah Walker to land in the state of Louisiana confirmed,</label> <target>439</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for a half-section of land to be issued to Samuel Sprigg of Virginia,</label> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Glass may avail himself of the provisions of the act for the relief of purchasers of public land,</label> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The title of Alexander Love to land in Florida confirmed,</label> <target>444</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Colonel John Ellis authorized to enter a section of land in Mississippi,</label> <target>444</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land in the state of Mississippi confirmed to John F. Carmichael,</label> <target>449</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Relinquishment of certain land, made by William Smith as administrator of John Taylor, to be cancelled,</label> <target>452</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Burris of Mississippi may relinquish a certain tract of land and locate another,</label> <target>453</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Sprague authorized to enter a tract of land in the state of Ohio,</label> <target>457</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The executor of Stephen Tippet may enter a tract of land in the state of Louisiana,</label> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of John B. Toulmin to a lot in the city of Mobile confirmed,</label> <target>460</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The legal representatives of Peter Celestino Walker and John Peter Walker to enter a tract of land in lieu of a Spanish grant,</label> <target>463</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Walker authorized to locate a Spanish grant,</label> <target>464</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Percis Lovely to have certain lands secured to her,</label> <target>465</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Proctor authorized to surrender land certificate, &amp;c.,</label> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of William Robertson, deceased, and Daniel S. Leonard, to be allowed certain land claims,</label> <target>476</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Cornelius Overton authorized to correct an error in entry, and a patent for certain land to be issued to him,</label> <target>477</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Jones and William A. Fleming authorized to surrender certain land certificates, &amp;c.,</label> <target>479</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bernard Marigny, of the state of Louisiana, allowed claims to certain lands,</label> <target>480</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A mistake in the relinquishment of land made by William Williamson to be corrected,</label> <target>481</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claim of John McDonough to land in Louisiana confirmed,</label> <target>482</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patents for land to issue to T. Dennis, of the state of Alabama,</label> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allen W. Hardie permitted to complete payments for certain lands, and to receive patents,</label> <target>487</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claim of P. Marigny confirmed,</label> <target>488</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claim of Arnaud Lanaux, in the state of Louisiana, confirmed,</label> <target>488</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claim of Joseph Soniat Dufussat of Louisiana confirmed,</label> <target>488</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claim of John H. Thomas, claiming under Antoine Patin of Louisiana, confirmed,</label> <target>488</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land title of Celestin Chiapelln, below New Orleans, confirmed,</label> <target>489</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Isidore Moore of Missouri to certain land confirmed,</label> <target>426</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nancy Moore authorized to relinquish certain land in Missouri, and enter other land,</label> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Baptiste Le-Gendre to land on the Mississippi confirmed,</label> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of François Isidore Tuillier to land on the Mississippi confirmed,</label> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A duplicate bounty land warrant to be issued to Judah Alden, captain in the second Massachusetts regiment,</label> <target>430</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Jean Marie Truhaud to land in West Baton Rouge confirmed,</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Alexander Fridge to land in East Baton Rouge confirmed,</label> <target>432</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land allowed to John Woods, a Cherokee Indian,</label> <target>432</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of the heirs of John Tuillier to land on the west bank of the Mississippi confirmed,</label> <target>432</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certificate of land scrip to be issued to William R. Pickett of Alabama,</label> <target>493</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Thomas and James Missingill for a donation of land in the Arkansas Territory to be reconsidered,</label> <target>493</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land patent to be issued to Dr. Eliakim Crosby,</label> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jacob Kemf authorized to withdraw his entry of land in Ohio, and to purchase other land,</label> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The land claim of the representatives of John McHugh confirmed,</label> <target>495</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hopkins Rice allowed to enter certain land in Alabama,</label> <target>496</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James W. Hill and others authorized to surrender a land certificate and to enter other land in Alabama,</label> <target>492</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard W. Steele, a soldier, authorized to enter a quarter section of land,</label> <target>497</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hannah McKim’s land claim confirmed,</label> <target>497</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Dorothy Well’s land claim confirmed,</label> <target>497</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claims confirmed in the territory of Arkansas,</label> <target>498</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The land claims of the inhabitants of Torre aux Bœufs confirmed,</label> <target>492</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William McCormick may relinquish a tract of land in Indiana, entered by mistake, &amp;c.,</label> <target>502</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land warrants to issue to Timothy Risley,</label> <target>505</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A survey of a tract of land directed to be made for John Anderson, assignee, &amp;c. Patents to issue for such lands. Authorized to enter lands not exceeding 840 acres,</label> <target>506</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land scrip to be issued to Joseph Kamber,</label> <target>507</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land scrip to be issued to William Dickson,</label> <target>508</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land patents to be issued to Walter Cockburn,</label> <target>508<page identifier="/us/stat/6/981">981</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel A. Ware authorized to locate 2000 acres of land in Mississippi,</label> <target>508</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Peter, Catharine, and Charles Surget authorized to locate 640 acres of Lind in Mississippi. Charles Surget authorized to locate 500 arpens of land,</label> <target>509</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land patent to issue to Jacob C. Jordan,</label> <target>509</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A tract of land in Louisiana confirmed to Maria Holliday,</label> <target>509</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of Bernard Leonard, Jacob Black, and N. Hickman to land confirmed,</label> <target>512</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The title of the United States to land in Alabama, relinquished to William D. Gaines, and William M. King,</label> <target>519</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land patent to be issued to John F. Girod of Louisiana,</label> <target>519</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Wayne Wells to be paid for a certain section of land,</label> <target>519</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land title confirmed to John Buhler,</label> <target>520</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land title confirmed, and compensation for timbler and sand to the heirs of Jeremiah Buckley,</label> <target>520</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Grant of a section of land to Middleton McKay, in lieu of a reservation granted by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek,</label> <target>521</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lund claim confirmed to Benjamin Bullitt,</label> <target>523</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land warrant to issue to the child of W. Blackwell, a captain in the revolution,</label> <target>524</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A military land warrant to issue to William Hoffman, a Canadian volunteer,</label> <target>525</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Money paid on account of land in Mississippi to be refunded to Hartwell Vick,</label> <target>523</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jesse Bell authorized to locate land in Mississippi,</label> <target>523</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The widow and heirs of Pedro Guedry confirmed in a certain land claim,</label> <target>526</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The land claim of Francis Duigro confirmed,</label> <target>526</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Nathaniel Hillen to land at East Baton Rouge confirmed,</label> <target>526</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Title of land in Louisiana confirmed to Charles Comb and wife,</label> <target>528</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lund claim of Eugene Borell confirmed,</label> <target>528</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs, &amp;c. of J. Latham may relocate land,</label> <target>538</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land scrip to be issued to James Range, a soldier of the revolution,</label> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land scrip to be issued to Raphael Paine and Elias Arnold,</label> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jared E. Groce, of the state of Alabama, authorized to reenter a certain land claim,</label> <target>550</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hugh Beard authorized to enter a land claim in Indiana,</label> <target>551</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Hurtell authorized to enter a tract of land in Alabama,</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A section of land in Missouri granted to the widow and heirs of Felix St. Vrain,</label> <target>556</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Staley may relinquish a tract of land and enter another,</label> <target>556</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Noah Staley may relinquish a tract of hand in Illinois and enter another,</label> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Bills confirmed in his title to land in Louisiana,</label> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Garrigues Flaujac, of Louisiana, authorized to enter a tract of land,</label> <target>559</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The title of John L. Lobdell to a tract of land on the west bank of the Mississippi confirmed,</label> <target>559</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Coleman Fisher may withdraw a land certificate, and locate other land,</label> <target>561</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Luther L. Smith may enter and purchase a tract of land in Louisiana,</label> <target>561</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Assignee, &amp;c. of Asa Hartfield may surrender a land patent, and locate other land south of the Arkansas river,</label> <target>562</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George K. Jackson may relinquish a tract of land in Indiana, and payments transferred to another entry,</label> <target>563</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for 610 acres of land in Louisiana to be issued to the heirs, &amp;c. of Frances Barham,</label> <target>563</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claims of Alexander Boyd, of Louisiana, confirmed,</label> <target>564</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Asher Morgan and others authorized to enter land on Red river, Louisiana,</label> <target>567</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Weedon authorized to enter a tract of land in the military district in Arkansas,</label> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land warrant to be issued to Elijah Lincoln for services in the revolution, in lieu of another warrant,</label> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claims of J. E. Tholozan and William Russell to lands in Arkansas to be examined into, &amp;c.,</label> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The title of Arnold Henry Dohrman to land in Ohio confirmed,</label> <target>573</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The title of Marguerite Baron to land in Louisiana confirmed, and also to another tract,</label> <target>575</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John-Allen authorized to enter land at the office in Vincennes at private sale,</label> <target>575</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certificate of payment on account of land to be issued to Jeremiah Worsham,</label> <target>577</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Burris, of Mississippi, authorized to relinquish a tract of land and cuter another,</label> <target>579</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">G. Hodges and H. Masters authorized to enter lands,</label> <target>580</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of James P. Hainesworth may enter a tract of land in Alabama, in lieu of another sold by the United States,</label> <target>581</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William K. Faulting authorized to enter a tract of land,</label> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claims of the heirs, &amp;c. of W. G. Christopher confirmed,</label> <target>586</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The selection and survey of two tracts of land on the west side of St. Mary’s river confirmed to Francis Lafontain and son, and their assignees,</label> <target>601</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Armstrong Bailey authorized to surrender land warrant and scrip for the same quantity to issue to him,</label> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Mills authorized to locate land,</label> <target>595</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hishe Homa, alias Captain Red Pepper, authorized to locate 640 acres of land, subject to the restrictions in the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek,</label> <target>596</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Thomas H. Boyles authorized to locate a tract of land in lieu of land previously granted,</label> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs, &amp;c. of James Latham, authorized to withdraw a land warrant, and relocate the same,</label> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The land claim of George Gordon, assignee, &amp;c. of Matthew Rainey, confirmed,</label> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Laurence Milligan authorized to Locate land,</label> <target>599<page identifier="/us/stat/6/982">982</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land scrip to be issued to John Kirkpatrick,</label> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Wilson’s title to land in Missouri, confirmed,</label> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A duplicate land warrant to be issued to Evan Edwards,</label> <target>604</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A lot of eight acres of land granted for public purposes to the borough of Michillimackinac</label> <target>607</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land warrant to be issued to Robert Haile,</label> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Silas D. Fisher authorized to locate a section of land, a reservation under the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek,</label> <target>607</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lemuel Tunner, assignee of Pierre Dufresne, authorized to locate a tract of land in Louisiana,</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A lot in the city of Washington to be conveyed to James Young,</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard T. Archer authorized to purchase a tract of land in the state of Mississippi,</label> <target>614</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land patents to issue to William O’Neal and R. Morrison, for lands in Indiana,</label> <target>614</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Pennington may select a quarter section of land in Illinois,</label> <target>615</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The sale of land belonging to the University of Michigan, authorized,</label> <target>615</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Kincaid’s land title confirmed,</label> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for a tract of land to issue to Daniel Smith, of Morgan county, Indiana,</label> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Caulfield authorized to enter land in Alabama,</label> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin and Nancy Merrill authorized to sell a tract of land held under treaties with the Cherokees,</label> <target>641</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Archibald Small allowed to enter a tract of land in Indiana,</label> <target>642</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The provisions of the act of March 24, 1824, for the relief of John Donelson and Stephen Heard, extended,</label> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David Browning may relinquish a tract of land in Missouri, and enter another,</label> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Abraham Forbes, a spy in the late war, may enter a tract of land,</label> <target>647</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to David J. Talbot for a quarter-section of land in Missouri,</label> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The right of the United States to a certain tract of land in the territory of Michigan, relinquished to Thomas F. Reddick,</label> <target>661</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land in the state of Missouri, confirmed to John Howell,</label> <target>662</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Erroneous numbers of sections of land, west of the river Tombeckbe, to be corrected,</label> <target>664</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patents issued to William Crawford and Henry Newman, to be corrected,</label> <target>664</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for land in the territory of Michigan to issue to Thomas B. Clarke,</label> <target>667</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Antonio Segura and others, authorized to enter a tract of land on Red river, Louisiana,</label> <target>668</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of William Conway authorized to locate two tracts of land,</label> <target>668</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The trustees of common schools, in township eight, &amp;c., in Mississippi, authorized to locate a tract of land,</label> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A grant of land to the heirs of M. de la Calera, in West Florida, confirmed,</label> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Nathaniel Shaver authorized to locate a tract of land,</label> <target>675</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Josette Beaubien and her children allowed to relinquish certain lands, and enter others,</label> <target>676</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elijah Simmons authorized to enter a tract of land,</label> <target>677</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Smith and others, friendly Creek Indians, authorized to locate a tract of land in Alabama,</label> <target>677</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Susan Marlow, a Creek Indian, authorized to enter a tract of land in Alabama,</label> <target>678</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land title confirmed to Joseph Sorin, for land in Missouri,</label> <target>679</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A section of land in the territory of Michigan, confirmed to the heirs of James Abbott,</label> <target>679</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">J. Alman authorized to relinquish a tract of land sold at Vincennes, Indiana, and enter another,</label> <target>680</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Woolsey authorized to relinquish a tract of land sold at Vincennes, Indiana, and enter another,</label> <target>680</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Tobias Crum authorized to relinquish a tract of land in Indiana, and enter another,</label> <target>680</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The right of James Bradford, of Louisiana, to a tract of land confirmed,</label> <target>681</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The title of James Baldridge to a tract of land in the state of Missouri, confirmed,</label> <target>682</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The decisions of the register of the land office in New Orleans, relative to the claims for certain lands in Louisiana, with exceptions, confirmed,</label> <target>682</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Norman Holt entitled to a tract of land in the Vincennes land district, on surrendering another tract,</label> <target>684</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Andrew Knox may purchase a section of land in the Choctaw district,</label> <target>685</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A section of land in the Choctaw district reserved for schools,</label> <target>685</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A half-section of land in the state of Illinois to be set apart for Catharine Myott, to which she is entitled under the provision of the treaty made at Prairie du Chien,</label> <target>689</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claim in Louisiana confirmed to the heirs of Michael Dragon,</label> <target>689</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">So much of the act of 1836 as restricts Samuel Smith and others, Creek Indians, to one section of land, repealed, and Susan Marlow and others authorized to enter, without payment, six hundred and forty acres of land each,</label> <target>689</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Jeffers may surrender a land certificate for land in Alabama, and receive another therefor,</label> <target>690</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for land in Mississippi to be issued to Green Pryor, and the heirs of Peter Pryor,</label> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Isaac Williams authorized to enter certain lands in the state of Mississippi,</label> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to be issued to James Keytes for land in Missouri, in lieu of a certain other patent,</label> <target>694</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">David Browning may relinquish a tract of land in the state of Missouri, and enter another,</label> <target>643<page identifier="/us/stat/6/983">983</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Bowman may relinquish a tract of land and enter another,</label> <target>646</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin Bennet, Peter Guthrie, George W. Bennet, James Calvin, John Fifer, and the heirs of Henry Sumpter, authorized to relinquish certain lands and enter other lands,</label> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Location of a reservation of land under the Choctaw treaty, confirmed to Silas Fisher, a Choctaw Indian,</label> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for 320 acres of land in Ohio, to be issued to Henry Stoddard,</label> <target>639</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patents for certain reservations of land in Michigan to issue to certain Indians,</label> <target>639</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duncan L. Clinch allowed to enter a tract of land in Florida,</label> <target>676</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Philip Riviere to land in the state of Missouri confirmed,</label> <target>708</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Nibert authorized to patent land in the state of Louisiana,</label> <target>709</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Michael Cassel may surrender a land certificate in Indiana, and enter other land,</label> <target>710</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duplicate land warrants for bounty lands, to be issued to the heirs of Nathan, Peter, and William Adams,</label> <target>714</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jehu Hollingsworth may surrender a certificate for land in Alabama, and receive another,</label> <target>724</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William James Aarons may surrender a land certificate for land in Alabama, and enter another,</label> <target>721</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Walker may surrender a land warrant for land in Alabama, and receive another,</label> <target>721</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joel Chandler, James A. Williams, and Abraham Woodall, may surrender land certificates for land in Alabama, and receive others,</label> <target>722</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Raphael Paine and Elias Arnold may have land scrip issued to them of other land,</label> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land patent to be issued to J. A. Fleming, for land in Alabama,</label> <target>726</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The quantity and value of grants to A. Shane and L. Godfrey, to be ascertained by the commissioners and reported to Congress,</label> <target>726</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The land entries of Jacob Brown in Arkansas confirmed, and patents to issue for them,</label> <target>727</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land certificates to issue to Richard Cravat, Hardy Perry, and Beley Cheney,</label> <target>727</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A duplicate military bounty land warrant to be issued to Crawford Johnson,</label> <target>731</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Vespasian Ellis to have the benefit of certain land certificates, received from Henry A. Wise in payment for lands,</label> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jean B. Valle authorized to locate a tract of land,</label> <target>747</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Newton may surrender his title to land in the bounty land district, in Illinois, and enter other land,</label> <target>748</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Reservations under the treaty with the Pottawatomies,</label> <target>749</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land entries of Henry Wilson, for land in Arkansas, confirmed,</label> <target>749</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">W. W. Stevenson and J. Henderson authorized to enter land in lieu of other land in Arkansas, to which they had established pre-emption,</label> <target>752</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Murray may relinquish land in Missouri and enter another tract,</label> <target>752</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Wiley and Jefferson Greer authorized to enter land in Missouri without payment,</label> <target>752</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Whitsitt authorized to enter a tract of land at private sale,</label> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Middleton Tuttle, of Arkansas, may relinquish certain lands; patent to issue for other land,</label> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A duplicate military bounty land warrant to be issued to Levi Chadwick,</label> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Interest of the United States in a tract of land in Alabama, relinquished to Nathaniel Hone,</label> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A duplicate land warrant to be issued to the heirs of Bennett Shurley,</label> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Dickerson authorized to enter certain land, on relinquishing other land,</label> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Malone may enter a like quantity of land, upon surrender of other bind,</label> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hiner Stigermire, upon relinquishing certain land in Missouri, may enter another tract,</label> <target>757</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Davlin, on surrendering a patent for certain land, may enter another tract,</label> <target>758</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs, &amp;c., of Robert Farmer, confirmed in their title to land near Mobile, Alabama,</label> <target>761</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Moore may surrender a certificate of land in Alabama, and receive another,</label> <target>762</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Menzies Gilespie, a soldier of the United States army, may surrender a land warrant and receive a duplicate, to be received in payment, for other land,</label> <target>762</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land warrant to be issued to Nicholas Phelan, as a lieutenant or captain in the war of the revolution,</label> <target>762</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duplicate bind warrant to be issued to Crocker Sampson, a lieutenant in the Massachusetts’ line of the army of the revolution,</label> <target>763</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Farish Carter and the heirs of Charles Williamson empowered to enter certain land in Florida,</label> <target>763</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A bounty land warrant to be issued to Nathaniel Plumb, for services in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>763</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James L. Stokes permitted to complete his entry, and purchase certain land in Louisiana,</label> <target>764</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Money paid for land by Joseph Pierce and others to be refunded,</label> <target>765</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The land claim of Rosaline Prudhomine to land in Louisiana confirmed,</label> <target>765</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Isaac Miller may surrender a land certificate, and receive another for land in Illinois,</label> <target>765</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land patent to be issued for land in Louisiana to the heirs of William Graham,</label> <target>766</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Philip Catner authorized to relinquish certain land in Illinois and enter another tract,</label> <target>766</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Jaccard authorized to relinquish land in the Shawneetown land district, Illinois, and enter other land,</label> <target>767</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A certificate for land on Red river to be granted to Paul Poissot,</label> <target>767</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The land claim of Charles Morgan, in right of Simon Porche, under an order of Governor Miro, confirmed,</label> <target>768<page identifier="/us/stat/6/984">984</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Zebulon Sheets, upon surrendering certain lands, may enter others,</label> <target>768</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duplicate land warrant to be issued to John and Samuel Rowe,</label> <target>769</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duplicate military bounty land warrant to issue to James Cooper, of Lee’s regiment, in the revolutionary war,</label> <target>769</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Milley Yates, a Choctaw woman, to locate certain lands, acquired under the treaty at Dancing Rabbit Creek,</label> <target>769</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Enoch Matson authorized to transfer location of land warrant in Missouri,</label> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The widow and heirs of Alexander Hamilton, a lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary army, to receive a bounty land warrant,</label> <target>772</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel Warner authorized to enter land, as a private in the army of the United States, free of cost,</label> <target>772</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land scrip to be issued to Francis Jarvis,</label> <target>773</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The trustees of the township of Oxford, Ohio, to enter land for the use of schools,</label> <target>773</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas M. Burland’s land purchase confirmed,</label> <target>776</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Other land reserved for the use of schools,</label> <target>776</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A bounty land certificate to be issued to Isaac D. Saunders,</label> <target>776</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Massey and Thomas James, of Missouri, authorized to enter land as tenants in common,</label> <target>776</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A bounty land warrant to be issued to the representatives of James Maxwell,</label> <target>777</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land scrip to be issued to Abraham Stipp,</label> <target>777</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A duplicate land warrant to issue to Joseph Salford and others,</label> <target>778</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Rowe authorized to enter a tract of land,</label> <target>778</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Act for the relief of certain settlers in the western district of Tennessee,</label> <target>779</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bounty land warrant to issue to Ashbel Mason,</label> <target>779</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Borey may surrender a patent certificate for land in Arkansas, &amp;c.,</label> <target>780</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Washington Bigham authorized to enter certain land,</label> <target>780</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Polly Lemon authorized to enter certain land in lieu of land taken by the United States,</label> <target>780</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bounty land to John Dixon,</label> <target>781</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Aaron Stout to receive a patent for land free of cost,</label> <target>781</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The children and heirs of Sebastian Sroufe, late of Ohio, authorized to enter certain land,</label> <target>781</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land scrip to be issued to John M’Carroll, junior,</label> <target>781</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A bounty land warrant to be issued to Zebulon Baxter,</label> <target>782</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land warrant to be issued to William Clark,</label> <target>782</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Margaret Kingsbury authorized to enter land free of cost,</label> <target>782</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claims of John Dawson, David Ballentine and J. Eloi Rachal,</label> <target>783</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Stoker and others authorized to locate a tract of land,</label> <target>784</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land title of Peter Alba, to land near Pensacola, confirmed,</label> <target>785</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry L, Reviere authorized to enter certain land,</label> <target>786</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Soloman Sturges authorized to enter certain land,</label> <target>786</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land patent to issue to Thomas Todd,</label> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claims of William Moor, Thomas Nichols, and Michael Ambrister,</label> <target>788</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Stephen Marsters to be refunded money paid for certain land,</label> <target>788</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Stephen La Lande’s land title confirmed,</label> <target>796</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edward Beatty, of Missouri, authorized to enter, with certain certificates, land liable to private entry,</label> <target>795</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land claims of Sutten Stephens, and representatives of John Grimball, senior, confirmed,</label> <target>797</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Money refunded to James Brewer, of Ohio, paid for land,</label> <target>797</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Alexander authorized to relinquish certain land, &amp;c,</label> <target>797</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A tract of land in the county of Mobile, Alabama, confirmed to William Kennedy,</label> <target>800</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert M. Roberts, or his assignees, authorized to purchase lands,</label> <target>791</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Cochran entitled to a preference in purchasing certain lands in Missouri,</label> <target>801</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Augustine Lacoste, to land in Alabama, confirmed,</label> <target>807</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Williams Williams, senior, authorized to relinquish land, and enter other land,</label> <target>810</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Perkins authorized to enter land in Ohio,</label> <target>811</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Marbury, of Louisiana, authorized to enter certain land in lieu of land sold by the United States,</label> <target>811</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hyacinth Lassel authorized to enter land at the mouth of the Mississinniwa,</label> <target>816</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Tucker authorized to enter certain land,</label> <target>819</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jean Baptiste Comeau authorized to enter land in Louisiana, in lieu of other land,</label> <target>826</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A certificate for the amount paid by William Jones, for land in Alabama, to be issued, which shall be received in payment for other land,</label> <target>821</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Relief of the heirs of Miguel Eslava, of Alabama,</label> <target>822</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patents for lands to issue to J. Hunt and A. H. Guzzam, for lands in Alabama,</label> <target>822</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Bogy authorized to enter a tract of land in Arkansas,</label> <target>823</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Kiser and Barnett Foley allowed to enter land in Missouri,</label> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Nix, upon surrendering his patent for a tract of land in Alabama, to receive an other,</label> <target>832</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Charles H. Atherton to be refunded money paid for land,</label> <target>832</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Obed P. Lacey to receive a patent for certain land on certain conditions,</label> <target>834</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for certain land, in Alabama, to be issued to the representatives of Josiah Blakely,</label> <target>836</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Mayfield to receive other land in lieu of land granted to him,</label> <target>839<page identifier="/us/stat/6/985">985</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to be issued to John A. Rockwell for land at Galena, Illinois,</label> <target>849</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Daniel B. Bush authorized to relinquish and enter land in Illinois,</label> <target>850</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George H. Walker authorized to enter land in Wisconsin,</label> <target>850</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Rees B. Ward, on surrendering certain land, authorized to enter other land in Arkansas,</label> <target>850</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Wynn to have a preemptive right in the entry of certain land in Arkansas,</label> <target>851</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Chapman Levy authorized to purchase, within six months, certain lands in Mississippi as a pre-emptor,</label> <target>852</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Osteen, of Illinois, authorized to surrender certain land, and enter other land,</label> <target>853</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Higgins may prove his right of preemption to certain land,</label> <target>853</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas M. Isett, on surrendering a certain certificate, may enter land,</label> <target>854</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for land to issue to Gregoire Sarpy,</label> <target>854</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land designated by certain certificates to be confirmed to Valerian Allain,</label> <target>855</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jubal B. Hancock authorized to enter land in the state of Mississippi, in lieu of other land,</label> <target>856</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry Gee authorized to enter land in Florida, in lieu of that of which he was deprived,</label> <target>857</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land in Missouri, claimed by Sebastian Butcher, and the heirs of B. and M. Butcher and Peter Bloom, confirmed to them,</label> <target>859</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The inhabitants of township eight north, range thirty-two, in the state of Arkansas, authorized to enter land on certain conditions,</label> <target>868</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to the heirs of Francis Rivard, for an island in the Mississippi,</label> <target>868</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elisha Burnet authorized to enter a military land warrant,</label> <target>869</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The title of the heirs of James Sympson, to land in Louisiana, confirmed,</label> <target>869</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent to issue to John Compton, assignee and representative of Garrigues Flaujac, for land in Louisiana,</label> <target>870</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of the widow of Gaspard Phiole, authorized to enter four floating rights, to land in the state of Louisiana, in lieu of other land,</label> <target>870</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jean Baptiste Comeau authorized to enter land in lieu of other land in Louisiana, sold by the United States,</label> <target>871</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of the heirs of Hugo Krebs, to a lot in Mobile, confirmed,</label> <target>872</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain land granted to the heirs, &amp;c. of James May, in satisfaction of a claim confirmed to J. R. Williams and J. May,</label> <target>875</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Resolution for the benefit of George Schnabel and Robert Barber, junior, relative to certain land receipts,</label> <target>876</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elisha Moreland and others authorized to enter land in lieu of other land, a Cherokee reservation,</label> <target>879</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Elizabeth Munroe, on her surrender of a certain certificate, authorized to enter land in Missouri,</label> <target>882</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Mayfield allowed further time to enter land under the act of July 27, 1842, chap. 78</label> <target>885</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patents for land in the state of Ohio to issue to Joseph Hover, Abelard Guthrie and Edmund Ogden,</label> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Madame De Lusser, to land in Alabama, confirmed,</label> <target>887</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land granted to John R. Williams, in Michigan, in satisfaction of his portion of a claim confirmed to him and James May,</label> <target>889</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of the heirs of Philander Smith and James Young, to land in Louisiana, confirmed,</label> <target>890</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of George Neilson, a soldier of the late war, authorized to enter land free of cost,</label> <target>902</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A bounty land warrant to issue to Hugh Riddle, of New York,</label> <target>903</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James B. Sullivan, of the county of Rapides, Louisiana, authorized to complete the purchase of certain land in the county of Rapides,</label> <target>905</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Right of the United States to certain land relinquished to the heirs and assignees of Isaac Todd and James McGill,</label> <target>905</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The title of John Mullings, to land in Mississippi, confirmed,</label> <target>908</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Davenport, of Rock Island, in Illinois, authorized to enter land on Rock Island,</label> <target>908</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for land in the state of Ohio, to issue to John Miller,</label> <target>909</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for a tract of land in the state of Michigan, to issue to Joseph Campau,</label> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A land warrant to issue to Henry Newingham, a private soldier in the revolutionary war</label> <target>914</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The reversionary interest of the U. States in certain lands, reserved under the treaty with the Pottawatomie Indians, relinquished to George W. Allen and Reuben Allen,</label> <target>915</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain tracts of land in Mississippi, confirmed to Woodson Wren, and authority given to him to enter land,</label> <target>917</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The patent granted to Eaton Nonce, for land in the territory of Arkansas, made perfect,</label> <target>917</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land entry of Abelard Guthrie, in Ohio, confirmed,</label> <target>921</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Anderson, of Iowa, authorized to enter land,</label> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The land entry of James Pepper, of land in Louisiana, confirmed,</label> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A bounty land warrant to be issued to Ebenezer Moore,</label> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The assignee of Humphrey Richcreek authorized to enter land in the state of Ohio, in lieu of other land,</label> <target>926</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Pierre S. Derbanne authorized to enter certain land in Louisiana,</label> <target>926</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land entry, in Alabama, of John Baker, confirmed,</label> <target>927</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Hyacinth Lasselle authorized to locate land in Indiana,</label> <target>928</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The land claim of François Christien and widow of Baptiste Berard, in Louisiana, confirmed,</label> <target>928<page identifier="/us/stat/6/986">986</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The heirs of Christopher Miller, of Kentucky, authorized to enter land,</label> <target>929</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for land in Michigan to issue to Joseph Campau,</label> <target>930</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Stanley White, to land in Indiana, confirmed,</label> <target>939</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Summers and John Allen allowed to withdraw certain entries and transfer payments,</label> <target>191</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Anthony Cavalier and Peter Petit to a tract of land, confirmed,</label> <target>238</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land title of John O’Conner confirmed,</label> <target>239</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John M’Grew and others confirmed in their claims to land in Alabama,</label> <target>246</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Henry Willis authorized to enter a tract of land in lieu of two other tracts claimed,</label> <target>246</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain credits to be given to James M’Farland for payments for land,</label> <target>266</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Private Land Grant.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Grant of a township of land to the Connecticut Asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb,</label> <target>229</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A patent for land to be granted to Henry Batman,</label> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Prize Money.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Prize money to the captors of Moorish armed vessels,</label> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Prize money to Lieutenant-Colonel William Lawrence, of the value of the sloop-of-war Hennes and the schooner Active,</label> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Proceeds of sale of boats captured to be distributed to Pharaoh Farrow and others,</label> <target>169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of United States to property captured by G. T. Ross, Daniel T. Patterson, and others, relinquished to them,</label> <target>171</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Agents to be appointed to disburse the prize money allowed to George T. Ross and Daniel T. Patterson and others,</label> <target>185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Distribution of the proceeds of the schooner Retaliation,</label> <target>147</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John D. Carter to be paid his portion of the prize money for the capture of the ship Mandarin,</label> <target>248</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Smith of Alexandria to be paid prize money due to his slave,</label> <target>331</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Prize money to be paid to Thomas Douty for capture of Algerine vessels in</label> <target>1815, 359</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Smith, of Alexandria, to receive the wages and prize money of his slave, who was on board the Wasp,</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The legal representatives of John Coleman to be paid prize money for the capture of British vessels on Lake Champlain,</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Prize money arising from the capture of the British fleet on Lake Champlain, to be paid to the representatives of Joseph Rowe,</label> <target>563</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Nelson and others to be paid for prize money, &amp;c.</label> <target>517</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Representatives of Henry Richardson, Samuel Stout, and Lieutenant John Rudd to be paid prize money,</label> <target>672</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to Barbara Paulas of prize money of John Zeabold, seaman of the Wasp,</label> <target>294</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of prize money to the representatives of Edward Moore,</label> <target>452</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Prize money to be distributed among the officers and crew of the late private armed brig General Armstrong,</label> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Prize money to be paid to Margaret Dougherty, representative of Owen Dougherty, for the capture, of Algerine vessels restored to the Dey of Algiers,</label> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The widow and representatives of John Tilden allowed to present their claims to prize money under the act relating to the sloop-of-war Wasp,</label> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jesse Seymour allowed to present his claim,</label> <target>793</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance of prize money to David Robinson and others, for capturing the privateer Lydia in 1813,</label> <target>747</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment of wages and prize money to Henry Richardson, under the act of April 20, 1816, chap. 65, relating to the late officers and crew of the Wasp,</label> <target>769</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jarius Loomis and the heirs of James Basset to be allowed certain prize money,</label> <target>778</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lieutenant John E. Bispham allowed prize money for the capture of a piratical felucca,</label> <target>820</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property destroyed by Fire.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of John Crosby and John Crosby, jun., for property destroyed by fire, to be settled,</label> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Property taken by the United States.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Prioleau to be paid for property taken by the United States,</label> <target>18</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of Paul D. Butler, for property used by the militia, to be settled,</label> <target>172</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Townsend to be paid for an anchor,</label> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Miller to be paid for a keel-boat,</label> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Marigny D’Auterive to be paid for wood taken by the United States near New Orleans,</label> <target>411</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public Lands.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mistake in an entry of land made by James Aikman to be corrected,</label> <target>197</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A lot in New Orleans granted to the governor of the state of Louisiana,</label> <target>108</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">J. J. Dufour and his associates allowed five years’ to pay for public lands purchased,</label> <target>126</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Title to a lot in New Orleans confirmed to the New Orleans Navigation Company,</label> <target>161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sale of a lot of ground in the town of Knoxville authorized,</label> <target>161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sale of a tract of land in Ohio, reserved for the use of the state, authorized,</label> <target>161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lot granted to the New Orleans Navigation Company,</label> <target>144</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Shields to have a preference in the purchase of certain land,</label> <target>249</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bounds of a tract sold John Cleves Symmes,</label> <target>7</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Adjustment of land title in Detroit,</label> <target>62</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sale of land in Tennessee and Indiana,</label> <target>98</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land in Ohio granted to Anthony Shane,</label> <target>149</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Interest of the United States in lands of the real estate of James Maxwell released to the nephews of James Maxwell,</label> <target>168</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Title to lots in Perrysburg and Croghansville <page identifier="/us/stat/6/987">987</page>confirmed to the commissioners of Wood and Sandusky counties, Ohio,</label> <target>276</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A certificate to issue to Daniel Seward for money paid for land-which had been granted before,</label> <target>285</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A lot on the south side of a public lot in Baton Rouge to be exchanged for a lot on the north part of the lot,</label> <target>315</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Grant of streets and lots in Tuscaloosa to the corporation,</label> <target>315</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A tract of land granted to the parish of Point Coupee, on condition of keeping up a levee in front, on the Mississippi,</label> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The commissioners of Peoria, Illinois, authorized to enter land for a seat of justice,</label> <target>538</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Randall Allis and others to be paid for lands ceded to the United States,</label> <target>522</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A mistake in issuing a land patent to Richard Nance to be corrected,</label> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A right of way granted over lands of the United States in the city of New York,</label> <target>579</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Fisher to be paid for land in Alabama,</label> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Money paid for lands to be refunded to Alvarez Fisk and Thomas P. Esdridge,</label> <target>796</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Money paid by James Brewer, of Ohio, for land, to be refunded,</label> <target>797</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The state of Tennessee authorized to issue certain grants for lands in the western district of Tennessee,</label> <target>779</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">An net for the relief of Oliver Welsh,</label> <target>806</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The act of March 3, 1839, chap. 179, extended to certain settlers on the salt-lick reservation in Tennessee,</label> <target>808</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The commissioners of Lake county, Illinois, to enter a tract of land, in lieu of one formerly granted for a seat of justice,</label> <target>832</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land granted to the county of Van Buren, Missouri, in lieu of that granted by law for a seat of justice,</label> <target>842</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land granted to the county of Johnson, in Iowa, for a seat of justice, &amp;c.,</label> <target>846</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Land in Missouri, for the county of Holt,</label> <target>847</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Ransom of Captives.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Smith and John Robertson ransomed from captivity,</label> <target>29</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Francis Duchouquet to be paid for advance for ransom of captives,</label> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Philip Sloan,</label> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Burnham to be repaid his ransom from captivity by the Algerines,</label> <target>103</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Captain John Burham to be paid balance due him for effecting his ransom at Algiers,</label> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin Huffman, of Indiana, to be paid $500, to regain his son from Indian captivity,</label> <target>314</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Refugees in Canada.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Acts relating to the refugees from Canada extended to Gregory Strahan,</label> <target>363</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Register of the Officers in the Service of the United States.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Secretary of State to compile and print a register of the officers and agents in the service of the United States,</label> <target>181</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Register of Vessels.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Relief to Robert Barton and others,</label> <target>20</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The ship Diana restored to the privileges of an American sea-letter vessel,</label> <target>267</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A register to be issued to tiles brig William, lately called the Union, a British vessel, stranded on the coast of the United States, and purchased by an American citizen,</label> <target>313</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Register to be issued to the brig Liberator,</label> <target>371</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Register for the brig Hope to be issued to Richard Smith and William Pearse, of Rhode Island,</label> <target>458</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A register to be issued for the sloop Sarah,</label> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The iron steamer, New Jersey, built in England, to be licensed and enrolled,</label> <target>799</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The schooner Amistad to be registered and enrolled,</label> <target>824</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A register to be issued for the brig Gulnare,</label> <target>831</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A register to be issued to the British boat, A. Bartow,</label> <target>914</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Relief from a Bond to the United States.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Haskins and Ralph Haskins to be released from a certain bond,</label> <target>850</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Isaac Melchoir’s bond of indemnity to the United States to be cancelled,</label> <target>243</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Henry J. Defrees and Stephen Jenny to be released from a bond given by them as sureties of John B. Fanning, a purser in the navy,</label> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bond given by the sureties of Melancton W. Bostwick, late a purser in the navy, who perished in the Epervier, to be released,</label> <target>806</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Debt due the General Post-Office.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Asa Herring released from a debt due the General Post-Office by William Myers,</label> <target>376</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release from a Debt due the United States.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Columbian College released from a debt due to the United States,</label> <target>373</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Griffin released from a debt due to the United States by T. Archer, collector,</label> <target>397</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Fines and Forfeitures.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Moiety of a fine remitted to Hiram Murch,</label> <target>929</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Satisfaction of a judgment to be entered on a judgment against John Atchison, in the United States Court, in the district of Illinois</label> <target>330</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The amount of a fine under the alien and sedition law to be remitted to Charles Holt,</label> <target>931</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Land by the United States.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The right of the United States to lands and building at Derby, in Connecticut, released,</label> <target>235</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain estate released from the claim of the United States, and to be conveyed to the children of Dominick Lynch,</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lien on a certain lot in Alexandria released to the heirs of James Wilson,</label> <target>758<page identifier="/us/stat/6/988">988</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Release of Sureties.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Miller and others, sureties of James H. Alley, a collector of taxes, released from all demands,</label> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Crockett of Kentucky, securities released,</label> <target>350</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Relief of John Cooper and others, sureties of William Estes,</label> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of James Morrison released from a suit against him as surety,</label> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sureties of Dominick Lynch to be released, and property of Lynch to be conveyed to his children,</label> <target>786</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The sureties of George Brown, late collector of internal duties and taxes in Maryland, to be allowed commissions, &amp;c.,</label> <target>522</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Further relief granted to George Johnson, surety of Benjamin F. Bourne,</label> <target>523</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The sureties of Nicholas Kern to be released,</label> <target>662</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Proceedings against the sureties of J. Manney, collector at Beaufort, North Carolina, to be suspended,</label> <target>745</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The sureties of Samuel Smith, at St. Stephen’s, released,</label> <target>757</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money illegally collected for the United States.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The representatives of Louis Chretien to be paid for money illegally collected from him,</label> <target>338</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Repayment of Money paid as Surety.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas Hewes repaid money paid the marshal of Louisiana, as surety of J. Jones,</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>St. Domingo Sufferers.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Relief to sufferers in St. Domingo,</label> <target>13</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Sales of Land for direct Taxes.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Surplus of money from sale of land for direct taxes to be paid to Anthony Kennedy,</label> <target>277</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Salt-Works in Illinois.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Bate to be allowed for improvements, &amp;c., of salt-works in Illinois,</label> <target>201</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jonathan Taylor and others to be paid for their improvements at certain salt-works in Illinois,</label> <target>419</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Salvage.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain duties to be paid to John B. Pierce, as salvage on the brig Rob Roy and cargo,</label> <target>856</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>School Lands.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The township of Dublin, Mercer county, Ohio, compensated for the loss of school lands,</label> <target>862</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Titles of purchasers of land from the board of trustees of the Vincennes university confirmed,</label> <target>171</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A quantity of land to be set apart for the use of a university in Arkansas,</label> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The trustees of the University of the State of Alabama authorized to surrender patents issued for lands, and to receive others,</label> <target>383</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>School Lands.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Grant of land for the use of the Lafayette Academy,</label> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Trustees of the Valley Creek Academy, Alabama, authorized to enter certain land,</label> <target>398</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Exchange of lands by the University of Michigan with Martin Baum, authorized,</label> <target>402</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jefferson College, in the state of Mississippi, allowed to relinquish certain lands and locate others,</label> <target>484</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A section of land to be located for the benefit of schools in Lawrence county, Mississippi,</label> <target>451</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain town-lots in Upper Sandusky, and the proceeds thereof, granted for the purposes of the county of Wyandot, in the state of Ohio, &amp;c.,</label> <target>936</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lands granted to the Kentucky Asylum transferred to Centre College,</label> <target>896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The sale of certain school lands in Illinois confirmed,</label> <target>847</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A selection of lands for schools in the county of Gibson, in the state of Indiana, to be made,</label> <target>851</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lands granted for the use of schools in Arkansas,</label> <target>819</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A section of land granted for the use of schools in St. Clair county, Illinois,</label> <target>810</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">School lands granted to the town of Fayetteville, Arkansas,</label> <target>567</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The trustees of the University of Michigan authorized to convey certain lands,</label> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Services.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to Fulwar Skipwith, for expenses incurred,</label> <target>15</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to Arthur St. Clair for public services,</label> <target>16</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Widow and children of John de Neufville to be paid,</label> <target>29</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John While, commissioner, and his clerks, continued in office,</label> <target>1</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Annuity of $2500 for life, allowed to Frederick William de Steuben,</label> <target>2</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Services of Major-General Earl of Sterling,</label> <target>4</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Services of John Laurens,</label> <target>5</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Services of George Gibson,</label> <target>10</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Services of Thomas Wishart,</label> <target>11</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Services of John Harding,</label> <target>12</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Services of Alexander Trueman,</label> <target>12</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Services of General La Fayette,</label> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Steele to be paid for services,</label> <target>56</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel Whiting to be paid for services,</label> <target>71</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Robinson to be paid for services,</label> <target>94</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">P. C. L’Enfant to be paid for laying out the city of Washington,</label> <target>94</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Audrain to be paid for services,</label> <target>98</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Compensation to John Eugene Leitensdorfer,</label> <target>97</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Thomas F. Reddick to be paid for services as clerk,</label> <target>108</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lewis Chacherie to be paid for services as translator,</label> <target>118</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment for the services of David Wiley, employed by the postmaster-general to survey a post-road,</label> <target>119</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Reuben Altwater to be paid for services as secretary of the territory of Michigan,</label> <target>117<page identifier="/us/stat/6/989">989</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Garrard to be paid for services as land commissioner,</label> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Clement B. Penrose to be paid for services as commissioner,</label> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Mary Philip Le Duc to be paid for services as translator,</label> <target>131</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Audrain to be paid for services as clerk,</label> <target>180</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Compensation to Peter Hugner,</label> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Asa Wells to be reimbursed for certain expenses,</label> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Michael Jones to be paid for services as clerk,</label> <target>208</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Services of Samuel H. Harper, for bringing to the seat of government the decision, of the register and receiver of lands in the eastern district of Louisiana,</label> <target>218</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Services of Thomas Turner as accountant in the navy department, to be paid,</label> <target>224</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of John Rice Jones, as interpreter and translator, to be settled,</label> <target>229</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Warner Wing to be paid for services as clerk,</label> <target>356</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James May, of Detroit, to be paid for his services as marshal,</label> <target>360</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph Dunbar, receiver of public moneys in the land office west of Pearl river, to be paid for his services,</label> <target>360</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Hagner, third auditor of the treasury, to be paid for extra services, under the act authorizing payment for property destroyed by the enemy,</label> <target>369</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hampton L. Boone, of Missouri, to be paid for services,</label> <target>371</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Brahan to be allowed a credit for services as clerk,</label> <target>392</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Nathaniel B. Wood to be paid for services as special commissary, &amp;c.</label> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Fielding L. White to be paid for his services in capturing a criminal,</label> <target>437</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Payment to Joseph E. Sprague, as counsellor, &amp;c.</label> <target>456</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Daly to be paid for services in Canada,</label> <target>456</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Benjamin Homans to be paid for his services as clerk,</label> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The accounts of James Munroe, for public services, to be finally adjusted and paid,</label> <target>457</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph W. Torrey to be paid for professional services in defending three Indians,</label> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joseph M. White to be allowed for services as district attorney and marshal of West Florida,</label> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Alexander Scott, late collector at Pensacola, to be paid $500 annually,</label> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Additional allowance to John Mitchell, agent for prisoners at Halifax,</label> <target>317</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Interpreter of the District Court of Louisiana, John Culbertson, to be paid for services,</label> <target>467</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">An interpreter of the District Court to be appointed,</label> <target>467</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The account of Samuel A. Edmondson for services to be adjusted,</label> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The services of James Ord, and those of his son as clerk and messenger, to be paid,</label> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Clement B. Penrose to be allowed in his account for services as land commissioner,</label> <target>594</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Michael Lewis to be paid for his services as pilot on board the United States schooner Vixen,</label> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Newton Berryman to be paid for his services as a clerk in the navy department,</label> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George H. Jennings to be paid for services in arresting pirates,</label> <target>553</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James H. Brewer to be paid for services in arresting pirates,</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Thomas Clemmons, as an artificer in the Kentucky militia, to be settled,</label> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Baker to be paid for services as surgeon in the navy,</label> <target>621</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Saunders and Perley Putnam to be paid as superintendents of the public buildings in Salem,</label> <target>625</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel W. Ruff allowed pay as a surgeon in the navy,</label> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Cowper to be paid for services in prosecuting claims under the Spanish treaty,</label> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John S. Devlin to be paid for his services as clerk,</label> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Doctors J. E. B. Findly and A. H. Deas, to be paid for medical services to the United States troops,</label> <target>661</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Joshua Pitcher to be allowed for services as an Indian agent,</label> <target>661</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert A. Forsythe to be paid for services among the Pottawattamie Indians,</label> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William D. King and others to be paid for attending an exploring party of Chickasaws,</label> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Stephen Hook to be paid for services in arresting criminals,</label> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Lucius Sawyer to be paid for services as judge-advocate,</label> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James Lowe to be paid one thousand dollars, and to have a section of land, for rescuing an American vessel from pirates,</label> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George E. Tingle to be paid for his services as clerk,</label> <target>507</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peter Bargy, jun., and others to be paid for labor, in endeavoring to construct a dam across the lower part of the Savannah river,</label> <target>541</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of John Campbell of New York, as forage master, to be settled,</label> <target>541</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Gates Hoit to be paid for secret services rendered during the last war,</label> <target>515</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">D. W. Haley to be paid for arresting mail robbers,</label> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The salary of J. H. Peterson, due at the time of his death, to be paid to his executor,</label> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John E. Alexander to be paid for his services in pursuing and arresting counterfeiters,</label> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William Colt and William Donoldson to be paid for arresting and prosecuting mail robbers,</label> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William S. Colquhoun to be paid for his services in the department of the commissary-general of supplies,</label> <target>760</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The charge of Lewis B. Willis, for services <page identifier="/us/stat/6/990">990</page>as acting deputy surveyor, to be allowed,</label> <target>779</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">George Innes to be paid for his services as deputy inspector,</label> <target>786</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Ezekiel Jones allowed for his services as commander of the revenue cutter Washington,</label> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Samuel McComb allowed for his services in superintending the erection of a branch mint in North Carolina,</label> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Cornelius Taylor, for extraordinary expenses in carrying the mail, to be settled,</label> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Patrick Green to be paid for his services in protecting the mail between Baltimore and Havre de Grace,</label> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The services of Henry Gratiot, sub-agent of the Winnebago Indians, to be paid,</label> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The claim of Woodburne Potter, for services as clerk, to be adjusted,</label> <target>793</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John H. Jacocks to be paid for his services as inspector of the customs,</label> <target>796</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Milnor and John Thompson to be paid for extra services as guagers at the port of Philadelphia,</label> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John P. Converse and Henry J. Rees to be paid for services in the Post-office Department,</label> <target>848</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Underwood to be allowed extra pay for additional services in the First Auditor’s office,</label> <target>863</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Hezekiah Cunningham to be paid for transporting the mail in Illinois,</label> <target>864</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Cornelius Wilson and James Canter to be paid for services in the North Carolina militia,</label> <target>878</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">James M. Morgan to be paid for services as bearer of despatches,</label> <target>879</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The Steamboat Company of Nantucket to be paid for transporting the mail,</label> <target>882</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Barent Stryker to be paid for carrying the mail,</label> <target>883</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Richard Rush to be paid for extra services relating to the Smithsonian Fund,</label> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Peters, Moore and Company to be paid for transporting the mail from Philadelphia to Lancaster,</label> <target>900</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert A. Kelly to be paid for his services as register of the land-office at Opelousas,</label> <target>903</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">The postmaster-general to settle with J. and P. Voorhies,</label> <target>907</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Adam L. Mills to be paid for carrying the mail,</label> <target>911</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Lund Washington to be paid for the services of his minor son, William T. Washington, as clerk in the War Department,</label> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Philip Schwartztrawber, of Ohio, to be paid for taking care of certain booms on Red river,</label> <target>940</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Shawneetown.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Silo of a town to be laid out, &amp;c.,</label> <target>132</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Slaves.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Edmund Brooke authorized to remove two slaves into the District of Columbia,</label> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John Carter authorized to bring a slave into the District of Columbia,</label> <target>820</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Spanish Grant of Land.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">A Spanish warrant of survey for land to be filed with the recorder of land titles at St. Louis,</label> <target>213</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Stamps Lost.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Release of the administrators of William Jones for stamps lost by William Jones,</label> <target>247</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Stockbridge Indians.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Claim of certain Stockbridge Indians to be settled,</label> <target>244</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Sufferers by Fire.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Sufferers by fire at Portsmouth, allowed further time for payment of bonds,</label> <target>49</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Bonds of sufferers by fire in Norfolk may be cancelled, new ones being given,</label> <target>53</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Further time allowed for payment of bonds for duties, by the sufferers by fire at Portsmouth,</label> <target>63</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John D. Hay, postmaster, released from the payment of $300, destroyed by fire,</label> <target>144</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Relief of the sufferers by fire at Alexandria,</label> <target>356</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Walter Story Chandler to be paid for final settlement certificates destroyed by fire,</label> <target>326</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Property of the officers and soldiers at Fort Delaware, lost by fire, to be ascertained and paid for,</label> <target>512</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Chastelain and Ponvert, and others, to be allowed the duties on goods destroyed by fire,</label> <target>813</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Sufferings during the War.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jacob Barnitz allowed for sufferings during the war,</label> <target>80</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Survey of Military Bounty Lands.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of Alexander Holmes and Benjamin Hough, for surveys of military bounty lands, to be settled,</label> <target>196</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Surveys of Public Lands.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William and Elias Rector to be paid for surveys of public land,</label> <target>87</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Aaron Greely to be paid for surveys of public lands,</label> <target>107</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Accounts of William Edwards and John G. Stubbs, for surveying land, to be settled,</label> <target>201</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Robert Buntin to be paid for surveying land,</label> <target>262</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Laurentius M. Eiler to be paid for surveys of land made in the territory of Arkansas,</label> <target>624</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Tonnage.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jonathan Hudson, of Baltimore, repaid tonnage,</label> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Foreign tonnage duty refunded to William Kellogg,</label> <target>355</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Stephen Thatcher allowed tonnage duty charged against him,</label> <target>329</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">William P. Yonge to be paid for extra tonnage paid by him,</label> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Jacob A. Blackwell to be repaid tonnage duty on the brig Prospect,</label> <target>320<page identifier="/us/stat/6/991">991</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Extra tonnage duty paid on the brigrator to be refunded,</label> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Tonnage, duty paid by Atwater and Daggett, and others, to be refunded,</label> <target>601</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties paid by Ezekiel Foster and Company, on the British brig Superior, to be refunded,</label> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Duties on the schooner Brandywine refunded,</label> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Certain tonnage duties refunded, paid on the brig Despatch,</label> <target>747</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Tonnage duties refunded to Jacob Pennell and others,</label> <target>833</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Treasury Notes.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Allowance to John Byers for depreciation of Treasury notes,</label> <target>289</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Treasury Notes.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">John K. Carter to have credit for the depreciation of certain Treasury notes,</label> <target>311</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Wolcott Chauncey to be allowed in account for loss on Treasury notes,</label> <target>580</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Noah Brown, and the representatives of Adam Brown, to be paid for loss sustained by the sale of Treasury notes,</label> <target>670</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Washington Bridge Company.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">To be paid for injuries done to the bridge during the war,</label> <target>168</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>West Point Academy.</i></designator> <target /></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><label leaderChar="⁃" leaderAlign="right" class="indentUp1 firstIndent-1 fontsize10">Appropriations,</label> <target>815</target></referenceItem>
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<heading class="centered">ALPHABETICAL LIST</heading>
<heading class="centered smallCaps">OF THE</heading>
<heading class="centered">PERSONS NAMED IN THE PRIVATE ACTS,</heading>
<heading class="centered smallCaps">AND OF</heading>
<heading class="centered smallCaps">MANY OF THE SUBJECTS TO WHICH THOSE LAWS RELATE</heading>
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<referenceItem><designator>Aarons, William James,</designator> <target>721</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Abbot, Joel,</designator> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Abbot, James,</designator> <target>416</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Abbot, Robert,</designator> <target>679</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Abel, Peggy,</designator> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia,</designator> <target>121</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Aikman, Samuel,</designator> <target>197</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Acken, William D.,</designator> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Adams, Priscilla,</designator> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Adams, John,</designator> <target>351, 937</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Adams, Abraham,</designator> <target>535</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Adams, Nathan, William, and Peter,</designator> <target>714</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Adams, John,</designator> <target>799</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Adamson, John,</designator> <target>458</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Admiral, schooner,</designator> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Agricultural Bank of Mississippi,</designator> <target>861</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Alexander, William,</designator> <target>33</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Alexander, John E.,</designator> <target>755, 841</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Alexandria Court-House,</designator> <target>202</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Alexandria, sufferers by fire in,</designator> <target>356</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Alexandria Canal Company,</designator> <target>419, 496</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Alden, Judah,</designator> <target>430</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Allen, Sarah,</designator> <target>236</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Allen, Nathaniel,</designator> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Allen County, Indiana,</designator> <target>448</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Allis Randall and others,</designator> <target>522</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Allen, John,</designator> <target>575</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Alford, Benedict, and another,</designator> <target>599, 629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Alraan, John, and another,</designator> <target>680</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Alexandre, French ship,</designator> <target>823</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Allain, Valerian,</designator> <target>855</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Allen, William,</designator> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Alexander, Walter S.,</designator> <target>915</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Alspach, D., and another,</designator> <target>923</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Amory, Jonathan, jun.,</designator> <target>214</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>American, brig, of Savannah,</designator> <target>559</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>American consul at London,</designator> <target>620</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ambrister, Michael,</designator> <target>788</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Anacosta Bridge Company,</designator> <target>153</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Anderson, Joseph,</designator> <target>156</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Anderson, John,</designator> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Anderson, Charles,</designator> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Anderson, Lewis,</designator> <target>472</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Anderson, John,</designator> <target>506</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Anderson, William S.,</designator> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Anderson, Richard,</designator> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Angel, Sarah,</designator> <target>749</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Andrews, William,</designator> <target>805</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Anderson, James,</designator> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Appleton, Abigail,</designator> <target>407, 689</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Argonaut, ship,</designator> <target>16</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Armroyd and Company,</designator> <target>96</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Arnold, William,</designator> <target>146</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Armstrong, General,</designator> <target>224</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Arms, Lemuel,</designator> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Beekman, Theophilus E.,</designator> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Benjamin, Meigs D.,</designator> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Boisgervais, James H.,</designator> <target>195</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Boyd, Joseph C.,</designator> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Cahoone, John,</designator> <target>134</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Carter, John D.,</designator> <target>248</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Cahokia, village of,</designator> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cadwell, Peter, and another,</designator> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Caslard, Peter,</designator> <target>188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Callan, Patrick,</designator> <target>231</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cavalier, Anthony, and others,</designator> <target>238</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cassin, Mary,</designator> <target>238</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cannon, Joshua, and others,</designator> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cain, Richard, of Ohio,</designator> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Case, Loudon,</designator> <target>291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Campbell, Charles,</designator> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Campbell, Polly L.,</designator> <target>285</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carr, Charles,</designator> <target>289</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Caramulli, Hamet,</designator> <target>62</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carroll, Daniel, and others,</designator> <target>306</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carter, John K.,</designator> <target>311</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carpentier, Joseph Le,</designator> <target>367</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carmichael, John F.,</designator> <target>394, 449</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carr, Elijah,</designator> <target>402</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cardozo, J. N.,</designator> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carroll, William T.,</designator> <target>464</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cannon, Joseph S.,</designator> <target>469</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cassedy, Charles,</designator> <target>472</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Catlett, Dr. Hanson,</designator> <target>476</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carter, William,</designator> <target>490</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carr, Sarah,</designator> <target>535</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Campbell, John, of New York,</designator> <target>541</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Caplinger, Adam,</designator> <target>544</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Case, Solomon,</designator> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Campbell, David</designator> <target>624</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Caulfield, James,</designator> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Caldwell, David,</designator> <target>664</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cathcart, James Leander,</designator> <target>250, 278, 668</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Canada, Nathaniel,</designator> <target>669</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carers, M. de la,</designator> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cassel, Michael,</designator> <target>710</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Calvert county Levy Court,</designator> <target>711</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Callan, James,</designator> <target>712</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carter, Dr. Thomas,</designator> <target>716</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Campbell, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard,</designator> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Casey, Robert,</designator> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carter, Farish, and others,</designator> <target>763</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Calhoon, Chauncey,</designator> <target>775</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carter, John,</designator> <target>820</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carpenter, Jesse,</designator> <target>833</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Campbell, John,</designator> <target>841</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Campbell, John P.,</designator> <target>844</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Caldwell, Joseph F.,</designator> <target>861</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carter, Randolph,</designator> <target>866</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Carrier, Hannah,</designator> <target>874</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Calhoun, James S.,</designator> <target>906</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Calhoun, Violet,</designator> <target>909</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Campau, Joseph,</designator> <target>913, 930</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cazeau, Francis,</designator> <target>191</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Centre College, Kentucky,</designator> <target>896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chase, Joseph,</designator> <target>78</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chever, Mary,</designator> <target>134</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chalmers, John,</designator> <target>145</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chism, William,</designator> <target>188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chase, Samuel,</designator> <target>61, 70</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chalmers, John,</designator> <target>145</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chester, John,</designator> <target>66</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chase, Paul,</designator> <target>336</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Christ Church, Washington,</designator> <target>294</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Channing, Walter,</designator> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Church of St. Anne, Detroit,</designator> <target>215</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chandler, Walter Story,</designator> <target>326</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chapin, Luther, of Ohio,</designator> <target>334</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chretien, Louis,</designator> <target>338</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chase, Joshua T.,</designator> <target>372</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cherokee Indians,</designator> <target>379</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chitwood, Sarah,</designator> <target>386</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chesnut, Samuel,</designator> <target>400</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chapin, Luther,</designator> <target>414</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chillicothe Bank,</designator> <target>414</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chapman, Jonathan,</designator> <target>426</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Childers, Nathaniel,</designator> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cheever, Nathaniel,</designator> <target>456</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chew, Beverly,</designator> <target>464</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chiapella, Celestin,</designator> <target>489</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chamberlain, Joseph,</designator> <target>505</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chinn, George,</designator> <target>553</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chauncey, Wolcott,</designator> <target>580</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Christopher, William G.,</designator> <target>586</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chandler, John and William,</designator> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chase, Parker,</designator> <target>666</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Christ Church, Philadelphia,</designator> <target>675</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Christy, William,</designator> <target>692</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chandler, Joel,</designator> <target>722</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chilton, John,</designator> <target>731</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chittendon, Noah,</designator> <target>736</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Champe, Phebe,</designator> <target>736</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Challer, Henry,</designator> <target>739</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chadwick, Levi,</designator> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cheears, Dr. James M.,</designator> <target>793</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chastelain and Ponvert,</designator> <target>813</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chase, Daniel,</designator> <target>840</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cheever, William D.,</designator> <target>875</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Chandler, Joseph R.,</designator> <target>893</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Church, Daniel W.,</designator> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Christian, Francois,</designator> <target>928</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clason, Isaac,</designator> <target>131</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clark, Dennis,</designator> <target>141</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clinton county, New York,</designator> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clark, Ashael,</designator> <target>206</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clifford, Thomas and John, and others,</designator> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clark, John,</designator> <target>224</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clark, James H.,</designator> <target>286</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clarke, Archibald,</designator> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cleveland, Samuel,</designator> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cloyd, William,</designator> <target>372</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clark, Benjamin,</designator> <target>406</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clarke, Elijah L.,</designator> <target>406</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Claxton, Alexander,</designator> <target>434</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Claxton, Alexander,</designator> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Glower, William,</designator> <target>455</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Claiborne, Buller,</designator> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clarke, Bailey E.,</designator> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clemmons, Thomas,</designator> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clay, John Randolph,</designator> <target>667, 755, 896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clarke, Thomas B.,</designator> <target>667</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clinch, Duncan L.,</designator> <target>676, 801</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clark, Christopher,</designator> <target>716</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clark, Josiah,</designator> <target>724</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clarke, William,</designator> <target>782</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clements, Jacob,</designator> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clark, Marston G.,</designator> <target>852</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Clark, George W.,</designator> <target>921</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cook, David, and another,</designator> <target>6</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Columbia College,</designator> <target>255</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Columbia Library Company,</designator> <target>51</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Coulon, Paul,</designator> <target>51</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Coles, John,</designator> <target>51</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cotton, Daniel,</designator> <target>80</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Converce, Royal,</designator> <target>118</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cole, Martin,</designator> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Coxe, John Redman,</designator> <target>158</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Coffin, David,</designator> <target>174</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cole, Mehitabel,</designator> <target>216</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb,</designator> <target>229<page identifier="/us/stat/6/997">997</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Coolidge, Uriah,</designator> <target>149</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Columbian Institute,</designator> <target>214, 247, 316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Conner, William,</designator> <target>270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Converse, Daniel,</designator> <target>245</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Collin, William,</designator> <target>244</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Coffee, John,</designator> <target>284</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cocke, William,</designator> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cooper, David,</designator> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Collier, Charles M.,</designator> <target>290</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Collyer, Isaac,</designator> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Copp, Michael,</designator> <target>342</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cooksey, Theophilus,</designator> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Coburn, Samuel,</designator> <target>469</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Commercial Bank of Lake Erie,</designator> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cone, Jared,</designator> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cockburn, Walter,</designator> <target>508</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Comb, Charles, and others,</designator> <target>528</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Commissioner of the General Land-Office,</designator> <target>531</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cobb, Justus,</designator> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Connant, Shubael,</designator> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cooper, Joseph,</designator> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Colburn, Reuben,</designator> <target>631</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Coombs, Leslie,</designator> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cook, Peter,</designator> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Coles, Samuel,</designator> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Coit, Benjamin,</designator> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Comins, James,</designator> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cobb, Daniel,</designator> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cooper, John,</designator> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Conway, William,</designator> <target>668</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Collier, Coleman A.,</designator> <target>681</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cothcal, H. and E.,</designator> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cogswell, William,</designator> <target>718</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Collin, Charles,</designator> <target>726</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Collins, William,</designator> <target>733</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Copeland, Captain Jesse,</designator> <target>754</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Colquhuun, William S.,</designator> <target>760</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cooper, James,</designator> <target>769</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Conly, Isaac,</designator> <target>769</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Coombe, Griffith, and another,</designator> <target>784</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cochran, James L.,</designator> <target>801</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cochran, Joseph,</designator> <target>801</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Columbia, banks in the District of,</designator> <target>802</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cook, Mudad,</designator> <target>803</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Colt, William, and another,</designator> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Comeau, Jean Baptiste,</designator> <target>820, 871</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Collins, Thomas,</designator> <target>840</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Converse, John P., and another,</designator> <target>848</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Colfax, Elizabeth,</designator> <target>866</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Compton, John,</designator> <target>870</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Core, John,</designator> <target>887</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Coke, Richard, and others,</designator> <target>895</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cook, Lyman N.,</designator> <target>904</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Colmus, Levi,</designator> <target>910</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Commager, Henry</designator> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crawford, James,</designator> <target>128</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crowninshield, Benjamin W.,</designator> <target>142</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crosby, John,</designator> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crawford, William, and others</designator> <target>174</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Creek Indians,</designator> <target>191</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crocket, Joseph,</designator> <target>350</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crary, Peter and John S., and Company,</designator> <target>413</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crowell, Sylvanus,</designator> <target>33</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crosby, Dr. Eliakim,</designator> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Creesy, Josiah P., and others,</designator> <target>536</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crabb, Horatio N.,</designator> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cruzat, Antoine,</designator> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Craine, Captain James,</designator> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crittenton, Stephen,</designator> <target>628</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crum, Tobias,</designator> <target>680</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crawford, Ingoldsby W., and another,</designator> <target>842</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crawford, Mary,</designator> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cronk, Lois,</designator> <target>911</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Crow, Albion T.,</designator> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cravat, Richard, and others,</designator> <target>727</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Cutler, Lieutenant-Colonel Enos,</designator> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cummings, David,</designator> <target>269</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Culbertson, John,</designator> <target>467</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Curtis, Josiah,</designator> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cummins, John,</designator> <target>671</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Cushing, Thomas,</designator> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Davidson, Weld and Bebee,</designator> <target>71</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Davidson, Lewis Grant,</designator> <target>97</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dal, John,</designator> <target>650</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dale, Richard,</designator> <target>127</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dale, Samuel,</designator> <target>322, 503</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dash, John B.,</designator> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Davis, Daniel,</designator> <target>350</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>D’Auterive, Marigny,</designator> <target>411</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Daly, John,</designator> <target>456</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dalzell, William,</designator> <target>463</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dameron, George B., and others,</designator> <target>468</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Darden, David,</designator> <target>495</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Davis, Asa,</designator> <target>927</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>De Grasse, Count,</designator> <target>19, 31</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>De Neufville, John,</designator> <target>29</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>De Castinado, John,</designator> <target>193</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Denny, Thomas,</designator> <target>122</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Denton, Little and Company,</designator> <target>237</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Deslonde, Rosalie P.,</designator> <target>258</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Desobry, Benjamin,</designator> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dever, William M.,</designator> <target>343</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Dennis, Thomas,</designator> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Delassus, Don Carlos Dehault,</designator> <target>513, 672</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Devlin, John S.,</designator> <target>536</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Deas, A. H.,</designator> <target>661</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Dennistonn, A. and J., and Co.,</designator> <target>668</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Defrees, Henry J., and another,</designator> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>De Lusser, Madam,</designator> <target>887</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>De Peyster, William, and another,</designator> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dennin, Simeon,</designator> <target>926</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Dixon, John, and another,</designator> <target>117</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dick, Samuel, and others,</designator> <target>169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dix, John A.,</designator> <target>239</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dillon, John,</designator> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Diana, ship,</designator> <target>267</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dickson, James, and Company,</designator> <target>350</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dixon, Joseph,</designator> <target>404</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dickins, Henry,</designator> <target>409</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Diplomatic functionaries,</designator> <target>436</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dickson, William,</designator> <target>508</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dimick, Peter,</designator> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dixon, Thomas,</designator> <target>646</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dibble, Orange H.,</designator> <target>700</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dickey, Robert,</designator> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dietz, Johan Jost,</designator> <target>732</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dickerson, Samuel,</designator> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dixon, John,</designator> <target>781</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dicker, Sarah,</designator> <target>834</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dicey, Samuel,</designator> <target>882</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dixon, Ephraim D.,</designator> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dismal Swamp Canal,</designator> <target>936</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dohrman, Arnold Henry,</designator> <target>43, 193, 573</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dolph, Charles,</designator> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dooly, William,</designator> <target>272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Donelson, John,</designator> <target>313</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dozet, Joseph, and another,</designator> <target>323</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Doyle, Edmund,</designator> <target>341</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Donly, John,</designator> <target>345</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Douly, Thomas,</designator> <target>359</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dorsey, John E.,</designator> <target>363</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dodd and Barnard,</designator> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dolan, Nancy,</designator> <target>404</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Donnelsun, John, and others,</designator> <target>340, 486, 643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Donelson, Alexander,</designator> <target>536</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Doliber, William B., and others,</designator> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dodge, Andrew,</designator> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Doxtator, Peter, and another,</designator> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dow, Jonathan,</designator> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dorr, John,</designator> <target>655</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dowd, Benjamin B.,</designator> <target>727</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dow, Jetse E.,</designator> <target>703, 754</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Douglass, Stephen P. W.,</designator> <target>773</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Downes, Captain John,</designator> <target>810</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dougherty, Margaret,</designator> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Drake, Gilbert,</designator> <target>66</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Drummond, Grieve,</designator> <target>527</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dragon, Michael,</designator> <target>689</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Duverge, Bartholomew,</designator> <target>260</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dubois, Lewis,</designator> <target>16</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Duchouquet, Francis,</designator> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dufour, John James,</designator> <target>47, 126</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Duane, Colonel William,</designator> <target>298, 335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Duvall, Moreen,</designator> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Duncan, Jonas,</designator> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dunbar, Joseph,</designator> <target>360</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dupuis, John B.,</designator> <target>377</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dupree, widow, and others,</designator> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Duval and Carnes,</designator> <target>466</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dufossat, Joseph Soniat,</designator> <target>488</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Duer, William A., and others,</designator> <target>587</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Duval, Edward W.,</designator> <target>702</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Duval, Daniel,</designator> <target>720</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Durfee, Benjamin,</designator> <target>737</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Dundas, Agness,</designator> <target>823</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Duval, William P.,</designator> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Duffy, James,</designator> <target>935</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Eastern Branch Bridge Company,</designator> <target>152, 225</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eastman, Jonathan B.,</designator> <target>156</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Earwood, Joel,</designator> <target>198</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Earle, William N.,</designator> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Easton, Sarah, and others,</designator> <target>437</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Earle, Elias,</designator> <target>510</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Easton, Elizabeth, and another,</designator> <target>524</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eaton, Joseph, U. S. N.,</designator> <target>529</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eaton, Robert,</designator> <target>541</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>East Florida, inhabitants of,</designator> <target>569</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eastman, Robert,</designator> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eadus, William,</designator> <target>710</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eastman, Eli,</designator> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>East, William,</designator> <target>746</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eckford, Henry,</designator> <target>871</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eckright, Isaac,</designator> <target>610</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Edgar, John,</designator> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Edwards, Amos,</designator> <target>484</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Edmondson, Samuel A.,</designator> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Edwards, Evan,</designator> <target>604</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Edwards, James M.,</designator> <target>737</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eddy, Caleb,</designator> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Emerson, Solomon,</designator> <target>889</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Edmondson, John,</designator> <target>915</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Filer, Laurentius M.,</designator> <target>624</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eliza Ann, ship,</designator> <target>104</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Elliott, Robert,</designator> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ellis, Samuel,</designator> <target>132</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ellis, Daniel,</designator> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Elmslie, Alexander,</designator> <target>263</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Elizabeth City churchwardens,</designator> <target>404</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ellis, Colonel John,</designator> <target>444</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ely, Elisha,</designator> <target>482</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Elliott, Joseph,</designator> <target>507</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ely, Colonel John,</designator> <target>543</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Elliott, George,</designator> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Elkins, Jonathan,</designator> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eldred, Moses,</designator> <target>728</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ellis, Vespasian,</designator> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ellery, Joseph,</designator> <target>906</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Emerson, John,</designator> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Enterprizc, Ship,</designator> <target>19</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ennis, Gregory, and others,</designator> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>English, Francis,</designator> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Enos, Roger,</designator> <target>439</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ensign, Ariel,</designator> <target>475</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Enos, William, of Arkansas,</designator> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Epervier, Brig,</designator> <target>188</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eppes, Richard,</designator> <target>416</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Erb, Lawrence,</designator> <target>45</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eslava, Miguel,</designator> <target>311, 822</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Evans, Oliver,</designator> <target>70, 147</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Evans, Edward,</designator> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Evat, Edward,</designator> <target>281</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Evans, Ann,</designator> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Evans, Scioto,</designator> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Eveleth, William S.,</designator> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ewings, Samuel,</designator> <target>276</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ewing, Reuben, of Ohio,</designator> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ewing, William L. D.,</designator> <target>352</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>F.</b></label>
<referenceItem><designator>Fanning, Henry,</designator> <target>128, 156</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fanning, Joshua,</designator> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fanning, John B.,</designator> <target>307</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Farrow, Pharaoh,</designator> <target>169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Farish, Thomas B.,</designator> <target>218</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Farrow, Nimrod, and others,</designator> <target>283, 331, 526</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fairbanks, Jason,</designator> <target>255<page identifier="/us/stat/6/999">999</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fayetteville, Arkansas,</designator> <target>567</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Falconer, Joseph,</designator> <target>430</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fairbanks, Erastus, and others,</designator> <target>749</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Farmer, Robert,</designator> <target>761</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Faunce, John W., and another,</designator> <target>807</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Farlow, Huldah,</designator> <target>835</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fabre, William,</designator> <target>888</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Farrington, March,</designator> <target>941</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ferrell, John,</designator> <target>328</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Female Orphan Asylum, of Georgetown,</designator> <target>381, 492</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ferguson, William B.,</designator> <target>750</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fenner, Jerah,</designator> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fenwick, Michael,</designator> <target>661, 759</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fessenden, Isaac,</designator> <target>841</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ferguson, Benjamin B.,</designator> <target>912</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ferguson and Reid,</designator> <target>919</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fielding, Daniel,</designator> <target>360</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fire at Norfolk,</designator> <target>53</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fire Insurance Company of Alexandria,</designator> <target>129</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fire at Savannah,</designator> <target>241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Finney, Elkanah, and others,</designator> <target>244</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Finch, Isaac,</designator> <target>263</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Firman, Joseph, and others,</designator> <target>308</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fisher, George,</designator> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fisk, James,</designator> <target>441</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fitzgerald, Aaron,</designator> <target>451</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fitzgerald, Thomas,</designator> <target>45</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fire at Portsmouth,</designator> <target>49, 63</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Finch, William Bolton,</designator> <target>528</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fisher, Coleman,</designator> <target>561</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fitzgerald Aaron,</designator> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fisher, Cyrus,</designator> <target>607</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Findlay, William,</designator> <target>621</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fire Insurance Company of Alexandria,</designator> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fisher, Silas, a Choctaw Indian,</designator> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Findly, Dr. J. E, B., and others,</designator> <target>661</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fire Companies of the District of Columbia,</designator> <target>687</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fisher, Andrew,</designator> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Flinn, Thomas,</designator> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Flood, William,</designator> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Floyd, Davis,</designator> <target>341, 347</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Flaujac, Garrigues,</designator> <target>559</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Flournoy, Alfred,</designator> <target>358</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Florida Indians,</designator> <target>354</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Flournoy, Thomas,</designator> <target>370</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Flaget, Benedict J.,</designator> <target>484</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Flournoy, Matthews, and others,</designator> <target>529</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fleming, John S.,</designator> <target>562</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Flint, Jonathan,</designator> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fleming, J. A.,</designator> <target>726</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Florida Militia,</designator> <target>760</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fowler, Theodosius,</designator> <target>47</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fox, Edward,</designator> <target>210</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Forbes, John M.,</designator> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fountain, Garrett,</designator> <target>292</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ford, Sophia, B., and others,</designator> <target>285</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Foreman, Robert S.,</designator> <target>308</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Forrest, Joseph,</designator> <target>323</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ford, Jonathan W.,</designator> <target>373</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Foltz, Joshua,</designator> <target>401</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ford, Peter,</designator> <target>405</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fort Delaware,</designator> <target>512</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Foster, Ezekiel,</designator> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Foxworthy, William,</designator> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ford, William,</designator> <target>774</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Folsom, Joseph R.,</designator> <target>777</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Forrest, Andrew,</designator> <target>870</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Foote, Gervis,</designator> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Foster, Lathrop,</designator> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Frank, John,</designator> <target>32</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Freeland, Benjamin,</designator> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Frazer, Solomon,</designator> <target>151</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>French, Thomas, and another,</designator> <target>223</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fridge, Alexander,</designator> <target>432</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fraser, Angus O., and others,</designator> <target>249</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fry and Spalding,</designator> <target>308</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Frothingham, Joshua P.,</designator> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Franzoni, Guiseppe,</designator> <target>620</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Frasier, Charles M.,</designator> <target>642</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Fritters, Traverse,</designator> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Frazar, George,</designator> <target>699</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Firemen’s Insurance Company of the District of Columbia,</designator> <target>694</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Franklin Insurance Company,</designator> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>France, treaty with,</designator> <target>700</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Francis, Miller,</designator> <target>727</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Frisby, Richard,</designator> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Frey, Frederick,</designator> <target>758</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Francher, James,</designator> <target>803</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Franklin, Benjamin,</designator> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Freelove, David,</designator> <target>866</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Fife, James, a Creek Indian,</designator> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Galliapolis,</designator> <target>59</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gates, Darius,</designator> <target>72</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gardner, Jared,</designator> <target>78</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Garrard, William,</designator> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Garsed, Joshua,</designator> <target>270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Garden, Alexander,</designator> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gasney, Peter,</designator> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gaines, William D., and others,</designator> <target>519</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gates, Gertrude,</designator> <target>521</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gamble, Archibald,</designator> <target>529</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gaston, Joseph, of South Carolina,</designator> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gardner, Peregrine,</designator> <target>566</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gatlin, Stephen,</designator> <target>611</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gay, Orris,</designator> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gamble, John M.,</designator> <target>675</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gardner, Francis,</designator> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gale, Isaac,</designator> <target>727</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gannett, Deborah,</designator> <target>735</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gayle, George W.,</designator> <target>776</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gale, William,</designator> <target>895</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Georgetown Lancaster School,</designator> <target>105</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Georgetown College,</designator> <target>152, 538, 912</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Girault, John,</designator> <target>269</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Georgetown,</designator> <target>280</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Gentry, William, of Missouri,</designator> <target>377</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Guedry, Pedro,</designator> <target>526</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum of the District of Columbia,</designator> <target>538</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>General Armstrong, private armed brig,</designator> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gerodell, John,</designator> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Georgetown Corporation,</designator> <target>683, 937</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Georgia Railroad and Banking Company,</designator> <target>734</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gee, Henry,</designator> <target>857</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Geesey, Valentine,</designator> <target>914</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Gibbs, George,</designator> <target>19</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gist, Captain Henry, and another,</designator> <target>211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gibson, James, of Vincennes, and another,</designator> <target>341</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gibson, Edward R., and another,</designator> <target>362</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Giles, Aquila,</designator> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gilmore, David,</designator> <target>323</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gilbert, Marinus W.,</designator> <target>379, 621, 622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gilbert, Ephraim F.,</designator> <target>440</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Girod, John F.,</designator> <target>519<page identifier="/us/stat/6/1000">1000</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gill, Whitford,</designator> <target>559</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gibbs, Samuel,</designator> <target>576</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gilbert, Jacob B.,</designator> <target>625</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gibson, Alexander,</designator> <target>690</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gilespie, Menzies,</designator> <target>762</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gist, Spencer C.,</designator> <target>772</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gibbs, Elizabeth,</designator> <target>863</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gilson, Thomas D.,</designator> <target>887</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Giffin, David, and another,</designator> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gibson, Abigail,</designator> <target>911</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Glaubeck, Baron de,</designator> <target>1</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Glenn, Elias,</designator> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Glover, Cread,</designator> <target>409</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Glass, John,</designator> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Glascock, Thomas,</designator> <target>751</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Glover, William,</designator> <target>911</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Good Friends, ship, and other vessels,</designator> <target>122</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gore, William,</designator> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gove, George B. R.,</designator> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Goldsmith, Morris, and others,</designator> <target>308</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Goetz, Frederick,</designator> <target>334</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gould, William P.,</designator> <target>345</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gordon, Patience,</designator> <target>378</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Goodwin, Daniel,</designator> <target>395</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gough, John,</designator> <target>467</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Goode, Samuel,</designator> <target>548</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gordon, George,</designator> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Godfrey, Gabriel, and others,</designator> <target>413, 534</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Goodwin, Daniel, executor,</designator> <target>545</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gordon, George,</designator> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gott, George,</designator> <target>641</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Goldsmith, Jeremiah,</designator> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Greene, Christopher,</designator> <target>11</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Green, Joseph I.,</designator> <target>193</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Graeff, Jacob,</designator> <target>210</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Greene, Major-General Nathaniel,</designator> <target>9, 28</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Greeley, Aaron,</designator> <target>107</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Green, James,</designator> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gregory, Francis H., and another,</designator> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Griffin, Thomas,</designator> <target>397</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Granger, Erastus,</designator> <target>410</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Groce, Jared E.,</designator> <target>550</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gratz, Michael,</designator> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gregory, John M.,</designator> <target>588</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Granniss, Enos,</designator> <target>601</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gresham, Joseph,</designator> <target>635</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gray, Andrew,</designator> <target>655</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Green, Elijah, and others,</designator> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Granger, Daniel,</designator> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Green, Joseph W.,</designator> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Grubb, Curtis,</designator> <target>716</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Graham, William,</designator> <target>766</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Grady, Henry,</designator> <target>775</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Grant, James H., and others,</designator> <target>784</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Green, Patrick,</designator> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gratiot, Susan,</designator> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Grimball, John,</designator> <target>797</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Granada, brig Nueva,</designator> <target>883</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gresham, Elizabeth,</designator> <target>890, 909</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gray, James,</designator> <target>892</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Guerlain, Lewis H.,</designator> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Guthry, John,</designator> <target>269</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Guichot, Maturin,</designator> <target>309</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gulledge, Thomas,</designator> <target>366</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Guest, John,</designator> <target>400</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Guedry, Joseph, and others,</designator> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Guthrie, Abelard,</designator> <target>921</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gwynn, William,</designator> <target>274</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gwyn, John,</designator> <target>397</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Gwathmey, Humphrey B.,</designator> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>H.</b></label>
<referenceItem><designator>Harding, Colonel John,</designator> <target>12, 41</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harding, John,</designator> <target>239</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Haskill, Jonathan,</designator> <target>37</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Halsey, Thomas Lloyd, and others,</designator> <target>44</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harvey, Joshua,</designator> <target>50</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harding, Seth,</designator> <target>63</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hackley, Richard S.,</designator> <target>251</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hawkins, William,</designator> <target>88</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hamilton, George,</designator> <target>140</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hallowell, Edward,</designator> <target>150, 163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hay, John D.,</designator> <target>144</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harvard College,</designator> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hamon, William,</designator> <target>165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hamilton, Elizabeth,</designator> <target>173</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hall, Major John,</designator> <target>211</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harrison, Jonas,</designator> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harper, Samuel H.,</designator> <target>218</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hall, William,</designator> <target>309</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Humbly, William,</designator> <target>341</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hampton, Jacob,</designator> <target>348</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Haley and Harris,</designator> <target>367</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hagner, Peter,</designator> <target>369</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hazen, General Moses,</designator> <target>392, 466</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harper, James A.,</designator> <target>401</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hull, Charles Henry,</designator> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hayner, John,</designator> <target>442</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harper, Lucien,</designator> <target>457</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harrison, Mrs. Clarissa B.,</designator> <target>458</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Havens, Sylvester,</designator> <target>482, 531</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hardie, Allen W.,</designator> <target>487</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harrison, John H.,</designator> <target>510</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hamilton, Archibald W.,</designator> <target>545</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hall, Samuel,</designator> <target>547</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harper, Joseph M.,</designator> <target>555</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Haggerty and Austin,</designator> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hazleton, Daniel, and another,</designator> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hartfield, Asa,</designator> <target>562</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hainesworth, James P.,</designator> <target>581</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Haslett, William,</designator> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hand, Charles J.,</designator> <target>596</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Haile, Robert,</designator> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Haskell, William,</designator> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harrison, Thomas,</designator> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harris, Relief,</designator> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hardesty, Richard,</designator> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holiday, Thomas,</designator> <target>635</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hall, Henry H.,</designator> <target>669</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hazzard, Nancy,</designator> <target>662</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hazlet, and others,</designator> <target>671</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hatch, Joshua,</designator> <target>669</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harmony, Peter,</designator> <target>694</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hamilton, Empson,</designator> <target>699</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hall, Joseph,</designator> <target>704</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Haley, D. W.,</designator> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hard and Longstreet,</designator> <target>716</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hall, Primus,</designator> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hatch, Lewis,</designator> <target>731</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harris, Herman,</designator> <target>768</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hamilton, Alexander,</designator> <target>772</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hazzard, William C.,</designator> <target>779</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hartman, Philip,</designator> <target>803</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harrison, Mrs.,</designator> <target>825</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harper, William,</designator> <target>842</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hard, Benjamin F.,</designator> <target>848</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hammett, Alexander,</designator> <target>850</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Haskins, Thomas, and another,</designator> <target>858</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hancock, Jubal B.,</designator> <target>856</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hammond, Charles D.,</designator> <target>864</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hall, Charles</designator> <target>892<page identifier="/us/stat/6/1001">1001</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harrison, George,</designator> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Haswell, Anthony,</designator> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harrison, Major Thomas,</designator> <target>931</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Harvey and Slagg,</designator> <target>939</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Henderson, Joseph,</designator> <target>11</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hearn, William,</designator> <target>64</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Heard, John,</designator> <target>86</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Henderson, William,</designator> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Henly, Arthur H.,</designator> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hewes, Thomas,</designator> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hermange, Anthony,</designator> <target>375</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Herring, Asa,</designator> <target>376</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Heard, John,</designator> <target>496</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hewes, William,</designator> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Heck, John,</designator> <target>333</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Herrick, John,</designator> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hertick, Joseph,</designator> <target>678</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Helphenstein, Major,</designator> <target>720</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Heilman, Ann S.,</designator> <target>720</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hernandez, Joseph M.,</designator> <target>757</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hendley, Richard,</designator> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hewitt, Benjamin,</designator> <target>771, 772</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Henson, William,</designator> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Heth, Harvey,</designator> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Healy, Bethia,</designator> <target>929</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hill, Rees,</designator> <target>231</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hightower, Captain R.,</designator> <target>285, 329</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hitchcock, Henry,</designator> <target>344</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hillary, Reynold,</designator> <target>490</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hill, James W. and Elijah,</designator> <target>492</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hillen, Nathaniel,</designator> <target>526</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hickey, Philip,</designator> <target>557</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hitchcock, Gaius,</designator> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hill, Frederick,</designator> <target>723</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hill, Isabella, and others,</designator> <target>860</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Higgins, Richard,</designator> <target>853</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hidden, Enoch,</designator> <target>871</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hicks, John,</designator> <target>894</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holkar, John,</designator> <target>175</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hook, Moses,</designator> <target>127</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holmes, Alexander, and others,</designator> <target>196</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hooker, Samuel F.,</designator> <target>218, 281</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Homans, Daniel,</designator> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hogan, Michael,</designator> <target>231</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hodgson, Joseph,</designator> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holden, Richard,</designator> <target>277</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holmes, John,</designator> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hodgdon, Samuel,</designator> <target>287</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hook, Josiah, jun.,</designator> <target>302</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holliday, John,</designator> <target>316</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Howland, John H.,</designator> <target>317</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hodson, Isaac,</designator> <target>342</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hoff, Michael,</designator> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hopkins, Benjamin W.,</designator> <target>404</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hollister, J. W., and Company,</designator> <target>411</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hornet, sloop-of-war,</designator> <target>414</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Homans, Benjamin,</designator> <target>443</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Homans, Daniel,</designator> <target>627, 841, 941</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hoglund, James,</designator> <target>468</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hook, Stephen,</designator> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holliday, Maria,</designator> <target>509</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holt, Gates,</designator> <target>515</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hoffman, William,</designator> <target>525</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hotchkiss, Russell, and others,</designator> <target>533</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hodge, George,</designator> <target>545</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hone, John, and Sons,</designator> <target>556</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hodges, Gilbert,</designator> <target>580</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holly, Leonard,</designator> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Homa, Hishe, alias Captain Red Pepper,</designator> <target>596</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holland, Benjamin,</designator> <target>610</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hoover, Andrew,</designator> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Howell, John,</designator> <target>662</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hopkins, Captain David,</designator> <target>676</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holland, John H.,</designator> <target>682</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holt, Norman,</designator> <target>684</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Howard Institution of Washington,</designator> <target>685</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Horton, Eli,</designator> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hooe, Nathaniel H.,</designator> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holmes, Josiah,</designator> <target>843</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hover, Joseph, and others,</designator> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hodgkin, John,</designator> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hoag, William H.,</designator> <target>918</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Holt, Charles,</designator> <target>931</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hunter, George,</designator> <target>78</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hunter, Thomas,</designator> <target>253</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hussey, Tristram,</designator> <target>88</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hubbel, Ezekiel,</designator> <target>104</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hubbell, William,</designator> <target>107</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hurlhurt, John C.,</designator> <target>145</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hunt, Abijah, and others,</designator> <target>248</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hughes, James,</designator> <target>236</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Huson, Cornelius,</designator> <target>265</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Humphrey, Charles,</designator> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Huffman, Benjamin,</designator> <target>314</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hudson, Jonathan,</designator> <target>322</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hull, General William,</designator> <target>372</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Huston, Robert,</designator> <target>391</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hunt, Thomas,</designator> <target>401</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hughes, John,</designator> <target>491</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hunt, Russell, and others,</designator> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hurtel, John,</designator> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hurlbut, George,</designator> <target>589, 674</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hunt, Samuel,</designator> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hunt, Davis,</designator> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hutchins, Alpheus,</designator> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hunter, Archibald R. S.,</designator> <target>757</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hurlbut, Weight,</designator> <target>774</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hunter, Hiram A.,</designator> <target>677</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hubbard, G. S.,</designator> <target>818</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hugo, Samuel B.,</designator> <target>841</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hughes, David M., and others,</designator> <target>849</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hull, Isaac,</designator> <target>873</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hunt, John R,</designator> <target>887</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hunter, Thomas,</designator> <target>926</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hunter, Ann,</designator> <target>927</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hyde, Charles,</designator> <target>49</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Hynum, James,</designator> <target>151</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>I.</b></label>
<referenceItem><designator>Imlay, William,</designator> <target>34</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ingraham, Nathaniel G.,</designator> <target>119</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Indian depredations in Arkansas,</designator> <target>408</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Indian reservations in Alabama,</designator> <target>441</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Indian depredations,</designator> <target>581</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ingalls, Israel,</designator> <target>632</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Indiana, Gibson county,</designator> <target>851</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Innes, George,</designator> <target>786</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Indiana militia,</designator> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Illinois, St. Clair county,</designator> <target>810</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Illinois, Lake county,</designator> <target>832</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Illinois, school section,</designator> <target>847</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Iowa university,</designator> <target>810</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Iowa, Johnson county,</designator> <target>846</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Iowa, Linn county,</designator> <target>844</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ish, Christian,</designator> <target>570</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Irwin, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry,</designator> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Isett, Thomas M.,</designator> <target>854</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ives, Elisha,</designator> <target>442</target></referenceItem>
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<groupItem>
<label class="centered"><b>J.</b></label>
<referenceItem><designator>Jacocks, William,</designator> <target>405</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jackson, Daniel,</designator> <target>463<page identifier="/us/stat/6/1002">1002</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jacob John J.,</designator> <target>516</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jackson George K.,</designator> <target>563</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jacobs, Benjamin, and others,</designator> <target>574</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jarvis Jackson,</designator> <target>348</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jania, Jean Baptiste,</designator> <target>681</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jaccard, Peter Samuel,</designator> <target>767</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jarvis, Francis,</designator> <target>773</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jamison and Williamson,</designator> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jamison, Margaret,</designator> <target>826</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jackson, Joseph,</designator> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jackson, John,</designator> <target>881</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jacocks, John H.,</designator> <target>796</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jackson, Jacob,</designator> <target>867</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jackson, John,</designator> <target>881</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Javins, John,</designator> <target>897</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jeans, Joseph,</designator> <target>368</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jenkins, Thomas, and Company,</designator> <target>2</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jenkins, Weston,</designator> <target>147</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jeffersonville,</designator> <target>200</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jervey, Thomas Hall,</designator> <target>224</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jehu, James, and others,</designator> <target>306</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jeans, Joseph,</designator> <target>445</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jerome, John Baptiste,</designator> <target>448</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jefferson College, Mississippi,</designator> <target>484</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jennings, Robert C.,</designator> <target>522</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jennings, George H.</designator> <target>553</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jeansonne, Baptiste, and others,</designator> <target>570</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jeffers, John,</designator> <target>690</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jennings, Samuel K.,</designator> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jenkins, Hannah,</designator> <target>900</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jipson, Bradley T.,</designator> <target>724, 745</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, Epuphras, and others,</designator> <target>19</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, Thomas Ap Catesby,</designator> <target>165, 560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnson, Richard M.,</designator> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, John R.,</designator> <target>229</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jourdan, B. and P.,</designator> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, Fielding,</designator> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnson, James,</designator> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, Arthur,</designator> <target>344</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnson, Robert,</designator> <target>392</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, De Garmo,</designator> <target>489</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnson County, Iowa,</designator> <target>846</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jordan, Jacob C.,</designator> <target>569</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnson, George,</designator> <target>523</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnson, David,</designator> <target>531</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnson, William, and another,</designator> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Joseph and Mary, schooner,</designator> <target>603</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jordan, Timothy,</designator> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, James,</designator> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jouet, Robert,</designator> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, Seaborn, and others,</designator> <target>672</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnston, Ann W.,</designator> <target>712</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johns, Elias,</designator> <target>715</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, Ezekiel,</designator> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johonnot, Dr, William,</designator> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnson, Crawford,</designator> <target>731</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, Frances,</designator> <target>774</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, John, and others,</designator> <target>791</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnston, Stephen,</designator> <target>812</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, William,</designator> <target>821</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnston, John,</designator> <target>856</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnson, Mary,</designator> <target>860</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jordan, John,</designator> <target>861</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Johnston, George C.,</designator> <target>901</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Jones, George M.,</designator> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Judge, John,</designator> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>K.</b></label>
<referenceItem><designator>Kaine, Robert,</designator> <target>493</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kamber, Joseph,</designator> <target>507</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kane, Robert,</designator> <target>544</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kerr, John,</designator> <target>89</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kenney, Moses,</designator> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Keeler, Ebenezer,</designator> <target>170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kennedy, Anthony,</designator> <target>277</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kendall, William,</designator> <target>292</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kenzie and Forsyth,</designator> <target>225</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kerlin, John,</designator> <target>358</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Keary, William V.,</designator> <target>352</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kellogg, William,</designator> <target>355</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kentucky Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb,</designator> <target>339, 416, 629, 716, 810, 828, 896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kendall and Butterfield,</designator> <target>365</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kennon, Robert L.,</designator> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kenton, General Simon,</designator> <target>434</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Keep, Samuel,</designator> <target>480</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kennedy, Joshua,</designator> <target>485</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kennedy, Dr. Samuel,</designator> <target>490</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Keen, William B., and others,</designator> <target>529</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Keefer, Henry,</designator> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ketcham, Singleton,</designator> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kern, Nicholas,</designator> <target>662</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kollock, Findley,</designator> <target>690</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Keytes, James,</designator> <target>694</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kenner, James L.,</designator> <target>712</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Key worth, Robert,</designator> <target>718</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Keller, Charles M., and another,</designator> <target>821</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ketcham, Solomon,</designator> <target>723</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kelly, Robert A.,</designator> <target>903</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kennard, Edward,</designator> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ketchum, Isaac S.,</designator> <target>919, 920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kerr, F. A.,</designator> <target>929</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kimberly, Ephraim,</designator> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>King, Sampson S.,</designator> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>King, Young, a Seneca Indian,</designator> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kindull, Peter,</designator> <target>193</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kid, Robert, and another,</designator> <target>234</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>King, Benjamin,</designator> <target>309</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>King, William D., and others,</designator> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kilbourn, David,</designator> <target>513, 690</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kimberlin, John,</designator> <target>556</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kingston, Stephen,</designator> <target>583</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kirkpatrick, John,</designator> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kincaid, David,</designator> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kincaid, Samuel,</designator> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ketcham, Singleton,</designator> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kellock, Findley,</designator> <target>690</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kibbey, Thomas,</designator> <target>764</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kiser, James, and another,</designator> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kingsbury, Margaret,</designator> <target>782</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>King, John,</designator> <target>865</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>King, Thomas,</designator> <target>885</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kimball, Jeremiah,</designator> <target>905</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kennard, Edward,</designator> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kline, Lieutenant John L.,</designator> <target>835</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Knoxville, Tennessee,</designator> <target>161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Knight, George J.,</designator> <target>489</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Knight, John,</designator> <target>495</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Knowles, Thomas, and others,</designator> <target>502</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Knight, Joseph,</designator> <target>536</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Knowles, Henry, senior,</designator> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Knox, Andrew,</designator> <target>685</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Konkopot, Jacob, and others, Stockbridge Indians,</designator> <target>244</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kosciusko, General,</designator> <target>3</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kramar, Balthazar,</designator> <target>3</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Krepps, John,</designator> <target>707</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Kurtz, Andrew,</designator> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>L.</b></label>
<referenceItem><designator>Laurens, Frances E.,</designator> <target>5<page identifier="/us/stat/6/1003">1003</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>La Fayette, Major-General,</designator> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Landais, Peter,</designator> <target>61</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lapsley, Samuel,</designator> <target>119</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Laval, Jacint,</designator> <target>185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lawrence, Isaac, and others,</designator> <target>187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Law, John, and others,</designator> <target>244</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Laub, Conrad,</designator> <target>251</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Languille, Francis B.,</designator> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lawrence, Eleanor,</designator> <target>282</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Landerneau, John Pierre,</designator> <target>408</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>La Croix, Hubert,</designator> <target>412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Larrabee, Charles,</designator> <target>410</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Laurence county, Mississippi, schools in,</designator> <target>451</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lanaux, Arnaud,</designator> <target>488</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lacy, John,</designator> <target>501</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Laurens, Colonel John,</designator> <target>514</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lamar, Gazaway B.,</designator> <target>555</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Latham, James,</designator> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lafayette Academy,</designator> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lafontain, Francis, and Son,</designator> <target>601</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lasselle, Francis, and others,</designator> <target>605</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lawrence, William,</designator> <target>650</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lampkin, Mary,</designator> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>La Carera, M. de,</designator> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>La Tourette, John,</designator> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lawler, Thomas J.,</designator> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lansing, Abraham,</designator> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Laird, Captain Robert,</designator> <target>734</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Langham, Elias F.,</designator> <target>751</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>La Lande, Etienne (Stephen),</designator> <target>790</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Latham, Thomas,</designator> <target>806</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lacoste, Augustine,</designator> <target>807</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lassel, Hyacinth,</designator> <target>816, 928</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Laccy, Obed P.,</designator> <target>834</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Layton, Robert,</designator> <target>902</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lambert, Edward A.,</designator> <target>940</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lefferts, Leffert,</designator> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lewis, Thomas,</designator> <target>37</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lewis and Clarke,</designator> <target>65</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>L’Enfant, P. C.,</designator> <target>94</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lee, Washington,</designator> <target>118</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Le Duc, Mary Philip,</designator> <target>131</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Levins, James,</designator> <target>166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lewis, Moses,</designator> <target>166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lewis, Winslow and Henry,</designator> <target>198</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lee, Henry,</designator> <target>187, 271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lewis, William B.,</designator> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Leiper, Thomas,</designator> <target>252</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Le Sieur, Firman,</designator> <target>296</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lenox, James,</designator> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lewis, Merriwether,</designator> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lemaitre, John B.,</designator> <target>395</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Le Gendre, Baptiste,</designator> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lewis, Michael,</designator> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lee, Edward,</designator> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Leonard, Bernard,</designator> <target>512</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Leglize, Pierre,</designator> <target>517</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ledyard, Doctor Isaac,</designator> <target>542</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Le Blanc, Terence,</designator> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lincoln, Jotham,</designator> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Leitensdorfer, Colonel John Eugene,</designator> <target>606</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Leslie, Benjamin,</designator> <target>611</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lent, John,</designator> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lexington and Ohio Railroad Company,</designator> <target>663</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Leamaster, Nancy,</designator> <target>670</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lee, Henry,</designator> <target>692</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lewis, Winslow,</designator> <target>771</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lemon, Polly,</designator> <target>780</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Letcher, Robert P. and Thomas P.,</designator> <target>684</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Levy, Chapman,</designator> <target>852</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Leibert, Ferdinand,</designator> <target>880</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lewis, Mason E.,</designator> <target>879</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Loring, Israel,</designator> <target>22</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Loomis, Gustavus,</designator> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Loomis, Erastus,</designator> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Louderman, John,</designator> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Love, George,</designator> <target>332</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Long, John,</designator> <target>405</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lovely, Percis,</designator> <target>465</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lobdell, John L.,</designator> <target>559</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Loomis, Lucy,</designator> <target>565</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Logan, John,</designator> <target>650</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lord, Samuel S.,</designator> <target>606</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Loomis, Walter,</designator> <target>679</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Loomis, Leonard,</designator> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Louisville Savings Institution,</designator> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Loomis, Jarius,</designator> <target>778</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Looney, John,</designator> <target>865</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Luckett, Craven P.,</designator> <target>324</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lucas, Elisha,</designator> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Lehman, Lyon,</designator> <target>45</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lynch, Peter,</designator> <target>379</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Lynch, Dominick,</designator> <target>616</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Lyon, Matthew,</designator> <target>802</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>M’Albany, Allen</designator> <target>386</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Cord, John,</designator> <target>2</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>M’Call, Archibald,</designator> <target>142</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>McCausland, John,</designator> <target>234</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Carty, Edward,</designator> <target>270</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Culluch, Hugh,</designator> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Clure, Rachael,</designator> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Clurc, William,</designator> <target>379</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Carty, John,</designator> <target>703</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Cormick, Peter,</designator> <target>530</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Cray, Michael,</designator> <target>761</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Clelland, Thomas,</designator> <target>757</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Comb, Samuel,</designator> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Carroll, John,</designator> <target>781</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Carty, John L.,</designator> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Cauly, Francis G.,</designator> <target>832</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Callum, Archibald,</designator> <target>844</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Clung, James,</designator> <target>284</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Clung, Hugh,</designator> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Carty, James,</designator> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Cormick, William,</designator> <target>502</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Clung, James,</designator> <target>28</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Cord, David,</designator> <target>673</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Carty, James,</designator> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Clellan, John,</designator> <target>732</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Clellund, John,</designator> <target>735</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Donald, William,</designator> <target>237</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Duff, Captain Daniel,</designator> <target>410, 415</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Donough, John,</designator> <target>482</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Donell, John,</designator> <target>625</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Donald, Hugh,</designator> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Ewen, Patrick,</designator> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Farland, James,</designator> <target>266, 725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Farlane, J.,</designator> <target>935</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Gibbony, Patrick,</designator> <target>720</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Ginnis, John,</designator> <target>906</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Gee, Mary, and another,</designator> <target>902<page identifier="/us/stat/6/1004">1004</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Grew, John, and others,</designator> <target>246</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Gennis, Hugh,</designator> <target>596</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Ghee, Linn, a Creek Indian,</designator> <target>689</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Gill, James,</designator> <target>905</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Hugh, John,</designator> <target>495</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Intire, Daniel,</designator> <target>456</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Intosh, John</designator> <target>941</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Jimsey, Robert,</designator> <target>647</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Kewen, Michael,</designator> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Keever, Lieutenant Isaac,</designator> <target>357</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Kim, Hannah,</designator> <target>497</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Kay, Middleton,</designator> <target>521</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Kinney, Augustus, and another,</designator> <target>138</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Lure, John,</designator> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Lean, Angus,</designator> <target>20</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Mahon, James,</designator> <target>715</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Neil, Neil,</designator> <target>722</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Niel, Joseph,</designator> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Nair, Alexander,</designator> <target>314</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Nair, Matthew,</designator> <target>275</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Nair, Dunning R.,</designator> <target>938</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Pherrin, Clark,</designator> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>M’Pherson, William,</designator> <target>930</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Macomb, Alexander, and others,</designator> <target>883</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mackall, Benjamin H.,</designator> <target>707</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Macomb, Alexander,</designator> <target>228</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Matson, Richard,</designator> <target>267</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mayhew, Thaddeus,</designator> <target>298</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Matlit, John S.,</designator> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Marigny, Prosper,</designator> <target>488</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Martin, John L.,</designator> <target>529</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Martin, Edward,</designator> <target>152</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Manac, Samuel,</designator> <target>171</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Malcolm, Henry,</designator> <target>184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Maxwell, James,</designator> <target>777</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Markham, William,</designator> <target>843</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Maguire, Bartholomew,</designator> <target>909</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Man, Spencer,</designator> <target>21</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mathers, James,</designator> <target>38</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Macnamara, John,</designator> <target>99</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Maley, William,</designator> <target>47</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Markin, Charles,</designator> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mackay, James,</designator> <target>213</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Maxwell, John P. and Hugh H.,</designator> <target>168</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>May, James,</designator> <target>266, 360</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Maddox, William R.,</designator> <target>275, 401</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Manning, Jeremiah,</designator> <target>291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Marechal, Joseph,</designator> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Macey, Francis G.,</designator> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Matson, Richard,</designator> <target>338</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Matthews, John,</designator> <target>346</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mack and Conant,</designator> <target>354</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Manzanal, Cuesta,</designator> <target>376</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mays, Elizabeth,</designator> <target>408</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Matthews, William B.,</designator> <target>465</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Marigny, Bernard,</designator> <target>480</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Massingill, Thomas and James,</designator> <target>493</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>May, Samuel,</designator> <target>518</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Massias, Abraham A.,</designator> <target>545</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Maguire, John H.,</designator> <target>561</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mann, William,</designator> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Marsh, James,</designator> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mary, schooner,</designator> <target>631</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mays, Elizabeth,</designator> <target>632</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Marlow, Susan,</designator> <target>678</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Martin, Richard,</designator> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Maggart, Henry,</designator> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mallaby, Francis,</designator> <target>767</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Maurice, Theodore W.,</designator> <target>674</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Madison, Dolly P.,</designator> <target>701</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Maxwell, Dr. David H.,</designator> <target>711</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Marshal, Philip,</designator> <target>715</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Malone, Daniel,</designator> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Matson, Enoch,</designator> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>March, John,</designator> <target>775</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Marcus, William,</designator> <target>790</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mason, Ashbel,</designator> <target>779</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Marsters, Stephen,</designator> <target>788</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Marbury, William,</designator> <target>811</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Masterton and Smith,</designator> <target>816</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Martin, Joseph J.,</designator> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mayfield, George,</designator> <target>530, 838, 839, 885</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mathews, Beckford C.,</designator> <target>853</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Malette, The rose,</designator> <target>870</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>May, James,</designator> <target>875</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Martin, Knott, and Arnold,</designator> <target>891</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mathiot, Ruth,</designator> <target>900</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mary Francis, schooner,</designator> <target>918</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Martin, Joseph J.,</designator> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Meigs, Return J.</designator> <target>11</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mercer, Hugh,</designator> <target>12</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Medical Society of the District of Columbia,</designator> <target>221, 741</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mellen, Peggy,</designator> <target>263</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria,</designator> <target>207, 825</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Meek, William E.,</designator> <target>265</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mebane, John B.,</designator> <target>293, 311</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mendenhall, William,</designator> <target>359</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Meeder, Edward S.,</designator> <target>504</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mead, Joseph,</designator> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Meachum, Simeon,</designator> <target>611</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Merrill, Benjamin and Nancy,</designator> <target>641</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Means, Isaac,</designator> <target>671</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Merrill, Moses,</designator> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Meneghetty, Anthony C.,</designator> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Menzies, Gilespie,</designator> <target>762</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Menary, John,</designator> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Merrill, James,</designator> <target>243</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Melchior, Isaac,</designator> <target>243</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Meade, Everard,</designator> <target>602</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Messonnier, Henry,</designator> <target>49</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miller, James, and others,</designator> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miller, Mary,</designator> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miller, Thomas,</designator> <target>209</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miller, John,</designator> <target>909</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Milligan, Samuel,</designator> <target>711</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Militia duty, exempts from,</designator> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Milligan, Laurence,</designator> <target>599</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mitchell, John,</designator> <target>317</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miles, Smith M.,</designator> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Minor, Thomas,</designator> <target>587</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mills, Williams,</designator> <target>97</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mims, Samuel,</designator> <target>99</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Minifie, Charles,</designator> <target>108</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mitchell, Richard,</designator> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miner, Menassah,</designator> <target>173</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Milne, Alexander,</designator> <target>259</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Michael, John,</designator> <target>293</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mims, Samuel,</designator> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miranda, Pedro,</designator> <target>366</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miles, John,</designator> <target>387, 655</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miller, Martin,</designator> <target>468</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miami Exporting Company,</designator> <target>487</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Minturn and Champlin,</designator> <target>555</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mills, Peter,</designator> <target>595</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Michillimukinac, borough of,</designator> <target>607</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miller, Noah,</designator> <target>610</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mix, Mervin P.,</designator> <target>619</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Michigan university,</designator> <target>615, 628</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mississippi common schools,</designator> <target>673<page identifier="/us/stat/6/1005">1005</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miller, Isaac,</designator> <target>765</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Milnor, Robert, and another,</designator> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mitchell, Nathaniel,</designator> <target>754, 843, 863</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miller, Robert,</designator> <target>858</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Missouri volunteers,</designator> <target>875</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Michigan militia,</designator> <target>885</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mills, Adam L.,</designator> <target>911</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Milly, an Indian woman,</designator> <target>928</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Miller, Christopher,</designator> <target>929</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mitchell, Alexander,</designator> <target>940</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morgan, Alexander G.,</designator> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moody, John M. and Samuel,</designator> <target>324</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morton, Thomas,</designator> <target>608</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moore, John,</designator> <target>610</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moore, James,</designator> <target>663</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morrissett, William,</designator> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mowry, John,</designator> <target>175</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Montriuel, Madame,</designator> <target>187</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Monot, Stephen,</designator> <target>35</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moore, Thomas P.,</designator> <target>684</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moore, Allen R.,</designator> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moore, James,</designator> <target>762</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Monroe, Robert,</designator> <target>918</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moorish armed ships,</designator> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Montgomery, Alexander,</designator> <target>217</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moss, Daniel,</designator> <target>230</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Montgomery, J. M. C.,</designator> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morrison, James,</designator> <target>283, 288, 560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moreau, Celestin,</designator> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moore, Alfred,</designator> <target>296</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Montgomery, W. and J.,</designator> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Monroe, James,</designator> <target>354, 457</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morrison, William,</designator> <target>361, 442</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moore, Isidore,</designator> <target>426</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moore, Nancy,</designator> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moffit, John,</designator> <target>433</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Montgomery, Alexander, and others,</designator> <target>433</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moore, Edward,</designator> <target>452</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morris, Richard G.,</designator> <target>486</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moore, Andrew,</designator> <target>531</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morgan, Asher,</designator> <target>567</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moore, Philip,</designator> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morton, John H.,</designator> <target>596</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moon, John,</designator> <target>610</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Monroe county, Indiana,</designator> <target>641</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morgan, Colonel Gideon,</designator> <target>632</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mooers, Benjamin,</designator> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moon, Allen,</designator> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morfit, Henry,</designator> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morgan, Charles,</designator> <target>768</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moor, William,</designator> <target>788</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Monette, John W.,</designator> <target>802</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Molaison, Pierre,</designator> <target>808</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morrow, James, and another,</designator> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Morgan, James M.,</designator> <target>879</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moreland, Elisha, and others,</designator> <target>879</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Morgan, Charles W.,</designator> <target>922</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Moore, Ebenezer,</designator> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Murray, Alexander,</designator> <target>56</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Murphy, Greenbury H.,</designator> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mullany, Colonel James R.,</designator> <target>345</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Muir, Jane,</designator> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mullowny, John,</designator> <target>604</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mullings, James,</designator> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Murch, Hiram,</designator> <target>929</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Murphy, Benjamin,</designator> <target>930</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mussey, Samuel,</designator> <target>776</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Munroe, Elizabeth,</designator> <target>882</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Mullings, John,</designator> <target>908</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Munday, William,</designator> <target>161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Murray, John,</designator> <target>117</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Myott, Catharine,</designator> <target>689</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Myers, Peter A.,</designator> <target>805</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Naudi, Xaverio,</designator> <target>162</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Napier, Rapelye, and others,</designator> <target>295</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nance, Richard,</designator> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nash, Francis,</designator> <target>586</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>National Institute,</designator> <target>845</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nance, Eaton,</designator> <target>917</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>New Orleans Navigation Company,</designator> <target>144, 161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Newall, Joseph S.,</designator> <target>170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Newsom, Joshua, and others,</designator> <target>252</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Newton, Thomas W.,</designator> <target>438</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nelson, William,</designator> <target>517</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Newman, Henry,</designator> <target>664</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Neptune and Fox, armed vessels,</designator> <target>669</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>New York and Harlaem Railroad Company,</designator> <target>739</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Company</designator> <target>740</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Newton, John,</designator> <target>748</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>New Jersey Steamboat,</designator> <target>799</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Newingham, Henry,</designator> <target>914</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Neely, Samuel,</designator> <target>930</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nimmo, Henry,</designator> <target>149</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nicholls, Caleb,</designator> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nichols, Amos,</designator> <target>286</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nimmo, William T.,</designator> <target>300</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nicks, John,</designator> <target>465</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nicholson, John,</designator> <target>466</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nibert, Joseph,</designator> <target>709</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nix, George,</designator> <target>832</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nimblett, Joseph,</designator> <target>898</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nourse, Joseph,</designator> <target>35</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Noble, Charles,</designator> <target>348</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Noble, Noah,</designator> <target>358</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Norton, Stephen,</designator> <target>541</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nowell, Samuel,</designator> <target>460</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>O.</b></label>
<referenceItem><designator>Oakes, Henry,</designator> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>O’Bannon, Thomas,</designator> <target>104</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>O’Brien, James,</designator> <target>30</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>O’Bannon, Jennings,</designator> <target>240</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>O’Brien, Richard,</designator> <target>250, 267</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>O’Bannon, Presley N.,</designator> <target>706</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>O’Conner, John,</designator> <target>239</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>O’Flyng, Patrick, and others,</designator> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ogden, Thomas L., and others,</designator> <target>327</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ogden, Francis B.,</designator> <target>614</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ohio Company of Associates,</designator> <target>8</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ohio, Butler county,</designator> <target>773</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ohio, Wyandot county,</designator> <target>936</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Olney, Stephen,</designator> <target>433</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Olmsted, Lewis,</designator> <target>185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Oliver, William,</designator> <target>196</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Oliver, John M.,</designator> <target>705</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Olds, Marcay,</designator> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Onstine, Frederick,</designator> <target>385</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Opie, Le Roy,</designator> <target>262</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ore, Major James,</designator> <target>34</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Orr, James,</designator> <target>235</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Orr, Thomas,</designator> <target>106</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ord, James,</designator> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Osage Indians,</designator> <target>408</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Osborn, William,</designator> <target>544</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Osleen, William,</designator> <target>853</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>O’Sullivan, Mary,</designator> <target>679<page identifier="/us/stat/6/1006">1006</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Osgood, Lemuel H.,</designator> <target>20</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Otis, William,</designator> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ottramare, J.,</designator> <target>313</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Overton, Cornelius,</designator> <target>477</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Owen, Abraham,</designator> <target>196</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Owens, Benjamin,</designator> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Owens, William,</designator> <target>479</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Owens, Theodore,</designator> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Oxley, Thomas,</designator> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>P.</b></label>
<referenceItem><designator>Paranque, Stephen,</designator> <target>14</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Paoly, Palo,</designator> <target>47</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Palmer, Asher,</designator> <target>165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Page, Joseph W.,</designator> <target>132</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Patriota, brig,</designator> <target>133</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Parks, Elias,</designator> <target>254</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Paulas, Barbara,</designator> <target>294</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Patterson, Captain Daniel T.,</designator> <target>321, 728</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Payne, Major M. M.,</designator> <target>439</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pariah, Jasper,</designator> <target>447</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Paine, Captain Thomas,</designator> <target>483</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Paine, Raphael,</designator> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Palmer, William,</designator> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Page, Daniel,</designator> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pawling, Albert,</designator> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Parkhurst, Benjamin,</designator> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pattie, William,</designator> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Page, Ephraim,</designator> <target>666</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Parker, F. A.,</designator> <target>692</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pattison, James J.,</designator> <target>709</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Payne, Raphael, and another,</designator> <target>725</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Patrick, Mary A.,</designator> <target>730</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pasko, Abel A.,</designator> <target>770</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Parsons, Israel,</designator> <target>803</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Parrott, Esther,</designator> <target>834</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Paschal, George W.,</designator> <target>858</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Parker, Joseph,</designator> <target>867</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Parsons, Thomas B.,</designator> <target>874</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Patton, Pitcher,</designator> <target>877</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Patrick, Johnson,</designator> <target>896</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pearl River, commissioners west of,</designator> <target>104</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Penrose, Clement B.,</designator> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Peek, William,</designator> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pennsylvania Hospital,</designator> <target>197</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Perry, Oliver H.,</designator> <target>260</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Perine, Daniel,</designator> <target>150</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pearson, George,</designator> <target>208</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pettipool, Joseph,</designator> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pellet, John,</designator> <target>277</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Perley, Frederick,</designator> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pendleton, Otis, and others,</designator> <target>330</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pemberton, William,</designator> <target>331</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Perrin, Payson,</designator> <target>427</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Peters and Pond,</designator> <target>457</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Peck, Adam,</designator> <target>475</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Penny, J. P. and E, B.,</designator> <target>482</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Peck, John,</designator> <target>524, 582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Percival, John, U. S. N.,</designator> <target>564</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Penrose, Clement B., widow of, and another,</designator> <target>594</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Perry, Matthew C.,</designator> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Peebles, Robert, and others,</designator> <target>707</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Peoria, Illinois,</designator> <target>538</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Perkins, John B.,</designator> <target>703</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Perkins, Angier March,</designator> <target>717</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pemberton, Sarah,</designator> <target>733</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Peterson, John A.,</designator> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pease, John H.,</designator> <target>759</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pearce, Elizabeth, and another,</designator> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pettibone, Daniel,</designator> <target>833</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pennell, Jacob, and others,</designator> <target>833</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Perrysburg, Ohio,</designator> <target>836</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Perrigo, Frederick,</designator> <target>865</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pettrich, Ferdinand,</designator> <target>877</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Peters, John,</designator> <target>898</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Peters, Moore, and Company,</designator> <target>900</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Penhallow, Daniel,</designator> <target>902</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pepper, James,</designator> <target>924</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Perham, John,</designator> <target>927</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Phœnix, Alexander,</designator> <target>120</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Phillips, Samuel H.,</designator> <target>441</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Phelps, Thadeus, and Company,</designator> <target>550</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Phillips, Stephen C.,</designator> <target>595</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Phillips, Ebenezer,</designator> <target>642</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Phelan, Nicholas,</designator> <target>762</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Plumb, Nathaniel,</designator> <target>763</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Plumb Island Bridge and Turnpike Company,</designator> <target>829</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Planters’ Bank of New Orleans,</designator> <target>275</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Platt, Nathaniel,</designator> <target>663</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Piatt, William,</designator> <target>128</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Piatt, John H.,</designator> <target>314</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pinkney, Ninian,</designator> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pierce, James,</designator> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Finney, Isaac,</designator> <target>450</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pickett, William R.,</designator> <target>493</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Picard, John,</designator> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pitcher, Joshua,</designator> <target>661</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pickering, Charles W.,</designator> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pigot, Jechonias, and another,</designator> <target>746</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pierce, Joseph,</designator> <target>765</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pierson, Erastus,</designator> <target>804</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Piatt, Colonel William,</designator> <target>835</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pierce, John B.,</designator> <target>856</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pilcher, Patton,</designator> <target>877</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pollock, Oliver,</designator> <target>65</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Post, John, and another,</designator> <target>272</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Porter, David,</designator> <target>134</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Porter, General Moses,</designator> <target>207</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Porter, Solomon, jun.,</designator> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Poirey, M.,</designator> <target>225</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Poidevin, Madame,</designator> <target>212</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pool, Benjamin,</designator> <target>223</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Point Coupee, Parish,</designator> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Porter, James, and another,</designator> <target>333</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Powell, John,</designator> <target>452</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Porter, Thomas,</designator> <target>455</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Posner, Silvia,</designator> <target>513</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pollock, John,</designator> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Potter, Thaddeus,</designator> <target>650</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pollard, William, heirs of,</designator> <target>680</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Potomac Fire Insurance Company,</designator> <target>691</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Potter, Samuel, and another,</designator> <target>733</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Poissot, Paul,</designator> <target>767</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Polk, William,</designator> <target>873</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Powers, Elizabeth,</designator> <target>894</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Polerecsky, Nancy,</designator> <target>901</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Prioleau, Samuel,</designator> <target>18</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Provident Association of clerks,</designator> <target>218, 237, 504, 681</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Prevost, Solomon,</designator> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Prout, William,</designator> <target>228</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Prout, Holden W.,</designator> <target>333</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Price, P. B.,</designator> <target>368</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Prudbomme, Antoine,</designator> <target>407</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Price, William,</designator> <target>445</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Proctor, John,</designator> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Prindle, Martin,</designator> <target>674</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pryor, Green,</designator> <target>693</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Prescott, Joseph,</designator> <target>732</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Prudhomme, Rosaline,</designator> <target>765</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Prewett, Solomon,</designator> <target>774<page identifier="/us/stat/6/1007">1007</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Prettyman, Mary,</designator> <target>855</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pratt, John</designator> <target>865</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Privado, schooner,</designator> <target>920</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Proctor, Amos,</designator> <target>932</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Pulaski, town of,</designator> <target>98</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Putney, True,</designator> <target>921</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>Q.</b></label>
<referenceItem><designator>Quincy, William J. and Charles E.,</designator> <target>471</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Quertier, A., and Albert,</designator> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered"><b>R.</b></label>
<referenceItem><designator>Rand, B. H.,</designator> <target>71, 265</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Range, James,</designator> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ramsay, George D.,</designator> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Raymer, Frederick,</designator> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rathbone, William P.,</designator> <target>663</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ray, Gratia,</designator> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rardon, Daniel,</designator> <target>724</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rachal, J. Eloi,</designator> <target>783</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rand, William,</designator> <target>827</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Randall, John,</designator> <target>840, 888</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rand, Mary,</designator> <target>866</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ramsay, Robert,</designator> <target>901</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ramsey, Joseph,</designator> <target>937</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Refugees from Canada,</designator> <target>41</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rheams, Tobias,</designator> <target>205</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rector, William and Elias,</designator> <target>87</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Redfield, John, jun.,</designator> <target>117</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Reed, Rufus S.,</designator> <target>170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Renner, Daniel,</designator> <target>221</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Reddick, Thomas F.,</designator> <target>108, 661</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ricaud, John,</designator> <target>184, 283</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Regnier, John B.,</designator> <target>242</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rees, James,</designator> <target>281</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Reynolds, Mary,</designator> <target>387</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rentleman, Jacob,</designator> <target>396</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Reily, John,</designator> <target>448</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Remf, Jacob,</designator> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Reynolds, John G.,</designator> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Read, George,</designator> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rembert, Andrew,</designator> <target>790</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Reviere, Henry S.,</designator> <target>786</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Relfe, James H.,</designator> <target>827</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Reynolds, John C.,</designator> <target>852</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Reynolds, Thankful,</designator> <target>854</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Reilly, Boyd,</designator> <target>904</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Reib, Nicholas,</designator> <target>17</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ricaud, John,</designator> <target>283</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ricker, Isaac,</designator> <target>361</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rice, Henry G.,</designator> <target>372</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rivafinoli, Vincent de,</designator> <target>435</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Riley, Brevet Major,</designator> <target>466</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Richardson, Andrew H.,</designator> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rice, Hopkins,</designator> <target>496</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Risley, Thomas,</designator> <target>505</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Riddle and others,</designator> <target>537, 618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Riker, Margaret,</designator> <target>590</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Richardson, Thomas,</designator> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rice, Owen,</designator> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ricketts, Micajah,</designator> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ripley, General Elcazer W.,</designator> <target>683</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Richardson, Henry, and others,</designator> <target>672</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Riviere, Philip,</designator> <target>708</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Richmond, Frederick,</designator> <target>766</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rivard, Francis,</designator> <target>868</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Riche, S. and M.,</designator> <target>890</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Riddle, Hugh,</designator> <target>903</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ritchie, James,</designator> <target>934</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rich, William,</designator> <target>941</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rogers, Jonathan,</designator> <target>158</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Roxburgh, Alexander,</designator> <target>167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rodgers, John,</designator> <target>180</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ross, Charles,</designator> <target>173</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Robbe, John,</designator> <target>17</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rogers, Jabez,</designator> <target>17</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ross, George T.,</designator> <target>171, 185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Robbins, Brintnel,</designator> <target>291</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Rodriguez, John,</designator> <target>259, 412</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ronde, Pierre Dennis De La,</designator> <target>260</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Seward, Daniel,</designator> <target>285, 347</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Seaton, George C.,</designator> <target>615</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Shubrick, E. R.,</designator> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Shoemaker, Jacob,</designator> <target>682</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Shurley, Bennett,</designator> <target>756</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Sheppard, John H.,</designator> <target>800</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Sheldon, Gideon,</designator> <target>804</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Shenandoah Bridge Company,</designator> <target>848</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Sheffler, George,</designator> <target>860</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Shannon, Captain Samuel,</designator> <target>908</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Silva, Joze Roiz,</designator> <target>22</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Sibley, Cyrus,</designator> <target>393</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Sitgreaves, Samuel,</designator> <target>446</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Sinnard, Thomas,</designator> <target>782</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Sibbald, Charles F.,</designator> <target>864</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Simmons, Elijah,</designator> <target>677</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Skinner, Joseph M.,</designator> <target>243</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Sky, Peter, an Onondaga Indian,</designator> <target>835</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Sloat, John D.,</designator> <target>534</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Smith, Richard,</designator> <target>458</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Smith, Thomas H., and Son,</designator> <target>495</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Smith, Guy W.,</designator> <target>517</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Smith, Luther L.,</designator> <target>561</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Smith, James,</designator> <target>702</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Smith and Town,</designator> <target>751</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Smith, Gamaliel E.,</designator> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Smith, Gilbert A.,</designator> <target>807</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Sturgeon, Robert,</designator> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Steele, John,</designator> <target>56, 241</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Stout, John N.,</designator> <target>88, 109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Streshley, Thomas and William,</designator> <target>109</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Stewjirt, Joseph,</designator> <target>175, 184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Stewart, Captain Charles,</designator> <target>181</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Stubbs, John G.,</designator> <target>201</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Stiles, John S.,</designator> <target>326</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Stienman, John,</designator> <target>345</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Stickney, Benjamin F.,</designator> <target>625</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Taylor and others,</designator> <target>172</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, Commodore Richard,</designator> <target>185</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tate, David,</designator> <target>345</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor’, Thomas, jun.,</designator> <target>331</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, Richard,</designator> <target>362, 409</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Talbot, Edward Allen,</designator> <target>381</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, Jonathan,</designator> <target>393, 419</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tannehill, Wilkins,</designator> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taney, Augustine,</designator> <target>525</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, John,</designator> <target>588</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, Francis and Judith,</designator> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, Jane,</designator> <target>620</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, James,</designator> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, Thornton,</designator> <target>676</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, William R.,</designator> <target>711</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, Tilford,</designator> <target>754</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tanner, Lemuel,</designator> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tatum, Nathaniel P.,</designator> <target>642</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, Henry B.,</designator> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Talmage, Stephen,</designator> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, James,</designator> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, Cornelius,</designator> <target>787</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Taylor, W.,</designator> <target>798</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tattoo, Phillis,</designator> <target>865</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tervin, Richard,</designator> <target>99</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tennille, Francis,</designator> <target>410</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Terreaux Bœufs, inhabitants of,</designator> <target>498</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tennille, William A.,</designator> <target>521</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tefft, J. K.,</designator> <target>853</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Telfair, Mary M.,</designator> <target>931</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thayer, Simeon,</designator> <target>12</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thompson, John,</designator> <target>108, 208</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thomas, John,</designator> <target>266</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Therese, Marie,</designator> <target>271</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thooft, Barnard,</designator> <target>299</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thompson, William,</designator> <target>349, 371</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thomas, John, and Company,</designator> <target>301</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thurbur, Ezra,</designator> <target>406</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Theus, Simeon,</designator> <target>449</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Thornton, Colonel John,</designator> <target>533</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thrustou, Algernon S.,</designator> <target>548</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thompson, John,</designator> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thompson, Samuel,</designator> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Three Sisters, schooner,</designator> <target>569</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tholozan, John Elie,</designator> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thompson, John,</designator> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thomas, Judith,</designator> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thomas, General Philemon,</designator> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Theobald, Francis R.,</designator> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thompson, Amos,</designator> <target>723</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thistle, Hezekiah L.,</designator> <target>859</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thompson, Mary W.,</designator> <target>869, 904, 942</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Thompson, Manlius V.,</designator> <target>923</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Thornton, D. M. F.,</designator> <target>942</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Timberlake, John B.,</designator> <target>228</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tingle, George E.,</designator> <target>507</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tifft, Amasa A.,</designator> <target>612</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tice, John,</designator> <target>615</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tilford, James,</designator> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tilden, John,</designator> <target>792</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tiffany, Sylvester,</designator> <target>805<page identifier="/us/stat/6/1010">1010</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tiers, Cornelius,</designator> <target>811</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tippett, Stephen,</designator> <target>459</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tipton, William,</designator> <target>434</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tipton, Jonathan,</designator> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tousard, Colonel Lewis,</designator> <target>15, 47</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Todd, Charles,</designator> <target>171</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tompkins, Daniel D.,</designator> <target>290, 319</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Topp, John,</designator> <target>310</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Toulmin, John B.,</designator> <target>460</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Towson, Nathan,</designator> <target>481</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Torrey, Joseph W.,</designator> <target>494</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Townsley, Thomas F.,</designator> <target>622</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Totten, Benjamin J.,</designator> <target>886</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tongue, James,</designator> <target>866</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Todd, Isaac,</designator> <target>905</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Trueman, Major Alexander,</designator> <target>12, 41</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Trudeau, Charles Levaux,</designator> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Trapmaun, Jakucke,</designator> <target>276</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Trott, Adolphus G.,</designator> <target>320</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Trahaud, Jean Marie,</designator> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Triplett, Thomas,</designator> <target>544</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Triplett, Peter,</designator> <target>610</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Traverse, Mathias,</designator> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Trabue, Daniel,</designator> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Tramell, Dennis,</designator> <target>754</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Traverse, William,</designator> <target>790</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Turner, Philip,</designator> <target>73</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Turner, Thomas,</designator> <target>224</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tucker, Samuel,</designator> <target>258</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tuillier, François Isidore,</designator> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tuskaloosa, corporation of,</designator> <target>315</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tuillier, John,</designator> <target>432</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tumey, William,</designator> <target>463</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tuckerman, Henry H.,</designator> <target>471</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tufts and Clark,</designator> <target>604</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tuttle, Thaddeus,</designator> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tucker, Aaron,</designator> <target>743</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tuttle, James Middleton,</designator> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tudor, William, jun.,</designator> <target>760</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tucker, Mary,</designator> <target>819, 881</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Turney, Ellen,</designator> <target>835</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Turney, Clarissa,</designator> <target>836</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tuck, Samuel B.,</designator> <target>916</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Twining, Nathaniel,</designator> <target>12</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Twichell, Timothy,</designator> <target>522</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Twiggs, David E.,</designator> <target>515</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tyler, Lieutenant Daniel,</designator> <target>440</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tyler, Henry B.,</designator> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Tyner, Thomas,</designator> <target>713</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Ursuline, Nuns, New Orleans,</designator> <target>107</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>University of Virginia,</designator> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Underwood, Phinehas,</designator> <target>355</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Union, British ship,</designator> <target>394</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Underwood, John,</designator> <target>863</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Updike, Daniel,</designator> <target>118</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Uptegraff, Mary,</designator> <target>775</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Usher, Alice,</designator> <target>918</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Vaughan, John,</designator> <target>39</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Valenzin, David,</designator> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vasse, Ambrose,</designator> <target>251</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vance, Sally,</designator> <target>278</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vansyckel, Eliza,</designator> <target>297</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Valkenburgh, Bar. J. V.,</designator> <target>365</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Valle, Francis,</designator> <target>386</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Valley Creek Academy, Alabama,</designator> <target>398</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Van Kleeck, Lawrence L.,</designator> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vawters, William,</designator> <target>489</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vail, Samuel,</designator> <target>574</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Van Cam pen, Moses,</designator> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vattier, Charles,</designator> <target>735</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Valle, Jean B.,</designator> <target>747</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vannettin, Captain John,</designator> <target>777</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vail, Aaron,</designator> <target>828</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Van Ness, Effie,</designator> <target>873</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vormule, Cornelius,</designator> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Verjou, Bernard Edme,</designator> <target>159</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Venable, Sarah,</designator> <target>349</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Verplast, Nicholas,</designator> <target>733</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Villard, Andrew Joseph,</designator> <target>79</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vixen, U. S. brig,</designator> <target>124</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vincennes University,</designator> <target>171</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Villere, James,</designator> <target>192</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Villiers, Journonville de,</designator> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vienne, M. de,</designator> <target>225</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Virginia University,</designator> <target>340</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vick, Hartwell,</designator> <target>523</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vienne, J. R.,</designator> <target>882</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vleit, Garrett,</designator> <target>903</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Von Kapffe and Brune,</designator> <target>357</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Volant, schooner,</designator> <target>415</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Voorhise, Luke,</designator> <target>646</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vought, Godfrey,</designator> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Voorhees, Philip F.,</designator> <target>699</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Voorheis, J. and P.,</designator> <target>907</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Von Schmidt, Peter,</designator> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Vreeland, Betsey,</designator> <target>838</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Wayne, Major-General Anthony,</designator> <target>96</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walkington, George,</designator> <target>133</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Washington Library Company,</designator> <target>141</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Washington, William H.,</designator> <target>151</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Washington Bridge Company,</designator> <target>168</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Washington Fire Insurance Company,</designator> <target>203</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wamsly, Captain Jonathan,</designator> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walker, Samuel,</designator> <target>274, 284</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Warburg, Frederick S.,</designator> <target>277</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wadsworth, Elijah,</designator> <target>321</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walley and Foster,</designator> <target>346</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ward, Samuel,</designator> <target>386, 450</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Waite, Horace,</designator> <target>367</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown Steam Packet Company,</designator> <target>398</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walker, Jeremiah,</designator> <target>339</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walker, Peter Celestino and others,</designator> <target>463</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wagstaff, Samuel,</designator> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ward, Ichabod,</designator> <target>496</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ware, Nathaniel A.,</designator> <target>508</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Warren, Abiah,</designator> <target>513</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Watt, Archibald,</designator> <target>537</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wagon, John Peter,</designator> <target>549</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walker, Samuel D.,</designator> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wallace, Thomas,</designator> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walter, Jacob F.,</designator> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wallace, Jacob,</designator> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Warden, William,</designator> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wainwright, Henry,</designator> <target>674</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walker, William,</designator> <target>721</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Warren, Captain Samuel,</designator> <target>719</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walker, Tandy,</designator> <target>736</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walsh, Charles S.,</designator> <target>755</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ward, Daniel,</designator> <target>770<page identifier="/us/stat/6/1011">1011</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Warner, Daniel,</designator> <target>772</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walker, Dudley,</designator> <target>789</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Warner, Peter,</designator> <target>805</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Washington City Benevolent Society,</designator> <target>823</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Waller, David,</designator> <target>826</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Washington’s Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum of the District of Columbia,</designator> <target>830</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Waller, William,</designator> <target>843</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Ward, Rees B.,</designator> <target>850</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walker, George H.,</designator> <target>850</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Watkinson, David, and Company,</designator> <target>902</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Waddle, George,</designator> <target>904</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wallis, George,</designator> <target>913</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Washington, Lund,</designator> <target>925</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Walker and others,</designator> <target>937</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wells, Asa,</designator> <target>194</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wells, Mary,</designator> <target>195</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Webster, John,</designator> <target>261</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>West Baton Rouge,</designator> <target>319</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Webster, Noah,</designator> <target>330</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Webb, Josiah H.,</designator> <target>103</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wells, William,</designator> <target>72</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Weymouth, William W.,</designator> <target>95</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Weeks, Joseph P.,</designator> <target>95</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Willis, Henry,</designator> <target>246</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wells, Bazaleel,</designator> <target>302</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Webster, John A.,</designator> <target>348</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wesbrook, Andrew,</designator> <target>380</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wendal, John H.,</designator> <target>431</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wells, Benjamin,</designator> <target>447</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wells, Dorothy,</designator> <target>497</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wendell, John H.,</designator> <target>504</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wells, William Wayne,</designator> <target>519</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Welles, Benjamin,</designator> <target>522</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Webber, John,</designator> <target>560</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Webster, John A.,</designator> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Weaver, Jacob,</designator> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wellborn, Isaac, jun.,</designator> <target>710</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>West, Anna,</designator> <target>723</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>West, Thomas,</designator> <target>724</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Welch, Oliver,</designator> <target>806</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wells, Henry,</designator> <target>839</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Weedon, William,</designator> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Westchester, ship,</designator> <target>878</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wever, Casper W.,</designator> <target>883</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Welch, David,</designator> <target>895</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Weller, Samuel,</designator> <target>898</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Weaver, Thomas,</designator> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wetherall, Horace,</designator> <target>891</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Whittemore, Amos and William,</designator> <target>80</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>White, John,</designator> <target>1</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Whipple, Abraham,</designator> <target>103</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>White, Jonathan,</designator> <target>157</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>White, Robert, and others,</designator> <target>158</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wharton, Samuel,</designator> <target>292</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Whitney, John,</designator> <target>143</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wheaton, Joseph,</designator> <target>232, 302</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>White, Moses,</designator> <target>50</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Whiting, Samuel,</designator> <target>71</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>White, Samuel,</designator> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>White, Joseph M.,</designator> <target>318</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wheatley, Thomas,</designator> <target>428</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>While, Fielding L.,</designator> <target>437</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Whitaker, Ephraim,</designator> <target>446, 501</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Whittier, Simeon C.,</designator> <target>455</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Whitney, Henry,</designator> <target>579</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Whitney, Daniel,</designator> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>White, George,</designator> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Whittle, Fortesque,</designator> <target>709</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Whitney, Seth,</designator> <target>724</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Whitehead, William A.,</designator> <target>729</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>White, Dr. John Campbell,</designator> <target>750</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Whitsitt, John,</designator> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>White, Lemuel,</designator> <target>822</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Wishart, Thomas,</designator> <target>11</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Wiley, Susannah,</designator> <target>119</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Wirt, John T.,</designator> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Williams, James,</designator> <target>274</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wilcox, Joseph,</designator> <target>288</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Withers, Thomas C.,</designator> <target>245, 363</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Williams, Thomas,</designator> <target>304</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wilmot, John,</designator> <target>303</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>William, brig, of New York,</designator> <target>313</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wing, Warner,</designator> <target>356</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Winton, John,</designator> <target>387</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Willink, John Abraham,</designator> <target>368</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Wilderman, Jacob,</designator> <target>435</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Williams, Elizabeth,</designator> <target>446</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Williamson, William,</designator> <target>481</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wilhoct, Enoch,</designator> <target>535</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Willett, Edward,</designator> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Winslett, John,</designator> <target>573</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Willmott, Lieutenant Robert,</designator> <target>601</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wilges, William,</designator> <target>609</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Wickham, William,</designator> <target>799</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Winslow, Isaac and Thomas S.,</designator> <target>880</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wilson, Cornelius,</designator> <target>878</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Williams, John R.,</designator> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Withered, James,</designator> <target>717</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Willis, William,</designator> <target>868</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Winslow, George A.,</designator> <target>883</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Williams, Nancy,</designator> <target>894</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wiley, John F.,</designator> <target>897<page identifier="/us/stat/6/1012">1012</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wilson, Nancy,</designator> <target>899</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wilderman, Jacob,</designator> <target>435</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Worthington, Gad,</designator> <target>264</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wootten, Lemuel,</designator> <target>325</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wolcott, James,</designator> <target>343</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Woodworth, Benjamin,</designator> <target>357</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Wood, Nathaniel B.,</designator> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Woods, Captain John,</designator> <target>432</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Wormstead, Joseph W.,</designator> <target>633</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Woodrooff, Clark,</designator> <target>828, 849</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Worth, Gorham A.,</designator> <target>898</target></referenceItem>
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<referenceItem><designator>Yates, Charles,</designator> <target>440</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Yantis, John,</designator> <target>563</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Yeomans, Martha,</designator> <target>444</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>York, John,</designator> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Young, Anna,</designator> <target>110</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Yonge, William P.,</designator> <target>335</target></referenceItem>
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<groupItem>
<label class="centered"><b>Z.</b></label>
<referenceItem><designator>Zane, Ebenezer,</designator> <target>27</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Zane, Isaac,</designator> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Zachary, James W.,</designator> <target>510</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Zantzinger, William P.,</designator> <target>535, 605, 933</target></referenceItem>
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