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his title to tract of land.

CHAP. 137.-AN ACT for the relief of James Journey.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asConfirmed in sembled, That James Journey, who claims title, by virtue of a Spanish concession for four hundred arpens, to the northeast quarter of section thirty, and the northwest quarter of section twenty-nine, both in township forty-seven north, and range one west, in Warren county, Missouri, be confirmed in the same, and that a patent issue to him therefor; and that he also be permitted, without paying any thing therefor, to enter with the register and receiver of the St. Louis land district forty acres on any of the unappropriated public lands now in market in said district, in full satisfaction of the remainder of said four hundred arpens: Provided, That said entry shall not interfere with any rights of any other persons.

Patent to issue.

Approved, August 8, 1846.

section of land.

CHAP. 138-AN ACT for the relief of John G. McCloud, of Linn county,

Iowa.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asPermitted to sembled, That John G. McCloud be, and he is hereby, permitenter a quarter ted to enter, within one year from the date of the passage of this bill, at the proper land office, at the minimum price of the public lands, the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section number sixteen, in township eighty-three north, of range seven west, containing forty acres.

Authority hav

school land to

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the authority having charge of ing charge of the said school land is hereby authorized to select, report to regis- and report to the register and receiver of the district in which er & receiver. said land is situate, other unappropriated lands of the United

Proviso.

States subject to private entry in the said Territory, of a similar quantity to that which shall have been entered by said John G. McCloud, for the use of schools for the inhabitants of said township, under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That two-thirds of the legal voters (including such females as may be heads of fami lies) of said township sign a petition consenting that the said John G. McCloud may enter the before-mentioned forty-acre tract of land, and cause the same to be presented to the register of the proper district.

Approved, August 8, 1846.

CHAP. 139.-AN ACT for the relief of John Carr, John Batty, and Samuel
Stevenson, seamen on board the whale ship Margaret.

for

for their deten

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John To be paid. Carr, John Batty, and Samuel Stevenson, for their detention, $2,016, 50 under the authority of the United States, five hundred and tion under the thirty-eight days each, at the rate of one dollar and twenty- anthority of the U. S. to give five cents per day, amounting to two thousand and sixteen.evidence, &c. dollars and fifty cents, to give evidence on the trial of Harper, Rodman, Latham, and Hummstor, for mutiny and setting fire to the above named ship whilst on a whaling voyage in the Pacific ocean; and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, August 8, 1846.

CHAP. 140.-AN ACT for the relief of John Milsted, of Escambia county,

Florida.

tle to a quarter

and to enter

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That John Milsted be authorized to surrender the evi- To surrender dence of title issued to him by the United States for the north- evidence of tieast quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-five, in section of land, township three north, of range twenty-three west, entered by other land in him at the land office at Tallahassee, in the Territory (now lieu thereof. State) of Florida, by mistake; and upon the surrender of such evidence of title, under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, the said John Milsted shall be authorized to enter, in lieu thereof, the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section twentyfive, in township three north, of range thirty-two west, it being the tract that the said John Milsted intended to enter: Provided, That the said entry shall be made within six months after the passage of this act: And provided further, The said Proviso. entry shall not be made to the prejudice of the rights of any other person or persons.

Approved, August 8, 1816.

CHAP. 141.-AN ACT for the relief of Daniel H. Warren.

Pension of $6

month al

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, directed to place the name of Daniel H. Warren upon the roll of inva- per m lid pensioners, and to pay him a pension at the rate of six dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and to continue during his natural life.

Approved, August 8, 1846.

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CHAP. 142.-AN ACT for the relief of Patrick Kelly, senior, of the county of Indiana, State of Pennsylvania.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asTo be placed on sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, au the pension roll thorized and required to place the name of Patrick Kelly, senior, on the pension roll according to the act of seventh June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for six months' service as a private, and that his pension commence the twenty-sixth September, eighteen hundred and forty-five.

Approved, August 8, 1846.

705 to be issued to him.

CHAP. 143.-AN ACT for the relief of Solomon Russell, of the county of
Somerset, in the State of Maine.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asDuplicate to sembled, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office land warrant be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue to Solomon Russell a duplicate to land warrant number seven hundred and five; and that said Russell have leave to locate the same upon any vacant land belonging to the United States, subject to private entry, so as not to interfere with pre-emption rights.

Approved, August 8, 1846.

CHAP. 144.-AN ACT for the relief of the heirs of Doctor John Gray,

deceased.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asLegal represen-sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is herepaid $5,000. by, required to pay to the legal representatives of Doctor John

tatives to be

Gray, deceased, late of Calvert county, in the State of Mary-
land, the sum of five thousand dollars, out of any moneys re-
maining in the Treasury otherwise unappropriated.
Approved, August 8, 1846.

CHAP. 145.-AN ACT for the relief of Nathan Smith, Charles K. Smith, and

others.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asCollector of sembled, That the collector of the customs for the district of Stonington authorized to pay Stonington, in the State of Connecticut, is hereby authorized to them such al- to pay to Nathan Smith, Charles K. Smith, owners of the fishthey would ing schooner Washington, of Stonington, and to the persons composing her late crew, such allowance, to be distributed actheir schooner cording to law, as they would have been entitled to receive had

lowance as

have been ento had

titled

she completed her fishing term; the said schooner having been completed her driven on shore in a gale, by which she was prevented from ac- service. term of fishing complishing the full term required by law to entitle her to the bounty.

Approved, August 8, 1846.

CHAP. 146.-AN ACT for the relief of Amos Hunting.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Amos Hunting on the revolutionary pension roll, under the act of the seventh June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for six months' service as a private.

Approved, August 8, 1846.

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CHAP. 147.-AN ACT for the relief of Richard Hargreave Lee.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to Secretary of Treasury au. pay to Richard Hargreave Lee, of Buffalo, in the State of New thorized to reYork, one hundred and sixty dollars, or so much thereof as fund $160 paid shall satisfactorily appear to said Secretary to be the moiety of by him through the penalty of four hundred dollars paid by said Lee, by mistake, for a breach of the revenue laws committed by him on the thirtieth of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, after deducting from said penalty of four hundred dollars the amount of the true penalty which ought to have been paid by said Lee, according to the provisions of the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentythree.

Approved, August 8, 1846.

CHAP. 148.-AN ACT for the relief of Aquilla Goodwin.

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[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the name of Aquilla Goodwin be placed upon Pension of $6 the roll of invalid pensioners, and that he be allowed and paid lowed. the sum of six dollars per month, for and during his life, to be computed from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

Approved, August 8, 1846.

$2,000 for dam

ages done

and 1814.

CHAP. 149.-AN ACT for the relief of John R. Williams.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asTo be credited sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereto by, directed to credit John R. Williams, as on the first day of his farm in 1813 January, eighteen hundred and fourteen, on his bonds and mortgage, given by him to the United States in eighteen hundred and twelve, and still held by them, to secure the payment of three thousand two hundred dollars, with interest till paid, being the amount of the purchase money of a farm when sold to him at auction by the United States, in eighteen hundred and eleven, the sum of two thousand dollars, it being for damages done to his farm, known by the name of the Springwell farm, situate in the then Territory, now State of Michigan, while in the occupancy of the United States troops, in the years eighteen hundred and thirteen and eighteen hundred and fourteen, and in full payment of said damages.

Approved, August 8, 1846.

acres of land to

heretofore issued.

CHAP. 150.-AN ACT for the relief of Eli Merrill.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asWarrant for 160 sembled, That upon the surrender to the Commissioner of the be issued to him General Land Office, by Eli Merrill, of letters patent issued to in lieu of one said Eli Merrill for a tract of land containing one hundred and sixty acres, being the northwest quarter of section twenty-six, of township five north, in range one west, in the tract appropriated for military bounties in the Territory of Illinois, and upon due proof made that said Merrill has made no conveyance of said land, the said Commissioner of the General Land Office shall be, and is hereby authorized and required to issue a warrant in favor of said Eli Merrill for one hundred and sixty acres of land, to be located upon any unlocated land belonging to the United States and now subject to entry.

Approved, August 8, 1846.

for injuries sus

CHAP. 151.-AN ACT for the relief of Gregory Thomas, and others.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asTo be paid $800 sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to tained by the pay, or cause to be paid to Gregory Thomas, of the city of New pilot boatWash York, for himself and the other owners and pilots who were atington by a col- tached to the pilot boat Washington, of that port, on the first U. S. steamer October, eighteen hundred and forty-four, out of any money in Col. Harney. the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight

lision with the

hundred dollars, being three hundred dollars for expenses in

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