1839. be paid $2392 21, him, for acts done CHAP. 49. An ACT for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asN. Mitchell to sembled, That the Treasurer of the United States pay to Nathe amount paid thaniel Mitchell the sum of two thousand three hundred and by him to satisfy a judgment reco- ninety-two dollars and twenty-one cents, out of any money in vered against the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, out of the fund approunder orders from priated for the service of the Post Office Department; being the amount paid by said Mitchell to satisfy a judgment recovered against him in the supreme judicial court of Maine, on the first Tuesday of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in favor of William Merriam, for acts done by said Mitchell under orders from the Postmaster General, in arresting the said Merriam on a charge for violating the post office laws of the United States. Approved, March 2d, 1839. postmaster gene ral. thorized, upon half-quarter sec CHAP. 50. An ACT for the relief of Tilford Taylor. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asT. Taylor au sembled, That Tilford Taylor be, and he is hereby, authorized relinquishing to to relinquish to the United States the east half of the southwest U. S. a certain quarter of section two, in township forty-seven, and range five tion of land, to west, in the district of lands now offered for sale at Saint Louis, half-quarter sec in the State of Missouri; and, upon such relinquishment being priated land in made, the said Taylor shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to same district lia: enter any other half-quarter section of unappropriated land in said district, which shall be liable to entry at private sale. Approved, March 2d, 1839. enter any other tion of unappro ble to entry at private sale. Bentatives of C. CHAP. 51. An ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Charles S. Walsh [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as Legal repre- sembled, That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury do S. Walsh, to be allow and pay to the legal representatives of Charles S. Walsh, paid the differ out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the pay of secre- a sum of money, in addition to the pay of secretary of legation, and that of sufficient to make up to said Charles S. Walsh the salary of July to 9th Dec, charge d'affaires at the Court of Spain, from the twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to the ninth day of December of the same year. ence between tary of legation chargé, from 27th 1829. Approved, March 2d, 1839. CHAP. 52. An ACT for the relief of Nathaniel H. Hooe. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, S. to a certain land, relinquish That all the interest and claim of the United States to the south- 1839. east quarter of section seventeen, township twenty-four, range All the interest three west, in the Tuscaloosa land district, in Alabama, and for and claim of U. which a certificate of purchase from the said land office, num-quarter section of bered twelve thousand three hundred and twenty-five, was ed to N. H. Hooe. issued to said Nathaniel H. Hooe, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished Provided, That nothing in this act shall be con- Proviso. strued to prejudice the claim of any other individual, either by pre-emption or otherwise to said described tract of land: And Further proviso, provided further, That, if the money paid into the land office as the price of said land at the time the entry was made, has been refunded to said Nathaniel H. Hooe, to entitle him to the benefit of this act he shall repay the original amount so refunded into the said land office. Approved, March 2d, 1839. CHAP. 53. An ACT for the relief of John E. Alexander. to be paid $170, [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 E. J. E. Alexander Alexander, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise for services in appropriated, the sum of one hundred and seventy dollars, for resting counterthirty-four days services, by direction of the Secretary of State, feiters. in pursuing after and arresting persons engaged in counterfeiting the coin of the United States, and bills, and putting them in circulation. Approved, March 2d, 1839.. CHAP. 54. An ACT for the relief of John Randolph Clay. allowed the dif [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be allowed to John Randolph Clay, in the J. R. Clay to be settlement of his accounts, the difference between the compen-ference between sation of a charge d'affaires and that of a secretary of legation, of chargé and for the time he acted in the former capacity in Russia, viz: from that of a secretathe twenty-fifth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, from 25th Dec. to the twenty-ninth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. Approved, March 2d, 1839. the compensation ry of legation, 1835, to 29th June 1836. CHAP. 55. An ACT for the relief of William Colt and William Donoldson. Donoldson to be [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General issue his warrant on the W. Colt and W. Treasury of the United States, registered and countersigned as paid $697 for serprovided by law, for the payment to William Colt and to William vices and expenDonoldson, out of the moneys paid into the Treasury for the arresting, and services of the Post Office Department, for the sum of six hundred and A. Kromer, and ninety-seven dollars, being for their expenses and for their mail. ses, in pursuing, prosecuting W. for robbing the 1839. services in pursuing after, arresting, and prosecuting William Kromer and Abraham Kromer for robbing the mail, and who were convicted of said offence. Approved, March 2d, 1839. land warrant CHAP. 56. An ACT authorizing a grant of bounty land to the heirs of Bennett [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asA duplicate of sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, No. 11706 for 100 authorized and required to issue to the heirs of Bennett Shurley, acres, to be issued deceased, who was a private in the Maryland continental line Shurley, deceas of the army in the war of the Revolution, a duplicate of land warrant number eleven thousand seven hundred and six, for one hundred acres, dated eleventh March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. Approved, March 2d, 1839. to the heirs of B. ed. authorized, upon such manner as half-quarter sec CHAP. 57. An ACT for the relief of Samuel Dickerson. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as S. Dickerson sembled, That Samuel Dickerson, of Sangamon county, Illinois, relinquishing, in be, and he hereby is, authorized to relinquish to the United Sec. Treas shall States, in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct, a certain direct, the east half of the northwest quarter of section eighteen, tion of land, to township sixteen north, range one west; and upon his making quantity of cer- such relinquishment, he shall be authorized to enter with the register and receiver of the land office at Springfield, Illinois, the same quantity of any of the unappropriated land, in said land district, which shall be subject to sale at private entry. Approved, March 2d, 1839. enter the same tain other land. the Louisville CHAP. 58. An ACT for the relief of the Louisville Savings Institution. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as The interest sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury revise the account charged on cerLain public mo- of interest charged against said institution, under the act of June ney deposited in twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and deduct thereSavings Institu- from such amount as has been charged on public money deposited in said institution, while under actual orders to be transferred elsewhere. Approved, March 2d, 1839. tion to be deducted. CHAP. 59. An ACT for the relief of Daniel Malone. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as 1839. Upon D. Ma lone surrendering to U. S. his half-quarter sec right to a certain sembled, That on Daniel Malone surrendering to the United States all his right of the west half of the northeast quarter of section number thirty-five, in township number four south, range three west, in the Kaskaskia land district, in the State of Illinois, the register is hereby authorized and required to permit the said Malone to enter in said district the same quantity of ted to enter a like land so surrendered as above stated, out of any lands not other-quantity of any wise disposed of, and subject to private entry. Approved, March 2d, 1839. tion of land, he shall be permit not otherwise disposed of and subject to private entry, in same district. presentatives of same proportional part tually paid into satisfaction of a recovered by U. CHAP. 60. An ACT for the relief of legal representatives of Nathan Sage. [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, and he is, here- The legal reby is, authorized to pay to the legal representatives of Nathan N. Sage to be Sage, late of Oswego, in the State of New York, and late col-paid the lector of the customs of the United States, from any money in the of any money ac Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same proportional part the Treasury in of any sum of money that has actually been paid into the certain judgment Treasury in satisfaction of a judgment recovered by the United S. as they would States on the complaint of said Sage against Eliakim Barney, had to, had the for a violation of the revenue laws of the United States, as the whole of said judgment been said Sage, or his legal representatives, would have been entitled paid, &c. to receive had the whole amount of said judgment been paid; first deducting from the sum paid into the Treasury aforesaid, and excluding from the division contemplated by this act, the full amount of costs awarded to the United States by said judgment said judgment being the same that was recovered in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-four, in the court of the United States for the northern district of the State of New York. Approved, March 2d, 1839. have been enti CHAP. 61. An ACT for the relief of Thomas McClelland and James Smith. reties of the late at St. Stephen's, from [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Thomas McClelland and James Smith, sureties T. McClelland of the late Samuel Smith, receiver of public moneys at Saint and Smith, su Stephen's, in an official bond, bearing date the fifth day of Au-S.Smith.receiver gust, eighteen hundred and twelve, be, and they are hereby, released released from their said liabilities: Provided, That nothing in Proviso. this act contained shall be held to discharge the estate of the said Samuel Smith from the payment of any balance which may be due the United States for moneys received by him while receiver as aforesaid. 5 Approved, March 2d, 1839. their liabilities. 1839. to be paid $25 for CHAP. 62. An ACT for the relief of Archibald R. S. Hunter. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asA.R.S. Hunter sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Archibald forage taken for R. S. Hunter the sum of twenty-five dollars, for forage taken the use of volun- for the use of a troop of volunteer militia, who were in the service of the United States during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, while said troop were without the rations of forage allowed by law. Approved, March 2d, 1839. teers in service U.S. the relinquish CHAP. 63. An ACT for the relief of Hiner Stigermire. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as H. Stigermire, sembled, That Hiner Stigermire be, and he is hereby, authorized authorized, upon to relinquish to the United States, in such form as the Commisment to U. S. of a sioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe, the southeast quarter section of quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirty-one, township certain other forty-five north, in range one east of the fifth principal meridian, quarter quarter in the district of lands now offered for sale at Saint Louis, in the certain quarter Jand, to enter a section. Proviso. State of Missouri; and upon such relinquishment being made as aforesaid, the said Stigermire shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section thirty-one, township forty-five north, in range one east, being the same which the said Stigermire originally intended to enter, as set forth in his petition: Provided, That the same is still subject to entry. Approved, March 2d, 1839. The proper ac of the Treasury, tle the claims of CHAP. 64. An ACT for the relief of Joseph M. Hernandez. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, other, and they are hereby, authorized to examine and adjust all claims authorized to set of Joseph M. Hernandez which have arisen since the commenceJ. M.Hernandez, ment of the late hostilities with the Seminole Indians in Florida, en since the com- and allow him for all corn taken and put into pits by order of the late hostilities an officer in the service of the United States, deducting from the noles: allowance same any sum he may have realized from a sale of a part there10 be made him of in a damaged state by order of General Eustis, and for all cattle, forage, &c. corn at his plantation that was used by troops in the military which have aris mencement of with the Semi for certain corn, service, and for all cattle killed and for forage taken by order of an officer, and for cane taken for forage by the troops, the value of the cane to be fixed at what it was worth as an article of forage, and for property impressed into the military service of the United States by order of an officer, where the same was never regained by him, deducting any sum which may appear to have been paid for the use of the same while in the service aforesaid; likewise for any claim for the use of any property so |