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January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two; and the pension heretofore allowed to Mrs. Elizabeth V. Lomax, widow of Mann P. Lomax, late Major of the Ordnance Corps, shall commence on the twenty-seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and continue for and during her widowhood. And that the Secretary of the Interior be directed to place the name of A. M. Dade, widow of Major F. L. Dade, deceased, late of the United States Army, on the pension roll, from the twenty-eighth of December, eighteen hundred and forty, for and during her natural life, at the same rate of pension she has heretofore received.

APPROVED, February 26, 1853.

[No. 59.]-An Act for the Relief of Josiah P. Pilcher, late a private in Company F, second Kentucky regiment Volunteers, in the war with Mexico, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent,atives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper officers of the Government allow and pay to Josiah P. Pilcher, late a private in company F, second Kentucky regiment volunteers, his regular pay from the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and forty-six, until the date of the discharge of his company; and also that he be paid his mileage from New Orleans home, as others of his company were paid; also, that he be paid his clothing pay; also, that he be paid three months' extra pay; also, that the proper officers issue to him a land warrant for one hundred and sixty acres.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That five years' half-pay be granted to Christine Barnard, the widow of the late Brevet Major Moses J. Barnard, Captain in company H, regiment of Voltigeurs, who rendered gallant services in the Mexican war, and who died of a disease greatly enhanced by the hardship, exposure, and fatigue of the campaign; said half-pay to commence with the day of his death, the fourth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and to be held by her or by her children, according to the provisions of the general laws now in force, made in reference to the widows and children of those who died from

wounds or disease received or contracted during said war.

APPROVED, February 26, 1853.

[No. 60.]-An Act for the Relief B. B. Bennett.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this bill, the name of B. B. Bennett shall be placed upon the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, for and during his life. APPROVED, March 2, 1853.

[No. 61.]-An Act for the Relief of Frances E. Baden. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Frances E. Baden upon the pension roll, and pay her the half-pay of a major in the United States Army, for five years; her pension to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

APPROVED, March 2, 1853.

[No. 62.]-An Act for the Relief of Edward Box. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Edward Box, of Tennessee, upon the revolutionary pension roll, at the rate of six dollars and sixty-six and two thirds cents per month, to com. mence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and to continue during his natural life.

APPROVED, March 2, 1853.

[No. 63.]-An Act for the Relief of Benjamin S. Roberts.

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 hereby, directed to pay to Benjamin S.

Laws of the United States.

Roberts, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the full amount of his pay and subsistence as a second lieutenant in the first regiment of dragoons, from the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, when he was coerced to resign his commission of second lieutenant in the first regiment of dragoons, without authority of law, until the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, when he was restored to the Army, by being appointed senior first lieutenant in the regiment of mounted riflemen. APPROVED, March 2, 1853.

[No. 64.]-An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a Register to the Bark "May, of Baltimore."

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[No. 67.]-An Act for the Relief of John Charles Frémont, late Lieutenant Colonel in the Army of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, and he is hereby authorized and required, to liquidate and satisfy the judgment, damages, and costs recovered, and such expenses in defense of said suit as the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem reasonable, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, which has been recovered, or may be recovered, against John Charles Frémont, late a lieutenant colonel in the Army of the United States, by Anthony Gibbs and Sons, assignees of F. Hüttman, in her Britannic Majesty's court of exchequer, at West

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent-minster, in England, on four several bills of exatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to issue a register to William Alexander, of Baltimore, Maryland, for the British bark "Brazil Packet, of Liverpool,' under the name of the "May, of Baltimore," said¦¦ bark having been libeled, condemned, and sold for supplies furnished her in a foreign port, and was purchased by the said William Alexander, an American citizen: Provided, It shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of said Secretary, that the repairs put on said bark, after the purchase aforesaid, by the said purchaser, shall constitute two thirds of her value when repaired. APPROVED, March 2, 1853.

[No. 65.]-An Act to Incorporate the Sisters of the Visitation of Washington, in the District of Colum

bia.

change or each and every of them drawn by the said John Charles Frémont, at Ciudad de los Angelos, in the then Upper California, on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and fortyseven, amounting in all to nineteen thousand five hundred dollars, in favor of one F. Hüttman, for moneys advanced for the public service, the said bills having been drawn on James Buchanan, Secretary of State, and payment refused by him for want of any appropriation out of which the same could be paid, and the said Frémont being sued in London for the same: Provided, That before the payment of the same, or any part thereof, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that the amount has been expended for the benefit of the public service.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 68.]-An Act for the Relief of L. M. Goldsborough, and others.

atives of the United States of America in Congress Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representassembled, That Eliza Matthews, Eleanor Cumatives of the United States of America in Congress mings, Mary O. Stonestreet, Mary Stubbs, Sarah assembled, That the proper accounting officers of Mitchell, Eliza Snowden, Ann O'Hare, and Ann the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, R. Osborn, with such female associates as now authorized and required to allow and pay, out of are or may hereafter become sisters or lay-sisters any money in the Treasury not otherwise approof the Visitation, according to the rules and by-priated, to L. M. Goldsborough, G. J. Van Brunt laws thereof which have been or which may be and S. F. Blunt, for expenses incurred by them, hereafter established, and their successors, be, respectively, while serving upon a joint commisand they hereby are, made a body-politic and cor- sion of Army and Navy officers in California and porate forever, by the name of "The Sisters of Oregon, during the years eighteen hundred and the Visitation of Washington," for purposes of forty-nine and eighteen hundred and fifty, double charity and education; and by that name may sue the pay of a commander in the Navy, in sea serand be sued, prosecute and defend; may have and vice, during the exact time of their employment use a common seal, and the same alter and renew on said coasts as aforesaid, to wit: from the first at pleasure; may adopt and establish rules, reguof April, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the lations and by-laws, not repugnant to the laws of twenty-seventh of November, eighteen hundred the United States, for properly conducting the and fifty, deducting therefrom the regular pay acaffairs of the corporation; may take, receive, pur- cruing to said officers during that period. chase and hold estate, real, personal, and mixed, not exceeding in value one hundred and fifty-thousand dollars at any one time, and manage and dispose of the same at pleasure, and apply the same, or the proceeds of the sales thereof, to the uses and purposes of the association, according to the rules and regulations which now are or which may hereafter be established.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Congress may at any time amend or repeal this act. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 66.]—An Act for the Relief of Catharine Proctor Hayden, only child and heir of John White, deceased, late a Lieutenant Colonel in the Fourth Georgia Battalion of the Revolutionary Army. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Catharine Proctor Hayden, only child and heir of John White, deceased, late a lieutenant colonel in the fourth Georgia battalion of the revolutionary army, the sum of six thousand seven hundred and three dollars and fifty-seven cents, the said principal sum being the amount found due to said John White, by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, for the seven years half pay of the said John White, and for advances made by him to the Government during the revolutionary war, and for which treasury certificates were improperly issued to Susanna Richardson and John Richardson, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-three. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That each of the three Army officers, J. L. Smith, C. A. Ogden, and D. Leadbetter, of the Corps of Engineers, who were associated with the said Navy officers in the joint duty aforesaid, be allowed and paid, as aforesaid, commutation of fuel and quarters from the first of April, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the twenty-seventh of November, eighteen hundred and fifty, equal in amount to the allowance authorized to a major of the Army on duty at San Francisco during that time; deducting therefrom the commutation to which they would have been entitled respectively, at their posts in the Atlantic States.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 69.]-An Act for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Walter Colton.

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 hereby is, directed to pay to the legal representatives of the late Walter Colton, out of any ated, the sum of seven thousand eight hundred money in the Treasury not otherwise appropri and sixty-five dollars and thirty-three cents, the same being the amount deposited by said Colton in the Treasury of the United States, above the net amount for which the prize ship Admittance was purchased by his agent.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 70.]-An Act for the Relief of Jacob Shade, Jr. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent

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atives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Jacob Shade, Jr., of the State of Virginia, upon the invalid pension roll, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and to continue during his natural life.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 71.]-An Act for the relief of James Wright, Jr. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of James Wright, Junior, of Sullivan county, in the State of Tennessee, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and that he be allowed a pension of five dollars and thirty-three cents a month, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty, to continue during his natural life.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 72.]-An Act for the Relief of Gardner Herring. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Gardner Herring, of the State of Ohio, upon the invalid pension roll, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and to continue during his natural life.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 73.]-An Act to increase the Pension of Henry Click, of Cocke County, Tennessee.

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, directed to increase the pension of Henry Click, who was placed upon the pension roll of invalid pensioners by an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain invalid pensioners therein named," and approved on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, to eight dollars per month, during his natural life, such increase commencing on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 74.]-An Act for the Relief of Jasper A. Maltby. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Pensions be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to Jasper A. Maltby, his heirs or assigns, a certificate or warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land, in conformity with an act of eleventh February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled "An act to raise, for a limited time, an additional military force, and for other purposes." APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 75.]—An Act for the Relief of Cornelius Hughes, of Tennessee.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Cornelius Hughes, of Green county, in the State of Tennessee, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and that he be allowed a pension of five dollars thirty-three and one third cents per month, from the twenty-first day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to continue during his natural life.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 76.]—An Act for the Relief of Harlow Spaulding. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representalives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to Harlow Spaulding, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the usual compensation allowed naval storekeepers in foreign

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places, for the time he acted in that capacity at Port Mahon and at Spezia, after deducting the amount received by him as compensation for his services as clerk.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 77.]-An Act for the Relief of John Huffington.

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 hereby, directed to pay, out of any mon

eys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Huffington, the sum of two thousand dollars in full compensation for the loss of the schooner Relief, sunk in eighteen hundred and twenty-two, while in the employ of the United States in transporting stone to the Rip Raps; but

no interest shall be allowed on said sum. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 78.]-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act for the Relief of Joseph Johnston," approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, by correcting a elerical error.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representassembled, That the clerical error in the aforesaid atives of the United States of America in Congress act be corrected by making the name of Joseph tended; and that all the benefits of said act shall Johnston to read Joseph Johnson, which was inaccrue to, and the same be, and hereby are, extended to said Joseph Johnson.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 79.]-An Act for the Relief of Mary Baury.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent atives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the roll of revolutionary pensioners the name of Mary Baury, of Boston, Massachusetts, widow of Louis Baury, who served three campaigns as captain of grenadiers during the revolutionary war, and to pay her a pension at the rate of six hundred dollars per || annum from the twenty-fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, and to continue during her natural life.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 80.]—An Act for the Relief of John Kerbaugh. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of John Kerbaugh, of the State of Tennessee, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and that he be allowed a pension of five dollars and thirty-three cents a month, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to continue during his natural life.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 81.]-An Act for the Relief of Lewis H. Bates and William Lacon.

the said goods while kept out of their possession, and will indemnify them for the damage they sustained by the detention of the money exacted of them by the collector, over and above the duty required by law; allowing for such detention interest not exceeding the rate of six per centum per annum, from the time it was paid by them until it was refunded.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

No. 82.1-An Act for the Relief of S. Morris Waln. 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 hereby, authorized to pay to S. Morris Waln, who survived Henry Percival, lately in partnership under the firm of S. Morris Waln and Company, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of duties paid on one hundred and sixty quarter-casks, and sixty-two Indian barrels of Malaga wine, imported in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Canning; one hundred and eighty-nine quarter-casks of Malaga wine, imported in May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Virginia; nine pipes and one quarter-cask of Madeira wine, imported in September, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Forrest; ninetynine casks of Oporto wine, imported in the brig Elbe, via New York, and reshipped under bond, per schooner Perseverance, to Philadelphia, in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; and seven pipes and seventeen hogsheads of Sicily Maderia wine, imported via Boston, and reshipped under bond, per brig Echo, to Philadelphia, in June, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, which wines were destroyed in Philadelphia, by fire, while in store in the custody of the custom-house: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury be furnished with satisfactory proof that the goods were so destroyed by fire and were not insured. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 83.]-An Act for the Relief of James H. Jenkins. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to James H. Jenkins, late contractor for carrying the mails, out of any moneys appropriated for the transportation of the mails, the sum of three thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars, for damages actually incurred by him, by reason of an order of the Postmaster changing the route upon which he had contracted to run between Knoxville and Sparta, Tennessee. APPROVED, March 3, 1852.

[No. 84.]-An Act for the Relief of Robert Gibson.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Robert Gibson, of Greenbriar county, Virginia, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first and to continue during his natural life. day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 85.]-An Act for the Relief of Ursula E. Cobb.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be required to place the name of Ursula E. Cobb, widow of the late Charles Cobb, gunner in the Navy of the United States, upon the list of naval pensions, and to pay her a pension at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and to continue for and during the term of five years. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and allow the claim of Lewis H. Bates and William Lacon, or either of them, for losses and damages sustained by them by the proceedings of the custom-house officers at New York, in exacting from them, upon certain importations of iron into that port, made between the first day of June, eighteen hundred and twentynine, and the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, higher duties than were required by law, and in seizing and libeling some of said goods upon refusal of said Bates and Lacon to enter the same as subject to such higher duty, and for certain costs of court paid by them and not reimbursed; the sum so allowed to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap propriated: Provided, however, That no other or greater sum is to be allowed them under this act than will reimburse to them certain costs and ex- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representpenses actually paid by, and not repaid to them,utives of the United States of America in Congress in the various suits touching said importations, assembled, That the Postmaster General be, and and certain sums paid by them for the storage of" he is hereby, directed to pay to Cornelius Covert

[No. 86.]-An Act for the Relief of Cornelius Covert, of Michigan.

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land situate in the county of Jackson, State of Ala-mencing with the said fifth of November, eighteen hundred and fifty, and to continue to her during her widowhood, and after her death or intermarriage to be paid to her children, until they respectively arrive at sixteen years of age, agreeably to the provisions of the act of eleventh August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

of the State of Michigan, out of the revenues of
the Post Office Department, not otherwise appro-bama, on the waters of Jones's Creek, known as
priated, the sum of three hundred and ninety-six William Jones's Reservation, it being the place
dollars per annum, for the transportation of the first settled by William Jones, and, after his death,
mail on route number three thousand seven hun- transferred by his widow and heirs-at-law to said
dred and seventy-seven, from Marshall to Centre- William J. Price: Provided, That this confirmation
ville, in the State of Michigan, instead of two shall only operate as a relinquishment on the part
hundred and nineteen dollars, for and during the of the United States, and shall not affect the rights
term of his contract, made and entered into in the of any minor heir or heirs, or of third persons.
year eighteen hundred and fifty.
APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 87.]-An Act for the Relief of Moses Olmstead and Mrs. Elizabeth Craig.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized and directed to place the name of Moses Olmstead on the list of invalid pensioners, and to pay him, during his life, a pension of eight dollars per month; said pension to commence on the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized and required to place the name of Mrs. Elizabeth Craig, widow of the late Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Craig, of the United States Army, who was killed in California about the first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, on the pension roll, at the rate of one half the pay her husband was receiving at the time of his death; this allowance to commence from the said first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and to continue to her during her widowhood; and should she marry again, or die, while her daughter, now living, shall be a minor, the same allowance shall be made to said daughter during her minority.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 88.]-An Act for the Relief of George Poindexter.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Quartermaster General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be ascertained the amount justly due and owing to George Poindexter for the use and occupation of his property, by the volunteers from the State of Kentucky, mustered into the service of the United States, for the war in Mexico, and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the amount so ascertained to be due, to be paid to the said Poindexter, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the same do not exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, the amount awarded. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 89.]-An Act for the Relief of Mary Pearson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent atives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, the name of Mary Pearson, of Newberry, Massachusetts, widow of Silas Pearson, and pay her a pension at the rate of twenty-four dollars per annum, to commence on the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and continue during her natural life. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 90.]-An Act for the Relief of Henry Miller, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the name of Henry Miller, a soldier in the service of the United States, in the late war with Great Britain, be placed on the roll of invalid pensions, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the fourteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-seven. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 91.]-An Act for the Relief of William J. Price. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That William J. Price be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his title to a certain tract of

[No. 92.]-An Act for the Relief of Gilman Smith, of Sycamore, in the State of Illinois.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Gilman Smith, of Sycamore, in the State of Illinois, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay to him the sum of eight dollars a month, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fiftytwo, and to continue during his natural life. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 93.]—An Act granting a Pension to Elizabeth

Monroe.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent atives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, granted to Elizabeth Monroe, widow of Thomas J. C. Monroe, late of the Army of the United States, for the space of five years, to commence from the first day of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-two, a pension, payable semi-annually, equal to one half the pay to which the said Thomas J. C. Monroe was entitled at the time of his decease, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 94.]-An Act for the Relief of Maria Taylor. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Mrs. Maria Taylor, wife of William R. Taylor, of the parish of Ascension, State of Louisiana, claiming in her own right a certain tract of land situated in the parish of Ascension aforesaid, near its upper limits, on the left bank of the river Mississippi, containing eleven and a half arpents front by forty in depth, bounded above by the land of late Jean Louis Parent, and below by the land of late Pierre Prospere, together with the tract immediately adjacent to and back of said front tract, containing a front of twelve arpents, by forty additional arpents depth, with such diverging of the lateral lines as to embrace an arrea of five hundred acres, be and she is hereby, confirmed in the title thereto: Provided, That this act shall only be construed as a relinquishment of the Government of all claim to said tract of land: And provided also, That this act shall not operate against the claim of any third person to said tract of land. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

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APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 97.]—An Act for the Benefit of John Ozias. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Treasurer of the United States is hereby authorized to pay to John Ozias, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated by law, the sum of two hundred dollars, the amount paid by him on the thirty-first October, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, for a quarter

section of land which the Government had sold to another.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 98.]-An Act for the Relief of William H. Wells, and others.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, for one hundred and sixty acres of land to William and he is hereby, directed to issue a land warrant H. Wells, Edmund Wells, and Sally Wells, heirsat-law of Lemuel Wells, deceased, to be located on any of the unappropriated lands of the United States which have been offered for sale and are

subject to private entry, at one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by said Lemuel Wells, deceased, as a soldier in the late war with Great Britain.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 99.]—An Act for the Relief of Nathan II. Darling.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Nathan H. Darling, of Lake county, sioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to in the State of Illinois, on the roll of invalid pencommence on the fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and to continue during his life. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 100.]-An Act to authorize the issuing of a Register to the Brig Boundary, and to change the Names of the Steamers Roger Williams and Propeller Ontario.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be issued under the direc for the brig Boundary, formerly a British vessel, tion of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register now owned by B. B. Titcomb, an American citizen, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, which vessel put into said port in distress, and was purchased by said Titcomb, in the winter of eighteen hundred and fifty-one: Provided, That it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the cost of the repairs of said vessel made in the United States subsequent to that time, by the present owner, is equal to three fourths of the value of such a vessel built in the United States.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the owners of the steamboat "Roger Williams" be, and

they are hereby, authorized to change the name of said boat to that of "El Paraguay," and that the owners of the propeller Ontario be, and they are hereby, authorized to change the name of the said propeller to the "Carrier Pigeon." APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 101.]-An Act authorizing the Adjustment and Payment of the Claims of William Hazzard Wigg, deceased, for losses sustained by him during the War of the Revolution.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent

at the mouth of the Klamath river, coast of Cali-atives of the United States of America in Congress
fornia, on or about the fifth day of November,
eighteen hundred and fifty, on the pension roll, at
a compensation of thirty dollars per month, com-

assembled, That the proper accounting officers, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, adjust and settle the claims of Major William

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Hazzard Wigg, deceased, late of the State of
South Carolina, for losses sustained by him, the
said Wigg, while retained as a hostage by the
British officers during the war of the Revolution.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said accounting officers, in the adjustment of the said losses, shall, and they are hereby, directed to allow the said Wigg the sum of thirty-seven thousand one hundred and ninety-seven dollars, with legal interest from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, until the day of stating the account of said losses.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to William Hazzard Wigg, the grandson of the said William Hazzard Wigg, deceased, the amount that shall be ascertained to be due on account of said losses, including the interest, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

(No. 102.]-An Act to Incorporate the Georgetown and Catoctin Railroad Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the State of Maryland shall by law incorporate a company to lay out and construct a railroad, from any point, in connection with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at or near the Point of Rocks, to Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, the right of way, not exceeding sixty-six feet wide, be, and is hereby, granted to such company: Provided, That before any such road, depôt, and its necessary fixtures shall be located in Georgetown, the assent of said city shall first be obtained: And provided, also, That the same provisions for the condemnation of, and payment for, land, or other private property for the use of the said road, as may be made by any act for the incorporation of such company by the State of Maryland shall be, and hereby are, extended to the condemnation of and payment for land or other private property for the use of the said road within the District of Columbia.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 103.]-An Act for the Relief of the Southern Michigan Railroad Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be authorized, and is hereby directed, to pay to the Southern Michigan Railroad Company, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and fortythree cents, for services in the transportation of the great northern mail from Toledo to Hillsdale, beyond Detroit, in the State of Michigan. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

RESOLUTIONS.

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Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Navy cause to be
paid to Alexander Y. P. Garnett the sum of
one hundred and sixty-six dollars and ten cents,
for his services as surgeon on board the ship
Cyane, from the first day of March, eighteen hun-
dred and forty-three, to the sixth day of August
of the same year, in addition to any sum or sums
which may have been paid said Garnett as assist-
ant surgeon on account of his services.
APPROVED, February 3, 1853.

[No. 3.]—Joint Resolution granting the petition of

William and Matthew Moss.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to adjust and settle the account of William and Matthew Moss, contractors for carrying the mail on route number five thousand nine hundred and ninety-one, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty, in the same manner as if that sum had been the consideration stipulated in the contract, instead of the sum of seven hundred dollars, for which their bid was erroneously made and a contract executed. APPROVED, February 5, 1853.

[No. 4.]-Joint Resolution for the Relief J. P. Con-
verse, of Ohio.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Postmaster General be, and is hereby au-
thorized and directed to pay to John P. Converse,
of Ohio, out of the money of the Post Office
Department, the sum of six hundred and thirty-six
dollars and ninety-eight cents, ($636 98,) as com-
pensation for his per diem services, and traveling
and other expenses, whilst acting as a special
agent for the Post Office Department.

APPROVED, February 26, 1853.

[No. 5.]—A Resolution for the Relief of the heir of
John De Neufville and Son.

Resolved 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 hereby directed to allow and pay Mrs. Anna C. De Neufville Evans, the heir of John De Neufville and Son, in addition to the eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty cents, or twenty-one thousand nine hundred and nineteen florins, allowed by joint resolution of the third March, eighteen hundred and fifty one, upon the Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives report of the Comptroller to the Senate, the followof the United States of America in Congress assembled, gin sums, to wit: the share awarded to De NeufThat the Secretary of War be, and he is here- ville and Son in the damages as part owners of the by, authorized to convey to the City Council of ships Aurora and Liberty, the charges for lighterSavannah, Georgia, the site of the old Ogle-hire, stay-days, traveling to the Texel, &c.; the

(No, 1.]-A Resolution for surrendering the site of the old Oglethorpe Barracks to the City Council of Savannah, Georgia.

charges for delivering of the goods, storage, &c.; the charges for journey to Paris, of Major Jackson and Leonard De Neufville to obtain Dr. Franklin's acceptance of bills. The amount of these four charges is three thousand three hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty cents, or seven thousand two hundred and sixty-one florins, also the balance due by the accounts and papers in the State Department, on notarial agreement dated the twenty-eighth December, seventeen hundred and eighty-one; the florin to be calculated at forty-six and one quarter cents; and interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from the time the debt was contracted to the day of payment; and the former partial settlement of the Comptroller to be corrected upon the above basis, as to the value of the florin and interest, the gratuity of three thousand dollars made the family of De Neufville, in seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, not to be taken from this claim.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 6.]-Joint Resolution for the Relief of Thompson Barnett.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, directed and authorized to pay to Thompson Barnett, of Logansport, Indiana, out of the funds of his department, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-five cents, ($123 75,) in full for services rendered by said Barnett in carrying the mail from Logansport to Winnimac, Indiana, from July first, eighteen hundred and forty-two, to February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-three. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 7.]-A Resolution for the Relief of the Estate of Isaac L. Battle.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the estate of Isaac L. Battle, deceased, late of the County of Jackson, in the State of Florida, be, and the same is hereby, released from any liability under a judgment heretofore obtained by the Post Office Department against him as guarantor on behalf of Charles Matthews and William King, late of said county and State, as bidders for a contract to carry the United States mail, three times a week each way between Bainbridge, in the State of Georgia, and Pensacola, in the State (then Territory) of Florida, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

[No. 8.]—A Resolution for the Relief of the Heirs of

David Corderey.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper officers of the Treasury ascertain and pay to the legal representatives of David Corderey, deceased, the value of a certain reservation of six hundred and forty acres as unimproved land at the date of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, which reservation was allowed under the eighth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and seventeen, and thirteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, made with the Cherokee Indians, and that the amount so ascertained, without interest, be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

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