due to him, be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not AN ACT for the relief of the representatives of John otherwise appropriated. Approved: 2d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of Isaac Ricker. Kerlin, deceased. 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 De Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represento-partment settle and adjust the claim of the representatives tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper Accounting Officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Isaac Ricker, or his legal representatives, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred dollars, being the value of a horse, saddle, and bridle, impressed into the public service by Colonel Miller, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and captured by the British at the surrender of Detroit by General Hull. Approved March 2d, 1827. of John Kerlin, deceased, for the manufacturing of one AN ACT for the relief of John W. Bingey, the legal re presentative of Alexander Young. AN ACT for the relief of Polly Bell, alias Polly Collins. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Polly Bell, otherwise called Polly Collins, or, in case of her decease, her legal representative, be, and hereby is, authorized to enter with the Register of the Land Of fice for the Choctaw District, in the State of Mississippi, one section of land, in said District, of any lands within the same, which have not been offered at public sale: Provid ed, That the said Polly Bell, otherwise Polly Collins, shall release to the Governor of the State of Mississippi, for the use and benefit of a Seminary of Learning, all her right, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives title, and interest, in section numbered thirty-two, of of the United States of America in Congress assembled, township nine, and range four West, in said Choctaw Dis-That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, trict, which section has been heretofore entered by the authorized to refund to John W. Bingey, of New Orleans, Governor of said State for the use aferesaid: And Provid- in the State of Louisiana, the legal representative of Aled, also, That the said Polly Bell, otherwise Polly Collins, exander Young, deceased, the sum of one thousand one actually resided upon the said section of land upon the hundred and fifty dollars and ninety-eight cents, out of day the same was entered by the Governor of said State any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated: with the Register of the Land Office. Provided, That it shall first be proved, to the satisfaction of said Secretary, that the sum of one thousand one hundred lector of the District of Mississippi, for duties on merchanand fifty dollars and ninety-eight cents was paid to the coldise imported into said District by said Young, from Pensacola, in the month of February or March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and that said merchandise was purchased in the City of New York, in the month of August, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and that the du ties thercon were paid to the Collector of the Port of New York, according to law. Approved: 2d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Bal- Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of AN ACT for the benefit of the heirs of Gregory Strahan, deceased. Approved: 2d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of Jacob Butler. 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 of the United States pay, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to Jacob Butler, the sum of one hundred and seventy-two dollars forty-four cents, the balance of the value of two horses, belonging to the said Jacob Butler, which died in the service of the United States, for the want of forage. Approved: 2d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph Jeans, deceased. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the several acts of Congress, relating to refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia, be, and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives the same are hereby, extended to the heirs of Gregory of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Strahan, deceased; and that the amount of land, award- That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury De ed by the officers directed in said acts to settle and adjust|partment pay unto the legal representatives of Joseph like claims, shall be located in the Territory of Arkansas, upon such lands as have been surveyed, and are or may be appropriated. Approved: 3d March, 1827 Jeans, deceased, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars, it being for two horses, taken by impressment into the public service, during the late war, Approved: 3d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Collins. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Thomas Collins be exonerated from the payment of two hundred dollars sixty-seven cents, balance charged against him by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, in the settlement of his accounts as Captain in the service of the United States, in the late war, and that a judgment recovered against him, for the same, in the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, be released. Approved: 3d March, 1827. AN ACT making compensation to Peter Hagner, Third Auditor of the Treasury Department. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be paid to Peter Hagner, Third Auditor of the Treasury Department, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand dollars, as a compensation for extra services performed by him, under the provisions of the act of Congress, passed the third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, entitled "An act further to amend the act authorizing payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed, by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes;" passed the ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Approved: March 3d, 1827. AN ACT making an appropriation for prize money due to Thomas Douty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of nineteen dollars ninety-six cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment, to Thomas Douty, of his share of prize money, for the capture of the Algerine vessels, in the year eighteen hundred and fif teen; the same having been heretofore appropriated, and carried to the surplus fund. Approved: 2d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of Jacob Shafer. 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, authoriz. ed and required to cause to be issued to Jacob Shafer, late a Corporal in the twentieth Regiment of Infantry, a warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land, which may be located as other warrants are, which have been granted to soldiers of the late war, in lieu of his own bounty land, which he surrendered at the time of his discharge; and not by virtue of the assignment of John Sharpe's dis charge. Approved: 2d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of Pedro Miranda. 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 and directed to refund and pay over to Pedro Miranda, the sum of two hundred and three dollars and sixty-three cents, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated; it being the amount of duties illegally demanded of him, and paid by the said Pedro Miranda, on a quantity of sugar and molasses, at the Port of Savannah, which was of the growth and manufacture of the United States, and saved from a wreck on the coast of Florida. Approved: March 3, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of Haley and Harris. 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, authorized and directed, out of the funds arising from Post Offices, to pay to Haley and Harris, two thousand dollars, in full discharge for transporting the Mail from Columbus to Natchez, in the State of Mississippi, during the years one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two. Approved: 3d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of John Boardman. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That John Boardman, of Madison County, and the State of Alabama, be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate and enter, with the Register and Receiver of the Land Of fice in the Huntsville District, in the State of Alabama, the Northwest quarter of section thirteen, in township four, of range two, West of the basis Meridian, on paying for the same, at the rate of five dollars per acre: Provided, That such location and entry shall be made prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; and that patents do issue from the General Land Office, to Alfred Flournoy, of Giles County, State of Tennessee, for eight quarter sections of lands, which he hath located and entered in the Register's Office, at Huntsville, in the State of Alabama, in lieu, and in full satisfaction of, eight quarter sections of land, specified and des cribed in an act, entitled "An act for the relief of Alfred Flournoy," approved February twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and seven. Approved: 2d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of Edward R. Gibson and William H. Simmons, and their Clerks. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That they are hereby, authorized to receive, audit, and settle, proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and the the accounts of Edward R. Gibson and William H. Simmons, and their Clerks, for services performed under instructions from the Department of State, in pursuance of ed States, passed on the twenty-sixth day of May, eigha resolution of the House of Representatives of the Unitteen hundred and twenty-four, requesting the President to take measures for the safe-keeping and security of the public archives in Florida; and to pay the same out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the allowance to the said Edward R. Gibson and William H. Simmons, for such services, shall not and that the allowance to their Clerks shall not exceed exceed the sum specified in the instructions aforesaid, the rate at present allowed by law for similar services. Approved: 2d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of Isaac Delawder. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Isaac Delawder be, and he is hereby, permitted and allowed to enter one half-quarter section of any land liable to entry, at private sale, in the Chillicothe Land District, in the State of Ohio, for which he shall be entitled to a patent, on his releasing to the United States the East half of the Southeast quarter of section number ten, township four, range seventeen, in the Chillicothe District, and Laws of the United States. which was entered by the said Delawder by mistake, by 19th CONGRESS, 2d SESSION. previous to such entry, surrender his patent for the West half of the Northwest quarter section twenty, in township four, of range ten East, in the State of Mississippi, containing eighty acres, and convey to the United States all his right, title, and interest, in the said half quarter of a section above described in the said patent, according to the laws of the State of Mississippi, and to the satisfaction of the said Register. Approved: 3d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of Thomas C. Withers. 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 setAN ACT for the relief of Horace Waite, and others. tle the claim of Thomas C. Withers, for the hire of his Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives team of five horses, wagon, gear, and driver, into the ser- of the United States of America in Congress assembled, vice of the United States, in the year 1812, and for the That the Collector of the Customs for the District of New said wagon and gear, and four of the said horses; which London be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Horace were destroyed, lost, or consumed in said service; upon Waite, owner of the schooner Parnell, of the burthen of the principles of the act, entitled "An act to authorize sixty-one tons and thirty-five ninety-fifths of a ton, which the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed, by schooner, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-three, the enemy, while in the military service of the United was driven on shore, after having been employed, under States, and for other purposes," approved April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixteen, in the same manner as if a license for carrying on the cod-fishery, more than three the claim had been presented within two years from the months, such proportion of the allowance to which said schooner would have been entitled if she had completed passage of said act; and to pay him for said services, and her fishing term, as the time during which she was actufor the said property so destroyed, lost, or consumed, as ally employed at sea (to be proved to the satisfaction of aforesaid, so much as, including the amount paid him, said Collector) bears to the said fishing term of three during said service, on account thereof, and also, the months and a half; which amount, so to be paid, shall be amount paid him under the law passed for his relief, eighth distributed among the persons composing the crew of said of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, he schooner, according to law. would have been entitled to receive under the provisions of the said act of April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixteen, aforesaid. And the sum thus found due him, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved: 2d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of J. Balastier, & Co. Peter Harmony, and W. W. Russel. Approved : 3d March, 1827. AN ACT for the relief of Joseph Le Carpentier. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Collector of the Customs for the port of New Orleans, in Louisiana, be authorized to issue certificates of debenture to Joseph Le Carpentier, or his Attorney, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives legally constituted, for the amount of drawback of duties of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, on thirty-three packages of merchandise, shipped on That the Collector of the port of New York be, and board the schooner L'Aimable Caroline, L. Ducant, mashe is hereby, authorized to permit J. Balastier & Co. ter, at New Orleans, on the nineteenth day of March, Peter Harmony, and Wm. W. Russel, merchants of New eighteen hundred and twenty-three, for the Havana : York, to export, with benefit of drawback, certain cases which shipment was entered at the Custom House for exor packages of playing cards, by them severally import-portation, but the oath required by law was not taken, ed into that port, in the year eighteen hundred and twen- nor the bond given within the time prescribed by law, by ty-five; the said Balastier & Co. Peter Harmony, and reason of sickness: Provided, That the said Joseph Le Wm. W Russel, complying with the forms and requi- Carpentier shall, in all other respects, comply with the sites of the existing acts, allowing the benefit of draw-law, to entitle him to the said debenture. back. Approved: 3d March, 1827. Approved: 3d March, 1827. RESOLUTION directing the Secretary of the Navy to AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Gulledge. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives apply to the Government of Pennsylvania for jurisdiction over certain lands at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia. of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Thomas Gulledge, of Pike county, in the State of Mis- Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of sissippi, be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter, with the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Register of the Land Office at Washington, in said the Secretary of the Navy be directed to request the Go State, one half quarter of a section of land, in the land dis-vernment of the State of Pennsylvania to cede to the Unittrict West of Pearl river, upon any land in said district which may have been offered at public sale before such entry shall have been made, and which shall not have been sok: Provided, That the said Thomas Gulledge shall, ed States, jurisdiction over such lands as are owned by the United States, and improved for public purposes, at the Navy Yard near Philadelphia. Approved: 24th Jan. 1827. |