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pancy and improvement of said lands, and paying therefor the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and, upon such proof

and payment being made, a certificate and patent shall issue for said lots Patent to issue. as in other cases of sales of public lands.

APPROVED, August 11, 1856.

CHAP. XCIV.—An Act for the Relief of the " Columbian Harmony Society," of the City Aug. 11, 1856. of Washington.

the corporate

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the association of free Columbia Harmony Socipersons of color in the City of Washington, commonly known as the ety authorized "Columbia Harmony Society," be, and they are hereby, authorized and to sell a certain empowered to sell a certain square of ground, deeded to them on the square in Washington City and twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, invest proceeds by J. Elgar, Commissioner of Public Buildings, and known in the plat in a lot outside of Washington City as square number four hundred and seventy-five, and limits. to reinvest the proceeds of such sale in other grounds in the District of Columbia, outside of the corporate limits of the City of Washington: Provided, That no contract for the sale of said square shall be binding Sale and inuntil first approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and that the reinvestment to be approved by vestment of the funds arising from such sale, shall in like manner be Secretary of the subject to the approval of the Secretary aforesaid. APPROVED, August 11, 1856.

CHAP. XCV.-An Act for the Relief of Daniel Doland.

Interior.

Aug. 13, 1856.

Daniel Doland

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 Daniel Doland, to be placed on a private in Captain Steele's company of New York volunteers, during pension roll at $6.75 per month the Mexican war, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay him the sum for life, from of six dollars and seventy-five cents per month, from the first day of Jan- Jan. 1, 1855. uary, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, during his natural life. APPROVED, August 13, 1856.

CHAP. XCVI.-An Act for the Relief of Charles Stearns.

Aug. 13, 1856.

$5,000.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Charles Stearns Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Charles to be paid Stearns, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, to indemnify him for losses sustained and expenses incurred in defending his title to certain lands claimed by the United States; and also in defending two criminal prosecutions brought against him by direction of the Secretary of War. APPROVED, August 13, 1856.

CHAP. XCVII.-An Act to construe the Act entitled, "An Act for the Relief of James M. Aug. 13, 1856. Goggin," approved twenty-seventh July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

1854, ch. 153.

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 is hereby, authorized and required, so to construe the act of Congress, approved twenty-seventh July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, for the relief of James M. Goggin, late special agent of the Post-Office Department in California, as that he shall be paid the same salary for the time he acted as such agent, as is now paid to his successor in office 153. VOL. XI. PRIV.-3

Payment to James M. Goggin, 1854, ch.

Aug. 13, 1856.

on pension roll at $17.50 per month, from

under the present law; and also the amount for office-rent and clerk hire, which may be shown by proper vouchers to have been actually paid by him for the same.

APPROVED, August 13, 1856.

CHAP. XCVIII.—An Act granting a Pension to Ansel Wilkinson.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Ansel Wilkin- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inson to be placed terior be hereby required to place on the pension roll, at the rate of seventeen dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence from the nineteenth February, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, the name of Ansel Wilkinson, which said Ansel Wilkinson was seriously injured while doing service as a pilot on board the United States schooner Ariel, in the action fought on Lake Erie, under the command of Oliver H. Perry, on the tenth September, eighteen hundred and thirteen. APPROVED, August 13, 1856.

Feb. 19, 1856.

Aug. 13, 1856.

R. Powell for extra mail services.

CHAP. XCIX.-An Act for the Relief of J. R. Powell.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to J. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to J. R. Powell a reasonable compensation for the additional expense incurred by him and extra services performed on mail route number five thousand five hundred and eighty-five, made necessary by imposing on said route a larger mail than was contemplated at the time of making the contract. APPROVED, August 13, 1856.

Aug. 16, 1856. CHAP. C.-An Act granting a Pension to Mrs. Olivia W. Cannon, Widow of Joseph S. Cannon, late a Midshipman in the United States Navy, now deceased.

Payment to

Mrs. O. W. Can

non.

Proviso.

Aug. 16, 1856.

Adams for print

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 pay to Mrs. Olivia W. Cannon, widow of Joseph S. Cannon, late a midshipman in the United States navy, now deceased, a sum equal to five years' half-pay of her deceased husband's grade in the navy, estimated according to his pay for active sea service, under act of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five: Provided, That said half-pay pension shall be paid from any money appropriated, or to be appropriated, to pay the half-pay pensions of widows and orphans of the navy, and that no sale, transfer, or mortgage of the whole or any part of the sum granted by this act, made prior to the taking effect hereof, shall be valid.

APPROVED, August 16, 1856.

CHAP. CI.-An Act for the Relief of Isaac Adams.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Certain letters States of America in Congress assembled, That the letters-patent granted patent to Isaac to Isaac Adams on the fourteenth day of October, in the year eighteen ing presses ex- hundred and thirty, for new and useful improvements in the printing tended to March machine called the power printing-press, and also letters-patent granted to the said Adams on the second day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for additional improvements in the power printing press, be, and the same are hereby, renewed, revived, and extended, for the term commencing with the date of the passage of this act, and

2, 1864.

Certificate of

this extension to be indorsed on

Effect of this

ending on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the benefit of said Adams, his heirs and legal representatives; and the Commissioner of Patents is hereby directed, upon the presentation of said patents, and the payment of the fees and charges provided by law, to renew, revive, and extend said patents, by making a certificate on each of said patents, or upon certified copies thereof, of such extension, in the name of the said Isaac Adams; and the said Commissioner is hereby patent and recdirected to cause it to be entered on the record in the Patent-Office. ord. And the said patents, so renewed and extended, shall have the same extension. effect in law as if originally granted for terms extending to the end of the term to which they are extended by this act, in the form herein provided: Provided, however, That said renewed and extended patents, respectively, shall be open to legal inquiry and decision, in the same manner as if issued under the general law relating to patents: And provided, further, Persons using That all persons enjoying the lawful use of the improved machines so the presses may patented by the said Isaac Adams in his said patents, and the purchaser continue to use of any machine so in use, or lawfully constructed therefor, may continue to use the same as if this act had not been passed. APPROVED, August 16, 1856.

CHAP. CII.-An Act restoring Joshua Mercer to the Roll of invalid Pensioners. 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 restore the name of Joshua Mercer to the list of invalid pensioners, and pay him at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred fifty-two, during his natural life.

APPROVED, August 16, 1856.

them.

Aug. 16, 1856.

Joshua Mer

cer to be restorroll at $8 per ed to the pension and month for life, from Jan. 1, 1852.

Aug. 16, 1856.

Payment to

W. Drinkwater

in 1815.

CHAP. CIII.-An Act for the Relief of West Drinkwater 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 Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to West and others, or Drinkwater, Kingsbury Duncan, Jonathan Clark, Samuel Duncan, and their heirs, and of $33,213.17, John Duncan, or to such persons as may be legally authorized to receive being proceeds the same, as their heirs or legal representatives, the sum of thirty-three of a capture thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars and seventeen cents, that being made by them the amount paid into the Treasury of the United States, and placed to the account of fines, penalties and forfeitures, in consequence of a suit, The United States versus Sloop "Mary" and cargo, in the district court of Maine, January and April, eighteen hundred and fifteen; the said sloop having been captured by the aforesaid named persons from the British, and delivered to the proper authorities of the United States in the State of Maine; said sum to be paid to the several persons hereinbefore named, or to their heirs or legal representatives, in equal parts. APPROVED, August 16, 1856.

CHAP. CIV.-An Act for the Relief of Amos B. Eaton, a Commissary of Subsistence in Aug. 16, 1856. the United States Army.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Amos B. Eaton States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting to be allowed officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to allow and $1137.79 in his credit to Amos B. Eaton, a commissary of subsistence in the United States army, the sum of eleven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seventynine cents, the amount paid by him to William Sibley, William H. Spen

accounts.

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cer, and A. Hebert, who were clerks in the United States commissary department, for services rendered by them as auctioneers in the sales of certain damaged and surplus subsistence stores at Brazos Island, Texas, and at Monterey, Mexico, in the years eighteen hundred and forty-seven and eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

APPROVED, August 16, 1856.

CHAP. CV.—An Act for the Relief of Betsey Whipple.

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 Betsey Whipple, widow of Stephen Whipple, late a pensioner of the United States, upon the roll of pensioners, and pay to her annually, during her widowhood, the sum of ninety-six dollars, to commence on the twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. APPROVED, August 16, 1856.

CHAP. CVI-An Act for the Relief of Levi C. Harris.

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, instructed to place the name of Levi C. Harris, of the State of Mississippi, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay him a pension at the rate of ninety-six dollars per annum, from the first day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, during his natural life.

APPROVED, August 16, 1856.

Aug. 16, 1856. CHAP. CVII.—An Act for the Relief of Cezaire Wallace, of the Parish of Bossier, and State of Louisiana.

Claim of Ce

zaire Wallace to land in the

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Cezaire Wallace be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his claim to the two tracts of land, each con"Neutral Terri- taining six hundred and forty acres, lying in the State of Louisiana, and tory" Louisiana, within the limits of the late "Neutral Territory," which said claims were confirmed. founded on inhabitation and cultivation, and reported for confirmation by the register and receiver of the southwestern district of Louisiana, in their report, dated November first, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, in conformity to the provisions of the act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, and the act supplementary thereto, approved May twenty-six, eighteen hundred and twenty-four; which said claims are numbered, respectively, "thirty-four" and "fifty-six," and embraced in the "third class" of the said report.

1823, ch. 30. 1824, ch. 182.

Confirmation to operate only as a relinquishment of title.

Location of said claims.

Patents to issue.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the confirmation made by this act shall not be construed to extend further than to a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States; and the claims hereby confirmed shall be located under the direction of the register and receiver of the proper land-office, in conformity with the legal subdivisions of the public surveys, so far as practicable, and shall include the improvements of the claimant.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That upon the location, as herein provided, such register shall forward certificates thereof to the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, who, upon the receipt thereof, shall cause patents to be issued to the said Cezaire Wallace for the lands so located: Provided, The same does not exceed the quantity hereby conIf location in firmed. And if its location as herein confirmed should interfere with any

new location

bona fide preemption claim, or other adverse valid right, the same to the terferes with exextent of such confliction may be located on any public land of the dis- isting rights, a trict to which there may be no existing preemption or other valid claim may be made. under such regulations as may be prescribed by the commissioner of the General Land-Office.

APPROVED, August 16, 1856.

CHAP. CVIII:—An Act to increase the Pension of Alpheus T. Palmer, late a Lieutenant Aug. 16, 1856. in the Ninth Regiment United States Infantry.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Pension of Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Alpheus T. Palmer, late Palmer increasAlpheus T. a lieutenant in the ninth regiment United States infantry, a pension at ed to $30 per the rate of thirty dollars per month, instead of the pension of seventeen month. dollars per month, which he has heretofore received. APPROVED, August 16, 1856.

CHAP. CIX.—An Act granting a Pension to Nathaniel Mothershead, of Missouri.

Aug. 16, 1856.

roll for life at $8

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- Nath. Mothers terior be, and he is hereby directed to place the name of Nathaniel head to be placed Mothershead, of Missouri, upon the roll of invalid pensioners of the on the pension United States, and pay to him a pension at the rate of eight dollars per per month from month, from the first day of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred Jan. 1, 1850. and fifty, during his natural life. APPROVED, August 16, 1856.

CHAP. CX.-An Act for the Relief of Dempsey Pittman.

Aug. 16, 1856.

Settlement of accounts of Dempsey Pitt

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, under the direction of the Secretary of War, are hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the account of Demp- man. sey Pittman against the United States, for his military services in Florida, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and pay him such compensation and allowance as may be found to be justly due him, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, that the amount shall in no case exceed the pay of a colonel of infantry for five months.

APPROVED, August 16, 1856.

CHAP. CXI.—An Act granting a Pension to Samuel B. Porter, a Soldier in the late Aug. 16, 1856.

War with Great Britain.

ter.

Pension of

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 instructed to place the name of Samuel B. Por- Samuel B. Porter on the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, and pay him a pension at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and continue during his natural life: Provided, That if, at any time hereafter, he shall prove to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Pensions that he is total- its increase. ly disabled in consequence of the injury alleged to have been received in the battle of Plattsburg, during the late war with Great Britain, then his pension, by this act granted, shall be increased to eight dollars per month; said increase to date from the completion of the proof of such increased disability.

APPROVED, August 16, 1856.

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