imbursed from SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of 1936. War shall cause the Treasury of the United States to be reim- Treasury to be rebursed said sum of money, by ordering the person whose duty it annuity to be. may be to pay the annuity due or to become due, to the Choctaw come due to them. Indians, to retain and deduct the same out of said annuity. Approved, July 2d, 1836. CHAP. 307. An ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Joseph seven years' had tai. d. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers ascertain what will be the The amount of amount of seven years' half pay due to the children of the said pay be ascer Colonel John Hazlet, deceased. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That said accounting Pachts to be officers do pay whatever sum may be so found to be due to the made to them. legal representatives of Joseph Hazlet and of Jemima Monro, the two surviving children of the said Colonel John Hazlet, deceased, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 2d, 1836. CHAP. 303. An ACT for the relief of John Cummins. paid to him. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby, $100 20 to be redirected to repay to John Cummins, his heirs or legal representatives, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred dollars and twenty cents, the same being the amount paid by him on the seventeenth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, for the entry of the west half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-one, township nine, of range ten, in the district of lands subject to sale at Zanesville, in Ohio, which entry was adjudged void, and the same kaif quarter granted to one William C. Bay. Approved, July 2d, 1836. CHAP. 300. An ACT for the relief of Isaac Means and others, late owners of the schooner Elizabeth. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper officers of the Treasury pay to the said Means 87021 to be paid and others, late owners of the schooner Elizabeth, which was to thum condemned and sold by a decree of the district court for the district of Massachusetts, at a term thereof held at Boston in 1836. September, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of three hundred dollars and twenty-one cents, being that portion of the avails of the sale which was paid into the Treasury of the United States; it appearing that the condemnation of said vessel was without fault on the part of said owners. Approved, July 2d, 1836. to the representatives of II. R. CHAP. 310. An ACT for he relief of the legal representatives of Henry [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, $233 80 to be paid That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the legal representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased, out of the navy pension fund, the sum of two hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty cents, it being the amount due to the said representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased, a marine on board the United States sloop of war Wasp, under the act of Congress of the sixth of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, and passed to the navy pension fund in consequence of not being claimed. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums of money heretofore appropriated and carried to the surplus fund be, and the same are hereby, directed to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; to wit: To Lieutenant John Rudd, for his proportion of prize money in virtue of the act entitled "An act for the relief of Thomas Holdup Stevens, and others," approved the fourteenth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, forty dollars: To the legal representatives of Samuel Stout, deceased, for his proportion of prize money in virtue of the act entitled "An act providing for the distribution of one hundred. thousand dollars among the captors of the Algerine vessels captured and restored to the Dey of Algiers," approved twenty-seventh April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, twenty dollars and eighty-five Approved, July 2d, 1836. cents. A judgment a opened. CHAP. 311. An ACT for the relief of Seaborn Jones and Joel Crawford. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, at the next term of the district court of the United States gainst them to be for the district of Georgia, Seaborn Jones and Joel Crawford be permitted to open a judgment lately obtained against them in said court as the securities of Thomas F. Green, late postmaster at Milledgeville, Georgia, at the suit of the Postmaster General of the United States. And that the said Seaborn Jones and Joel Crawford be permitted to make the same defence to said suit that they might or could have made had said judgment not 1836. have been rendered. Approved, July 2d, 1836. CHAP. 312. An ACT for the relief of Don Carlos Dehault Delassus. tain sum to be [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to Don Carlos Dehault Delassus, out of any Interest on a ormoney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, interest at allowed to him the rate of six per centum per annum on the sum of one thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars, that being the amount allowed him under the act of the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for his relief, on account of moneys taken from him at the capture of Baton Rouge, in Louisiana, on the twenty-third day of September, eighteen hundred and ten; the said interest to be allowed from the said twentythird day of September, eighteen hundred and ten, to the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two. Approved, July 2d, 1836. CHAP. 313. An ACT for the relief of the trustees of common schools in township eight, range eleven east, in the State of Mississippi. cate 640 cre; of [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Authorized to le That the trustees of common schools in township eight, range land. eleven east, in the State of Mississippi, be authorized to locate, for the use of schools in said township, one section of six hundred and forty acres of land, by sectional lines, of any of the public lands in the State of Mississippi, subject to entry at private sale. Approved, July 2d, 1836. CHAP. 314. An ACT to confirm the title of the heirs of M. de la Carera to a tract of land. Grant of 798 arpens of land com [SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a gratuitous grant of seven hundred and ninety-eight arpens of land, situated on the Escambia river, in West Florida, firmed. made by the Intendant, General Morales, on the fifth of May, one thousand eight hundred and nine, to Milan de la Carera, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed to the heirs or legal representatives of said Carera: Provided, That this confirmation shall only operate as a relinquishment of the title of the United States. Approved, July 2d, 1836. 1836. $120, overpaid by ed to him. CHAP. 315. An ACT for the relief of John La Tourette. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Represen him, to be refund tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay John La Tourette, out of any money in the Treasury, one hundred and twenty dollars, which sum was overpaid by said La Tourette on the purchase of a tract of land in the State of Indiana, being the northwest quarter of section. twenty-nine, township thirteen, range twelve east. Approved, July 2d, 1836. ted to him. CHAP. 316. An ACT for the relief David McCord. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, $7,300 to be cred:- That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be author ized and required to credit the accounts of David McCord. late receiver of public money for the Cahaba land district, in the State of Alabama, with the sum of seven thousand three hundred dollars, which was lost by the burning of the steam-boat Florida, while in the possession of Alexander Pope, who was taking it to Mobile, to be deposited in the Branch Bank of the United States, according to directions given him by the Secretary of the Trea Approved, July 2d, 1836. of tobacco captu dited to him. sury. CHAP. 317. An ACT for the relief of Charles I. Catlett. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department Amount of lese be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle, upon red, &c. to be cre the principles of the acts of Congress of the ninth April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, and third of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, the claim of Charles I. Catlett for tobacco which belonged to him at Magruder's warehouse, Cedarpoint warehouse, and Nottingham warehouse, all in the State of Maryland; and was lost, captured, or destroyed, by the British or American troops during the last war between the United States and Great Britain; which said allowance shall be carried to the credit of the said Charles I. Catlett on the books of the Treasury. Approved, July 2d, 1836. CHAP. 318. An ACT for the relief Martin Prindle. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, $125, Se pa That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to Martin Prindle, out of any moneys in the Treasury not to blen otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, being the value of a horse and sleigh lost while in the service of the United States. Approved, July 2d, 1836. 1836. CHAP. 319. An ACT for the relief of the legal representative of the late T. W. M. 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 Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, author- The accounts of ized to settle the accounts of the late Theodore W. Maurice, settled. upon the principles of equity and justice; and that any balance which may be found due, be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 2d, 1836. CHAP. 320. An ACT for the relief of Henry Wainwright. over re [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be refunded to Henry Wainwright, of Boston, out of $1,328 58 paid on imported any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum lead to be funded. of thirteen hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-eight cents, being the amount of an over payment made by him, on the importation of certain quantities of lead, in March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. Approved, July 2d, 1836. CHAP. 321. In addition to the act for the relief of the legal representatives of ble on settlement [SEC. 1.] 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 ascertain the The amount paya amount that would have been payable on four final settlement certificates to be certificates, issued on the twelfth day of March, one thousand ascertained, and seven hundred and eighty-four, in the name of George Hurlbut, be paid. and afterwards recalled and cancelled, namely: Number thirty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-six, for one thousand dollars; Number thirty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-seven, for one thousand dollars; Number thirty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-eight, for nine hundred and fifty dollars; Number thirty-five thousand three hundred and thirty-nine, for fifty dollars; (making together three thousand dollars,) if the said certificates had not been recalled and cancelled, but had been subscribed to balance, if any to |