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CHAP. 244. An ACT granting a pension to Daniel H. Crockett.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asD. H. Crocket sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, au to be paid a penof 86 a thorized and directed to place the name of Daniel H. Crockett, of Oxford county, in the State of Maine, upon the list of invalid pensioners; and that there shall be paid him, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, at the rate of six dollars per month; to commence on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and to continue during his natural life. Approved, July 7th, 1838.

paid a pension

CHAP. 245. An ACT granting a pension to Thomas Frazer.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as T. Frazer to be sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, di of 82,66 a month. rected to place the name of Thomas Frazer, of the county of Oxford, State of Maine, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay to him the sum of two dollars and sixty-six cents per month, during his natural life. commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

Approved, July 7th, 1838.

to be paid a pen

CHAP. 246. An ACT granting a pension to James M. Edwards.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as M. Edwards sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, resion of 86 aquired to place the name of James M. Edwards, of Henderson county, Kentucky, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of six dollars per month, during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. Approved, July 7th, 1838.

month.

paid the pension

ral is entitled, under act 7th

CHAP. 247. An ACT granting a pension to James Sayre.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress J. Sayre to be sembled, That the Secretary of War place the name of James to which a corpo- Sayre, of Southampton, in the State of New York, on the rol of revolutionary pensioners, under the act of the seventh of June, June, 1832, for six eighteen hundred and thirty-two; and that he pay to him the pension to which a corporal is entitled under the said act for six months service in the war of the Revolution; such pension to commence from the fourth day of March, in the year one thou sand eight hundred and thirty-one.

months service.

1

Approved, July 7th, 1838.

CHAP. 248. An ACT granting a pension to Benjamin Durfee.

1838.

paid a pension

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as=sembled, That the Secretary of War be required to place the B. Durfee to be name of Benjamin Durfee, of Fall River, Massachusetts, on the org30 a year. roll of revolutionary pensioners; and pay him the sum of thirty dollars per annum during life; to commence and take effect from the day upon which his former pension was suspended: the same to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 7th, 1838.

CHAP. 249. An ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Timothy Feely, deceased, late a lieutenant in the army of the Revolution.

[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 be, and they are hereby, required to adjust and settle the account of Timothy Feely, late a lieutenant of the Virginia continental line of the army of the Revolution, and, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to his legal representatives the amount of five years' full pay of a lieutenant of infantry. Approved, July 7th, 1838

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CHAP. 250 An ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Williams,

deceased.

resentatives

of

[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 The legal rep be, and they are hereby, required to adjust and settle the ac- Danl. Williams, counts of Captain Daniel Williams, late of the North Carolina five years' full line on continental establishment, and allow his legal representa- pay as a captain tives five years' full pay as a captain of infantry, being the commutation of half pay for life promised by the resolutions of Congress, and that the same be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, July 7th, 1838.

of infantry.

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CHAP. 251. An ACT for the relief of the heirs of William B. Bunting.

of lieut. of

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- The amount of sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as- seven years' half sembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, Pantry, to be out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, paid to such per pay the full amount of seven years' half pay of a lieutenant of may be entitled infantry in the army of the Revolution, to such person or per-account of the sons as may be entitled to the same under the resolution of Con- Bunting.

son or persons as

to receive it, on

services of W.B.

1838.

gress of the twenty-fourth of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, on account of the services of William B. Bunting, late a lieutenant in the army of the Revolution, and who died while in the service.

Approved, July 7th, 1838.

resentatives of

CHAP. 252. An ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Sawney York, deceased.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as The legal rep sembled, That the Secretary of War pay to the legal representa S. York to be tives of Sawney York, late a pensioner of the United States, Que him at the now deceased, the sum of one hundred and eighty-four dollars, time of his death. being the amount due the said York at the time of his death, at the rate of eight dollars per month.

paid the amount

Approved, July 7th, 1838.

seven years' half

infantry, to be

CHAP. 253. An ACT to authorize the payment of the seven years' half pay due on account of the Revolutionary services of Thomas H. Boyles, deceased. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as The amount of sembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, pay of a major of out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, paid to such per pay the full amount of seven years' half pay of a major of son or persons as infantry in the army of the Revolution, to such person or per to receive it, on sons as may be entitled to the same, under the resolution of services of T. H. Congress of the twenty-fourth of August, seventeen hundred Boyles. and eighty, on account of the services of Thomas H. Boyles, late a major in the army of the Revolution," who died in the service. Approved, July 7th, 1838.

may be entitled

account of the

paid $8 a month

CHAP. 254. An ACT for the relief of Henry Challer.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as H. Challer to be sembled, That the Secretary of War be required to place the in addition to the name of Henry Challer, of New York, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and pay him at the rate of eight dollars per month; to commence from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight in addition to the pension now received by the said Challer.

pension he now receives..

Approved, July 7th, 1838.

CHAP. 255. An ACT to authorize Charles Day, James R. Butts, William W. Fry, George Whitman, Laurent Millandon, and Gassaway B. Lamar to import free of duties iron steamboats suited to the navigation of rivers.

1838.

Butts, authorized

duty, the mate

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Charles Day, William W. Frye, George Whit-C. Day, W. W. Frye, G. Whitman of the State of Alabama, Laurent Millandon of New man, L. MillanOrleans, James R. Butts be, and each of them are hereby, autho-don, and J. R. rized to import, free of duty, the materials ready prepared for to import free of an iron boat, to be employed as a steamboat, with the tools and rials ready prepared for an iron implements necessary to construct and put together the same, steamboat, &c. and to make them complete, so far as any tools or implements peculiar to this service or the navigation and repair of such boats are necessary; but this act shall not be so construed as to authorize the importation of steam engines.

Steam engines

not included.

free of duty, iron

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Gassaway B. Lamar, G. B. Lamar alof Savannah, in the State of Georgia, be allowed to import free lowed to import of duty, iron materials for the construction of two iron steam-materials for two boats: Provided, That the said iron shall be imported within Proviso. one year from the passage of this act.

iron steamboats.

iron imported by

boat Company of

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the duty for the The duty for payment of which, bonds have been given by the Iron Steam- the Iron Steamboat Company of Georgia, on iron imported by said company Georgia, remit for the construction of an iron steamboat be and the same is hereby remitted, but this act shall not be so construed as to ex-Act not extendtend to steam engines, whole or in part.

Approved, July 7th, 1838.

ted.

ed to steam en

gines.

CHAP. 256. AN ACT to refund certain duties upon railroad iron, paid by the
New York and Harlaem Railroad Company.

to the President of the New York

amount of duties

ported on the

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is Sec'y Treasury hereby, directed to pay to the president of the New York and directed to pay Harlaem Railroad Company, for the use of the said company, and Harlaem railout of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, road company the the sum of nine hundred and five dollars and sixty-three cents, paid on certain that being the sum paid by the said company, to the collector of railroad iron imthe port of New York, as the duty upon six hundred and ninety-13th August, 1833. two bars or rails of iron, imported by them for the use of their railroad, on the thirteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and, in consequence of unforseen and unanticipated obstacles to the construction of the said road, not actually laid down thereupon until after the thirteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, so as to entitle them to an exemption from duty under the act of the fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

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1838.

to extend to the

Susquehanna

of act 14th

importations of

rails, made since

the

act 1st July, 1836.

CHAP. 257. An ACT to remit or refund duties to the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Company, upon certain importations of iron made by them for the use of their railroad.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asSec'y Treasury sembled, That it shall be, and is hereby made, the duty of the Baltimore and Secretary of the Treasury to extend to the Baltimore and SusRailroad Compa- quehanna Railroad Company all the benefits of the act of the my all the bene fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyJuly, 1832, as to two, entitled "An act to release from duty iron prepared for and fastenings for actually laid on railways and inclined planes," as to any impassage of portations of fastenings for the rails upon the road of the said company, made since the passage of the a t of the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, explanatory of the act last above mentioned: Provided, That the said company shall first prove, to the satisfaction of the said Secretary, that the orders for the importation of the said iron, so imported for fastenings, were given prior to the passage of the said act of the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, that the same had been sent out of the country before the passage of the said act; that they could not be countermanded without detriment and loss to the said company; and that the said company shall further comply with all the provisions, requisitions, and conditions of the said act of the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

Proviso.

Approved, July 7th, 1838.

Sec. Treas. to

Frenchtown

Railroad Com

of duties paid on

spikes, clamps, bolis, &c.

CHAP. 258. An ACT to refund to the New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Railroad Company certain duties paid by them upon iron imported for the construction of their railroad.

Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, refund to the That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, di New Castle and rected to refund to the New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike Turnpike and and Railroad Company the duties paid by them to the collector of pany, the amount the customs for the port of Wilmington, in the State of Delaware, two certain im- upon two several importations of spikes, clamps, and bolts, or portations other fastenings for the rails upon the railroad of the said company, the one made on the twelfth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in the ship Kutuzoff, and the other on the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the ship Isaac Hicks, the duties to be refunded amounting, upon both importations, to the sum of two thousand and three dollars and eighty-three cents: Provided, That the said company shall first prove to the satisfaction of the said Secretary, that the said duties were properly chargeable to and paid by the said company, and were not covered by their contract with their agents, A. and G. Ralston and Company, for the purchase and importation of the said iron; that the amount of money above named was paid upon spikes, clamps, and bets,

Proviso.

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