1838.

by the British about the first of August eighteen hundred and fourteen, which house was in the military occupation of the United States at the time of its destruction, and destroyed in consequence of such occupation.

Approved, March 19th, 1838.

for wagon, horse,

harness lost in

CHAP. 36. An ACT for the relief of James Baker.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as

Sec. Treas. to sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to James pay J. Baker $200 Baker, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, two hunand two sets of dred dollars, the appraised value of a wagon and a horse and the military sor-two sets of harness, taken into the military service of the United States in the Black Hawk war, and lost or destroyed in said service, without any fault on the part of the owner. Approved, March 19th, 1838.

Vice U. S.

pay J. Davis $245

CHAP. 37. An ACT for the relief of Jonathan Davis.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asSec. Treas. to sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any for three horses money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Jonaand a cow, taken than Davis, two hundred and forty-five dollars, in full compention of an officer sation for three horses and one cow, the property of said Davis, taken near Fort Erie, in August, eighteen hundred and thirteen, by direction of an officer of the United States troops, for the benefit of the friendly Indians.

in 1813 by direc

of the U. S.

troops.

Approved, March 19th, 1838.

and J. Graham

CHAP. 38. An ACT for the relief of Robert Peebles and John Graham.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asSec. Treas to sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay Robert Peebles pay R. Peebles and John Graham out of any money not otherwise appro1010. 57 deduct-priated, one thousand and ten dollars and fifty-seven cents, Cue them as army which sum was incorrectly debited on their account, and deducted from money due to them as army contractors, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. Approved, March 19th, 1838.

ed from money

Contractors in

1535.

CHAP. 39. An ACT for the relief of Philip Riviere and his legal representatives. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as

1838.

title of Philip Ri

cal representa

firmed.

sembled, That the claim and title of Philip Riviere and his legal representatives to a tract of land containing about four hun- The claim and dred and fifty arpens, French measure, situated in the county viere and his leof St. Louis, State of Missouri, formerly granted to said Philip tives to a certain Riviere and his heirs, by the Spanish Government, by conces- tract of land consion, bearing date the fourteenth of October, eighteen hundred, and located and surveyed by virtue of and under said concession, on the thirtieth of November, eighteen hundred, as appears by said survey, duly recorded in the office of the Surveyor General at St. Louis, in the "Register d'Arpentage A," page thirty-nine, be, and are hereby, confirmed to said Philip Riviere and his legal Representatives: Provided, That this confirma- Proviso. tion does not interfere with any right or title arising under any grant, concession, or survey, made by the authority of the former Spanish or French Governments in Upper Louisiana, and heretofore confirmed by Congress, or with any right or title to said land, or any part thereof, acquired by any indivi- . dual or individuals by entry and purchase, in the land office of the United States, or which the United States may have acquired by purchase under any sale held in pursuance of any order of court, or decree of chancery; and that a re-survey be made of the land hereby confirmed, subject to the above proviso, under the order and direction of the Surveyor General of the United States, at St. Louis, and at the expense of the said Philip Riviere, or his legal representatives.

Approved, March 28th, 1838.

CHAP. 40. An ACT for the relief of Hannah Budlong.

pay H. Budlong

her husband who

[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 pay to Hannah Sec. Treas. to Budlong, formerly the widow of Elias Hyde, out of any money formerly the winot otherwise appropriated, two hundred and forty dollars, dow of E Hyde, being the amount of half pay for a militiaman or volunteer in years half pay for the military service of the United States for five years; Elias was killed in the Hyde, then the husband of said Hannah, having voluntarily U. S. in 1813. joined a company of riflemen in the military service of the United States, on the twenty-second of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for the defence of Ogdensburg, and having been shot by the enemy when in the performance of his duty, of which he died on the 17th of March thereafter. Approved March 28th, 1838.

military service

CHAP. 41. An ACT for the relief of Samuel Sanderson.

[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 pay to Samuel

$3025 for taking

1838. Sanderson, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the Sec. Treas. to sum of three thousand and twenty-five dollars, in full compenpay S. Sanderson sation for all the costs, services, and charges of taking one Some Africans hundred and twenty-one Africans from the Spanish brig Guerrero, on the Florida reef, and delivering them to the collector at Key West, in the month of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

from the Spanish orig Guerrero,

&c. in December 1827.

Approved, March 28th, 1838.

Sec. Treas. to

for a mare lost in

CHAP. 42. An ACT for the relief of Daniel Davis.

[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 pay to Daniel pay D. Davis $55 Davis, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, fifty-five the military ser dollars, the value of a mare he lost when in the military service of the United States, by reason of his being dismounted and ⚫ separated from her, by order of his commanding company Approved, March 28th, 1838.

vice U. S.

officer.

pay J. J. Pattison

CHAP. 43. An ACT for the relief of James J. Pattison.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asSec. Treas. to sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any 84300 for proper money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James J. ty destroyed by Pattison, the sum of four thousand two hundred dollars, for his house and property on the Patuxent, in Calvert county, Maryland, destroyed by the British troops in June one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

the British in

June 1814.

Approved, March 28th, 1838.

56 for moneys

CHAP. 44. An ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas W. Bacot, late of Charleston, South Carolina, deceased.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asSec. Treas, to sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay out of any pay the legal re- money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of T. W. Bacot $596. five hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty-six cents, to the pended in erect-legal representatives of Thomas W. Bacot, late of Charleston, ing a post office South Carolina, deceased, in full compensation for moneys paid house at Charles- and expended by said deceased, in erecting and completing a post office in the custom-house in said city of Charleston; said custom-house and post office being the property of the United States, Approved, March 28th, 1838.

in the custom

ton.

1838.

Certain lots of

Bass deceased

tented to the

representatives

CHAP. 45. An ACT for the relief of the heirs of Joseph Nibert, deceased. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That certain lots of land, numbered nineteen, twenty, Cold and and twenty-one, in township number twenty, range number paid for by J. thirteen east, containing four hundred and eighty-eight acres are hereby authoand sixty hundredths, in the district north of Red river, in the rized to be paState of Louisiana, which has been heretofore sold, and paid heirs and legal for by Job Bass, deceased, be, and the same is hereby, autho- of J. Nibert derized to be patented to the heirs and legal representatives of of said J. Bass, Joseph Nibert, deceased, assignee of said Job Bass, in the same manner as other lands granted to purchasers from the United States, upon condition that the Secretary of the Treasury shall first cause to be surveyed in said district, for the use and benefit of schools in said township, lands equal in value to the above described tracts of land sold to the said Job Bass, deceased. Approved, March 28th, 1838.

ceased, assignee

&c.

CHAP. 46. An ACT to restore circuit jurisdiction to the district courts of the western district of Virginia.

SPC. act 3d.

peals all acts

court jurisdiction

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the third section of the act entitled "An So much of 3d. act supplementary to the act entitled 'An act to amend the ju- March 1837 as redicial system of the United States,"" approved March third, conferring circuit eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, as repeals all former acts, or on certain disparts of acts, conferring circuit court jurisdiction on certain dis- trict courts, retrict courts therein named, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, relates to the so far as relates to the courts of the western district of Virginia; western district and that the district courts of said district exercise the same jurisof Virginia. diction with which it was invested previous to the passage of said act.

pealed so far as

courts of the

ferred from said

isburg removed

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all causes trans- All causes transferred by authority of said act from the said district courts to dist. courts to cirthe circuit court, directed by law to be held in the town of Lew-cuit court at Lewisburg, in the State of Virginia, and which remain undetermined, back, &c. be removed back to the district courts from whence they were transferred, to be there finally determined.

risdiction from

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That appellate jurisdic- Appellate jution from the judgments or decrees of the said district courts of said dist. courts the western district of Virginia, as now authorized by law, to be exercised shall be exercised by the said circuit court at Lewisburg.

Approved, March 28th, 1838.

by circuit court at Lewisburg.

1838.

correct any mis

have occurred in

the first four in

ney awarded to

com'rs. under the

ly 1831.

CHAP. 47. An ACT to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to correct a mistake in relation to the payment of money into the Treasury awarded to Fortesque Whittle, surviving partner of the firm of Conway and Fortesque Whittle, under the late treaty of Indemnity with France.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asSec. Treas. to semled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby take which may authorized and directed to correct any mistake which may have the payment into occurred in the payment into the Treasury, to the credit of the the Treasury of United States of the first, second, third and fourth instalments stalments of mo of money due to Fortesque Whittle, surviving partner of ConF. Whittle by the way and Fortesque Whittle, by the award of the commissioners convention with appointed to carry into effect the convention with France of the France of 4th Ju- fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the said instalments having been considered as the private property of the said Fortesque Whittle, and paid into the Treasury to satisfy debts due from the said Fortesque Whittle individually to the United States, whereas the said moneys were the property of the late firm of Conway and Fortesque Whittle, and as such were first liable for the payment of the debts of the said firm: And the said Secretary is hereby authorized to pay out of the Treasury to the person or persons, legally entitled to receive the same, the sum of eleven thousand four hundred and the Treasury and fourteen dollars and fifteen cents, that being the amount so received upon the said instalments and mistakenly paid into the Treasury; and in case the said amount, or any part thereof has been credited upon the books of the Department, to be endorsed or otherwise applied upon, the bonds of the said Fortesque Whittle, due to the United States, then the said Secretary is hereby further authorized and directed to recharge the said amount to the said Fortesque Whittle, or otherwise to cancel the credit given to him for such credit given to him for such payment. Approved, April 4th, 1838.

Sec. Treas. to

repay the amount of said instalments mista

kenly paid into

if credit has been given for the

amount to re

charge the same or cancel the credit.

M. Cassel au

thorized to sur.

render the certificate issued to him from the

land office at La

porte for certain land entered

CHAP. 48. An ACT for the relief of Michael Cassel.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Michael Cassel, of Laporte county, in the State of Indiana, be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender the certificate issued to him from the land office at Laporte, in said State, for lots numbered one and two, or the east part of section thirty-five, township thirty-seven north, of range one west, through mistake, which was entered by him through mistake; and, on filing his his relinquish relinquishment to all right and title thereto, the said Michael and title thereto, Cassel is hereby authorized to enter in said land office at Laporte an equal quantity of any of the public land remaining unoccupied and subject to private entry in the Laporte land district, with that for which he has paid and shall relinquish, and

and upon filing

ment to all right

to enter certain other land.

be entitled to a certificate for the same.

Approved, April 4th, 1838.