whilst protect 1839. sembled, That Patrick Green, who was wounded on the night P. Green,who of the eighth of July, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, whilst was wounded protecting and defending the mail between Baltimore and Havre ing and defend- de Grace, be, and he is hereby, allowed the sum of one thousand ing the mail, to be paid $1000. dollars; to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3d, 1839. be paid $342 75, cable for CHAP. 220. An ACT for the relief of John Balch, junior. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as J. Balch, jr. to sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, being compensa. authorized to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not other tine chains and wise appropriated, to John Balch, junior, the sum of three hun anchors, dred and forty-two dollars and seventy-five cents, being a com shal for district pensation for two cable chains and two anchors, sold by the a decree of dist. marshal for the district of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts court for said under a decree of the district court of said district, on or about the twenty-eighth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. two sold by the mar of Mass. under district. tion of Sec. War, companies of In diana vice U.S. by Col. Approved, March 3d, 1839. CHAP. 221. An ACT providing for paying three companies of militia, in the State of Indiana, called into the service of the United States. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress a $1578 89 to be sembled, That there be paid, on the requisition of the Secretary paid on requi; of War, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro for paying three priated, one thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and militia, eighty-nine cents, for paying three companies of Indiana militia, called into ser called into the service of the United States, by Colonel Ewing, Ewing, 25th on the twenty-fifth of September, one thousand eight hundred requisition of A. and thirty-six, on the requisition of A. C. Pepper, Indian agent at Logansport, for the protection of certain Indians assembled to receive their annuities, and other persons necessarily employed relative to said annuities; it being for the services of said militia and for necessary expenses incurred by them incident to said service. Approved, March 3d, 1839. Sept. 1836, on C. Pepper, Indian agent. thorized to enter CHAP. 222. An ACT for the relief of William Marcus, of Arkansas. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress W.Marcus au- sembled, That William Marcus be, and he is hereby, authorized certain land at to enter one quarter section of land, by legal subdivisions, of any the price of $1 of the vacant unappropriated and unoccupied public lands in the State of Arkansas, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre in the proper land office. 25 per acre. Approved, March 3d, 1839. 1839. authorized to enter certain office at Mineral the minimum same. CHAP. 223. An ACT for the relief of John Dougherty, of Wisconsin. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repreentatives of the United States of America in Congress assemled, That John Dougherty of the Territory of Wisconsin, be, J. Dougherty nd is hereby, authorized to enter at the land office at Mineral 'oint, in the Territory aforesaid, by paying the minimum price land, a land or the same, section number twelve, of township number two, Point, by paying 1 range number three east, in the district of land subject to sale at price of the Mineral Point; the said section being the same that was granted > his wife Mary, the daughter of Kee-no-kee, by stipulations mbraced in the treaty entered into by and between the United States and the Winnebago tribe of Indians, at Prairie du Chien, August first, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine. Provided, That Proviso. he certificate of the said John Dougherty, and the patent to be ssued thereon, shall recite the provisions of this act, as the auhority, by virtue of which his said entries have been made, and also how that such entries were made in right of his wife; and if the aid John Dougherty shall abandon, or in any other manner sepaate from his said wife Mary, during her lifetime, then all the right, itle, and interest in and to said section, and every part thereof, hall vest in said Mary, and inure to the sole benefit of herself ind her children. Approved, March 3d, 1839. CHAP. 224. An ACT for the relief of William Traverse. to be paid $228, [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 William Traverse, w. Traverse out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for ten head of two hundred and twenty-eight dollars, for ten head of cattle killed, cattle killed for the property of said Traverse, in the month of February or March, of a battalion of eighteen hundred and thirty-six, by order of Major Mark A. teers in service Cooper, or with his knowledge and approbation, for the subsist- U. s. ence of a battalion of Georgia volunteers under his command, in the service of the United States, then deficient in provisions, near the Saint John's, in the Territory of Florida. Approved, March 3d, 1839. Georgia volun CHAP. 225. An ACT for the relief of Andrew Rembert. be allowed his [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem bled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury allow A. Rembert to to Andrew Rembert his pay and emoluments as first sergeant of pay and emoluCaptain Brodnax's company of mounted volunteers, engaged in ments as Ist ser the late Creek war, from the twenty-sixth day of April to the Brodnax's comseventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in volunteers, from the same manner as if his name had remained on the pay-roll of said company as first sergeant during that interval; and that the geant of Captain pany of mounted 26th April to 17th June 1837. 1839. same be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3d, 1839. cause a new jail CHAP. 226. An ACT to provide for the erection of a new jail in the city of Wask ington, District of Columbia. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assem President to bled, That the President of the United States be, and he s to be erected for hereby, authorized and required to cause a new jail to be erecte. D. C. on such for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, or site as he may such site as he may select; and that, for the purpose of carrying $31,000 appro- this act into effect, the sum of thirty-one thousand dollars be, and select. priated. Proviso. is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury n otherwise appropriated: Provided always, That the said jai shall be built by contract, under the superintendence of the archtect of public buildings, and that the cost shall in no event exceed the said sum of thirty-one thousand dollars. Approved, March 3d, 1839. phen) La Lande land. CHAP. 227. An ACT for the relief of Etienne (Stephen) La Lande, of Alabama [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress ar Etienne (Ste- sembled, That Etienne (Stephen) La Lande, of Alabama, be, and confirmed in his he hereby is, confirmed in his title to eight hundred arpens title to certain land, (on which he now resides,) situate in the county of Mobie, and State of Alabama, on the west side of Dog river, having twenty arpens in front on said river, with forty arpens in depth: Patent to be and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby re quired to issue a patent to the said Etienne (Stephen) La Land for the said tract of land: Provided, however, That this conf mation shall amount only to a relinquishment on the part of the United States of all their right and title to the said land, and shal not interfere with, or extinguish, any elder or better right, if any there be, to the same. Approved, March 3d, 1839. issued. Proviso. his legal repre CHAP. 228. An ACT for the relief of Robert M. Roberts or his legal assignees. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repr sentatives of the United States of America in Congress #> R.M. Roberts, sembled, That Robert M. Roberts, his legal representatives of sentatives or as- assignees, are hereby authorized to purchase of the Register and ized to purchase receiver of the land office at Monroe, in the State of Louisiana of the register in the district for the sale of lands north of Red river, lot number Monroe, certain sixteen, in township number twenty-two north, range number land, at $125 per twelve east, in said district, containing one hundred and fifty-six and twenty-seven hundredths acres, at the rate of one dollar and signees, author and receiver at acre. 1839. ficate for the upon what con twenty-five cents per acre; and upon the production of the receipt of the aforesaid receiver for the money, together with the Said register assent in writing of the school commissioners of the parish of to issue a certiCarroll, in said State, and of a majority of the white male inha- land aforesaid, bitants of the township over twenty-one years of age to the ditions. making of said purchase and filing the same in the office of the Production of register, that officer shall issue a certificate for the same; upon at General Land the production of which at the General Land Office the said R.M. Roberts, or Robert M. Roberts, or his legal assignees, shall be entitled to re-signees, to a paceive a patent for said land in the same manner as if purchased under the pre-emption laws. said certificate Office to entitle his legal as tent. receiver aforesaid, under di Gen.Land Office SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid register Register and and receiver, under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, shall select and set apart an equal quantity rection of Com. of land of equal value, in the same township, if the same can be to select and set found, if not, in some other place in said land district, for the for the use of use of schools in the aforesaid township. Approved, March 3d, 1839. apart other land schools. CHAP. 229. An ACT to extend the jurisdiction of the corporation of the city of [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the bounds of the county of Washington, and of the Bounda of Washington corporation of the city of Washington, be, and the same are here- county and corby, extended so far as to comprehend the cause way and bridge Ington city, exporation Washlately constructed from the said city across the river Potomac, to tended over the the opposite shore: and the said corporation are hereby empow- Said corporaered to adopt and enforce such rules and regulations as they may to adopt and endeem necessary for the safety and security of property and of the force rules and persons passing the said causeway and bridge. Approved, March 3d, 1839. Potomac bridge. tion empowered regulations, CHAP. 230. An ACT for the relief of Charles Rockwell. performed the lain on board the 18th Oct. to 30th [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem- Rev'd. Chas. bled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, under Rockwell, who the superintendence of the Secretary of the Navy, be, and they duties of chapare hereby, required to allow to the Reverend Charles Rockwell, Potomac, from who performed the duties of chaplain on board the United States Nov. 1834, and frigate Potomac, from the eighteenth day of October to the thir- from 7th April tieth of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and from March 1837, to the seventh of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to the ninth same pay as a of March eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, the same pay to regular chaplain which a regular chaplain in the navy would be entitled therefor, would be enti deducting from the first named period one ration per diem, and deducting, &c. 1836, to 9th be allowed the in the navy tled to therefor, 1839. from the last period the full amount which has been paid Lim for his services during the time as captain's clerk. Approved, March 3d, 1839. pay to J. Jones $108 15, and to CHAP. 231. An ACT for the relief of John Jones and Charles Souder and Robison Carr and Company. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repr sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assem Sec. Treas. to bled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any mone and C. Souder not otherwise appropriated, to John Jones and Charles Soude R. Carr & Co. one hundred and eight dollars fifteen cents, and to Robinson Car $119 20, for ex- and Company one hundred and nineteen dollars twenty cents loading stone at for expenses incurred by them, respectively, in unloading stone Peapatch Island. at Peapatch Island, which was to have been incurred by the United States. Approved, March 3d, 1839. penses in un General author son and Wil CHAP. 232. An ACT for the relief of Jamison and Williamson. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assemPostmaster bled, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized to settle the ized to settle the account of Jamison and Williamson, and pay account of Jami-them such sum, out of the funds of the Post Office Department liamson, and as in equity and justice they ought to receive for the increased sum as in equity quantity of mail matter thrown upon their mail route in conse ought to receive. quence of hostilities with the Creek Indians; and the sum so as certained to be due is hereby appropriated for the object afore said. Approved, March 3d, 1889. pay them such and justice they Limitation sec. act 20th years, for the presentment of it may operate CHAP. 233. An ACT for the relief of the widow or legal representatives of Jatt Tilden. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repr sentatives of the United States of America in Congress ar sembled, That the limitation contained in the third section of the contained in 3d act entitled "An act respecting the late officers and crew of the April 1816, of 2 sloop of war Wasp," approved April twentieth, eighteen hun dred and sixteen, of two years, for the presentment of claims claims, so far as under and in virtue thereof, so far forth as the same may relate upon the widow to, or operate upon, the widow or representatives of John Tilden, tives of J. Til- Or of the crew of said sloop of war Wasp, be, and the same hereof the Wasp, by is, suspended, and extended for the term of two years from suspended and and after the passage of this act; and within that time the claim of said widow or representatives of said John Tilden, by virtue of said act, may be presented, and in all respects proceeded with as though no such limitation had been passed; and the sum which may thereupon be allowed, shall be paid out of the navy pension fund. Approved, March 3d, 1839. or representa den, or the crew extended for 2 years. |