March 2, 1857. [No. 11.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of Israel B. Bigelow. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a pension of fifteen Israel B. Bige- dollars per month during his natural life, be allowed to Israel B. Bigelow, low to have a of Texas, to commence from the fourteenth day of January, eighteen hunpension of $15 per month from dred and forty-seven, the day on which he was severely wounded and Jan. 14, 1847, for disabled by the enemy, while bearing important despatches from MajorGeneral Patterson to General Quitman, during the march of the division of volunteers from Victoria to Tampico, in Mexico. APPROVED, March 2, 1857. life. March 3, 1857. [No. 19.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of W. W. Wimmer, late Postmaster of West Zanesville, Ohio. Payment to William W. service. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General be and hereby is authorized to allow and pay to William W. Wimmer, Esq., late postmaster at West Zanesville, Ohio, for service performed by Wimmer for mail him as special mail messenger to transport the mail between his said postoffice and the cars of the Central Ohio Railroad Company, from May, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and November, eighteen hundred and fifty-six inclusive, such rate of compensation as he may consider just and reasonable: Provided, The same shall not exceed in the aggregate, the sum of one hundred dollars. APPROVED, March 3, 1857 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. Passed at the first session, which was begun and holden at the City of JAMES BUCHANAN, President. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, Vice-President, and President of the Senate. BENJAMIN FITZPATRICK was appointed President of the Senate, pro tempore, March 29, 1858, and so acted until May 4, 1858. JAMES L. ORR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. II.—An Act to authorize the issuing of a Register to the Barque Jehu. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be issued, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register to the barque Jehu, a Dominican vessel, lately called the "Naiad Queen," which vessel was sold to Daniel Draper and Son, of Boston, to pay for expenses and repairs incurred on her in the United States. APPROVED, January 23, 1858. January 23, 1858. Register to barque Jehu, late the Naiad Queen. CHAP. VII.—An Act to amend “ An Act for the Relief of Whitemarsh B. Seabrook and February 27, others." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act for the relief of Whitemarsh B. Seabrook and others," approved the second day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, be so amended as that the payments therein authorized to be made to "the heirs of those deceased," shall be made to the administrators and executors of those deceased. APPROVED, February 27, 1858. CHAP. X.-An Act for the Relief of John Hamilton. 1858. 1857, ch. 65. Ante, p. 501. Payments to be made to administrators, &c. March 16, 1858. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the $200 and interTreasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay out of any money in the est to be paid treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred dollars with John Hamilton. interest from the first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, to John Hamilton, of Champaign County, Ohio, in full compensation for his time and services, &c., during his imprisonment with the Indians, in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve with Great Britain. APPROVED, March 16, 1858. CHAP. XI.-An Act for the Relief of Doctor Charles D. Maxwell, a Surgeon in the March 20, 1858. United States Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and are hereby, required to allow and pay to Doctor Charles Difference be- D. Maxwell, surgeon in the navy of the United States, the difference of tween pay of passed assistant pay between that of a passed assistant surgeon and a surgeon, from the surgeon and that twenty-second day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-five, to the of surgeon to be seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, being the period paid Dr. Max well. April 19, 1858. James Law rence, or,&c. may certificate. during which he performed the duties of a surgeon and assistant surgeon on board the United States Ship Cyane, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 20, 1858. CHAP. XV.—An Act for the Relief of the legal Representatives or Assignees of James Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the assignees or legal representatives of James Lawrence, to whom was issued donation certificate relocate donation number three hundred and six, (306,) under the eighth section of the act of twenty-fourth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, entitled "An act to aid the State of Ohio in extending the Miami Canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, and to grant a quantity of land to said State to aid in the construction of the canals authorized by law, and for making donations of land to certain persons in Arkansas Territory," shall be authorized to relocate the same upon any of the publie lands in the State of Arkansas, subject to entry at a minimum of not more than one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre: Provided, The said certificate shall be found to have been issued in conformity with the said eighth section of the act of twentyfourth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and shall be located. upon legal subdivisions of land of not less than one quarter section. APPROVED, April 19, 1858. Proviso. April 19, 1858. Register to steamer "Fearless," on proof, &c. April 19, 1858. CHAP. XVI.-An Act to authorize a Register to be issued to the Steamer "Fearless." 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 hereby, authorized and directed to cause a register to be issued for the steamer "Fearless" under that name, a foreign-built vessel, but now owned in part by J. M. Estell, of San Francisco, on proof satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury, that the said steamer is wholly owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States, and that the repairs put upon her in the United States, while owned as aforesaid, are equal to three fourths of said steamer's cost when so repaired. APPROVED, April 19, 1858. CHAP. XVII.-An Act for the Relief of the Owners of the Bark Attica, of Portland, 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 hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the $174.62 to be owners of the bark Attica, of Portland, Maine, out of any money in the paid to owners treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and seventyfour dollars and sixty-two cents, being the amount imposed on said vessel as tonnage duty, by the collector of New York, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-five. of the Attica. April 21, 1858. APPROVED, April 19, 1858. CHAP. XVIII.—An Act for the Relief of Major Jeremiah Y. Dashiell, Paymaster in the United States Army. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting offi credited Jere cers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed in settling the accounts of Major Jeremiah Y. Dashiell, paymaster in the United States army, to credit him in the sum of twenty-three thou- $23,115 to be sand one hundred and fifteen dollars, that being the amount of public money miah Y. Dashiell accidentally lost by him on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and for money accififty-seven, in attempting to cross the bar of Indian River, Florida, for dentally lost by the purpose of paying the troops at Fort Capron, in that State. APPROVED, April 21, 1858. him. April 21, 1858. CHAP. XIX.-An Aet for the Relief of the Heirs of Alexander Stevenson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Treasurer of the United States be, and he is hereby, required to pay to the legal representatives of Alexander Stevenson, a soldier of the revolutionary war, in trust for the heirs of said Stevenson, the sum of six hundred and fifty-four dollars, being the amount of money due to said Stevenson, from the time to Alexander of his enlistment, January one, seventeen hundred and seventy-six, until Stevenson. the time of his discharge, in seventeen hundred and eighty-three. APPROVED, April 21, 1858. CHAP. XX.—An Act for the Relief of N. C. Weems, of Louisiana. $654 to be paid April 21, 1858. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the entry of the section Entry of land to be confirmed number sixty-eight (68), of township number two (2) north, of range to N. C. Weems. number one (1) east, in the southwestern land district of Louisiana, by N. C. Weems, of that State, and patented on the first day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, be, and is hereby, confirmed; and the Commissioner of the Land-Office shall cause to be refunded any excess of money paid into the land-office in its purchase from the government. APPROVED, April 21, 1858. CHAP. XXI.—An Act for the Relief of Francis Wlodecki. April 21, 1858. Francis Wlo Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Francis Wlodecki, of Lake county, Illinois, is hereby authorized to locate one hundred and decki may locate 120 acres of pubtwenty acres of the public lands of the United States, to be selected from lic land. any of the public lands subject to private entry at the rate of one dollar and a quarter per acre; and upon return being made to the General Land-Office of such location, the President is hereby directed to issue a patent therefor to the said Francis Wlodecki: And it is hereby provided, That the same shall be in full discharge for all claims which the said Wlodecki has on the government, arising under the act of Congress approved June thirty, eighteen hundred and fifty-four [thirty-four], entitled "An act granting land to certain exiles from Poland," APPROVED, April 21, 1858. CHAP. XXII.—An Act for the Relief of Duncan Robertson. 1834, ch. 247. Vol. iv. p. 743. May 1, 1858. $749.92 to be paid Duncan 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, from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Duncan Robertson, the sum of seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety-two cents, in full for moneys paid by him to the navy yard at Robertson for reGosport, it being the amount expended for repairs of the Norwegian pairs on Norwe barque Ellen, for damages encountered by said barque in aiding and res- gian barque cuing the passengers of the steamer Central America. Ellen. APPROVED, May 1, 1858. May 5, 1858. CHAP. XXX.-An Act for the Relief of Captain James Mc. Mc. Intosh, of the United 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, directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Captain James Mc. Mc Intosh, of $204.95 to be the United States navy, the sum of two hundred and four dollars and paid Capt. James Mc. Mc Intosh. ninety-five cents, being the difference between the sum paid to him at the treasury as commander "on other duty," and that which was due to him as such officer "attached to a vessel for sea service," and being in full for his services as an officer of the West India squadron from the fourteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to the third day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. May 18, 1858. APPROVED, May 5, 1858. CHAP. XLI.—An Act for the Relief of John R. Temple, of Louisiana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Title of John States of America in Congress assembled, That John R. Temple be, and R. Temple confirmed to a tract he is hereby, confirmed in his title to a tract of land containing six hunof the "Baron de dred and seventy arpens, lying and being within what is known as the Bastrop Grant." "Baron de Bastrop grant," on the east side of Bayou Bartholomew, and Proviso. more particularly described in a plat and survey executed on the nineteenth and twentieth days of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, by Henry Curtis, parish surveyor for the parish of Morehouse, and State of Louisiana; and being all that part of two certain tracts of land, not heretofore confirmed to any other claimant, as follows, to wit: A tract of land sold and conveyed by the heirs of Morehouse to George Hook, by deed dated the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and fourteen; and a certain other tract conveyed by Abraham Morehouse to Jacob Stroop, son of George Stroop, by deed dated the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twelve. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, upon the receipt of a plat and survey of the land hereby Patent to issue. confirmed, executed by the proper officer, shall cause a patent to be issued therefor to the said John [R.] Temple: Provided, however, That such patent shall only operate as a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and shall not effect the rights of any third person. APPROVED, May 18, 1858. May 18, 1858. to be credited with $1000 lost in transit. CHAP. XLII.-An Act to authorize the Settlement of the Accounts of Luther Jewett, late Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Luther Jewett States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to credit the account of Luther Jewett, late collector of the district of Portland and Falmouth, with the sum of one thousand dollars, being for that sum lost in transitu from said collector to be deposited with the assistant treasurer at Boston. May 24, 1858. APPROVED, May 18, 1858. CHAP. XLVII.—An Act for the Relief of Thomas Smithers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Thomas Smith- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the ers to have pen- Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to place the name of Thomas Smithers upon the invalid pension roll of the army of the United States, and that he cause to be paid to him the sum of eight dollars per month, sion at $8 per month. |