CHAP. 56. An ACT for the relief of Ebenezer Breed,

[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, author. To be paid the ized to pay to Ebenezer Breed, merchant, out of any money in ties on certain the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the amount of duties while in custo paid on twenty-one thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dy of the cusgallons of wine, imported in the brig Gazelle, on the first day of August in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, into the port of Boston and Charlestown, which wine was destroyed by fire while in the custody of the customs: Provided, That the Proviso. Secretary of the Treasury be furnished with satisfactory proof that said goods were so destroyed by fire, and were not insured. Approved, March 3d, 1837.

1837.

CHAP. 57. An ACT to amend the charter of the Potomac Fire Insurance
Company of Georgetown.

er to

on

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the name and style of the said company shall hereafter be the shall have pow "Potomac Insurance Company of Georgetown ;" and in addition surance to the powers, privileges, and immunities granted to the said vessels, &c. company in and by their original act of incorporation, the said company shall have full power and authority to make insurance on vessels, merchandise, freights, and all other interests in or touching property at sea, or going to sea, and on all kinds of marine risks whatsoever; to make insurance on lives, to grant annuities, to receive endowments, to contract for reversionary payments, and to pass all such by-laws as may be necessary to carry these and their other powers into effect, not contrary to the laws of the United States, and from time to time to alter or repeal the same; and to make, execute, and perfect such and so many contracts, bargains, agreements, and other instruments, as shall or may be necessary, and as the nature of the case shall or may require.

and take sub

of

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may May open books be lawful for the said company, at such time and so often as a scriptions majority of the stockholders may agree and so order, to open stock, &c. books and take subscriptions of stock, until the original contemplated capital stock of said company shall be filled.

and

tate, &c.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the president The president and directors of said company may, at their discretion, take may take secusecurity on real estate of at least double the value of the amount rity on real esto be secured, in lieu of endorsed notes, for the unpaid part of capital stock; and it shall be lawful for the stockholders to pay up ten dollars per share on any and every share of stock held by him, her, or them, in cash, not oftener than once a year, commencing with the first of July, in the year eighteen hundred and

Proviso.

1837. thirty-six, and be entitled to dividend thereon as on other cash stock: Provided, The said payments are made fully six months before the declaration of such dividend.

When to be in force, &c.

Proviso.

CHAP. 58. An ACT for the relief of Henry Lee.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assem

$2,000 suspended bled, That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department

in

John Ri

caud's account be, and they are hereby, directed and required to admit and pass

to be passed to

his credit. to the credit of John Ricaud, the sum of two thousand dollars

Henry Lee re leased from a

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted, That the foregoing enactments shall be in force and binding on the said company and others, as soon as a written acceptance thereof, adopted by a majority of the stockholders of said company, shall be authentically certified, and filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Washington: Provided, That the change in the name of the said company, hereby authorized, shall not affect any proceedings instituted, or liabilities incurred, before the passage of this act, by or against the said Potomac Fire Insurance Company. Approved, March 3d, 1837.

heretofore suspended from his credit, in the settlement of the said John Ricand's account, as paymaster to the thirty-sixth regiment of United States infantry, commanded at a separate post, by Colonel William Carberry.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That Henry Lee be, judgment ob and he is hereby, released and fully exonerated from the force tained against and effect of a judgment obtained against him in the district

him.

court of the United States, at Richmond, Virginia, as surety of the aforesaid John Ricaud, late paymaster of the thirty-sixth regiment of United States infantry.

When to be in force.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall commence and be in force from and after the passage thereof. Approved, March 3d, 1837.

CHAP. 59. An ACT for the relief of William Christy.

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

William

credited on the

The amount due bled, That the Third Auditor of the Treasury ascertain the Christy amount due to William Christy, as military storekeeper, one year, ascertained and in the northwestern army, under an appointment of General principal of a Harrison; and when so ascertained, that he report the same to the Solicitor of the Treasury, who is directed to cause the same to be credited on the principal of a judgment, recovered in favor of the United States against said Christy, in the district court of Louisiana, at the December term of said court in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven.

judgment recovered against him.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of 1837. the Treasury be authorized to make an arrangement with the said An arrangement William Christy, for the payment of the balance of the principal said to be made with of said judgment and costs, at any time within five years, by Christy for pay. instalments which being paid, according to the stipulations of the parties, the said Secretary is authorized to discharge said judg

William

ment.

ment.

Approved, March 3d, 1837.

CHAP. 63. An ACT for the relief of James Brown and John Brown, half breeds, of the Cherokee nation of Indians.

be paid

Brown $330,

[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 hereby, directed James Brown to to pay to James Brown the sum of six hundred and forty-seven and John dollars, and to John Brown the further sum of three hundred for improve. and thirty dollars; making, in the aggregate, the sum of nine ments surren hundred and seventy-seven dollars, out of any money in the &c. Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as full compensation for the improvements surrendered by the said James Brown and John Brown, under the provisions of the treaty of eighteen hundred and nineteen, between the United States and said nation of Indians.

dered by them,

Approved, March 3d, 1837.

CHAP. 61. An ACT for the relief of F. A. Parker,

in

[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 Captain F. A. Parker, To be paid $200 of the United States navy, out of any money in the Treasury curred, &c. not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred dollars, for actual expenses incurred by him while commanding the Fairfield sloop of war, in the Mediterranean during the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight, in carrying out Mr. Edward Weyer, bearer of despatches to the commander of the squadron in the Mediterranean sea, by order of the Secretary of the Navy of the United States.

Approved, March 3d, 1837.

CHAP. 62. An ACT for the relief of Green Pryor and the heirs of Peter Pryor

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representtatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States cause to be issued to A patent for a Green Pryor and the heirs of Peter Pryor, a patent for fractional al section of section number two, of township fourteen, range five east, in the landed. issued.

certain fraction

10 be

1837.

Washington land district, in the State of Mississippi, it being the same entered by Isham Arthur, on the sixteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixteen, and by him transferred to Green and Peter Pryor.

Approved, March 3d, 1837.

CHAP. 63. An ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Isaac Williams, deceased.

To be paid his from 30th June,

pay as a soldier

1814, to 18th October, 1814.

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

Authorized to That the legal representatives of Isaac Williams, deceased, of

re-enter

80

much of two the county of Wilkinson, in the State of Mississippi, be, and they

certain frac

mains unsold.

tional sections are hereby, authorized to re-enter, at any time within six months of land as re- after the passage of this act, so much of fractional sections numbers thirty-nine and forty-one, in township number one, of range number one west, in the district of lands subject to sale at Washington, in said State, as remains unsold, and that the sums of money heretofore paid by Isaac Bush and Isaac Williams, or either of them, on said fractional sections, be passed to the credit of the said representatives, in part payment for the said fractional sections.

Approved, March 3d, 1837.

CHAP. 64. An ACT for the relief of Charles W. Pickering.

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

the difference

pay, &c. of a

&c.

To be allowed That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury be authorbetween the ized to adjust and settle the account of Charles W. Pickering, a fieutenant over midshipman in the navy of the United States, and to allow him that of a mid- the difference between the pay and emoluments of a lieutenant over that of a midshipman, for the period during which he performed the duties of a lieutenant on board the United States ship Falmouth, by order of her commander, Francis H. Gregory, in the Pacific ocean, in the year eighteen hundred and thirtythree; and the amount so found due to him shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3d, 1837.

CHAP. 65. An ACT for the relief of Jerah Fenner.

[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 pay to Jerah Fenner, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, his pay as a soldier in the service of the United States, from the thirtieth of June eighteen hundred and fourteen, to the eighteenth of October, eighteen hundred and fourteen, inclusive.

Approved, March 3d, 1837.

CHAP. 66. An ACT for the relief of H. and D. Cotheal of New York.

To be permitted to export with

[SEC 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the collector of the port of New York be, and he is hereby, authorized to permit H. and D. Cotheal of New York, to export, the benefit of with the benefit of drawback, certain cases or packages of Span- tain cases ish playing cards, imported by them into that port, upon their Spanish playing complying with the forms and regulations required by existing laws relating to the exportation of merchandise with the benefit of drawback.

of

cards.

Approved, March 3d, 1837.

1837.

CHAP. 67. An ACT for the relief of Peter Harmony, of New York.

to with

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the collector of the port of New York be, and he is hereby, To be permitted authorized to permit Peter Harmony, of New York, to export, the benefit of with the benefit of drawback, certain cases or packages of Spanish playing cards, imported by him into that port, upon his complying with the forms and requisitions required by existing laws relating to the exportation of merchandise with the benefit of drawback.

drawback, cercases of

Approved, March 3d, 1837.

Spanish playing

cards.

CHAP. 68. An ACT for the relief of James Keytes.

quarter section of land,

ent.

[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 cause to be issued to James A patent to be is Keytes, assignee of William Ashly, who is assignee of Granted for a cer Weed, a patent for a quarter section of land, to be located on any in lieu of a cer of the public lands in the State of Missouri subject to private tain other pat entry; which is in lieu of a quarter section which was patented to said Grant Weed, by the United States, on the eleventh day of May, eighteen hundred and nineteen, described as being the northeast quarter of section eleven, in township number fiftyfour north, of range twenty south, and which patent appears to have been altered by the Commissioner of the General Land Office on the third day of January, eighteen hundred and thirtyfour, by inserting range twenty-one instead of range twenty, so as to make the patent correspond with the record in said office: Provided, nevertheless, That no such location shall be made, or Proviso. patent issue, until the said Keytes shall file a relinquishment with the register of the land office at Franklin, in the State of Missouri, for the above named quarter section, in range twenty; one aforesaid.

Approved, March 3d, 1837.