1st sec. of this act. 1839. of one hundred and sixty acres, in lieu of the quarter section in schools, in lieu the first section of this act named, out of any of the public lands, of land named in to be located in the land district in which the first named quar ter section is situated, for the use of schools in said township: Provided, The school commissioners for the parish in which said land is situated, and a majority of the free white male inhabitants of the township, over twenty-one years of age, shall consent to such change. Approved, March 3d, 1839. Proviso. Brown to be in credit allowed CHAP. 131. An ACT for the relief of Return B. Brown. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as Claims of R.B. sembled, That the proper accounting officers of the War De quired into and partment be, and they are hereby, authorized to inquire into settled, and such and settle the claims of Return B. Brown, late a captain in the as may be equit- army, and, upon proof, to allow him such credit as may be equitable and just, notwithstanding the judgment which the Sums found United States have recovered against him; and that such suns as may thus found due to him shall be applied to the amoun thereof in satisfaction of said judgment. able and just. due, how to be applied. Approved, March 3d, 1839. CHAP. 132. An ACT for the relief of Herman Harris, of the city of New Tai [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress H. Harris to sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authe ing one-half of rized and directed to pay to Herman Harris, of the State of curred and paid New York, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise be paid $25, be a forfeiture in by him. presentative of appropriated, the sum of twenty-five dollars; being one-ha the amount of a forfeiture incurred by the said Herman Hars and by him paid to the deputy collector at Pensacola, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, which sum has been pai into the Treasury of the United States. Approved, March 3d, 1839. CHAP. 133. An ACT to confirm the claim of Charles Morgan, in right of Sinst [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress Claim of C.sembled, That the claim of Charles Morgan, as the represents Morgan, as retive of Simon Porche, to a tract of land on the bayou Gross 3. Porche, to a Tete, containing, according to a survey thereof, made in August, land, confirmed. eighteen hundred and six, nine hundred and sixty-nine acres and seventy-four-hundredths of an acre, under an order of survey in favor of said Porche, given by Governor Miro, on the seventeenth November, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, certain tract of 1839. be, and the same is hereby, confirmed; and, upon the presentation of a duly certified plat of the survey to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent shall be issued on the same issued on preto the said Morgan or his legal representatives. Approved, March 3d, 1839. Patent to be sentation of a duly certified plat of survey to Comr. Genl. Land Office. CHAP. 134. An ACT for the relief of Zebulon Sheets. surrendering to cumbrance, cer [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Zebulon Sheets, or his legal representatives, be, z. Sheets anand are hereby, authorized, upon surrendering to the United thorized, upon States, free of incumbrance, forty-seven acres and two-hun- U. S. free of indredths of an acre of land, entered by the said Sheets at the tain land, to enland office at Crawfordsville, State of Indiana, in section six, township twenty-six, range four west, to enter the same amount any where in said State, upon any lands of the United States subject to private entry and unoccupied. Approved, March 3d, 1839. ter other land. CHAP. 135. An ACT for the relief of John and Samuel Rowe, heirs and legal representatives of Ludwick Rowe, deceased. rant 404, for 100 acres of land, 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 War be, and he is hereby, directed Duplicate warto issue duplicate warrant number four hundred and four, for one hundred acres of land, issued the fourth of April, eighteen hun-names of John dred and eight, in the names of John Rowe and Samuel Rowe, muel Rowe, and legal heirs and representatives of Ludwick Rowe, who was representatives private in the Pennsylvania line in the Revolution; the original of L. Rowe, to warrant having been lost. Approved, March 3d, 1839. Rowe and Sa legal heirs and be issued. CHAP. 136. An ACT for the relief of James Cooper. issued to J. Coo [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 War be, and he is hereby, authorized A duplicate to issue a duplicate warrant to James Cooper, for one hundred warrant to be acres of military bounty land, in lieu of land warrant number per, for 100 acres twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty-six, issued prior to the of year one thousand eight hundred, to the said James Cooper, a private of "Lee's legion," and of the New Jersey quota of continental troops in the Revolutionary army, and which said land warrant is alleged to have been lost. Approved, March 3d, 1839. of land, in lieu 12,966. warrant No. 1839. sentatives of H. CHAP. 137. An ACT for the relief of the representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assemLegal repre. bled, That the sum of two hundred and thirty-three dollars and Richardson, to eighty cents be, and the same is hereby, directed to be paid to be paid $233 80, the legal representatives of Henry Richardson, deceased, out of prize money any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, being 20th April, 1816. the proportion due to them for wages and prize money, in virtue being wages and due, under act of the act entitled "An act respecting the late officers and crew of the sloop of war Wasp," approved the twentieth day of Apr, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and which money shai. be paid and distributed according to the provisions of the said Approved, March 3d, 1839. act. to be located to Choctaw WO CHAP. 138. An ACT for the relief of Milly Yates. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assem Two sections bled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required of certain land to cause to be located to Milly Yates, a Choctaw woman, wife Milly Yates, a of Allen Yates, two sections of land, on any of the public lands man, wife of A. Within the country acquired by the treaty concluded with the Choctaw Indians at Dancing Rabbit creek, on the twenty-seventh of September, eighteen hundred and thirty, not previously cated to any Choctaw reservee, nor subject to any pre-emption claim, in one or more tracts, not less in any case than one quar ter section: Provided, The said Milly Yates shall release to United States the two sections heretofore located in her name, Yates. Proviso. M. Yates en by Colonel George W. Martin, and since disposed of at public sale at St. Stephens. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when such location titled to a grant shall have been made and confirmed, the said Milly Yates shali be entitled to a grant for the same from the United States. Approved, March 3d, 1839. for same from U. S., when. CHAP. 139. An ACT for the relief of Isaac Conly. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assem1. Conly to be bled, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed placed on pen to place the name of Isaac Conly, of Tennessee, upon the perpaid $6 per sion roll, and pay him the sum of six dollars per month during life; commencing on the first day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. sion roll, and month, from 1st Jan. 1838. Approved, March 3d, 1839. for 1839. the supposed ties of G. Whee CHAP. 140. An ACT for the relief of Daniel Ward and George Ficklin. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- Proceedings sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assem- enforcing bled, That the United States district attorney for the eastern dis- lien, created by a judgment trict of Virginia, or other officer whose duty it may be to super- against the sureintend the collection of a certain judgment recovered by the ler and C. MorriUnited States against John Morrison, and other sureties of George son, against the Wheeler and Caleb Morrison, be authorized and required ments of J. Morfinally to relinquish all proceedings for enforcing the supposed by D. Ward and lien created by the said judgment against the lands and tene-relinquished. ments of the said John Morrison, purchased by Daniel Ward and Joseph Ficklin. Approved, March 3d, 1839. lands and tene rison, purchased J. Ficklin, to be R. Hendley to CHAP. 141. An ACT for the relief of Richard Hendley. [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 authorized and directed to pay to Richard Hendley, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, ninety-three dollars, as com- room, fire, and pensation for furnishing a room, fire, and candles to the guards guards round the old post office thirty-one days. Approved, March 3d, 1839. be paid $93, for furnishing a candles, to the round old post office. CHAP. 142. An ACT for the relief of Abel A. Pasko and others. of the judgment [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 judgment taken in the northern dis- Certain part trict court of New York, in favor of the Post Office Department, taken in N. disagainst Orson Crane, Abel A. Pasko, and Wickham, as in-trict court of N. cludes the penalty and the damages, and interest thereon, be, and the same is hereby, remitted and released. Approved, March 3d, 1839. Y. in favour of Post Off. Dept. remitted and released. CHAP. 143. An ACT for the relief of John Brown and Company. General to settle them what in [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General is hereby authorized and di- Postmaster rected to settle with John Brown and Company, and pay to them with J. Brown such sum of money as they in justice and equity ought to receive & Co. and pay for carrying the New Orleans mail from the city of Washington, justice and in the District of Columbia, to Fredericktown, in the State of ought to receive. Maryland, from the twenty-third day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to the seventh day of July next following. Approved, March 3d, 1839. equity they 1839. CHAP. 144. An ACT for the relief of Enoch Matson. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assemE. Matson au- bled, That Enoch Matson be, and he is hereby, authorized to thorized to with withdraw his location of warrant number one hundred and fiftytion of warrant five, for six hundred and forty acres, and to locate the same upon cres, and to lo- any of the unappropriated lands of the United States, in the tain land in Mis- State of Missouri, now liable to entry at private sale. draw his loca 155, for 640 a cate it upon cer souri. Approved, March 3d, 1839. being indemnifi CHAP. 145. An ACT for the relief of John L. Allen. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assemJ. L. Allen to bled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, be paid $959 86, authorized to pay to John L. Allen, of Lowndes county and cation for an of State of Mississippi, out of any moneys in the Treasury not ficial act. otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents, being for the indemnification of the said Allen for an official act. Approved, March 3d, 1839. thorized to pay ceeds of cargo of schr. wick, as he may CHAP. 146. An ACT for the relief of William Grozer. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assemSec. Treas. nu bled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, W. Grozer, such authorized and empowered to pay to William Grozer, late master portion of pro- of the schooner Warwick, such portion of the proceeds of the War cargo of said schooner as he may show himself entitled to as show himself Owner thereof, not exceeding five-eighths of the same, which was seized and forfeited to the United States for a supposed violation ceeding five of the revenue laws, in the year eighteen hundred and thirtyfive: Provided, That such payment do not exceed the amount actually paid into the Treasury as the property of said Grozer; to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3d, 1839. entitled to as owner, not ex eighths. Proviso. paid the amount ing duties paid CHAP. 147. An ACT for the relief of James Selby. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assem 3. Selby to be bled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, of discriminat- authorized to pay to James Selby, of the county of Philadelphia, by him on schr. Out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, Sea Flower, be the amount of discriminating duties paid by him upon the schooof his purchas- ner Sea Flower, between the time of his having purchased said taining a new vessel in the island of Cuba, and her having obtained a new receeding $645 22. gister, not exceeding the sum of eight hundred and forty-five dol tween the time ing her, and ob. register, not ex |