CHAP. 104.-AN ACT for the relief of Wilfred Knott. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as lowed. sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, Pension of $8 authorized and directed to place the name of Wilfred Knott per month alon the list of invalid pensioners, and to pay him a pension at the rate of eight dollars a month during his natural life, commencing from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six. Approved, March 3, 1847. CHAP. 105.-AN ACT for the relief of Elizabeth Calkins, the widow of [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, Name to be authorized and required to place the name of Elizabeth Cal- placed on the kins on the revolutionary pension roll, under the act of pension roll. seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, for two years' service of her said husband, to commence the first January, eighteen hundred and forty-five. Approved, March 3, 1847. CHAP. 106.-AN ACT for the relief of Harvey Reynolds. 1839, so modi [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act approved third of March, eighteen Act for his hundred and thirty-nine, entitled "An act for the relief of relief of Mar. 3, Harvey Reynolds," be, and the same is hereby, so modified fied as to allow and repealed as to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to him a pension pay to the said Harvey Reynolds the sum of eight dollars of $8 per mon per month for and during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. Approved, March 3, 1847. CHAP. 107.-AN ACT for the relief of John C. Stewart and others. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in Congress as sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is To be paid ces men of the trea 1840. $575 for servi- hereby authorized to pay five hundred and seventy-five dolas watch-lars, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise approsury building in priated, to John C. Stewart, and other watchmen employed 1838, 1839, and in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and eighteen hundred and forty, to watch the treasury building, and to build and maintain fires in the rooms of the same; the said sum of money to be equally divided between the said watchmen by the Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, March 3, 1847. pension roll. CHAP. 108. AN ACT for the relief of Ann Clayton. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Name to be assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby required to placed on the place Ann Clayton, of Muskingum county, Ohio, on the pension.roll, granting her a pension and the pay of a lieutenant, as the widow of Henry Clayton, deceased, who was a pensioner, and who was a lieutenant in the Revolution, in lieu of the pension and pay of a private, which she now receives as such widow, commencing for such lieutenant's pay from the fifteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-five. Approved, March 3, 1847. CHAP. 109-AN ACT for the relief of Mary Segar, and for the relief of [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Act of 8 Au-assembled, That an act entitled "An act for the relief of gust, 1846, for Mary Segar, of Jefferson county, New York," passed Aurelief of Mary Segar amended. gust eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be so amended that in the first section for the words "Mary Phelps" shall be substituted "Mary Segar, now of Lewis county, New York." Pension payable SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of to Phenix Car- War be authorized and required to pay out of the moneys penter Ellis to be paid to his appropriated for the payment of Revolutionary pensions to administrator. Elisha Denison, of New York, administrator of Phenix Car penter Ellis, deceased, the amount of pension payable to said Phenix Carpenter Ellis from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to the seventh day of December of the same year, at the rate of ten dollars a month, being the rate which he was entitled to draw as Sergeant of Infantry in the Connecticut line of the Army of the Revolution. Approved, March 3, 1847. CHAP. 110.-AN ACT for the relief of W. P. S. Sanger and George F. de la Roche. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Trea- To be paid the sury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and re- amount of their quired to allow to William P. S. Sanger and George F. de expenses while making certain la Roche the amounts paid by them for expenses incurred, in surveys and exobedience to an order from the Navy Department, dated Oc-aminations by tober thirty, eighteen hundred and forty-three, directing them. tary of Navy. to make the surveys and examinations required by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, in reference to the construction of a dry dock at New York; which expenses the Secretary of the Navy expressly stipulated should be paid. Approved, March 3, 1847. order of Secre CHAP. 111.-AN ACT for the relief of the widow and heirs of John B. Chaudonia. authorized to [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Mary L. Chaudonia, for and in consideration Widow of John of services rendered by her husband, John B. Chaudonia, B. Chaudonia to the United States, during the late war, be, and she is enter a half sechereby, authorized to enter, in any land office in the State of tion of land. Indiana, without paying money therefor, any unappropriated half section of public land liable to entry at private sale; for which she shall be entitled to, and shall receive, a patent Patent to issue. from the United States vesting the title thereof, in fee simple, in her and her heirs. B. Chaudonia of land. to SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Charles B. Chau- Children_and donia and Mary L. Breset, children and heirs of John B. Chau- heirs of John donia, deceased, for and in consideration of services rendered authorized by their father to the United States during the late war, be, and enter each a they are hereby, authorized to enter, in any land office in quarter section the State of Indiana, without paying money therefor, each for themselves, one quarter section of any unappropriated public lands liable to entry at private sale; for which they Patents to issue. shall be entitled to, and shall receive, a patent from the United States vesting the titles thereof, in fee simple, in them and their heirs. Approved, March 3, 1847. CHAP. 112.-AN ACT for the relief of James H. Conley. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in Congress asTo be paid sembled, That there be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of $1058 96 in full any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the for services as sum of one thousand and fifty-eight dollars and ninety-six board the U. cents, to be paid to James H. Conley, or his legal representS. Steamship ative, in full payment for his services, as acting carpenter Princeton. on board the United States steamship Princeton, from the carpenter on eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-three, to the seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six. Approved, March 3, 1847. ages sustained: CHAP. 113.-AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of William Bunce, deceased. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress To be paid assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he $1000 for dam- is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the burning in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal repof buildings on resentatives of William Bunce, deceased, one thousand dolPalm isl'd, Fa. lars, they giving a receipt in full for the damage sustained by the deceased aforesaid, in the burning of his buildings, on Palm island, Florida, by the order of Brigadier General Armistead, of the United States army. Approved, March 3, 1847. CHAP. 114.-AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of the late Joseph E. Primeau and Thomas J. Chapman. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asTo be paid $976 sembled, That the sum of nine hundred and seventy-six dol91 for spolia-lars and ninety-one cents be, and the same is hereby approby the Yancton priated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro tions committed Indians. priated, as payment in full to the legal representatives of the late Joseph E. Primeau and Thomas J. Chapman, known formerly as the firm of Primeau and Chapman, for spoliations committed on said firm by the Yancton Indians of the Sioux tribe, in the latter part of the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five. Approved, March 3, 1847. CHAP. 115. -AN ACT for the relief of Jacob L. Vance. for horse lost 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 be, and he is To be paid $50 hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Jacob L. Vance, of the service of the State of Ohio, out of any money in the treasury not United States. otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty dollars, being in full compensation for a horse lost in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, while in the service of the United States; also the sum of fifty-four dollars, being in full com- Also $54 for the pensation for the use of his team of four horses and a wagon eighteen days in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, which said team was employed in conveying flour to the army of the United States. Approved, March 3, 1847. services of his wagon & team. CHAP. 116.-AN ACT for the relief of James Green, of the county of per annum from [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, Pension of $144 required to place the name of James Green upon the roll of 15 June, 1840. revolutionary pensioners; and that he pay him, at the rate of one hundred and forty-four dollars per annum, for and during his natural life, commencing on the fifteenth day of June, 1 eighteen hundred and forty, that being the time at which he was stricken from the said pension-roll by the Commissioner of Pensions. Approved, March 3, 1847. CHAP.117.—AN ACT for the relief of George B. Russell and others. ficers to ascer for provisions & fur [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Trea- Accounting of sury Department be directed to ascertain, by competent and tain and pay satisfactory proof, the amount of the claims, respectively, of them the am❜nt George B. Russell, George M. Lavender, George E. Mount- of their claims carth, John M. Bruce, R. J. Loyless, John Dawson, and S. clothing C. Newman, and that the same be paid to them, or their nished the Cheheirs, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; it being for bread, meat, and clothing furnished the Cherokee Indians, to induce them to accept Ridge's treaty, and under the appointment and authority of Benjamin F. Curry, superintendent of Cherokee removals. Approved, March 3, 1847. rokee Indians. |