Laws of the United States. and twenty-eight dollars and twenty-four cents, being the AN ACT making appropriations for the payment of the For the Pensions of the Revolutionary Pensioners of the United States, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, of five hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars, two hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars. For the invalid and half-pay Pensioners, in addition to a balance of one hundred and forty-one thousand dollars of former appropriations, one hundred and sixty thousand and ninety-five dollars. Approved: 12th February, 1828. AN ACT for the relief of General Thomas Flournoy, of That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and required to allow and pay to Hampton L. Boone, late Clerk in the Register's Office at Franklin, in Missouri, the sum of three hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy-five cents, in full, for performing the duties of Register of that Office, from the fourteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twentyfive, to the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. Approved: 21st February, 1828. AN ACT authorizing a Register to be issued for the brig 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 is hereby authorized to order a register to be issued to the brig Liberator, of said vessel having been stranded on the coast of the Bath, formerly a British vessel, called the Liberator, the United States, and purchased by Parker McCobb, a citizen of the United States, and by him repaired: Provided, of the Treasury, that the repairs made in the United That it shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the Secretary States, after the purchase of the said vessel by the present owner, exceed three fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States. Approved: 10th March, 1828. AN ACT for the relief of William Thompson. 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 Thompson, late Paymaster of the thirty-sixth regiment of Virginia militia, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents, for so much money paid by said William Thompson on account of the services of Elsey Farr, Thomas Waters, William Gibbs, William McClanahan, John Penquite, Isaac Silvey, Caleb Walker, Henry Way, Robert Shackleford, Fauntley R. Stone, George Appleby, Ignatius Mitchell, William Remus, and George Scott, an allowance whereof was suspended for the want of proper vouchers, deduct 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 required to pay and satisfy to the attorney on record, or other person legally authorized to receive it, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the amount of a judgment and cost, recovered in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, in May, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, by Gonzales and Colmanero, against General Thomas Flournoy, for the detention, at New Orleans, in the fall of the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, of three vessels laden with flour, &c. Provided, That, if said Flournoy shall have satisfied said judg. ment, or be in execution therefor, before the payment herein authorized, then the amount of said judgmenting therefrom any sum due from the said William Thompand costs shall be paid to said Flournoy. Approved: 12th February, 1828. AN ACT authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of State to issue letters patent to Elizabeth H. Bulkeley, widow of Chauncey Bulkeley, deceased, two-thirds of the proceeds to be in trust for the children of said Chauncey Bulkeley, for the invention of a plan for making shovels, spades, and scythes, by welding iron and steel together, and rolling the same, alleged to have been discovered by the said Chauncey Bulkeley, in his life time, upon the presentation at the Patent Office of the original specification and application, made out by the said Chauncey Bulkeley, which patent shall have the same force and effect as if it had been granted to the said Chauncey Bulkeley, himself. Approved: 21st February, 1828. AN ACT for the relief of Hampton L. Boone, of Missouri. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, son to the United States: Provided, That, before any money be paid under this act, the said William Thompson shall execute a bond, with security, to the acceptance of said Secretary, and payable to the United States, in the penal sum of six hundred dollars, conditioned to pay to the United States the like sums of money, that the Treasurer thereof may pay to the legal representative of either of the persons above named, on the production of proof that such a representative is entitled thereto. Approved March 10th, 1828. : AN ACT for the relief of Joshua T. Chase and others. of the United States of America in Congress assembled, AN ACT for the relief of Henry G. Rice. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Collector of the District of Boston and Charlestown be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow Henry G. Rice the amount of debentures on a quantity of colored cottons, exported by him, in the fall of the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, in the brig Franklin, for Leghorn, in the same manner as if the export oath had been taken within the time required by law: Provided, That said Collector shall be satisfied that all the other requirements of the law were complied with by said Rice, so as to entitle him to the drawback on the cottons aforesaid. Approved: 10th March, 1828. AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of the late General William Hull. 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 paid to the legal representatives of General William Hull, deceased, or to their authorized agent, the sum of one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars, in full for his claims against the United States; and that the same be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved 10th March, 1828. AN ACT for the relief of William Cloyd. 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 to pay, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to William Cloyd, the sum of ninety-six dollars, the amount of a fine improperly assess. ed and paid by him, for not performing a tour of duty in the military service of the United States during the late ton, in and for the District of Cape Fear, or Clarendon, on the first Monday after the fourth Monday of April and October, in each and every year. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all suits, actions, writs, process, and other proceedings, commenced, or to commence, or which shall now be pending, in any of the said District Courts, shall be returnable to, heard, tried, and proceeded with, in the said District Courts, in the same manner as if the time for the holding thereof had not been changed. Approved: 10th March, 1828. AN ACT making Appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for defraying the expenses of the Navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated: For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, other than those at navy-yards, shore stations, and in ordinary, one million one hundred and seventy-six thousand three hundred and twelve dollars. For pay and subsistence and allowances of officers and pay of seamen, &c. at navy yards, shore stations, hospitals, and in ordinary, one hundred and eighty-five thousand and thirty-two dollars. For pay of Superintendents, Naval Constructors, and tions, fifty-nine thousand one hundred and two dollars all the civil establishment, at the several yards and sta For provisions, five hundred and five thousand dollars. of vessels in commission, four hundred and seventy-five For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear thousand dollars. For medicines, surgical instruments, and hospital stores, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, fifty thousand dol lars. For repairs and improvements of navy-yards, one hurdred and five thousand dollars. sand eight hundred and twenty eight, fifteen thousand For arrearages prior to the first of January, one thou dollars. For completing the construction and equipment of the sloops of war, authorized by act of Congress of third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, two hundred and one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act passed the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred, entitled "An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain Acts of the States of Maryland and Georgia," and which, by subseFor defraying the expenses that may accrue during the quent acts, has been revived and continued in force, until year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, for the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and the following purposes, to wit: For freight and transpor twenty-eight, be, and the same so far as relates to the tation of materials and stores, of every description; for act of Maryland, hereby is, revived, and continued in wharfage and dockage, storage and rent; travelling exforce, until the third day of March, one thousand eight penses of officers, and transportation of seamen; house hundred and thirty-eight: Provided, That nothing herein rent and chamber money, fuel and candles to officers oth contained shall authorize the demand of a duty on ton-er than those attached to navy-yards and shore stations, nage on vessels propelled by steam, employed in the transportation of passengers. Approved: 10th March, 1828. AN ACT to alter the time of holding the District Courts of the United States in the District of North Carolina. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the District Courts of the United States for the District of North Carolina shall, after the passing of this act, commence and be holden on the following days; that is to say at Edenton, in and for the District of Albemarle, on the third Monday of April and October; at Newbern, in and for the District of Pamlico, on the fourth Monday of April and October; and at Wilming and for officers in sick quarters, where there is no hospi tal; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel, to the navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to Judge Advocates; for per diem allowance to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and to officers engaged on extra service, beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery, of every description, and for books, maps, charts, nautical and mathematical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for purchase and repair of steam and fire engines, and for machinery; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, wheels, and workmen's tools, of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage; for cabin furniture of vessels in Laws of the United States. commission; for taxes on navy-yards and public property; for assistance rendered to public vessels in distress; for incidental labor at navy-yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel for forges, foundries, and steam engines; for candles, oil, and fuel, for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other object or purpose whatever, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses for objects arising in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars. For pay and subsistence of the Marine Corps, one hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars. For clothing for the same, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars. For fuel for the same, twelve thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars. For contingent expenses, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For additional contingencies, not enumerated, for the same, five hundred dollars. For military stores for the same, that is to say: for keeping the arms in repair, armorer's pay and armorer's tools, and ordnance stores, three thousand dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and instruments, for the use of the officers and marines on shore, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars. For the compensation of Colonel Samuel Miller, for certain extra services relative to the accounts of R. M. Desha, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty cents. For the following items, which have been carried to the surplus fund on the first of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, viz : For contingent expenses prior to one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, eight hundred and forty-two dollars, thirty-four cents. For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, two thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars, four cents. For contingent expenses for one thousand eight hun. dred and twenty-five, not enumerated, two hundred and forty dollars, eight cents. 20th CONGRESS, 1st SESSION. AN ACT making appropriations for certain Fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are, hereby, appropriated, to wit: for Fortifications, to each, specifically, as follows: For Fort Adams, eighty thousand dollars; For Fort at Mobile Point, eighty thousand dollars; For Fort Jackson, eighty-eight thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs and contingencies, fifteen thousand dollars; For Fortifications at Pensacola, fifty thousand dollars For Fortifications at Charleston, twenty-five thousand dollars; For Fortifications at Savannah, twenty-five thousand dollars; For Fort at Oak Island, North Carolina, sixty thousand dollars; For preservation of Islands in Boston harbor, two thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved 19th March, 1828. AN ACT granting the right of preference in the purchase of Public Lands to certain Settlers in St. Hele. na Land District, in the State of Louisiana. approve Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person, his, or her legal representatives, comprised in the list of actual settlers reported to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, by the Register of the District of St. Helena, in the State of Louisiana, unFor contingent expenses for one thousand eight hun-der the authority of the act of Congress, entitled "An dred and twenty-five, seven hundred and eighty-four dol-act for adjusting the claims to land and establishing Land lars, twenty-eight cents. Offices in the District East of the Island of New Orleans," ved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, or who did actually inhabit and cultivate a tract of land in said district, on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, not rightfully claimed by any other person, by virtue of any written evidence of claim, legally derived, from either the French, British, or Spanish Government, or granted as a donation by virtue of any act of Congress heretofore passed, shall be entitled to a right of preference, on becoming the purchaser, from the United States, of such a tract of land, at the same price for which other public lands are sold at private sale: Provided, That such tract of land shall not contain more than one-quarter section, to be located by sectional lines; and that the same shall be entered, with the Register of the Land Office in said District, within two years, or before, if the same shall be offered at public sale. For navy-yards, five thousand dollars. For navy-yard at Pensacola, three hundred dollars and thirty-seven cents. For swords and medals, five hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-two cents. For five schooners, fifty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. For building barges, sixty-seven dollars and sixteen cents. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid sums be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, There there be, and hereby is, appropriated, for the purchase of such lands as the President of the United States may think necessary and proper to provide live oak and other timber, for the use of the Navy of the United States, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the gradual improvement of the Navy of the United States, by the first section of the act, entitled "An act for the gradual improvement of the Navy of the United States, approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty Approved: 19th March, 1828. AN ACT for the relief of the Columbian College, in the 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, authorized and required to deliver up to the Trustees of the Columbian College, all the obligations, notes, or other evidences of debt, which have heretofore been given by the Trustees, or by any Treasurer or Agent of the Trustees of the said College, when, and so soon as the Trustees of the said College shall deliver up, reassign, transfer, or convey to the United States, the obligations, notes, claims, or property, in consideration of which the Trustees of the said College became indebted to the United States, and, also, all property heretofore pledged to the United States, in security of the said debts so due from the Trustees of the said College to the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees of the said College shall be discharged and released from the said claims of the United States, immediately upon complying with the requisitions of the first section of this act. Approved: 19th March, 1828. AN ACT making appropriations for the Military Service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated for the Military Service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twen ty-eight, to wit: For pay to the Army and subsistence of Officers, in cluding the Military Academy, one million and fifty-six thousand three hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents. For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance in the Treasury, on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, of sixty-five thousand dollars, two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. For forage for Officers, forty thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars. For clothing for servants of Officers of the Army, and of the Military Academy, and twenty supernumerary Second Lieutenants, graduates of the Military Academy, nineteen thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars. For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance of three thousand three hundred dollars, in the Treasury on the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, fourteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars. For arrearages of the year eighteen hundred and twen ty-seven, being the difference between the amount ap. propriated by Congress for the pay and subsistence of the Captains and Subalterns, and that allowed by the act of the Second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, thirty-eight thousand and seventy-seven dollars and eight cents. For arrearages in the Quartermaster General's Department, forty-two thousand dollars. For Quartermaster General's Department, viz: barracks for two additional companies, and quarters for the graduates from West Point, ordered to join the Infantry School of Practice, and to complete storehouses and hospital, engine, and hose, fire buckets, barrack quarters, defences, &c. for four companies at Prairie du Chien : to complete quarters, barracks, hospital, and storehouses, at Fort St. Philip, to complete the buildings and enclose the grounds with pickets, at the establishment near Savannah: for engine and hose complete for Fortress Monroe, and for fire buckets, forty-four thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-four cents. For fuel, stationery, transportation, &c.; repairs, and for improving barracks, erecting new buildings, proeur. ing articles for the mathematical, drawing, chemical, and mineralogical departments, and for the library and cotingencies, for Military Academy at West Point, ex cluding the items for Quartermaster's Clerk, Adjutant's Clerk, and Quartermaster's Sergeant, thirty two thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents. For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, ten thousand dollars For National Armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses of the Board of Visiters, one thousand five hundred dollars. For contingencies of the Army, ten thousand dollars. For current expenses of the Ordnance Service, sixtyfive thousand dollars. For Arsenals, fifty-seven thousand three hundred dollars. For completing the Arsenal at Augusta, in Maine, thirty thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized and required to settle, adjust, and pay, in conformity with the provisions of the act of the second of January, one thousand seven hundred and aine ty-five, regulating the pay of the militia, when called inte actual service, the claims of the Militia and Indians of the State of Illinois, and Territory of Michigan, called out by competent authority, or received into service by any ge neral or field officer of the United States, on the occa sion of the recent Indian disturbances, and that the expenses of transportation, supplies, materials, ferriage, and work incident to the expedition, shall be settled, according to the justice of the claim, and with strict regard to the law and usage heretofore established for the settlement of such claims; and that the sum of forty thousand dollars be appropriated for the aforesaid objects, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise ap For the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpend-propriated. ed balance in the Treasury on thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, of thirteen thousand six hundred dollars, twenty-two thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars. For the Purchasing Department, in addition to materials on hand, amounting to forty thousand dollars, viz: for clothing for the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-nine cents. For the purchase of woollens during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, twen. ty thousand dollars. For the Medical and Hospital Department, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars. For the Quartermaster General's Department, three hundred and forty-three thousand dollars. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fire hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty-one cents, being part of an appropriation made by the act of fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, for the reef of Lieutenant Colonel William Lawrence, and others, and which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twentysix, be, and the same is hereby, re-appropriated. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the unexpended balances of appropriations for the following objects, be, and the same are hereby, re-appropriated, viz : For balances due certain States on account of militia in the service of the United States, during the late war, sixty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dol lars and seventy cents. For a road from Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson, five thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-six cents. Laws of the United States. For extinguishing the Creek title to lands in Georgia, four thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty-seven cents. For claims against the Osages, by citizens of the United States, eight hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. Approved: 21st March, 1828. AN ACT to revive, and continue in force, the several acts making provision for the extinguishment of the debt due the United States by the purchasers of the public lands. 20th CONGRESS, 1st SESSION. AN ACT for the relief of George Johnston, Jonathan W. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to George Johnston, Jonathan W. Ford, Josiah Mason, and John English, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appro priated, the sum of one thousand two hundred forty-one dollars and eighty-one cents, it being for their expenses in an action of trespass, and the amount of a judgment recovered against them in said action, by Jeremiah WeaBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives therbee, in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, of the United States of America in Congress assembled, for seizing certain articles in trunks and boxes, which That the act, entitled “An act to provide for the extin-contained articles of merchandise, which George Johnguishment of the debt due the United States by the pur-ston, one of the Inspectors of the Customs for the District chasers of public lands," approved May the eighteenth, of Boston, had probable cause, and good reason to be. one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, and the act, lieve, the said Weatherbee was importing into the United entitled "An act explanatory of an act to provide for the States against the laws thereof, extinguishment of the debt due the United States by the Approved : 3d April, 1828. purchasers of public lands," approved May the twenty. sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four; and also, the act, entitled "An act making further provision for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of public lands," approved May the fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, be, and the same are hereby, revived, and continued in force, until the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, extended to all lands on which a further credit has not been taken, and which, having become forfeited to the United States since the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, remain unsold. Approved 21st March, 1828. AN ACT authorizing a subscription for the Statistical Van Zandt. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Department of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe for, and receive, for the use and disposal of Congress, six hundred copies of the Statistical Tables proposed to be published by George Watterston and Nicholas B. Van Zandt, of the city of Washington. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fifteen hundred dollars shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, to defray the cost of the said subscription; to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved: 3d April, 1828. AN ACT for the relief of Catharine Stearns. 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, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to Catharine Stearns, the sum of eight hundred and seventy-three dif lars and seventy-four cents, the estimated value of her dower in about three acres of land in the Navy Yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, on her relinquishing to the United States all her right of dower in said land, by deed, in all things executed in conformity to the laws of Massa chusetts. Approved: 3d April, 1828. AN ACT for the relief of Mrs. Brown, widow of the late of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Approved 3d April, 1828. AN ACT to confirm certain claims to Lands in the Terri tory of Michigan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims purporting to be confirmed, or recome mended for confirmation, by the Commissioners appoint. of the Commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to lands in, and for settling the claims to lands at, Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, in the Terrritory of Michigan," passed on the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, which are contained in volumes two, four, and five, be, and the same are, con firmed. AN ACT for the relief of William Augustus Archbold.ed to carry into effect the "Act to revive the powers Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to William Augustus Archbold, for his improvements in refining sugar, on his paying into the Treasury the usual fees, and making oath that he is the true inventor and discoverer of the said inventions and improvements, and delivering into the Patent Office models of the same, with specifications, as is required by the acts of Congress relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, and that the same has not, to the best of his knowledge or belief, been used, or known, either in this, or any other foreign country: Provided, That the said letters patent shall be subject to all the conditions, limitations, and restrictions, of the said acts of Congress. Approved: 3d April, 1828. VOL. IV.-b. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the claims purporting to be confirmed, or recommended for confirmation, by the Commissioners appointed to carry into effect "An act to revive and continue in force certain acts for the adjustment of land claims in the Territory of Michigan," passed the twenty-first of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, which are contained in volumes one, three, six, eight, and nine, of said reports, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of |