CHAP. 169.-AN ACT for the relief of Lowry Williams.' / ****

960 50, the am't

still due and un

[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 Lowry To be paid $1 Williams, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise ap- of a certificate propriated, nineteen hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents, paid under the being the amount of a certificate, number four thousand and Cherokee treaty sixty-eight, for that amount still due and unpaid to the said Williams, under the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

Approved March 3, 1849.

of 1835.

CHAP. 170.-AN ACT for the relief of John Savage.

ed him.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the name of John Savage, a soldier in the army A pension of $4 during the war with Great Britain, be placed on the roll of in- per month allowvalid pensioners, at the rate of four dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, to continue during his natural life. Approved March 3, 1849.

CHAP. 171.-AN ACT for the relief of Andrew Flanegan.

A 'pension of

lowed him.

[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, required to place on the roll of invalid pensioners the name of $17 per month al Andrew Flanegan, of Fayette, Pennsylvania, a lieutenant in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and that he pay him a pension of seventeen dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and continue during his natural life.

Approved March 3, 1849.

CHAP. 172.-AN ACT for the relief of William H. Wilson.

A pension of per month al

lowed him.

[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 directed to place the name of William H. Wilson, of the State of Virginia, on the $4 roll of invalid pensioners, and pay to him, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty, four dollars per month, during his natural life, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved March 3, 1849.

tlement claim to

CHAP. 173. AN ACT for the relief of Charles McLane, of Missouri.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assem His ancient set bled, That the claim of Charles McLane to seven hundred 748 arpens and and forty-eight arpens and sixty-eight perches, which is enter68 perches of landed as number thirty-three in the second class of the deci sions of the late board of commissioners in Missouri, but which has since been shown to be an ancient and continued settlement claim, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed, according to the original survey in eighteen hundred and six.

confirmed to him.

This confirma

any adverse re

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this confirmation tion not to impair is in no manner to impair or affect any interfering adverse recognised claim. cognised claim, if any such should be found to exist when a retracing and connexion by survey of the original lines of said claim shall be made by the proper officer of the United States, After survey & pursuant to this confirmation; and that after such survey shall return of plai to be made, and an official plat of the same returned to the Genfice, patent to is- eral Land Office, a relinquishment patent shall be issued, in which shall be saved and protected any adverse interfering right,

General Land Of

if such exist.

Approved March 3, 1849.

CHAP. 174.—AN ACT for the relief of James Fugate.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asA pension of sembled, That the name of James Fugate, a soldier in the $4 per month al- militia of Kentucky during the war with Great Britain, be placed upon the list of invalid pensioners, at the rate of four dollars a month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

lowed him.

Approved March 3, 1849.

CHAP. 175.-AN ACT for the relief of Thomas H. Noble.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as9284 624 to be sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is for charcoal, fur- hereby, directed to pay to Thomas H. Noble, out of any money nished by him to in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hun

paid him in full

the U.

dred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-two and a half cents, it being in full coinpensation for one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three bushels of charcoal furnished by him to the United States, at fourteen and a half cents per bushel, which was the contract price.

Approved March 3, 1849.

CHAP. 176.-AN ACT for the relief of Peter Shaffer.

paid him in full

[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, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in 37246 to be the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Peter Shaffer, the for work done by sum of three hundred and seventy-two dollars and forty-six Cumberland road cents, in full compensation for work done by him (by contract) upon the Cumberland road within the State of Illinois. Approved March 3, 1849.

him

the

CHAP. 177—AN ACT for the relief of John J. Young, a commander in the navy of the United States.

His name to be the

pension

list, and a pen

month to be paid

[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 Navy cause the name of John J Young, a commander in the navy of the United States, placed on to be placed upon the navy pension list, and the same amount navy paid to said John J. Young which was paid to him prior to the sion of $25 per act of Congress of first August, eighteen hundred and forty-one, mon to wit: twenty-five dollars per month. Said payment to be made according to the rules and regulations now existing, and commencing on the first of August, eighteen hundred and fortyone, the time when the pension of said Young was suspended; which payments shall be made from the navy pension fund, or out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved March 3, 1849.

CHAP. 178.-AN ACT for the relief of Charles Benns.

[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 Charles Benns, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, so much as remains undisturbed in the treasury of the United States, the. sum of three hundred and eighty-seven dol- $387 20 to be lars and twenty cents; being the net amount paid into the satisfaction of his treasury from the sale of his effects, which had been seized for non-payment of duties, in full discharge and satisfaction of his claim, specified in the accompanying report. Approved March 3, 1849.

CHAP. 179.-AN ACT for the relief of James Norris, and for other purposes.

paid him, in full claim against the U. S.

[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 Navy be, and he is hereby, His name directed to place the name of James Norris, of Sandwich, in be placed on the the State of New Hampshire, on the roll of invalid pensioners, roll.

invalid pension

Appropriation

ment of Terri

and pay him a pension at such rate per year as is provided by law for the total disability of an of an assistant surgeon in the navy of the United States, to commence on on the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and continue during his natural life.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be, and herefor the govern by are, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not other tory of Minneso- Wise appropriated the following sums, for the government of the Territory of Minnesota:

ta, viz:

Salaries of gov

For salaries of governor, three judges, and secretary, nine ernor and other thousand dollars;

officers.

age

Contingencies.

Pay and mile

of

For contingent expenses of said Territory three hundred and fifty dollars;

For compensation and mileage of the members of the legis mem-lative assembly, pay of officers and attendants, printing, stature, officers, and tionery, fuel, and other incidental expenses, thirteen thousand attendants, and other incidental seven hundred dollars.

bers of legisla

expenses.

Approved March 3, 1849.

Secretary of the

certain the value

which was de

British troops du

CHAP. 180.-AN ACT for the relief of James F. Sothoron.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asTreasury to assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to of certain tobac- ascertain the then value of the tobacco owned by the late James co owned by him F. Sothoron, and which was destroyed by the British troops stroyed by the during the late war, and to pay the amount thereof, out of any ring the war of moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of the said James F. Sothoron, deceased, as a paid to his legal full indemnity for the loss of personal property destroyed by the enemy during the late war with Great Britain, in consequence of the occupation of said Sothoron's buildings by the American forces by order of their commanding officer. Approved March 3, 1849.

1812.

Amount to be

representatives.

the district court

CHAP. 181-AN ACT for the relief of Peter Capella, administrator of Andrew Capella, deceased, and for the relief of John Capo, and for the relief of Elijah Petty and Hannah Petty, his wife, heirs of John Beardon, deceased.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as The judge of sembled, That the judge of the district court of the United of the U. S. for States for the northern district of Florida be, and he is hereby, the northern dis- authorized and directed to receive and adjudicate the claim of adjudicate their Peter Capella, administrator of Andrew Capella; and also the

trict of Florida to

claims, &e.

claim of John Capo, and also the claim of Elijah Petty and Hannah, his wife, heirs of John Beardon, and also the claim of Francis P. Ferreira, administrator of Francis Pass, deceased, under the provisions of the act of Congress of the twenty-sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, entitled "An

act for the relief of certain inhabitants of East Florida," and that said several claims may be settled by the treasury as are other cases under said act; Provided, however, That the petition for the allowance of such claim shall be presented to said judge, by the proper parties entitled to prefer the same, within one year from the passage of this act: And provided, also, That said parties shall respectively allege in such petition, and prove to said judge, reasonable cause for such petition not having been presented within the time prescribed and enacted by said act of June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four. Approved March 3, 1849.

Proviso.

CHAP. 182.-AN ACT for the relief of Thomas W. Chinn and others.

Thomas W.

ers discharged

judgment render

ing, or securing

[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, authorized to discharge Thomas W. Chinn and Mica- Chinn and othjah Courtney and the other sureties of Thomas Gibbs Morgan, from the payment late collector for the district of Mississippi, from the payment of of one-third of a one-third of the principal and interest of a judgment rendered ed against them against them in the circuit court of the United States in and for upon their paythe fifth circuit and district of Louisiana, upon their paying or the payment, of securing the payment of the residue of said judgment to the judgment. satisfaction of said Secretary: Provided the Secretary of the Treasury shall not be authorized to make the compromise of this claim as aforesaid unless he shall be satisfied that, from the party's pecuniary ability, said collector and his sureties, the said claim is not collectable; and, also, that it is for the interest of the United States such compromise be made. Approved March 3, 1849.

residue of said

Proviso.

CHAP. 183-AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Talbot and others.

of Indian affairs rected to ascer

property taken

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, Superintendent Missouri, be authorized and required to ascertain, by proof, the at St. Louis dinumber and value of the horses, mules, asses, and other pro tain the value of perty, forcibly taken from Thomas Talbot, Elisha Stanley, horses and other William Wolfskill, James Collins, Edwin M. Ryland, James from them by the Fielding, and Solomon Houck, by the Pawnee Indians, on the and report the night of the twelfth day of October, anno Domini eighteen hun- same to the Secdred and twenty-seven, at a place about twenty-five miles west of the Pawnee fork of the Arkansas river, and report the same to the Secretary of War, whose duty it shall be to pay over to the parties aforesaid the value of the property they respectively appro lost, and for that purpose the sum of four thousand one hun- amount dred and fifty-five dollars be, and the same is hereby, appro- ively. priated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved March 3, 1849.

retary of War.

$4,155

to the parties respect