him for a building

Florida, taken

ted States.

CHAP. 125.-AN ACT for the relief of Bennet M. Dell.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as$750 to be paid sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Bennet at Newnansville, M. Dell, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise apthe use of the Uni-propriated, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars, being for the value of a certain building at Newnansville, in Florida, which was taken for the use of the United States by order of Colonel Francis R. Sanchez, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and continued in the use of the United States as a blockhouse and magazine until eighteen hundred and forty-one, when it was abandoned and pulled down. Approved August 5, 1848.

of Patents to pay

CHAP. 126. AN ACT for the relief of E. G. Smith.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asCommissioner sembled, That the Commissioner of Patents be authorized to him such com- pay E. G. Smith, from the patent fund, such compensation tra services as he for extra service, out of office hours, rendered by him in the may deem a fair preparation of the agricultural report in eighteen hundred and the labors per forty-four and eighteen hundred and forty-five, as in the Com

pensation for ex

remuneration for

formed.

missioner's judgment is a fair remuneration for the labor performed, on satisfactory proof being furnished him of the number of hours so employed, and according to the usual rate for similar services.

Approved August 5, 1848.

A pension of lowed him.

CHAP. 127. AN ACT for the relief of John Manly.

[SEC, 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as$12 per month al sembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and required to place the name of John Manly on the pension list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him a pension at the rate of twelve dollars per month from the fourth of September, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. Approved August 5, 1848.

to a certain tract

CHAP. 128.-AN ACT for the relief of Charles Cappel.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep

Title confirmed resentatives of the United States of America in Congress as of land in the par- sembled, That Charles Cappel, of the parish of Avoyelles, ish of Avoyelles, State of Louisiana, his heirs and assigns, be forever confirm

Louisiana.

ed in the title, use, and possession of all that certain tract, lot and parcel of land situate within the said parish of Avoyelles, at Marksville, in the prairie, and embraced within the grant of the Spanish government to Noel Soileau, lying within section numbered twenty-seven, of township two north, of range four east, as described upon the plat of the public survey of = the lands of the southwestern district of Louisiana, to wit: that tract occupied by the said Charles Cappel, containing two hundred superficial arpents, five arpents front by forty arpents deep, not heretofore confirmed to any other claimant. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury cause the said tract of two hundred superficial arpents to be surveyed, and a patent to issue to said Cappel, his heirs and assigns, for the same. Approved August 5, 1848.

CHAP. 129.-AN ACT for the relief of Robert Ellis.

lowed him in ad

ceives.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as- A pension sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, re- $66 per annum alquired to pay to Robert Ellis, of the State of Tennessee, out dition to the pen of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sion he now re sum of sixty-six dollars per annum, for and during his natural life, in addition to the thirty dollars per annum now paid him under the act of seventh of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in consequence of wounds received by 'him in the war of the Revolution; said pension to commence from and after the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.

Approved August 5, 1848.

CHAP. 130.-AN ACT for the relief of Amzy Judd.

[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, out of any unappropriated money, to Amzy Judd, of the county of Onondaga, New York, the sum of twenty-four dollars, that being the amount still due him as encouragement for his enlistment into the army of the United States under the provisions of the act of Congress approved January twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirteen.

A warrant to

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner issue to him for of the General Land Office shall be, and is hereby, author- 160 acres of land. ized and required to issue a warrant in favor of Amzy Judd, for one hundred and sixty acres of land, to be located upon any unlocated land belonging to the United States, and now subject to entry.

Approved August 5, 1848.

1

Name to

sion roll.

be

CHAP. 131.-AN ACT for the relief of Catharine Fulton, of Washington county, Pennsylvania.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asplaced on the rev. sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, olutionary pen authorized and required to place the name of Catharine Fulton upon the revolutionary pension roll, under the rates fixed by the acts of the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirtyeight, and third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, as the widow of Captain Samuel Fulton, for twelve months' service as a captain in the revolutionary army; and that her pension commence on the first of January, eighteen hundred and forty-five.

Approved August 5, 1848.

William McKen

CHAP. 132-AN ACT for the relief of the legal representative of William
McKenzie, late a seaman on board the United States ship Vincennes.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asThe sum due to sembled, That the sum due to William McKenzie, late a seazie, deceased, to man on board of the United States ship Vincennes, at the be paid to his time of his death, as determined by the proper accounting legal representative on presenta officers of the treasury, may, and shall be, paid to the legal fied copies of let representative of the said William McKenzie, on such repreor of administra. sentative presenting to the proper officer an exemplification a

tion of duly certi

tion.

or duly certified copy of letters testamentary, or letters of administration, granted, or which shall be granted, to such representative by any State court of competent jurisdiction and authority to grant the same.

Approved August 5, 1848.

rescinding of a

to be audited and

CHAP. 133.-AN ACT for the relief of J. Throckmorton.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as His claim for sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, loss sustained by authorized and directed to audit and adjust the claim of J. certain contract Throckmorton against the United States, for any damage or loss adjusted. sustained by him in consequence of the rescinding of a certain eontract on the twentieth August, one thousand eight hundred and forty, without any fault and against the wish of the said Throckmorton; which contract was entered into between him and Major McRae, a quartermaster of the army of the United States, on the sixteenth day of August, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty, who was duly authorized to make the said contract; and by the terms of which contract the said Throckmorton, as master of the steamer Chip

pewa, was required to transport Brigadier General Atkinson, together with eight companies of the infantry of the United States army, from Jefferson barracks, near St. Louis, to Fort Crawford, in Wisconsin, and to furnish two keel boats of the 'first class, in addition to the steamer, for the use of the said troops; for which he was to receive as compensation the sum Eof two hundred dollars per day, to commence on the twentyfirst of the same August; and that, upon an adjustment of the said claim, the sum found due to the said Throckmorton, =not to exceed one thousand dollars, be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved August 5, 1848.

CHAP. 134.-AN ACT for the relief of Elijah H. Willis.

Collector Plymouth, North

services as iD

[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 Plymouth, in the State of North Carolina, is hereby authorized to pay Elijah H. Willis Carolina, to pay the sum of twenty-six dollars and sixty-five cents for his him $26 65 for his services as inspector and measurer, in the discharge of the cargo of schooner Carpenter's Son, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-five; and that the Secretary of the Treasury allow to the collector aforesaid, in his account with the United States, the sum of twenty-six dollars and sixty-five cents aforesaid.

Approved August 5, 1848.

spector and meas

urer in the year

1845.

CHAP. 135.-AN ACT for the relief of Benjamin White.

[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 is hereby directed and authorized to give to Benjamin White a land warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land for military services rendered by him in the late war with Great Britain, which warrant may be located on any quarter section of public land now open to private entry.

Approved August 5, 1848.

CHAP. 136-AN ACT for the relief of William Culver.

[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 the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay thirteen hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-one cents, out of any moneys in the treasury

not otherwise appropriated, to William Culver, in full compensation for work on, and for materials furnished for, the United States custom-house at the city of New London, in the State of Connecticut.

Approved August 5, 1848.

of all demands un

against the United States.

CHAP. 137,-AN ACT for the relief of the heirs of Matthew Stewart.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre$143 48 to be sentatives of the United States of America in Congress aspaid them in full sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he der the claims hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to the heirs of of the deceased Matthew Stewart one hundred and forty-eight dollars and forty-eight cents, in full of all demands, under his claims as set forth in the report of Colonel Totten, of the engineer corps, dated nineteenth of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and directed to the Hon. John W. Davis; the said sum to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved August 5, 1848.

$66 63 per annum allowed her.

CHAP. 138. AN ACT for the relief of Sarah Stokes, widow of John Stokes.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as-" A pension of sembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and required to place the name of Sarah Stokes on the list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay her a pension at the rate of sixty-six dollars and sixty-three cents per annum, to commence on the fourth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty.

Approved August 5, 1848.

Name to be

of revolutionary pensioners.

CHAP. 139.-AN ACT for the relief of Jonathan Moore, of the State of
Massachusetts.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as placed on the roll sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Jonathan Moore, of the State of Massachusetts, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and that he be allowed such pension, under the act of June seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as would be allowed him if he had served six months; said pension to commence on the fourth of September, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.

Approved August 5, 1848.