being made for

to issue.

Proviso..

sided for more than twenty-five years last past, be, and the Upon payment same is hereby, confirmed and established; and that upon paysaid land a patent ment being made, or having been made for said land, by said Triplett, a patent shall be issued to him: Provided, That all or any previous right acquired, and grants or sales of said land by the United States, shall be, and the same are hereby, expressly saved and reserved from the operation of this act. Approved August 14, 1848.

CHAP. 186.-AN ACT for the relief of Richard Reynolds.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asA pension of $8 sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, diper month allow rected to place upon the pension list of invalid pensioners of

ed him.

the United States, Corporal Richard Reynolds; and that he be allowed a pension of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. Approved August 14, 1848.

CHAP. 187.-AN ACT granting a pension to John Clark.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asA pension of $4 sembled, That there be allowed and paid to John Clark, a solper month allow dier of the forty-fifth regiment of infantry in the late war with

him.

Great Britain, a pension at the rate of four dollars per month,
to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and forty-six, and to continue during his natural life; the said
Clark having been severely injured while in the line of his
duty, in September, eighteen hundred and fourteen.
Approved August 14, 1848.

Galphin under

CHAP. 188.-AN ACT for the relief of Milledge Galphin, executor of the last will and testament of George Galphin, deceased.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as The claim of sembled, 'That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is the late George hereby, authorized and required to examine and adjust the the treaty made claim of the late George Galphin, under the treaty made by and Cherokee In the governor of Georgia with the Creek and Cherokee Indians in 1773 to dians, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-three, and Amount found to pay the amount which may be found due to Milledge Galhis executor. phin, executor of the said George Galphin, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

with the Creek

be adjusted.

due to be paid to

Approved August 14, 1848.

CHAP. 189.-AN ACT for the payment of Charles Richmond.

To be paid $300 in full for his ser

marshal in the

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Charles Richmond, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap- vices as special propriated, the sum of three hundred dollars, in full payment district of Michi for his services as special marshal in aiding the marshal of gan in 1839 and the United States for the district of Michigan to preserve the neutral relations of the United States with the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, in eighteen hundred and thirtynine and eighteen hundred and forty. Approved August 14, 1848.

1840.

CHAP. 190.-AN ACT for the relief of Jesse Turner.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, confirmed unto Jesse Turner, of the State of Florida, one hundred and fifty acres of land lying on the north side of Trout creek, north of the river St. John, to the west of the Bouck house, in the county of Duval, and State of Florida, being the same tract of land surveyed to James Turner by order of the Spanish government on the fifteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and on which the said Jesse Turner has resided upwards of twenty years.

Approved August 14, 1848.

CHAP. 191.-AN ACT for the relief of Mary Taylor.

[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 and required to place the name of Mary Taylor, commonly called Polly Taylor, upon the revolutionary pension roll, at the rates fixed by the act of the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, as the widow of Jesse Taylor, for services performed by him as a sergeant in the revolutionary army; and that her pension commence on the seventh of April, eighteen hundred and forty-five. Approved August 14, 1848.

CHAP. 192—AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Thomas J.
V. Owen, deceased.

To be paid $200 for the occupation

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as sembled, That there be paid, out of any money in the trea of the house of sury not otherwise appropriated, to the administrator or other chicago during legal representative of the late Thomas J. V. Owen, deceased, the Black Hawk

the deceased at

the sum of two hundred dollars for the use and occupation of his house at Chicago during the Black Hawk war, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as a cholera hospital. Approved August 14, 1848.

the revenues of

CHAP. 193.-AN ACT for the relief of William B. Stokes.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asTo be paid from sembled, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, the Post Office De- authorized and directed to pay from the revenues of the Post partment $4,775 Office Department appropriated for mail transportation, to vice performed William B. Stokes, surviving partner of John N. C. Stockton Stockton & Co. in and Company, the sum of four thousand seven hundred and

for extra mail ser

by John N. C.

1936.

seventy-five dollars, for extra services performed by said John N. C. Stockton and Company, who were contractors for carrying the mail from Augusta, in the State of Georgia, to Mobile, in Alabama; said services having been rendered during the months of May, June, and July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; and which said sum shall be in full satisfaction of all claims for said extra services, and of all damages occasioned thereby.

Approved August 14, 1848.

amount of dam

CHAP. 194. AN ACT for the relief of Samuel Grice.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asTo be paid the sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is ages sustained by hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in him in Con the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amount of damby an officer of ages as, from the testimony furnished, shall appear to have the U. S. army in been sustained by Samuel Grice, in consequence of the seizure

quence of the

seizure of his boat

1836.

of his boat by an officer of the United States army, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, so far as said damages have not arisen from the negligence of said Grice.

Approved August 14, 1848.

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CHAP. 195.-AN ACT for the relief of Frederic Durrive.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in Congress asHis title to a sembled, That Frederic Durrive be, and he is hereby, con100ths acres of firmed in his purchase of lot number sixteen, in township sippi confirmed to number seventeen, of range number fifteen east, lying west of the Mississippi river, entered and paid for by him at the land office at New Orleans, containing one hundred and sixty-five

land in Missis

him.

acres and eleven-hundredths of an acre, and that a patent be issued to him therefor: Provided, however, That said Durrive shall first procure and file with the register of the district the assent in writing of the commissioners of schools, and a majority of the voters, in the township in which said land is situated, to such confirmation.

Other school lands to be select

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if such patent shall be issued to said Durrive, in pursuance of the section ed aforesaid, then the register of the land office and receiver of public money in said district, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall select and reserve for the use of schools in said township other lands in the same or adjoining township, of the same extent and quality with those described in the first section of this act.

Approved August 14, 1848.

CHAP. 196.-AN ACT granting a pension to William Pittman.

A pension of

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to place the name of William Pittman on the list of invaiid pensioners $3 per month alof the United States, and that the said Pittman be entitled to receive a pension of eight dollars per month, from the thirteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and to continue during his natural life.

Approved August 14, 1848.

lowed him.

CHAP. 197-AN ACT for the relief of John P. B. Gratiot and the legal representatives of Henry Gratiot.

[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 is hereby authorized and directed to ascertain whether the lead exacted of John P. B. and Henry Gratiot, as rent, by the United States agents of lead mines, was mined and smelted within the territory and upon the lands of the Ottawa, Pottawatomie, Chippewa, or other tribes of Indians; and, if so, to ascertain the amount, or value, so paid to said agents for the United States by said Henry and John P. B. Gratiot, and, after deducting the amount appearing on the books of the treasury, or found to be really due from said Gratiots, or either of them, to the United States, to pay the balance, if any, to John P. B. Gratiot and to the legal representatives of Henry Gratiot, deceased, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved August 14, 1848.

CHAP. 198.—AN ACT authorizing the payment of a sum of money to Robert
Purkis.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as$700 to be paid sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is him for having hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in and unassisted, a the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven vessel called the hundred dollars to Robert Purkis, of the State of Rhode gether with four Island, or to his legal representatives; which sum of seven

recaptured, alone

Little Sarah, to

seamen of the

British navy.

hundred dollars is paid to him as an evidence of the sense
entertained by Congress of his valor and good conduct in
having recaptured, alone and unassisted, a vessel called the
Little Sarah, together with four seamen of the British navy,
which prisoners were delivered to the district of Rhode Island,
and as a compensation for the prisoners so taken.
Approved August 14, 1848.

compensation for

the services of the

CHAP. 199.-AN ACT for the relief of William Hogan, administrator of
Michael Hogan, deceased.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as$16,831 to be sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he paid him in full hereby is, directed to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to William Hogan, administrator of Michael Hogan, deceased, the sum of sixteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty-seven cents, it being in full compensation for the services rendered and moneys advanced by the said Michael Hogan, as agent or factor for the Navy Department at Valparaiso.

deceased and moneys advanced by

hi as agent for

the Navy Depart

ment at Valpa.

raiso.

Approved August 14, 1848.

cost of certain

by him for the use of Indian students

at the Choctaw

CHAP. 200.-AN ACT to compensate R. M. Johnson for the erection of certain buildings for the use of the Choctaw academy.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asTo be paid the sembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized and rebuildings erected quired to receive proof of the cost of the buildings erected by Colonel Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, for the use of Indian students at the Choctaw academy, and when the cost of such buildings shall be so ascertained, to pay the same to said Johnson; and for the purpose aforesaid, the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved August 14, 1848.

academy.