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 824 THIRTY~THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 253, 254, 255, 256. 1854. A¤g~ 5. 1854- Curr. CCLIH. —An Act far the Relief of A. S. Laugherg. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Land warrant States of America in Congress assembled, That upon its being made to §;’af;‘l;,§°OQ‘ S' appear to the Commissioner of Pensions by sufficient prooh to be judged certain proof of by him, that the said A. S. Laughery servered [served] as a clerk in ming math- the Commissary Department of the United States Army in Mexico during the late war with that nation, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Pensions to issue to the said A. S. Laughery a land warrant for such an amount of acres (according to the time of the service proven) as he would have been entitled to under existing laws if he had served the same time in the army of the United States in said war. Approved, August 5, 1854. Aug. 5 1854. CHAP. CCLIV.——-An Act jbr the Reliefcf the Legal Representatives of Charles Pauie. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of tbe United Error in land States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner- of {233; gjgffgggs the General Land—Ofiice be, and he is hereby, authorized and required reetcd. to correct the error in the description of the claim for land by Charles Pavie (number thirty-seven) in the report of the register and receiver 0f the land-ofiice at Ouachita, Lousiana, dated July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and confirmed by the act entitled “An act confirming certain land claims in Louisiana," approved July sixth, 1842,<>h·50· eighteen hundred and forty-two, and to have the same located on the south or right side of Red River descending, not exceeding the quantity claimed and confirmed as aforesaid : Provided, That this is only to operate as a quitclaim on the part of the United States. Arr-novisn, August 5, 1854. Aug- 5, }854· CHAP. CCLV. ··—An Act for the Relief of the Heiv·s of Captain blatthew Jack, deceased. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United OM Y€¤F’S ex- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the {lr3Q?}- géfggaw Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to Samuel Jack. Jack, for himself and the other heirs of Matthew Jack, deceased, late a captain in the Pennsylvania line in the continental establishment of the war of the Revolution, one year’s extra pay of a captain in such service, as promised by the resolves of Congress, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, August 5, 1854. AUS- 5, 1854- Crur. CCLVI.-—-·An Act for the Relay` of the Legal Ihirs of Benjamin Métoyer. Be it enacted by the Senate and Lbmse of Representatives of the Mzited B¤¤J_· M¤@¤y<=¤‘ States of America in Congress assembled, That Benjamin Metoyer, of g33Q` Natchitoches Parish, of Louisiana, be authorized to enter for himself and the heirs of'Ben_j. the other heirs of Benjamin Metoyer, deceased, [as] near as may be by M“*°Y°*· legal subdivisions, one hundred and twenty-three and twelve one hundreths acres of land, out of any public lands belonging to the United States. Bu5?;€*§;$;1g;i$‘ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the Landharomforc com Office be authorized to issue to the said heirs and legal representatives, Ermed to them. patents for the lands heretofore confirmed to them or those under whom they claim by acts of Congress. Approved, August 5, 1854.