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 848 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 61, 62, 63. 1855. amount thus ascertained to the said Samuel A. Belden and Company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the execution by them of a proper and legal assignment to the United States of all their right to the amount so refunded when recovered from the govern— ment of Mexico. Approved, February 10, 1855. pcb_ 101 1g5s_ CHAP. LXI.-An Act confirming a Land Claim to Elyab W/zite, of the Terrizoyy qf _ Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of Doctor Elijah White, to six hundred and forty acres of land on Baker’s Bay, near Cape Settlement of Disappointment, formerly in Oregon, now in Washington Territory, undu- 1,,,,,, ,,1,,,,,, of the act of Congress approved September twenty-seven, eighteen hundred Elijah White, and fifty, creating the office of surveyor-general, and making donations in llgffr  {jc Oregon, shall not suffer any prejudice by reason of his absence from his making done; settlement, as set forth in his petition; but the said claim, if in other gms of land in respects within the provisions of the said act of September twenty-seven, wgom eighteen hundred and fifty, shall be confirmed by the surveyor-general to the said Elijah White and his assignees, but not to interfere with any reservation that may be needed by the United States for light-house or other public uses, nor to the prejudice of any valid adverse right, if such exist. Armzovmo, February 10, 1355. F eb. 10, 1855. CHAP. LXII. —— An Act for the Rellefof the Administrators of Oliver Lee, deceased. 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 to Charles H. Lee, administrator, and Eliza Lee, administratrix, of the estate of Oliver Lee, late of _$580.82 to be the city of Buffalo, deceased, out of any moneys in the treasury not ¥:;‘:f§x;FP’°‘ otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and eighty dollars and 05,,,, LW thirty-two cents, it being for the amount of a judgment recovered by the said Oliver Lee against Pierre A. Barker, formerly Collector of the port of Bufalo Creek, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of New York, in the second circuit, and which was docketed on the said thirtieth August, eighteen hundred and forty-four. Approved, February 10, 1855. pcb_ 10, 1g5g_ Crmr. LXIII. —- An Act for the Relief Gjgprge Bush, of Thurston County, Washington ·;-—-- CTT! Ty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of George Bush to six hundred and forty acres of land in Thurston county, Wlrashington Land 0mm ill Territory, in virtue of his early settlement and continued residence and 'Washington Ter- cultivation, as set forth in the memorial passed on the seventeenth March, {z°°*g°°<;°¤;llg*£g eighteen hundred and fifty-four, by the Legislative Assembly of Washingmd his €,,,·,,_ ton Territory, be, and the same is hereby, conhrmed-—the one half to the said George Bush, and the other half to his wife; and it shall be the duty of the surveyor-general of the said Territory of Washington to designate and set apart the quantity of land aforesaid, to embrace the residence and settlement of the said George Bush, according to the lines of the public surveys, and for the claim hereby confirmed, but not in such a manner as to interfere with any reserve or valid adverse right, if any such exist, to any part of the land claimed as aforesaid; and upon the