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 850 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 69, 72, 74. 1855. William Gerard, and Rachel Blue, (formerly Rachel Gerard,) the only children and heirs of Joseph Gerard, a, messenger of the United States Children of to the Indians, who was killed in seventeen hundred and ninety-two, bg, Joseph Gerard and they or their heirs are hereby permitted to enter, each one of them gglfimgd gngutgi severally, or his or their heirs, one section of the public lands, without {qu fm. his go,- the payment of auyoconsidorgtiou for ·said three sections, being in full vxces. payment for the patriotic scrvxccs of said Joseph Gerard, and m accordance with the spirit; of the inducements authorized by President W&Sl1- ington to be held out to such persons as would consent to carry a message from F ort Washington, now Cincinnati, in seventeen hundred and ninety- two, to tho hostile Indians of the then Northwest Territory. APPROVED, February 10, 1855. Feb. 10, 1855. CHAP. LXIX.—-Ap Actjbr lhe Re;iq]:°S<gfD;rz¢ M0:·.;c, ofEssex, County of Chittenden; ’"i‘*"‘ cn tze tate 0 ermon. D ani B1 Mom Be it enacted by the Senate and House ¢y" Representatives of the United to be puma on State.? of America in Omrgregs asseméled, That the Secretary of the P°¤S*°¤ *31%* $8 Intemor be, and he hereby 1S, directed to place the name of Dmuol Morse, £grcIE°1l:fg5;?mof Eoscx, county of Chittenden, zurd State of Vermont, on the listiof invalid pensioners, at the rata of mght dollars per month, commencing from the Erst day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. Approved, February 10, 1855. Fab. 10, 1855. CHAP. LXXH. —-An Act of lhe Reliqfg the West Felicrzzna Railroad and the Georgia ——-———--— ilroad and an/sing Compames. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the D t_ _1 Treasury bc, and he is hereby, authorized to refund to the Wcst Foliciana. ups °" lmR:1ilro·1d Com an the amount aid b them in `udvments obtained a n b _ ¤ _ P Y P _ Y J _ lgllqnyllgllto l)Vcs(g agamsh sand company, by suits instituted on duty goods gwcn by €gh°""‘“ R- R- said company for tho importation of certain bars of railroad iron ' imported at New Orleans, in the month of July, eighteen hundred and _ thirty-six, and gb New York, in tho szrmc rnonth of the same year: 1’r0v¤s0· Provzcled, That 1h shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that tho said railroad bars have been and are now permanently laid down upon the railroad of tho aforesaid company, except such part thereof as may be proved to the satisfaction of said secretary to have boon lost. by the sinking of tho steamboat Choctaw, in an attempt to transport the same from New Orleans to Bayou Sara. C /}}=~¤, I? ll? S100. 2. And be itfurzhcr enacted, That the Sccrcmry of the Treasury n”f£H§=£lkm CO: bc, and he is hcrcby, authorized to refund to the Georgia. Railroad and _Banking Company the duties collected on certain railroad iron imported Pr°v"°‘ by said company: Pmvidml, That said company shall prove to the satisihction of tho Secretary of the Treasury that the rails so imported were actually laid down at or about tho time when the rails of the Red River Company, the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, gud the Monroe Rzulroad Company were lend d0wn—~—on the reuls of wluch companies Congress has already remitted the duties. Approved, February 10, 1855. Feb, 13, 1855, CHAP. LXXIV.—- An Act j?>z· the 1feliegf of Polly Carver, Widow and Executrix of ——····--——-—-—--——- Nullxan Carver, deceased. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United to bP¤UydQM‘fY<iri States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of three hundred of  Jl1I3Q__ ond thirty-four dollars and seventy-nine cents be, and the same hereby umn Carver. 1s, zxpproprmted out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropri-