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 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 159,160, 161,162. 1857. 517 CHAP. CLIX.—An Act for the Relief of the Inhabitants of the Parish ty" Ascension, Mucha, 1857, State cy" Louisiana. —·—-—-·—· Be it enacted bg the Senate and [Ruse of Representatives tf the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that certain tract or L d I. . parcel of land situate on the west side of the Mississippi, in the parish of Lou?;,,,,; nxusn Ascension, containing four arpents one toise and five feet in front, and finnedto the forty arpents in depth, as claimed by Isadore Blanchard, for the parish $:;*1* °f A"°“' church of the paiish of Ascension, under number three hundred and I ninety-one, and reported favorably on by the old board of commissioners for the eastern district of New Orleans Territory, and as represented in the survey of a portion of township eleven south, in ranges fourteen and fifteen east, in the surveys of the United States, southeastern district of Louisiana, west of the Mississippi, be and the same is hereby confirmed to the inhabitants of the parish of Ascension, to and for the uses and purposes for which the same has been heretofore held and used: Provided A¢¤'=<> <>P¢f€¤f¤ also, That this act shall be only considered a relinquishment on the part  m1"]` of the United States, and not to interfere with the rights of others. APPROVED, March 3, 1857. CHAP. CLX.—-An Act for the Relief ¢y‘” Daniel Wacaser. March 3, 18g_ Be it enacted bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- Daniel W**°¤S°*‘ terior is hereby authorized and directed to place the name of Daniel ;,°:,Dl;?O,?h;?,?f1 ain Wacaser, of the State of Georgia, upon the invalid pension list, at the rate $8 per month, of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen g‘;'Ef';a“·1·]856· hundred and fifty-six, and to continue during his natural life. ` APPROVED, March 3, 1857. Cnsr. CLXI.-An Act jbr the Relief of Mug Hooker. March 3, 1857. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and required to place the name of Mary _Arrears ofpeu- Hooker, widow of James Hooker, who was military or hospital store- gggpégegg aid keeper in the State of Connecticut, during the war of the Revolution, ,0,,,,,. ,,h;1d,£,_ from February, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, to November, seventeen hundred and eighty, on the pension roll of said State, under act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and subsequent 1838,ch.189- acts, at the rate of pension due for said service; and the amount so V0]- V· P· 3°3~ found due to be paid to the children of said Miary Hooker, deceased. Approved, March 3, 1857. CHAP. CLXH.-An Act for the Relekf oy"BelX1illiam W Belden, Administrator of Ebenezer March 31 1g5g_ en. —————-——— 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 authorized and directed to pay to William @8,624.84 to be W. Belden, administrator of Ebenezer Belden, out of any money in the §;igB;° ggggnlg; treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight thousand six hundred mm, Lf Ebeneand twenty-four dollars eighty-four cents, being the amount of loss sus- {6* B6ld¤¤y fC' tained by Ebenezer Belden by the destruction of his stock of goods by Osm" the British, on the nineteenth December, eighteen hundred and thirteen, at Buffalo, New York, in consequence of his store being used in part as a military depot by order of the quartermaster-general of the United States army. APPROVED, March 3, 1857. v0L. xi. PR1v.—68