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 THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 19, 20, 21, 22. 1858. 529 cers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed in settling the accounts of Major Jeremiah Y. Dashicll, paymastcr in the United States army, to credit him in the sum of twenty-three thou- $@,115 *0 b¤ sand one hundred and Efiecn dollars, that being the amount of public money fsf9i2t?? iztisu accidentally lost by him on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and for money mcififty-seven, in attempting to cross the bar of Indian River, Florida, for g?¤*”·u>' °“ by the purpose of paying the troops at Fort Capron, in that State. 1m' APPROVED, April 21, 1858. CHAP. XIX.-—An Act for the Reliqfqf the Heirs of Alexander Stevenson. April 21, 1858. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Treasurer of the United States be, and he is hereby, required to pay to the legal representatives of Alexander Stevenson, a soldier of the revolutionary war, in trust for the heirs of said Stevenson, the sum of six hundred and fifty-four $664 to be paid dollars, being the amount of money due to said Stevenson, from the time to Alexander of his enlistment, January one, seventeen hundred and seventy-six, until S""°““°"* the time of his discharge, in seventeen hundred and eighty-three. Approved, April 21, 1858. CHAP. XX.—An Adfor the Beliefqfbl C. Weems, of Louisiana. April 21, 1858. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the entry of the section Entry of hmd number sixty-eight (68), of township number two (2) north, of range fg §?Gi°m; number one (1) east, in the southwestern land district of Louisiana, by N. C. Weems, of that State, and patented on the first day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, bc, and is hereby, confirmed; and the Commissioner of the Land-Office shall cause ·to be rciimdcd any excess of money paid into the land-office in its purchase from the government. Approved, April 21, 1858. Can. XXI.-—An Acmw the Rdiejq/‘Fmn¢¤k Wlodeeki. April 21, mss. Be it enacted ky the Senate and lbuse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Francis Wlodecki, of Francis Wlo- Lake county, Illinois, is hereby authorized to locate one hundred and gggki m¤Y},°°“;° twenty acres of the public lands of the United States, to be selected from uc lgggés ° pu ` ' any of the public lands subject to private entry at the rate of one d0l— lar and a quarter per acre ; and upon return being made to the General Land-Office of such location, the President is hereby directed to issue a pawn; therefor to the said Francis Wlodcckiz And it is hereby provided, That the same shall be in full discharge for all claims which the said Wlodecki has on the government, arising under the act of Congress approved June thirty, eighteen hundred and ji_)7y;fau¢· [thirty-four], en- 1834, ¤h- 247· titled “An act granting land to certain cxilcs from Poland? V0]- iv- P- 743- Approved, April 21, 1858. CHA?. XXII.—An Act jbr the Reli¢y"q/ Duncan Raberuon. May 1, 1858. Be it enacted ky the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Duncan Robertson, the sum of seven hundred and forty-nine dollars $74932 *0 bv and ninety-two cents, in full for moneys paid by him to the navy yard at §*y€e£S‘:;l°;~°;, m_ Gosport, it being the amount expended for repairs of the Norwegian psi;-s on Norwobarque Ellen, {br damages encountered by said barquc in aiding and res- Eff b““l“° cuing the passengers of the steamer Central America. °n` APPIIOVED, May 1, 1858.