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 844 THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. L Ch. 71, 72. 1860. V°1·Vii· P· 532- B of the treaty of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, with the Saginaw Chippewa Indians, out of any money ID the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 1, 1860. June 1 1g6g_ CHAP. LXXI.—An Act to grant the Rfghtef Preémptien to a certain Tract of Land, in -———-—¥—-· the Sgzte of Missouri, to the Heirs and legal Representatives ry" T homes Maddm, de- CMIS . Be it enacted by the Senate and fbuse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the heirs and legal repre- Heirs, gm, of sentatives of Thomas Maddin, deceased, late of the State ot Missouri, be, Th<>¤¤¤S M¤ddE¤ and they are hereby, authorized to enter and purchase, at the price of one ggngggegdigggliiié dollar and twenty-tive cents per acre, a tract of land containing eight hundred arpents, or six hundred and eighty acres and fifty-six hundredths, surveyed for the said Thomas Madden, in his own right, as per patent certificate of survey number eighteen hundred and thirty-one, reported to the General Land-Ofiice by Surveyor-General Langham as having been surveyed on the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and situated on the waters of Joachim Creek, in township forty-one north, of range five east, of the fifth principal meridian, in the county of Jefferson and State of Missouri. l`¤¤¤¤tS to is- Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the Gens°° °h°r°f°r' eral Land-Otiice be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, upon the entry and payment aforesaid, to cause a patent, in due form of law, to be issued to the said heirs and legal representatives of the said Thomas Maddin, deceased, in conformity with the description given in patent certificate number ninety-two, as issued by Frederick Bates, then recorder in the ofiice of " recorder of land titles " in Saint Louis, in the said State of Missouri, bearing date, at his said office, the first day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, in which said certificate reference is made to the said tract of land, as having been confirmed to the said Thomas Madden, pursuant to the acts of Congress respecting claims to lands in the Territories of Orleans and Louisiana, and the Territory of Missouri, and as having been regularly surveyed on the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and designated on the connected plat of United States surveys, in the United States surveyor-general’s office at Saint Louis, Missouri, as number eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and in which said patent certificate number ninety-two it is certified that the said Thomas Maddin is entitled to receive a patent for the said tract of land, according to the said patent certificate of survey, as aforesaid, number eighteen hundred and thirty-one: Provided, however, That the right of preemption and purchase herein granted shall cease at the end of two years from the date of the passage of this act, and that the right and title of the United States in and to said land shall not be affected nor impaired by virtue of any of the provisions of this act in the event of the failure of the said heirs and legal representatives of Thomas Maddin to avail themselves of said right of preemption and purchase within the said period o two years. Ar1>1tov1—:n,June 1, 1860. J¤¤€ 1, 1860- CHAP. LXXII.—-An Act jbr the Relief of William P. Bowhay. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ry" Representatives if the United AUC f States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of eight hundred $00 Q;“{,‘§fu;’&m dollars be, and the same is hereby, allowed to William P. Bowhay, for P. Bowhay. severe personal injuries received by him whilst employed by the United States on board the frigate Congress, and which rendered him a cripple