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 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 209, 210, 217. 1878. 545 dred and twenty dollars, in full compensation and satisfaction of the claim for the services of said Jonathan Rains as acting assistant surgeon of the Army, at Marshall, Illinois. Approved, June 14, 1878. CHAP. 210.-—An act for the relief of Andrew J. Worth. Jung 14, 1g7g_ Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Rwresentatiees of the United __ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- A, _1_ worm ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Andrew J Payment to. W0rth,of San Francisco, California, the sum of two thousand eight hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-eight cents, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full of all claims or demands against the United States on account of funds received by the collector of customs at San Francisco, California, from the clerk of the United States district court for the district of California, on the twenty- second day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, on account of judgment of condemnation against the schooner Caroline E. Foote, which judgment was lawfully remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury on the sixteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Approved, June 14, 1878. cusp. 217.-An set rm- are mist or Joseph r. wanna. June 15.1876- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of the Joseph F. Wil- General Land Office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, ¤<>¤· be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue to Joseph F. wI{)‘;“;;:1';‘({r,‘;“’“ Wilson, or his legal representatives, a number of warrants equal to two ` hundred acres, in tracts not less than the subdivisions provided for in the United States land laws, to be located by the said Wilson, or his legal representatives or assigns, on any of the unoccupied and unappropriated public lands of the United States, subject to preemption or homestead entry, in lieu of the southwest quarter of section twenty-nine, in township twenty-five north, of range four west, situate in White County, Indiana, and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirty-five, in township thirty-eight north, of range tour east, situate in Elkhart County, Indiana, which said tracts of land were entered by and patented to William Voight, Josiah Smith, and John H. 1§72.¤h·33§- Smith, under and by virtue of the provisions of the acts of Congress 1* S"‘*‘°··33"· approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and March 18y;,’ch_2y4_ third eighteen hundred and seventy-three, relating to additional home- 17 stat.,60s. steads, and by the said William Voight, Josiah Smith, and John H. Smith, after their said entry, sold and conveyed to the said Wilson, and of which the said Wilson was divestcd and disposscssed by the judgments and decrees of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Indiana, at the November term, anno Dolnini eighteen hundred and seventy-six, thereof, by reason, as the said court held and decided, of a prior disposal of said lands by the United States to persons other than the said William Voight, Josiah Smith, and John II. Smith; and the said Wilson or his legal representatives or assigns, after the location of the said warrants on such lands as he or they may select, shall be allowed patents for the lands so located. And the lands taken, selected, and located, as authorized a.nd pro vided by this act, shall be in full satisfaction of any claim, right, or benefit which the said William Voight, Josiah Smith, and John II. Smith may have, or may have had, under and by virtue of the said acts of Congress, as well as in full satisiaction of any claim which the said Wilson, as assignee, or grantee of the said William Voight, Josiah Smith, and John H. Smith, may have, or may have had, against the United States. xx-S35