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 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS or ras UNITED STAT ES, Passed at the yirst session, which was begun and held at the Oily rf Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Jllonday, the fourth day of December, 1843, and ended on the seventeenth dag of June, 1844. Joni: TYLER, President of the United States.; Wimiin P. Mazvsunr, President of the Senate, pro tempore; Joim W. Jonns, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I. March 26, 1844. CHAP. VI.-—An Act for the relief of John Jlfullings. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ry Representatives of the Land title con- United States if America in Congress assembled, That the title to the H"‘“d· south-east uarter of section twent, the whole of section twenty-one q . Y . . . Y > and the north-west quarter of section twenty-eight, in township seventeen north, range fifteen east, of the Columbus land district, of Mississippi, heretofore located to satisfy the claim of Alabatcha, the wife of John Mullings, be, and the same is hereby confirmed to the said John Mullings, to have and to hold the same right and interest in the same as he would have held had he been returned in Ward’s register: and that the President is hereby directed to cause to be issued a patent to the said John Mullings for the above described lands, as in other cases. Approved, March 26, 1844. Snrurs I. -———-—- April 2, 1844. CHAP. IX.-dn ./Zctfor the relief of George Davenport, of Rock Island, in the sta/e "‘_""‘ of Illinois. Be it enacted, <§·c., That George Davenport be, and he is hereby, au- Authorized to thorized to enter the fractional quarter section of land upon which he ,*****5* cmam resides, on Rock Island, in the state of Illinois, it being the south-east anfractional quarter of section twenty-five, in township numbered eighteen north, range numbered two west of the fourth principal meridian, upon his paying to the receiver of public moneys of the United States land ofiice at Dixon the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the same, upon which a final certificate and patent shall issue, as in other cases. Arvnovisn, April 2, 1844. S1·A·rU·rs I. — May 23, ]844_ CHAP. X1X.—An Act for the re/irf if the legal representatives of Captain Samuel -1 Shannon, deceased. Be it enacted, ¢§~c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is To bgcyqdirod hereby, directed to credit the accounts of Captain Samuel Shannon, puh Gsflilnb ¤l· late an assistant quartermaster in the service of the United States, with 1g:;"‘§;;,Oa,;e the allowances made under the audit of the Secretary of Vllar, in his Paid, report to Congress, dated the thirteenth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three; and to pay to the legal representatives of Captain (908)