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 TWENTY-EIGI{'F}1 CONGRESS. Sess.1. Ch. 90, 91. 1844. 917 sonable price for thirty and nineteen thirty-sixths chaldrons of Virginia coal delivered to Lieutenant Jonathan Prescott, as agent of the United States at Nantucket harbor, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: proviso_ Provided, The whole amount to be paid under this act shall not exceed the sum of four hundred and twelve dollars and twelve cents. Approved, June 15, 1844. Smrvrs I. CHAP. XC.-—An Act for I/tc rclizf of Woodson Wren, of Mississm. June 15, 1844. Be it enacted, of-c., That Woodson Wren, of the state of Mississippi be, and he is hereby, conlirmed in the following described tracts and Cermintracts parcels of land, to Wit! Fractional section twenty-tive, in township ¤fl=¤¤d wfrfifmseven, range nine west, including the site of the old French fort, and °d ’°'h°m· containing about one hundred and twenty-three acres; also, a portion of fractional section number twenty-four, in township seven, range nine west, being lot number six, containing eighty acres, situated on the east side of the Bay of Biloxi, in the county of Jackson, Mississippi, claimed by virtue of a deed from Littlepage Robertson, and reported for confirmation by the register and receiver of the land office at Jackson court-house, Mississippi, dated July twelve, eighteen hundred and twenty-three. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the paremm be General Land Office, upon the passage of this act shall issue a patent i¤S¤<=d· for the same: which patent shall operate only as a relinquishment on the part of the United States of all right and title to said land. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said Woodson Wren shall W. Wren al. be allowed to enter a quantity of land, which, together with the fore- l°W€¤l l0 ¢¤l¤¤’ going described tracts, by this act confirmed to him, will make a num- md' ber of acres equal to eight hundred arpens, being the amount confirmed to him by act of Congress, entitled "An act for the relief of Woodson Act of March Wren," approved eighteen hundred and thirty [-one], out of any unap- 31 1831. ¤l¤· 125 propriated lands in the state of Mississippi subject to private entry: conforming, in such entry, to the divisions and subdivisions established by law. APPROVED, June 15, 1844. Scururs I. Cum-. XCI.-An Act for the relief of Eat0n Nance. June 15, 1844. Whereas it satisfactorily appears that on the second day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, a patent issued from the General Land Preamble. Office of the United States, where the same was duly recorded, to Eaton Nance for a certain tract of land containing one hundred and sixty acres, being the south-east quarter of section thirty-four, of township ten north in range eight west in the tract appropriated by certain acts of Congress for military bounties, in the Territory of Arkansas~—which said patent was duly countersigned by Josiah Meigs, Commissioner of the General Land Office, but by accident was not signed by the President of the United States. Therefore, Be it enacted, r$~c., That said patent shall be deemed and held to be perfect and valid to all intents and purposes as though the same had Patemro be been signed by the President of the United States on the day of the date Bil; *;;;*3Tff thereof; and that all questions or disputes that may arise in relation to hs d,,,°_ Y said land or the title to the same, shall be decided and determined as though said patent had been perfect from the day of its date. Ammovmn, June 15, 1844. 4 B 2