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 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE ELEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,

Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of November, 1809, and ended the first day of May, 1810.

, President;, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; , President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 9th to the 19th day of December; , President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the 2d day of March, and from the 20th day of April to the 1st day of May, 1810; , Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE II.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury be authorized to settle the claim of William and Elias Rector, at a sum not exceeding three dollars per mile, for the lines which bound each survey, whether separate or adjoining other claims, for each survey which they have made, or may hereafter make, under the authority of the United States, of the private claims in the Kaskas- kia district, or Illinois territory, claimed by virtue of French or British grants, legally and fully made and executed, or by virtue of grants issued under the authority of former acts of Congress, by either of the governors of North West, (now Ohio) or Indiana territories, and which had already been surveyed by a person authorized to execute such survey.

, December 28, 1809.

Be it enacted, &c., That two years' residence, as required by an act, entitled "An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions, to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the right of patentees," shall not be required of Joseph Joshua Dyster, to enable him to obtain a patent for any discovery he has made in constructing iron bridges, and applicable to other architectural purposes; but he shall obtain a patent therefor on his conforming to the other requisitions of said act.

, February 5, 1810.

Be it enacted, &c., That the brig Joseph Ricketson, owned by Harry Caldwell and Amasa Jackson, which on or about the twenty-fifth day