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 210 FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. S¤ss.I. Ch.81,85. 1818. To be be paid Sprague, late owner of a fishing vessel called the schooner Nine Sisters, the ¤¤¤¤¤¤¢ of of sixty-six tons burden, and the legal representatives of the persons 25x2g;} composing the late crew `of said vessel, the amount of the allowance to would have which said vessel would have been entitled, had she returned into port }•f¤¤£' ¤¤¤i*l¤d» accordin to law, to be distributed in the manner prescribed in the fifih jtctijflujyzg section of the act, entitled "An act laying a duty on imported salt, 1813, oh. 35. l granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the iisheries,” passed on the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen. Approved, April 18, 1818. Srururs I. Ami; gg, 1mg_ Cnr. LXXXI.-An dctfor the relief of th; widow and children of Jacob Gmejy, ·———·-—-— decease . Be it enacted, ¢§·c., That, upon the payment into the treasury, by the The mm representatives of Jacob Graeil, deceased, formerly of Lancaster, in the gw_.,; 3,,,,,1, State of Pennsylvania, of the sum of six thousand eight hundred and Grwl} dv¢’d. forty-seven dollars and one cent, being the balance found due to the
 * ’p::‘g:;l:;§fd United States upon the settlement of the accounts of the said Jacob

&_c_Graefl, as a collector of the revenue, the said representatives, and the estate of the said Jacob Graefli and his sureties, shall be discharged fiom any further claim on the part of the United States, and the accounting officers of the treasury shall be, and hereby are, authorized and empowered to give them a full acquittance and release from the same, and from all suits and judgments on account thereof Avrnovnn, April 20, 1818. Srnurs I. April 20, 1818. CHAP. .—Jh Act for the relizyzgygs Major Loring Justin and George R. °°_`_1-'_-—__` 8 • Be it enacted, dw., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby Claim of Major authorized and empowered to compromise and settle, upon such terms }·°;‘“K {*;*3*** as in his discretion shall appear just and reasonable, the claim against ° ° °° °°Loring Austin, major by brevet in the army of the United States, for six thousand six hundred and seventy-three dollars and ninety cents, on account of nine judgments obtained against the said Major Austin in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, for the arrest, detention, and confinement, of nine persons, to wit: Elisha Dennison, Asa Day, George C. Conant, Thomas Stedman, David Colleen, John Philips, Willard Seaton, James Goddard, and Uriah H. Orvis, in obedience to an order of the twenty-fifth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, is ued to the said Loring Austin by the late Brigadier-General Zebulon Pike, commanding at that time the forces of the United States in and around Sackett’s Harbor. Expenses in Sno, 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be
 * l:’;;’:‘:;:5:j"’“ also authorized and empowered to compromise and settle, upon such

' terms as in his discretion shall appear just and reasonable, the claim of the said Major Austin for six hundred and seven dollars and twenty-six cents; the sum, as he alleges, necessarily expended in making defence against the nine suits aforesaid. Chim ,,5 g4_ Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be R. Wells to he also authorized and empowered to settle, upon the terms aforesaid, the ”°"l“l· claim of George R. Wells, of New York, for five thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-three cents, the amount of damages obtained against him by the nine persons aforesaid : And also, the claim of six hundred and eighty-seven dollars and four cents, the necessary costs incurred in defending the nine suits aforesaid. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the amount of the claims