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 FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch.l1°7,1I8,119. 1818. 2I3 respect to the direct tax imposed by the act of August the second, one Act or Aug. 2, thousand eight hundred and thirteen, on equitable principles, and to 18l3,°h·37· make such allowances, and admit such credits, as, from the circumstances of that collection district, may appear to him reasonable and `ust. J Approved, April 20, 1818. Sracrucrz I. CHAP. CXVII.-—./2n Jlcifar the relief of Benjamin Berry. April 20, 18,8. Be it enacted, Qc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to audit and settle, upon such Claim to be terms as may appear to him equitable and proper, the claim of Benjamin °X°mi¤°d md Berry, of the State of Massachusetts, for three hundred dollars, on ac- S°m°d’ count of a contract made in January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, between him and the collector of the port of Machias, by which the said Berry engaged to bring, for the benefit of the United States, certain property from the wreck of the British ship Diligent. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount of the claim, when Appropriation. ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, April 20, 1818. Sruurs I. Curr. CXVIII.~—An dol for the relief of James Mackay, of the Missouri Terri- April 20, 1818. tory. ·——·-———- Be it enacted, Qc., That James Mackay, of the Missouri territory, be, and he is hereby, authorized to file, with the recorder of land titles Aufhoyizgd to at St. Louis, in said territory, a warrant of survey or concession from file with the rethe Spanish government of Louisiana, bearing date the first day of ‘§’;"i;'a°§§;gbh February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, for the quan- wammt crm,. tity of eighteen hundred arpents of land, granted to James M’Daniel; WY. &¤· and it shall be t.he duty of the said recorder of land titles to examine the evidence which may be produced to him, in relation to the concession and claim to the land aforesaid, and shall report the substance of the evidence, with his opinion thereon, to the Commissioner of the General Land Ofhce, which shall be laid before Congress, at their next session, for their decision thereon. Approved, April 20, 1818. Srarure I. CHAP. CX1X.-edn Act for the relief of Peggy Bailey. April 20, 1MB_ Be it enartecl, Qc., That it shall be lawful for Peggy Bailey, sister of Dixon Bailey, (a Creek Indian of the half blood, who was slain in the May enter u service of the United States, at the capture of Fort Mims,) and she is l“;'d_ hereby, authorized to enter, without payment, with the register of the mem P y land office in whose district the land lies, three hundred and twenty acres of land, so as to include the settlement and improvements of the said Dixon Bailey in the Alabama territory: Provided, That neither Proviso. the said Peggy Bailey, nor her heirs, shall have power of alienating said land, or any part thereof, in any manner whatever; and in case of the voluntary abandonment of the possession and occupancy of the said tract of land by the said Peggy Bailey, or of her heirs, hereafter, the said land shall revert to the United States. Approved, April 20, 1818.