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 282 SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 75, 76, 77, 78. 1823. S.,. ,,,.,,,,1 IL Cum- LXXV. — An Hot for the relief of Eleanor Lawrence. March 3, 1823. Be it enacted, ¢§·c.,That there be paid to Eleanor Lawrence, out of °"—_-`_"- any money in treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one Damages to be thousand and seventy dollars, being in full for damages, occasioned by gt';} jyzcfg the military occupation of her farm on Long Island, in thestate of ' New York, from the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, to the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. Approved, March 3, 1823. S·r·.u·u·rn II. -_-_- M“'°*‘ 3· lm crm. Lxxvr. -.a,. na for the nun of John 1;. Hagan. Be it enacted, Qc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is {Eiga, hereby, required, with the assent of the surety of John B. Hogan, to 3 arm J0h§sB_ stay all further proceedings in any suit or suits, commenced in the iiogw to be District Court of the United States for the District of Alabama, mlm against John B. Hogan, late a paymaster in the service of the United States, and his surety, until the end of the next session of Congress, and until the final adjustment of the claims of the officers and volunteers engaged in the late campaign against the Seminole Indians, for horses and other property lost. Ammovnn, March 3, 1823. Srarnrn 11. ·-"*-' CHAP. LXXV1l.—- An Hctfvr the relief of Robert Purdy. 816 dollars 70 Be it enacted, dw., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he ffllj,,:;’,,bf,ul;,i;,i is hereby, authorized to cause to be paid to Robert Purdy, late lieu- ` tenant—colonel in the army of the United States, the sum of eight hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy cents, the amount of judgment, fine, and cost, paid by said Purdy for the imprisonment of Williani Luty; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1823. Snrurn II. `—`_` M"°h 3· 1823- Crur. LXXVIII.-—An Aer for- the relief of the heirs and representatives qf Alexander Montgomery, deceased. C¢¤‘*¤i¤ l¤¤<i¤ Be it enacted, dw., That the heirs and legal representatives of g;ij:,,i“°,;l·Hex;}:,°Z Alexander Montgomery, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authordsr Montgoms- ized and empowered to enter four quarter sections of land, at any '7· time within three years from the passing of this act, at either of the land offices in the states of Mississippi or Alabama ; which said four quarter sections shall be in full satisfaction of all their claims for, and on account of, five hundred and seventeen arpens of land, situate on the waters of the Homochitto, in the now state of Mississippi, to which Alexander Montgomery was entitled by virtue of a Spanish order of survey for four hundred arpens, to Solomon Whitley, dated the fifth of May, seventeen hundred and ninety, and another for three hundred arpens, to John Montgomery, dated the twenty-sixth of April, seventeen hundred and ninety, which said lands have been in part sold by the United States. Lands must Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no lands shall be entered g;;':, j’€°‘;h%f; in Virtue of this act, which shall not have been previously offered at sus, p public sale ; nor shall any lands, surrendered under the authority of iiié 2 °i'hl\€;">l¤ wt, Gntltled "An act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands ’ ’° ‘ ‘ prior to the first day of July, ]820," be so entered, until such lands shall have again been offered at public sale. Armovnn, March 3, 1823.