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 TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 34, 35, 36. 1828. 375 STATUTE I. Cm?. XXXIV.——.d·n dot for the relief of John Shirlvey. APM Wi 1828- Be it enacted, ¢§~c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place John Shirkey on the pension list of military pension- To be placed ers of the United States, who shall be entitled to, and shall receive, a Q¤ YN P¢¤¤i0¤ pension, at the rate of five dollars thirty-three and one·third cents per I""' month, to commence on the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. Armovan, April 17, 1828. A Srn·u·ri: 1. Cnar. XXXV.—»An Act for the relief of Jntlumy Hcrmange. April 28, U52S_ Be it enacted, 4}-c., That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form, to Letters patent Anthony I-Iermange, of the city of Baltimore, in the state of Maryland, !°i”¤° f°*hi¤ for certain improvements in the machinery for propelling ships and other :,"Q§,':.`;?‘,!0;"°,;,_ vessels, on his paying into the treasury the usual fees, and making oath pelling ship; that he, being a citizen of the United States, does verily believe, that he and Paul Steenstrup, of Kongsberg, in the Kingdom of Norway, are the true inventors or discoverers of the said improvements, and delivering into the patent office models of the same (if the Secretary of State shall deem it necessary) with specifications, as is required by the acts of Congress, relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions or improvements: Provided, That the said patent shall be subject to Proviso. all the conditions, limitations, and restrictions, of the said act of Congress. Approved, April 28, 1828. Snrums I. CHAP. XXXVI. -.an Act for the relief of Pwlliam Benning. April 28, 1828. Be it enacted, rfc., That the act of the Legislature of the state of Maryland, entitled "An act for erecting a bridge over the ,Eastern Ac, ,-0, Bmw Branch," passed at November Session, in the year seventeen hundred ingabridgs and ninety-seven, by which a company is incorporated, by the name of °"°¥gh° Um- " The Anacostia Bridge Company," be, and the same is hereby, revived {rl2V_ {gg2h;:; and re—enacted ; and that William Benning, of the city of Washington, vived and’re. in the District of Columbia, his executors, administrators, and assigns, °¤¤¤'·€d» &·¤· be, and they are hereby, vested with all the powers, rights, and privilegcs, by the said act of incorporation granted to the said Anacostia Bridge Company, and shall ,be subject to all the pains and penalties by the act aforesaid imposed on the said Company. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, so long as the said William so lun is W Benning, his executors, or administrators, or any assignee of the entire 3,,,-,,,;,,; gm ' stock of the said Company, shall remain the sole proprietor of the said shrill remain the stock, the sole control and management of the said Company shall re- ::L°,Q’,5‘;p;‘:r}:?',;, main and be with such sole proprietor, without the intervention of direc· ,h,|| m,,,,,;,, tors to be elected for that purpose; and, if it shall hereafter happen, with such prothat the said William Benning, his executors, or administrators, or any p“°“"* &“• assignee of the entire stock of said Company, shall, by assignments of the stock of said Company, to be made as prescribed by the said act of incorporation, create two or more proprietors, less than tive, the interest of the said Company shall be managed by such proprietors as, by agreement or convention, to be entered on the books of said Company, they may think best; but, whenever the number of the said proprietors shall exceed four, it shall be the duty of such proprietors to meet and elect