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 396 TWENTIETH CONGRESS. S¤ss.1I. Ch.21,22, 23, 44, 45. 1829. said Benjamin Goodwin, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one, for the use and occupation of his wharf for the building of a seventy- four gun ship. H Armovmn, February 5, 1829. Snrurs. —--—-·—- F°b· 24. 1829- Gun. XXI.-An dc! for the relief of Jacob Rentleman. Be it enacted, tyc., That Jacob Rentleman, of the state of Illinois, Authorized to who entered by mistake, in the office of the Register of the Land Office $“‘°"?,l::§€°°‘ for the district of Kaskaskia, the east half of section thirty-tive, in town. fiiiagg in ship twelve, south of range three, west, and who obtained n patent therefor, be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter with the said register any other half section of land, within the aid district, which is subject to private sale, upon his relinquishing to the United States the half section described as aforesaid. Approved, Februar 24, 1829. Y Sraruws II. ;"‘ Feb. 24, 1g2y_ Cmp. XXII.-An Act for the relief of biuguslus dqinwall. Be it enacted, <§~c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he Dmwbmk a1_ hereby is, authorized and directed to allow the drawback on forty-one lowed on white boxes of white sugar, laden at Boston, on board the brig Cherub, bound ““€‘“‘· for Gibraltar, which boxes of sugar had been entered by Augustus Aspinwall, at the Custom-House in Boston, for debenture, on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. Approved, February 24, 1829. Srxrurm II. Feb. M, 182,, Cru?. XXIII.-—An ./Zcl for the relief of Robert L. Kerman, Be it enacted, rfc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is A 0,,,,,,,,, mm hereby, directed to refund to Robert L. Kcnnon, the amount of money qvgrpgid by ’ he has overpaid at the Land Office at Tuscaloosa, for a fractional seclfjmd *0 b¤ F8- tion north of section eighteen, township twenty, range five, in the Tus- " °d' ealoosa land district, in Alabama, it being the difference between one hundred and forty-six acres, and seventy-five acres and eighty-eight hundredths, at the rate of five dollars and five cents per acre. Approved, February 24, 1829. Srnurx II. -——·-—- March 2, 1829. CHAP. XLIV.-—.£ln Act for the relief of I/Villiam Otis. Be it enacted, nyc., That the proper accounting officers of the trea- Accountsu sury be, and hereby are, authorized and directed to audit and settle, g‘:g:g*°*' ‘° b° upon principles of justice and equity, the accounts and claims of Wil- ' liam Otis, formerly Collector of the Customs for the district of Barnstable, in the state of Massachusetts; and to satisfy and discharge such amount of rinci al and interest as ma be found duo to said Otis a _P _ P _ Y _ » sum sufficient is hereby appropriated, to be paid out_ of any money in proviso_ the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That, before any sum shall be paid to the said William Otis, under the authority of this act, agreeably to the decision of the accounting officers of the treasury, sitio; dgcision shall receive the sanction and approval of the President o the nited States. Approved, March 2, 1829. Szrsrucru. II. March 2, 1829. CHAP. XLV. ——An Het for lhe relief of George Wilson, of Pe1msylva»nia. Be it enacted, c., That the sum of eight thousand nine hundred . . g and sixty-three dollars and eighty-seven and one half cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to George Wilson, of Pennsylvania, paya-