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 TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss.1. Ch. 30, 34, 37. 1830. 497 same district, equal in quantity to that above-mentioned ; and a patent Shall issue therefor, under the restrictions above recited; And provided Pmvigo. also, That, should a part only of the said land have been sold, the said Elijah L. Clarke, and the heirs and legal representatives of Lewis Clarke, shall have liberty to take such parts of the said land as shall not have been sold, in part satisfaction of their claims respectively, and to enter elsewhere, within the said district, so much other land, as shall be equal to the part sold; or the said Elijah, and the said heirs and legal representatives, may, respectively, relinquish to the United States all claim to the said land so remaining unsold, and enter elsewhere, within the said district, the quantity of land (now subject to entry) equal to their whole claims respectively. Avraovno, February 27, 1830. Snrurs I. CHAP. XXX. -——./2n ./Slot for the relief of Abigail Jppleton. March 3, ]83, Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Navy be, and hereby is, authorized and required to place the name of Abigail Appleton, the To bg puma widow of Daniel Appleton, upon the pension list, and to allow to her a Q¤ the p¤¤¤i¤¤ pension, to commence from the third day of September, one thousand lm eight hundred and twenty-nine, pursuant to the provisions of the act, entitled "An act in addition to an act giving pensions to the orphans Act ofAplril and widows of persons slain in the public or private armed vessels of the l6· 181;%*}, ·6€· United States," and the act to which the same is an addition, subject to 3ffQ1°Q_ dst3Q_ the conditions and limitations therein contained. Approved, March 3, 1830. Snrcrs I. Cin?. XXXIV.——./2n Act for the relief of Richard Biddle, administrator of John March 18, 1830. giilkins, junior, jbrmerlg Quartcrmastcr-General of the army of the United """*‘ lates. Be it enactnd, rye., That the proper accounting officers be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the accounts of bggggpxs t° John Wilkins, junior, formerly Quartermaster-General of the army of ‘ the United States, upon the principles of equity and justice. j APPROVED, March 18, 1830. S:ru·vr1: I. Crux-. XXXVII.-An Ae: for the relief of Antoine Pmdhomme, Louis Closeau, and Gilbert Closcau, of Louisiana. Be it enacted, dm., That the claim of Antoine Prudhomme, for·six hundred and forty acres ofland, situated on the right bank oflthe Rigo- Clainj tier: let de Bon Dieu, in the parish of Natchitoches, and opposite to the ;:‘sér‘;ne3l‘ place called Pefifte Ecore ; as, also, the claim of Louis Closeau, to six hundred and forty arpents of land, situated on the right bank of Red River; and the claim of Gilbert Closeau, to four hundred arpents of land, situated on the same side of said river, and bounded above by the claim of Louis Closeau, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed; and the Commissioner of the General Land Othee is hereby required, upon the presentation of plats and surveys of the said several tracts of land, regularly made, by competent authority, to issue patents to the said re- · spective claimants, for the lands hereby confirmed to each: Provided, P1‘<>V¤S0· That this act shall amount only to a relinquishment on the part of the United States; and shall in no manner affect the rights of third persons. Arvnovnn, March 23, 1830.