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 TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 82,83, 85. 1830. 415 and protested for non-payment ; and for advances made on the requisition of the Commanding General of the eighth military district, for money to pay the troops under his command, on their march to the frontier. Approved, April 24, 1830. Srnun I. CHAP. LXXXII.—tln Act for the benefit of Daniel M ’.DujZ April 24, 1830. Be it enacted, <§·c., That Daniel M’DuH` be, and he is hereby autho- A¤’h°'Zi"d $° rized to locate his warrant for military bounty land, in the county of Jackson, and state of Alabama, so as to include his improvement in land in Jaeksdln Ashburn’s Cove, by legal subdivisions, in adjoining tracts, not to exceed °°¤¤*Y» Al¤b¤· in the whole three hundred and twenty acres or half a section. ma' Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the May entera said Daniel M’Dufi, upon surrendering to the Register of the Land l*¤lf¤°°*i°¤»&·¤· Office at Huntsville, his said warrant for military bounty land, paying one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, for the excess over and above three hundred acres of land expressed in said warrant, and making proof before said Register of the quarter section in which said improvement lies, to enter one half section of land as aforesaid; and thereupon it shall be the duty of said Register to issue to said Daniel M’Dull' a final certificate of purchase; and to forward the same, together with said warrant, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, whose duty it shall be to issue a patent or patents for the land so entered. APPROVED, April 24, 1830. Srnure I. Gnu. LXXXIH.-dn Act to refund rgtelmaiety of thefmfctiure upon the schooner April 24, 1830. '0 ant. """"` Be it enacted, &e., That there be repaid to John Burton, Dunbar _ Henderson, E. Hale, Charles Holmenhouser, Benjamin Burton, and ,¢;“‘?‘?*Y °f ,. Thomas Burton, the amount paid by them into the Treasury of the LC;,.??;?]:];?:, United States, as a moiety of the forfeiture decreed against the schooner be refunded. Volant; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 24, 1830. Snrura I. CHAP. LXXXV.——·.£·n dc! for the relief of Charles Wjilkes, junior. M¤Y 5- 1830 Be it enacted, &·c., That the proper accounting officer of the treasury allow to Charles Wilkes, junior, a lieutenant in the naval service of the P¤Km<>¤€ fo; United States, and to any other person or persons with whom he may ygggrjggggga have contracted for the same, all such sums of money as he shall have &,c_ ° paid, or, in the case of such other person or persons, he shall have contracted to pay them, for such astronomical and mathematical instruments, as, by the letter of the Secretary of the Navy to him, dated the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty- eight, he was directed to procure for the exploring expedition to the Pacific Ocean and South Seas, on said accounting officer being furnished with satisfactory evidence that the respective articles are of thelvalue and quality specified in the contract therefor, and have been delivered to such person or persons as the Secretary of the Navy shall haye di- - rected: Provided, The amount to be allowed and paid for the said in- Provrso. struments, exclusive of the sums already paid by the navy department and navy agent at New York, shall not exceed the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars; which sum is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 5, 1830.