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 426 TWENTYTIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 108, 109. 1830. Works not to necessary to subject the lands of any individuals to the purposes prol’° "%SP0“d°0· vided for in this act, and their consent cannot be obtained, it shall and p3E3i1f,,;`;;,?, may be lawful for the company to enter upon such land, and proceed to gte. i the execution of such works as may be requisite; and that the pendency of any proceedings in any suit, in the nature of a writ of ad quod damnurn, or any other proceedings shall not hinder or delay the pro- Precedence to gress of the work; and it shall be the duty of every Court to give pre- 2;%:00 *0 ¤“0h cedence to contiioversies which may arise;} betwelpn the) compainy creiatied ’ by this act, an the pro rietors of lan soug t to e con emnc or public uses, and to deternliine them in preference to all other causes. Common Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That the Common Council of C0u¤ci1cfAl- the town of Alexandria be, and they are hereby, authorized to subscribe $;;’5d:;°,;;;h°` for the capital stock of the said company, on behalf of the Corporation stock, &o_ of the said town, and to borrow money for the payment theseof, and to raise by taxes to be imposed on the inhabitants of the said town, and the property therein, sulch sums as shall be necessary for the payment of such subscriptions or loans. Approved, May 26, 1830. Surura I. May 26, 1830. CHAP. CVIlI.-An Act for the relief of Jonathan Chapman. Be it enacted, &c., That the Collector of the Customs for the District dCl:>rtificates caf of Boston and Charlestown, be authorized to issue certificates of de- .0 00*0*0*0 0 benture to Jonathan Cha man, for the amount of drawback of duties issued` on fifty hogsheads of domgstic spirits, containing five thousand five hundred and thirty-one gallons, which were shipped on board the brig Prudent, Benjamin Barney, master, at Boston, on the eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for Gibraltar and a market; which shipment was entered at the custom-house conformably to law, except that the necessary oath was not taken, nor the bond given within Promo, the time prescribed: Provided, That the said Jonathan Chapman shall, pi all other respects, comply with the law, to entitle him to the said deenture. Approved, May 26, 1830. Snrurz 1. May 26, 1830. Cm.1>. CIX.-An Act to conjirm the claim of Isidore Moore, of Missouri. Be it enacted, &c,, That the claim of Isidore Moore, of Perry coun- Qlaim to cer- ty, Missouri,`to five hundred arpens of land, at the place where he now gglégnd °°“‘ resides, asTassignee of Thomas Fenwick, under a concession, granted ' by Zenon rudeau, late Lieutenant-Governor of U er Louisiana, dated the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred Iziiid ninety-seven, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed; and the proper Surveyor of the United States shall survey the said claim, so as to include the improvements of the said Isidore Moore, as nearly in the centre of the tract as the situation of other private claims may admit; and, upon presentation of an authentic copy of such survey to the General Land Office, a patent shall be issued to the said Isidore Moore, for the land so survey- p,o,,;so_ ed: Provided, That this act shall not affect the rights of any other individual to the same grant hereby confirmed; and that, if any part of such survey should fall upon the sixteenth section, reserved for township schools, the County Court of Perry may select any other section, or part of a section, in the same township, the sale of which is authorized by law, and enter the same with the Register of the proper Land Office, to be reserved for the use of schools in said township, instead of such sixteenth section. Aernovan, May 26, 1830.