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 TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29, 33, 35. 1831. 453 land, of section fifteen, in township ten, of range fourteen, in Butler county, in the state of Alabama, and which still remains unsold by the United States; and that he be authorized and directed to deliver over the certificate therefor to the said William; and the said William Smith is authorized and empowered to dispose of the same by assignment or otherwise, in as full and ample manner, to all intents and purposes, which he might or could have done before the relinquishment thereof; and that all the benefits and privileges given by this act to the said Wil~ liarn Smith shall be given and extended to his assignee or assignees; and that the said William Smith, or his assignee or assignees, be allowed to hold the same, free from forfeiture for twelve months from the passage of this law: Provided, nevertheless, That the said William Smith, Proviso. shall, before he be entitled to the benefit of this act, pay over to the receiver of public moneys at Cahaba, the sum of ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight and a quarter cents, that being the full amount of money which had been paid thereon previous to the relinquishment, and which has been transferred and credited on other lands purchased by his intestate in his life-time. Armuovmn, February 12, 1831. W Srnurs II. CHAP. XXIX.—-An Act for the relief of Vlfilliam Burris, of Mssisszppi. Fe}, lg, ]83]_ Be it enacted, eye., That William Burris be allowed to relinquish to 1834, cn. 176. the United States the east half of the south-west quarter of section May relinquish twenty-one, township three, range six, east, containing eighty acres en- “,.°f;$“;‘:,"” tered by mistake, and to locate in lieu thereof, another halfiquarter sec- iiocm ,{,,,,,he,._ tion of land on any of the public lands of the United States, in the state of Mississippi, which has been offered at public sale, and is now subject to entry at private sale. Arpnovnn, February 19, 1831. —————· Srncra II. CHAP. XXXH1.-An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to make c0mpen· Feb. 25, 1831. sation to the heirs of Ta/iaferro Livingston and Francis W Atrmstrong for the ··‘*""""‘ maintenance ofjifleen lfricam illegally imported into the United States. Be it enacted, @-0., That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized to pay, out of the sum appropriated for the suppression of the slave trade, 'I‘,Livingsm¤’s the claim of the heirs of Taliaferro Livingston, late Marshal of the cl'".',: f°' lh: of United States for the district of Alabama, for the maintenance of fifteen ily2f:;;:: to Africans, illegally imported into the United States in the schooners Lou- be settled. isa and Marino, in one thousand eight hundred and eighteen : Provided, Pmvigo, That satisfactory evidence of the reasonableness of the charges for said maintenance shall be furnished, and that the sums received by the said Livingston for the hire of said Africans, and for the labor performed for him, by them, if any, be accounted for and deducted. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the same allowance shall F.W.Arm. be made to Francis W. Armstrong, Marshal of the United States for ¤lF<>¤g’¤ ¤l¤l¤‘¤ the district of Alabama, for the time that the aforesaid fifteen Africans l° b° ""l°d' were kept by him, subject, in the settlement, to the same restrictions provided for in the first section of this act. Approved, February 25, 1831. S H . 1-num. Cnn. XXXV,-An Act to incorporate Saint P7ncent’s Orphan Asylum, in the Feb,25, 1831, District of Columbia. ···—·······*• Bc it enacted, tyc., That William Matthews, Matthew Deagle, Peter S. Shreiber, Thomas Carberry and William Hickey, and their succes- W. Matthews sors in office are hereby made, declared, and constituted a corporation gg °‘h°” ‘“' . . . . . porated. and body polrt1c,1n law and in fact, to have continuance forever, under. the name style and title of Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum.