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 458 TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Suss.11. Ch. 71, 72, 74. 1831. money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, which shall be in full - of all demands of the said James Monroe for claims aforesaid: Pro- Pmm°' vided, The accounting officer of the treasury department shall, upon an examination of his accounts, believe so much is due to him upon principles of equity and justice. Approved, March 2, 1831. Srnurs II. -——-——-—— March 2, 1831. Cnn. LXXI.-An Act for the relief of Mrs. Clarissa B. Harrison. Be it enacted, gc, That the proper accounting officers of the trea- C¤f*¤i¤ vwdifs sury be authorize and directed to allow the representatives of J. C. S. f§_:° ”u°“'°d’ Harrison, late Receiver of Public Money at Vincennes, the following ` credits, to take date from the respective times the money was paid or the services rendered by said Receiver, viz: one thousand five hundred dollars for bringing up the books of Nathaniel Ewing, his predecessor; two thousand and fifteen dollars and four cents, paid out under a deed of trust from the Bank of Vincennes, with commissions on the same, amounting to thirty-five dollars and fifty-one cents; and the said accounting officers are hereby authorized to settle and adjust any other claims of the late Receiver, arising from the discharge of his official duty, upon the principles of justice and equity, and to credit the amount thereof Time for pay- Sec. 2. And be it_ further enacted, That after the final adjustment m°¤¥ of bak of said accounts, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to °n°°' allow to the legal representatives and heirs of said Receiver the period of eighteen years to pay the amount which shall be found due from said Receiver, without interest, upon such terms and conditions as to the Secretary of the Treasury shall be deemed reasonable and equitable, by taking a lien on the estate of the said Receiver, or such other security as, in his opinion, will secure the debt. Armovnn, March 2, 1831. S·n·rv·.rs II. —-—— Mum}; 2, t33i_ Gun. LXXII.-—An Act for the relief of Richard Smith and William Pearse, ·—···—······· the second, of Bristol, in Rhode Island. Be it enacted, &c., That there shall be issued, under the direction of Roggvter for the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the brig Hope, built in j’B‘;§cd°P°’° b° Holland, but now owned by Richard Smith and William Pearse, the ` second, citizens of the United States, and now lying at the port of Bristol, in Rhode Island, unseaworthy, whenever the said Smith and Pearse shall furnish the Secretary of the Treasury with satisfactory proof that the said brig has been repaired in the United States, and that the cost of repairing her, by her present owners, exceeds three-fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States. Armovnn, March 2, 1831. S:u1•v·r: II. ——- March 2, 1831. CHAP. LXXIV.-—An Act lo extend the patent of John Jdamson for a further `;‘*·· period of fourteen years. Be it enacted, Q-c., That there be, and hereby is, granted unto John Patent right Adamson, a citizen of the United States, his heirs, administrators, and fgéfztldyfggrs assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the twelfth day of Decem- ` ber, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, his improvement, called a “Floating Dry Dock," a description of which is given in a schedule annexed to letters patent granted to the said John Adamson for the same on the thirteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. Approved, March 2, 1831.