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 482 TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch.50, 53,54,55. 1832. Payment of two thousand and seventy-eight dollars, being the amount of expenses ¤XP¤¤S¢¤ i¤ the incurred and paid by the said Hackley m and about the detention of the §?:fn?5,',:‘°af,lQ{pS ships Franklin and Acushnett, seized by him at Cadiz, in the year one Acushnett. thousand eight hundred and nine, under the orders of George W. Erving, Charge des Agaigeslmgééhe United States in Spain. Approved, Marc 1,. Snrura I. "‘-"" March 15, 1832. CHAP. L.-——An Act for the relief of J P. and E. B. Penny. Be it enacted, (ye., That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United A certain duty States refund to J. P. and E. B. Penny, merchants in the city of Mex- Md P¤¤¤lW¤¤ ico, or their agent or factors, the excess of duty on one hundred and b° ml-“"d°d‘ live bales of jalap root, which was appraised in New York in June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, at twenty-eight dollars per quintal, instead of twenty-four dollars, the actual and invoice price, as also the fifty per centum penalty imposed thereon, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Arvnovnn, March 15, 1832. Scruvre I. —······· March 22, 1832. CHAP. Llll.-—-An det for the relief of John McDonough. Bc it enacted, Qc., That the claim of John McDonough be, and is Land claim hereby, confirmed to four tracts of land embraced in the report of the °°"5"“°d‘ Register and Receiver of the land office at St. Helena court-house, in the district west of Pearl river, in Louisiana, of the fourth December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, namely g one tract of four hundred arpens, claimed under a Spanish patent to David Williams, dated eighth April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine; one tract of two hundred and forty arpens, claimed under a Spanish patent to Guillemo Williams, dated eighth April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine; one tract of three hundred and eighty-eight arpcns, claimed under a Spanish patent to Williain Estevan, dated eighteenth December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven ; and one tract of twelve hundred arpens, claimed under a Spanish patent to Domingo Assaretto, dated eighteenth February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, and all situate in the parish of East Baton Rouge: Prop,,,,,;,,°_ vided, That this act shall only extend to a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and shall not prejudice the rights of third persons. Arvnovan, March 22, 1832. Srnura I. ·—~·· March 22, 1832. CHAP. LIV.·—-An Act for the relief of Sylvester Havens. Bc it enacted, Q-c., That the Agent of the Treasury be, and he is A cygdit or hereby, authorized and required to credit on a note given by Sylvester $l'51·25 ¤¤_l¤¤ Havens, of Hartford, Connecticut, to the United States, for the sum of °u°w°d h"“‘ three hundred and fifty-four dollars and seventy-five cents, dated the twenty-third day of October, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and payable in six months, with interest, the sum of one hundred and thirty- one dollars and twenty-five cents; the said credit to be allowed and given as of the day of the date of the said note. Approved, March 22, 1832. Saunas I. ·—-······· Merch gg, 1832, CHAP. LV.-An Act for the relief of Leonard Denison and Elisha Ely. U- _Be it enacted, ¢§·c., That the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury ascerindemnified tam the damages sustained and the expenses incurred by Leonard Deni- 2; ¤:;*¤¤¤ dri- son and Elisha Ely, arising from the omission, on the part of the Navy Sofficer at Sackett’s Harbor, to deliver, within a reasonable time, the