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 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE 'I WENTY-THIRD CONGRESS or cruz UNITED STATES, Passed at the jirst session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December, 1833, and ended on the thirtieth day of June, 1834. ANDREW JACKSON, President; MARTIN VAN BUREN, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate ; Hoon Lawson Wnrrm, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 2d to the 16th day of December, 1833; Gnoiten Pornnnxrmn, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 28th day of June, 1834, to the close of the session; ANDREW STEVENSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives, until the 2d day of June, 1834; and JOHN BELL, for the remainder of the session. STATUTE I. CHAP. II. --An Act for the relief of the heirs of Pwdow Robert dvart. Jan. 24, 1834: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Third Au- Claim for proditor of the Treasury settle the claim of the heirs of Widow Robert ggggjgjmqd Avart, for the destruction or damage done to the fences of the said and ,,,,;,i_ widow Robert Avart, in the vicinity of New Orleans, by the troops of the United States, during the late war, on the same principles that have governed the accounting officers of the treasury in settling similar claims for like injuries in the same vicinity; and that the amount so found, be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any money not otherwise appropriated. Approved, January 24, 1834. _"· Smrurm I. CHAP. III. —.»2n Act for the relief ry" George Chinn. Jan. 24, 1834. Be it enacted, cf-c., That the Secretary of the Treasury make such further allowance to George Chinn, for his rations as lieutenant on board Allowance for of the revenue cutter Search, from the first day of July, one thousand “‘“°“’· eight hundred and eighteen, to the twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, as will, with what has heretofore been paid to him, make an amount equal to what other lieutenants were entitled to, who were duly commissioned; and that the amount so found his due, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Avraovnn, January 24, 1834. —-——- Srnurz I. CHAP. IV. —An Act for the relief of George IL Jennings. F eb. 5, 1834. Be it enacted, eye., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to George H. Jennings, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropri- Payment for ated, two hundred and one dollars, for his services and loss of time in bringing to condign punishment two pirates, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. Ar-mtovmn, February 5, 1834. 70 2 W (ssrn