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 708 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 39, 40, 41, 42. 1838. Snrurn II. Muck2S, 1g3S_ Crm?. XXXIX.-.r’ln dc! for the rggfétegéflzilzp Ilivicrc and his legal repre- Be it enacted, rye., That the claim and title of Philip Riviere and his Land claim legal representatives to a tract of land containing about four hundred ¢<>¤H¤¤¤d· and fifty arpens, French measure, situated in the county of St. Louis, state of Missouri, formerly granted to said Philip Riviere and his heirs, by the Spanish Government, by concession, bearing date the fourteenth of October, eighteen hundred, and located and surveyed by virtue of and under said concession, on the thirtieth of November, eighteen hundred, as appears by said survey, duly recorded in the office of the Surveyor-General at St. Louis, in the “Register d’Arpentage A," page thirty-nine, be, and are hereby, confirmed to said Philip Riviere and his proviso_ legal representatives: Provided, That this confirmation does not interfere with any right or title arising under any grant, concession, or survey, made by the authority of the former Spanish or French Governments in Upper Louisiana, and heretofore confirmed by Congress, or with any right or title to said land, or any part thereof, acquired by any individual or individuals by entry and purchase, in the land office of the United States, or which the United States may have acquired by purchase under any sale held in pursuance of any order of court, or decree in chancery; and that a re-survey be made of the land hereby confirmed, subject to the above proviso, under the order and direction of the Surveyor-General of the United States, at St. Louis, and at the expense of the said Philip Riviere, or his legal representatives. Approved, March 28, 1838. Srnucrs II. "`""_ March 28, 1838. CHAP. XL.-An Act for t/te relief cy" Hannah Budlong. "*"‘*‘" Be it enacted, <§~c., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Han- " f nah Budlong, formerly the widow of Elias Hyde, out of any money not H; g;?;?';;, otherwise appropriated, two hundred and forty dollars, being the amount psy rg widow of half pay for a militiaman or volunteer in the military service of the <>f E- Hyde United States for five years; Elias Hyde,then the husband of said Hannah, having voluntarily joincd a company of riflemen in the military service of the United States, on the twenty-second of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for the defence of Ogdensburg, and having been shot by the enemy when in the performance of his duty, of which wound he died on the seventeenth of March thereafter. Approved, March 28, 1838. STATUTE IL CHAP. XL1.-An dclfvr the relief of Samuel Sumler.•:01i. ¥EI?ii~%@¥ Be it enacted, nyc., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Samuel Sanderson, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum ,_5<‘:j;m*j{‘,Sr,l;?,:'nS of three thousand and twenty-five dollars, in full compensation for all mm? Spanish the costs, services, and charges of taking one hundred and twenty-one vessel. Africans from the Spanish brig Guerrero, on the Florida reef, and delivering them to the collector at Key West, in the month of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. Approved, March 28, 1838. STATUE H' CHAP. XLI1. -An Act for the reIiq" of Daniel Davis. Be it enacted, eye., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Daniel Davis, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, fifty-five dollars, Payment for a the value of a mare he lost when in the military service of the United mum 10*** States, by reason of his being dismounted and separated from her, by Order of his commanding GOYUPQUY <>fH<>€¤‘- Approved, March 28, 1838.