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 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. S1tss.III. Ch. 127,128,129,130._1839. 767 hereby, authorized to enter any other quarter-quarter section, containing not more than forty acres, in the district of lands subject to sale at Kaskaskia, in the state of Illinois, subject to private entry. Approved, March 3, 1839. `*""' Snrurm HI. CHAP. CXXVII.—tdn Act for the relief of Francis Mallaby. March 3, 1839. Be it enacted, rfc., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Francis Mallaby, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of Payment for three hundred and ninety-two dollars, for quarters to which he was en- ;l“°Y‘*:sd“°'· titled as sailing-master at the United States navy yard at Brooklyn, from umm 8 ` the twenty-seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, to the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty, inclusive; but which quarters were not furnished him, nor were there at any part of that time any quarters that could have been assigned to him, as certified by Commodore Chauncey, then commander of the yard. Approved, March 3, 1839. °""_` Scururs III. CHAP. CXXVIII.-ein Act for the reliq" of Peter Samuel Jaecard, March  1839. Be it enacted, eye., That Peter Samuel Jaccard, grantee of eighty acres of land in section thirty-one, in township thirteen south, range Authqrizedto two east, be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United I°lm‘l¤mh md States, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office °m"kmd‘ shall prescribe, the certificate to the above described eighty acres of land; and upon such relinquishment being made, as aforesaid, the said Peter Samuel Jaccard shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter any other halflquarter section of land in the land district of Shawneetown, Illinois. Approved, March 3, 1839. ""_' Srnurs III. CHAP. CXXIX.·—.z2n Jlct for the reliq of John Blanc. March 3_ i339_ Be it enacted, rye., That the Commissioner of Patents be, and he is hereby, empowered to issue to John Blanc, a native of France, but now A new {patent a citizen of the United States, a new patent for a machine, the inven- *° '°:9° °*,'f d tion of said Blanc, called a “Marsh Drainer," (said Blanc having ob- ;nh°Njg;§° ° tained a patent therefor on the second day of July, anno Domini eighteen Drainer." hundred and thirty-six, which patent was destroyed by tire on the eighth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,) in the same manner and under the same regulations as provided by law had said patent been destroyed prior to the fifteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. Approved, March 3, 1839. """'_ Sururs III. CHAP. CXXX.—An det for the relief of Paul Poissot. March 3, 1839. Be it enacted, rfc., That the register of the land office at Natchitoches, in the state of Louisiana, grant to Paul Poissot a certificate for a A eertincate quarter section of land, according to the proper and legal subdivisions, {*;;*;*3 W be to embrace the settlement made by Francois Masseppe, on the sixteenth g ' section, in the parish of Natchitoches, situated on the south-west bank of Red river, about twenty-three miles above the town of Natchitoches, and bounded above by the lands occupied by Jean Elon Itachal, and below by the lands occupied by Baptist Landreaux, upon his paying to the register of the land office at Natchitoches the sum of one dollar and twenty-tive cents per acre, and producing the certificate therefhr from the receiver of public moneys at Opelousas.