Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 6.djvu/872

 772 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 150, 151, 152, 153. 1839. ment of slaves by the said board which sat under the said convention,) who was conveyed from the United States on board the British fleet, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, and not recovered by the said Hewitt. Approved, March 3, 1839. Srarura III. March 3, 1839. CHAP. CL.·——An Act for the relief of Benjamin Hewitt. Be it enacted, Qc, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is (mgm to bg hereby, authorized to examine and decide upon the claim of Benjamin ¢X¤mi¤¤d, &<=· Hewitt, agreeably to the provisions of the resolution of the tenth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, empowering the Secretary of the Navy to settle certain contracts and relinquish certain forfeitures, and to extend to him the full benefit of said resolution, if he finds and adjudges his case to be within the principle thereof Approved, March 3, 1839. Surucrz III. ···—··*· Much 3, ]83Q_ CHAP. CLI.-An Act ferr the relief of Spencer C1 Gist. Be it enacted, nyc., That the proper accounting officers of the trea- Aiiowed {0, sury be authorized to settle and adjust the account of Spencer C. Gist, ¤¢¤Yi¢=¢§ M ¤¤ a midshipman in the navy of the United States, for his services as an gggfg Mum` acting lieutenant on board the frigate Guerriere, Captain Thompson, in ° the Pacific ocean, from the tenth of March eighteen hundred and thirty, to the twenty-eighth December eighteen hundred and thirty-one; and to allow him the extra pay and emoluments to which he may be entitled, over and above the amount already received by him as midshipman and acting sailing-master of said ship; and the amount so found due to the [said] Spencer C. Gist shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1839. Snruu III. ——-——— March 3, 1839. Crue. CLlI.—Ar» Act for the relief of the widow and other heirs at law of """"""" Alexander Hamilton, deceased. Be it enacted, rye., That the Secretary of War cause to he issued A bounty land to Elizabeth Hamilton widow, and the other heirs at law of Alexander }•"‘“`”‘“* '° b° Hamilton, who was a lieutenant—c0lonel in the revolutionary army, a msu8d' bounty land warrant for four hundred and fifty acres of land, in lieu of a warrant for a like quantity issued in the name of said widow and heirs the thirtieth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and numbered six hundred and twenty-two; and which said last-mentioned warrant never has been surrendered to the General Land Onice for the purpose of being satisfied, but is represented to have been lost or mislaid. Approved, March 3, 1839. Snrurs III. `_`—"`_ March 3, 1839. CHAP. CLIII.——An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Daniel Warner, Be it enacted, &c., That the legal representatives of Daniel Warner, Authorizsdto deceased, late a private in Captain Peters’s company of the twenty- ° they are hereby, authorized to enter free of cost, one quarter section of one hundred and sixty acres, of any of the public lands subject to sale at private entry, and that a patent issue to them for the same; which quarter section shall be taken for and in full consideration of the land bounty to which, by the act of one thousand eight hundred and twelve, the said Daniel Warner would be entitled to if living. Approved, March 3, 1839.
 * .*;’;8tl‘*“d· f'°° seventh regiment of infantry of the army of the United States, be, and