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 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. R.¤s.10. 1839. 795 numbered fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, and adoptedasa ubtwenty-one, in said square, be adopted as a public alley in lieu of the **,9 ffb *° ll*°“ one originally laid out in the west end of said square, by commission- °` ers appointed by the Corporation of Washington, under an act of Congress entitled "An act to authorize and empower the Corporation Act of May 7, of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, to drain the 18”·°h·°°· low grounds on and near the public reservations, and to improve and ornament certain parts 'of such reservations," approved on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three [seventh of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two]; and that the Mayor of the city of Washington be authorized to execute deeds to the proprietors of the aforesaid lots, respectively, according to the division thereof now made by them. Armtovsn, March 3, 1839. No. 10. Resolutionfor the relief of Edward Beatty, of Missouri.. March 3, 1839. Whereas Edward Beatty, of the county of Marion, in the state of Mis. preamble, souri, some time in the month of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, emigrated to Missouri for the purpose of enterin public lands; that, in consequence of the representations of others, he converted about nine hundred dollars in specie into certificates of deposit; that, after he had purchased the certificates at an advance of three per cent., he applied to the land office in Palmyra to enter land, when he was informed by the officers that the certificates could not be accepted, as none but the individual who made the deposit of money in the treasury could enter land with them. In consequence of this condition of the affair, the petitioner has lain out of the use of the money for a year and upwards, and has no prospect of getting it back for some years to come, unless he be aided by Congress. Be it, therefore, Resolved, r§·c., That the said Edward Beatty be, and he is hereby, ·*\¤¢h¤¤‘l$:£ t0 authorized to enter land at any of the land offices in the state of Mis- f:,;°r;;::mc,°;;:` souri, which is now liable to private entry, with the said certificates land liable to ’ of deposit, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: §T,Q°P;;‘*‘3é;'* Provided, however, That the said Beatty shall satisfy the register of ’ ` the land office at which he may apply for the purpose of entering land, that the assignments on the same are genuine, and that he is egally entitled to the same. Approved, March 3, 1839.