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 798 TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. 1840. Payment to not otherwise appropriated, three hundred and eventy-eight dollars; him of Mum which sum he received of the master of the brig Falcon, of Boston, 2g’§;§y&;‘;' Massachusetts, and which he paid, one-third into the treasury of the 'United States, and the other two-thirds to the seamen composing the crew of said brig; said Levy having been compelled, by judgment of law, to pay back said sum to the owners of said brig, it having been illegally received and paid over by him as aforesaid. Approved, May 2, 1840. S·rn·rrr·s I. May 2, 1840. CHAP. XIV. -—./2n Act for the relief of Robert Milner and Jalan Thompson. Be it enacted, dw., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is P¤Ym°¤§ {0* hereby, directed to pay to Robert Milnor and John Thompson the sum gm; °°';°°° of two thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-three E ugacents, being the amount of fees equitably due to said Milner and Thompson for extra service rendered by them as gaugers at the port of Phila- Aot of July 4, delphia, after the passage of the act of the fourth of July, eighteen huni836· ch-359- dred and thirty-six, reducing the duties on wines, in regauging certain wines then in custom stores at said port, and coming within the provisions of said act; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 2, 1840. Srnurn I. May 2, 1840. CHAP. XV.—An Actfm· the relief of George Willis. Be it enacted, ¢§~c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized Payment for and required to pay to George Willis the sum of eighty dollars, for the WS °f ¤PU°¤ loss of a pilot-boat while piloting a revenue cutter over Ocracoke bar, b°°°‘ out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 2, 1840. Swarm: I. May 2, 1840. Can. XVI.-An Act for the relief of Meigs D. Benjamin and Company. Be it enacted, qc., That there be allowed and paid, out of any money Duties on lea- in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Meigs D. Benjamin and ther e1°‘:,°j,*° Company, of the city of New York, two hundred dollars and forty-six b° '° °" ° ‘ cents, for duties paid by them on ten cases of leather gloves imported by them in the month of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. Approved, May 2, 1840. Srnurs I. May 2, 1840. Gun. XVII.-An dot for the reliq‘ of Gamaliel E. Smith. Be it enacted, ef-c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and here- Payment for by is, authorized to pay to Garnaliel E. Smith, out of any money in the {:bPL°“d “‘“' treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred dollars, in mfull for labor performed under a contract made with the United States in the summer of eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, to build a lighthouse and dwelling-house on Mount Desert Rock, and for materials furnished by him, and used by his succes or under said contract, to construct said building. Approved, May 2, 1840. Snrrvri: I. May 2, 1340, Cr-rar. XVIII.-An Act for the relief of Tlwmas W Taylor. Payment for B Be it enacted, dw., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is {mm hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Thomas W. Taylor, out of