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 TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 78, 79, 80, 81. 1840. 807 dred and thirty-seven, under a contract made between said Starritt and Lieutenant A. Montgomery, acting assistant quartermaster in the United States army. Approved, July 20, 1840. Srnurs I. Cr-rap. LX.XVIII.——An Act confirming the claim of Augustine Lacoste to at certain July 20, 1g4g_ tract of land t/icrein named. ——--————· Be it enacted, dc., That the claim of Augustine Lacoste, number eleven, certihcatc number eight, report number five, as shown by the Land mgm records of the land office of St. Stephens, Alabama, to a certain tract coufirnwd. of land situate on Bon Secour’s river, in the county of Baldwin, state of Alabama, containing, as shown by a survey thereof, made second January, eighteen hundred and thirty, and approved third December, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, by James H. Wealrley, surveyor of the United States lands in Alabama, six hundred and thirty-eight and forty hundredths acres, be, and the same is hereby confirmed. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the Peremm bg General Land Ofhce cause to be issued to the above-named Augustine i¤¤¤¤d· Lacoste a patent for the aforesaid tract of land, known as section thirty- nine, township number eight, range number four, east. Approved, July 20, 1840. ···""‘ Srnurs I. CHAP. LXXIX. —— An Act for the relief of Gilbert A. Smith and Nizthzm Stark. July gg, 1g4g_ Be it enacted, é§~c., '1`hat the collector of customs for the district of New London, in Connecticut, is hereby authorized to pay to Gilbert A. Allowance of Smith and Nathan Stark, owners of the fishing schooner, called the l><>¤¤*yl*<> GSW Lilly, of forty-six and eighty-hundredths tons burthen, and to the persons mg sc Om"' composing her crew, or their legal representatives, the bounty allowed to her by law, to be distributed according to law; said schooner having completed the full term of three and one-half months in the cod-fisheries, during the season prescribed by law; and having been fitted out with the stores and complement of ten men by law required. Approved, July 20, 1840. "°*"‘ Surura I. CHAP. LXXX. ·—An Act for the relief of Ebenezer Lvbdell. July 20, 1840. Bc it enacted, &·c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Ebenezer Lobdell, out of Payment for any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one €>¤¤‘* lPb¤f i¤ thousand and seventy-five dollars and thirty-nine cents, for extra labor ;$;;§;:;,2 in clearing out certain obstructions in the river Kennebec, not within Kennebecriver. the terms of a contract executed by him and Peter Grant, the agent of the United States, on the thirtieth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine. Approved, July 20, 1840. ""” Srnurx I. Crrn. LXXXI.—An Act for the relief of John W Fuurtce and Oliver Perrin. july 52,0, 1g4g_ Bc it enacted, &c., That the Commissioner of Patents be, and he hereby is, authorized to issue a patent to John W. Faunce and Oliver param to be Perrin, on their specification filed in the Patent Office on the nrst day i¤¤¤¤d· of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, on their paying the sum of thirty dollars and depositing a model and drawing according to the existing laws : Provided, That, on examination, the Commissioner shall proviso, be satisfied that the said Faunce and Perrin were the original inventors of the machine described in their said specification. Approved, July 20, 1840.