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 S12 TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 96,97. 1840. in pursuance of said order, and was returned as public land; the most proviso_ valuable part of which has since been sold by the United States: Provided, That before a patent shall issue for the land, the entry of which is authorized by the provisions of this act, the said Marbury shall relinquish to the United States, in such manner as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may direct, all his interest to the land originally confirmed, which should have been run out and allotted to him in the parish of St. Tammany. Approved, July 20, 1840. Surors I. ——-— July 20, 1840. Can. XCVI.-—An Act for the relief wl;] the children of Stwhen Johnston, de- —·‘*·‘·*‘ cease. Be it enacted, &c., That upon the President being satisfied that the Land certifi- claim of the children of Stephen Johnston, named in the treaty made °"*° ’° '”“°- with the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians, near the mouth of the Mississinnewa, upon the Wabash, in the state of Indiana, on the sixteenth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, to a certain halflsection of land, in and by said treaty granted to them, the children of said Stephen Johnston, has been, or may have been, relinquished to the United States; or that the same never has been selected for, and accepted by them, he, the said President, is requested to cause the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue to the children of the said Stephen Johnston, by their names Stephen Johnston, and Elizabeth Johnston, or to their heirs a certificate, receivable in payment at any land office in the United States, for any haliisection of land, not subject to pre-emption. This act to Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in continue in force and have effect until the fourth day of March, in the year one f°'°°·h°"'l°“g· thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and no longer. Ari-aovnn, July 20, 1840. Snrur: I. July 20, 1840. CHAP. XCVII.——.d·n Act for the reliqf of Boggs and Thompson, Robert and Tho- "‘""`"""° mas Hutchinson, and otlurrs. Be it enacted, &c., That the collector of the port of New York or the Certain draw- collector of the port of Philadelphia, as the case may be, be, and they g¤¢k¤· ¤¤;_P¤id are hereby, respectively required to pay to the persons hereinafter men- Ogaggsfniofalkc tioned, or their representatives, the drawback of duties on the importathe oaths, dm., tions of the goods and merchandise hereinafter mentioned, which said ¤¤ b¤ P¤id· drawbacks were not paid when the same became due, because of the omission on the part of the exporters to take the oath and give the bond within ten days then limited by law, for taking oaths and giving bonds Proviso. in cases of exportations for benefit of drawback: Provided, That the said collectors, respectively, shall be satisfied that the said goods were bona tide shipped for debenture, and actually landed in a foreign port, and that the omission to take the oath and give the bond aforesaid, was inadvertent or in consequence of misupprehension, viz: To Boggs and Thompson, of New York, on one hundred boxes of claret wine, exported from New York to Port an Prince, on board the schooner General Andrew Jackson, Ashby, master, and on eighty boxes of claret wine exported from New York to Aux Cayes on board the schooner Favorite, Scoyen, master. To Cotheal and Hoff, of New York, on eight pipes of gin, and one hundred and fifty gin cases, exported to the West Indies on board the schooner Sally, Dominick, master. To Robert and Thomas Hutchinson, of New York, on twenty-one balesof cotton yarns, exported from New York to the Port of Greenock, on board the ship Annisquam, Watkinson, master.