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 TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. C1r.18,19,20,22. 1841. 821 Srrnurz II. Crux-. XVIII. —-An Act for the relief xy' William Jones. March 2. 1841. Be it enacted, <§~c., That the register and receiver of the land office W at Huntsville, in the state of Alabama, be, and they are hereby, required A (,,,,,;;,,,,,6 to issue a certificate to William Jones, of Lawrence county, in said for amoumpuid state, for the amount received in said land office for the south·west f°¥,,‘;‘?"“l"l““'l• quarter of section twenty-two, in township five, of range three west, and ;gsQ:;$r°“"° the additional amount of the interest which has accrued thereon, at the O rate of six per centum per annum: Provided, said Jones shall file in Pmviso. said land office a relinquishment of all right, title, and interest, in said quarter section, to the Government of the United States; and the said certificate shall be received in payment of any of the public lands which may be thereafter sold in the said state of Alabama: And provided, Yygvjgm also, That it shall be satisfactorily shown to said register and receiver, that said quarter section was selected by the state of Alabama, under the act of Congress granting four hundred thousand acres of relinquish- 18%, ch. 75. ed land to said state, for the improvement of the navigation of the Tennessee and other rivers, before the sale thereof at said United States land office. Approved, March 2, 1841. Srnurs II. CHAP. XIX. — An .22cl for the relief of Charles M Keller and Henry Shnc. Much z' 18“_ Be it enacted, <§·c., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Charles M. Keller and Henry Stone, out of any money not otherwise nppropri- Payment ated, the sum of two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents, ;‘;;0l’:’J’°"Y d°' for property destroyed by tire while in the public service. y ° Ammovnn, March 2, 1841. Section II. Cnn. XX.—An del for the relief of FWlliam P. Rathbone. Mami, 2, 1g4g_ Be it enacted, dw., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to settle the accounts of William P. Rathbone, late Hg, account, a district paymaster in the army of the United States; and also his ac- ssynymasrcr counts as army contractor, under his contracts of the first of November, :2 ”‘;':l;§°°g; eighteen hundred and sixteen, and of the fifth of November, eighteen ' hundred and seventeen, (giving proper consideration to the report of referees made in a cause commenced in the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York, by the United States of Amerika, against the said William P. Rathbone and his sureties, and bearing date on the seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, without considering it as conclusive,) and that the balance, if any, which may be found due to the said William P. Rathbone, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 2, 1841. Srnurs II. Cnn. XXIL -An Act for the relief of Joab Seely. March 2, ]84]• Bc it enacted, dw., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to refund and pay to Joab Seely, the sum of twenty param {aes m dollars, being the amount of an overpayment made by lnm into the trea· be r¢f¤¤<l¤d· sury of the United States for a patent for a new invention. Armovnn, March 2, 1841. 3 T 2