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 TVVENTY~SEVEN TH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch.97,98,99, 100. 1842. 843 Srawm Il'. C AP. XCVII.—-dn Jia! ta relt mis}: to William Waller the inter 0 ' H States in zz cerngzin tract of land therein named. at fthe United Be it enacted, &c., That all the interest which the United States now has, or may hereafter have, in and to a certain tract of land, known as Im,,,,,,; of th, fractional section seventeen, township ive, and range four cast, lying U- S- inpcrtuin on the left bank of the Alabama river, containing five hundred and fifty l"'!‘l;£l;”‘mmacres, more or less, and a small part of said fractional section, lying on qw ° the right bank of said river, containing, as supposed, two acres, more or less, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished, and vested in William Waller and his heirs; the said William Waller having paid for said land the sum of fifteen hundred dollars; and Arthur Sizemore, who was authorized by an act of Congress, approved the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, to sell said land, provided " he removed with his family west of the Mississippi," having been prevented by death from complying with said act of Congress. Approved, July 27, 1842. ————— Surnrs II. Cin?. XCVIII.-dn Act for the relief ry' Ingcldsby W Crawford and Samuel July 27, 1842. Phillqls. """‘— · Be it enacted, &·c., That the proper accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized and directed to examine and settle, upon the prin— Claims to be ciples of equity and justice, the claims of Ingoldsby W. Crawford, late °*”Ehl°d “”d7 collector of the customs for the district of New London, and of Samuel mt Phillips, late collector of the customs for the district of Newburyport, for services rendered and actual expenses incurred by them in superintending the erection of a custom·house and public store in their districts, respectively; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sums found due to the aforesaid officers, respectively, on said settlement: Provided, That the sum paid to each shall not exceed Provisiothe amount claimed by him to be due for his said services and expenses in his accounts rendered to the treasury department, nor shall the sum paid exceed one thousand dollars to each. Approved, July 27, 1842. . Srnucra II. Cuap. XCIX.-An Jllct for the relief of Josiah Holmes. July 27. 1842- Be it enacted, ¢§·c., That the collector of customs for the district of New Bedford, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and hereby is, required All0W¤¤°¤ °{ to pay to Josiah Holmes, agent and principal owner of the sloop Lydia, of Rochester, in said district, of seventy-five and fifty-seven ninety-fifths tons burden, or to his legal representatives, such sum as said vessel would be entitled to receive as bounty for having been engaged more than four months in the cod-fisheries, during the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-nine; said bounty having been refused byt e collector of said district, on the ground that the agreement between Holmes and the fishermen, although in all respects faithfully executed, had not, by inadvertence or mistake, been endorsed or countersigned by said Holmes; which sum shall be distributed according to law. Approved, July 27, 1842. ———- Srnnn II. CHAP. C. --An Act for the relief of Nathaniel Mitchell July 27, 1842. Be it enacted, &c., That the Treasurer of the United States pay to 184% ¤¤· 197- Nathaniel Mitchell the sum of nine hundred and thirty-one dollars and ixty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,