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 $48 TWENTY·SEVENTH CONGRESS. SBss.H. C1r.114,l15,116,117,1I8. 1842. Srnurn II. Aug. 1, 1842. Crum CXIV.- Jln Act for the relief ry` John P. Converse and Henry J Rees. Be it enacted, ¢§~e., That the Postmaster-General issue his warrant on Payment to the Treasury of the United States, registered and countersigned as pro- ‘h°m· vided by law, for the payment of John P. Converse and Henry J. Rees, out of the moneys paid into the treasury for the service of the Post Office Department, for the sum of six hundre and thirteen dollars and eighty- three cents, the interest on two drafts, (including the expense of a protest, of one dollar and seventy-Eve cents,) under date of March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-tive, and accepted by the then treasurer of the Post Ofhce Department, by direction of the Postmaster-General, at sixty and one hundred and twenty days; which drafts were negotiated at. the Metropolis Bank, and not accounted for by the said department. Ammovnn, August 1, 1842. Snrura II. -—-———-— Aug. 1, 1842. Cmp. CXV.—-An Act for the relief of Benjamin E Hard. Be it enacted, Qc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is Payment to hereby, directed to pay Benjamin F. Hard the sum of one thousand him- three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Armovnn, August 1, 1842. Sn·ru·r¤ II. ’_'“" Avg_ gy 1g4g_ CHAP. CXVI.-An Act for the relief of Sylvester Phehis and the heirs or legal re- -———-————-— presenlalives of Charles Landon, deceased. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of Payment any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Sylvester £‘;;°“ ;‘,;’““° d°' Phelps and to the heirs or legal representatives of Charles Landon, the ysum of two thousand one hundred dollars, the value of a house situate in South Hero, Vermont, and destroyed by hre in consequence of its occupation by United Statcs’ troops during the late war with Great Britain. Approved, August 1, 1842. Surure II. ··•·— Aug. 1, 1842. CHAP. CXVII.—./Sn Act for the rellg of Edwin II. Childers, administrator qf """"""""’ John . Hickman. Be it enacted, dw., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is Account as a hereby, authorized to audit and settle the accounts of John P. Hickman, g;m23¤‘°'*° W deceased, late at paymaster in the Tennessee volunteers engaged in the ` service of the United States; and to credit the estate of said Hickman for all moneys which shall appear, upon satisfactory proof, to have been actually expended by said Hickman, for the use and benefit of the United States, for any purpose authorized by law. Approved, August 1, 1842. Srnrurm II. Crur. CXVIII.--—/In Act to authorize the Shenandoah Bridge Company, at Har- ·-—-—-·—-· per'; F crry, to erect a Bridge on the land of the United States at the town Aug, 1, [34.2 of Harpcrhs Ferry. Authority_to Be it enacted, eye., That the Shenandoah Bridge Company, at Har-
 * ,°tn’;f€b;‘;*‘§aj, per’s Ferry, be and they are hereby authorized to erect a bridge across

' the river Shenandoah, on the lands belonging to the United States, at or near the town of Harper’s Ferry, and to connect the same by a sufficient road or passway through the said lands, with the road on the Pr¤viS¤s in east side of said river and the main street of the said town: Provided, ?:Q;§cs§w%‘;:,L: that, in the construction of said bridge, and the said road or passway rights ofothers. to and from it, the said company shall not, in virtue of this act, inter-