Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 6.djvu/956

 856 TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 154, 155, 156, 157. 1842. who was asergeant in Captain Aisquith’s company, third brigade of Maryland militia, in the service of the United States, and who died of disabilities incurred in said service during the last war with Great Britain. IXPPROVED, August 11, 1842. Snrvrs II. """" Aug_ 1;, jg4g_ C1-um. CLIV.-An Act for the relief of Jubal B. Hancock. Be it enacted, rye., Thr: Jgbal?. Hpnpock be, and gre is (hereby, Authorized to authorized on or before the rst ay o anuary one thousand eig t ?“'°'j”*gg· in hundred arid forty-four, to enter at the proper land, office, in legal submuo ’ °' divisions, fourteen hundred and forty acres of any of the public lands of the United States, within the state of Mississippi, in lieu of fl like quantity of land to which he and his three children, Williarn M. Hancock, Mary M. Hancock, and Caroline D. Hancock, beeamc entitled under the fourteenth article of the treaty of Dancing-rabbit creek, concluded with the Choctaw nation of Indians, on the twenty-seventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, which was improperly located for them by George W. Martin, the locating agent of the United States, and of which they have been deprived by the decision of the Secretary of War. _Par.-mts to be Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the '·°”“°d· Commissioner of the General Land Officc, on receiving certificates of said entry, to cause patents to be issued to Jubal B. Hancock, for six hundred and forty acres; to William M. Hancock, for three hundred and twenty acres; to Mary M. Hancock, for three hundred and twenty acres; and to Caroline D. Hancock, for one hundred and sixty acres: in conformity with the provisions of said treaty. Arpnovmn, August 11, 1842. Srarura II. ————- Aug. ll, 1842. Cun. CLV.·—An det for the relief ry' Eli Wheat and Stephen White. Be it enacted, &c., That so much of a judgment which was obtained so much Ora by the United States, in the district court of the United States for the fsgxlvgyggk- Kentucky district, at the May term, one. thousand eight hundred and mma as " forty, for the sum of five hundred and sixteen dollars sixty-four cents, against them, against James W. Carter, late postmaster. at Columbia,‘Kentucky, and the said Eli Wheat and Stephen White, his sureties, as is in the nature of penalty, be, and the same is hereby, released as against said `Wheat proviso, and White: Provided, That the balance of said judgment, if not already paid, shall, with the interest thereon from the date of said judgment, be paid within sixty days after the passageof this act. Ammovan, August 11, 1842. Srnurn IL —·——· Aug. 11, 1842. Crm?. CLVI.-An hot for the relief of lahn Johnston. h Ble it enalpted, {gc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is To bepuidehe ere y out orize to pay to John Johnston out of any money in the zi':-$"j°:r`l‘;:€" treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum bf seven hundred and fifty- ,,gai,,S,i,m_ six dollars and eighty-two cents; being the amount received from the with interest. said Jolmston upon a judgment against him in favor of the United States, together with the interest thereof from the time of such payment. Approved, August 11, 1842. Snaurx II. ———-—— Aug. 11, 1842. CHAP. CLVII. —-—An Act for the relisf of John B. Pierce. Certain dudes Be it enacted, qc., That there be paid, out of any moneys in the to be mid ,0 treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John B. Pierce, of Salem, Mashim. sachusetts, for himself, as owner, and for the master and crew of the