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 868 TIVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I1. Ch.225,226,229. 1842. the same rate that he was paid for carrying the same mail from York to Philadelphia, during the winters of eighteen hundred and thirty-one and thirty-two, and eighteen hundred and thirty-two and thirty-three. Approved, August 26, 1842. Smruzre II. ——- ·—· Aug- 29-1842- CHAP. CCXXV.-dn dot for the rlelief of William lVillis, of Monroe county, —""`""' Virginia. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, _ Pension to be directed to pay to William Willis, in addition to what he already receives “‘°"°“S°d· as a revolutionary pensioner, the sum of thirty-eight dollars and one cent per annum, during his natural life, to commence on the fourth day 0f March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one. Approved, August 29, 1842. Snrurr: II. """" Aug, 29, 1842, CHAP. CCXXVI. ——An Act to authorize the inhabitants of townshnr eight north, nm; range thirty-two west, in the state of Arkansas, to enter a section of land in lieu of the sixteenth section in said township, upon condition that the same is surrendered to the United States for military purposes. Be it enacted, ty-::., That the inhabitants of township eight north, Authorized to range thirty-two west, in the state of Arkansas, be and they are hereby, $3:5* °““’““ authorized to enter one section of land in quarter sections, of any lands ' that may be subject to entry in the Fayetteville land district; which lands, so entered, shall be held by the inhabitants of said township upon the same conditions, and for the same purposes, as they now hold the sixteenth section in said township, upon the condition that the inhabitants of said township, under the authority of the state of Arkansas, shall relinquish to the United States the sixteenth section in township eight north, range thirty-two west, under such regulations as the Secrepmvi,°_ tary of the Treasury may prescribe: Provided, The President of the United States shall deem it expedient to obtain said section sixteen in township eight, range thirty-two, to be used for military purposes. Armzovnn, August 29, 1842. Srnuu II. ———— Aug. 29. 1842. Cntr-. CCXXIX. —An Aet to authorize the issuing of a pa/ent to the heirs or Be it enacted, $-4:., That the President of the United States be, and he P¤t¤¤t toissue is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be issued to the heirs of Mgmssgppt assignee or assignees, a patent for an island in the Mississippi river, opposite the town of St. Genevieve, in the state of Missouri; which said island was granted by the French Government to the said Rivard, in the year seventeen hundred and fifty-six, and pronounced by the board of commissioners in eighteen hundred and twelve to be a com- Proviso. plete title: Provided, That the same shall only operate as a relinquishrperg; of the right of the United States, and shall not affect the right of t ir persons. Report, Ste. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the report with the accomzalzgiggirs panying testimony and documents, made by the commissioners for the &c_ in comp,] final settlement of land claims in Missouri, on the twenty-seventh lation of land November, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in pursuance of the " act g:$,¤;¤g;¤£é¢¤_ for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri," approved _ v,,,,,,,, ,0 mcqub the ninth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the act approved original. the second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, entitled " an 1-gg glpésé 9» act supplementalto the act, entitled ‘ an act for the final adjustment of Ach), MMC}, land claims in Missouri} " as contained on pages from seven hundred z,1833,ch_s4,_ and two to eight hundred and thirty-eight, inclusive, of volume five of the compilation of land documents printed by Duff Green in the year
 * 3* legal representatives of Francis Rivard, deceased, and for other purposes.
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