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 W TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 6, 7, 8, 9. 1843. 879 Snrur: III. CHAP. VI.—An Act for the relief of lzzmes M. Mbrgan. Jan. 20, 1843. Be it enacted, ¢§·c., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James M. Payment for Morgan, three hundred and seventy-eight dollars in full for his services f)"""“" **8 and expenses as bearer of despatches from the Governor of Iowa to the pgggzsif des` Secretary of State in eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. Approved, January 20, 1843. ` HAP. .—- n c or f ereie 0 is creun, WWF41m . n C VH .0 dt It l EI ha JI l d Snwn HL Bod-cri J Kenndlyfand Mason E. Lewis. 1 M Ke mdyi Be it enacted, &c., That Elisha Moreland, William M. Kennedy, Robert J. Kennedy, and Mason E. Lewis, who were deprived of their _,;,,,},,,,;,,,,] to respective rights of pre-emption to their improvements in Madison qnwr land, in county, Alabama, to which they were entitled under the act of Congress l’€g3‘5f· ‘¥"°é08 of twenty-ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, hy theC f ` location of a reservation for a Cherokee Indian named Challenge, under the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and the confirmation thereof by an act of Congress passed for his relief, be, and they hereby are, authorized to enter, each, one quarter section of any unappropriated public land, not improved or settled upon by any other person, within the Huntsville land district, in that state, or any adjoining district, by paying therefor the then minimum price per acre. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Proof required register and receiver of the land office, when any application to enter tha! they were land, under the First section of this act, shall be made, before permitting ggmlzq. ;’r£° such entry, to require satisfactory proof to be made that such applicant emprsom was entitled to a preemption under the act of the twenty-ninth May, 1830, ¤h· W1 one thousand eight hundred and thirty: Provided, The same is madc Proviso. within nine months from the passage of this act. APPROVED, January 20, 1843. "—`—` Sruur: III. CHAP. VIII. —-An Act for lhc rclicf of John R. Dc1w1y- Jan. 20, 1843. Be it enacted, fc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorize and required to pay, out of any money in the trea- Amount ofa sury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of a judgment rendered on y:;:'" the twenty-sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine in the mmf circuit court of Hamilton county, in the state of Tennessee, wherein John Cornell was plaintiff, and Joseph Powell, John R. Delany, Thomas J. Caldwell, and Reuben Roddy, were defendants, and which judgment has been paid and satisfied by the said John R. Delany ; together with all costs incurred in said suit, including att0rneys’ fees. Approved, January 20, 1843. . ··-‘-‘ Sracrun III. CHAP. IX.-An dat for the relief of Snow K Scars. Jan. 20, 1843. Bc it enacted, rfc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Snow Y. Sears, of Barnstable, Amoumof u in the state of Massachusetts, master muriner, or his attorney, the sum certain fine to of four hundred dollars, on account ofa fine of that amount remitted to l’° *`°f““d°d‘ said Sears, by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the twenty-four·th day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and which was paid into the treasury before the remission of the same could take effect. Approved, January 20, 1843.