CHAP. 212.-AN ACT for the relief of John King. for a house burn [SEO. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John To be paid $900 King, or his legal representatives, the sum of nine hundred dol- by the British durlars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropri- ing the late war. ated, the same being for a dwelling-house which was burnt by the British, in Richmond county, Virginia, during the late war. Approved, August 26th, 1842. CHAP. 213.-AN ACT for the relief of Phillis Tatton. the revolutionary pension roll. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and To be placed on required to place Phillis Tatton, of Lebanon, in the county of New London, State of Connecticut, widow of Cuff Wells, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners of the United States, and allow to her a pension for two years' military service of her said husband, to be paid to her agreeably to the act of the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, allowing pensions to certain widows; to be paid as other pensions are paid. Approved, August 26th, 1842.. CHAP. 214.-AN ACT for the relief of Mary Rand. Pension of $80, lowed. [SEO. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby directed to place the name of Mary Rand, widow of Walter Rand of North for five years, alCarolina, on the revolutionary pension roll, and pay her a pension, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, for five years; to commence on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. Approved, August 26th, 1842. CHAP. 215.-AN ACT for the relief of James Tongue, John Scrivener, and· the legal representatives of William Hodson, deceased. buildings destroy [SEO. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he here- To be paid for by is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the ed by the British Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James Tongue the in 1814, sum of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seventyeight cents; and to John Scrivener the sum of three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; and to the legal representa tives of William Hodson, deceased, the sum of three thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty nine cents; the same being for their buildings, valued at the sums aforesaid, which were occupied by a detachment of militia, and in conse quence thereof destroyed by the British, about the month of October, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. Approved, August 26th, 1842: per annum allowed. CHAP. 216.-AN ACT for the relief of David Freelove. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Pension of $80 assembled, That the Secretary of War be hereby authorized and required to place the name of David Freelove on the pen-. sion roll, under the act of June, eighteen hundred and thirtys two, and that he cause him to be paid the sum of eighty dol lars per annum during his natural life. Approved, August 26th, 18421 per month allowed. CHAP. 217.-AN ACT for the relief of John Flood. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Pension of assembled, That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of John Flood upon the list of invalid pensioners, at the rate of four dollars per month, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty, and pay him out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, August 26th, 1842. Name sion roll. 10 be CHAP. 218-AN ACT for the relief of Elizabeth Colfax [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, placed on the pen- authorized and required to place the name of Elizabeth Colfax on the pension roll, for the services of her late husband, Jona than Colfax, as a sergeant for two years eleven months and eleven days, during the revolutionary war, under the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. Approved, August 26th, 1842. CHAP. 219.-AN ACT for the relief of Randolph Carter. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, Pension of $8 authorized and directed to place the name of Randolph Carter, ed. per month allowof the State of Tennessee, on the roll of invalid pensioners; who shall be entitled to, and receive a pension, at the rate of eight dollars a month, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and to continue during his natural life. Approved, August 26th, 1842. CHAP, 220-AN ACT for the relief of Jacob Jackson. ed. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Jacob Jackson, of the State of per month allowNew York, upon the roll of invalid pensioners, as a pensioner at the rate of five dollars per month; the pension to commence on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty, and to continue during his natural life. Approved, August 26th, 1842. CHAP. 221.-AN ACT for the relief of Dorothy Bowman. per month from [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re presentatives of the United States of America in Congress. assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, To be paid directed to pay to Dorothy Bowman, of Marshall county, Vir- the time her hus ginia, out of any money not otherwise appropriated; at the rate band was stricken of eight dollars per month, from the time her late husband, roll, to the time of Samuel Bowman, a revolutionary soldier, was stricken from the pension roll, in eighteen hundred and thirty-four, to the twentieth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty, the time of his death. Approved, August 26th, 1842. from the pension his death. CHAP. 222.-AN ACT for the relief of Joseph Parker. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, Pension of $60 directed to place the name of Joseph Parker, of Windsor, in ed. the State of Vermont, on the list of revolutionary pensioners of the United States, and to pay him the sum of sixty dollars per› per annum allow annum from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, during his natural life. Approved, August 26th, 1842. of the schooner Monroe. fishing CHAP. 223.-AN ACT for the relief of Nathan Smith and others. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Bounty to be assembled, That the collector of customs for the district of New paid in the case London, in the State of Connecticut, be directed to pay to NaJames than Smith, and the owners, officers, and crew, of the fishing schooner James Monroe, of seventy-seven and thirteen ninetyfifths tons burden, which sailed from Stonington, in said district, during the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-four, on a fishing voyage to the straits of Belle Isle, and was absent and employed therein at sea for the term of three and a half months, the bounty she is entitled to receive for having been employed three and a half months in the cod fisheries, and using foreign salt on which the duties had been paid, agreeably to the act of July twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and thirteen. Approved, August 26th, 1842. CHAP. 224.-AN ACT for the relief of Samuel R. Slaymaker. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress To be paid for assembled, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, sarrying the mail. directed to settle with and pay to Samuel R. Slaymaker, of Pennsylvania, for carrying the Baltimore and Philadelphia mail from Lancaster to Philadelphia, during the winters of eighteen hundred and thirty-three and thirty-four, and eighteen hundred and thirty-four and thirty-five, at 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 thirtythree. Approved, August 26th, 1842. CHAP. 225.-AN ACT for the relief of William Willis, of Monroe county, Virginia. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress To be paid $38 assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, dithe rected to pay to William Willis, in addition to what he already pension he al- receives as a revolutionay pensioner, the sum of thirty-eight dollars and one cent per annum, during his natural life, to com 01 per annum, in addition to ready receives. mence on the fourth day of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one. Approved, August 29th, 1842. CHAP. 226.-AN ACT to authorize the inhabitants of township eight north, 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. lands to etteville district. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Authorized to assembled, That the inhabitants of township eight north, range enter it in quarter thirty-two west, in the State of Arkansas, be, and they are here- sectionsubiect by, authorized to enter one section of land in quarter sections, entry in the Fayof 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 Secretary 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. Approved, August 29th, 1842. Proviso: Presipedient to obtain section sixteen, dent deems it ex for military purposes. CHAP. 227.-AN ACT to make an appropriation for certain expenses in the erection of a penitentiary in the Territory of Iowa. done and mate [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Appropriation of assembled, That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much $15,000 for work thereof as may be necessary be, and the same is hereby, granted als furnished. and appropriated, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, to pay for work heretofore actually done and materials furnished in the construction of a penitentiary in the Territory of Iowa; but no further work or materials are hereby authorized to be done or furnished for the completion of said penitentiary, be done on the on the faith of future appropriations by Congress, but the same faith of future ap are expressly prohibited. Nothing more to propriations Approved, August 29th, 1842. |