age committed by CHAP. 125.-AN ACT for the relief of David M. Hughes, Charles Shipman, and John Henderson. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Amount of dam- assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereIndians emigrating by is, authorized and directed to make an inquiry into, and mand of a U. S. cause an estimate to be made of, the damage incurred by David officer, to be as- M. Hughes, Charles Shipman, and John Henderson, by reason certained and paid. of injuries committed by a party of emigrating Creek Indians, under the com under the command of an officer of the United States, on lands owned by them at Pass Christien, in the county of Hancock, and State of Mississippi, known as the Livingston claim, in the summer of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven; and pay the amount thereof, when ascertained, to the said David M. Hughes, Charles Shipman, and John Henderson, or their legal representatives, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and said Secretary shall cause said estimate to be made only for all trees taken by said Indians for their necessary use, at the intrinsic value of the same on the spot and at the time they were so taken, and by said Indians. Approved, August 9th, 1842. verton annexed, described. CHAP. 126.-AN ACT to annex a part of the town of Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island, to the collection district of Fall River in the State of Massachusetts. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress The part of Ti- assembled, That all that part of the town of Tiverton, in the State of Rhode Island, which lies north of the south line of the farm of William Slade, and of the farm of the heirs of Bolyston Brayton, to Wattupper Pond, and by'said pond to the south line of the State of Massachusetts, and the waters and shores adjoining thereto, be, and the same is hereby, annexed to, and made a part of the collection district of Fall river in the State of Massachusetts. Approved, August 9th, 1842. indemnify Georgia CHAP. 127.-AN ACT to provide for the settlement of the claims of the [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress So much of $175,- assembled, That the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thou000 appropriated to sand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to the expenses of payment and indemnity of the State of Georgia, for any money actually paid by said State on account of necessary and proper pression of Indian expenses incurred by said State in calling out her militia, in the be necessary, after years eighteen hundred and thirty-five, eighteen hundred and ductions. thirty-six, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and eighteen hun for hostilities, as may making certain de dred and thirty-eight, during the Seminole, Cherokee, and Creek campaigns, or for the suppression of Indian hostilities in Florida and Alabama, or so much of said sum as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, after deducting any sum or sums of money that may have heretofore been advanced by the United States to the State of Georgia, to be applied to the objects aforesaid, and which may not have been previously so applied. been due, had said SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Paymaster What would have General of the United States army and the accounting officers militia been called of the Treasury shall first ascertain and certify what would have into the U. S. serbeen due from the United States to the volunteers and militia certained, &c. called into the service of the said State of Georgia, or by her proper authorities, during the time and for the purposes men. tioned in the preceding section, if said volunteers and militia had been duly called into the service of the United States, and regularly received and mustered by officers of the United States army, according to the laws and regulations which have governed in the payment of the volunteers and militia of other States: Provided, That the accounts of the agent or other officer of the Proviso: accounts State of Georgia, employed or authorized to make payments for Georgia be submitthe aforesaid services, or any of them, be submitted to the Paymaster General and the accounting officers, for their inspection: And provided, also, That no reimbursement shall be made on account of the payment of any volunteers or militia who re- made for those fused to be received and mustered into the service of the United mustered in the States, or to serve under officers of the United States army, if U. s. service. any may have been ordered to that service by the President of the United States or other proper authority. Approved, August 11th, 1842 of the agent of ted for inspection. Proviso: no reimbursement to be who refused to be CHAP. 128.-AN ACT to settle the title to certain tracts of land in the State of Arkansas. authorized to enter how. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Owners of cerassembled, That each and every owner of a Spanish or French tain Spanish and land claim, in the State of Arkansas, which was submitted for French land claims adjudication to the superior court of the late Territory of Arkan the same, sas, and by that court confirmed, being subsequent purchasers for a valuable consideration, is hereby authorized, within twelve months from the passage of this act, to enter, respectively, the lard covered by the said claim, at the minimum price, under such regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Of certain lands. fice shall prescribe, Provided, That no such entry shall be Proviso: entry to made, except of lands mentioned and described in the original be made of only claim, or of such tracts as have been located in pursuance of the act of the twenty-sixth of May, eighteen hundred and twentyfour, entitled "An act enabling the claimants to lands within the limits of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims," or any act reviving the same; nor unless the owner of the claim shall make and subscribe an oath, before the register or receiver of the land office of the district in which the lands lie, which oath such register or receiver is hereby authorized to administer,) that at the time he became the owner of the claim he had no notice or knowledge that the claim was fraudulent, or that the same rested upon any forged warrant, grant, order of survey, or Patents to issue other evidence of title. And, for every entry made under the as though no Spanish or French claim provisions of this act, a patent shall issue, as though no Spanish or French claim had ever been entered upon said land. had been entered Approved, August 11th, 1842. Assignment of tricts. CHAP. 129.—AN ACT regulating the services of the several judges in the [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re. presentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That until otherwise ordered by law of the Legislathe judges to dis- tive Assembly of the Territory of Iowa, the judges for said Territory lately appointed shall be, and they are hereby, assigned to the same districts to which the same judges respectively, were heretofore assigned by the laws of the said Legislative assembly of the Territory of Iowa. · Approved, August 11th, 1842. CHAP. 130.-AN ACT in relation to the district court for the northern district of New York. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Clerk of the court assembled, That it shall be lawful for the clerk of the district may appoint a deputy-his powers. court for the northern district of New York, to appoint a deputy, who, in his absence, may exercise all the official powers of the said clerk, at the village of Auburn, in the county of Cayuga, Deputy to take in the said district. And such deputy, before he enters on the discharge of his duties, shall take the usual oath for the faithful Clerk responsible performance of his duties as such deputy. And nothing herein for acts of his de- contained shall be held to excuse or release the said clerk from legal responsibility for acts performed by his said deputy, in behalf of said clerk in the office aforesaid. an oath. puty. Approved, August 11th, 1842. CHAP. 131.-AN ACT for the relief of Daniel B. Bush. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress the relinquishment assembled, That Daniel B. Bush, grantee under John Smith, enter other land. be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United Authorized, upon · of certain land, to States, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe, the southwest quarter of section thirtyfive, of township thirteen south, in range two west, in the tract appropriated by acts of Congress granting land to the late army of the United States; which tract of land appears to be but a small fraction, not conforming to the law under which it was granted; and upon such relinquishment being made as aforesaid, the said Daniel B. Bush shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter any other quarter section in the land district in which said fraction is situated in the State of Illinois, which shall be liable to entry at private sale, and not in the occupancy of any actual settler: Provided, The said Daniel B. Bush, Proviso he prove shall prove to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that he is the bona that he is the bona fide purchaser of the land specified in the patent, and that he holds the same for said fractional quarter section granted to John Smith, father and heir at law of Edward Smith, deceased. Approved, August 11th, 1842. fide purchaser, &c. CHAP. 132.-AN ACT for the relief of Alexander Hammett. His accounts to [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officer of the Treasury be settled, how. be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to settle the accounts of Alexander Hammett, consul of the United States at Naples, under the direction of the Secretary of State, and that he allow to the said Hammett a compensation at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, for such time as it shall appear that he was engaged as an informal agent of claims in behalf of citizens of the United States, and that this allowance, in full satisfaction of all claims of the said Hammett against the United States, be paid him out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. Approved, August 11th, 1842. CHAP. 133.—AN ACT for the relief of George H. Walker. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That George H. Walker be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter, at the land office in the district in which it lies, the northeast quarter of section thirty-two, in township seven north, of range twenty-two east, in the Milwaukie land district, Wiskonsan Territory, at the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, he having entitled himself to a pre-emption right thereto, under the act of the twenty-second of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, by inhabitancy and cultivation, but Authorized to enter certain land. said land having been reserved to the United States, as part of one of the "even sections" mentioned in the first section of the act of June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, granting a quantity of land to the Territory ef Wiskonsan, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of Lake Michigan with those of Rock river. Approved, Angust 11th, 1842. Authorized, up CHAP. 134.-AN ACT for the relief of Rees B. Ward. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon the surrender, by Rees B. Ward, his on the surrender heirs or legal representatives, to be cancelled, to the Secretary of the certificate, of the Treasury, of the certificate, or the patent if the same shall for certain land, to have been issued, for the northwest quarter of the northwest or patent if issued, enter other land. quarter of section numbered twenty-three, in township numbered nine, north of range numbered twenty-six west, in the district of land subject to sale at Johnson court-house in the State of Arkansas, entered by the said Rees B. Ward by mistake, he or they shall be authorized to enter in lieu thereof, a like quantity of public land subject to private entry in said district, and not in the occupancy of any bona fide settler: Provided, That said land so entered by the said Rees B. Ward by mistake shall has not been sold not previous to such surrender have been sold to a bona fide surrender. purchaser. Proviso: the land previous to the Approved, August 11th, 1842. CHAP. 135.—AN ACT for the relief of William Wynn. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That William Wynn, of Lafayette county, and emptive right of State of Arkansas, be permitted a pre-emptive right of entry at sale, of certain private sale, on payment in cash of one dollar and twenty-five lands, on paying cents per acre, in the proper land office of the district where the Allowed a pre entry at private $125 per acre. lands are situate, of any portion, or all of the lands contained in the several sections and fractional sections, designated as sec-, tions eighteen, nineteen, twenty, seventeen, eight, nine, ten, seven, three, four, twenty-one, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-three, thirty-four, of township sixteen south, range twenty-six west, and sections, seventeen, twenty, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, nineteen, thirty, of township fifteen south, range twenty-five west, situate in the State of Arkansas; said entries to be made under the following rules and limitations, viz: that said entries be made within two years from the tions under which date of this act; and that they be not made so as to interfere the entries are to with any improved land, claimed by other than himself, or by Rules and limita be made. |