March 3, 1847. per month allowed to Jonathan Hoyt. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Pension of $8 United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Jonathan Hoyt on the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him eight dollars per month, from and after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and to discontinue from that time the payment allowed to him by an act of Congress passed in eighteen hundred and thirty. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. March 3, 1847. Pension certificate to be issued to Edith Ramey. 1838, ch. 189. 1843, ch. 102. 1844, ch. 102. CHAP. CI. — An Act for the Relief of Edith Ramey. 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 required to issue a pension certificate to Edith Ramey, of Muskingum county, in the State of Ohio, granting to her, as the widow of John Ramey, deceased, who was a pensioner of the revolution, a pension, with the full benefit of the act of the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled "An Act granting Half-Pay and Pensions to certain Widows;" also the full benefit of the acts of the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, and the seventeenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, granting and extending pensions to the widows of certain revolutionary soldiers. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. March 3, 1847. Accounts of thall as acting professor of William T. Wal mathematics to be settled from 24th May, 1843, to 25th February, 1845. CHAP. CII.- An Act for the Relief of William T. Walthall. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury be directed and required to audit and settle the account of William T. Walthall, for his services as acting professor of mathematics, from the twenty-fourth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-three, to the twenty-fifth day of February, anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-five, inclusive; and Also to be al- that he include also in said settlement, and allow to said Walthall, the lowed the a- amounts allowed and paid by the purser of the frigate Brandywine, on board and med- account of his board and medicine and medical attendance at Hong ical attendance Kong, in China, during the time when, by advice of the naval surwhile sick at he was left sick ashore at that place in the absence of the East geon, Hong Kong. India squadron. mount of his APPROVED, March 3, 1847. March 3, 1847. Elizabeth Fitch to be placed on the pension roll. 1936, ch. 362. 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, authorized and required to place the name of Elizabeth Fitch on the pension roll, under the act of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; and that he cause her to be paid, agreeably to said act, for seven months' service by her late husband as assistant surgeon in the revolutionary war. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. CHAP. CIV.- An Act for the Relief of Wilfred Knott. 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, authorized and directed to place the name of Wilfred Knott on the list of invalid pensioners, and to pay him a pension at the rate of eight dollars a month during his natural life, commencing from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six: APPROVED, March 3, 1847. March 3, 1847. Pension of $1 per month allowed to Wilfred Knott. CHAP. CV.- An Act for the Relief of Elizabeth Calkins, the Widow of Silas 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, authorized and required to place the name of Elizabeth Calkins on the revolutionary pension roll, under the act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, for two years' service of her said husband, to commence the first January, eighteen hundred and forty-five. APPROVED March 3, 1847. March 3, 1847. Elizabeth Cal kins to be placed on the pension roll. 1838, ch. 189. 66 CHAP. CVI.- An Act for the Relief of Harvey Reynolds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act approved third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled An Act for the Relief of Harvey Reynolds," be, and the same is hereby, so modified and repealed as to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the said Harvey Reynolds the sum of eight dollars per month for and during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. CHAP. CVII. · An Act for the Relief of John C. Stewart and others. 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 is hereby, authorized to pay five hundred and seventy-five dollars, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John C. Stewart, and other watchmen employed in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and eighteen hundred and forty, to watch the Treasury Building, and to build and maintain fires in the rooms of the same; the said sum of money to be equally divided between the said watchmen by the Secretary of the Treasury. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. CHAP. CVIII. An Act for the Relief of Ann Clayton. March 3, 1847. Ann Clayton Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary to be placed on of War is hereby required to place Ann Clayton, of Muskingum the pension roll. county, Ohio, on the pension roll, granting her a pension and the pay of a lieutenant, as the widow of Henry Clayton, deceased, who was a pensioner, and who was a lieutenant in the revolution, in lieu of the pension and pay of a private, which she now receives as such widow, commencing for such lieutenant's pay from the fifteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-five. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. March 3, 1847. Act of 8th August, 1846, ch. 153, for relief of Mary Segar a mended. 1846, ch. 153. Pension payable to Phenix Carpenter Ellis to be paid to his administrator. CIX.- An Act for the Relief of Mary Segar, and for the Relief of Elisha Denison, Administrator of Phenix Carpenter Ellis. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act entitled "An Act for the Relief of Mary Segar, of Jefferson County, New York," passed August eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be so amended that, in the first section, for the words "Mary Phelps," shall be substituted" Mary Segar, now of Lewis county, New York." SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized and required to pay, out of the moneys appropriated for the payment of revolutionary pensions, to Elisha Denison, of New York, administrator of Phenix Carpenter Ellis, deceased, the amount of pension payable to said Phenix Carpenter Ellis from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to the seventh day of December of the same year, at the rate of ten dollars a month, being the rate which he was entitled to draw as sergeant of infantry in the Connecticut line of the army of the revolution. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. March 3, 1847. CHAP. CX.. An Act for the Relief of W. P. S. Sanger and George F. De La Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the W. P.S. Sanger United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper and George F.De La Roche to be accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are paid the amount hereby, authorized and required to allow to William P. S. Sanger and of their expenses George F. De La Roche the amounts paid by them for expenses incurwhile making certain surveys red, in obedience to an order from the Navy Department, dated Ocand examinations tober thirty, eighteen hundred and forty-three, directing them to make by order of Secretary of Navy. the surveys and examinations required by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, in reference to the construction of a dry dock at New York; which expenses the Secretary of the Navy expressly stipulated should be paid. 1843, ch. 83. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. March 3, 1847. CHAP. CXI. B. Chaudonia au land. An Act for the Relief of the Widow and Heirs of John B. Chaudonia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Widow of John United States of America in Congress assembled, That Mary L. thorized to enter Chaudonia, for and in consideration of services rendered by her husa balf-section of band, John B. Chaudonia, to the United States, during the late war, be, and she is hereby, authorized to enter, in any land office in the State of Indiana, without paying money therefor, any unappropriated half-section of public land liable to entry at private sale; for which Patent to issue. she shall be entitled to, and shall receive, a patent from the United States vesting the title thereof, in fee simple, in her and her heirs. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Charles B. Chaudonia and Mary L. Breset, children and heirs of John B. Chaudonia, deceased, for and in consideration of services rendered by their father to the United States during the late war, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, in any land office in the State of Indiana, without paying money therefor, each for themselves, one quarter-section of any unappropriated public lands liable to entry at private sale; for which they shall be entitled to, and shall receive, a patent from the United States vesting the titles thereof, in fee simple, in them and their heirs. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. Children and heirs of John B Chaudonia au thorized to enter each a quarter section of land Patents to issue CHAP. CXII. - An Act for the Relief of James H. Conley. March 3, 1847. 1849, ch. 27. James H. Con on carpenter Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not other-ley to be paid $1058, 96 in full, wise appropriated, the sum of one thousand and fifty-eight dollars and for services as ninety-six cents, to be paid to James H. Conley, or his legal representative, in full payment for his services, as acting carpenter on board the United States steamship Princeton, from the eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-three, to the seventh day of January, eighteen [hundred] and forty-six. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. States steamship CHAP. CXIII.—An Act for the Relief of the legal Representatives of William 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 is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of William Bunce, deceased, one thousand dollars, they giving a receipt in full for the damage sustained by the deceased aforesaid in the burning of his buildings on Palm Island, Florida, by the order of Brigadier-General Armistead, of the United States CHAP. CXIV.-An Act for the Relief of the legal Representatives of the late Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of nine hundred and seventy-six dollars and ninety-one cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as payment in full to the legal representatives of the late Joseph E. Primeau and Thomas J. Chapman, known formerly as the firm of Primeau and Chapman, for spoliations committed on said firm by the Yancton Indians of the Sioux tribe, in the latter part of the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. March 3, 1847. Representatives of Primeau and Chapman to b paid $976 91 for spoliations com mitted by the Yancton Indians March 3, 1847. Jacob L. Vance to be paid $50 the service of for horse lost in United States. CHAP. CXV. - An Act for the Relief of Jacob L. Vance. 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 is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Jacob L. Vance, of the State of Ohio, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty dollars, being in full compensation for a horse lost in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, while in the service of the United States; also Also $54 for the sum of fifty-four dollars, being in full compensation for the use of his team of four horses and a wagon eighteen days in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, which said team was employed in conveying flour to the army of the United States. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. the services of his team. wagon and - CHAP. CXVI. An Act for the Relief of James Green, of the County of Fauquier, 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, required to place the name of James Green upon the roll of revolutionary pensioners; and that he pay him at the rate of one hundred and forty-four dollars per annum, for and during his natural life, commencing on the fifteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty, that being the time at which he was stricken from the said pension roll by the Commissioner of Pensions. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. March 3, 1847. tain and pay CHAP. CXVII. An Act for the Relief of George B. Russell and others. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Accounting of United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper ficers to ascer accounting officers of the Treasury Department be directed to ascerGeorge B. Rus- tain, by competent and satisfactory proof, the amount of the claims, sell and others, respectively, of George B. Russell, George M. Lavender, George E. the amount of Mountcarth, John M. Bruce, R. J. Loyiess, John Dawson, and S. C. Newman, and that the same be paid to them, or their heirs, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; it being for bread, meat, and clothing furnished the Cherokee Indians, to induce them to accept Ridge's treaty, and under the appointment and authority of Benjamin F. Curry, superintendent of Cherokee removals. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. their claims for provisions and clothing fur nished the Cher okee Indians. March 3, 1847. Lewis C. Sartor to be paid $806 30, with interest, for his services as promatics on board fessor of mathe the frigate Con stitution. CHAP. CXVIII. — An Act for the Relief of Lewis C. Sartori. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby, appropriated the sum of eight hundred and six dollars and thirty cents, with interest from the eighth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-two, to be paid to Lewis C. Sartori, of Philadelphia, or his legal representative, in full payment for his services as professor of mathematics on board the United States frigate Constitution, from the tenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, to the twenty-fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-one. APPROVED, March 3, 1847. |