July 20, 1848. have reinstated Court of the Uni tain decree of the CHAP. CVII. - An Act for the Relief of Jose Argote Villalobos, Marie Rose, François Felix, Marquis de Fougeres, or their Heirs or legal Representatives. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Jose Argote Jose Argote VilVillalobos, Marie Rose, François Felix, Marquis de Fougeres, or their lalobos and othheirs or legal representatives, or such thereof as may be deemed to be ers, authorized te proper parties therefor, may, within one year from the passage of this on the docket of act, reinstate, or have reinstated on the docket of the Supreme Court the Supreme of the United States, an appeal to the said Supreme Court from a cer- ted States an aptain decree of the Superior Court of the district of East Florida, in the peal from a cerlate Territory of Florida, rendered on the tenth day of September, one Superior Court of thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, in favor of the United States, the eastern disrejecting a certain claim or grant for certain lands in said State, and said trict of Florida in Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction of said appeal, and proceed to hear ted States and determine such appeal, the same as if the appeal heretofore taken and dismissed by said Supreme Court or Court of Error in the proceedings respecting said appeal by the officers of said Superior Court had not been irregular, and as if the time limited by law had not elapsed; it appearing that some of said parties have died, some residents of France, and some minors, and that delay in taking said appeal in due time has been occasioned thereby. APPROVED, July 20, 1848. favor of the Uni July 25, 1848. Sale of a portion of public reto the vestry of Washington par servation No. 13 ish authorized. CHAP. CIX. An Act to authorize the Sale of a Part of Public Reservation numbered Thirteen, in the City of Washington, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Public Buildings in the city of Washington be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell to the vestry of Washington parish such portion of the public reservation of land in the city of Washington, numbered thirteen, called the Hospital Square, as the said vestry may desire to purchase, for the purpose of enlarging the Washington parish burial-ground, not exceeding six acres: Provided, The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy shall be of opinion that the said land can be sold without injury to the public service; and, upon pay- Upon payment ment being made to the said Commissioner for the said land, at the of purchase monsame price per acre which the United States received for the adjoining ey, deed of consquare of ground, numbered eleven hundred and fifteen, he shall execute a conveyance therefor to the said vestry, in the same manner as he now conveys public lands when sold. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the vestry of Washington parish shall have authority to enclose, possess, and occupy so much of Nineteenth Street east as passes between square numbered eleven hundred and fifteen, in the city of Washington, (the present burial-ground,) and the land proposed by the first section of this act to be sold; and also, with the consent of the corporate authority of the city of Washington, the said vestry may enclose, possess, and occupy so much of any street or streets as may pass between the said square numbered eleven hundred and fifteen, and any other whole square of ground of which it may become the possessor, for the sole purpose of enlarging the said burial-ground. Proviso. veyance to be ex ecuted. Said vestry may enclose and occupy portions of certain streets; SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the vestry of Washington And may hold parish shall have power to hold and enjoy forever any land which it any land it may and enjoy forever may purchase or possess for the extension of the Washington parish purchase for exburial-ground: Provided, The whole quantity shall not exceed thirty tension of burial acres, any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstanding; ground. Government of officers. and the said vestry may, from time to time, sell or otherwise dispose of the said ground for the purposes of burial. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the government of the the United States United States shall be entitled to purchase from the said vestry, and to to have the right to purchase a occupy as a burial-ground, for members of Congress and such other portion of said members of the United States government as the President shall deem ground for a burial-ground for it expedient and proper to allow, a portion of the land hereinbefore members of Con- authorized to be sold, not exceeding one fourth part thereof, and which gress and public portion shall be laid out in some compact form, and at such place as Proviso. the Secretaries aforesaid shall select: Provided, That the ground so authorized to be purchased and used by the government shall be paid for from time to time, as it is actually used, at the price demanded by the vestry, for grave-sites in other parts of the same ground: And provided, also, That this reservation of the right to purchase to the extent aforesaid shall not be held to subject the United States to any part of the expense of putting up or keeping up the enclosures of the said burying-ground, or other expense incident thereto. APPROVED, July 25, 1848. United States not to be subject to any expense for enclosures, &c. July 25, 1848. of a quarter sec county, Florida, for county site. CHAP. CXII. - An Act to confirm the Location and to grant a Quarter Section of Public Lands for the County Site of Hillsborough County, State of Florida. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confirmation of United States of America in Congress assembled, That the location of location and grant the county commissioners of the county of Hillsborough, in the State tion of land to of Florida, of one hundred and sixty acres of land for the county site Hillsborough of said county, at Tampa, viz.: beginning on the east bank of Hillsborough River, at the point where the reduced military reservation, as made by Major L. Whiting, September fourteenth, eighteen hundred. and forty-six, strikes the same; thence up said river, binding thereon, to a point at least half a mile in a straight line from the beginning; thence north-easterly to a point from whence a line running parallel to said straight line, and striking the line of said reduced reservation; and thence along the lines of said reservation to the place of beginning shall include between said river and said lines one hundred and sixty acres of land; and the same is hereby granted to the said commissioners of the said county, and their successors in office, for the use Proceeds of of said county, the proceeds of sales to be applied to the building of a sales-how to be court-house and jail, and other public buildings for said county; and applied. the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall cause said one hundred and sixty acres of land, granted as aforesaid, to be surveyed, and the survey confirmed, as soon as practicable; and a patent shall issue therefor to said commissioners, for the use of said county, as aforesaid, referring to this act. APPROVED, July 25, 1848. July 25, 1848. CHAP. CXIII. An Act for the Relief of Alfred White. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Postmaster-Gen- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmastereral to pay Alfred General be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, from the revenues of White $51 45 cents, the amount the Post-Office Department appropriated for mail transportation, to of a judgment re- Alfred White, of Mississippi, the sum of fifty-four dollars and forty-five covered against cents, that sum having been paid by him in satisfaction of a judgment nim. recovered against him by the United States, in the District Court for the southern district of Mississippi; and which said sum, included in said judgment, was over and above what appears to have been due from said White to the Post-Office Department, for whose benefit said judgment was recovered. APPROVED, July 25, 1848. CHAP. CXIV.-An Act for the Relief of the Central Railroad and Banking July 25, 1848. Secretary of the 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 required to can- Treasury to cancel and give up cel and give up six several bonds of the Central Railroad Company six several bonds of Georgia, falling due on the third day of March, eighteen hundred illegally taken and forty-three, which said several bonds were required and given Railroad contrary to the true intent and meaning of the several acts under Banking Compawhich they were taken. ny of Georgia. from Central and APPROVED, July 25, 1848. CHAP. CXV. - An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make a Compromise and Settlement with the Securities of Francis D. Newcomb, late Surveyor-General of the Stute of Louisiana. 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 make such an equitable settlement and compromise with the securities of Francis D. Newcomb, late surveyor-general of the State of Louisiana, as he shall, under the circumstances, deem advisable; and on their paying or securing to his satisfaction the sum agreed to be paid by them, to discharge them fully from all liability as such securities. APPROVED, July 25, 1848. July 25, 1848. Secretary of the Treasury authorized to make a and settlement compromise with the securities of F. D. Newcomb. July 25, 1848. heirs of Moses CHAP. CXVI.- An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Moses White. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress aesembled, That the Secretary Secretary of of War be, and he hereby is, directed to allow and pay to the heirs-at- War to pay to the law of Moses White, deceased, late a pensioner on the revolutionary White the amount invalid pension roll, the amount of his invalid pension, from the third of his invalid of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and pension from 3d March, 1826, to twenty-six, to the thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord one 31st May, 1830. thousand eight hundred and thirty, during which time said pension was withheld or discontinued in consequence of said Moses taking the benefit of the act entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved May fifteenth, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. APPROVED, July 25, 1848. 1828, ch. 53. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the judgment Release of a rendered in the District Court of the United States for the southern judgment renderdistrict of New York, in the case of the United States against the society in favor ed against said managers of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, of the United so far as the same remains unpaid, be, and the same is hereby, forever States. released and discharged; and that the proper law officer of the United States in said court cause satisfaction thereof to be entered of record. APPROVED, July 25, 1848. Aug. 5, 1848. Bent, St. Vrain, CHAP. CXXIII. An Act for the Relief of Bent, St. Vrain, and Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the The claim of United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper and Company to accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed be settled on prin- to audit and settle the claim of Bent, St. Vrain, and Company, on ciples of equity principles of equity and justice, for provisions collected for the use of and justice. a detachment of United States troops on the waters of the upper Arkansas, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-three, under a contract made with Major Lee, commissary of subsistence at St. Louis, and recommended to be allowed by General Gibson, Commissary-General of Subsistence, by letter to the Second Comptroller, dated May Amount found twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-four; and that the amount due them to be found due to the said Bent, St. Vrain, and Company, be paid to them paid. out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, August 5, 1848. Aug. 5, 1848. $2333 82 to be paid John Anderproperly received from him as rent son for lead im of a lead mine which belonged to him at the time rent was paid. CHAP. CXXIV. - An Act for the Relief of John Anderson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty-two and a half cents be paid to John Anderson, of Jefferson county, Missouri, for forty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-four pounds of lead, received by the agent of the United States as rent for the use of a lead mine which belonged to said Anderson at the time the rent was paid. APPROVED, August 5, 1848. Aug. 5, 1843. for a building at CHAP. CXXV. - An Act for the Relief of Bennet M. Dell. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the $750 to be paid United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Bennet M. Dell of the Treasury pay to Bennet M. Dell, out of any money in the treasNewnansville, ury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven hundred and fifty Florida, taken for dollars, being for the value of a certain building at Newnansville, in Florida, which was taken for the use of the United States by order of Colonel Francis R. Sanchez, in the year eighteen hundred and thirtyfive, and continued in the use of the United States as a blockhouse and magazine until eighteen hundred and forty-one, when it was abandoned and pulled down. the APPROVED, August 5, 1848. Aug. 5, 1848. Commissioner compensation for CHAP. CXXVI.—An Act for the Relief of E. G. Smith. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the of Patents to pay United States of America in Congress assembled, That the CommisE. G. Smith such sioner of Patents be authorized to pay E. G. Smith, from the patent extra services as fund, such compensation for extra service, out of office hours, renhe may deem a dered by him in the preparation of the agricultural report in eighteen fair remuneration hundred and forty-four and eighteen hundred and forty-five, as in the for the labors per- Commissioner's judgment is a fair remuneration for the labor per formed. formed, on satisfactory proof being furnished him of the number of hours so employed, and according to the usual rate for similar services APPROVED, August 5, 1848. CHAP. CXXVII.—An Act for the Relief of John Manly. 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 required to place the name of John Manly on the pension list of revolutionary pensioners, and to pay him a pension at the rate of twelve dollars per month from the fourth of September, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. APPROVED, August 5, 1848. Aug. 5, 1848. A pension of $12 per month allowed to John Manly Aug. 5, 1848. Title of Charles Cappel to a certain tract of land in the parish of CHAP. CXXVIII.- An Act for the Relief of Charles Cappel. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Charles Cappel, of the parish of Avoyelles, State of Louisiana, his heirs and assigns, be forever confirmed in the title, use, and possession of all that certain tract, lot and parcel of land situate within the said parish of Avoyelles, Avoyelles, Louisat Marksville, in the prairie, and embraced within the grant of the iana, confirmed. Spanish government to Noel Soileau, lying within section numbered twenty-seven, of township two north, of range four east, as described upon the plat of the public survey of the lands of the south-western district of Louisiana, to wit: that tract occupied by the said Charles Cappel, containing two hundred superficial arpents, five arpents front by forty arpents deep, not heretofore confirmed to any other claimant. Tract to be sur SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury cause the said tract of two hundred superficial arpents to be surveyed, veyed and patent and a patent to issue to said Cappel, his heirs and assigns, for the same. APPROVED, August 5, 1848. to issue. CHAP. CXXIX. — An Act for the Relief of Robert Ellis. Aug. 5, 1848. allowed Robert Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary A pension of of War be, and he is hereby, required to pay to Robert Ellis, of the $66 per annum State of Tennessee, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise Ellis in addition appropriated, the sum of sixty-six dollars per annum, for and during to the pension he his natural life, in addition to the thirty dollars per annum now paid now receives. him under the act of seventh of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in consequence of wounds received by him in the war of the Revolution; said pension to commence from and after the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. APPROVED, August 5, 1848. CHAP. CXXX.-— An Act for the Relief of Amzy Judd. Aug. 5, 1848. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Amzy Judd to be paid $24, beof the Treasury pay, out of any unappropriated money, to Amzy Judd, ing the amount of the county of Onondaga, New York, the sum of twenty-four dollars, still due him on that being the amount still due him as encouragement for his enlist- his bounty for enment into the army of the United States under the provisions of the army. VOL. IX. PRIV. 95 listment in the |