jurisdiction within the county where the said cemetery is situated, shall be sentenced to undergo imprisonment in the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, at hard labor, for a term not less than one year, or more than five, and pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, at the discretion of the said court. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That lots in the said cemetery shall be indivisible, and upon the death of any proprietor of any lot in the said cemetery, he or she being a member of said corporation, the devisee of such lot, or the heir at law, as the case may be, shall be entitled to all the privileges of membership as aforesaid; and if there be more than one devisee, or heir at law, of each lot, the board of managers for the time being shall designate which of the said devisees or heirs at law shall represent the said lot, and vote in the meetings of the corporation; which designation shall continue in force until by death, removal, or other sufficient cause, another designation shall become necessary; and in making such designation the managers shall, as far as they conveniently may, give the preference to males over females, and to proximity of blood, and priority of age, having due regard, however, to proximity of residence. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said corporation to take and hold any grant, donation, or bequest, upon trust, to apply the income thereof, under the direction of the board of managers, for the embellishment, preservation, renewal, or repair of any tomb, monument, grave-stone, or other structure, fence, railing, or other enclosure, in or around any cemetery lot, or for the planting and cultivation of any trees, shrubs, flowers, or plants, in or around any cemetery lot, according to the terms of such grant, donation, or bequest; and any court having equity jurisdiction within the county in which said cemetery is situated shall have full power and jurisdiction to compel the due performance of such trust, or any of them, upon a bill filed by the proprietor of any lot in said cemetery for that purpose. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the said cemetery property shall be, and the same is hereby, declared to be forever inalienable by the said corporation, and to be exempted from all public assessments and taxes, so long as the same shall remain dedicated to the purposes of a cemetery. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. How lots in said cemetery shall descend on the death of proprietors thereof. Grants, dona&c., how to be tions, bequests, held and applied. Said cemetery property to be inalienable, and to be exempt from taxes, &c. CHAP. CXXX. - An Act for the Relief of James Hotchkiss. March 3, 1849. James Hotchkiss authorized section of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That James Hotchkiss be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter at the Chicago Land to enter a quarOffice, in the State of Illinois, at the minimum price, the north-east ter quarter of section thirty-one, in township thirty-nine north, and range land. eight east, of the third principal meridian: Provided, That said Hotchkiss, at the time of said entry and purchase, shall satisfy the register and receiver of said land district that there are no adverse or other claimants to said tract of land, or to any part thereof. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. Proviso. CHAP. CXXXI.-An Act for the Relief of Mary Mac Rea, Widow of Lieutenant March 3, 1849. Colonel William Mac Rea, late of the United States Army, deceased. Pension to Ma Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in considera- ry Mac Rea for husband Lt. Col. Wm. Mac Rea. services of her tion of the long, arduous, and faithful services of William Mac Rea late of the United States army, deceased, commencing in seventeen hundred and ninety-one, and continuing through the Indian wars on the north-western frontier of the United States, in which he was distinguished for gallantry and good conduct, and was severely wounded in battle, and also through the late war with Great Britain, in which he rendered valuable and efficient service, as well in battle as in preparation of the means of defence, to the period of his death, while in service, in eighteen hundred and thirty-two, comprising a period of more than forty years' continuous service, embracing two wars, and of the destitute condition of his widow, there be granted and paid to Mary Mac Rea, widow of the said Lieutenant-Colonel William Mac Rea, annually, for five years, in semiannual payments, a sum equal to one half the pay to which the said William Mac Rea was entitled at the time of his decease, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated Provided, She should live so long. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. CHAP. CXXXII. -An Act for the Relief of James G. Carson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That James G. Carson be, and he is hereby, authorized and permitted to make and complete his purchase of lot numbered sixteen, of township numbered nineteen, of range thirteen east, in the district of lands north of Red River, subject to entry and sale at Ouachita, in the State of Louisiana, by paying at the said land office the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the same; and it is hereby made the duty of the United States officer at the said office to receive from him the said price, and issue to him a certificate therefor, upon which he shall be entitled to a patent, as in other cases of purchases of land from the government. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the selection heretofore made, under the directions and approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, of lots numbered twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-seven, in said township nineteen, for the use of schools, in lieu of lot sixteen, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. March 3, 1849. William L. Wi Illinois. CHAP. CXXXIII. — An Act for the Relief of William L. Wigent. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That William L. gent authorized to enter and purWigent be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter and purchase, at the chase a certain minimum price of the public lands, the south-east quarter of section tract of land in numbered twelve, in township numbered thirty-five north, range numbered eleven east, of the third principal meridian, in the north-eastern land district of Illinois; it being the same tract of land on which the said Wigent resides, and has improved and cultivated: Provided, The said Wigent, at the time of said entry and purchase, shall satisfy the register and receiver of said land district that there are no adverse or other claimants to said tract of land, or to any part of the same. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. CHAP. CXXXIV. - An Act for the Relief of Henry D. Garrison. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of eight hundred dollars be paid to Henry D. Garrison, under the direction of the Secretary of War, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, on due and satisfactory proof being furnished that the claim of Wah-in-gun for said sum in schedule B, annexed to the treaty with the Saginaw band of Chippewa Indians, on the fourteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, has been regularly and legally transferred to him. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. March 3, 1849. H. D. Garrison to be paid $800 on account of the claim of Wah-ingun, under the treaty with the Saginaw band of Chippewas. CHAP. CXXXV. -An Act for the Relief of the Owners of the Schooner Ticonic. CHAP. CXXXVI. An Act for the Relief of P. Chouteau, Junior, and Company. March 3, 1849. P. Chouteau, Jr. & Co., to be paid $9600 out of the fund created for the bennee Indians. efit of the Shaw CHAP. CXXXVII. - An Act for the Relief of George Center. 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 ascertain, by the best evidence which the nature of the case will admit of, the value of the houses and other property of George Center, destroyed at Micanopy, Florida, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, by order of Lieutenant-Colonel B. K. Peirce, the commanding officer at that post, to prevent them from falling into the hands of the enemy; and that the amount so ascertained be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated Provided, That the sum so to be paid shall not exceed five thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty cents. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. VOL. IX. PRIV.- 101 March 3, 1849. The Secretary of War to ascer tain the value of the buildings of George Center at destroyed by or Micanopy, Fla., der of Lieut. Col. Peirce, &c. Amount so as certained to be paid him. March 3, 1849. A pension of $80 per annum allowed Mary G. Leverett. CHAP. CXXXVIII. — An Act for the Relief of Mary G. Leverett. 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 upon the list of revolutionary pensioners the name of Mary G. Leverett, widow of Thomas Leverett, and that she be paid a pension at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, during her natural life, commencing on the fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty-seven. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. CHAP. CXXXIX.-An Act for the Relief of John P. Skinner and the legal 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 pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John P. Skinner and the legal representatives of Isaac Green the sum of eight thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-four cents, being the amount received by the United States on a judgment recovered by them against the said John P. Skinner and Isaac Green, in his lifetime, as sureties of Thomas Emmerson: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to discharge the said Emmerson from liability under said judgment. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. March 3, 1849. directed to can Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the The Secretary United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury of the Treasury be authorized to direct the cancellation of two sepacel two duty rate bonds given for the payment of duties at the port of Philadelphia, bonds given by by John F. Ohl as principal, and Lewis Mayer as surety, dated respecJohn F. Ohl, amounting to tively the eighth day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, $2148 79. to wit: one numbered seven thousand one hundred and five, for the sum of one thousand and seventy-four dollars and seventy-nine cents, and the other numbered seven thousand one hundred and six, for the sum of one thousand and seventy-four dollars, making in the aggregate two thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents; and also to repay to the said John F. Ohl, out of any moneys to him a sum not in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money not exceedexceeding $420 ing four hundred and twenty dollars, on the production of satisfactory for duties paid by him on goods proof to the Secretary of the Treasury going to show that said sum, which were de- or any portion thereof, has heretofore been paid to the United States, stroyed. for or on account of duties, on any of the articles of merchandise destroyed in the manner set forth in the papers attached to House report No. seven hundred and twenty-five, first session, thirtieth Congress. Also to repay APPROVED, March 3, 1849. March 3, 1849. CHAP. CXLI.- An Act for the Relief of the President and Directors of the Union of Bank of Florida. Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of the President any and Directors of money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the President and the Union Bank Directors of the Union Bank of Florida, the sum of two thousand four of Florida, hundred and seventy-four dollars and two cents, and interest thereon $2474.02, with interest, for adfrom the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, vances made by in full payment for money advanced by them to the governor of Florida, to provide for the defence of the people of said territory against the attacks of the hostile Indians. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. them to the gov ernor of Florida, to provide against attacks of hostile Indians. CHAP. CXLII. - An Act for the Relief of Sidney Flower, of Louisiana, and for March 3, 1849. other Purposes. Sidney Flower authorized to enter 159 68-100 acres of land in Louisiana. Proviso. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Sidney Flower be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter, at the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, lot number three in township one (north) of range eight east, containing one hundred and fifty-nine and sixty-eight one hundred acres, in the district north of Red River, Louisiana: Provided, As said lot has been selected for schools, that a majority of the male inhabitants of the township shall assent to the purchase, by filing an instrument to that effect in the local land office. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That upon such an instrument lands to be sebeing filed in the aforesaid office, the proper authorities shall have the lected in lieu right to select an equal area for schools on other public lands, in the same land district. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. Other school thereof. CHAP. CXLIII. — An Act for the Relief of Joel Thacker. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the name of Joel Thacker, a private in the Virginia militia in the service of the United States during the war with Great Britain, be placed upon the roll of invalid pensions at the rate of four dollars a month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to continue during life. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. CHAP. CXLIV. An Act for the Relief of James Moorehead. 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 is hereby directed and required to pay to James Moorehead, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amount as shall fully compensate and remunerate said Moorehead for all damages and losses sustained by reason of the suspension by the government of the erection of a dam in the Ohio, from a point on Wells Island to a point on the Virginia shore. before any payment is made to said Moorehead, the said Secretary shall cause the witnesses, on the part of the said Moorehead, to be crossexamined, and take testimony on behalf of the government, should he deem it proper to do so. APPROVED, March 3, 1849. But March 3, 1849. Secretary of the Treasury to ascertain and pay the amount of damages in curred and losses sustained by James Moore head on account of the suspension of the erection of a dam in the Ohio River. Secretary of the Treasury to examine testimony in the case. |