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Arrearages.
1817, ch. 60.
1820, ch.nbsp;53.
Deficiencies for year ending 30th June 1845.
For arrearages provided for by acts of third March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and second [first] May, eighteen hundred and twenty, payable through the accounting offices, one thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations made for the payment of pensions during the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, under the following heads, viz:

1836, ch. 362.For pensions under the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, seventy-six thousand dollars;

1838, ch. 189.
1842, ch. 191.
For widows’ pensions under acts of July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and forty-two, two hundred thousand dollars;

1843, ch. 102.For widows’ pensions under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty-three, twenty-nine thousand dollars.

Approved, February 20, 1845.

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Feb. 13, 1845.

Chap. XV.An Act restricting the grant of pensions in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Widows’ pensions limited. That from and after the passage of this act a pension shall not be granted to any widow for or during any part or portion of the time her husband may have received one, whose declaration therefor shall not have been made on or before the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and shall not have been received at the pension office on or before the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

Approved, February 20, 1845.

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Feb. 20, 1845.

Chap. XVI.An Act to quiet the titles to certain lots of land in the towns of Perrysburg and Croghansville, in the State of Ohio.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Lots of which the titles are confirmed. That all titles to town lots and out lots in the towns of Perrysburg and Croghansville, in the State of Ohio, derived from said State under color of the grant made to said State by virtue of the act of Congress entitled “An act for laying out and making a road from the lower rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie to the western boundary of the Connecticut western reserve, in the State of Ohio, agreeably to the provisions of the treaty of Brownstown,” approved the twenty-eighth of February,1823, ch. 16. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, be, and the same are hereby, recognised as valid and confirmed, in the same manner as though the title to said lots had been vested in the State under the aforesaid act:List of lots to be furnished to General Land Office.
Confirmations only a relinquishment of the right of the United States.
Lands not comprehended in this act.
Provided, That the authorities of the said State shall, within one year from and after the passage of this act, furnish the Commissioner of the General Land Office with a certified list of all lots heretofore sold and disposed of under color of the above recited act: And provided, also, That all the confirmations intended by this act shall amount only to a relinquishment forever, on the part of the United States, of all their right and title whatever to the lots of land so confirmed: And provided, further, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to comprehend within the provisions thereof such town lots and out lots, or other tract or tracts of land, as may have been reserved, or directed to be reserved, within the limits of either of said towns of Perrysburg or Croghansville, for the support of schools within the same, in and by the third section of the act entitledAct of April 26, 1816, ch. 102.
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 132.
An act providing for the sale of the tract of land at the lower rapids of Sandusky river,” or in and by any provision contained in the act en-