318 EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 205, 206, 207, 208, 209. 1824. BTATYTE I- CHAP. CCV.-An Act granting a tract of land to the inhabitants of the parish of May 26* 1824" Paint Coupee, an certain conditions. Be it enacted, @*0., That the right of the United States to a tract of A,h¤¤3_¤U¤}1d land, forty arpens front, upon the Mississippi river, and running back gf ,4:,,,. §;,°Q,§ the depth of forty arpens, at a remarkable bend on said river, be, and to theinbakgitants the same is hereby, granted to the inhabitants of the parish of Point
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- ";: °f Coupee, within which said land is situated, on condition that said parish
` shall, at all times, hereafter, keep a good and sufficient levee in front of said land, upon the river Mississippi; and, if they should, at any time hereafter, cease to keep up such good and sufficient levee, the land shall revert to the United States. Armtovnn, May 26, 1824. S·ru·u·r1: I. _ May 26, 182* CHAP. CCVI.-An Act for the relief oyziglexander Scott, late Collector of Pensa- 500 (bum to Be it enacted, afro., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is be mm an- hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not other- ¤¤¤l7· wise appropriated, to Alexander Scott, late collector of Pensacola, a salary of five hundred dollars per annum, from the day on which his salary of one thousand dollars per annum ceased, until his duties, as collector of Pensacola, were discontinued. Apraovmn, May 26, 1824. Snrurn l. """" Mly 26, 1824. Cnnr. CCVI1.-.;q7L Act for the relief of Samuel White. Be it enacted, ¢§·c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is Payment to him hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Samuel White, of Pennsylva- 33,1 d*;°°°'·m* °f nin, the sum of sixty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents, being part of the ' amount of two bonds, paid by him to George Welsh, deputy collector, dated the third day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, given for two licenses to distil spirituous liquors, which licenses were unoccupied for a part of the time for which the same were given, in consequence of the said Samuel White being called into the military service of his country; and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 26, 1824. Srrvrurn I. ———-— Mu 26* wm" CHAP. CCVII1.——An Actfur the relief of Joseph M. White and William Davidson, Bc it enacted, aye., That the accounting officers of the treasury be, beA:,f,‘3;‘:,‘“ ,.2; and they are hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of Joseph M. .,,,.,gcc,,_ White and William Davidson, ofFlorida, for services by them rendered, in the capacity of district attorney, and marshal, of the district of West Florida, under the appointment of the district judge, in the same manner, and upon the same principles, as if the said officers had been legally and regularly appointed by the President of the United States. A1>rnovm>, May 26, 1824. Srnrurrm I. May 26,18%. CHAP. CCIX.—An Act to authorize the issuing of letters patent to Nathaniel ··——·—·-·-··········· Sylvester. Letters patent Be it enacted, ¢§•c., That the Secretary of State be, and hereby is, lgmmfofszgl ,:3 authorized and required to issue letters patent, in the usual form., to .,,;,,,,0,, yo, Pm. Nathaniel Sylvester, for his invention of a new and useful preparation, vviug paper- for paper, to prevent frauds in bank checks and other writings, by ex-
