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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE NINETEENTH CONGRESS or rm: UNITED STATE S, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, thejburth day of December, 1826, and ended on the third day of Marclz, 1827. Jour: Quincy Amtms, President; J om: C. Cnmroun, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Narrraurm. Macon, President of the Senate, pro tempore; Jour: W. TAYr.on, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II. Doc. 29, 1826. Cnn. I.-dn Act for the relief of Edward Lee. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the To UG wld for United States of America in Congress assembled, _That the Secretary 2§°,'§°?$i$§' of the Treasury pay to Edward Lee, out of any money in the treasury use of the navy. not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand eight hundred twelve dollars and fifty cents, the value of thirty-seven thousand five hundred pounds of navy bread, which he contracted with Commodore Chauncey, to deliver at Sackett's I·Iarbor on or before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and thirteen, for the use of the navy, and which, bein examined by the proper officer, was left in the possession of the said Dee, for the want of a convenient place to receive it into the public stores, and was thereafter accidentally destroyed by fire. Approved, December 29, 1826. Sucrozra II. ············· D¤c·29. 1826- CHAP. II.-dn Act for the relief q" Warner Wing. _ Be it enacted, &·c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is sggigglzlgld f°*' hereby, authorized and directed to pay to WVarner Wing, the sum of Cmp Of the one thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise Board of Com- gppropriated, in full satisfaction for the services of the said Wurner "“““*°“°"°· mg, as Clerk to the Board of Commissioners, and for making out ActofMuyt1, copies of their decisions, under the act of the eleventh of May, eigh- 1”°·°h-8 · teen hundred and twenty, entitled "An act to revive the powers of commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to land in the district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to land at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, in the territory of Michigan." Avenovmiv, December 29, 1826. Snrura II. —— J¤¤- Z4- WW- Cnr. III.-dn dal for the relief of tlge indigent saferers by the jire at Jlleosanria. O?0»000 ¤Pm Be it enacted, nyc., That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and fgxfd {°" the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the ' treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the relief of the indigent sul? ferers by the destructive tire in the city of Alexandria, in the district of Columbia, to be distributed under the direction of the Mayor and (356)