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TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 143, 144, 145. 1828. 389 would have been entitled to receive had the schooner completed her fishing term and returned into port: Provided, The collector shall be Proviso. satisfied that every other provision of the laws regulating fishing vessels has been complied with by the master and owner of the said schooner. Approved, May 24, 1828. Cmn. CXLI1I.—An dot for the relief of the widow and children of Captain STATUTE L Wuum Boehm. MW “· *8%- Bc it enacted, ¢§·c., 'I‘hat the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he Payment to is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the trea- *h°¥¤· sury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representatives of William Beckham, deceased, late a captain of the thirteenth regiment of Louisiana militia, the sum of twelve hundred dollars, to be equally divided between the mother and the children, share and share alike, viz : His widow, (alias) Polly Campbell, who is now the wife of James Campbell, to be entitled to an equal part with one of the children ; and the balance to be equally divided amongst all the lawful children of the said deceased William Beckham ; and in case either of them have died, or should die, without receiving their proportionable part of the above·mentioned sum, their heirs shall, and are hereby entitled to all such sums which they themselves otherwise would have been entitled to. Avrnovmv, May 24, 1828. Crux-. CXLIV.—-dn Act for the relief of Amos Sweet, Stephen Jenks, Arnold STATUTE I` Jenks, David Jenks, and Betsey Jenks widow of George Jan/rs, second, MW 24, 1828- deceased. Be it enacted, r§~c., That the proper accounting officers of the trea- Claim pm- me sury settle and adjust the claim of Amos Sweet, Stephen Jenks, Arnold m¤¤¤f¤<=*¤¥¤ OY Jenks, David Jenks, and Betsey Jenks widow of George Jenks, econd, ;"`f;{f,t°;c°:"$,€{h deceased, for the manufacture of seven hundred and fifty muskets, for Tench Core, to the United States, under a contract with Tench Coxe, entered into on l’° s°"l°d· the thirteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ten, and to make them such further allowance as shall be equal to that allowed to others who contracted about the same time to manufacture arms for the United States, and who have had their accounts settled under special acts of Congress ; keeping in view the quality of the arms delivered, with the additional labor bestowed more than would have been necessary to have made muskets equal to the pattern gun ; and such allowance, so made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury_ not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 24, 1828. .._.,___ STATUTE I. CHAP. CXLV.—An Act to continue a copy-right to John Rowlett. Be it enacted, dw., That a copy-right be continued and granted, and gig: €hil:40· the same is hereby continued and granted to John Rowlett, for a book, ,,,,,$EZ,,2§ po, , entitled “Rowlett’s Tables of Discount or Interest," {br the term of buck entigled fourteen years from the passage of this act, with all the rights and privi- :i.£s;'g°:H)is_ leges, and the same remedies against any person who shall interfere count or Interwith his right, as are provided by existing laws in relation to copy-rights: °°*·" Provided, That it shall be lawful for any person or persons who may Pr¤vi¤¤· heretofore have published copies of said book, or of parts thereof, to sell such as may have been heretofore published: And provided further, Proviso. That the said John Rowlett, shall, within two months from the passage of this act, deposit in the office of the District Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a copy of the title of his book, with the additions as now printed, to be recorded, and shall cause a copy of the said 2 rr 2