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460 TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sr:ss.Il. Ch. 83, 84, 89, 90. 1831. twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, when his pension of twenty dollars per month was restored to him. Approved, March 2, 1831. Burners II. """"‘ March 2, 1831. CHAP. LXXXHI.-An Act for the relief of Henry Beckett Be it enacted, tyc., That the Secretary of War be authorized and To be placed directed to place Henry Becker on the list of invalid pensioners, at the °¤ P°”l°¤ lm- tate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of J anuary, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. Ammovnn, March 2, 1831. Bunn II. —·——-· March 2, 1831. CHAP. LXXXIV.-An Act corfrming the claim o/`Jo/m B. Toulmin to a lot in the

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Be it enacted, &c., '1‘hat John B. Toulmin be, and he is hereby, _ Claim_to alot confirmed in his claim to a lot in the city of Mobile, bounded west by k:_M‘:,"‘l° °°”‘ Saint Joseph street, north by Saint Anthony street, and on the east by pT:,,,,°_ Royal street, originally granted to John Linder: Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to prevent adverse claimants from asserting their rights, in a. court of justice. Approved, March 2, 1831. S·n·m·rs II. ·····—·· March 2, 1831. ‘ CHAP. LXXXIX.-—An det for the relief of Samuel Nmuell. Be it enacted, <§·c., That the Secretary of War cause to be paid to A P¤¤¤¤i0¤ Samuel Nowell, of New Hampshire, a pension of eight dollars per $""“°d‘ month during his natural life, commmcncing on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. Approved, March 2, 1831. Surur: H. -——— March 2, 1831. CHAP. XC.--ain Act to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company in Georgetown, `;‘*"" in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted, &c., That the subscribers to this company, their Incorporation. successors and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby, created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the “Potomac Fire Insurance Company of Georgetown ;" and shall by that name have succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all courts of law in the United States, and to make and use one common seal, and the same to alter and amend at their pleasure. comm;,,;,,,,, Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That subscriptions be opened in ers. Georgetown, in the district aforesaid, under the direction of Francis Dodge, Raphael Sernmes, Walter Smith, John Kurtz, William S. Nicholls, L. G. Davidson, John Marbury, Joel Cruttenden, O. M. Linthicum, James Dunlop, William G. Ridgeley, Samuel Humphreys, and William Hayman, as Commissioners, or a majority of them, for raising a capital stock of two hundred thousand dollars, divided into eight thousand shares of twenty-five dollars each. Stock, bow Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners after subscribed for, giving ten days’ previous notice of the time and place for receiving subdrc. . scriptions of the said stock shall proceed to receive the same; and should the number of shares subscribed exceed the number of which the capital stock consists, then, and in such case, the said Commissioners are hereby authorized and directed so to apportion the shares subscribed among the several subscribers, by proportional reduction, as may reduce the whole to the aforesaid number of eight thousand shares. Sec. 4. And be it farther- enacted, That, the sum of one dollar on