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586 TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Siass. I. Ch. 199,200,201,202. 1834. STATUTB I. Jima 30, ]834_ Gnu, CXCIX.-—-dn Aol for the benq/Ei of the heirs at law of the representative.; ··—;—=— ty` VW11i4m G. C/mstqpkcr, deceased. Be ii enacted, ¢§~c., That the heirs at law of William G. Christopher, L¤¤d <>l¤im deceased, be confirmed in their title and claim to six hundred and foray °°"mm°d‘ acres of land at Point Hazard, on Bel1’s river, on the coast of East Florida; to be so located as to include the improvements occupied by P;-wisc, their ancestor, the said William G. Christopher: Provided, however, That this act shall be construed to extend only to a relinquishment of the title of the United States to the said land, and shall not operate to the prejudice of the claims of any other person or persons. A1-rnovian, June 30, 1834. Snwuu I. J¤¤° 30» 1834- CHAP. CC.-dn Act for the rcliof of Jonathan Walton and Jclm JZ Dc Gr¢@ Be it enacted, &~c., That the Secretary of the Treasury bc, and hc 4-;,,,;,- accounts is hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of Jonathan Walton and for zransporru- John J. Dc Graf}; formerly acting under the firm of Jonathan Walton Egg *3;;** “°*‘ and Company, as agents for transportation of seamen, ordnance, naval ’stores, and other munitions of war, and allow to them such sum as they shall prove they actually lost on the sale of treasury notes, when they received said treasury notes on account of current money previously advanced and paid by them out of their own individual funds for the United States during the last war with Great Britain for expenditures as pmygw agents as aforesaid: Provided, They received said treasury notes, under a contract or agreement, that they were to be reimbursed in par funds: proviso, And provided, said contract or agreement was not rescinded or waived by the parties ; and also such other sums as shall be satisfactorily proven to have been actually paid by the said Jonathan Walton and John J. Dc Graf}; us interest until the principal was rcfurrdcd on loans of money procured by said firm, and advanced by them solely for the use of the Government, on transactions during, and growing out of] the late war p,°v;,,,_ with Great Britain: Provided, That the amount so allowed and paid to them for the depreciation of treasury notes aforesaid, and interest on advances aforesaid, shall not in the whole exceed the sum of seventccn thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said sum so allowed shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Ammovmn, June 30, 1834. S·rn·urn I. -—-——— June 30, 1834. Gun. CCI.--.011 Ac! fur the rcliqf of the legal representatives of James Brown. Be it enacted, ¢§~c., Thnt the Secretary of War bc, and he is hcrcby, Payment no authorized to pay to the legal represcntatives of James Brown the sum Wm- of four thousand one hundred and forty-nina dollars sixty-six and twothirid cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appr0pri— atc . Armovmn, June 30, 1834. STATUTE I. """""`“ Jung 30, mM_ Cum-. CCII.——··An ml for the rcliqf of lhe legal represcnlativeqf Francis Nash. ··············—· Be it enacted, &c.,That the proper accounting Om0€1'S of the treasury Smm yum, department bc, and they hereby arc, directed to ascertain and allow to haltjpay u bri- the legal representative of Francis Nash, late a brigadier-general in the zHg¤:;g¤¤¢F¤l army of the revolution, the amount of seven years' half pay, at a rate ° ‘ corresponding with the pay to which the said Nash was entitled at the time of his death; and that the said amount when so ascertained, shall bc paid to the said representative out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Aimzovmn, June 30, 1834.