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768 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SEss.IIl. Ch.131,132,133,l34. 1839 other- 1.,;.4 to Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be ¤¤l¢¤¤€d {Of cause to be selectedone quarter section of land, of one hundred and u" °f s°h°°1" sixty acres, in lieu of the quarter section in the first section of this act named, out of any of the public lands, to be located in the land district in which the first named quarter section is situated, for the use of proviso_ schools in said township: Provided, The school commissioners for the parish in which said land is situated, and a majority of the free white male inhabitants of the township, over twenty-one years of age, shall consent to such change. .APPROVED, March 3, 1839. Srsrurs III. -—····· March 3, 1839. CHAP. CXXXI.——.tln dclfcr the relief of Return B. Brown. Be it enacted, &e., That the proper accounting officers of the War Claims to be Department be, and they are hereby, authorized to inquire into and °°“l°d» &·°· settle the claims of Return B. Brown, late a captain in the army, and, upon proof, to allow him such credit as may be equitable and just, notwithstanding the judgment which the United States have recovered against him; and that such sums as may thus [be] found due to him shall be applied to the amount thereof in satisfaction of said judgment. Approved, March 3, 1839. S·n·ro·r¤ III. March 3, 1839. C1-IAP. CXXXII.-An ./tct or the relie a Herman Harris o the cit o New York- r f H f Be it enacted, dj-c., That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby 1’ayment to authorized and directed to pay to Herman Harris, of the state of New bm °f°“?‘h°lf York out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the of a certmn for- ’ . {

,,,,,m,_ sum of twenty-five dollars; being one half the amount of a forfeiture

incurred by the said Herman Harris, and by him paid to thedeputy collector at Pensacola, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, which sum has been paid into the treasury of the United States. Approved, March 3, 1839. Snrurs III. —-—— March 3, 1839. Crm?. CXXXIII. —-An Act to confirm the claim, of Charles Mm- an, in right of Simon Porche, to a tract of land. g g Be tt enacted, dw., That the claim of Charles Morgan, as the repre- Land claim sentative of Simon Porche, to a tract of land on the bayou Grosse Tete, °°“H"“°d· containing, according to a survey thereof, made in August, eighteen hundred and six, nine hundred and sixty-nine acres and seventy-fourhundredths of an acre under an order of survey in favor of said Porche given by Governor Miio, on the seventeenth November, seventeen huni dred and eighty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed; and, upon the presentation of a duly certified plat of the survey to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent shall be issued on the same to the sap;} Mcpgjin grééiis legal representatives. rrnovnn, arc , 1 . Snwm III. Much 3, 1839_ Crm?. CXXXIV.—An Act for the relief of Zebulon Sheets. Be it enacted, <$··c., That Zebulon Sheets, or his legal representatives, Upon Su,,?,,- be, and are hereby, authorized, upon surrendering to the United States, parting ccrlain free of encumbrance, forty-seven acres and two-hundredths of an acre ,:2 &":i*Y °"' of land, entered by the said Sheets at the land office at Crawfordsville, ’ state of Indiana, in section six, township twenty-six, range four west, to enter the same amount anywhere in said state, upon any lands of tho United States subject to private entry and unoccupied. Avraovnn, March 3, 1839.