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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS or rua UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of December, 1840, and ended on the third day of March, 1841. MARTIN VAN `Bimmu, President; Ricruno M. JOHNSON, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; Roniuvr M. T. HUNTER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE 11. F°b· 2v 1841- Cmtp. IV. --.ln Act making temporary provision for lunatics in the District of Columbia. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the dgegaizlssx United States of America in`Congress assembled, That the marshal for ,,,,,,,,1,,,,,,,c the District of Columbia be, and he is hereby, authorized to send to the asylum in Bal. lunatic asylumjin lBalti'more, all such lunatic persons, who are paupers, ¤¤wr¤. &·c. as are now confined in the jails of Washington and Alexandria counties, and all such as may hereafter be committed as Iunatics, ’by order of the circuit or criminal courts, they being paupers of the said District of Columbia, and their support being legally chargeable thereto; and that he pay the expenses of their removal, and of their maintenance in said asylum, and be allowed for the same in the settlement of his accounts Prcviso. at the Treasury of the United States: Provided, Said expenses shall not exceed, in the whole, the sum of three thousand dollars per annum. Isimitatioii of Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in thu Wi- force until the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and no longer. Approved, February 2, 1841. S·rA·ru·ra Il. *"*‘ Feb. 18, 1841. C1-1Ar·. VIII.-—-rin Hd for the relief of Gurdon6C Hubbard, Robert .4. Hnzie, and "*‘*_“ others. Be it enacted, <§·c., That the reversionary interest of the United States _Revei-sionury in and to the following Indian reservations under the treaty with the lzlzzizigfrggl Pottawatomies of the Prairie and Kankakee, made at Camp Tippecanoe, v,,,i0,.,s_ mlm_ on the twentieth day of October, anno Domini one thousand eight hunquishedtoper- dred and thirty-two, be, and the same hereby is, relinquished to the

‘:°l5°'°‘““f'°' persons hereinafter named, respectively, that is to say:

` To Thomas Durham and John Blackstone, according to their several shares as purchased of Jacques Jonveau, the section reserved by said treaty to said Jacques Jonveau; To Noel Vasseur, six hundred and forty acres of the reservation to Me-sherke-ton-o, reference being had to the deed of said reservee to said Vasseur for location and more particular description thereof; To Gurdon S. Hubbard, E. K. Hubbard, H. G. Hubbard, and Noel (818)