'FWEN'1`Y-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. 11. Ch. 172, 173, 174, 175. 1842. 861 year, for five years, according to the provisions of the act of the seventh Ace of July 7, of J ul y, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, granting pensions 1838, ¢h· 189- to certain widows. APPROVED, August 16, IS42. """'* Sruvms II. Crm?. CLXXII.—An Act for the relief of John Jorden. Aug. 16, 1842. Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be directed to place — the name of John Jorden, of Tompkins county, in the state of New To be placed York, on the invalid pension roll, and that he be paid at the rate of eight °" P°¤’l°¤ mudollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty. Approved, August 16, 1842. ""*"‘ Srnuu II. CHAP. CLXXIII.—An Act for the reliq" of the heirs and representatives of Aug gg, 1g4g_ Thomas Ht/tins0n, deceased. *—*;·—·· Be it enacted, &c., That the heirs and legal representatives of the late Thomas Atkinson, of Crawford county, in the state of Pennsylvania, Released {mm be, and they hereby are, released and discharged from the balance due b¤l¤¤¤<;= d¤¢ 0¤ on the bond of the United States, in which the said Thomas Atkinson ° °"°°m b°“d‘ was one of the sureties for Richard Bean, a collector of direct tax and internal duties of the United States, for the twenty-third Pennsylvania collection district, and from the judgment obtained by the United States thereon against the executors of the said Thomas Atkinson. Approved, August 16, 1842. ‘——‘·" Sruurs II. CHAP. CLXXIV. -·- An Act for thereliqf of the president, directors, and company Aug. 16, 1842. of the .£gricuIlural Bank of llisnsswppi, —··———— Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the trea- ` sury department he, and they are hereby, directed to ascertain what Necessary exnecessary expenses were incurred by the Agricultural Bank of the state £:"::;rg§e:;’ of Mississippi, in receiving the proceeds of the sales of lands in the and ,,,,,,1,, give}, Chickasaw cession, in the states of Mississippi and Alabama, and trans- therefor. mitting the same from Pontotoc, the place at which they were received, to the said bank at Natchez, or to such points as were from time to time designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the authority given to the United States, in the last clause of the eleventh article of the treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw Indians, made on the twenty-fourth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four ; and that a credit be allowed upon the debt now due from said bank, on account of the money thus received, for the amount which may be ascertained to have been thus expended, provided the said credit shall not exceed the interest due the United States on said debt. Am-novicn, August 16, 1842. "‘—""" STATUTE II. CHAP. CLXXV.-—-An Act for the relief af Joseph E C'aIdwelL &s;}6» 184% Be it enacted, <§·c., That the Auditor for the Post Office Department be directed to audit and settle the accounts of J. F. Caldwell, for carry- His ngeounts ing the mail from Lewisburg to Salt, Wliite Sulphur, and Sweet Springs, :;iT=:;’g;¤;¥uhl;: under his contract with the department, dated in October, eighteen hun- cd and S8,,lcd_ A dred and thirty; and for carrying the mail from Salt Sulphur Springs, by Red Sulphur Springs, Peterstown, Giles’ Court-house, and Poplar Hill, to Newbern and back, under his contract with the department of November twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two ; and that in such
