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740 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 190, 191, 192, 193. 1848.' Aug. 14, 1848. Cin?. CXC.-.6n Aetfor the Relief of Jesse Turner. Be it enacted by the Senate and House if Representatives of the The title ¤f' United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and ,l,‘f;f,;I,:'{‘,.,'l,°‘,,_,::,’c: hereby is, confirmed unto Jesse Turner, of the State of Florida, one errand in Florida hundred and fifty acres ofland lying on the north side of Trout Creek, °°“6’m°d°° him- north of the River St. John, to the west of the Bouck house, in the county of Duval, and State of Florida, being the same tract of land surveyed to James Turner by order of the Spanish government on the fifteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and on which the said Jesse Turner has resided upwards of twenty years. Approved, August 14, 1848. Aug. 14, 1848. CHAP. CXCI. — An. Act for the Relief:#`.Mary Taylor. Be it enacted by the Senate and House if Representatives of the MEM Type if United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of be ,},1,,.éj {po; War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name the revolutionary of Mary Taylor, commonly called Polly Taylor, upon the revolutionary l’°"S‘°" ‘°ll· pension roll, at the rates fixed by the act of the seventh of July, eigh- 1838* °l" l8°· teen hundred and thirty-eight, as the widow of Jesse Taylor, for services performed by him as_a sergeant in the revolutionary army; and that her pension commence on the seventh of April, eighteen hundred and forty-five. Approved, August 14, 1848. Aug- 14, l848· Cntr. CXCII.—:An Act for the Relief of the legal Representatives of Thomas J. ’*t_; K Owen, deceased. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives J the _ Admimstratgr United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid, gw'§:,‘°{Q“:0Jgald out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the 8200.for the ae. administrator or other legal representative of the late Thomas J. V.

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c,,,,,,,,, at C,,,ca_ occupation of his house at Chicago during the Black Hawk war, in go during the the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as a cholera hospital. Jgfk Hawk wart Avnnovnn, August 14, 1848. Aug. 14-, 1848. Cntr. CXCIII. ——An .9ct for the Relief of William B. Stokes. _ _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Smkg‘3;“,;‘ pag, United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmasterfromthe ,,,,,€m,es General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay from ¤f the Pm-Office the revenues of the Post-Otlice Department appropriated for mail transgjfggml-5fté,,,, portation, to William B. Stokes, surviving partner of John N. C. mail service Jper- Stockton and Company, the sum of four thousand seven hundred and §"é°gmlgm;l:,‘; seventy-five dollars, for extra services performed by said John N. C. C},_,i,,1g35_ Stockton and Company, who were contractors for carrying the mail from Augusta, in the State of Georgia, to Mobile, in Alabama; said services having been rendered during the months of May, June, and July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtysix; and which said sum shall be in full satisfaction of all claims for said extra services, and of all damages occasioned thereby. Approved, August 14, 1848.