750 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 53, 54, 55, 56. 1853. Feb. 8, 1853. Cxur. LIII.—An Act jbr the Relzef of William Bedient, late a Sergeant in the Fourth
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- Wm. Bedient terior be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to place the name of
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g§u;;gn,;gnt; late a sergeant in the fourth regiment of Artillery, on the roll of invalid r;rg>m·{1¤¤9 16E_ pensioners, and that he be allowed a pension at the rate of eight dollars m,;°* "mg ‘“ per month from the sixteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty- nine, to continue during his natural life. Approved, February 3, 1853. Feb. 8, 1853. CHAP. LIV.--An Act jbr the Relief of Margaret Farrar. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ry America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Amount due Indian Affairs be authorized and required to ascertain the amount of ing“g£mm terest, at the rate of six per centum per annum, due and unpaid to Marand paid. garet Farrar, a. half-breed Indian, under the treaty of eighteen hundred L"ge'S;,°·*€f§$ M and thirty-six, with the Sacs and Fox Indians, and that said Commis- 'siouer cause such sum of money as he may Bud due (if any) to be paid to said Margaret Farrar, and that the sum of four hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid. Approved, February 3, 1853. Feb. 6, 1853. CHAP. LV.-·An Act for the of the Heirs of Jcrerniah Wqngate. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o Re resentatives 0 the United States of America in Congress assembled?. Tlgt the represerntatives of Tit.]? of mm,- Jeremiah Wingate, deceased, late of Florida, be, and they are hereby, Szgxgisyén confirmed in their title to n. certain tract of land containing four hundred Me tcm1am" and twenty acres, lying on the north side of Naussa River, in the State §‘1orida confirm- of Florida, according to the pits and certificate of survey made by °‘l· George J. F. Clarke, dated the second and twenty-third of December [andhhelsixth of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, now of file in the pu ic archives of East Florida, the said tract bein the same confirmed to the said Jeremiah "Wingate during his ]ifetime?on the fifteenth of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, by the “Board of Commissioners " appointed to ascertain claims and titles to land in 1824, sh, 164,, Florida, pursuant to the act entitled "An act granting donations to certain actual settlers in the Territory of Floridaf approved May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-four; and that the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon the presentation of the aforepmu; to said plats and certificate of survey of said tract, issue a patent or patents MM- Howw for the same, which patent shall operate as a relinquishment only on the °P°m°' pai; of the United States. rrxzovmv, February 5, 1853. Feb. 5, 1853. CHAP. LVL-—.An Act for the Relief of the Le al Representatives of Bernard Todd, .-.. . decgasedq Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the . Repmwuw Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any tgz?} og Egigngngl ;nappropr1o.ted money m the Treasury, to the legal representatives of $4,815 oO_ ernard Todd, late of Baltimore County, Maryland, deceased, the sum of four thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars, the same being the appraised value of the buildings of the said Bernard Todd, which were
