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820 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 236, 237, 238, 239. 1854. Payment to Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay out of any ggfgigg %"$gi_ money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to David C. Cash, u,,_late lieutenant, and Giles U. Ellis, private in the Seminole war in Florida, whatever may be due them on the muster rolls, for military services in said war. Approved, August 4, 1854. Aug. 4, 1854. CHAI-. CCXXXVI. — An Act jbr the Pelie/` of Thomas O. Green. Preamble. Whereas, it satisfactorily appears that a bounty—land patent was issued on the twenty-ninth of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, on militia land warrant number nine thousand nine hundred and forty-two, to Charles Mullin, for the southwest quarter of section thirty-six in township eleven north, of range three west, in the military tract, Illinois; and on the twenty-second of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, a patent for the same tract was issued in error to the heirs of Benjamin Knapp, on warrant number eight thousand nine hundred and thirteen, Knapp’s warrant having been located on the southeast quarter of said section, and said quarter—section so located conveyed to one Thomas C. Green by said Knapp’s heirs: Cl`hci·efore— pmut for Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United lwd tv BSW to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of the Th°S' C' Grcm General Land-Ofiice be, and he is hereby required to issue a patent to Thomas C. Green for the southeast quarter—section above named; and that said patent recite the fact that the former one was hlled out erroneously for the southwest quarter, and has been lost, and therefore a new patent has been issued to the grantee of said Knapp’s heirs. APPROVED, August 4, 1854. Aug. 4, 1854. Crue. CCXXXVII.—-An Act for the Relief of Patrick Goss. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Land wm·;·ay,(; States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper officers of for 323 ¤;FiS_*¤¢L the Government be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to issue 5;}; ° “ m to Patrick Gass a warrant for three hundred and twenty acres of land, which warrant may, at the option of the said Gass or his assignee, be located on any public lands of the United States subject to private entry. Approved, August 4, 1854. CHAP. CCX)€l§VIII.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of the ·Yi·easury to settle the AUS 4:1854- Accounts ey" lhomos Jordan, Assistant Qntrtermnster in the United States Army. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

 Stones of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the

dm, to be ,,udi,_ Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to audit and settle upon the ed and paid. principles of equity and justice the accounts of Thomas Jordan, assistant quartermaster in the United States army, arising out of his disbursements as disbursing officer of the quartermaster department at the city of Vera Cruz, Mexico, from the tenth of August, eighteen hundred and forty- seven, to the first of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. Approved, August 4, 1854.

 CHAP. CCXXXIX.—-An Act jbr the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Jo/in Rice

Jones, deceased. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United tiv};};r?§¤¤Ig¤— States of America in Congress assembled, That the legal representatives Jones, ,,_u,h01,_ of John Rice Jones, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to ized to locate locate, in legal divisions and subdivisions, not less than one hundred and