PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 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 sixth day of December, 1813, and ended the eighteenth day of April, 1814. JAMES MADISON, President; E. GERRY, Vice President, and President of the Senate; J. B. VARNUM, President of the Senate, pro tem., from the 17th of December to the 28th of January; Jomv GAIL- LARD, President of the Senate, pro tem., on the 18th of April; HENRY CLAY, Speaker until the 17th of January; LANGi>0N Cnmvms, Speaker from the 25th of January, 1814. STATUTE Il. CHAP. III.--An Hot for the relief of Richard Dale. Jan, ll, 1814. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper ac- Allowance for counting officers of the navy department be, and they are hereby au- °°" “°’°*· thorized and required to settle and adjust the account of Richard Dale, and pass to his credit the amount of such sea stores as may have been furnished him by the United States while he was commander of the United States’ ship the Ganges: Provided, The said Richard Dale will relinquish all claims to the rations to which he may be entitled. Approved, January 11, 1814. Sryrurz I1. CHAP. V1.-—./fn dot granting Moses Hook the right of pre-emption. jam 25, IgM_ Be it enacted, ¢§•c., That Moses Hook, of the Mississippi territory, shall have the right of pre-empticn to three hundred acres of land, in- Right of precluding his improvements, and designated on the plat or map of the E'*¤*l°d township as number fourteen: Provided, The said Moses Hook enter ` the said tract of land with register of the land office for the land district west of Pearl river. and make the first payment for the same within six months from the passage of this act, and complete his pay- ments as prescribed by law. Aerxovmo, January 25, 1814. S*rA·ru·rr; II. CHAP. X.-An Act for the relief of Daniel Boone. F8b_ {ol ]g]4._ Be it enacted, 4§·c. That Daniel Boone be, and he is hereby confirmed in his title to one thousand arpens of land, claimed by him by Tm,., ma mm virtue of a concession made to him under the Spanish government, ¤g1=md wnirmbearing date the twenty-eighth day of January, 1.798, and it shall be ° ` the duty of the recorder of land titles for the territory of Missouri, to issue to the said Daniel Boone, or to his heirs, a certificate in the same manner, and of the same description, as the said Daniel Boone would have been entitled to receive, if his claim to the said land had
