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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 35, 36, 37, 38. 1822. 265 vania, who, at any time since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, have used stills made according to Henry Witmer’s improvement upon Anderson’s Condensing Tub, and who have paid a duty upon the capacity of the globes of such stills, all the moneys which they may have respectively paid as a duty on the capacity of the globes of their said stills. Approved, April 26, 1822.

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Cun. XXXV.—An Aet for the relief of MGH5am E. Meek. April 26, 1822. Be it enacted, &c.,That there be allowed and paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to William E. Meek, a Auowcd th, · sergeant in the army of the United States, the monthly pay of a ser- m<>¤*hlY P¤Y°f geant, from the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ° “"g°‘“’· eight, to the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. Approved, April 26, 1822. _..._ Sryrurn I. Crue. XXXV1.—-dn Act for the relief of sundry citizens of Baltimore. April 26. U522- Bc it enacted, Qc., That, for the detention of the vessels sunk at the mouth of the harbor of Baltimore, in the month of September, one Owners ofves. thousand eight hundred and fourteen, there shall be paid to the owners 9** ***2* Pdd thereof, respectively, or to their legal representatives, such sums as shall gfjzagcgggzgj be found just and reasonable, to be computed from the seventeenth of tion for them. February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, to the time when the said vessels were respectively delivered to their owners, and from thence to the termination of the period necessary to repair such injuries as were shown to have been done by sinking, and proof of which is exhibited in a copy of the original estimates, verified at Baltimore, by Thorndike Chace and John Snyder, on the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; the several sums to be ascer- Si%¤¤t0f Mw tained in such manner as the Secretary of the Navy shall direct; and 7’ 22* °h‘ 94* which, when ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 26, 1822. "'_" Snrcra I. CHAP. XXXVII.-dn Act for the relief of Cornelius Huson, April 26, 1822. Be it enacted, @*0., That the proper accounting officcrs of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay Tobstpuid the unto Cornelius Huson, or his legal representatives, the sum of two hun- "?2*° ° ¤ Pm dred and fifty dollars, the value of a pair of horses impressed into the ?,,,,,°;;?;,k"°' service of the United States, in February, one thousand eight hundred drowned. and thirteen, and drowned in Lake Ontario while in said service; the same to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 26, 1822. i"'"' Srnurs I. CHAP. XXXVH1.-—An Act for the relief of B. IL Rand. April 26, 1822. Be it enacted, r$·c., That B. H. Rand be, and he is hereby, released from the payment of bonds, given at the Custom-House in Philadelphia, Released from for the sum of one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-five LM g:Y¥D€¤¤i9f cents, being the amount of duties which accrued on the importation of ,,§;{,,n*°=f;;g;S_°' a box containing fifty unfinished engravings and one plate, executed by American artists, in part, in Philadelphia, and finished by them in England, for an engraving of the farewell address of General Washington. Approved, April 26, 1822. 34 X