NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 61,63,68. 1826. 343 Sururs I. CHAP. LXI. -——·An Act for the relief of William M Dever. May 16, 1826. Be it enacted, <§-c., That it shall be lawful for William M. Dever, of the oounty of Perry, and state of Indiana, to enter with the register of igihfnigfgggnd the land office at Vincennes, in the state aforesaid, the west half of the District. northwest quarter of section seven, in township six, south of range one west, in the Vincennes district; and, upon such entry being made, it shall be the duty of the register aforesaid, to issue to the said William M. Dever, a certificate for the aforesaid halflquarter section. And it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the general land orifice to issue a patent for the half quarter section of land so entered, whenever the certificate aforesaid shall be presented to him for that purpose: Pro- Proviso. vided, 'I‘hat before such entry shall be made, the said William M.Dever shall surrender to the register of the land office aforesaid, the patent which he now holds from the United States, for the west half of the north-west quarter of section seven, in township five south, of range one west, accompanied by such a release of his interest to the land therein specified, as the commissioner of the general land, office shall direct: And provided, also, That the said William M. Dever shall produce evi- proviso_ dence, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the land office at Vincennes aforesaid, that his entry with the said register, of the half quarter section of land described in the foregoing proviso of this act, and for which a patent was issued to the said William M. Dever, was occasioned by an error of the surveyor, inmarking the number of the township, in the range aforesaid. _ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the west half of the north- A certain tract west quarter of section seven, in township six south, of range one west, ;;i‘;"’?0‘i_ 2:;** in the district aforesaid, shall be reserved from entry, for the term of year); &,c_ one year, from and after the passage of this act; unless the same shall be previously applied for, by the said William M. Dever, under the provisions of this act. Armtovnn, May 16, 1826.
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Cru?. LXIII.—.x2n Act for the reliefof Joseph Shomo, late a Captain in the United May 16, 1826. States’ Jirmy. W Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officer be, and he is Accounts to hereby, authorized and directed to settle and adjust the accounts of be settled. Joseph Shomo, late a captain in the United States’ army, upon principles of equity and justice, so far as relates to the enlistment of ten soldiers. Aprnovnn, May 16, 1826.
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Crm?. LXVIII. -An not for the relief ry' James Walcott, and Afary his wife, May ig, 1826, of the State of Ohio. """"""‘_ Be it enacted, eye., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he P mm to is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the tree- ,},62 in {uu 8,,, sury not otherwise appropriated, unto James Wolcott, and Mary his tisfaction fora wife, of the state of Ohio, late Mary Wells, a half blooded Indian,of the {)'¤°*9*g’,'2d¤°ld Miami nation, the sum of nineteen hundred and twenty dollars, in lieu y mls 3 e' of, and in full satisfaction for, a section of land, which was reserved to her by the treaty held at St. Mary’s in the state of Ohio, on the sixth of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, between the United States and the Miami nation of Indians, and which is described in said treaty, as "lying at the mouth of Stony Creek, on the south-east side of the Wabash river, the centre of which was to be at the mouth of said creek, running with the meanders thereof, up and down said river, one half mile, and thence back, for quantity;" about two hundred acres of
