TWENTY—FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 130, 131, 132, 133. 1836. 641 ¤Sn·rurz l. CHAP. CXXX. —An Jfcl for the relief of the legal representatives of Doctor Ab? June 23, 1836. salem Baird, deceased. ·—····———— Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the trea- · sury be, and they are hereby, required to settle the account of Doctor A¢<>¤¤¤¥¢ w be Absalom Baird, deceased, as a surgeon in the regiment of artificers of ?§3L?ée“;g3;` the army of the United States during the revolutionary war, and to ` allow his legal representatives compensation equal to five years' full pay of a captain of infantry in the service of the United States, on continental establishment, without interest; which five years’ full pay is the commutation for his half pay for life, to be paid to the legal representatives of the said Absalom Baird out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 23, 1836. C CXXXI A ./2 lz l I I STATUE L nar. .— n ct ort e re ie o tie citizens o tte reserved townshi in Monrfoe county, {/ie slate oflndgtna. P ° Be it enacted, &c., That the register and receiver of the land office at Indianapolis be, and they are hereby, authorized to select within said Land to be S3, district out of any of the public lands, a quantity of land for the use of lecned for use schools within the reserved township in Monroe county, equivalent in °f”°h°°l“· value, and in lieu of the sixteenth section in said township, which was granted by Congress to the state of Indiana for the use and benefit of a state college. Approved, June 23, 1836. Srnurs I. CHAP. CXXXII.··-—An Aot for the relief ty Benjamin and Nancy Merrill June 23 1836 Be it enacted, rye., That Benjamin Merrill and Nancy his wife, be, ·—··—·;—·—— and they are hereby, authorized to sell the reservation of six hundred A I . d and forty acres of land taken by them under the treaties of one thou- uu"; :¥fv,,f° sand eight hundred and seventeen and one thousand eight hundred and tion of land. nineteen, between the United States and the Cherokee tribe of Indians, and being in the state of Alabama, upon the condition, that the contract for the sale of the same be examined and approved by the district attorney of the United States for the district of North Alabama; and upon the further condition, that they remove to the country assigned to the Cherokee Indians west of the Mississippi river, and that the expenses of such removal be defrayed by themselves. TMS not Q_ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not be held or ranged_ gu construed to guaranty the title which the said Benjamin and Nancy Merrill set up to the tract of land mentioned in the foregoing section. APPROVED, June 23, 1836. Section I. CHAP. CXXXIII.-An Aet for the relief of George Gott and others. June 23, 1836. Be it enacted, ¢§·c., That the collector of the port of Gloucester, in the state of Massachusetts, is hereby authorized to pay George Gott, Allowance of Jonathan Tarr, and crew of the fishing schooner May Flower, of R]°“;;{x;gnii_h‘ thirty-two and twelve ninety-fifth tons burthen, such allowance, to be g ` distributed according to law, as they would have been entitled to receive had she completed her full term required; the said schooner having been driven on shore and ·lost eleven days before she had accomplished her full time required by law to entitle her to bounty. Avenovmn, June 23, 1836. 81 3 D 2
