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TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. C11.29,32,34, 38. 1839. 751 in the said record, and record the same; and that the said record when so amended, shall have the same force and effect as if no misprision or mistake had been made by the clerk of the said court in recording the name of the said John Campbell White. Approved, February 13, 1839. """"' Szurvra III. CHAP. XXIX. -- dn det or the relic o the securities Elias {Il _ . surveyor ofpubdl: lands forfl/Z; states of MiasZr£ and Idimrghaml me Be it enacted, <§·c., That it shall and may be lawful for Richard Graham and John O’Fallon and others, securities of Elias T. Langham, late Lawfnl for so. surveyor of public lands for the states of Missouri and Illinois, to settle burliias of E-T- the accounts of the said Elias T. Langham before the proper accounting ;‘:;‘,§l‘,f,:‘a'° officers of the treasury department; and the said officers shall be, and counts, 6:.:.- they hereby are, authorized to adjust with the securities of said Langham the amount to be paid on the surety bond according to equity and justice, and upon such evidence as they may be able to produce which will satisfy such officers as to the credits which ought to be allowed; and that in the mean time, without releasing said securities, the suit against them be suspended: Provided, They immediately commence proviso_ the settlement of said accounts, and continue the settlement thereof} until the same may be completed, without any unnecessary or unreasonable delay. Avrnovmn, February'16, 1839. ········ Srnou III. CHAP. XXXII.—An Jlcl for the relini of the legal representatives of Thomas Feb. 26, 1839. Glascoc deceased. """"""""' Be it enacted, rfc., That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to the legal Payment to representatives of Thomas Glascock, the sum of one hundred and thirty- lll8m- three dollars and thirty-three cents, (that sum appearing to be due said Glascock, by the return of unexpended balances made by John Hopkins, army agent of the United States for the state of Virginia, on the eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-four,) out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 26, 1839. .-... Srnnrn III. CHAP. XXXIV.—t0n Act supplemental to the “Act granting certain city lots to the Feb. 28, 1839. corporation of the Columbian College for the purposes therein ·menli0ncd," ap- proved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two. 1832, ch_ 2X8_ ’ Be it enacted, &c., That the corporation of the Columbian College be, and hereby is, authorized to sell so many of the city lots, granted to Authorized to said corporation by the act to which this is supplemental, as shall be ¤?tll s°tm¤¤Y_u sufficient to raise the sum of seven thousand dollars, and to apply the Qsozzlll proceeds of such sale to the payment of debts due from said corporation, any thing in the act to which this is supplemental to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, February 28, 1839. ---—- Snrvrs III. CHAP. XXXVIII.-.6n Act for the relief of Messrs. Smith and Town. March 2, 1839. Be it enacted, ¢§·c., That the collector of the customs for the district of New York is authorized to allow and pay the drawback on twenty- Drawbapkpn one hundred and eight bags of sugar, exported by Messrs. Sm1th_and ?:€rg3’:nd°pai;L Town, on the eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty- six, in the Prussian brig Die Oder, from New York to Antwerp, notwithstanding the omission of the inspector’s return, as required by law. Avrnovnn, March 2, 1839.