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756 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 56,57, 58, 59, 60. 1839. Sururs III. Much 2_ 1E3Q_ Curr. LVI. - An Act authorizing ghgrqnt of bounty land tu the heirs of Benner; ..—..—-- ur ey. Be it enacted, Qc., That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, Duplicatelaud authorized and required to issue to the heirs of Bennett Shurley, de- Yl;:'?,“"°b° ceased, who was a private in the Maryland continental line of the army cin the war of the revolution, a duplicate of land warrant number eleven thousand seven hundred and six, for one hundred acres, dated eleventh March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. APPROVED, March 2, 1839. STATUTE III. --—-— March 2, 1839. CHAP. LVII. -—An Act for the relief of Samuel Dickerson. Be it enacted, Q-c., That Samuel Dickerson, of Sangamon county, Upon relin- _ Illinois, be, and he hereby is, authorized to relinquish to the United il&‘x§hg‘£,;’g;E’;3 States, in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct, to ,,,jm,m°m6,. the east half of the north-west quarter of section eighteen, township tract. sixteen north, range one west; and upon his making such relinquishment, he shall be authorized to enter with the register and receiver of the land office at Springfield, Illinois, the same quantity of any of the unappropriated land, in said land district, which shall be subject to sale at private entry. Am-uovmo, March 2, 1839. S·ru·ure III. March 2, 1839. Cunt-. LVIII. — An det for the relief of the Louisville Savings Institution. Thsamsrw Be it enacted, eye., That the Secretary of the 'I‘reasury revise the ¤b¤¤‘g¢d QU Gel'- account of interest charged against said institution, under the act of

2; f°::2°d';°' June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and deduct thereducted, from such amount as has been charged on public money deposited in

A¤¤¤f J¤¤¢23» said institution, while under actual orders to be transferred elsewhere. 1836* °h' U5' Approved, March 2, 1839. Srnurs III. "'"""' Much 2, ]33g_ Cmw. LIX.——.d·n Act for the relief of Daniel Malone. Be it enacted, &·c., That on Daniel Malone surrendering to the United Upon surren- States all his right of the west half of the north¢east quarter of section

l°’*“€ l***,’*»%;,l‘* number thirty-fivc, in township number four south, range three west, in

,g,,°,}°l;:l2,, gn ’ the Kaskaskia land district, in the state of Illinois, the register is hereby like quantity. authorized and required to permit the said Malone to enter in said district the same quantity of land so surrendered as above stated, out of any lands not otherwise disposed of, and subject to private entry. Armovno, March 2, 1839. Snruzvs III. ""—‘ March 2, 1839_ Cru?. LX. —-An Aetfor the relief of [the] legal representatives of Nathan Sage. Be it enacted, &e., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is payment", hereby, authorized to pay to the legal representatives of Nathan Sage, thesis. late of Oswego, in the state of New York, and late collector of the customs of the United States, from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same proportional part of any sum of money that has actually been paid into the treasury in satisfaction of a judgment recovered by the United States on the complaint of said Sage against Eliakim Barney, for a violation of the revenue laws of the United States, as the said Sage, or his legal representatives, would have been entitled to receive had the whole amount of said judgment been paid; first deducting from the sum paid into the treasury aforesaid, and excluding from the division contemplated by this act, the full amount of costs awarded to the United States by said judgment: said judgment being the same