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780 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sx·:ss.1Il. C11. 183, 184,185. 1839. to receive half the monthly pay to which the said Ezekiel Hazard was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years, in the same manner as the guardian of the said William C. Hazard ,;,,;,,;;;,,,-3]];,, might have done under the provisions of the second section of the act 1816, ch- 55. of Congress of the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and “°°•2· sixteen, had such guardian existed; and the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the notice of the surrender of the land warrant, is hereby authorized and required to give the requisite orders for the payment of the said half pay to the said William C. Hazard, in the same manner as the said act of the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, authorized and required to be given to the guardian of any minor child or children of a deceased soldier, who died in the service of the United States, upon relinquishment of the bounty land warrant, under the provisions of the aforesaid act. Approved, March 3, 1839. Srn·ru•rs HI. ·—······ March 3, 1639, Cmu. CLXXXHl.——.»1n Act for Mc relief of John Borey, of Jrkamas. Be it enacted, eye., That it shall be the duty of the register and re- Patent certiti- ceiver of the land office at Little Rock, in the state of Arkansas, to 1‘f::,;’°3°t;‘“‘ surrender to John Borey, or his legal representative, the patent certifihim, gw_ cate (number two hundred and seventy-eight) which was issued to said John Borey, for the east half of fractional section twenty-three, in township one, south, and in range eleven west; and that said register and receiver be authorized to consider said land as other public land, and that the said John Borey, or his legal representative, be authorized to locate, in any land office in Arkansas, three hundred and twenty acres P,-Wim, of any of the public land, conformabl y to legal subdivisions: Provided, The same be subject to private entry. And for the land thus located, it shall be the duty of the proper register and receiver to issue a patent proviso, certificate, and for the President to issue a patent therefor: Provided, further, That in case the title to the lands for which his patent certificate was taken have become vested in him, he shall reconvey the same to the Government, and produce to the Secretary of the Treasury satisfactory evidence that said lands so reconveyed are free from encumbrance. Approved, March 3, 1839. Srnurs III. ————- March 3. 1839· CHAP•CLXXX1hr.——.Hh Act for the relief of Pldlliam Washington Biglmm. Be it enacted, &c., That William Washington Bigham, or his legal Authorized to representatives, are hereby authorized to enter, free of cost, forty acres (33* $:*%::*0, of any land subject to sale at private entry, and unoccupied except by ],,nd’eme,,,d by him or themselves, within the district of lands directed to be sold at mistake. Huntsville, in the state of Alabama, in lieu of the north-west fourth of the north·east fourth of section number thirty-six, in township seven, of Proviso. range number nine (west,) entered by mistake : Provided, That a reconveyance of the aforesaid tract of land, unencumbered, be first made to the United States, and deposited with the register of the land office at Huntsville, Alabama. Anmzovnn, March 3, 1839. Srurura IH. -———- March 3, 1839. CHAP. CLXXXV. ——An Act for lhe relief of Polly Lemon. Be it enacted, <§~c., That Polly Lemon, or her legal representatives or Authorised to assigns, are hereby authorized to locate, on any unappropriated public l;g$'~°i;Tjl¤1¤f land. in the north-western district for the sale of lands in the state of l,md'mkel:“° Louisiana, six hundred and forty acres, in lieu of the same quantity of by U. S. land taken from her by the United States for public purposes, near Fort