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TWEN'I`Y—SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C1=t.99. 1840. 813 To James Grant Forbes and Ralph B. Forbes, of New York, on sundry hogsheads, barrels, and seroons of merchandise, consisting of cocoa, coffee, sugar, gum, sarsaparilla, gum guyacum, seeds and bark, exported to N antz, on board the ship Brutus, Pendergrast, master, and on nine bales cotton, exported to West Indies on board the brig Sussex, Lee, master. To Joseph Simmons, of Philadelphia, on two hundred b s of coifee, exported on board the ship Golden Age, N ye, master, fromalghiladelphia to Hamburg. To Jacob Ritter, Jr., of Philadelphia, on sixty-four canisters of sugar, exported on board the ship Fair American, from Philadelphia to Amsterdam. 'I`o John Laval, of Philadelphia, on two cases of jewelry, exported on board the brig Molly, Lee, master, from Philadelphia to St. Pierre, in Martinique. To Gray and Taylor, and Samuel Tagert, of Philadelphia, on one hundred and one chests of Congo tea, exported on board the ship Temperance, Captain Burrough, from Philadelphia to Hamburg. Approved, July 20, 1840. —····· Srnurs I. Crux-. XCIX. —-— An Act for the relief of Chastclein and Ponvert, and for other ·T“IY 2]- 1840 purposes. Be it enacted, rfc., That the collector of the port of New York is hereby authorized to deduct from the amount of a bond given hy D¤¤i¢¤ ¢l¤¤fg¢d Chastelain and Ponvert, for duties on merchandize imported in the ::',,f‘;:,d;d2,° schooner General Jackson, Hawes, master, from Neuvitas, in the island rg bg dsdxcied of Cuba, such duties as may have been charged on that portion of said {wm ¤b¤¤d- merchandize, which was not landed in the United States, having been destroyed by fire in the harbor of New York, upon their producing proof, to the collector of New York, of the destruction of said merchandize. Srzc. 2. Ami be it jizrzber enacted, That the following sums to pay Appropriations the balances of accounts for which no appropriations now exist, and I¤¤— which have been passed upon and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Government, or are now before them for audit, and for the payment of which, appropriations are recommended by the heads of the proper departments, be, and the same are hereby appropriated, viz : For an award made by the proper accounting officers of the treasury Transport;. in favor of the owners of the Steam boats Stasca and Dayton, for services *0** W ¢€"¤i¤ rendered under an agreement with Major Charles Thomas, Quarter- ‘“°°"’°°m‘ master, for the transportation of supplies, laborers and other things, for the use of the works at Fort Smith, Arkansas, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For payment of a balance due for supplies furnished to the Creek Supplies, cre. Indians, and medical services rendered to those Indians, alter the com- to me Creek menccment of the disturbances in the Creek country, and before and Indm"' during the removal of the said Indians west of the Mississippi, which accounts were incurred under the direction of the proper officers or agents of the Government, seven thousand seven hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-four cents. For the payment of the expenses of a division of the lands of the Divigion or Brothertown Indians among the members of the tribe, in obedience to l;¤<l¤ ¤V $**3,8 the act of Congress of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty- i ;;:°:{·'}w,;`,ch‘ nine, entitled "An act for the relief of the Brothertown Indians in the 3,1999,eri.83. Territory of Wisconsirr" the duties having been performed and the accounts presented, one thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars,. For the payment of an account of Henry Lucas and A. P. King, of