TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. 11. Ch. 158, 159, 160, 161. 1842. 857 schooner John George, to be distributed according to the decree of the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts, in the case of John B. Pierce and others versus brig Rob Roy, in November, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, the sum of seven hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents, being three-fifths of the amount of duties collected on the cargo of the Rob Roy, saved by the John George, after a total abandonment at sea. Approved, August 11, 1842. """‘* Summa II. Cunt. CLVIII.-An Actfo·r the relief of Henry Gee. Aug_ 1;, 1g4g_ Be it enacted, &c., That Henry Gee, of Florida, be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate, on any of the unappropriated public lands within Authorized to the territory of Florida, the same number of acres of land which was €“*°' land in contained in the n0rth—east quarter of fractional section twenty-three, in uegczfpgaagg township one, of range eight, north and west, of which he was deprived deprived. by the entry of Michael Lott, made at the land office at Tallahassee, on the twentieth August, eighteen hundred and forty, and the certificate of which is numbered eight thousand three hundred and ninety-eight. Avnnovnn, August 11, 1842. """"' Snrura II. CHAP. CLIX.—-An Act for the relief of Benjamin C. Roberts. Aug; 1], 1842, Be it enacted, eye., That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay to the personal representative of Benjamin P. Roberts, Payment for deceased, the sum of fifty-two dollars, out of any money in the treasury ;.‘°'f,‘3"°5";‘ *:,***1 not otherwise appropriated; that being the amount due said estate for §i5,iS`;,",;Es§n_ house room and fuel, furnished by said Roberts to certain British pri- ers, &.c. soners and their guard during the year eighteen hundred and fifteen. Approved, August 11, 1842.
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Cr-mp. CLX.--.22n ./2cl for the relief of James Seaburn. Aug. 11, 1842. Be it enacted, <$~c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to refund and pay over to James Sea- Excess of duty burn the sum of ninety-five dollars and twenty-six cents, out of any P?ldl°¤¤§°'€° money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, it being the amount 58E,:,?,,:; ° of excess of impost duty demanded of him, and paid by the said James Seaburn, on a cargo of salt imported into the port of Wilmington, North Carolina, from Turks Island, on the eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen: Provided, That the Secretary of the Trea- Provisp. sury be first satisfied that the said sum was demanded of the said James Seaburn, and paid by him without the authority of law. . A.PI‘ROVED, August 1], 1842. ·····—·· Srnvrs II. CHAP. CLXI. —- An Aot for the settlement of the accounts of Silas Deane. Aug, 11, 1842. Be it enacted, dye., That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and settle the ac- Certain ae. counts of Silas Deane arising under a contract with the committee of cmg; *° be secrecy of Congress, dated the nineteenth of February, seventeen hun- S8 ' dred and seventy-six, and under his appointments as commercial and political agent, and afterwards as commissioner in France: Provided, Provisc. That the commission of five per cent. specified in said contract, be allowed on the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, only; and that on ` all purchases or supplies furnished by Mr. Deane beyond that sum, a commission of two and a half per ccntum, and no more, be allowed; and further, that no commissions be allowed on any purchases or supplies made or contracted for by him, subsequent to the twenty-eighth 108 3 w 2
