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662 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 117, 118, 119. 1846. Aug}, mM_ Cin?. CX VII.-—An Act for the Reliqfqf William B. Lang. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the to ¥'m;dg· United States qf·America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 22 °;,l,°,,,de§ ,.,,§ of the Treasury1s hereby authorized to pay to William B. Lang, of qpisnte proof be Boston, Massachusetts, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise £:;';ftfhf.f.fc':: appropriated, the sum of four hundred and fifteen dollars. and twenty- sury. two cents: Provided, It shall be proved to his satisfaction that the collector of the customs for the port of Boston has assessed and collected from the said William B. Lang, on the importation of sheetsteel, duties to this amount, greater than the said steel was liable by law to be charged with. Approved, August 8, 1846. Aug 8, 1g4g_ Cine. CXVIII.-An Act for the Relief of Samuel Jordon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary S¤¤¤¤¤l·7¤¤‘d¢¤ of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the

§°L:cngl§;°‘;§,2 name of Samuel Jorden, of Northumberland county, Pennsylvania,

18352, en. 126. upon the pension roll, according to the provisions of the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and grant him a certificate for nine months' service; that is to say, for thirty dollars per annum during his natural life, beginning on the first day of January, anno Domma eighteen hundred and forty-four. Approved, August 8, 1846. Aug. 3 1g4g_ Cnar. CXIX.—An Act for the Relief of Wiley B. Parnell, of Blount county, ·---——-—L———- Alabama, and James .0. l’Vh£leside, of Illinois. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Wi1eyB. Par- United States of America in Congress assembled, That Wiley B. Par- ¤°ll ¤“*§°’ii§d nell of Blount county, Alabama, be, and he is hereby, authorized to

 °r ,-0: surrender the certificate that issued to him from the Huntsville land

lands entered ¤¤- office, in said State, for the north-east quarter of the south-west quar-

  • 3;:, ‘t0“"S;lf§; ter of section number thirty-two, township number twelve, range numother lands in ber two west, in said land district, entered by the said Parnell on the

l*°“ *h°'°°*i fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-four under a mistake; and, upon the surrender of said certificate, or the lpatent for said tract of land, if it has issued, under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, the said Wiley B. Parnell is hereby authorized to enter, in lieu thereof, the south—west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section, township, Application to and range, it being the tract the said Wiley B. Parnell intended to 2; ,‘;‘:3m1"‘"‘"‘ enter: Provided, That application is made by the said Wiley B. Par- His amy not nell, under the provisions of this act, within six trponths aftlprlphe pigs- · ,,· -¤, sage of the same: And provided further, That eentry s a not e iiglilicotg made to the prejudice of the rights of any other person or persons. J A. Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, That James A. Whiteside, of ‘»Y“"°1§;m “"I2h°°"“tEi 1* HMS l“tQ”° im? if Ti°l?·b°’r.“$`£ G3. Etlfjilii t orizc to roy- au orize o surren er e pa en ts u o- rm Q;',::; E,,,°f;,,°z‘; town land district, in said State, for the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of section eight, in township eleven south, of range eight east, in said land district, entered and patented by the 83.16 Whiteside, on the twenty-eighth of July, eighteen hundredland thirty- eight; and upon the surrender of said patent for the said tract of