738 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 183,184, 185. 1848. i¤ `*¤**lY _ dim what sum should be 'ustl and equitably allowed the firm of Ward and Ward and fnmith . J y yn, nnvnnnnn Smith, for advances made by them for the use of the Navy Department npudglfor me use in California, in the month of February, eighteen hundred and forty- Cnm.Ofn,£“'Y seven, and to certify the amount to the Secretary of the Treasury, who certny the shall pay the same out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap 'élglgggry *2,, 3;: propriated. Armovap An ust 14 1848. ZT5i"“’{;.y as ’ g ’ BRIDE. •;·**' Aug. 14, 1818. Crue. CLXXX1II.—An Act for tbéltgef of Messrs. Cook, Anthony, aaanony, ··········;··· a o ers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the TSeci-etargy of the United States of America in Congress assentbled, That, the Secretary '°”"'Y °P°Y of the Treasury be,. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, thx}; 8<;<i&l;,1$r;- out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Cook, $50;* r Anthony, and Mahony, of New York, fifty dollars; to Doremus, Suy- s»lé’m?°éFii?f’ '§?.Zll:..'Z.'2.d.r.l`.l"i$’2..‘Zf £~Ii~}Y.wYi’rL1Zt°’iTi h33i'}'?? Z"d»$"'X Slim Z3 r ._ - , , a ; o es iver an °"3,€§f,,l,mnn& Company, of New York, one hundred dbllars; and to O. B. White, of Fi;azer.’;550;Y New York, two hundred and fifty dollars; the said sums being the ggzllgfgglgsj amount of treasury notes,’the property of the aforesaid persons, which q-no 3, tvhns, were deposited, enclosed in letters, in the post-oliice at Van Buren, in p_g;0arY°;0¥§;'€;Q the State of Arkansas, in March, Anno Domini one thousand eight longing ,0 mnnn] hundred and forty-three, and were afterwards stolen from the mail by which were one Charles Botsford; and, after being altered and forged, were pref);‘;?“» ,““d ““°' sented, by some person unknown, to the Bank of America, in the city g a tered and , _ rorgnwm, paid of New York, then acting as the fiscal agent of the treasury, and paid by the B=·¤k 0F by said bank, in behalf of the United States. €S°::{n°g*gn€°nf:2; Approved, August 14, 1848. United States. Aug, 14, 1343, Gun. CLXXXIV. —- An dctfor the Relief of Charles M. Gibson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Gghnrles b United States of America in Congress assentbled, That the Secretary $Q,,;,°f?0,f‘;, ;&;n of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause captured and do- the sum of three hundred dollars to be paid to Charles M. Gibson, as $*3/1;d,;’:,l*;l?;lda remuneration for a wagon captured and destroyed in Middle Florida ` by the Seminole Indians, in February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, the same to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Armovsn, August 14, 1848. Aug. 14, 1848. Gnu. CLXXXV.-An Actfer the Relief of William Triplets. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Right toapro- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of
°{n“ QQ? William Triplett, of St. Louis county, Missouri, to a preemption of the
squri cons.-med south-east quarter of section thirty-six, in township forty-five, of range Etyiuiam T*iP· four east, as specified in the certificate of the receiver of the land office at St. Louis, numbered eleven thousand one hundred and seventy-one, held under the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, being the land on which he, the said Triplett, has resided for more than twenty- Unnn payment five years last past, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed and estabbqinp made for lished; and that upon payment being made, or having been made for
- ‘;;:,‘;‘?*"P"°°"’ said land, by said Triplett, a patent shall be issued to him: Provided,
Proviso. That all or any previous right acquired, and grants or sales of said
