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480 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 12, 13, 14, 15. 1856. August Z3, 1856. CHAP. XlI.—An Act jbr the Reliq/' of the Sureties of the late Lieutenant C’7zmle.s E. t"‘;‘—" Jarvis, United States Army. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers $3’£§j;;"Q;° Q; of the treasury be and they are hereby directed to credit and allow the sum connts of Lieut. of three thousand and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents, 1D the Qh“”1°S E- JM- accounts of Lieutenant Charles E. Jarvis, deceased, and late acting asm` sistant commissary of subsistence for disbursements made on his passage to California, and for transportation on his arrival there, the vouchers for the same having been lost or stolen after his death in California. Approved, August 23, 1856. A¤1z¤Sl¤23»1856· Crum. XIII.-An Act for the Relief ry" Edmund Mitchell. Be it enacted Ig] the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Edmund Mm States of America in Omzgress assembled, That the name of Edmund chemo be placed Mitchell, of Carrol county, in the State of Kentucky, be placed upon the on the pension pension roll, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the $2m;* f?;’H{’°" first day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. Marchll, 1854. Approved, August 23, 1856. August 23, 1856. CHAP. XIV.—-—An Actfzr the Relid ¢y"_ Wz'Zliam Humphreys, jr., Owner <y' [Ws/zing ”‘;"" bc/moner “Good bze}1.ange," lost at Sea. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemb/eeL That the collector of customs Payment of for the district of Marblehead, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,

 be and is hereby authorized and directed to pay to William Humphreys,

¤1n.,.g·s—» to wm. jr., the owner of the schooner “Good Exchange," of ninety-four tons H¤¤¤1>l¤‘¤b'S, JF- and thirty-nine ninety-fifths of a ton burden, upon his showing sufficient anthority from the heirs, or the legal representatives of each person interested, such asum of money as said vessel would have been entitled to if she had been engaged in the cod fisheries for the “Hshing term " of four months or more, to be distributed as the law provides; such vessel having been lost while engaged in that business during the fishing season of eighteen hundred and forty-five: Provided, It shall be shown by sutlieient proof that the master and three-fourths of the crew of the said schooner " (iood Exchange? were citizens of the United States. rpnovzn, August 23, 1856. Alu??-i 23, 1856. Crur. XV.-An Actfar the Relfeftfthe Heirsand Legal Representatives ¢y'l_qnacio Delino. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of the heirs m1g'”;Lf;_’e; Egg`; and legal representatives of Ignacio Delino be andthe same is hereby ,,;,.9, of Ignacio confirmed to a. tract of land in the Greensburg d1str1ct,par1sh of St. Tamgcélinorgcg lapd in many, Louisiana, fronting on the west bank of Pearl River, at about dismgty I;‘a_7“"g twelve miles from its fall into the Rigolets, containing two thousand supereoummea, arpents, as represented on the plat of survey made by. Carlos ru eau, and annexed to the title deed granted by Don Juan Ventura This mm Morales, intendent-general of the province of West Florida, to Ignacio Operate only as Dehno, on the eighteenth January, eighteen hundred and four: Provided, arelinquishmeut, however, That this act shall only operate as a relinquishment forever on