Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 11.djvu/521

THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 16, 17, 18,19. 1856. 481 the part of the United States to the said lands, and shall not interfere with adverse valid rights of other persons, if such exist, to any part of the land embraced in the claim and survey aforesaid. APPROVED, August 23, 1856. CHAP. XVI.-·An Act providing an Lzcrease of Pension to Daniel Waldo, ofOn0ndago August 23, 1856. county, New Kirk. ‘*""_"" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior cause the pension of Daniel Waldo, of Onondaga county, New Pqnsion of York, to be changed on the pension roll from twenty-six dollars and &°'}fgrY;;%°°£ sixty-six cents per annum, to eight dollars per month, commencing from the as per month, fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirtyone, and to continue during mm M°¥°h 4: his natural life- 1831, for life. Approved, August 23, 1856. Can. XVII.-—An Act to confirm the Title ry` Ruhama. Whitakerand Rebecca Whitaker August 23, 1856. to certain Lands m the State of Louisiana. 1**; Be it enacted by the Senate and Ease of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby confirmed to Ruhama Whitaker the usufruct title during her natural life, in two Life-estate in certain tracts constituting one body of land on the northwest branch of gjeggnydmgj Thompson’s creek, in Louisiana; the one tract of five hundred and sixty Brmed to nunsarpens having been surveyed in the year seventeen hundred and ninety- me Whitakmnine, in the name of Juan Brown; the other, of three hundred and ten arpens, having been surveyed in the year eighteen hundred and six, for Edward O’Connor; and there is hereby relinquished to Rebecca. Whit- Bpversivn relinaker the reversionary interest of the United States in fee simple to the g;ig°M?mR; said land ; and it shall be the duty of the United States surveyor-general to execute a proper survey of the land, according to the evidence accompanying the memorial of the said Buhama Whitaker and Rebecca Whitaker to Congress: Provided, however, that the confirmation and re- Valid adverse linquishment by this act shall not interfere with any subsisting valid ad- rights saved. verse right, if such exist, to the whole or any part of the aforesaid land. Approved, August 23, 1856. Cntr. XVIII.-An Act for the Reliq of Captain Thomas Ap Catesby Jones. A¤€.'¤$17 28, 1856- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officer of the treasury be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Captain Thomas Ap Catesby Jones the sum of nine hundred Capt. T. Ap dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in ggwjiggggfm full for the moneys paid by him to Hall McAllister, Esq., as counsel on P ' the trial of Black and five others for mutiny, before a general naval courtmartial on board the sloop-of-war “Warren," in October, eighteen hundred and forty-nine. Approved, August 23, 1856. CHAP. X]X.—An Act for the of Rudolf Kussmaul. August 28, 1856. Be it enacted by the Senate and Hmtss of Representatives of the United R d H, K _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- ,,,,,,,1} 3, be terior be and he is hereby authorized and directed to place the name of ced on pension