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482 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 20, 21,22. 1856. wl! M $12 P8? Rudolf Kussmaul of New York upon the pension list, at the mm of gf)°’¥é152r°iY§gf;};° twelve dollars per month; commencing on the thirtieth day of Jung, instead i of his eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and continuing during his natural life, in P'°““° P°“s‘°“· lieu of the pension of six dollgxrs per mouth, which he now receives. APPROVED, August 23, 1856. August 23, 1856. CHA?. XX.-An Actauthwizingthe Legal Rzwesentatfues of Manuel Gonzales Mom to ···*·""" enter certain Lan in Missouri. Bc it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the legal representatives Oygfgfgggfagzgi of Manuel Gonzales Moro be and they are hereby authorized to enter, mes Mom au- without payment, at any land-0Hi0e in the State of Missouri, in such

‘;°f¥°d f° *5***9* quantities, agreeably to the United States surveys, as the claimants may

M§,,°:£,.;_”n m desire, a quantity of land subject to private entry, not exceeding seven thousand and fiftyesix arpens of land, at a. price not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, in lieu of and in compensation for 2, claim of that quantity allowed to them by the board of commissioners appointed 1836 m 361 for the final adjustment of private land claims in the State of Missouri, ’' and confirmed to them by "An act confirming claims to land in the State V°1‘ v' P' 126* of Missouri, and for other purposes," approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. And the register and receiver of the land-offices aforesaid shall receive the proper applications and proofs, and shall issue the necessary certificate or certificates; on return of which to the General Lzmd-Office, with proof sufficient, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, to establish the right of the claimants as such legal representatives, a patent or patents shall issue as in other cases. Ar>1>n0vm>, August 23, 1856. August 23, 1856. CHAP. XXI.—An Act jbr the Relief of J W. Todd, a Lieutenant of Ordnance in the "“"`“`—"` Unite States Army. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Oangress assembled, That the proper accounting oflicer of the treasury of the United States be and he is hereby directed to give credit to J. W. Todd, a lieutenant of ordnance in the United $2¢’g§E*’;’·;g° °*` States army, in the sum of two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, cotms of JT W the same being the amount placed in his hands by the United States, and Todd. charged to him as disbursing oflieer, which was irrecoverably lost whilst in his charge and custody by the burning and sinking of the steamboat Gipsey on the Mississippi River, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, on the seventh of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. Approved, August 23, 1856. Augnst28,18B6. Cxnr. XXII.-An Act jbr the Relief qéthe Heirs and Legal Representatives of Louis " "' eggm. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United H i md IB States of America in Oongress assembled, That the heirs and legal repmsgrantjvcs 0%- ICSBHCRHVCS of Louis Reggio, original claimant, be and they are hereby L¤¤iS B¤ggi¤ conirmed in their title to a, certain tract of land situated on the Bayou gggiirgytzghxgmd L8.00mb,iu the parish of St. Tammany, State of Louisiana, containing inLouisis,n9.. sixteen hundred arpents, more or less, according to the original plat of survey made and returned to the land-office, and located in townships eight and nine, ofranges twelve and thirteen east, in the land district east of the island of Orleans, and west of Pearl River: Provided, That this con-