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FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sicss. III, Ch. 367, 368. 1873. 771 ment of rent of court-room; for marshal’s personal expenses incurred while serving process; and for a reasonable allowance for guarding and boarding prisoners in the penitentiary; the amount allowed not to exceed twenty thousand dollars, and to be paid from any unexpended balance of appropriations for expenses of United States courts prior to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy·0ne, and to be distributed and paid pro rata among the holders of the drafts and certilicates drawn by said Heywood and now in the Treasury Department. Approved, March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCCLXVII. —- An Act for the Relief of Peter J. Burchell. March 3_ 1g7g_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there be paid to Peter J. P¤5'm°¤i to Burchell, of Kane county, Illinois, out of any money in the treasury not P°t°r J'B"°h°“' otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and eighteen dollars and five cents for the occupation of and damage to his house and premises by United States recruiting officers, in the years eighteen hundred and sixty-three and eighteen hundred and sixty-four AP1’1{0VED, March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCCLXVIII. — An Act to confirm to William M urvin the Title to seven thousand March 3, 1873. Acres of Land in the State of Florida. W Whereas, under the act of Congress, approved June twenty-second, Preamble. eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled "An act for the final adjustment of private land-claims in the States of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri, and for other purposes,” and extended by an act of Congress, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven entitled "An act to extend the provisions of an act entitled ‘An act for the nnal adjustment of private 1860, cb.188. 1and—claims in the States of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri, and for other yd- xii- P· ii5· purposes} " the register and the receiver at the land-office at Tallahassee, Florida, acting as commissioners under the acts aforesaid have reported to the commissioner of the general land-office that there ought to be connrmed to Williain Marvin, who holds under Bernardo Segui, under class two, under the third section of the act first aforesaid, a tract of land containing seven thousand acres, in the State of Florida., on the east side of the Saint John’s river, between the place called Dunn’s Lake and that known as Horse Landing, including in said tract of land the place called Buiialoe Blum and includes parts of sections twenty-eight, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, and thirty-nine, in township ten south, of range twenty-six east; and sections and parts of sections one, two, three, eleven, twelve, and thirty-nine, in township eleven south, of range twenty-six east; and parts of sections five, six, seven, eight, and forty, in township eleven south, of range twenty-seven east; which claim is based upon a grant or concession by the Spanish government to Bernardo Segui, before the twenty-fourth of January, eighteen hundred and eighteen; and whereas the commissioner of the general' land-ofiice has approved the report of the said commissioners, and has reported the same to Congress for its action, and recommended the confirmation of the title to the said seven thousand acres of land to the said William Marvin,as the legal representative of Bernardo Segui: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the said seven thousand seven thouacres of land in the State of Florida, on the Saint John’s river, and as §*i¤l_€i RQ? °ii¤¤‘i further described above, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed to the glmcigiiioiihifigm said William Marvin; and that all the right, title, and interest of the Marvin. United States in and to the same be, and the same are hereby, granted and confirmed unto the said William Marvin: Provided, however, That Prcviso this·act shall not affect any adverse right or title to the said lands or any