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FOR'I`Y—SECON D CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 456-459. 1873. 789 gHAP. CDLVI. —An Act i>Zf:;;n%;i;; ¢g)‘é €;g; §rzgnon no a mmm Trace of Much s, 1873. Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United Stages of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of Louis Grig- '!`i¤¤ ¤f L<>¤¤¤ pbn, no a certain tract of land at Green Bay, Wisconsin, situated in %,g§‘f§d°§`u°°"` township twenty~four north, of range twenty east of the fourth principal Wisconsin. meridian, lying on the west bank of Fox river, between the claim of Alexis Gardapier, as confirmed and finally surveyed; and the claim of said Louis Grign0n,as surveyed and patented, (said tract having been excluded from the iinal survey of the said claim of Louis Grignon because within the former Fort Howard military reservation,) be, and the same is hereby, confirmed, and the commissioner of the general la.nd·0iiice is hereby authorized to cause the said tract of land to be surveyed at the expense of the parties in interest, and to issue a. patent therefor in favor of the said Louis Grignon, subject to such legal transfers or assignments as may have been made by him or by his heirs or assigns according to the provisions of the fifth section of the act of Congress approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, entitled "An act to revive and continue in force certain acts for the adjustment of land claims in the '1`erritory of Michigan ;" such survey and patent to be held as a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and as in no way impairing any valid adverse rights, if such exist Ammovzn, March 3, 1873. CHAP. CDLVII. -— An Act to authorize the Secretary of tlw Treasury :0 settle the Account Mmm 3, 1g7g_ qf Henry Warren, late Depositary at Oregon City, Oregon. —········—· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Crcdi1:m be ury be, and hereby is, directed to credit Henry Warren, lute United Q,:};:;;?! g°;;‘K1° States depositary at Oregon City, Oregon, with two thousand dollars, in mem of account, settlement of his account for money paid Horace C. Gilseu, secretary of ` Idaho Territory, on the twenty-eighth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and that the said sum be charged against said Gilsen. APPROVED, March 3, 1873. CHAP. CDLVIII.·-An Act for the gdiq zf Thomas Hollis, of Morgan County, March 3, 1873. é0Tg|G. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to Thomas Payment to Hollis, of Morgan county, Georgia, out of any money in the treasury not Thomas Hollis. otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred aud twenty-four dollars and fourteen cents, due him for carry ing the mails of the United States in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, according to the records of the Post-office Department. Approved, March 3, 1873. CHAP. CDLIX. —- An Act for the Relid of Mrs. F. Selina Buchanan. March 3, 1873. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represcntutivesef the United States of America in Oongress assembled, That the sum of five thousand Payrnc-:nt t0 two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-six cents, out of any %{;’;i1;;£°1‘" money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be paid Mrs. F. ` Selina. Buchanan, widow of the late McKean Buchanan, paymaster in the navy, in full satisfaction of any claim of the estate of her said husband, arising out of damages sustained in consequence of an arbitrary order of the late Commander Claxton reducing the emoluments accruing to said Buchanan during the cruise of the frigate Constitution in eighteen hundreul and thirty-nine, eighteen hundred and forty, end eighteen hundred