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TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 164, 165, 166, 167. 1844. 931 Smrrura I. CHAP. CLXI V. -·——An Act for the relief of .Mary JPL Tetfair. june l7’ IgM_ Be it enacted, dw., That warrants for the bounty lands due to Tobias Briggs and Isaac Curtis, privates in the Rhode Island line, nur revolu- Certain bounty tionary services, shall be made out by the proper officers, and delivered land “'=?FY¤¤*¤ m Mrs. Mary M. Telfair, the only heir and legal representative of Israel {gba gwcn m Pearce, deceased, who appears to have purchased the right to said I bounty lands of the said Briggs and Curtis: Provided, That before said Proviso. warrants shall be delivered to said Mrs. Telfair, she shall execute her own bond to the United States, with good and sufficient security, in such sum as the Secretary of War shall require, to indemnify the said United States against the claim of any other person or persons to said lands. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Trea· Serip to be sury shall cause to be paid to said Mrs. Telfair any moneys which may Paid W hefbe due to Scipio Brown, a private in the Rhode Island line of the revolutionary army, upon the certificate issued to him for his revolutionary services, which certificate is alleged to have been purchased by, and assigned to said Israel Pearce, the father of said Mrs. Telfair: Provided, proviso, That before such payment shall be made, the said Mrs. Telfair shall execute her bond, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by said Secretary of the Treasury in double the amount of the sum to be so paid to her, to indemnify the United States against the claim of said Scipio Brown, his executors, administrators or assigns, to the money due on said certificate. Approved, June 17, 1844. S·ra·rU*r1·: I. CHAP, CLXV. ——— dn det for Z/ze reliq` of CharZes Holt. June 17, 1844. Be it enacted, ¢$·c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to Charles Holt, of the city of New York, 5Am<»:,¤¤ 0; a out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum ,,£;n";n§rs;d?_ of two hundred dollars, with interest thereon at six per cent., to be com- tion laws, to be puted from the eighteenth day of July, eighteen hundred, it being the F¤f¤¤d€d· amount of a fine imposed upon said Holt by the circuit court of Connecticut, under the " alien and sedition" law. Avenovnn, June 17, 1844. "'T Sryrurra I. CHAP. CLXVI.——An .L'cl for the relief of Jlajor Thomas Harrison. June 17, 1844. Be it enacted, agar., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to pay to Thomas Harrison, out of any moneys in the treasury A pension to not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifteen dollars per month, from be Pwd '° mmthe fifteenth of June, eighteen hundred and fifteen, being the time that he was placed on the pension roll, to the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the time at which his present rate of pension commenced. Aernovnn, June 17, 1844. "·""* Surura I. CHAP. CLXVII. --.12n Act for the relief tf John Sands. .1 une 17, 1844. Be it enacted, dw., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to ,1ohn Sands, ofFreder1cks- Fayment to burg, in the state of Virginia, (master mariner,) or his attorney, the l;;_*1;e<;;*ai*:]°,<i;’l*;;1* sum of one hundred dollars, being the one moiety of two fines remitted rammed_ ~ by the Secretary of the Treasury on the twenty-seventh day of Novem-