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Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fifth day of November, 1804, and ended the third day of March, 1805.

Thomas Jefferson, President; Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Joseph Anderson, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 19th to the 31st day of January, 1805, inclusive, and on the 1st and 3d day of March; Nathaniel Macon, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Statute II.

Jan, 1805

Chap. VIII.An Act for the relief of Charlotte Hazen, widow and relict of the late Brigadier-General Moses Hazen.

CHAP. VIII.- An Act for the relief of Charlotte Hazen, widow and relict of the late Brigadier-General Moses Hazen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be allowed to Charlotte Hazen, widow and relict of the late Brigadier-General Moses Hazen, for her support, the annual sum of two hundred dollars, during her life, to commeuce from the fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and three; and that the sum hereby granted be paid to her the said Charlotte, in the same manner, and under the same rules, regulations and restrictions, as pensions are paid to invalids who have heretofore been placed on the pension-list of the United States. AFPROVED, January 28, 1805.

March 3, 1801

Chap. XII.An Act for the relief of Alexander Murray.

CHAr. XII. - An Act for the relief of Alexander Murray. Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers liquidate and adjust with Alexander Murray, the account of damages, interest and charges, in the case of the schooner Charming Betsey, recaptured by him while commander of the frigate Constellation, in the service of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred, and afterwards libelled in the District Court of the United States, for the District of Pennsylvania, in which case judgment was ultimately rendered by the circuit court, in pursuance of a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States; and that so much as may be necessary for satisfying the same be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, January 31, 1805.

March 3, 1801

Chap. XIII..An Act for the relief of John Steele.

Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers liquidate and settle the account of John Steele, for his services as Secretary of the Mississippi Territory, from the seventh day of May, eighteen hundred