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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TENTH CONGRESS or ras UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day 1fIVovember, 1808, and ended on the third day of hlarch, 1809. Tnoivms Jssmcnsow, President; Gnoaen CLiN·roN, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; STEPHEN R. Bnaomzy, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 4th to the 7th day of January ; Jorm MILLEDGE, President, pro tempore, of the Senate, from the 30th day of January ; J. B. VA1tNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II. C1-IAP. II.-—An cict for the relief of dndrew Joseph Villard. jam 4, lgOg_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to An· Allowance to drew Joseph Villard, the sum of one thousand dollars, out of any money him. in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for his extra services and expense, in the mode of mounting heavy cannon for batteries, on anew construction, for the use and benefit of the United States. Approved, January 4, 1809. Sruurs II. CnA1>.VII.-An Act for the relid of Augustin Serry. l,m_ l2, l 809_ Be it enacted, <$·c., That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby authorized to settle the account of Angus- Allowed pay tin Serry, formerly a boatswain on board the United States brig Sophia; and emeluand that they allow him the pay and emoluments of a boatswain, from "‘**’{'S °f¤b°¤* the fifteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety- SWT"` six, until the sixteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight; and that they pay the balance which may be found due to the said Augustin Serry, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, January 152, 1809. '“"'” STATUTE II. CHAP. XII.-dn Act for the relief of Edmund Beamont. Fell l_ l3gg_ Bc it enacted, &c., That Edmund Beamont, now imprisoned in the _·? state of Connecticut, shall be, and hereby is released and discharged To be dlS_ from all claim and demand of the United States, to a certain judgment charged fygm for a penalty of four hundred dollars recovered, with costs, at their suit impriwnmentbefore the district court for the district of Connecticut, holden at New Haven, in the month of August, eighteen hundred and six; saving and reserving, nevertheless, the right and interest, if any there be, which belongs to any third person. Approved, February 1, 1809. (79)