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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWELFTH CONGRESS or me UNITED STATES, Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Was/rington, in the District of Columbia, on Mionday, the fourth day qfNoveniber, 1811, and ended on the sixth day offuly, 1812. JAMES MAn1soN, President; Gnonoa Ctnvron, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; WM. H. Cruwrosn, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 26th day of March; HENRY CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I. CHAP. V.-—An Act for the relief of Abraham Wltzpple, tale a Captain in the 1Vavy Dec, 12, 181], of the United States. ""_"""" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, '1‘hat the Secretary of the A 00,,,,00,0 Navy be, and hereby is directed to place upon the navy list of invalid Abr. Whipple. pensioners of the United States, Abraham Whipple, late a captain in the navy of the United States, who has been so disabled in the line of his duty, while in service, that he is unable to support himself by labor; and who shall be entitled to receive one half the monthly pay of a captain in the navy, to commence from the first day of January, one thou- A ,0,.A ., sand eight hundred and ten, agreeably to the provisions contained in 23,%,800, CET13B_ "An act for the better government of the navy of the United States/’ Approved, December 12, 1811. S1*A·ru·r1·: I. CHAP. VII.——An Act for the relief oflosiah Hi Webb. D00 12, lsu_ Be it enacted, dec., That Josiah H. Webb, who was wounded in the Creek nation of Indians while employed in carrying the mail of the A 000,,,00,0 United States from Athens in Georgia to New Orleans, be, and he is J. H.Webb. hereby allowed the sum of fifty dollars, payable annually out of the ,{;‘;§,*°{v‘:|;lA‘;d Treasury of the United States, to commence on the first day of January, by ,,,0 100,0,,0 one thousand eight hundred and nine, and continue during his natural life. Approved, December 12, 1811. STATUTH I. CHAP. XIII.—An Act for the relief of John Burnham. ]an_1O’;8]2_ Be it enacted, ¢$~c., That there be paid to John Burnham, out of any R _ b moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum ·of one m€?,§":),“,;,?,;0y hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-two cents, and the interest advanced {0;;,38 on the same since the thirtieth day of May, one thousand seven hundred ¤;p¤;>1¤}·M ,30 and ninety-six, which, in addition to the sum allowed him by the act of ,79%_°c,,_ ’ that date, is to be considered as a reimbursement of the money by him Sec, 4, advanced for his ransom from captivity in Algiers. Arenovnn, January IO, 1812. (103)