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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS or- me UNITED STATE S, Passed at the frst session, which was begun-and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the lfrst day ny' December, 1817, and ended on the twentieth dag of Apri , 1818. JAMns Mormon, President; Dewar. D.To1m>1¤Ns, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; HENRY CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I. CHAP. II.-—An Act to remit the duly on a painting presented to the Pennsylvania Jan. 14, 1818. HospilaL '";"’ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives af the United States eg America in Congress assembled, That the duty secured Duties on _ to the United tates on a painting lately presented by Benjamin West, xgitséfmnmg president of the royal academy, London, to the Pennsylvania hospital, i ' be, and the same is hereby, remitted. Apmovno, January 14, 1818. Snrurs I. CHAP. III.—t0n det for the relig' of Samuel Jlikman. J an. 14, 1818. Be it enacted, dw., That the register and receiver of public moneys Allowed ,0 of the land office for the district of Vincennes, on satisfactory evidence rectify mistake being produced to them that James Aikman, who entered at the said rl';,;,'; gnuzlmen office the north-west quarter of section thirty-four, in township two A,k,,mg_ north, and range seven west, had madc application for the purchase of the said quarter section through mistake, intending at that time to have applied for the north-west quarter section thirty-five, in the same township and range, and that the occasion of the mistake in his application was the erroneous numbers marked at the corner of the aforesaid section on surveying the said lands, shall permit Samuel Aikman, the assignee of James Aikman, to withdraw the aforesaid entry, and, in lieu thereof, to enter the last mentioned quarter section, if the same shall at that time remain unsold; and the receiver of public moneys shall allow the said Samuel Aikman a credit on the said entry, or, in case of the previous sale of the land, on any other entry which he shall make of land within the said district, equal in amount to the moneys paid on the first mentioned quarter section; Provided, That no credit for the mo- p,,,,;,, neys paid as aforesaid shall be allowed, until the said Samuel Aikman shall have returned the patent to him granted for the first mentioned quarter section to the said register, who shall transmit it to the general land office, where the same shall be cancelled. Approved, January 14, 1818. in 2 (ism