PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS or mm: UNITED STATES, Passed at the _/irst session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Manda , the sixth day of December, 1819, and ended on thejifteenth day ofyflfay, 1820. James Mormon, President; Dnmm. D. Tommmvs, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Jnivms Baiusouu., President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the 14th day of December, 1819; Jomv Gnrnnnnn, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 28th day of January, 1820; Hmrmv CLAY, Speaker. STATUTE I. Ian. 14, 1820. Crux-. IV.-An Act for the relief ry" the lggal representative of Philqi Barbowr,
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United The register States of America in Congress assembled, That the register of the land §'§'i;;F"'?:°m office and receiver of public moneys of the United States, in the state of ,.,,,0,, tgqim Mississippi, west of Pearl river, be, and they are hereby, authorized and general land directed, within twelve months after the passage of this act, to report to g?lf§0Q;‘:c‘{_:L“:f the Commissioner of the General Land Office the value of fifteen hundred Md_ 6,,,, acres of land, situated on the river Mississippi, at the mouth of Big Black, commonly culled Grand Gulph, patented in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy, by the government of West Florida, to Philip Barbour, deceased; the said register and receiver having, in making such estimate, a due regard to the time when the said land, or any part of it, was sold by the government of the United States: whereupon the said Commissioner of the General Land Office shall issue to the legal representative of the said Philip Barbour, deceased, a certificate of the amount so reported by the said register and receiver; which certificate shall be receivable in payment of any debt which may have accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, to the United States, on the sale of any of the p,.,,;,,_ public lands: Provided, however, That, before the said Commissioner of the General Land Ofhce shall issue the certificate, the said legal representative shall file in his office a written release, under his hand and seal, with all the solemnities necessary to make it valid and operative, whereby he shall release to the United States all his claim to the said fifteen hundred acres of land. Approved, January 14, 1820. Srarurs I. ——— I an. 19, 1820. Cru?. VI.-An del allowing Sarah Jllen the bounty land and pay which would "“"""""" have been due to her son, Samuel Drew, had he lived, for his services as a private in the late war. gt warrant for _ Be it enacted, Q-c., That the Secretary of War be authorized to issue, f,u°;l§“,SQ;£‘“d in the name of Sarah Allen, a land warrant for the bounty land to which to b,;,,,,u,,d_ Samuel Drew, a soldier in the army of the United States, deceased, would have been entitled, had he lived. (236)
