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SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. S12:ss.I. Ch.31,32,33,34. 1820. 239 dred and forty-five dollars and sixty-six ninetieths, and numbered sixteen hundred and fifty; which certificate is alleged to have been accidentally destroyed, and appears, by the records of the treasury, to be outstanding and unpaid; and to pay to the surviving executors of said deceased, for the use and benefit of the heirs and representatives of the said deceased, the principal of said certificate, and so much of the interest thereof as may remain due thereon: Provided, That the said PfoVi¤¤· surviving executors execute and deliver to the comptroller of the treasury a bond of indemnity, in such sum, and with such security, as the said comptroller may direct and approve. Avmzovnn, April 5, 1820. "‘*— Srnurs I. Cmp. XXXI.—An Act for the relief of John .6. Dix. April 5, 1g2O_ Be it enacted, rye., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to John A. Dix, a lieutenant in the army To be paid for of the United States, one hundred and twelve dollars, in full, for extra °x“'° °"Vi°°¤· services performed as adjutant, under the command of Colonel John B. Walbach, in Portsmouth harbor, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Arpnovmn, April 5, 1820. _"` Srnurz I. CnAp.XXXII.—-An Hcifvr the relief (tp the ligal representatives of John O’C'onnor, April 5y 182,-,_ ecease . -—-—-——- Be it enacted, {Src., That the legal representatives of John O’Connor, deceased, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a tract of _ land situated on Buffaloe Creek, in the state of Mississippi, containing B$‘,;2g_mI° °°n` eight hundred arpens, granted by the Spanish government to William Conway, by patent, dated the fourtcenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and conveyed to John O’Connor, by the said Conway, on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven: Provided, That _ nothing in this act contained shall affect the claim or claims of any Pr°m°' other person or persons to the said land, or any part thereof, derived from the United States, or any other source whatever. Approved, April 5, 1820. —-——·— Srnurs I. CHAP. XXXIII.-—An/1ct for the relief of Robert Swartwout. April 5, 1820. Be it enacted, ¢$~c., That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the lA°9°u“{ fm,. account of Robert Swartwout, and to allow him such sum as may appear ,35;;;,;;,;*,, equitable and just, in consequence of the loss sustained in the sale of to be settled. certain treasury notes, for and on account of the United States. Avrnovnn, April 5, 1820. —-—-—— Srnuu: I. CHAP. XXXIV.—An Act for the relief of Jo/in Harding, Giles Harding, John April 5, 1820. Shute, and John Mchols. ""—`_"` Be it enacted, cfm., That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to audit and settle the éilloyvance to claim of John Harding, Giles Harding, John Shute, and John Nichols, :,;;‘m°g;’;"§:_ for fifteen boats belonging to them, and detained, at Baton Rouge, by ton Rouge, Major-General Thomas, in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen; and to allow them any sum not exceeding, in the whole, nine hundred dollars ; which allowance, when made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 5, 1820.