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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS or was UNITED STATES, Passed at the jtrst session, which was began and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December, 1821, and ended on the eighth day of May, 1822. Jaivrss Mormon, President; Dnmrsr. D. Tomruams, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate, from the 11th day of January, to the 4th day of February; Jour: GAILLARD, President of the Senate, pro tempore, from the 3d day of December, to the 11th day of January, and from the 4th day of February, to the end of the session; PHILIP P. Blumoun, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I. CHAP. II.-An Act for the relief of Samuel Clarkson and dlertander Elmslie. ],m_ 1], 1g2z_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be re- Umm sums funded and paid to Samuel Clarkson and Alexander Elmslie, severally, *0*19 Yef“¤d°d the following sums of money: to Samuel Clarkson, four hundred and l°twm' fifteen dollars and thirty-five cents, and to Alexander Elmslie, four hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty-three cents; which said several sums have been paid by the persons abovementioned to the collector of Philadelphia, on the importation into the United States of sundry copper bottoms, and bolts, or bars, the same not being by law subject to the payment of duties. Approved, January 11, 1822. Srnucrra I. CHAP. III.-Art Act for the relief of Isaac Finch. Fab 4, 1822- Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officer of the treasury department be, and he is hereby, authorized to audit and settle the ac- Accounts ,0 counts of Isaac Finch, late a major of the twenty-sixth regiment of in- be settled. fantry, on principles of justice and equity. Arr·aov1:r>, February 4, 1822. "j‘ Srunra I. CHAP. V.—An Act for the relief of Peggy Mellen. Feb 4, 1g2z_ Be it enacted, &·c., That the Secretary of War be authorized to issue, in the name of Peggy Mellen, a land warrant for the bounty land to tvammtrerwhich Alford Stebbins, late a soldier in the army of the United States, lg<¤!¤¥Y lgfld t0 deceased, would have been entitled, had he lived. 8 mw ' Approved, February 4, 1822. —.-. Srnurz I. CHAP. XVII.-·.lln Act to authorize the reconveyance of a tract of land to the city Mar. 30, 1822. afNew York. Be it enacted, &c., That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized, whenever he shall have determined that the (263)