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294 EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. SEss.I. Ch.42,4S,49. 1824. county of Chatham, in the state of North Carolina, be, and they are Amarmay ig, hereby, authorized to demand and collect, for the use of the estate of 1824, ch. 127. the said John B. Mebane, such arrearages of said district tax as remain uncollected, and which the said John B. Mebane had paid over to the United States, in the same manner as heretofore directed bylaw: Pro.- prcviw vided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the sind Joseph I. Alston and John Mebane to recover any arrears of such tax from the representatives of any deceased person, or from any person who shall make oath that the said tax, due from such person, had been paid to the said Joh; llggpane, in his life-time. Approved, April , . Srnurs I. April 22, 1824, CHAP. XLI1.—-dn dot for the relief of Barbara Paulus, Be it enacted, Qc., That there shall be paid to Barbara Paulas, mo- Payment to ther and heir at law of John Zeabold, late a seaman on board the United B¤1‘b¤¤ States’ sloop of war Wasp, the amount of gratuity, and prize money, E,“'j‘k‘,:,; '£;;l;‘°r to which she was entitled, by an act passed on the twentieth day of bold. seaman April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, entitled "An act respecting the on board U- S- late officers and crew of the sloop of war Wasp," in the same manner

  1. §p°f w" as if she had made application therefor within the time limited by said

A¤tol`April 20, act; and that the same shall be paid out of the navy pension hind, of 1816. ch- 65- which, by the provision of said act, it has become a part; the limitation, as to the time within which application was required to be made, contained in said act, to the contrary notwithstanding. Armzovnn, April 22, 1824. Snrurs I. _...

 Cmun XLVIlI.—- An Act for the relief of Joseph Wbod, of Ohio.

A,, . Be it enacted, dw., That the accounting officers of the treasury de- OWHHCB Ul . uw 8,,,,;,,,,,,.,,, partment allow to Joseph W¢><ud, of the state of Ohio, the sum of two of his accounts hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents, in the settleif R°K‘**P' °f ment of his accounts as Revister of the Land Othee at Marietta, in that aud Othee at . . ¤ . M,,,,,,,,, state; the said sum being hereby allowed to the said Joseph Wood, for performing the duties of a receiver in that office, from November, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, to the latter end of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Avmrovrzn, May 4, 1824. Srnurn I. ·—— May 4, 1824. CHAP. XLIX. -.021 Act for enclosing lhijburzalground of Christ Church, Wash- "“"'“""`“"" irrgton uris r. Bra il enacted, dw., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is Appropriation hereby, authorized to cause to be paid to the vostry of Christ Church, 3** P Full '°*A¤d W:tsliir1gtt>n parish, in the city of Washington, the sum of two thousand um gmundollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a substantial wall around the Proviso. burial ground of said parish : Provided, That the said vcstry shall execute a bond to the United States, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, and deposited in his department, conditioned in the penalty of four thousand dollars, for the faithful application of the money, and execution of the work, and securing to the United States the four hundred sites reserved in said burial ground, for the interment of members of Congress, and others, connected with the General Government. Approved, May 4, 1824.