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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE NINETEENTH CONGRESS or me UNITED STATES, Passed at the frst session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the jirst day of December, 1825, and ended on the twenty-second day of May, 1826. Jorm Qvmcv Annrs, President ; J or-m C. C.u.nouN, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Nrvrnanrnn Maooiv, President of the Senate,. pro tempore, from the 20th day of May, 1826; Jomv W. Tauon, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I. Much 3_ 1826 Crux. Xl. -.z2n Act for the rcliz of the heirs and legal rqrresentatioes of Louis ·-—-—-——-—-— C retiert, deceased. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the $,2,999 ,0 be United States ry' America in Congress assembled, That there be paid paid them, hav- to Gerard Chretien and Hypolite Chretien, heirs, and legal representa- '“$,b°°’h;ll$‘d tives, of Louis Chretien, late of the state of Louisiana, deceased, out 5i,,; ({3,,,,; ° of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the principal Chretien, de· sum of twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars, with in- °°”“°d· terest thereon, at the rate of six per centum, from the third day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, until sixty days after the passage of this act; the said sum having been illegally collected by the Marshal of the United States, under a treasury warrant, from the said Louis Chretien, as one of the sureties of John Thompson, late collector of the direct tax for the second district of Louisiana. Approved, March 3, 1826. Scururm I. """"' March 31, 1826. Cnn. XIX.-dn Act for the relief of Richard Matson. Be it enacted, <§•c., That Richard Matson, of the state of Missouri, Authorized to be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw his locations of warrant, withdraw his number one hundred and fifty-tive, for six hundred and forty acres, and },‘:‘:,*}Q°:;gi;Y"“ of warrant number one hundred and forty-three, for two hundred arpens cm {ham Gm. of land, issued by the recorder of land titles in the state of Missouri, where. and located on the twentieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in township fifty-tive north, range three west, in said state, and since mostly covered by a confirmed Spanish grant; and to locate the same warrants upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States, in the state of Missouri, that were liable to be located, under _4_cU,;psb_;·;•_ the act of the seventeenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen, 1815, ch. 45. for the relief of sufferers by earthquakes; conforming such relocations, as nearly as may be, to the divisional lines of the public surveys, and subject, in all respects, to said act of the seventeenth of February, eighpmvim teen hundred and fifteen: Provided, That the said warrants shall be located within one year from the passing of this act, and on lands which have not before been located or sold. Approved, March 31, 1826. (338)