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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess]. Ch. 47,48, 49. 1832. 481 parish of St. Tammany, bounded on the south—west by Lake Pontchartrain, on the northern side by Castin Bayou, and on the southern side by the lands confirmed in the first section of this act; the said tract of seven hundred and seventy-four arpents being the same which was granted on the twentieth January, one thousand seven hundred and seventy- seven, by Peter Chester, British Governor at Pensacola, to Lewis Davis, whose title to the same was afterwards, to wit, on the eleventh June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, confirmed by decree of Estevan Miro, Spanish Governor of the provinces of Florida and Louisiana, and for which a claim was filed in the name of the heirs of Lewis Davis, in the Land Office at St. Helena court-house, under the act of Congress of the twenty-fifth April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve: Provided, That the said two tracts of land shall be considered pmvgm as confirmed, in the same manner, and under the same regulations, restrictions, and provisions, as if the same had been recommended for confirmation in the reports of the commissioner for the district west of Pearl river, and east of the island of New Orleans, which were confirmed by the act of Congress, approved on the third day of March, one Actof Much thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled "An act for adjusting 3, 1819.ch·l00· the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the districts east of the island of New Orleans :" Provided, also, That the claim of Anto- pmvim nio Bonnabe], embraced in the said commissioner’s reports, as of four hundred arpents, shall be considered as comprised in, and forming part of the tract of four thousand and twenty arpents, confirmed in the first section of this act. A1=1>1<0vED, March 15, 1832. """*"‘ Srnure I. CHAP. XLVII. ——-An Act for the relief of William VlGlliam.son. March 15, 1832. Be it enacted, <§·e., That it shall and may be lawful for the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at St. Stephens, to correct the mis- _Mietake in ratake committed by William Williamson in the relinquishment made by {*’;‘},“;;h,;';°;’gr?f him, the tenth September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, ttm6d_ of the west half instead of the east half of fractional section number six, township number nine, range number seventeen west; and upon the said Williamson surrendering the original grant for the east half of said fractional section which has issued to him in consequence of the mistake aforesaid, the Register and Receiver shall apply the money heretofore paid into the Land Office to the west half of said fractional section, and give to the said Williamson the certificate of payment necessary to enable him to obtain a grant from the United States for the said west half of said fractional section: Provided, That nothing herein Proviso. shall be so construed as to affect the claim of any other person to the V said tract of land. Approved, March 15, 1832. ... Srnura I. C HAP. XLVIII. -An Aet for the relief of Jlhlhan Towson, Paymaster-General March 15, 1832. of the Army of the United States. """“"""` Be it enacted, e§~c., That the Quartermaster-General be authorized and directed to pay to Nathan Towson, Paymaster·General of the army Quarters and of the United States, his accounts for quarters and fuel for such time ¤ll°“’°d as he has not received the allowance, since his appointment to that ' office. Armzovno, March 15, 1832. . """"""‘ ·S:u·rum I. CHAP. XLIX.-—An Act far t/.·,e relief of Richard S. Hackley. March15, 133; Be it enacted, ¢§·e., That there be paid to Richard S. Hackley, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropgged, the sum of 61