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TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 40, 42, 43. 1834. 561 is entitled on account of a permanent disability occasioned by a wound received by him in battle with the enemy during the last war with Great Britain, the sum of twenty dollars per month, from the eighteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, to the fifteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, deducting therefrom any sum accruing between these dates, which may have been paid him on account of the pension allowed him by the commissioners of the navy pension fund, on the thirty-first July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. Approved, May 10, 1834. "‘“ Sururs I. CHAP. XL.-dn .8ct for the relief of John II. Maguire. May 10, ISM_ Be it enacted, rfc., '1`hat the Secretary of the Treasury pay to John H. Maguire, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro- paymemm priated, the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, for investment of him. the navy pension fund, to the amount of one hundred and forty thousand dollars, in different stocks, to the acceptance of the Board of Commissioners of the navy pension fund, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, being an allowance of one-fourth of one per centum on the amount so invested. Approved, May 10, 1834. """` Snrurn I. CHAI-. XLII.——.z2n det for the relief of Coleman Fisher. May 14, ]834_ Be it enacted, &c., That Coleman Fisher, of the city of Philadelphia, or his agent duly authorized, shall be, and he hereby is, permitted and May withdraw allowed to withdraw a New Madrid certificate, numbered three hundred ¤ l¤¤d Certifiand thirty-eight, issued by Frederick Bates, recorder of land titles for g?;°;.l;gdi°°°t° the Missouri Territory, dated sixteenth October, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and now on file in the office of the surveyor of public lands in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, for six hundred and forty acres; which said certificate had been located on six hundred and forty acres of land near the village of Carondelet, and the location made by Ashley and Brown, as the legal representatives of Benjamin Patterson, senior; and to locate, by virtue of the same, six hundred and forty acres of land on any other public lands of the United States, subject to entry; and, on presentation of a certificate therefor, from the Register of the proper land office to the Commissioner of the General Land Ofiice, a patent shall issue for the same, in due form, Provided however, proviso_ That, previous to withdrawing said certificate, the said Coleman Fisher, by himself, or his agent duly authorized, shall release to the United States all claim or right to the lands heretofore located by virtue of said certificate, and which release shall be returned, with the certificate aforesaid, to the General Land Office, before a patent shall issue for the land lastly so located. Approved, May 14, 1834. W S·1·A·rurn I. CHAP. r/{Cf for the L. SWIM]!. May 14, 18g4- Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be lawful for Luther L. Smith, of the parish of West Feliciana, in the state of Louisiana, at any time May emu and within six months from and after the passage of this act, to enter and Dvfyhtgm ¤1f&<>¤ purchase at the land office at Helena court-house, at the price of one °f an ‘ dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, a tract of land situated in said parish of West Feliciana, said to contain two hundred and seventy-nine arpens, French measure, it being the same that was conveyed by Nicholas de Semils, by order of the Intendant General of West Florida, as appears by his process verbal bearing date the fifth day of May, one 71