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642 TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 134,135,136,137,13S. 1836 $'I`A'.l`U'.l‘E I. Jung 23, 1836, CHAP. CXXXIV.-An Act for the relief of Ebenezer .P/zillzzps and others. Be it enacted, {pc., That the collector of customs fer the dislrict of Allowance toa Marblehead and Lynn, in the state of Massachusetts, rs authorized to H°hl“€’°h°°"°' pay to Ebenezer Phillips, and such others as may have been owners, km at s°°' and to the legal representatives of the late master and crew? of the fishing schooner Van Buren, belonging to the port of Lynn, m the aforesaid district, and supposed to have been lost at sea, the same sum of money, to be distributed according to law, which they would have been entitled to receive as a bounty or drawback, if the said vessel had returned in safety from her voyage, and accomplished the full term of service required by law. AP1=n0vE1>, June 23, 1836. Srnurz I. -—·—— I une 23, 1836. CHAP. CXXXV,-An Aat jbr the relief of Charles M Frasier. Bc it enacted, &c., That the Third Auditor of the Treasury be Value ofhouae directed to ascertain the value of a house destroyed by the British in djjéfgizzggg eighteen hundred and fburteen, at St. Leonards, in the state of Mary-

,1df land, while the same was in the military occupation of the United

States, as a hospital, the property of said Charles M. Frasier, and that the amount so ascertained be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Ammovxn, June 23, 1836. Snrun I. -——-— June 23, 1836. Crm?. CXXXVl.—-vin dot for the relieg/"¢gf.H·r·c}zi?1zzld Small Bc it enacted, (fc., That Archibald Small be, and he is hereby, per- Allowed ec en- mitted and allowed to enter the west half of the south—east quarter of {**3 “¤°* °f section number mhirty-three, in township number thirteen, north of °°ranie five east, in the district of lands offered for sale at Indianapolis, in the state of Indiana, for which he shall be entitled to a patent, on his relinquishing to the United States the west half of the southwest quarter of section number thirty-three, in township number thirteen, north of range five east, in the district aforesaid, and which was entered by said Archibald Small through mistake, and not detected, by reasonof the said Archibald Small not being able to read. Ar1·R0vrm, June 23, 1836. Barnum I. ______ June 23, 1836. Cru?. CXXXVII.——An Ac! for l}ze;e%y of Ike legal representatives of JW2t/zanicl ""_""""""" . atum. Be it enacted, nsw., That the Secretary of the Navy ascertain the The Sccrwry damages, if any, the United States sustained, on the failure of Nathaniel g;£:1‘}"1g::]lé°° P. Tatum to deliver the full quantity of white oak plank stocks at the (unify hg, M. navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, according to his contract count. with the United States, dated the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine; and having deducted said damages, if any, from the ten per cent. reserved out of the price of the plank delivered, he is directed to certify what remains, if any deduction shall be made, and if not, then the entire amount of said ten per cent. to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is directed to pay said amount, so certified, to the legal representatives of the said Nathaniel P. Tatum, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Avrxovmu, June 23, 1836. Srnun I. ‘*‘···· gun, 23, 1g3S_ Czar. CXXXVIII.—-·.0·n Ac! for the reliqf of George Bender. ""’“""""” Be it enacted, gw., That the Secretary of War settle and adjust the claim of George ender, late a major in the army of the United States,