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TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sas . I. Ch. 297, 298, 299, 300, 1836. 669 S•u·rm·s I. Crux-. CCXCVTI.-.H»n Act for the reliq of Henry HZ Hall. July 2, 1836. Be it enacted, qc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to issue scrip to the amount of one Scrip for $100 hundred dollars, to and in favor of Henry H. Hall, in lieu of that *° b¤ i¤$¤°d- amount of scrip by him paid into the land office at Springfield, Illinois, for eighty acres of land; which said land was afterwards sold by the United States to James J. Mosely, by virtue of a pre-emption right thereto. Said scrip, when so issued, shall be receivable in payment for any lands within the state of Illinois, which are subject to entry at private sale. APPROVED, July 2, 1836. Srnuws I. Curr. CCXCVIlI.—-An dot for the relief of the owners, ryicera, and crews of the ·l¤lY 2» 1836- private armed vessels Neptune and Fox. ‘_""‘"`°'" Be it enacted, dm., That there be paid to the owners, officers, and crews of the private armed vessels Neptune and Fox, or their legal Allowance for representatives, by the proper officers of the treasury, out of any money {"‘“%"§"St‘g'l" not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five dollars for each of me y em` sixty-nine prisoners captured by said Neptune and Fox on the St. Lawrence river, on the nineteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and delivered to the authorized agent of the United States at Sackett’s Harbor. Approved, July 2, 1836. Sruure I. CHAP. CCXCIX. —- An Act for the relizf of Joshua Hatch and others, interested July 2, 1836. in a fs/ting vessel which was lust at sea. ———————-· Be it enacted, ¢$·c., That the collector of the port of Boston and Charlestown be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to Joshua Hatch and Allowance of to the heirs at law or legal representatives of the officers and crew of P°““*1l[L‘° 5*** the schooner Joseph, late of Boston, lost on a fishing voyage, such a mg Sc °°n°r` sum as said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty, if she had regularly completed her fishing season; she being of the burden of fifty-nine tons twenty-seven one hundredths of a ton; which sum shall be distributed in the same manner and proportions as the law would have distributed the bounty if said vessel had completed her fishing season. Approved, July 2, 1836. ‘ Srnws I. CHAP. CCC.-An ./2ct for the relig q/'dthe legal representative of Nathaniel July 2, 1836. ana a. """""" Be it enacted, dm., That the proper accounting officer of the treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to ascertain the actual damage sustained Amount of by Nathaniel Canada from the burning of his toll-house and bridge, ggglxxgég b° across Niantic river, in the state of Connecticut, in the year eighteen ' hundred and fourteen, by the British, while said toll·house and bridge were occupied by the troops of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount, when so ascer— App,.0P,.im°¤_ tained, be paid to the legal representative of the said Nathaniel Canada, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 2, 1836.