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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS or was UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the day m' December, 1836, and ended on the third day of ]VIareh, 1837. Aunnnw Jameson, President; MARTIN VAN BUREN, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; W1LLrAM R. Kms, President of the Senate, pro tempore, January 28, 1837 ; JAMES K. Pomc, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II. Jan. 31, 1837. CHAP. VII.——An Act for the relief of Robert P. Letcher and Thomas P. Moore. Be it enacted, rye., That there be paid out of any money in the Allowance for treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Robert P. Letcher, the sum of FW and ¤’¤V¤l- one thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars, and to Thomas P. mg °xp°""°‘ Moore, the like sum of one thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars, the same being at the rate of eight dollars per day from the second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, to the twelfth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, both inclusive, being the period occupied by the House of Representatives of the United States of the twenty-third Congress, in deciding the contest for a seat in the said House, as the Representative for the fifth Congressional district of the state of Kentucky, which seat was claimed by each of said parties; and that the allowance for travelling, as fixed by law for a member of Congress, be, and the same is hereby, granted and allowed to the said Robert P. Letcher, and to the said Thomas P. Moore, for coming to, and returning fiom, the seat of Government to their residences, respectively, upon the most usual and accustomed route of travel; the amount of which allowance shall be ascertained by the accounting officers, and paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise approprinted. Ammovnn, January 31, 1837. Snrurs II. "“"" y,m_ 31, 183-[_ CHAP. VIII.-—An Act for the reliq` of Noo·man Holt. Be it enacted, dw., That Norman Holt, of Owen county, in the state Entitled to 3 of Indiana, shall be entitled to enter one quarter-quarter section ofland, tract oflapd on on any of the unsold lahds in the Vincennes land district in said state, ';‘;"°"d""“g' subject to entry at private sale, on his first surrendering to the United ` States, at the said office, the south-west quarter of the south-cast quarter of section number twenty-tive, in township twelve north, and range five west; and that the money paid by said Holt for the entry of said tract, shall be applied to the payment of such other tract or quarterquarter section, as the said Holt may enter in said district. Armzovnn, January 31, 1837. (684)