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778 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 176, 177, 178. 1839. schooner Galaxy, of Bucksport, to be distributed according to law, the same said vessel would have been entitled to receive as a bounty, or drawback, if she had been actually at sea during the whole time required by law to be entitled to said bounty, she having been lost before she had accomplished her full term required by law. Approved, March 3, 1839. Surum III. .. March 3, 1839. CHAP. CLXXVI.-An dot for the relief of Joseph Saford and other heirs at law "';"'”""' of Joseph Sujford, late of the New Hampshire line in the revolutionary war, doceased. Be it enacted, dw., That a duplicate warrant for two hundred acres Adupucau, of land be issued by the proper officer to Joseph Safford and other land warrant to heirs of Joseph Saiford, late a lieutenant in the New Hampshire line in be l”“€d· the revolutionary war, deceased, in lieu of warrant number one thousand six hundred and eighty-three, which heretofore issued to the same persons, and which has been, as they allege, lost by time or accident. Approved, March 3, 1839. Snrurs III. --- Much 3, ;g3g_ Gun. CLXXVII.-An Act for the relief of George Howe. """"""` Be it enacted, &c., That George Rowe, a resident of the parish of Amlmyizgd to Ouachita, in the state of Louisiana, is hereby authorized to locate, withl0<>¤l¢ *1 ¤'¤<=¤ in twelve months after the passage of this act, under the direction of °f 1°"d‘ the Surveyor-General of Louisiana, on any unlocated lands in the dis. trict for the sale of lands south of Red river, in the aforesaid state, a tract not exceeding four hundred superficial arpens; which said tract and privilege is granted to the said George Rowe, in lieu of an equal quantity confirmed to him by the register and receiver in the aforesaid land district, under certificate number three hundred and eighty-two; and the proper officers of the Government are hereby authorized and required to issue a patent for said quantity of land as soon after the Prcviso. location aforesaid and return thereof as it can be done: Provided, That the said George Rowe, or his legal assignee or representative, shall, at the time of making such location, execute a deed in due form of law, relinquishing and conveying to the United States all the right or title which he the said George Rowe, his heirs, assigns, or other legal representatives, has or ever had to the tract of land on the Bayou Bosufl, in lieu of which this right of locating an equal quantity elsewhere is grantproviso_ ed : And also provided, That said George Rowe, in making the aforesaid location, shall conform to the legal subdivisions in surveying the public lands, and be limited to land of equal quality with that in lieu of which this grant is authorized. Approved, March 3, 1839. Scrururs III. _____ March 3, 1839. CHAP. CLXXVIII. —./Yrs Act for theé-elief of Jartus Loomis and heirs of James ""'°`_""`_ asset. Be it enacted, Qc., That the sum of five thousand four hundred and Ifayment for sixty-tive dollars shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of l’m° m°¤°Y· any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; which sum shall be distributed as prize money, by the Secretary of the Navy, among the officers and crews, their, or either of their heirs, or legal representatives, of the gunboats numbered one hundred and forty-nine and one hundred and fifty-four, who, in attempting to pass up the river Appalachicola, with a convoy of provisions and stores, in the month of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, were attacked by a fort situated on said river, and occupied by a number of fugitive negroes and Indians; and who, in resisting said attack, blew up and destroyed said fort, with the greatest part of those by whom it was occupied. Approved, March 3, 1839.