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TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. S. III. Ch.217,2lS,219,220,221. 1839. 789 Srnurs III. Crux-. CCXVII. —— dn Ac¢_/'or the reliefqf Dudley Walker. March 3, 1839. Be it enacted, rfc., That there be paid to Dudley Walker, a purser in the navy, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of Payment for one hundred and fifty-eight dollars, and fifty-two cents, for advances Mwncqs made made by him under authority of his commanding officer, to seamen '° °°"°*"‘ “°°' who afterwards deserted from the United States sloop of war St. Louis. mm Arwnovnn, March 3, 1839. "—" Sruurs III. CHAP. CCXVIII. --.r2n Act for the reliq" of Thomas Cushing. March 3, 1839. Be it enacted, nyc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow and cause to be paid to Thomas Cushing Allowance of as managing owner of the fishing schooner Commerce, of Boston, and lwumylto fishto the crew thereof, to be divided and distributed to and among them mg °° °°"°'· as the law in such cases provides, the bounty allowed to vessels engaged in the cod-fishery, the said schooner being of the burden of sixty-five tons, and employed four months and fourteen days in such fishery, actually at sea, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and having taken five hundred and fifteen quintals of fish in that time: to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1839. —"“' Srtrurs III. CHAP. CCXIX. -An Act for the relief of Patrick Grun March 3, 1839. Be it enacted, &c., That Patrick Green, who was wounded on the night of the eighth of July, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, whilst Payment for protecting and defending the mail between Baltimore and Havre dc P*'°_*€¤¤i¤g dw Grace, be, and he is hereby, allowed the sum of one thousand dollars; mm' to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1839. """"" Sn·ru·r1t III. Cntr. CCXX.—-An Act for the relief of John Bakh, junior. March 3, 1g3Q_ Be it enacted, qw., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not other- Payment for wise appropriated, to John Balch, junior, the sum of three hundred and g¤l>l¢S» &¤i¤<>ld forty-two dollars and seventy-five cents, being a compensation for two Y mam"' cable chains and two anchors, sold by the marshal for the district of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under a decree of the district court of said district, on or about the twenty-eighth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. AP1'ROVED, March 3, 1839. _ _ _ _ Sryrurn III. Crur. CCXXl.—-An Art providing for paying three companies of militia in the State of Indiamz, called into the service of the United States. Mmh 3: *83* Be it enacted, qc., That there be paid, on the requisition of the $,578 89,,,,,, Secretary of War, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise paid on retpgsnappropriated, one thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and th,';; eighty-nine cents, for paying three companies of Indiana militia, called companies cr ininto the service of the United States, by Colonel Ewing, on the twenty- 63;:, hmmlggj fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, on $,0,, U_ by COL the requisition of A. C. Pepper, Indian agent at Logansport, for the Ewing,25tb$qp}=· protection of certain Indians assembled to receive their annuities, and ::£6g,?,'{_'é‘?f,’;S;: other persons, necessarily employed relative to said annuities; it being peglndiauagent. for the services of said militia, and for necessary expenses incurred by them incident to said service. Approved, March 3, 1839.