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790 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 222,223,2%,225,227. 1839. STATUTE 111. _ _ _ Much 3, 1839. Crum. CCXXl1.—-An Act for the relief of William Marcus, of Ar/ranges. "‘*"‘·i···· Be it enacted, effc., That William Marcus be, and he is hereby, au- A“‘l’°’i“‘l '*° thorized to enter one quarter section of land, by legal subdivisions, of F;,? 8 fmt °f any of the vacant unappropriated and unoccupied public lands in the state of Arkansas, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, in the proper land office. STATUTE m Approved, March 3, 1839. M”°*‘ 3· ***39- ci-up. ccxxm.-an major the nun of1g1m Daugherty, of Wisconsin. Authorized to Be it enacted, dye., That John Dougherty, of the Territory of Wis- $:3* °°'m¤ cousin, be, and is hereby, authorized to enter at the land office at ' Mineral Point, in the Territory aforesaid, by paying the minimum price for the same, ection number twelve, of township number two, in range number three east, in the district of land subject to sale at Mineral Point; the said section being the same that was granted to his wife Mary, the daughter of Kee-no-kee, by stipulations embraced in the treaty entered into by and between the United States and the Winnebago tribe of Indians, at Prairie du Chien, August first, eighteen hunpmvisa, dred and twenty-nine: Provided, That the certificate of the said John Dougherty, and the patent to be issued thereon, shall recite the provisions of this act, as the authority, by virtue of which his said entries. have been made, and also show that such entries were made in right of his wife; and if the said John Dougherty shall abandon, or in any other manner separate from his said wife Mary, during her life-time, then all the right, title, and interest in and to said section, and every part thereof, shall vest in said Mary, and inurc to the sole benefit of herself and her children. STATUE HL Armovnn, March 3, 1839. Much 3* 1g3g' Cr·r.u>. CCXX1V.—An Act for the relief of William Traverse. P¤y¤¤9¤¢ for Be it enacted, &·c., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Wilgag}; :'£f’° f°" liam Traverse, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars, for ten head of cattle killed, the property of said Traverse, in the month of February or March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, by order of Major Mark A. Cooper, or with his knowledge and approbation, for the subsistence of a battalion of Georgia volunteers under his command, in the service of the United States, then deficient in provisions, near the Saint John’s, in the Territory of Florida. STHUTE 1,,. Approved, March 3, 1839.

 Cum-. CCXXV.—An Act for the relief of Andrew Rembert.

Allowed pay Be it enacted, Qc, That the proper accounting officers of the trea-

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,Qs sury allow to Andrew Rembert his pay and emoluments as first sergeant

decof Captain Brodnax’s company of mounted volunteers, engaged in the late Creek war, from the twenty-sixth day of April to the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the same manner as if his name had remained on the pay-roll of said company as first sergeant during that interval ; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Arvnovnn, March 3, 1839. snwm m' Cu i- ccxxvu .a A h r E · s i Lai; Much S, 1839. A . .— n ctfnr ta;";);;; tZ81l7L8( {ep cn) andc,uf Land tmc cou- Be it enacted, cya., That Etienne (Stephen) La Laude, of Alabama, l**¤¤°*l· be, and he hereby is, confirmed in his title to eight hundred arpens of