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800 TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 28, 29. 1840. ham for a site for a light-house, and to establish any other fishery on the shore of said lot, on the following condition, to wit: that the said Wickham·and those who may hold under him shall not disturb the keeper of the light-house and his successors, in the free, full, and exclusive enjoyment by him and his successors, of the fishery established by said keeper, nor interfere with or interrupt the enjoyment of the lot aforesaid by the United States and any keeper that may have charge of Proviso. thelight-house: Provided, however, and the said Wickham and those who claim under him, if there is not, and cannot conveniently be provided, a way of ingress and egress to and from h-is said fishery, shall, from time to time, have a path assigned to him across the premises by the keeper, which he and they may enjoy, if they keep off the fences and do no unnecessary damage to the lot, nor interfere with the enjoy- ment of the same beyond the necessary right of way. Approved, May 8, 1840. Snrura I. ——- May 27, 1840. Cxnr. XXVIII.-.,2n Act to can/Erm the title to a certain tract of land in the county W of Mbbile, in the state if dlabama. Be it enacted, rye., That the claim of William E. Kennedy, filed be- Land claim fore William Crawford, commissioner, for the confirmation of the title °°“H"“°d· to a piece of land claimed under Benjamin Dubroca, for eight hundred arpens, by virtue of a Spanish permit, dated the second of February, one thousand eight hundred and three, lying in the county of Mobile, and state of Alabama, and which claim is numbered one hundred and three, in the report numbered six, of said William Crawford, commissioner, and which claim was placed by said commissioner in the list of claims which " ought not to be confirmed," be recognized as a valid claim, and that the same be confirmed, and stand in the same situation precisely as if the said claim had not been reported upon unfavorably, but, on the contrary, had been reported as a claim which ought to be confirmed, and as if said claim had been placed by said commissioner on the list of those which ought to be confirmed, whereby the said claim AM of Much would have stood confirmed by the act of Congress of the third day of 8* I61g' °h‘m0‘ March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled "An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the district east of the island of New Orleans ;" and the said title is hereby confirmed accordingly for said land, for which a patent shall issue according to such survey thereof; as shall be approved by the Surveyor-General Provim. of the United States for the state of Alabama: Provided, however, That this act shall be so construed as to operate as a relinquishment of the title of the United States only. Ammovmn, May 27, 1840. Snrurs I. —-—· Ma 27, 1840. CHAP. XXIX. -—-—— Jin Act or the reli 0 John IL d, administrator o --2--- f i.it.i’»£..i. “"""“' ’ Bc it enacted, ¢§~c., That the attorney of the United States for the Satisfaction of district of Maine be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter satisfaction ¤ vertuinjudg- of a judgment rendered in the first circuit court of the United States, in mg'j:i:“£_ and for the district of Maine, to the use of the United States, in the tered. name of Abraham F. Howe and Benjamin Howard, against John H. Sheppard, administrator of Abiel Wood, on a judgment recovered by the said Howe and Howard against Abiel Wood in January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, in the Boston court of common pleas, in the state of Massachusetts, and assigned to the United States by the said Howe, with the assent and authority of the said Howard, on the twenty- second of September, eighteen hundred and thirty. Approved, May 27, 1840.