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886 TWEN TY-SEVEN TH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 54,55,56, 57, 58. 1843. Srnurs III. Much 3, i343_ Cnr. LIV`.——An del for the relief of Benjamin JZ Totten. Be it enacted, dc, That there be allowed and paid to Benjamin J. To_be paid for Totten, of the United States navy, out of any moneys in the treasury

{;;°E:;,;‘_ not otherwise appropriated, the difference of compensation between a

am in the navy_ sailingmaster and a lieutenant in the navy, for the period during which said Totten acted as lieutenant on board of the United States schooner Dolphin, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, by the temporary appointment of J. C. Long, commander; said Totten furnishing to the Navy Department satisfactory evidence of the fact. Approved, March 1, 1843. Srnurs III. . March 1, 1843. Cnr. LV.—t.£n dot for the relief if Qsepli Hover, Abelard Guthrie and Edmund W gden. Bc it enacted, rfc., That the President of the United States be, and _P¤tents to be he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause patents to be issued to

df? lands Joseph Hover, Abelard Guthrie, and Edmund Ogden, their heirs or

,h_.,m_ y legal representatives, for the lands by them entered at the land office at Lima, in the state of Ohio, in the month of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, agreeably to the entries. The patents to said lands having been withheld on account of informality in the en- Proviso. tries: Provided, Said lands shall not have been sold to other purchasers by the United States before the date of this act. APPROVED, March 1, 1843. Sruurr; III. . March 1, 1843. CHM-. LVI. -./2n Act for the relief q" Mary Crawford. Be it enacted, Qc., That Mary Crawford, widow of David Ross To be placed Crawford, late of the United States navy, be placed on the roll of pen- °“ P°"“*°” mn- sioners, and that there be paid to her such sum, as an annual pension, as she would have been entitled to receive had her late husband been a lieutenant in the service at the time of his death. Approved, March 1, 1843. Smrurs III. ‘···* Much 1, 1843, Crux-. LVH.—-An Act for the relief of William dlkn. Be it enacted, dw., That the Secretary of the Navy place the name To be placed 9f William Allen, of Portland, in the state of Maine, on the roll of in- ¤¤ P¤¤=’·i¤¤ WU- valid pensioners, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and to be continued so long as said Allen’s disability shall continue to be total. Anrnovzn, March 1, 1843. S·n·rn·r·¤ III. W M8;-ch 1, 1g4g_ Cru?. LVII1.-— An dd granling lo James Lowe one thousand dollars and a scc-

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Be it enacted, &·c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he G,.,,,,,,,; m0_ is hereby, authorized and required to pay to Captain James Lowe, of my pad land to Westmoreland county, Virginia, one thousand dollars, out of any moanmA;:;E;;'·;“g neys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to issue to said vessel from pp Lowe a warrant for one section of land, to be located on any of the rates. public land subject to private entry; the same being granted to the said James Lowe as a testimonial to him of the consideration in which Congress hold his gallantry and peril, in the rescue of an American brig, her crew, and passengers, from the hands of pirates. Ammovnn, March 1, 1843.