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888 TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Su s. III. Ch. 63, 64, 65, 66, 67. 1843. S·rnv’1·¤ IH. Mm-ch t, ]843_ Cr-up. LXIII.-dn Act for the relief of William G. Sanders. Be it enacted, rfc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is Payment for hereby, authorized to pay to William G. Sanders nine hundred dollars, g;2’°;`£' d°‘ out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the Y amount allowed for a store-house, a dwelling-house, and one other house, owned by him, and destroyed the twenty·lirst of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, by order of Captain F. S. Belton, of the second artillery, United States army, he being then commander at Fort Brooke, Florida, to destroy the cover of the enemy in approaching the fort, as well as to prevent the said three buildings being occupied and burned by the hostile Indians in the vicinity of the fort, with a view of setting on fire the block-houses and other defences. Armovsn, March 1, 1843. Survrm IH. ···‘·-‘ Mm-eh 1, 1843, CHAP. LXIV. —·.i]n dot for the reliq" of W7lliam Fcbre. Be it enacted, ¢§·c., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Wil- Ifaymeut for liam Fabre, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropri- P“’° m°"°Y· ated, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars and forty-two cents, being for prize money due to said William Fabre, when a sailor on board the Saratoga, on Lake Champlain. Approved, March 1, 1843. S·r.u·o·rs III. — Much 1, 1g4g_ Gun. LXV.—An Act for the relief of Robert G. Ford. I Be it enacted, myc., That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be Accountsto audited, settled, and paid, by the proper officers of his department, to be settled, &.c. Robert G. Ford, the amount of the accounts in his favor, and in favor of Robert Williams, for provender furnished General Nelson’s brigade of mounted volunteer militia in the service of the United States in the year one thousand eight hundred thirty-seven, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, under the same rules and on the same terms as if the original accounts and duplicates were produced; provided the claimant give security to the United States, indemnifying them against loss arising from the production of the original papers, should they ever be found, before receiving the money authorized to be paid by this act. Ari-novmn, March 1, 1843. Srxrurs III. -——- March 1, 1843. CHAP. LXVI.-——An del for the relief of Mary W`EIliams, widow of Jacob W71- "_"‘—_ liams, deceased. P°St’p'932' Be it enacted, qc., That Mary Williants, of East Hartford, in the To be placed state of Connecticut, widow of Jacob Williams, a revolutionary soldier, °¤Ag::?<}*;l;¤Q- deceased, be placed on the pension roll, under the act of July fourth, 1836, 0h_ 36,,eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and that she be paid such annual pension while she remains a widow as her said husband would have been entitled to had he been living on the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two. Arpnovmn, March 1, 1843. Snrura III. ""‘*" Much L 1g4g_ Can. LXVII. -An dc! for the relit£qf George Randall, Jo/tn (1 Haskell, and —-—————-—— Elia/za . Holmes. Be it enacted, Qc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is Payment for hereby, directed to pay to George Randall, John C. Haskell, and Elisha

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k H. Holmes, or their legal representatives, the sum of three thousand

Yfour hundred and seventy-one dollars, and fifty-seven cents, out of any