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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 93

Chap. XCIII.—An Act directing the discharge of Moses Lewis from imprisonment.
To be discharged from imprisonment.Be it enacted, &c., That Moses Lewis, who is now confined in the gaol of Haverhill, in the State of New Hampshire, on a judgment rendered by the circuit court of the United States holden at Rutland, for the district of Vermont, by which he was sentenced to pay a fine to ​the United States, be discharged from his imprisonment: Provided, however, That any estate, real or personal, which the said Moses Lewis may have, or hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken to satisfy the sentence against him, in the same manner as if he had not been imprisoned and discharged.
Approved, April 26, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 94

Chap. XCIV.—An Act for the relief of the widow and children of Charles Dolph, deceased.
Donation of $500.Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed to pay to the widow of Charles Dolph, deceased, late of Saybrook, in the state of Connecticut, the sum of five hundred dollars, for the use of herself and the children of the said Dolph, (who was killed during the late war with Great Britain, in an engagement between a party of volunteers, raised in said town of Saybrook, and the crew of a British privateer called the Rover,) in consideration of the capture of five British prisoners on that occasion, which prisoners were delivered over to the marshal of the United States for the district of Connecticut.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the money herein granted be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 26, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 96

Chap. XCVI.—An Act for the relief of the heirs of Alexander Roxburgh.
Claim to be settled, &c.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby authorized and required to liquidate and settle, agreeably to the provisions of the laws heretofore in existence on that subject, the claim of the heirs of Alexander Roxburgh, arising on a final settlement certificate, issued to the said Alexander Roxburgh on the eighteenth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, by John Pierce, commissioner for settling the army accounts, for four hundred and eighty dollars and eighty-seven ninetieths of a dollar, bearing interest from the first of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, and numbered eighty-one thousand and sixteen, letter I., and that the sum which shall be found due thereon be paid to the heirs of the said Alexander Roxburgh, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 26, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 97

Chap. XCVII.—An Act for the relief of Young King, a chief of the Seneca tribe of Indians.
Annuity of 2400 dollars.Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary for the Department of War be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to cause to be paid to Young King, a chief of the Seneca tribe of Indians, quarter yearly, the sum of fifty dollars, amounting to the sum of two hundred dollars per annum, during the term of his natural life, as a compensation for the brave and meritorious services which he rendered the United States in the late war with Great Britain, and as a provision for the wound and disability which he received in the performance of those services.
Approved, April 26, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 99

Chap. XCIX.—An Act for the relief of John Crosby and John Crosby, junior.
Claim to be settled.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the Navy Department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to audit ​and settle the claim of John Crosby, and John Crosby, junior, on account of the destruction by fire, of their store, house, goods, and wharf, in the town of Hampden, in the State of Massachusetts, and to allow them, in the settlement thereof, the value of the said property destroyed as aforesaid.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said John Crosby, and John Crosby, junior, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Apporved, April 26, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 100

Chap. C.—An Act for the relief of the president and directors of the Washington bridge company.
Commissioner to settle the claim of Washington bridge company. Act of April 9, 1816, ch. 40.Be it enacted, &c., That the commissioner to be appointed by virtue of the act, entitled “An act to authorize the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes,” passed April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of the president and directors of the Washington bridge company, for the injury done to the south-western end of the said bridge by order of the government, or any of its authorized agents, in August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value thereof, in the manner and form prescribed by the provisions of the aforesaid act.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said president and directors out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Apporved, April 26, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 105

Chap. CV.—An Act for the benefit of John P. Maxwell, and Hugh H. Maxwell.
Right of the U. S. relinquished to John P. and Hugh H. Maxwell.Be it enacted, &c., That all the right, title, and interest of the United States, of, in, and to, any real estate, whereof a certain James Maxwell died seized, on the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, be, and the same is hereby, released unto John P. Maxwell, of the Missouri territory, and Hugh H. Maxwell, of the territory of Illinois, nephews of the said James Maxwell, and the same is hereby vested in the said John P. Maxwell, and Hugh H. Maxwell and their heirs forever, as fully as if they had been citizens of the United States on the said fourteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; saving and reserving to all persons, other than the United States, any right, title, or interest, of, in, and to, the premises aforesaid, whereof the said James Maxwell died seized, as fully and amply as if this law had never been passed.
Apporved, April 27, 1816.
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Professor Šárka Hrbková

​Professor Šárka Hrbková, formerly holding the chair of Bohemian in the University of Nebraska, is now in charge of the Czechoslovak Bureau of the Foreign Language Governmental Information Service in New York. Her duties consist in spreading Americanization through the medium of Bohemian and Slovak newspapers by giving information about governmental activities and American institutions. Her bulletins reach more than 100,000 readers every day.
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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 106

Chap. CVI.—An Act allowing pay to certain persons made prisoners with the revenue cutter “Surveyor.”
Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to settle the accounts for pay of the boatswain, gunner, cook, and ten mariners, captured on board of the revenue cutter Surveyor, during the late war with Great Britain, up to the period of their release and return from captivity, and to pay the amount to them, or their legal representatives, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to settle with Samuel Traverse, late master of the cutter Surveyor, and pay him up to the seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
Approved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 108

Chap. CVIII.—An Act for the relief of certain owners of goods, entered at Hampden, in the district of Maine.
Claims of U. S. to forfeiture of certain merchandise, released.Be it enacted, &c., That on the trial of any information, libel, or other suit for the forfeiture or condemnation of goods and merchandise, which between the twenty-fifth day of October, and the thirty-first day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, were entered at Hampden, in the district of Maine, and have been since seized as imported or entered contrary to law, all claims to forfeiture and condemnation be, and hereby are released, arising from want of lawful authority to enter and deliver said goods at Hampden, or from the illegality of importing the said goods into Orrington, or depositing them there, or from the illegality of trading between Orrington and Hampden, in a neutral vessel not licensed for the coasting trade: Provided, That the claimants of the goods and merchandize so entered as aforesaid, shall pay and satisfy all the reasonable expenses and charges attending the seizure and keeping thereof, and all the expenses, costs, and charges of prosecuting the informations, libels, and suits instituted against the same, to be taxed by the court in which final judgments shall be rendered against the respective claimants, whether the final judgments shall be in favor of the claimants respectively or against them.
Approved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 109

Chap. CIX.—An Act concerning Pharaoh Farrow and others.
Proceeds of sale of boats, &c. to be distributed among them.Be it enacted, &c., That the judge of the Albemarle district court in the state of North Carolina be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to distribute to Pharaoh Farrow, and his associated, the proceeds arising from the sale of two armed boats belonging to the British privateer Mars; which boats, with their tackle and apparel, were captured by the said Pharaoh Farrow, and his associates, on the nineteenth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, in New Inlet, in the said state; and which, with their tackle and apparel, have been condemned and sold by a decree of the court, the proceeds of which sale are held to the benefit of the United States; and that the said distribution be made agreeably to the laws of the United States, relating to captures made by private armed ships.
Approved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 111

Chap. CXI.—An Act for the relief of Thomas H. Boyle.
Allowed to enter a tract of land without payment.Be it enacted, &c., That Thomas H. Boyle, or his legal representatives, be authorized to enter with the register of the land office, without payment, twelve hundred and eighty acres of land, including his settlement in the Mississippi territory, and on return being made to the commission [er] of the general land office, a patent shall issue as in other cases.
To receive three months’ pay as captain.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be allowed to the said Thomas H. Boyle, three months’ pay, as a captain in the army of the United States, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 113

Chap. CXIII.—An Act for the relief of Samuel Dick, William Bruce and Asa Kitchel.
Final certificates to be received as evidence of payment for land.Be it enacted, &c., That the final certificate of Samuel Dick, issued on the thirteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and one, by the register of the land office in the Cincinnati district, for six hundred and forty acres of land; also the final certificate granted to Asa Kitchel, dated ​the twenty-eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and one, by the register aforesaid, for six hundred and twenty-eight acres of land; and also the final certificate granted to William Bruce, by the register aforesaid, for a section of land, dated about the same time, shall respectively be received by the commissioner of the general land office, as complete evidence of payment for the tracts of land therein specified, and patents shall be issued thereon as in other cases.
Apporved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 114

Chap. CXIV.—An Act for the relief of Joseph S. Newell.
Entry may be withdrawn, and payments transferred.Be it enacted, &c., That Joseph S. Newall shall be permitted to withdraw an entry made at the land office at Canton, in the State of Ohio, from the north-west quarter of section number five, in township number twenty-one, of range number sixteen, in the district of land offered for sale at Canton, and the money paid on the said entry shall be placed to the credit of said Newall on any purchase he may make, or may have made of public lands in said district.
Apporved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 115

Chap. CXV.—An Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to John Rogers and others.
Donation of $300.Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred dollars, to John Rogers, William C. Burdick, Joshua Halt, and Jeremiah Chapman, of New London, in the state of Connecticut, which money is paid to them for their valor and good conduct, in capturing a midshipman and two seamen of the British navy, and as compensation for the said prisoners.
Apporved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 116

Chap. CXVI.—An Act directing the discharge of Ebenezer Keelser, and John Francis, from imprisonment.
To be discharged from imprisonment.Be it enacted, &c., That Ebenezer Keeler and John Francis, who are now confined in the jail of Delaware county, in the state of New York, on a judgment obtained against them in favor of the United States, be discharged from their imprisonment: Provided, however, That any estate, real or personal, which the said Ebenezer Keeler or John Francis may have, or hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken to satisfy any judgment obtained against them by the United States, in the same manner as if they had not been imprisoned and discharged.
Apporved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 117

Chap. CXVII.—An Act directing the discharge of Ebenezer Keelser, and John Francis, from imprisonment.
Claim to be examined and settled.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the Navy Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Rufud S. Reed and Daniel Dobbins for the schooner “Salina,” by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value thereof, in such manner and upon such terms as may be equitable and just.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Rufus S. Reed and Daniel Dobbins, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Apporved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 118

Chap. CXVIII.—An act confirming the titles of certain purchasers of land who purchased from the board of trustees of the Vincennes university.
Title to a tract of land confirmed.Be it enacted, &c., That the several persons who purchased land in township numbered two, south of range numbered eleven west, in the district of Vincennes, from the board of trustees for the Vincennes university, which was incorporated by an act of the legislature of the Indiana territory, entitled “An act to incorporate a university in the Indiana territory,” passed the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and six, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their titles in fee simple, respectively.
Approved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 122

Chap. CXXII.—An Act for the relief of Samuel Manac.
To be compensated for the destruction of his property.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the War Department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to audit and settle the claim of Samuel Manac, a friendly Creek Indian of the half blood, for his property, which was destroyed by the hostile Creek Indians, in the late war, by ascertaining, or causing to be ascertained, the value thereof, in such manner, and upon such terms, as may be equitable and just.
Approved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 124

Chap. CXXIV.—An Act for the relief of George T. Ross, Daniel T. Patterson, and the officers and men lately under their command.
Claim of U. S. to an amount not exceeding $50,000 relinquished in their favour.Be it enacted, &c., That so much of the nett proceeds of the forfeitures and penalties, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, as has accrued to the United States by the condemnation and sale of the vessels and their cargoes, which were taken near the island of Barrataria, on the western coast of Louisiana, on the sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, by a land and naval force, under the command of Colonel George T. Ross and Captain Daniel T. Patterson, and which were condemned and sold by order of the district court of the United States for the Orleans district, for violation of laws of the United States, be, and the same are hereby given up and relinquished in favor of the said George T. Ross and Daniel T. Patterson, and of their officers and men, for their zeal, activity and courage, in capturing the same. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay to the said George T. Ross and Daniel T. Patterson, the amount of the said nett proceeds of the said sales, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be distributed among the land and naval forces employed in the capture of the said vessels, in such proportions, and under such regulations, as the Secretaries of War and Navy, with the approbation of the president, shall prescribe and determine.
Approved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 125

Chap. CXXV.—An Act for the relief of Charles Todd.
Claim to be settled.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the Navy Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Charles Todd, for a wagon, horses and tobacco, which he lost in consequence of the wagon and horses being impressed into the service of the United States, by ascertaining the value of the ​property aforesaid, at the time of its loss, in such manner and upon such terms, as may be reasonable and just.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount of such valuation, when ascertained as aforesaid, shall be paid to the said Charles Todd, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Apporved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 126

Chap. CXXVI.—An Act for the relief of Paul D. Butler.
Claim to be settled.Be it enacted, &c., That the claim of Paul D. Butler, for a quantity of corn, potatoes and hay, alleged to have been used and consumed by the militia under the command of Brigadier-General Perkins, at Lower Sandusky, in the state of Ohio, in one thousand eight hundred and twelve, by order of the said commanding general, may be heard and decided on, according to the provisions of an act passed at the present session of Congress, entitledAct of April 9, 1816, ch. 40. “An act to authorize the payment for property lost, captured or destroyed, by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes.” And the commissioner under the aforesaid act shall proceed, in every respect therein, as if said militia had been part of the regular army of the United States.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Paul D. Butler, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Apporved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 128

Chap. CXXVIII.—An Act for the relief of Thomas Farrer, William Young, William Moseley, and William Leech.
Claims to be settled.Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to settle the claims of Thomas Farrer, William Young, William Moseley, and William Leech, assistant marshals, appointed to take the census, and an account of the manufactures in South Carolina, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, and to allow them, in the settlement thereof, such compensation as may be adequate to the services which they performed in the capacity aforesaid.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Thomas Farrer, William Young, William Moseley, and William Leech, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Apporved, April 27, 1816.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 133

Chap. CXXXIII.—An Act for the relief of Taylor and McNeal, Evans and McNeal, and Henry and John McCleester.
Claims to be settled.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the War Department be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of Taylor and McNeal, Evans and McNeal, and Henry and John McCleester, for the use of their scows, applied under the authority of the United States, for the purpose of making a temporary bridge over the basin at Baltimore, in the month of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and to allow them, in the settlement thereof, such compensation as may be reasonable and just for the use aforesaid.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the said Taylor and McNeal, Evans and McNeal, and Henry and John McCleester, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Apporved, April 27, 1816.