Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-05-30

respective times when such duties may
be payable; .dizoays hroDided, That
said bonds be renewed, with sufficient
surety, TO the satisfaction of the Collec-
tor of the said District of Savannah.
Washington, April, II, 1920. Approved,
JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT authorizing the Secretary of State
to issue letters patent TO Richard Wilcox.
Be it enacted by The Senate and House
Of Representatives. Gfthe United States
Of America, in Congress assembled, That
the Secretary Of State be, and he hereby
is, authorized and required to issue let
tiers patent TO Richard Wilcox, for his
invention of a rotary portable oven, and
for his Improvements Of the ovens now
in use; and also for lis several inven-
tons and Improvements in the process
OF distillation, and modes and means of
conducting the same, upon his comply
ing with the directions of the act entitled
" An Act to promote the progress OF the
useful arts, and to repeal the act here
tofore made for that purpose" and an
at CHtlliCu - All AT " CAlCuu tliC
privilege of obtaining patents for useful
discoveries and inventions 10 certain per-
sons therein mentioned, and to enlarge
and define the penalties for violating the
rigktsof patentces," except SO far as the
said acts, or any part or parts of them,
require residence of two years within
the United States in like manner, in all
respects, as fthe said Richard Wilcox
had resided two years within the United
States.
Washington, April 5, 1920. Approved,
JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT for the relief of Jennings O'Bannon.
Be ii enacted by the Senate and Hou8e
Of Representatives Of the United States
ofAmerica in Congress assembled, That
the proper accounting officers of the
Treasury Department be, and they are
hereby, authorized and directed equita-
bly, to settle the account of expenses in
Cured by Jennings O'Bannon, in suit
enormously instituted against him in be-
halfof the United States, on the exhibi-
ton of proper vouchers; and the sum
which shall be found due shall be paid
to the said Jennings O'Bannon, out of
any moneys in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated. y
Washington, april 5, 1880 Approved,
JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT for the relief of John Harding, Giles
Harding, John Shute, and John Nichols.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of The United States
Of america III Congress assembled, That
the proper accounting officers of the
Treasury be, and they hereby are, au-
thorized and directed to audit and settle
the claim of John Harding, Giles Har-
dins, John Shute, and John Nichols, for
fifteen boats belonging to them, and de-
tanned, at Baton Rouge, by Major General
Thomas, in the year eighteen hundred
and fifteen; and to allow them any sum
not exceeding in the whole, nine hundred
dollars; which allowance, when made,
shall be paid out Of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Washington, April S, 1S2o.-Approved,
JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT for the relief of Robert Swartwout
BE il enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives ofthe United States
of.America, in Congress assembled, That
the proper accounting officers of the
Treasury Department be, and they are
hereby, authorized to audit and settle
the account ofRobert Swartwout, and to
allow him such sum as may appear
equitable and Just, in consequence ofthe
loss sustained in the sale of certain
Treasury notes, for and on account Of
the United States.
Washington, April S, 1920. Approved,
JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT for the relief of the legal represen-
tstives of John O'Connor, deceased.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States
Of america, in Congress assembled,
That the legal representatives of John
O'Connor, deceased, be, and they are
hereby, confirmed in their title to tract
of land situated on Buffaloe Creek, in
the state of Mississippi, containing eight
hundred arpens, granted by the Spanish
government to William Conway, by
patent, dated the fourteenth day of June,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-seven, and
conveyed to John O'Connor by the said
Conway, on the 26th day of January, one
thousand seven hundred and ninety
seven: Provided, That nothing in this