Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-07-04

AN ACT to authorize the Governor of Illinois
to obtain certain Abstracts of Lands from
certain Public Offices.
Be ii enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States
Of America in Congress assembled,
That it shall be the duty of the Register
of the United States land office at Vim
cennes, in the state of Indiana, to furnish
to the Governor of the state of Illinois,
when he shall apply for the same com.
plete abstract of all the lands which
have been purchased at that Office, or
which may hereafter be purchased,
which lie within the state of Illinois, de-
signaling the name of each purchaser,
and the time Of making the purchase
for which he shall be entitled to receive,
from such applicant, at the rate of ten
cents for each separate entry, copy
whereof is required: PROVIDED, hogv-
eUer, That all the expense incurred by
virtue of this act, shall be betrayed by
said state.
Sec. 2. ind be it further enacted,
That it shall be the duty of the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury, upon the application
of the governor of said state, to cause a
complete abstract TO be made out, for
the use of said state, of all the military
bounty lands which have been patented
to the soldiers of the late army, lying
within the. same, designating the name
of each patentee.
Washington, May Is, 1920. Approved,
JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT for the relief Of James Leander
Cathcar.
Be il enacted by tie Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States
Of america in Congress assembled,
That the proper accounting officers in
the Treasury Department be, and they
are hereby, authorized to settle the &C
count of James Leander Cathcart, and
to allow his claim for one half OF bill
of exchange drawn by John Robertson,
master of the brig Independent, on the
Secretary of State of the United States,
paid by him, and charged to said James
Leander Cathcart; also, for one thou
sand dollars paid by said Cathcart, for
the support of American captives at AL
giers, and two thousand dollars paid by
him for his ransom from Algerine cap
tivity; and five thousand six hundred
dollars, for twenty light months service,
between October, seventeen hundred and
ninety-tour, and July, seventeen hundred
and ninety seven, in originating and pro-
noting the negotiation with Algiers, for
the liberation of American captives, the
conclusion of a treaty OF peace, and the
procuring in the United States the pre-
sents afterwards forwarded to Algiers.
And that the said claims and services be
paid to said Cathcart, out of any money
in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated by law; the said Cathcart re-
ceiving the same in full satisfaction of all
his claims against the United States.
Washington, May Is, 1920. Approved,
JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT authorizing the settlement of the
accounts between the United States and
Richard O'Brien, late American Consul at
Algiers.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives aftAe United States
Of america, in Congress assembled,
That the proper accounting officers OF
the Treasury Department be, and they
are hereby, authorized and directed to
liquidate and settle the accounts subsist-
ing between the United States and
Richard . 'Brien, late American Consul
at Algiers, under the instruction and di-
rection of the Secretary of State, and
that the amount due upon such settle
ment to said Richard O'Brien be paid
out of any money in the Treasury, not
otherwise appropriated: Provided, That
this act shall not be construed to aulho-
rize the allowance OF any claim, except
such as might have been settled at the
but for the loss of vouchers,
and that no allowance shall be made OF
any interest OF the said Richard O 'Brien,
in the cargo of the Polacre Vicelage,
captured on her passage from Algiers to
the United States.
Washington, May Is. 1920. Approved,
JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT to revive and continue in force an
act, entitled s. An act to provide for persons
who were disabled by known wounds, re-
ceiyed in the Revolutionary War;" and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted BY tke Senate and House
Of Representatives ofMe United States
Of America in Congress assembled, That
the act, entitled can act to provide for
persons who were disabled by known
wounds received in the Revolutionary
war;" passed on the tenth Of April, one
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