Chapter CCXL. *for the relief of Woodburne Potter.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of War adjust the claim ofClaim for services as clerk to be adjusted, &c Woodburne Potter for services as a clerk to General Gaines from the sixth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to September ei
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Chap. CCXL.— An Act *for the relief of Woodburne Potter.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of War adjust the claim ofClaim for services as clerk to be adjusted, &c Woodburne Potter for services as a clerk to General Gaines from the sixth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to September eight, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and allow to him therefor such reasonable compensation as he is entitled to, not however to exceed 794 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Res. 5, 6, 7, 8. 1839. the amount heretofore certified by General Gaines and paid by the disbursing officer, but disallowed by the accounting officers, and charged to the account of General Gaines, under the one hundred and fourth paragraph of the regulations of the quartermaster’s department; that said allowance be carried to the credit of General Gaines on his account, if said debit shall stand against him; but if that shall have been paid by Woodburne Potter, then the amount so allowed shall be paid to said Potter out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1839. RESOLUTIONS. No. 5: for the relief of Abraham Wright, of New York. Resolution 1839-03-02 6 Stat. 794 5 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-05 25 3 private No. 5. Resolution for the relief of Abraham Wright, of New York.March 2, 1839. *Be it resolved, c*., That the Secretary of War cause to be issuedDuplicate land warrant to be issued, dec. to Abraham Wright, of Washington county, New York, as assignee of Ezra St.
John, jr., who was assignee of Theodore Treat, a duplicate land warrant, number four hundred and eighty-six, the original having issued the twenty-second of February, eighteen hundred and ten, to said Ezra St. John, jr., assignee of Theodore Treat; and the said duplicate shall be located and proceeded upon in the same manner as if [it] were the original warrant; and said original warrant is hereby declared void. Approved, March 2, 1839. No. 6: for the relief of the heirs at law of Captain Frederick M.
Bell, deceased. Resolution 1839-03-02 6 Stat. 794 6 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-05 25 3 private No. 6. Resolution for the relief of the heirs at law of Captain Frederick M. Bell, deceased.March 2, 1839. *Be it resolved, c*., That the Secretary of War cause to be issued Duplicate bounty land warrant to be issued.to Mary Shepherd and the other heirs at law (if any such there be) of Captain Frederick M.
Bell, deceased, for services in the war of the revolution, a duplicate bounty land warrant for three hundred acres of land, in lieu of one for the like quantity, issued the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, numbered seven hundred and thirty-eight, and which is represented to have been lost to the said heirs; and the said duplicate shall be located and proceeded upon in the same manner as if it were the original warrant; and the said original warrant is hereby declared void.
Approved, March 2, 1839. No. 7: for the relief of the heirs of Charles Brown, deceased. Resolution 1839-03-02 6 Stat. 794 7 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-05 25 3 private No. 7. Resolution for the relief of the heirs of Charles Brown, deceased.March 2, 1839. *Be it resolved, c*., That the Secretary of War cause to be issuedDuplicate bounty land warrant to be issued. a duplicate of bounty land warrant number two thousand one hundred and thirty-seven, for two hundred acres, issued the twenty-fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to Susan C.
Brown, Sarah C. Brown, Charles T. Brown, Anna E. Brown, William T. Brown, E. Boudinot Brown, Sarah B. Keith, wife of John A. Keith, and Eliza Hopkins, surviving daughter of Susan Hopkins, they being the legal heirs of Charles Brown, deceased, who was a lieutenant in the South Carolina line; which said warrant has been lost to the said heirs; and the said duplicate shall be located and proceeded upon in the same manner as if it were the original warrant; and the said original warrant is hereby declared void.
Approved, March 2, 1839. No. 8: authorizing the opening of an alley, and the execution of certain deeds, in the city of Washington. Resolution 1839-03-03 6 Stat. 794 8 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-05 25 3 private No. 8. Resolution authorizing the opening of an alley, and the execution of certain deeds, in the city of Washington.March 3, 1839. *Be it resolved, c*., That the alley in the west end of square B, inA certain alley in Washington the city of Washington, as now laid open by the proprietors of lots TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Res. 10. 1839. 795 numbered fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, andadopted as a public alley, in lieu of, c. twenty-one, in said square, be adopted as a public alley in lieu of the one originally laid out in the west end of said square, by commissioners appointed by the Corporation of Washington, under an act of Congress entitled “An act to authorize and empower the CorporationAct of May 7, 1822, ch. 96. of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, to drain the low grounds on and near the public reservations, and to improve and ornament certain parts of such reservations,” approved on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three [seventh of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two]; and that the Mayor of the city of Washington be authorized to execute deeds to the proprietors of the aforesaid lots, respectively, according to the division thereof now made by them.
Approved, March 3, 1839. No. 10: for the relief of Edward Beatty, of Missouri. Resolution 1839-03-03 6 Stat. 795 10 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-05 25 3 private No. 10. Resolution for the relief of Edward Beatty, of Missouri.March 3, 1839. Whereas Edward Beatty, of the county of Marion, in the state of Missouri,Preamble. some time in the month of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, emigrated to Missouri for the purpose of entering public lands; that, in consequence of the representations of others, he converted about nine hundred dollars in specie into certificates of deposit; that, after he had purchased the certificates at an advance of three per cent., he applied to the land office in Palmyra to enter land, when he was informed by the officers that the certificates could not be accepted, as none but the individual who made the deposit of money in the treasury could enter land with them.
In consequence of this condition of the affair, the petitioner has lain out of the use of the money for a year and upwards, and has no prospect of getting it back for some years to come, unless he be aided by Congress. Be it, therefore, *Resolved, &c*., That the said Edward Beatty be, and he is hereby,Authorized to. enter, with certain certificates, land liable to private entry, at £1.25 per acre. authorized to enter land at any of the land offices in the state of Missouri, which is now liable to private entry, with the said certificates of deposit, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: *Provided, however*, That the said Beatty shall satisfy the register of the land office at which he may apply for the purpose of entering land, that the assignments on the same are genuine, and that he is legally entitled to the same.
Approved, March 3, 1839. 26 26 1 1839 1840 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December*, 1839, *and ended on the twenty-first day of July*, 1840. Martin Van Buren, President; Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Robert M. T. Hunter, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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*for the relief of Woodburne Potter.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Secretary of War adjust the claim ofClaim for services as clerk to be adjusted, &c Woodburne Potter for services as a clerk to General Gaines from the sixth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to September ei
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