Chapter CIII. for the relief of Jonathan Taylor, and the representatives of James Morrison and Charles Wilkins
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Chap. CIII.— An Act for the relief of Jonathan Taylor, and the representatives of James Morrison and Charles Wilkins. May 20, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to Jonathan Taylor, and the representativesPayment for their improvements at certain salt-works. of James Morrison and Charles Wilkins, twelve thousand sixty-one dollars and ninety-nine cents, in the proportion of one-third to each, for the improvements made by the said Taylor, Morrison, and Wilkins, at the salt works, in what is now the state of Illinois, under a lease between the United States and them, dated on the fifth of February, one thousand eight hundred and ten; which amount was liquidated by the President of the United States, on the second of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and to be discharged by surrendering to said lessees, kettles of that value, at said works, but which the state of Illinois has declined to surrender, claiming to own them by the cession of said works by the United States to the state of Illinois.
Approved, May 20, 1830.