Chapter CLXVIII. *for the relief of Amos Proctor.* June 17, 1844. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the accounting officers of the treasury be, andClaim for part of appraised value of certain goods seized, &c., to be settled
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Chap. CLXVIII.— An Act *for the relief of Amos Proctor.* June 17, 1844. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the accounting officers of the treasury be, andClaim for part of appraised value of certain goods seized, &c., to be settled.Act of April 27, 1816, ch, 108. hereby are, authorized and directed to adjust and settle, on equitable principles, the claim of Amos Proctor, of one half of one moiety of the appraised value of the goods seized and libelled upon his information, and released from forfeiture by virtue of the act of April twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixteen, as set forth in his claim; and that the same be paid to him, or his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, June 17, 1844. RESOLUTIONS No. 7: to authorize the Post master-General to re-examine certain claims, and to allow one month’s extra pay to certain mail contractors. Resolution 1844-05-31 6 Stat. 932 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 28 1 private No. 7. Joint Resolution *to authorize the Post master-General to re-examine certain claims, and to allow one month’s extra pay to certain mail contractors.* May 31, 1844. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized andJohn R.
Jefferson and others allowed one month’s extra pay. required to examine the claims of John R. Jefferson and others, late mail contractors, for one month’s extra pay, arising under different orders of the Postmaster-General, in the years one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, suspending, for a temporary period, the mail service of said claimants, with a corresponding deduction of mail pay, as reported to Congress, as the same appears in printed document number one hundred and forty-nine, of the House of Representatives; and, on such examination, to allow one month’s extra pay to each of the above-named claimants, whose mail service was so temporarily suspended, on such suspended serviceProviso. and deduction, estimating the said pay as made annually: *Provided*, That the said Postmaster-General shall be satisfied said allowance has not already been made; and that the particular claimant did not request said suspension, nor abandon nor assign his contract within the period of the said suspension; that the respective sums so found to be paid out of the appropriation made on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, in an act to make appropriations for the Post Office Department, in such form and manner as are required inAct of July 2, 1836, ch. 270. other cases, by the act of July second, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, for reorganizing the Post Office Department, &c.
Approved, May 31, 1844. No. 8: explanatory of “An act for the relief of Mary Williams, widow of the late Jacob Williams, deceased.” Resolution 1844-05-31 6 Stat. 932 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 28 1 private No. 8. A Resolution *explanatory of “An act for the relief of Mary Williams, widow of the late Jacob Williams, deceased.”* May 31, 1844. *Resolved, &c*., That in carrying into effect an act approved the firstAct of March 1, 1843, ch. 66, to be so construed as to allow a pension for two years’ services. day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, entitled “An act for the relief of Mary Williams, widow of Jacob Williams, deceased,” the pension to which said Jacob Williams would have been entitled had he been living on the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, be deemed and the same is hereby declared to be, a pension for two years’ service, and that the Secretary of War interpret said act accordingly.
Approved, May 31, 1844. No. 13: authorizing the accounting officers of the treasury to audit and settle the accounts of William P. Zantzinger. Resolution 1844-06-15 6 Stat. 933 13 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 28 1 private TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 13. 1844. 933 No. 13. Joint Resolution *authorizing the accounting officers of the treasury to audit and settle the accounts of William P.
Zantzinger.* June 15, 1844. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the accounts of WilliamAllowance for purser’s stores thrown over-board. P. Zantzinger, and to allow him the value of such stores as were thrown overboard from the United States ship Hornet; to be ascertained by deducting from what shall appear to have been, at that time, the usual amount taken on board a sloop of war, going upon a cruise like that of the Hornet, the quantity which the said accounting officers may be of opinion was probably issued or expended between the period of the vessel’s sailing from New York and the time at which the chase occurred.
Approved, May 31, 1844. 28 2 1844 1845 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which. was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December*, 1844, *1844*, 1845. John Tyler, President of the United States; Willie P. Mangum, President of the Senate, pro tempore; John W. Jones, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I.
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*for the relief of Amos Proctor.* June 17, 1844. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the accounting officers of the treasury be, andClaim for part of appraised value of certain goods seized, &c., to be settled
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