Chapter LIII. *for the relief of Stanley White.* March 3, 1845
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Chap. LIII.— An Act *for the relief of Stanley White.* March 3, 1845. Whereas, Stanley White purchased of the United States, at the Fort Wayne land office, in the state of Indiana, the west half of sectionPreamble. number thirty, in township number thirty north, of range ten east, containing three hundred and thirty-one acres and sixty one-hundredths of an acre, by paying therefor to John Spencer, the receiver of public moneys at said land office, the sum of four hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents, and receiving therefor, from said receiver, his duplicate receipt for said sum, and describing said land, bearing dale the eighteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six: and whereas, also, prior to said entry of said half section of land by the said Stanley White, to wit, on the twelfth day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-six, one Charles II.
Lewis entered at said office the south-west quarter of said section thirty, township thirty north, of range ten east, being the south half of said half section, containing one hundred and sixty-seven acres and thirty-six hundredths of an acre, for which he paid two hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents; and for which said last-mentioned quarter sec- 940 TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 54, 55, 56, 57. 1845. tion a patent has been issued to the said Charles H. Lewis: and whereas, also, the said officers of said land office made no return of said purchase by said Stanley White, except for the north-west quarter of said section, containing one hundred and sixty-four acres and. twenty-four hundredths of an acre, whereby the Commissioner of the General Land Office is unable to order the refunding the said sum of two hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents to the said Stanley White; and the said John Spencer is represented and believed to be totally insolvent:
Therefore— *Be it enacted, &c*., Payment to him. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the said Stanley White, his assigns, or legal representatives, the said sum of two hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1845.