Chapter LXXVI. *for the relief of John P

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Chap. LXXVI.— An Act *for the relief of John P. Becker.* March 3, 1837. *Be it enacted, &c.*, That the Secretary of War be authorized andTo be placed on pension roll. directed to place the name of John P. Becker on the pension roll of the 700TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 2, 3, 4. 1837.United States, and that he pay the said Becker the sum of twenty dollars per annum, to commence the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue for and during his natural life.

Approved, March 3, 1837. RESOLUTION. No. 2: granting a pension to Susan Decatur, widow of the late Stephen Decatur. Resolution 6 Stat. 700 2 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 16 2 private No. 2. Resolution granting a pension to Susan Decatur, widow of the late Stephen Decatur. March 3, 1837. Be it Resolved, &c., That Mrs.

Susan Decatur, widow of the late Commodore A pension for five years to be paid to her.Stephen Decatur, be paid from the navy pension fund, a pension for five years, commencing from the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in conformity with the provisions of the act concerning Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 134.naval pensions and the navy pension fund, passed thirtieth June eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and that she be allowed from said fund the arrearages of the half-pa, of a post captain, from the death of Commodore Decatur to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, together with the pension hereby allowed her, and that the arrearage of said pension be vested in the Secretary of the Treasury in trust for the use of the said Susan Decatur: *Provided,* That the said pension shall cease on the death or marriage of the said Susan Decatur.

Approved, March 3, 1837. No. 3: to authorize a settlement of the accounts of Orange H. Dibble. Resolution 6 Stat. 700 3 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 16 2 private No. 3. Resolution to authorize a settlement of the accounts of Orange H. Dibble.March 3, 1837. Be it Resolved, &c., That the claims of Orange H.

Dibble for labor, Claim for labor, materials, &c., to be examined, &c.materials, and all other expenses incurred, and losses sustained by him in making preparations to execute his contract for the construction of the bridge across the Potomac, and which have not heretofore been settled and paid, be examined and ascertained by the Secretary of the Treasury, as nearly as the same can be done, and be laid before Congress at its next session for examination. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to apply, in part payment of the same to him, the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for said purpose Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 155.Proviso.by the act of the thirtieth of June eighteen hundred and thirty-four: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Treasury is not authorized to make any allowance to the said O.

H. Dibble for the purchase of stone or stone quarries, nor any further sum for his personal services. Approved, March 3, 1837. No. 4: authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to correct a clerical error in the award of the Commissioners under the treaty with France of eighteen hundred and thirty-one. Resolution 6 Stat. 700 4 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 16 2 private No. 4. Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to correct a clerical error in the award of the Commissioners under the treaty with France of eighteen hundred and thirty-one. March 3, 1837. Be it Resolved, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he In the case of the claim of the Union Bank of Maryland.hereby is authorized and directed, in making payment of the two last instalments to the claimants under the treaty with France of July four, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to correct a clerical mistake which occurred in the award of the Commissioners in the case of the claim of the Union Bank of Maryland; by which mistake the sum of ten thousand dollars awarded to said bank, has gone to the use of all the other claimants; and that he correct such mistake by making the proper alteration in the proportion to be paid to the several claimants in the said two last instalments, so that all the claimants shall obtain their just proportion of the whole indemnity and no more.

Approved, March 3, 1837. 25 25 1 1837 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH 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 fourth day of September,* 1837, *and ended on the sixteenth day of October,* 1837. Martin Van Buren, President; Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; James K. Polk, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE I. Chapter VI: for the relief of D. P. Madison. 6 Stat. 701 1837-10-14 Chapter VI 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 16 2 private 701

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