Chapter VII. *for the relief of Alvarez Fish and the legal representatives of Thomas P
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Chap. VII.— An Act *for the relief of Alvarez Fish and the legal representatives of Thomas P. Bskridge.*April 10, 1840. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the TreasuryMoneys paid by them for lands not subject to private entry, to be refunded, with interest. be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to the legal representatives of Thomas P. Eskridge, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars, with six per cent, interest thereon, as follows, to wit:
On one thousand dollars thereof from the twenty-first day of June eighteen hundred and thirty-three; on four hundred from the fourteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and on eight hundred from the tenth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, until the passage of this act. And that the said Secretary in like manner, pay to the said Alvarez Fisk, the sum of two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars and forty-five cents, with six per cent, interest thereon, as follows, to wit:
On one thousand dollars from the twenty-first day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; on one hundred and fifty dollars from the nineteenth of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; on two hundred dollars and forty-five cents from the eighth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; and on eight hundred dollars from the tenth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, until the passage of this act; said several sums being for moneys by the said Eskridge and Fisk paid to the United States, for land, by them respectively entered in township eight north, of range eight east, in the Batesville and Helena districts, in the Territory of Arkansas, and which entries are void, by reason of said lands not being subject to private entry.
Approved, April 10, 1840.