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TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch. 15,16. 1845.

Arrearages.1817, ch. 60.1820, ch. 53.

Deficienciesfor year ending30th Jane 1845.

1836, ch. 362.

1838, ch. 189.1642, ch. 191.

1843, ch. 102.

Statute IX.Feb. 20, 1845.

Widows’ pen-sions limited.

Statute II.Feb. 20, 1845.

Lots of whichthe titles areconfirmed.

1823, ch. 16.

List of lots tobe furnished toGeneral LandOffice.

Confirmationsonly a relin-quishment ofthe right of theUnited States .

Lands not com-prehended inthis act.

Act of April26, 1816, ch.102 .

For arrearages provided for by acts of third March, eighteen hundredand seventeen, and second [first] May, eighteen hundred and twenty,payable through the accounting offices, one thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the following sums be, andthe same are hereby appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appro-priations made for the payment of pensions during the fiscal year endingon the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, under the follow-ing heads, viz :

For pensions under the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred andthirty-six, seventy-six thousand dollars;

For widows’ pensions under acts of July seventh, eighteen hundredand thirty-eight, and August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and forty-two, two hundred thousand dollars;

For widows’ pensions under the act of March third, eighteen hun-dred and forty-three, twenty-nine thousand dollars.

Approved, February 20, 1845.

Chap. XV .—Jin Act restricting the grant of pensions in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That from and afterthe passage of this act a pension shall not be granted to any widow foror during any part or portion of the time her husband may have re-ceived one, whose declaration therefor shall not have been made on orbefore the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and shall not have been received at the pension office on or beforethe twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

Approved, February 20, 1845.

Chap. XVI. — Jin Act to quiet the titles to certain lots of land in the towns ofPerrysburg and Croghansville, in the State of Ohio .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That all titles totown lots and out lots in the towns of Perrysburg and Croghansville, inthe State of Ohio , derived from said State under color of the grant madeto said State by virtue of the act of Congress entitled “An act for layingout and making a road from the lower rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie to the western boundary of the Connecticut western reserve, in the Stateof Ohio , agreeably to the provisions of the treaty of Brownstown,” ap-proved the twenty-eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred andtwenty-three, be, and the same are hereby, recognised as valid and con-firmed, in the same manner as though the title to said lots had beenvested in the State under the aforesaid act: Provided, That the autho-rities of the said State shall, within one year from and after the passageof this act, furnish the Commissioner of the General Land Office with acertified list of all lots heretofore sold and disposed of under color of theabove recited act: And provided, also, That all the confirmations in-tended by this act shall amount only to a relinquishment forever, on thepart of the United States , of all their right and title whatever to the lotsof land so confirmed: And provided, further, That nothing in this actcontained shall be construed to comprehend within the provisions there-of such town lots and out lots, or other tract or tracts of land, as mayhave been reserved, or directed to be reserved, within the limits ofeither of said towns of Perrysburg or Croghansville, for the support ofschools within the same, in and by the third section of the act entitled“ An act providing for the sale of the tract of land at the lower rapidsof Sandusky river,” or in and by any provision contained in the act en-