Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the judge of the District Court of the United States for the northern district of Florida be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to receive and adjudicate the claim of Peter Capella, administrator of Andrew Capella; and also the claim of John Capo, and also the claim of Elijah Petty and Hannah, his wife, heirs of John Beardon, and also the claim of Francis P. Ferreira, administrator of Francis Pass, deceased, under the provisions of the act of Congress of the twenty-sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain inhabitants of East Florida," and that said several claims may be settled by the treasury as are other cases under said act: Provided, however, That the petition for the allowance of such claim shall be presented to said judge, by the proper parties entitled to prefer the same, within one year from the passage of this act: And provided, also, That said parties shall respectively allege in such petition, and prove to said judge, reasonable cause for such petition not having been presented within the time prescribed and enacted by said act of June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.

Approved, March 3, 1849.