[PRIVATE-NO. 169.]

AN ACT granting a pension to George Truax, late a private in company H, first regiment of Virginia volunteers.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of George Truax, late a private in company H, first regiment of Virginia volunteers, on the pension roll, to be paid a pension to the extent of one-fourth disability, to be increased or cease as the subsequent examinations of the surgeon may disclose, subject to the rules and regulations of the pension department, to commence on the twentyninth day of October, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-NO. 170.]

AN ACT granting a pension to Elizabeth Cassidy.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Elizabeth Cassidy, widow of Michael Cassidy, late a first lieutenant in the sixty-ninth regiment of Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, commencing July fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-NO. 171.]

AN ACT granting a pension to Margaret Filson.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Margaret Filson, widow of George W. Filson, to receive a pension to bear date from first January, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-No. 172.]

AN ACT to place the name of Ellen Curry, widow of James Curry, deceased, a private soldier of company F, 39th regiment Illinois volunteers, upon the pension roll of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to place the name of Ellen Curry, widow of James Curry, deceased, private soldier in company F, thirty-ninth regiment Illinois infantry volunteers, upon the pension roll of the United States, subject to the laws now in force in relation to pensions.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-No. 173.]

AN ACT granting a pension of seventeen dollars per month to David Duhigg, of Lynden, Vermont, father of late First Lieutenant Dennis Duhigg, of company M, first regiment Vermont artillery.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and required to place on the pension roll the name of David Duhigg, father of late First Lieutenant Dennis Duhigg, of company M, first regiment Vermont artillery, who was killed in battle, and that the said David Duhigg, in consequence of the service and death of his said son, be paid during his natural life a pension of seventeen dollars per month, to commence from the passage of this act.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-NO. 174.]

AN ACT granting a pension to Charles Hamstead.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the limitations and provisions of the pension laws, the name of Charles Hamstead, late a member of Captain Shell's company of West Virginia State guards, (afterwards the seventh West Virginia volunteers,) commencing February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-NO. 175.]

AN ACT granting a pension to Matthew C. Griswold.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Matthew C. Griswold, late a first lieutenant in the twentieth regiment of New York cavalry, commencing January eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-NO. 176.]

AN ACT for the relief of Mrs. Mary J. Trueman.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and be is hereby, directed to place on the pension roll of the United States the name of Mary J. Trueman, widow of James Trueman, late private in company B, twelfth regiment West Virginia volunteer infantry, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

PRIVATE-No. 177.]

AN ACT for the relief of Captain A. G. Olivar.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Captain A. G. Olivar, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand and ten dollars, this being the full amount that the said Olivar had stolen from him the thirteenth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, which was government funds.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-NO. 178.]

AN ACT for the relief of Sally C. Northrop.

Whereas the petition of Sally C. Northrop represents that in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight Henry S. Atwood, a merchant, being solicited thereto by them, purchased the discharges of certain soldiers, and obtained from them powers of attorney to procure and assign the bounty land warrants to which they were entitled under the ninth section of the act of Congress, approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; and that before receiving the warrants on the discharges so purchased, the said Henry S. Atwood died; and that subsequently said warrants were duly received by Franklin K. Beck, administrator of the estate of said Henry S. Atwood, and sold by said Beck, as such administrator to the said Sally C. Northrop, for a full and valuable consideration; and whereas it is further represented by the petitioner that, according to the forms of transfer now prescribed by law, her title to said warrants is defective, and that after careful efforts through several years, she has been unable to find the soldiers in whose names said warrants were issued, and therefore unable to perfect her title to the same; the numbers of said warrants and the names of the soldiers in whose favor they were issued being as follows, viz: 61669, John Holly; 61575, William Luffman; 60813, George W. Bowen; 60823, James Cooper; 61672, John Gilbert; 61556, Adam H. Underwood; 60817, Henry Truitt; 61674, Henry H. Foster; 61822, Joseph Ervin ; 61675, John E. Edmundson; 61820, Thomas Johnson; 61676, William Davis; 62062, William M. Connor; 61663, Frederick S. Moore; 60814, Robert Bryan; 61665, William Holley; 60825, Green B. Driscoll; 60822, William Childers; 61819, James Loflen; 61664, John C. Lewis; 61569, Matthew V. Gray; 61806, William B. Buckelew; 61671, William H. Hines; 60816, Pierce L. Alford; 61808, Peter Brookey; 61576, Silas M. Sullivan; 61809, Elebe H. Jones; 62111, William E. Binion; 62337, Zadoc Pitts; 60827, John Lamerson; 62335, Thomas Lindsey; 60826, Wilson Clark; 61807, Wiley Chesser; 60824, Joel Foster; 62336, Augustus Patal; 60821, Jesse Le Grand; 61810, Persel N. Graham; 60815, Milton A. Roach; 62060, Ludwick B. Bright; 61667, Samuel C. Gordon; 61670, Patrick H. Harding; 61666, Farrer Lankaster; 62061, William F. Hunter; 62189, Nicholas M. Fain; 61805, John Bradley; 60812, Robert Beesely; 62064, Robert D. Brooks; 70861, Columbus W. Howard; 62373, John M. Castello; 61577, James Murray; 61562, George Somers; 62063, Charles R. Brewer; John Burner: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon the location, in accordance with law, by Sally C. Northrop, or her assigns, and the presentation of any of the foregoing bounty land warrants so located, to the Commissioner of the General

Land Office with proper legal evidence that the same has been assigned to the aforesaid Sally C. Northrop by Franklin K. Beck, as administrator of the estate of the aforesaid Henry S. Atwood, it shall be the duty of said Commissioner to issue patents for the land so located as in other cases.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-NO. 179.]

AN ACT for the relief of the Hon. George W. Bridges, a member of the thirty-seventh

Congress.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Treasurer of the United States pay to the Hon. George W. Bridges, late a member of the thirty-seventh Congress, from the State of Tennessee, the sum of one thousand six hundred and eighty-five dollars and ten cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation and payment of his claim for pay as a member of the thirty-seventh Congress, deducted for loss of time, occasioned by his arrest by rebel authority while on his way to the capital. Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-NO. 180.]

AN ACT for the relief of Major F. F. Stevens, assistant paymaster United States army. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Paymaster General's office and the Treasury Department in the settlement of the accounts of Major F. F. Stevens, late an assistant paymaster of the United States army, credit to him the sum of three thousand and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-three cents, as of the first April, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, for the cause that that amount of public money in his hands on that day was lost by the burning of the steamer Alabama, on the Mississippi river: Provided, That in the opinion of said accounting officers the said allowance should be made.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-NO. 181.]

AN ACT for the relief of Palemon John.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue be, and hereby is, instructed to allow Palemon John a credit for the sum of seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents, for that amount of revenue stamps lost or stolen from the mails while the same were in transit to said Commissioner from said Palemon John, late revenue stamp agent.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

PRIVATE-No. 182.]

AN ACT for the relief of Captain Thomas W. Miller.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Thomas W. Miller, late captain and acting aide to Brigadier General L. Cutler, late of the army of [the] Potomac, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents, in full for military services from the thirteenth of May, to the seventh of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, inclusive, and for private horse killed in action at the battle of Gettysburg.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-No. 183.]

AN ACT gianting a pension to Emmelene H. Rudd, widow of the late Commodore John Rudd, deceased.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Emmelene H. Rudd, widow of John Rudd, late a commodore in the United States navy, and pay her, out of the naval pension fund, a pension at the rate of thirty dollars per month, commencing October twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and continue during widowhood.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-NO. 184.]

AN ACT granting a pension to John Gridley.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of John Gridley, late of company G, of the ninth regiment of Michigan volunteers, commencing February fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

Approved, July 27, 1868.

[PRIVATE-No. 185.]

AN ACT granting a pension to Catherine Gensler.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Catherine Gensler, mother of John D. Gensler, late a private in company I, one hundred and fortyninth regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, commencing June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

Approved, July 27, 1868.