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450 THIRTY—FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 39, 40,46. 1856. Pagmeutto treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John S. Pendleton, for his full {0h" `· Pwd1C' compensation whilst employed as Minister of the United States on On` special mission to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two, the sum of nine thousand dollars, deducting therefrom any amount which he may have heretofore received as compensation in said mission ; and for like fizll pogipensation for his services in the same character to the Republic o araguay, in the year eighteen hundred and nfty-three, nine thousand dollars, deducting therefrom any amount of money he may have heretofore received as compensation in said mission to Paraguay. A.PPnovn1>, June 2, 1856. June'2, 1856. CHAP. XXXIX.—An Act jbr the Relief of Emma Bidamon. Be it enacted bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the Gzited _ Payment to States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to Emma Emma Bld’-mw- Bidarnon, by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and ninety- seven dollars and thirty-five cents, with intcrest thereon from July eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, until paid, in full payment of the sum adjudged and decreed to her in lieu of dower by the circuit court of the United States for the district of Illinois, at the July term, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, in the case of " ’.[`he United States vs. Joseph Smith, et al." APPROVED, June 2, 1856. June 2, 1856. CHAP. XL.—An Act for the Relief of Lhn Nztqent. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United John Nugent States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is,

  • <;ggg°¤P9¤Sl<;E granted to John Nugent, of the city of New York, in the State of New

?O,.1ifc??;3I1 York, who, whilst engaged in the discharge of his duty as a seaman on Jan. 31, 1856. board of the United States sloop Germantown, on the nineteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-five when at hiontevideo and while in the adt of iiring a salute, in honor if the birthday of the Queen of Spain, had one of his arms blown off and the other arm so badly shattered that amputation was necessary, iri lieu of any pension or allowance to which he may now be entitled by law, a pension of thirty dollars per month, to commence on the thirty-first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and to continue during his natural life, to be paid out of the Navy Pension Fund. Approved, June 2, 1856. June 14, 1856. CHAP. XLVI.——An Act making Appropriation [s] for the Payment of certain C/aims. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the S“m“°U’· hda- Treasury pay to Samuel P. Todd, a purser in the navy, the sum of five hundred and fifty-three dollars, being for the amount of depreciation upon certain treasury notes sold by him for the purpose of paying seamen and others employed in the United States Delaware ilotilla, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen. Payment to Sec. 2. And be it jarther enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury J°1“‘ Sh‘"" pay to John Shaw, of Wisconsin, the sum of one thousand dollars, in full for his services, travel, and attendance, as an interpreter upon the trial of certain Winnebago Indians, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty- eight, before the Honorable James Duane Doty, at Prairie du Chien. Payment to Sec. 3. And be it farther enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury Isadore D Beaugmmtpay to Isadore D. Beaugrand, the sum of two hundred and fifty-SBVQH