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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRTTSIXTH CONGRESS or mm UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of gecgmber, A. D. 1860, and ended on Monday, the fourth day of March, . . 1861. James Bucnaiuu, President. J om: C. Bnncxinmnen, Vice·President, and President of the Senate. WILLIAM PENNINGTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. IV. —An Act for the Relief of William A. Linn’s Estate. Dec. 22, 1860. Be it enacted by the Senate and Hume of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Jlldgmevt ury is hereby directed to satisfy, out of any money in the treasury not $§$¥;;:,,°Sf&i,§; otherwise appropriated, a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court, in and to be satisfied. for the County of Saint Louis, State of Missouri, at its October term of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, in favor of Thomas C. Rey- nolds and against the late William A. Linn, for services in defending said Linn in a suit brought against him by William H. Belcher and Charles Belcher, on account of acts done by said Linn as an officer of the United States ; and also to pay to said Reynolds a like additional sum, in satisfac— Thomas G. tion of his demand in another suit brought by him in the Saint Louis §;¥1”°ld$ *°b° Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Saint Louis, against ' said Linn, and now pending against said Linn’s administrator for other like services in defending said Linn. Approved, December 22, 1860. CHA?. VI.-—An Act far the Relief of Lieutenant George L. Hartsuj] United States January 5, 1861. Army. W Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, t0%ggrg*;lEP***d and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Hutsm ,-0,. puh_ treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Lieutenant George L. Hartsut}, hgdtgxglds lost by acting assistant commissary of subsistence, United States Army, the sum ‘ of three hundred and eighty dollars, lost by wreck of steamer “Lady Elgin," it being the amount of public funds he had in his possession while travelling under orders on board of said steamer, in the month of September, eighteen hundred and sixty, which sum he subsequently paid over to his successor, in order to balance his accounts on the books of the Treasury Department. Approved, January 5, 1861.