PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS or run UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session which was be n and held atths Oi - ington, in the District of Oolumbia, on djmday, the second dayyo;`fD’;:;;,;- ber, A. D. 1861, and ended on Thursday, the seventeenth day of July A. D. 1862. ’ ABRAHAM Lmoomx, President. Hnmzrnu. Hamm, Vice-President, and President of the Senate. Sonouorr Foorn was elected President of the Senate, pro tempors, on the thirty-first day of March, and so acted until the twenty-first day of May inclusive; he was again elected on the twentieth day of June, and continued so to act until the end of the session. GALUSHA A. Guow, Speaker of the House of Representauves. CHAP. VII.—A.n Act for the Relief of the Owner of the British S/zip "Perthshire." JBHUBYY 17, 1862 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid, out of any $1000 to bg money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the order of the g¤id_f¤ ¤W¤¤¤‘ of proper funetionary of Her Britannic Majesty’s government, the sum of P;;lE;1h§?Q°, one thousand dollars, in full compensation to the owner of the British ship “Perthshire " in consequence of her detention by the United States steamer “Massachusetts," in June last, under the impression that she had unlawfully evaded the blockade of the port of Mobile. Approved, January 17, 1862. CHAP. XVI. —-An Act for the Relief of William X Shvttg. January 31, 1862, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- $50 4,, bg -4 ury be, and is hereby, authorized and required to pay to William Y. g>Wi|H¤¤Y?m Strong, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, °`°°g’ fifty dollars; being the amount so by him paid into the public Treasury on the twenty-seventh of January, eighteen hundred and forty-(ive. Approved, January 31, 1862. Cnr. XXVI. —An Act for the Relic}`;/[ lghtlip Speyer g- Cc., of the City of New Fcbm,,,·y]_3,1g62_ 01* . U Be it enacted by the Senate and [buss of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- _ Duplicate cerury is hereby authorized to cause two certificates of the loan of eighteen gfigf: tgflfgg hundred and forty-eigl1t, of one thousand dollars each, with coupons of Speyer and Go. semi-annual interest from the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifty- four, attached thereto, to be issued to Philip Speyer & Co., or bearer, to replace that number of similar certificates, the property of said Speyer & Oo., viz.: number one thousand and fifty-eight, issued to Corcoran and Riggs, or bearer, September first, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and number eleven hundred and twenty-nine, issued to R. L. Stuart, or bearer, September ninth, eighteen hundred and forty·cigbt, which were mailed at Frankfort—on·the-Main, in Germany, for New York, on
