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670 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sues. II. Ch. 252, 264, 265. 1872. May 31, 1872. CHAP. CCLII.——An Actjbr the Reliqfof the Widow of D. Jay Brown, deceased. Be it enacted A!/ ¢h0 Senate and Mme of Represeatatives of the United Payment: m States of Arrwrzca m Congress assembled, That; there is hereby approprrated ?;;'§:;:;¤°f D' the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, which sum the Secretary of the ` Treasury is directed to pay, out of any moneys not: otherwise appropriated, to the widow of D. Jay Brown in full compensation for the claim made by the deceased against; the United Stat-es for services rendered as their agent in visiting various parts of Europe to collect information on the production, manufacture, and commerce of the flax and wines of that country and to obtain seeds, cuttings,and so forth, under instructions from the Commissioner of the Patent. Office dated April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. APPROVED, May 31, 1872. Juno 1, 1872. CHAP. CCLXIV. —An Act for the Relief ey" Joseph Segar, of Wrginiu. Bc it enacted {gz] the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United Payment to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- J°“°Ph S°$"'· ury be, and he is hereby, directed and required to pay to Joseph Segar, of Virginia, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of flfbeen thousand dollars, the same being the balance still due him after deductin what he has heretofore received, for the use and occupation of E his farm in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, by the army of the United States, during the late rebellion. Approved, June 1, 1872. Juno L 18.,2 CHAP. CCLXV. -— An Act for me Rdiq of Phoebe Hepburn. WHEREAS it is alleged that Phoebe Hepburn was the owner by purchase pmmbk,_ and assignment of the following bounty 1and—warrants, issued under the act of March three eighteen hundred and fifty-five to wit : Numbers 1g55 0h_ 20; sixty-nine thousand eight, hundred and ninety-six, fiftyinine thousand four V<»1.x. p. 701. hundred and nineteen, eighty-six thousand one hundred and fifty-seven, eighbyeighi: thousand six hundred and nineteen, ninety-one thousand seven hundred and twenty-four, thirhy—one thousand five hundred and fifty-eight, sixty-seven thousand four hundred and seventeen, fifcy-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight, eighty-seven thousand two hundred and seventy-seven, ninety-one thousand seven hundred and seven, seventeen thousand four hundred and eighty-one, and ninety-five thousand three hundred and twenty, for one hundred and twenty acres each ; and numbers sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and fifty-seven thousand Eve hundred and thirty-two, for one hundred and sixty acres each ; in all, fourteen warrants; that in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven she placed said warrants in the hands of Salmon Sharp as her avent to locate or otherwise dispose of them for her ; that said agent did $51 four of said warrants, to wit, one of the one-hundred-and-sixty-acre warrants, and three of the one-hundred-and-twenty-acre warrants, and made a memorandum of their respective numbers, and to whom sold, and placed it among the ten remaining unsold warrants ; that by an accident said memorandum and the ten warrants were dropped in a cattle-yard, and were eaten up by the cattle, and, having no other memorandum, he Ls unable to state the numbers of the warrants that were sold, consequently, cannot arrive at the numbers of the ben warrants that were not sold; and whereas it appears from the records of the general land office that warrant number sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, for one hundred and sixty acres, and numbers Efhy-nine thousand four hundred and nineteen, and seventeen thousand four hundred and eighty-one, for one hundred and twenty acres, being three of the above-named warrants, have been returned to said office located, leaving but one of the sold warrants not aoooxmbed for: Therefore,