FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 381-384. 1873. 775 CHAP. CCCLXXXI.—An Act for Religf of Josiah Morris and J F. Johnson. March 3, 1873. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Pa mentto Treasury bo, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money J°Si¤{· M<>¤i¤ in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to make the proper payment :3;; J' F' `mm` to carry into cifcct the decree of the district court of the United States for the middle district of Alabama, bearing date June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy, in the case of (Josiah Morris and J. F. Johnson, claimants of one hundred and twenty bales of cotton, appellants vs. United States) one hundred and twenty bales of cotton, illegally seized by the United States, which decree was made in pursuance of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, pyouounced at the December term, eightccu hundred and sixty-eight, such payment to bo made to the person named in such decree, or his legal representative, tho sum therein awarded to him, thirty thousand Eve hundred and nine dollars. A1’PROVED, March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCCLXXXII. —An Act jbr the Reliqf of Captain Charles McClure. March 3, 1873. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Oéngress assembled, That the proper accounting cmdagto 5, officers, in settling and adjusting the accounts of Charles McClure, cap- :}*0*;**6 (}h¤‘l¤¤ min and commissary of subsistence, United States army, are hereby ufuqQ§°°}° °°°" directed to credit said McClure with the sum of eight hundred and forty- accmmm. four dollars and sixty-three cents, on account of loss of that amount in eighteen hundred and sixty-nina, and eighteen hundred anil seventy, by the embezzlement of a. clerk in his employ, the amount being lost without neglect 01- fault of said McClure. APPROVED, March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCCLXXXIII. - An Aajiw the Relhfq/‘ Hugh McCormick. March 3, 3873. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Ozmgress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- Payment to rim- be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay Hugh 1\IcC01·-HP? M°C°*" mick, receiving and disbursing clerk of the Patent-()fhce, out of any mm ' moneys belonging to the Patent-Office, such sum, in addition to what ho may already have received since his appointment as a clerk of tho fourth class, in eighteen hundred and fifty-five, as will make his entire componsation, during the time he has performed the duties of receiving and disbursing clerk, equal to that of the other disbursing clerks in the Departmcut. of the Interior. APPROVED, l\L>.x·ch 3, 1873. CHAP. CCCLXXXIV. -—·An Act granting a Pension to Unity Welch, of Ph{ladv:Iphia, March 3, 1873. Pennsylvania. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- Ifengigu up rior be, and ho is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the U¤¤WW<=1°h· pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Unity Welch, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the mother of Henry Welch, an officer of tho marine corps, who died of disease contracted in tho service during the Mexican war, and that ho pay her a pension at tho rate of twentyéivo dollars per mouth from and after the passage of this act, and to continue during her widowhood. Armovxsn, March 3, 1873.
