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750 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 324, 325, 336,337. 1886. May 8, 1886. CHAP. 324.-A.n act granting a pension to Eliza Hnmes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Eliza H¤m¤¤· States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- P°”°‘°“· terior be, and hereby is, directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the pension laws, the name of Mrs. Eliza Humes, mother of George W. Humes, deceased, late a private in Company E, Second Maine Cavalry Volunteers. Received by the President, April 27, 1886. [N OTE nr THE DEPARTMENT or STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] May 8, 1886. CHAP. 325.-·An act granting a pension to Nathan Magoon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqrresentatives of the United N¤*¤h?¤ M¤8<><>¤· States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- P°““‘°“• terior be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to place on the pensionroll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Nathan Magoon, late a private in Company H, Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volumteers. Received by the President, April 27, 1886. [Norm BY rms DEPARTMENT or STATE.—ThG foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] May 15, 1886. CHAP. 336.-An act for the relief of David Webster. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ' David Webster- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the P“Ym°““ *°· Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to David Webster, of Concord, New Hampshire, out of any money in the Treasnry not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and two dollars and eighty cents, balance due him for travel and attendance as a witness before the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department , of the Forty-fourth Congress. Approved, May 15, 1886. May 15, 1886. CHAP. 337.-An act for the relief of Thomas F. Purnell. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Thomas F. Pm- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- M11- ury be, and he is hereby, required to pay, out of any money in the Treas- P“Y‘“°“* *°· my not otherwise appropriated, to Thomas F. Parnell, of Austin, Texas, the sum of one thousand dollars, in full reimbursement of that amount paid by said Purnell on the fifteenth of April, eighteen hundred and' seventy-tive, asUnited States marshal for the western district of Texas, for the arrest of Peter McCartney, by order of J. L. Duckworth and L. B. Whitney, special agents of the Treasury Department. Approved, May 15, 1886.