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FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 147, 148, 155, 156. 1889. 1275 Land Office to the local officers, dated July second, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and recommended for confirmation, by special act of Congress, bly the Secretary of the Interior, in a decision on the casefrendered ovemb_er eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty- one, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed as of the day of the date of said entry: Provided, however, That due proof of compliance with the provisions of the homestead law shall e made in the usual °` manner. Approved, February 12, 1889. CHAP. 148.-411 act a pension to James Miller. · February 12, ieee. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary J¤¤¤¤ M¤1<->r- of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place 1mm"' on the pension-roll, subject to the pfovisions and limitations o the pension laws, the name of James M1 er, of the city of Reading, Penns lvania, late a private in Comlpany B, of the Two hundred and fifth 1{egiment of Pennsylvania Vo unteers. Received by the President January 31, 1889. [N orm ev rmt Dmrnrumnr or STATE.—Tl19 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.] CHAP. 155.-An act granting a pension to Mary Saeger. reururry 1s. ism. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary gravy sneer. of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized to (place on the pension- °“’“°"‘ roll the name of Mary Seeger, a nurse in the nited States Army, · for the sum of twelve dollars per month. Received by the President February 1, 1889. [Norm BY rm: Dmrnnrmmrr or Sun:.-—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States or his approva , 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.] CHAP. 156.-An act granting a pension to Catherine M. Lee. February 18. 18*9- Be it enacted b the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of .znzeri¢·a in Congress assembled. That the Secretary g:g§)=;¤¤ M- inof the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place ` on the ension-roll the name of Catherine M. Lee, a volunteer nurse in the late war, giving her, during life, the sum of twelve dollars a month from and after the passage of this act. Approved. February 13, 1889.