1558 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 498-502. 1899. J. S. Stearns Lumber Company, of Odanah, Ashland County, Wisconsin,the sum of three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and three cents, the same being the amount of a certain judgment recovered by the United States against the said J. S. Stearns Lumber Company, it being for the value of timber cut from certain lands in section thirty-tive, township forty-six north, of range four west, Ashland County, Wisconsin, claimed by the United States, and which lands were subsequently determined by the Supreme Court, in the case of the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company against Forsythe, to be owned by the said railroad company, and from which the said timber was removed. Approved, March 3, 1899. March 3, 1899. CHAP. 499.-An Act Granting an increase of pension Elizabeth V. Litzenberg. I _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United MrE;i“"°‘”v·L'*”“‘ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the rehmammma. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension ` laws, the name of Elizabeth V. Litzenberg, widow of Hervey M. Litzenberg, late second lieutenant in Company I, Eighty-second Begiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of twenty-five dollars a month, in lieu of that she is nowreceiving. Approved, March 3, 1899. _ C lilwll 8.1899- CHAP. 500.-An AcfGranting an increase of pension to Sophia W. Buxton. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House er? Representatives of the United 1%*9***,* States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- '· rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Sophia W. Buxton, widow of Charles Buxton, late major Eleventh Vermont Volunteers, and pay her a pen sion at the rate of thirty dollars per month in lieu of the pension she is now receiving. Approved, March 3, 1899. M¤r¤b 3.1899- CHAP. 501.-An Act Granting an increase of pension to Jackson Neace. J k N Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United P‘§'§,,Z§,‘§,,,§$g,,,,_ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Jackson Neace, late a member of Company H , Twenty- seventh Begiment Illinois Volunteers, and pay, him a pension at the ·· rate of thnty-six dollars per month. Approved, March 3, 1899. ¥N‘¤h 3·1899· CHAP. 502.—An Act Granting an increase of pension to Stephen A. Knowlan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United {*,2¤u1;l;°¤:éu®,¤f¤· States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place upon the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name_of Stephen A. Knowlan, late a recruit of Denman's detachment, United States Mounted Biflemen, Mexican war, and pay hun a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per month, the same to be in lieu of that he is now receiving. Approved, March 3, 1899.
