PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS or me UNITED STATE S, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Jlfonday, the second day of December, 1844, and ended on the third day of Jllarch, 1845. Jour: TYLER, President of the United States; Wittrm P, MANGUM, President of the Senate, pro tempore ; Jour: W. J oivns, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II. Feb. 4, 1845. CHAP. III.-dn Act for the relief if Asahel Brainard. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Arrears of United States if America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary P¤¥:i$*0¤ W be of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any pmmoneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the arrears of a pension to Asahel Brainard, at the same rate per month as now received by him, as a captain of a rifle company in the service of the United States during the late war with Great Britain; said arrears of pension to be computed from the seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, to the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, deducting therefrom any pension which may have been received by the said Brainerd between the said dates. A1-ruoven, February 4, 1845. Sruurs II. Feb. 13 1845. CHAP. VI.—·—An Act for the relief of James Ritchie. lj Be it enacted, {Src., That the Secretary of the Treasury be author- Accounts to ized and required to settle the accounts of James Ritchie, as hospital be settled. surgeon at the port of New Orleans during the years one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, on the same principles as were applied to the settlement of similar accounts before the order of December twelve, one thousand eight hundred and forty, was issued. APPROVED, February 13, 1845, Snrurz H. Feb 13, 1g4g_ CHAI-. VII.——An Act for the relief of]lIarh: Simpson. _ I- Be it enacted, r$·c., That the Secretary of War be authorized and di- T0 be placed rected to place the name of Mark Simpson on the roll of invalid pengn pension mit sioners, and that he be paid a pension, at the rate of six dollars per month, during his life, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. APPROVED, February 13, 1845. (934)
