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THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 201, 202, 203, 204. 1848. 743 Cnnp, CCI.-An det for the Relitflpf Benjamin Adams and Company, and Aug. 14, 1843, 0 CTS. —-—————i---... Be it-enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Rd-undin, of of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out certain duties of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Benjamin l,};‘€0blPBp’§1;'f“ Adams and Company, George Howe and Company, Thomas P. Cush- ing,1Yerter & Aiing, Dexter and Almy, Gill Wheelock, and Carter and Coolidge, the {**5% G"} Wl*°<=· additional duties paid by them, severally, over and above live per cent. éiggiidéjgimr & ad valorem imposed by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, on certain milled and fulled cloths, known by the name of " plains, kerseys, and Kendal cottons," which were imported by them, respectively, under the act of the fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and placed in the 1842 ch 270 public stores, according to the terms of said act, prior to the third dayI ° of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three: Provided, Proviso. That satisfactory proof shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury that said goods were in the actual custody of the public oflicers on the third day of March aforesaid, and that said duties have not been returned in debentures on the exportation of said merchandise : And provided, also, That the whole amount to be thus refunded, The whois as having been overpaid, shall not exceed two thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars. exceed $2776. Approved, August 14, 1848. CHAP. CCh. —An Act for the Relief of Purser Benjamin J. Cahoone. Aug. 14, 1848. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 1y' Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting Benjamin J. officers of the treasury be, and are hereby, authorized to allow to Ben- C¤h¤<>¤{¤ to be aljamin J. Cahoone, in the settlement of his accounts as purser, the sum of two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents, for the counts, ,5*237 67 services of Mr. Fleming, late captain' clerk on board the United States SQ." ,;]h° csa",‘gF‘$S frigate Congress, who performed the additional duties of purser’s clerk sim, 2,,b,,£,.diii,; during a part of the late cruise of said frigate. Trieste Qonpress Approved, August 14, 1848. “P°"°” ° °'k' Cnr. CCII1. —An Actgrantinga Pension to Abigail Garland, Widow of Jacob Aug_ 14.) 1g4g_ Garland, deceased. ———-—— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States tyf America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Apemgon 0;-85 of War be authorized and directed to place the name of Abigail Gar- ver m<q¤¢l} a13W- land, of Potten, in the province of Canada East, widow of Jacob Gar- {’£,d{“"g“'l "' land, on the revolutionary pension roll; and that she be paid at the rate of (ive dollars per month during her life, to commence on the twenty-eighth of April, eighteen hundred and forty-three. Armoveo, August 14, 1848. Cntr. CCIV. — .01:. Hot for the Relief of Anna J. Haasler. Aug. 14, 1848. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ry" the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of A pension of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place on ,$?5thP¢*w:*l:*·¤;l,} the navy pension list, under the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred Q, y,,:,, allowed and thirty-four, the name of Anna J. Hassler, widow of Charles A. Annu -l·H¤ssler·