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FORTY—FlRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 232, 233, 234, 248. 1870. 651 and cargo, vessels illegally seized bya cruiser of the United States ; such payments to be made as follows, viz.: To the several persons named in such decrees, or their legal representatives, the several sums awarded to them respectively, with interest to each person from the date of the decree under which he receives payment. Approved, July 8, 1870. CHAP. CCXXXIII. —An Act granting a Pension to Enoch Lytie. July Si 1870- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In· P¤¤Si<>¤ to terior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pen- E°°°h Lyu°’ sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Enoch Lytle, late a member of Captain Done’s company, afterwards known as company H, twelfth regiment Indiana volunteers, and to pay him a pension from and after the passage of this act. Approved, July 8, 1870. CHAP. CCXXXIV. -- An Act to carry into E jlct the Decrm of the District Court of the July 8, 1870. United States jbr the District o/`Louiszana in the Case of the British Brig Dashing Wave W and her Cargo. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the P*7m°¤s.°f Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money ggggcgoggt i;` in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to make the proper payments case of the Britto carry into effect the decree of the district court of the United States $‘a;’;‘§¤Ig“€£f‘g for the district of Louisiana, bearing date the thirteenth of July, eighteen go, hundred and sixty-seven, in the case of the British brig Dashing Wave and her cargo, illegally seized by a cruiser of the United States, which decree was made in pursuance of the decision of `the Supreme Court of the United States, pronounced at the December term, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, such payments to be made as follows, viz.: To the several persons named in such decree, or their legal representatives, the sums therein awarded to them, respectively, with interest from the date of the decree. Approved, July 8, 1870. CHAP. CCXLVIII. -An Act jbr the Relief of Heirs of William Eddy, deceased. July 11, 1870. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Dupligefed Treasury be authorized and directed to issue to the heirs of William gggglidfghggs Eddy, formerly of Royalston, in the State of Massachusetts, now de- ofwmiamlsddy. ceased, a duplicate coupon bond of the denomination of one thousand dollars, of the fourth series under the act of twenty-fifth February, eighteen hundred [and] sixty-two, numbered twenty-six thousand nine hundred and seventy-one, bearing interest from November first eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in place of a like coupon bond issued to the said William Eddy on or about the eighteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and which bond, with [and] the coupons attached, it is alleged, were consumed by fire on the twentyfdrst day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, while still the property of said · Eddy: Provided, That, before the issue of such bond, the said heirs of d Boi}? <>f1¤- William Eddy execute a bond to the United States, in such penalty and °mm y' with such security as the Secretary of the Treasury shall require, conditioned that the obligors will indemnify and save harmless the United States against any loss by reason of the possible existence of the bond so alleged to be destroyed. Approved, July 11, 1870.