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668 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Rus. 81-85. 1870. spective parties shall in any event be paid : Andyrovidecl further, That the amount paid in either case shall be accepted m full dlscharge of the entire claim. Appmpmuon. Sec. 2. Be it further resolved, Tha? a euiiicxcut sum to puy the amounts adjudged to be due under this resoluuon is hereby appropriated. APPROVED, June 23, 1870. . .'onato John Powers, late a Private '

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Bc it resolqed the Smale and lhasa of Representatives of the United Pension to Slates of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Iu- J°h“ P°W°”· terior be, and be hereby is, direcued to place the name of John Powers, A private in Captain Bliss’[s] oompuny of the eleventh regiment of United States infantry in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, on the pension roll, aud to pay him s. pension of eight dollars per mouth from and after the passage of this joint resolution. APPROVED, June 23, 1870. Juno 28, 1870. [No. 88.] A. Rzsoluiiem to admit free of Duty, certain printed Chromos. Resolved by the Senate and }buseof Representat€vcs of the United States Certain print- of America in Congress assembled, That certain printed chromos of Indian

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belén {uso ngs copies, shall be admitted free of duty, under such rules and regulations as J¤1mTi.gs¤¤¤1¤y the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: Provided, That the permit Qfegzggétwd so granted to John M. Stanley shall be in full settlement of all claim y' against the United States for the destruction by Hre, of certain Indian paintings belonging to him, in January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at the time of the burning of the building of the Smithsonian Institution, in the city of Washington. APPROVED, June 23, 1870. June 23, 1870. [No.' 84.] A Resolution conferring upon the Court of Claims Jurisdiction to hear and °'_"`“'i determine the Claim of William B. Campbell. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States H 2¤gmé>;`;Vli- of America fn Congress assembled, That jurisdiction is hereby given to the mu mg`}, MP court of clmms to hear and determine the claim of William B. Campbell he».rd by court for the loss of an unfinished steamer, alleged to have been seized in the °" °1**m°· full of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, by order of General Grant, while in command at Cairo, to prevent the same from `falling into the hands of the rebels and being used by them to cross the river from the Kentucky to the Illinois shore, and which vessel is alleged to have been lost in consequence of that seizure. And said court is authorized to hear and determine the validity of said claim and the amount of said Campbelfs loss. A1>1>1z0vmn,June 23, 1870. June 24, 1870. [N0. 85.] A. Resolution for the BeZiqfqfLewis D. Smith. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Credit to by of America, in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-Gencml be, and '1!}l°§‘;?n{·§;V?“ he is hereby, authorized and required, in settling the accounts of Lewis D. uémgntof M,- Smith, the postmaster at Iouia, Michigan, to allow him a creditnof the counts. amount of stamps belonging to the United States instrusted [intrusted] to bns care, and stolen from his possession, not exceeding the sum of fourteen hundred and seve¤ty-six dollars. APPROVED, June 24, 1870.