664 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 216, 217, 222-225. 1872. thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars, in full compensation for certain extra expenses incurred by him while discharging his duties as minister. Approved, May 25, 1872. May 25, 1872. CHAP. CCXVIl.—— An Act for the Relief if Willz`am Blanchard. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives @" the United `}’¢¤>’{¤€¤tf¤ States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid out of the l` Bl‘*"°h"d' treasury, from any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and nineteen dollars and sixteen cents, being the amount paid by said Blanchard to witnesses by him detained at Melbourne, Australia, to be sent to the United States, to testify in relation to an alleged murder committed on board the American ship Herbert. Approved, May 25, 1872. _lll¤Y 27, 1872- CHAP. CCXXII. ——An Act jbr the Relief of Mrs. Martha L. Hmcse Russell. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United M£arpi1<?t¤kt:¤L States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- H03S31m55E1I_' uryis hereby directed to pay, from- any moneys in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Martha L. House Russell, formerly Martha L. House, the sum of eleven thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars, in full compensation for the losses sustained by her in the latter part of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the early part of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, by the appropriation and use by the Union forces, for the benefit of the wounded at the battle of Stone River, and for use at the hospitals of forty-four bales of cotton, twenty thousand pounds of seed cotton, her house supplies, and beds, bedding, clothing, carpets, cotton cloth, and wine, being the sum ascertained to be due her by a board of claims organized by the War Department. Approved, May 27, 1872. May 27, 1872. CHAP. CCXXIII.-An Act jor the Relief1y' L. Merchant and Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to L. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Igslqfhjlfllf and ury be, and he is hereby, required to pay L. Mierchant and Company the p )° sum of three thousand seven hundred dollars, that being the price at which their steam-tug Neafie was sold, by Col[o]nel E. S. Allen, assistant quartermaster, on March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Approved, May 27, 1872. May 27, 1872. CHAP. CCXXIV. ·——-An Act for the Reliefof Aldo Pratt. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- MM haw- ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Milo Pratt, ` out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars, upon his executing to the United States a full release of all further claim for or on account of a contract made with him, in eighteen hundred and sixty-four, by the quartermaster’s department, for furnishing coal. Approved, May 27, 1872.
CHAP. CCXXV.-An Act granting a Pension to lllartlza A. Brooks.
_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Mg:R?‘X"l*° States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte-
- m,,,;,S_ rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension
