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FCRTY~SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 449-452. 1872. 699 . XLIX.-An Act ortlz Relic. —' ‘ . .. CHAP CD ,.,.., E,njQy€¢·sl R.,tQ.‘Z<Z }?.‘Zi?;‘£.{‘V.?lZ§.tZZ£i.’““ °"""“" ‘-“ "°’" ~—..·’~·~°» M Be it enacted by tlie Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the payment to Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any D#¤‘i<1I·-lVri::¤¤· money appropriated or hereafter to be appropriated for the payment of the army, to David L. Wright, late captain. in the fifty-first regiment of Indiana volunteers, the pay and emolnments of a captain of infantry from the thirticth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the date of his commission, to the fourteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, the date of his discharge as a returned prisoner of war, as if sail David L. Wright had been mustered as captain on the date of his commission, first deducting whatever sum may have been paid said David L. Wlright as lieutenant during the period for which pay is hereby allowed as captain. Approved, June 10, 187 2. CHAP. CDL. —-An Act to provide jbr the Examination and Payment <y’ the Claim June 10, 1872. cf Albert Grant. ""’""‘;*’ Be it enacted bg the Senate and Ikase of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Vllar be, Claim of Albert and he hereby is, authorized and directed to examine the claim of Albert fg; °X‘ Grant, assignee to A. Grant and Company, for damages sustained by said- ’ ` A. Grant and Company in the erection of a fire-proof store-house at Schuylkill arsenal, in the city of Philadelphia, in the years eighteen hundred and sixty-seven and eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, under a contract by them entered into with the United States, the alleged amount being forty-seven thousand dollars; and if on examination the Secretary shall be of opinion that said claim, or any part thereof, is just and equitable, he shall cause the same to to be paid to this claimant or his legal representatives: Provided, That the amount so allowed shall not exceed pl-0v;S0_ the sum of forty-seven thousand dollars, and that it shall be in full discharge of this claim. _ Sec. 2. That a sufficient sum to pay the amount adjudged by the App,0p,.m,,,,,_ Secretary of War to this claimant, by virtue of this act, is hereby appropriated. Approved, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDLI. —An Act for the Religf 0_/`Alexanaler ll[cArtlzur, of the City of Corunna, June 10, 1872. in the tate of Michigan. """'""‘"`— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That the sum of seven hundred Payment to and fifty-six dollars .be, and the same is hereby, allowed and ordered to be ,·G?g*?3l‘;i_' paid to Alexander McArthur, of Corunna, Michigan, for damages sus- ` tained by him in consequence of injuries to his house in Corunna, leased to the United States on the fifteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for barracks for the provost-marshals office for the sixth district in said State of Michigan, which said injuries were done by the soldiers occupying the same. Approved, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDLII. -An Act far the Belly of John W. Phelps, of Vermont. June 10, 1872. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives cy" the United ) States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the _,0{lgyQ{}?"p,Tg,P5_ Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorize<I to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and fifty- five dollars, to John lV. Phelps, of Vermont, in full for the rent of certain lands owned by said Phelps in Alexandria, Virginia, occupied by the Com-