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FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. GH. 289-293. 1879. (365 CHAP. 289.-—Au act for the relief of H. M. Billingsley March 3, 1879. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Tl1at the proper accounting- it M_ I]illiugS]g\· otilcers of the Treasury be, and are hereby authorized and directed to ` pay to H. M. Billingsley the pay and allowances of a second lieutenant Pay und allowof cavalry from November twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, ”“°°S· to March twentieth eighteen hundred and sixty-Eve, and the pay and allowances of a iirst lieutenant from the twentieth of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-tive, to the sixteenth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-Eve, and the pay and allowances of a captain from May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to the date of his muster-out of service, deducting therefrom any pay that he may have received as a noncommissioned officer or private in said company Approved, March 3, 1879. CHAP. 290.-An act granting an increase of pension to \Vard B. Burnett March 3, 1879. 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- W- B- Burnett. terior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension- HE **;*1** ‘ °“ l “ ‘ roll the name of \Vard B. Burnett, and pay him a. pension of fifty dollars as °’ per month in lieu of the pension he now receives; but nothing in this act contained shall entitle the said Warrl B. Burnett to arrears of pension. Approved, March 3, 1879. CHAP. 291.-An act for the relief of Isaiah Pickard. March 3, 1879. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ` States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- I- Pickurd. nry be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to Isaiah Pickard, S‘”’““’ °* °°1*· of Stewartstovm, in the State of New Hampshire, the sum of one hundred dollars, in full satisfaction of his claim by reason of the wrongful seizure and sale of one gray colt by the collector of customs for the district of Portsmouth. Approved, March 3, 1879. CHAP. 292.—An act for the relief of'Pcter G. Mills. March 3, 1879. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and MMS- he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the records in the office of ‘ ‘“‘“`Y “°°“l· the Adjutant-General of the United States Army to be so amended as to discharge Peter G. Mills, late of Company K. Fourth Minnesota Infantry Volunteers from the service of the United States on the seventh day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and granting him an honorable discharge from said Regiment, and correcting the record as to hrs muster out of Company K. Tenth Minnesota Infantry Volunteers. Approved, March 3, 1879. · CHAP. 293.-An act for the relief of the legal representatives of John W. Gall, de- March 3, 1879. ceased, late of Company A, One hundred and thirticth Regiment Illinois Volunteers. ·;*"_"—‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of \Var J- W- GRU- and the proper accounting-officers of the Treasury Department be authorized and directed to recognize the military service of John _\V. Gall, deceased, late of the One hundred and thirticth 1{ement Illinois Volunteers, as an officcr of said regiment; and the_Secrctary of the Treasury is authorized and directed, out of any money in the Treasury not other- Wise appropriated, to pay to the legal representatives of the said J ohn_ Pay and 3U0W- W. Gall, deceased, the pay and allowances of a second lieutenant ot *“‘“°S·