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PRIVATE AOTS OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS or rm: UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the jirst day of December, 1884, and was atyourned without day on Tuesday, the third day of Illarch, 1885. Cnnsrnn A. ARTHUR, President; Gnonon F. Emrnmas, President of the Senate pro tempore; J om: G. CARLISLE, Speaker of the House of Representatives; J osnpn C. §é8lfLACKBURN was elected Speaker pro tempore on the thirty-iirst day of January, 0. CHAP. 5.-An act for the relief of Mrs. Jane Venable. Dec. 23, 1884. 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- Jrmp Vemablo. ury pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, R°1'°f°f· to Mrs. Jane Venable, widow of William E. Venable, late minister of the United States to Guatemala the sum of five thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents, balance of one yea1·’s Salary. Approved, December 23d, 1884. CHAP. 6.-An act for the relief of Juliet H. Palmer. Dec. 25, 1884. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the pas- Ju1iet.H.Pa1mer. sage of this act there be paid, out of the Navy pension fund, to Juliet B·°h°f°f· H. Palmer, widow of the late Surgeon-General James C. Palmer, United States Navy, the sum of fifty dollars per month during her widowhood, the same to be in lieu of her present pension. Approved, December twenty fifth, 1884. CHAP. 10.-An not granting a. pension to Prederick Corfe Jan. 10, 1885. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatires of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- Frederick Corte. terior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the P°”*“°°· pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension- . laws, the name of Frederick Corfe, late an acting stad surgeon in the United States Army. Approved, January tenth, 1885. CHAP. 11.——An act granting n pension to Uscbns Sweet. Jan. 10, 1885. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- Usubns Sweet. rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the P°"“"’“· (615)