378 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SE s. II. CHS. 92, 93, 103. 1887. duties, then from such time after the date of his commission as he may have actually entered upon such duties: And provided further, That any Prisoners of wm- person held as 2 prisoner of war, or who may have been absent by reason <>rdi¤¤l»1¤d¤iii¤¤¤· of wounds or in hospital by reason of disability received in the service in the line of duty, at the date of his commission, if an vacancy existed for him in the grade to which so commissioned, shall be entitled to the same pay and emoluments us if actually performing the duties of the grade to which he was commissioned and actually mustered at such date: Am! provided further, That this act and the resolution hereby ApPi;.,m°,,_ amended shall be construed to apply only in those cases where the commission bears date prior to June twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty- three, or after that date when their commands were not below the minimum number required by existing laws and regulations: And provided Pay received to further, That the pay and allowances actually received shall be de- W d€d¤°*°d· ducted from the sums to be paid under this act. ' Approved, February 3, 1887. · Feb. 3, 1867. CHAP. 93.-Au act for the relief of Elon A. Marsh and Minard Lefcver. Preamble. Whereas, heretofore, to wit, on the twentpeighth day of December, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty, in due form of procedure ' and in all legal respects,letters patent numbered two hundred and thirty-six thousand and fiftytwo of the United States of America were duly granted and issued to Elon A. Marsh and his assignee, Mimml Lefever, of Battle Creek, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, one of the United States, for a new and useful improvement in steam-engine valve·gear, save that the said letters patent were not, by accident or mistake, at the said time of issuing, to wit, on the twentyeighth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty, signed, as by law required, by the Secretary of the Interior; and Whereas the snidmamed letters patent were afterward, to wit, on the twenty-fourth day of February, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-two, but not before, duly signed by the then Acting Secretary. of the Interior: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House nj Reprcaemativea of the United . Exon_ A. Marsh States of America in Congress assembled, That the letters patent named ·°¤d Mumd L°f°· in the preamble of this act: are hereby and by this act made legal, valid, `"}Y{m¤t {cnt9am_ complete, and operative, in law and equity, from the twentyeighth day angina valve- mr of December, eighteen hundred and eighty, to the same extent and for m issue as gum the same term that the same would have been legal, valid, complete, D*’°·28• 18*0- and operative if the signature of the Secretary of tho Interior had, at the time of the supposed issue of said letters patent on the day aforesaid, been placed thereon, and the omission of said signature thereon Iymya. _ had not occurred. Provided, however, That the provisions of {his act noi *3;;*:2 .1****** shall not be held or construed to apply to or aiiect any suits now pend- ‘_ ‘ ing, nor any cause of action arising prior to its passage. Approved, February 3, 1887. ‘ lr0b_ 4, p337_ N act tdprovide for the erection of a public building at Wilmington, A-····—··——————•—·-··· 2 . Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Wilmington, N. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of theTx·easury 43-Pub _ _ _ be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and Bmh° *"“*'*‘”€· cause to be erected thereon, a suitable buildiug,with a tire-proof vault ex- ` tending to each story, for the accommodation of the post~oEce, cust0m· house, United States court-rooms, and other Government: offices, at the city of Wilmington, in the Stateof North Carolina. The site, and building
