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FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 896-898, 901. 1888. 1].63 and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it or1g1nated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without·his approval.] CHAP. 897.-—A.u act granting increase of pension to Elvira M. Dorman. August 14, 1888- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary gg? M- D<>¤‘¤¤,~[¤· of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place °° mcmm on the pension-roll, subject to the Lprovisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Elvira . Dorman, minor child of James orman, late of Company A, First Kansas Cavalry, and lpay her at the rate of fourteen ollars per month, in lieu of that w ich she is now receiving Received by the President August 2, 1888. ‘ _ [Norm BY THE DEPARTMENT or STATE.-—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] CHAP. 898.--An act for the relief of Mary E. Hopkins . August 1s, isss. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rripresentatryes of the Uni ted States eg America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of gary E. H·>pki¤s. the Treasury e, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to ”"`°"°°°‘ Mary E. Hopkins, widow of Alfred Hopkins, late a calptain in the Navy of the United States, out of any money in the reasury not otherwise a propriated, the sum of five thousand one hundrem and nfty-six doll)ars and sixty-four cents, being for the salary of the said Alfred Hopkins, on leave (pay, from the twenty-iirst day of November, eighteen hundred an eighty-two, to the twenty-fourth day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. Received by the President August 3, 1888. . · ‘ [N OTE BY THE DEPARTMENT or STATs.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] CHAP. 901.-An act for the relief of William Lavery. August 21,1%. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary {_Yi11i¤m Lavery. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay "’“`"" “" to William Lavery, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and thirty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents, being the value of quartermastefs stores taken from the said William Laveryby the United States forces during the late war and appropriated to their use, as found by the Court of Claims. Approved, August 21, 1888.