Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 29.djvu/738

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FIFTY-FOURTH CON GBESS. Sess. I. CHS. 43-45, 50, 61. 1896. 709 private of Company B, Twenty-second New York Cavalry, at the rate of fifty dollar per month, in lieu of the pension now received by him under the Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety, WL ¤¤·1>·18‘¤· the pension hereby granted to date irom the passage of this Act. Approved, March 4, 1896. CHAP. 44.-An Act Granting a pension to Anna Kelley. March 4, 1UG. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Ana Keuey. Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pen- P°"“°“‘ sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Anna Kelley, of Manchester, New Hampshire, widow of Charles T. Kelley, alias Charles J. Kelley, who served in Company C, Fourth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, and on the United States ships Ohio and Macedonia in the United States Navy, and pay her a pension of twelve dollars per month. Approved, March 4, 1896, (SHA?. $5.-—A.u Act Granting an increase of pension to Mrs. Jane Dulany. m,,,,;, 4, 1w_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the ·¥¤·¤ Duimy. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to increase the $§{'fi;,f‘,§'f“,,*,§,f’$r'k,_ pension of Mrs. Jane Dulany, widow of Colonel William Dulany, from =’-¤·1>-658- iiity dollars to seventy-two dollars per month. Approved, March 4, 1896. CHAP. 50.-—An Act Granting a pension to Julia A. Hill. Much 6. mm Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembbd, That the Secretary of the J ¤1i• A- Hill- Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the P°°"1°"` ` pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Julia A. Hill, widow of Charles W. Hill, late colonel of the One hundred and twenty-eighth Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers. Approved, March 6, 1896. CHAP. 61.-An Act To authorize the Auditor for the War Department to audit M-mh ,9 ,89, certain quartermastefs vouchers alleged to belong to John Finn, of Saint Louis, AA__ Missouri. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqnresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Auditor for the War g;j¤¤§*;¤L"ui¤ Department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to permit waste"? John Finn, of Saint Louis, Missouri, claimant of three hundred and Aw. p. ess. seventy-one quartermastefs vouchers, aggregating six thousand three hundred and sixty~three dollars and ninety-five cents, more or less, to sign the receipts upon the said vouchers, which said vouchers it is alleged were presented by the said Finn to the Quartermaster-General, and are now alleged to be in the office of the Auditor for the War Department; and the receipts so signed shall be accepted as a sufficient compliance with the laws and rules regulating such cases: Provided, crosses. That it shall be found, upon examination, that the said vouchers were "°"'““°“· duly issued by the legally constituted authorities and came rightfully and for value into the hands of said Finn and that they have not heretofore been audited and paid: Provided further, That all original payees rrymm.