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SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 128, 129, 136, 138, 139. 1908. 1233 costs deposited by the said A. E. Couch with the Honorable L. P. Summers, collector of the sixth collection district of Virginia, and inadvertently by the said collector deposited to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, when said sum should have been deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury as an offer of compromise of a certain criminal prosecution then pending in the United States district court for the western district of Vir inia, against the said A. E. Couch, the said sum having been depositei in the Treasury of the United States on the seventeenth day of May, nineteen hundred and five. Approved, April 2, 1908. ' CHAP. 129.-An Act For the relief of J. Edmund Strong. gg zi Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United [rnvm, Ns. 44.] States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the J. Edmund smug. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to J. Edmund Strong, P“"“°“’ *°‘ out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum · ' of four hundred and thirty-four dollars and eighty-nine cents. Approved, April 2, 1908. . CHAP. 136.-An Act For the relief of Copiah County, Mississippi. 'Gpré Gig] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R resentatives of the United Tmvaw, No. 45.] States of America in Congress assembled, gnat the Secretary of the c¤p1¤nc¤u¤iy,ns¤¤. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of P“"“°“°?°· - any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise ap_pro— priated, to the boardrof supervisors of Copiah County, Mississippi,. the sum of one hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty cents, in full compensation for costs incurred in defendin the suit of The United States against the board of supervisors of Uopiah County and The Virginia Bridge and Iron Company in the circuit court of the United States for. the southern district of Mississi pi, at May term, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, held at Jackson, lllfississippi, said suit being instituted to enjoin the board of supervisors of Copilah County from constructing a bridge over Pearl River at Rockport, i ississippi, which injunction was dissolved by the court and costs adjudged against the United States. Approved, April 6, 1908. cxur. iss.-An Act For me mss: cr James Benn;. ‘lBY`l¤lslz°£°]’ Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRq>reseiztatives of the United [P""°°* N°‘ 4**] States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Mqngnes Benn. alias Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a discharge E(,'Z,°.,$§l{,°Y2 di,. to James Behan, who served on board the United States ship Vermont, °h“¥° ¤’““"*· United States ship Canandaigua, and United States ship Pmta, of the United States Navy, under the name of Michael Behan, in his true name, in lieu of the one he received for said service. Approved, April 7, 1908. CHAP. 139.-An Act For the relief of the estate of D. S. Phelan.?gYik8»1gg8j Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqzresentatives of the United [Private. No. 47.1 States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the D_ S ,,,,,,3,, Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the Payinem w` www estate of D. S. Phelan, late of the State of Tennessee, out of any money °L