TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ras. 1, 2, 3. 1847. 707 RESOLUTIONS. Y .1. —Joint Resilution authorizin and directi the Examinati a [L 0 ] Settlement of the Claims o§`Alezandor Cumming. M nd Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Auditor of the Accounts of Treasury for the Post-Oiiice Department be directed to examine and A- C“m:"i“g audit the claims of Alexander M. Cumming, of New Jersey, late mail witpfrtheon git. contractor on routes nine hundred and fifty-one, and nine hundred 0i°B¤¤ DGP"?- and fifty-two, between the cities of Philadelphia and New York, be- ?;f£e;° ,3,% 25: tween the years eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and eighteen hun- dited, and the dred and thirty-nine; and it shall be the duty of the P0stmaste1··Gen- yéumnt du8f°,':3g eral to pay to him the balance (if any) that may be justly and legally t05m .;Kid_ due him under the contracts and orders from the Department and its agents, out of the current appropriation for mail transportation. Approved, February 18, 1847. [No. 2.] --Joint Resolution for the Relief of John and Charles Bruce. Feb. 22, 1847. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commis- New paymgfor sioner of Patents be, and he is hereby, authorized to grant a new Um ¢=>*¤¤I;>*`¤¤V¤¤ patent to John and Charles Bruce, of Jersey City, State of New Jer- Zgarsolgoffrzxi sey, for the term of seven years from and after the passage of this res- Charles Brace olution, for their machine secured to them by letters patent bearing ;‘;;e‘;‘f;3““L‘;;‘;:: date the thirteenth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and 13, 1g3Q_ thirty-two; the same to be granted. under the same provisions and restrictions as are now provided by law for applications for original letters patent, except so far as the existing laws prohibit and invalidate the grant of letters patent for inventions which have been before patented, or used for more than two years before the date of application for letters patent: Provided, Upon an examination of the case, Proviso. the said Commissioner shall deem the parties hereto entitled to a patent. Approved, February 22, 1847. [Nu. 3.]-A Resolution to correct an Error in the Act of June seventeenth, pRb_ Q5, ]g4,7_ eighteen hundred and forty-four, for the Relief of Mary Ann Linton. ·——€— Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives if the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the error in the Pension 0gMn_ act of June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty~four, for the fyA¤¤ Lintonrelief of Mary Ann Linton, in the words " who was lately a pensioner 1844* °h' 132 of the United States, under the act of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two," and any expression contained in said act, shall not be so construed as to prevent said Mary Ann Linton from receiving the same rate of pension as i allowed to widows by the general act of July seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, in cases 1838, eh. 189. where their husbands have served two years as captains of infantry. Arvnovmn, February 25, 1847.