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 770 TIIIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. RES. 11, 16, 17. 1853. of fiftccu hundred dollars per annum, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty, in the same manner as if that sum had been the consideratiou stipulated in the contract, instead of the sum of seven hundred dollars, for which their bid was erroneously made and a contract executed. _ Ammovmv, February 5, 1853. Feb. 26, 1853. [N0. 11.] Joint Resolution jbr the ReZiqfqf.I P. Converse, <y" Ohio. Resolved by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United J. P. Qouversc States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General 3% b° pwd $636‘ be and is hereby authorized and directed to pay to John P. Converse, of ' Ohio, out of the money of the Post-Oificc Department, the sum of six hundred and thirty-six dollars and ninety-eight cents, ($636.98,) as compensation for his per diem services, and travelling and other axponses, whilst acting as a special agent for the Post-Ofiicc Department. APPROVED, February 26, 1853. March 3, 1853. [N0. 16.] A. Resolution jbr the Rzliefq/' the Heir of John De Nczg/`uille and Son. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United P¤1¤¤¢¤¢*° M¤¤· States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the E?,QnS_ Treasury be and he is hereby directed to allow and pay Mrs. Anna, C. Dc Ncufvillc Evans, the heir of John Do Neufvillc and Son, in addition to eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty cents, or twenty-cnc thousand nine hundred and nineteen Horins, allowed by joint resolution of the third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, upon the report of the Comptroller to the Senate, the following sums, to wit: the share awarded to Dc Ncufville and Son in the damages as part- OWDBTS of the ships Aurora and Liberty, the charges for lighter-hirc, stay-days, travelling to the Taxa], &c.; the charges for delivering of the goods, storage, &c. ; the charges for journey to Paris, of Major Jackson and Leonard Dc Ncufvillc, to obtain Doctor Fmuk1in’s acceptance of bills. Tha amount of these four charges is three thousand three hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty cents, or seven thousand two hundred and sixty-one ilorins; also the balance due by the accounts and papers in the State Department, on notcrial agreement dated the twenty-eight Decembor, seventeen hundred and eighty-one; the Horin to be calculated an forty-six and one quarter cents; and interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from the time the debt was contracted to the day of pay- ment; and the former purtia.1 settlement of the Comptroller to be corrected upon the above basis, as to the value of the iloriu and interest, the gratuity of three thousand dollars made the family of Dc Neufvi1le, in seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, not to be taken from this claim. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. Much 8. 1858- [N0. 17.] A Rcsolutfonjbr l/ze Reliqf of the heir qf.Ta}m De Mu_/bille and San. Resolved by éhc Sanaés and [buss of Representatives of the United K’;>::°’g  States of America in Oimgress assembled, That the Secretary of the Ngufvulé EVM_ Treasury be, and 116 is hereby directed to allow and pay Mrs. Annu C. Dc Ncufvillc Evans, the heir of John De Neufvillc and Son, in addition to the eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty cents, or twenty-one thousand nine hundred and nineteen ilorins, allowed by joint resolution of the third Marcl1,eightecn hundred and fifty-om-1, upon tho report of the Comptroller to the Senate, the following sums, to ~ wit: the sham awarded to Dc Neufvillc and Son in the damages as part- ~ owners of the ships Aurora and Liberty, the charges for lighter-hire, sta.y—days, travelling to the Toxel, &c. ; the charges for delivering of the goods, storage, &c.; the charges for journey to Paris, of Major Jackson