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 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 119, 120,121,130. 1855. 857 CHA?. CXIX.—An Actfar the 1?digfo/` Henry H Marsh. Feb. 21, 1855. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Henry H. Marsh be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States the east Hem'? H- half of tho northeast quarter of section number four, of township number ggé?, ,°§}§;lf;f§gh eight south, of range number thirteen west, in the district of lands subject comin 12md,a.ud to sale at Kalamazoo, in the State of Michigan, entered by him by mis- ”££Q_m’£°c Pu; take, on or about the twenty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and gmc, hnay thirty-six, and to apply the money paid for said tract to the purchase of any other lands that may be subject to entry at private sale, at the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. Approved, February 21, 1855. CHAP. CXX.—An Act or tfmlfdie o Rebecca inn,ow and Execulrix 0 the Last Will and Testamérfne of Timothf Wigan, mug, latc”¢f%urser in the Naw é the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represmmtives of the United Stades of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to adjust the accounts Adjusmeut of of the late purscr Timothy Winn, so as to allow his legal representative acccppts of the the sum of six hundred dollars per annum, for clerk hire during his 1`}t:uf_‘m°thY service as purser at the Washington navy-yard, deducting therefrom whatever payments on account of clerk hire have already been made, either by allowance of the department or by judgment of the court of this district. Approved, February 21, 1855. CHAP. CXXI. — An Act increasing the Pension of Anthony W. Bayard, of Bellg‘bnt, in Feb. 24, 1855. the »SYate of Pennsylvania. -—-———-——— Be it enacted {gy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the pension now re- \, _ ceived by Anthony W. Bayard, of Bollefont, in the State of Pennsylvania, A v$°“';‘:;;:d be increased to twenty dollars per month, and that the said pension be gnbmged, paid him from the ih-st day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and fifLy—two, deducting the amount of the pension he has already received since that date; and that hereafter his pension shall be twenty dollars per month, during his life, instead of eight dollars per month, which he now receives. Approved, February 24, 1855. CHAP. CXXX. ··—An Act for the BeliZ`qf Mrs. Helen Mackay, Administralrix of Lieu~ Feb. 28, 1855. tenant- Colonel xEneas Mackay, late u eputy Quarter-master in the United States Army. -—-———···· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury, in settling the accounts of Lieutenant-Colonel Settlement of EDC3S Mackay, deceased, deputy quarter-master general in the United Q‘)°j)‘f°‘§;°°¤gf Lt' States army, ba authorized and directed to allow, as a. credit for twenty- Mackay. five thousand dollars, the receipt of Captain William D. McKissack for that amount, dated the first day of May, eighteen hundred and forty~sev<-mn, as well as the receipt of tho said Captain William D. McKissack for 'a similar amount, dated the fourteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-seven. SEO. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury Payment of pay to Mrs. Helen Mackay, administratrix of Colonel }Eneas Mackay, §ggEg° *° M"· deceased, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, y° voL. x. 1>mv.—- 108