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 462 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 98, 99, 100, 101. 1856. under the present law ; and also the amount for office-rent and clerk hire, which may be shown by proper vouchers to have been actually paid by him for the same. Armzovxm, August 13, 1856. Aug. 18, 1856. CHAP. XCVIII.—-An Act granting a Pension to Ansel Wilkinson. Be it enacted by the Smale and House of Representatives of the United .A¤se1Wi1ki¤- State.; of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- ,;¥f7,50 pm- seventeen dollars and fifty cents per month, to commence from the mne- ¤3<>¤¤b, from teenth February, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, the name of Ansel Wil- 1`°b‘ 19* Hm kinson, which said Ansel Wilkinson was seriously injured while doing ser- 1858, ch. :,2. vice as a, pilot; on board the United States schooner Ariel, in the action pm, P, 532, fought on Lake Erie, under the command of Oliver H. Perry, on the tenth September, eighteen hundred and thirteen. A1>1>.tz0v1c1>, August 13, 185 6. Aug. 18, 1856. CHAP. XCIX.-—An Act frr the Rdig/` of J R. Powell. Be it enacted Igg the Senate and Ibusa of Rep-resemtatives of the United Y¤Ym<·>¤f¤>J- States ofA1ru2rica in Obngress assembled, That the Postmaster-General g£tf:;°2:1;‘;,_ bc, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay Lo J. R. Powell a vices. reasonable compensation for the additional expense incurred by him and extra services performed on mail route number five thousand Eve hundred and eighty-fivc, made necessary by imposing on said route a larger mail than was contemplated at the time of making the contract. APPROVED, August 13, 1856. CHAP. C.—An Act grantinga Pcnsionta Mrs. Olivia W. Ciznnon, Widow of Joseph S. Carman, late a Midshipman in the United States Navy, now deceased. M;”·5bm*w* 30 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United mmf' ml` Slatcs of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior bc, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Mrs. Olivia W. Cannon, widow of Joseph S. Cannon, late a midshipman in the United States navy, now dcccascd, a. sum equal to five years’ half-pay of her deceased husbamfs grade in the navy, estimated according to his pay for active sca service, under act of scyond March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five: Proviso. Provided, That said half-pay pension shall be paid from any money appropriated, or to be appropriated, to pay the halfipay pensions of widows and orphans of the navy, and that no sale, transfer, or mortgage of the whole or any part. of the sum granted by this act, made prior to the taking effect hcrc0fQ shall be valid. APPRO¥’ED, August 16, 1856. Aug. 16, 1856. CHAP. CI.—An Ad for the ReliqfofBaac Adams. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the. United Certain letters States of America in Congress assembled, That the letters-patent granted mwsggzwb to Isaac Adams 0n the fourteenth day of October, in the year eighteen iugdpmssos ox. hundred and thirty, for new and useful improvements in the printinggqszg *0 Mmh machine called the power printing-press, and also 1ettcrs—p2.tent granted ’ ‘ to the said Adams on the second day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for additional improvements in the power printing press, be, and the same are hereby, renewed, revived, and extended, {br the mrm commencing with the date of the passage of this act, and
 * °” *°n;‘;mP1_’;‘{fd terior be hereby required to place on the pension roll, at the ran? of