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 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 116, 117, 131, 132, 133.1856. 467 Cunr. CXVI.-An Act for the Relief of Nanuood McClelland, Master of the Steam- Aug. 16, 1856. boat “New World." U Be it enacted by the Senate and [Ruse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury Payment to be, and he is hereby directed to pay to Captain Norwood McClelland, mas- Fag”·}`i;_l“§g£: ter of the steamer “New World," out of any money in the treasury not 3,, O? the otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirteen thousand eight hundred and steamboat New eighty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents, being in full payment for losses W°'1d' and expenses occasioned by the detention of the steamboat “New World," in the Arkansas River, while engaged in transporting military stores belonging to the United States from New Orleans to Fort Smith, during the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-(ive. Approved, August 16, 1856. CHAP. CXVII.—An Act increasing the Pension of Albert Hart. Aug. 16, 1856. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Pension of _ Interior be instructed to increase the pension of Albert Hart to sixteen gg;;, Hi? dollars per month, and pay him at the said rate of sixteen dollars per gr month, from month from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-Four, SM-L 1854.fer during his natural life. hf°' Approved, August 16, 1856. CHAP. CXXXI.-An Act jbr the Relief of Thomas H Baird. Aug 18, 1g5S_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Cbzited States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Payment to Treasury be, and he hereby is directed, out of any money in the treasury Th°S· H·B““d· not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Thomas H. Baird, administrator of the estate of Absalom Baird, a commissioned surgeon in the army of the Revolution, the sum of ten thousand seventy-four dollars and eighty-four cents, with interest thereon from the twenty-seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and five, to the first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, deducting therefrom the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars paid under the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hun— dred and thirty-six. Approved, August 18, 1856. CHAP. CXXXII.——An Act _/or the Relic/`of Abraham IGntzing. Aug. 18, 1856. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid out of any Ab£g';’u°“',(,,l,°,_ money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Abraham Kintzing, Zing, late special examiner of drugs at Philadelphia, the sum of three hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty cents, being the difference between his salary as special examiner, and that of the assistant appraiser, for three months and twenty-five days, the period during which he performed the duties of the latter office, in addition to his own, in consequence of the death of its incumbent. Approved, August 18, 1856. CHAD. CXXXIII.—An Act granting Five Years' Hal/iPay to Ms. Ann Turner, Widow Aug. 18, 1856. of Elbert Turner, deceased. ';"""f Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives cg" the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- Payment to rior be, and he is hereby directed, to pay to Mrs. Ann Turner, widow of Mm- ,,A;§5OT‘"· Elbert Turner, late of Norfolk, Virginia, deceased, the sum of two hun-  for dred and fifty dollars per annum, from the thirteenth day of October, ygaigsgmm Oct-