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 486 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 1857. Jun. 8, 1857. CHAP. V.-An Act for the Relief of A. S. Bender. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to A. S. Bender, out of $128]__92 to be any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twelve paid t0_ A- S- hundred and eighty-one dollars and ninety-two cents, in full consideration °“d°”‘“ ML of his services as superintendent of the United States lead mines of the upper Mississippi, from the second of August, eighteen hundred and forty. four, to the sixteenth of October, eighteen hundred and forty-seven,-—it being the ditierenee between his pay as such superintendent, to which he is entitled, and the pay of acting superintendent which he did receive for the same period. Approved, January 8, 1856.[7] Jan. 8, 1857. CHAP. VI.—A.n Act granting Bounty Land to` Jared L. Elliott. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- L,,,,d-w,,,·m,,t rior shall cause a warrant to be granted and issued to Jared L. Elliott, ireqfqd to Jew} late chaplain in the army, for one hundred and sixty acres of land, as ‘ I°u‘°“‘. bounty, upon the production of such proofs of identity and term of service as are, or may be, required by law. APPROVED, January 8, 1856.[7] dw- 10, 1857- Cum. VH.-—An Act increasing the Pension of George W Terrence. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the pension allowed to Pension o£Geo. George W. Terrence, by the act approved July seventeen, eighteen hung-  gg dred and fifty-four, be increased to forty dollars per month, commencing $40 pe,. m0,,,h_ from the date of the beginning of his present pension, in consideration of 1854, eh. 01. his great disability by reason of wounds received at the National Bridge, V0]- X- P~ 785- Mexico, on the ninth of September, eighteen hundred and forty-seven. Approved, January 10, 1857. Jan, 18, ]857_ Cmm. V`.[H.—An Act to authorize the Postmaster-General to execute a Gmtmez with "—-"_‘*‘ Messrs. Gorman, Wl€)l8, and Benford, jbr carrying the Mail j·i·0m Cumberland, Ma1y· hud, w Greensburg, ennsylvama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-Gem Contract to be eral be and he is hereby authorized to execute a contract with Messrs.
 * g°  ifi German, Wigle, and Benford, accepted bidders at the late lettings of mail

Benford, %op’ma11 contracts on route number three thousand three hundred and thirty-one, wv1M- from Cumberland, Maryland, to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, at the sum of forty-three hundred and twenty dollars per annum. Approved, January 13, 1857. Jan. 18, 1857. Gun. IX.-An Act for the Relief of J Bandohnh Clay. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the $1.31250 10 be Treasury be and he is hereby directed to pay to J. Randolph Clay, envoy §:}gh°3,;;_R“"' extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the government of Peru, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents, it being the difference between the salary allowed him as