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 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 30, 31, 33, 34. 1857. 491 against them in any district court of the United States, as security for Daniel Winslow: Provided, That the costs of said suits be first paid by the said Winslows. Approved, February 3, 1857. Can. XXX.—An Act for the Rdiqqf Sally Il Mathews. Feb. 8, 1857. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the _ Treasury cause to be paid to Sally T. Mathews the sum of three hundred $351 tcbe paid and iitty-one dollars, being in full compensation for the services of her QQNSSHY T· M“' late husband, William P. Mathews, as an extra clerk in that department, ' between the first September, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and the fourteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-three, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any unappropriated moneys in the treasury. Approved, February 3, 1857. Curr. XXXI.—An Act jbr the Reliefqf grevet Major James Belger, of the United States Feb. 8, 1867. Tnly. U 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 allow to Brevet Major James Belger, of the B ,M”•l°* iamé! United States army, in the settlement of his accounts with the Govern- loivggr gg 803 ment, the sum of nine thousand three hundred dollars, being the amount his accouzits. i stolen from him by his late principal clerk, John S. Sheahan, whilst he was acting in charge of the quartermastefs department in San Antonio, Texas : Provided, That previous to the said allowance, the said Belger ,P'°'id°dl:*° *6* assign to the Government to the government of the United States the judg- g§£°,t°,,_ 2;,,,,, ment found in his favor in the district court, in the county of Bexar, in judgment. the State of Texas, against the said John S. Sheahan, for the amount of said embezzlement, and the benefits of the attachment issued by said court at the instance of said Belger, on the property of the said Sheahan, and all control over the proceedings of the aforementioned case. Approved, February 3, 1857. Cm?. XXXHI.—An Act for the Reliefzgfliansdell Pegg. F¤b· 5. 1857- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Ransdell Pegg the sum of one hundred and eight dollars $(:08-5% to db; and fifty cents out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropri- £.2g8_t° us 8 ated, being the amount of difference of pay received by him as a watchman at the east wing of the Patent-Oflice and that received by the other watchman of said building from the twenty-third July eighteen hundred and forty-nine to iirst October eighteen hundred and fifty. Approved, February 5, 1857. CHAP. XXXIV.—An Act for the Relief g the Heirs orLegal Representatives of krenuah Feb, 6, 1857. Tyan. U Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the heirs or legal repre- Hens or representatives of Jeremiah Bryan, late of the parish of St. Helena, State of ggggggs gg az`: Louisiana, be allowed, and are hereby authorized, to select from, and to tho,-md 5, sms, enter and locate, free of cost, in the proper land-office, six hundred and certain land in forty acres of any of the public lands in the Greensburg (late St. Helena) L°“‘°"“‘“‘ land district, in Louisiana, according to legal subdivisions; and that such right of entry or location shall be exercised in full satisfaction of the con-