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 512 THIRTY·FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 136, 137, 138, 139, 140. 1857. of March, eighteen hundred and Efty-four, to the twentieth day of October following. Approved, March 3, 1857. March 3, 1857, Cnr. CXXXVI.—-An Act for the Ibitzef if Brcvec Captain Dedenkk Steck, Unkqd ·————-—— 88 fmy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the settlement of the F r<=d¤ri<=k accounts of Brevet Captain Frederick Steele, of the United States army, ;°cl;:d‘}‘l'in the proper accounting officers of the treasury allow to his credit the sum his account. of three thousand dollars, the same being the amount of government money of which he was robbed, whilst he was acting assistant quartermaster and commissary, near Stockton, in the State of California, on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine. Approved, March 3, 1857. March 3, 1857. Cnar. CXXXVII.—An Act jbr the Relief ey" John Dmut. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United John Drout to States of America in Congress assembled, That the name of John Drout, b° Pl“°°‘·l,f‘* tg; a soldier of the thirty-fourth regiment of United States infantry, in the P 2T0m war of eighteen hundred and twelve with Great Britain, be placed upon Bac- 2, 1856· the pension roll, and that he be allowed the sum of eight dollars per month, to commence from the nrst day of the present Congress. APPROVED, March 3, 1857. March 3: 1857- CHAP. CXXXVIII.-—An Act for the Relief of ZZ7mm0s Grown. Be it enacted by the Senate and fbuse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he hereby is directed, out of any money in the treasury 83,500 tc be not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Thomas Crown the sum of three ¥é’;LdwE?i;{l}:t§‘“S thousand and five hundred dollars, being in full for the sum to which he is ` entitled under a contract made by him on the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, for the delivery of bricks to be used in the tbrtifications at Oak Island, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, in North Carolina. Armzovim, March 3, 1857. March 3, 1857. CHAP. CXXXIX.-An Act for the Relic/`cf l/Wlliam Burdell, Samuel Meclary, and Wil- —*—·— liam Ill Mhrtin, Administrator of the Estate of Edgar Gale, deceased. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the @zited States of America in Congress assembled, That William Bnrdell and Samuel Medary, and the estate of Edgar Gale, deceased, who was co- Summ 0, surety with said Burdell and Medary of John T. Arthur, in his official John ·;·_ A,-thu, bond executed eighth of December, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, as FBIS3S6d- assistant quartermaster of the army of the United States, be released from their liabilities on said bond, and from any suits brought or judgment obtained thereon against said Burdell, Medary, and William T. Martin, as administrator of the estate of said Gale, all or any of them. APPROVED, March 3, 1857. March 3, 185’]_ CHAP. CXL.—An Actjbr the Relief ry" Torrance 1GrIn/. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Terrance Kn. States of America in Congress assembled, That the name of Tarrance by *° b°.Pl“°°d Kirby, a second sergeant in Captain GriHin’s company, fourteenth on pension roll.