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 526 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. RES. 11, 19. 1857. March 2, 1857. [N0. 11.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of Israel B. Bigelow. Resolved hy the Senate and House ey" Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a. pension of fifteen Israel B. Bige- dollars per month during his natural life, be allowed to Israel B. Bigelow, l°‘”’ ."° h;’;V°mg··of Texas, to commence from the fourteenth day of January, eighteen hunpggsgzng, from dred and forty-seven, the day on which he was severely wounded and Sw- 14, 1847, for disabled by the enemy, while bearing important despatches from Major. hf°' General Patterson to General Quitman, during the march of the division of volunteers from Victoria to Tampico, in Mexico. Approved, March 2, 1857. March 3, 1857. [N0. 19.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of W. W Wimme1·, late Postmastero/` West ‘*—"" Zmesvzlle, 0h7b. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ey" America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General Payment to be and hereby is authorized to allow and pay to William W. Wimmer, William W- _ Esq., late postmaster at West Zanesville, Ohio, for service performed by gllgg? M mlm him as special mail messenger to transport the mail between his said postoffice and the cars of the Central Ohio Railroad Company, from May, eighteen hundred and ’dfty-five, and November, eighteen hundred and fifty-six inclusive, such rate of compensation as he may consider just and reasonable: Provided, The same shall not exceed in the aggregate, the sum of one hundred dollars. Approved, March 8, 1857