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 846 THIRTY—SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 78, 80, 81, S2. 1860. Mary I. Harris, widow of Colonel Thomas L. Harris, deceased, on the pension roll, and that said Mary I. Harris shall receive a pension for life, equal to the half-pay of a major of infantry in the Mexican war; said pension shall commence to run from the first day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. Approved, June 5, 1860. June 7, 1880. Crux-. LXXX.··-An Act jbr the Relief1y' M. C'. Gritzner. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and there is %°Y§€E**°b° hereby, appropriated the sum of three hundred and seventy-nine dollars !§;t:n6,Zfo}d,m_ and seventy-seven cents, to be paid to M. C. Gritzner, out of the patent ages for breach fund, for compensation and damages on account of the rescinding by the ° °°“°’“°°· government of a contract made with the Commissioner of Patents, on the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, for the execution of descriptions and illustrations of the Patent Office report for that year, before the work was completed; and that the above sum, if received by the said Gritzner, shall be in full satisfaction for his claim under said mntract. Approved, June 7, 1860. June 7, 1860. Cusr. LXXXI.——An Act for the Reliefjzf John Scott, El! W. House, and Samuel O. W 0llI6• Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That John Scott, principal, and aggprigfggzg Hill W. House and Samuel O. House, sureties, be, and they are hereby, S Jiu1W_ released from a _;ud¤·ment recovered avainst them by the United States, and Sam- on the fourth day df April, eighteen hhndred and fifty-five, in the district ` John Scott, for carrying the mail upon route number three thousand five hundred and three, from New Orleans to Key West, from the fifteenth day of January eighteen hundred and fifty-three to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. , Approved, June 7, 1860. June 7, 1860. CHA!. LXXXlI:—An Act for the Relief of the survwing grandchildren of Colonel ""—"*"""“ Willzam Thompson, of the revolutionary army ofSoutla Carolina. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United P no States of émerica in Congress assembled, That there be paid, out of any ¤ pn money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to William E. Haskell §;‘f‘§E'1gg{°'l,t,,_ Charles  Haskell, Charlotte Rhett, widow of Jdmes S. Rhett, Mary nam Thompson. Darby, Widow of A. B. Darby, Caroline Lewis, widow of Dr. John B. Lewis, Charlotte A. Goodwin, wife of Robert H. Goodwin, the grandchildren and heirs of William Thompson, who was a colonel of the third pegiment of Spluth Caropna mounted continental troops during the revoluionary war, t·e sum o seven thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty-two. cents, being the half pay for life, to which their ancestor, the B&ld·W1lll8m Thompson was entitled under the resolutions of Congress for his services as Colonel as aforesaid, throughout the war of the revolution, the said Colonel William Thompson having elected not to take the commutation of Eve years? full pay. Sec. 2.. And be ztfurther enacted, That the Commissioner of Pensions be- authorized and reqnired to issue in the names of the aforesaid grandchildren of Colonel William Thompson a warrant for such an amount of ppuéitytlanld as .wps ppovided for a colonel under the resolve of Congress ep em er six eent, seventeen hundred and seventy-six. Approved, June 7, 1860.
 * ‘;;$ H°“°° '°‘ court for the northern district of Florida., upon a contract awarded to said