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 THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 196, 197, 198, 199. 1860. 869 of the United States, from the seventh of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. Approved, June 22, 1860. CHAP. Ad  of David   June 22’]_g60_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United W States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to David Waldo, out of Payment to any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine Dwi W“ld°‘ thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars, being the amount of damages awarded by the report of the Quartermaster·General of the United States army, for the non-fulfilment, on the part of the government of a contract made with him in May, eighteen hundred and fifty, for delivering corn at Fort Laramie, and the payment of which is recommended by the Secretary of War. Approved, June 22, 1860. Can-. CXOV1I.-An Act for the Relief ty Sylvester Gray. Jung 22, i860_ Be it enacted by the Senate and Ihmse of Representatives of the United W States of America in Obngress assembled, That the claim of Sylvester Land claim of Gray, a free man of color, made under the preemption act of September Sylvester Gray fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, to the northwest quarter of sec· “ °`”°d• tion fourteen, in township forty-eight, of range thirteen, of the lands of ,,584:* °hj,g§‘ the United States subject to sale at the land office at Superior, Wiscon-` Pl ° sin, be, and the same is hereby confirmed; and upon completion of such claim, by payment of the purchase-money, or the location of a bounty land warrant, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be issued to the said Sylvester Gray, a patent for the said land, as in other cases. Approved, June 22, 1860. Cmxr. CXCVIII.—An Act for the Religf of Lieutenant Wiliam A. Winder, of the yum 22 186,, United tates Army. ·——————L—-· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Jthe United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to MIA crgdit *0 b¢ credit the account of Lieutenant William A. Winder, of the United States cosryof wu?,;; army, with the sum of one hundred dollars, it being the amount he had in A. Winder. his possession on board of the steamer San Francisco, in the month of December, eighteen hundred and fifty three, when said steamer was lost, together with that amount of money, and which now stands charged against the said Lieutenant William A. Winder, upon the books of· the treasury, it having belonged to the recruiting fund of the United States army. Approved, June 22, 1860. CHAP. CXCIX.-An Act amendatory of an Act approved June _/burteenth, eighteen hun— June 22, 1860. dred and _/ijty eight, jhr the Relief of Sherlock and Shirley. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Vol. xi. p..552.. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster—General be, and he is hereby authorized to reéxamine upon the evidence now in Certain dues the Post-Otlice Department, the cases of iines and deductions charged ggigiixzzism against the pay of Sherlock and Shirley for mail service on route number Sherlock and five thousand one hundred and three, from Louisville to St. Louis, be- Shirley- tween April second, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and November twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, under contract and agreement with the Department, and to remit so much of such lines and deductions, as in his judgment ought not to have been enforced if said service had all